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This is how you know it's a sickness. Wikipedia claims Trump's worth to be around 6.5 and 7 billion dollars. Nuts, but not what this is about. 5 million dollars is about 0.07% of his published worth.

The median American has a net worth of $124,041 so if we use that same percent we get that the equivalent payout for an average American would be about $88. So, like, not nothing, but probably not something that's worth stringing along for years and doing everything you can to get out of.

I know I've paid higher fines than that just to make problems go away because I didn't want to deal with them, and I'm a serial procrastinator!

I'm glad you had much better luck than I did, because playing games with Wine always worked like shit in my experience. It was occasionally an option that made the game playable at all, and very occasionally it would work flawlessly and all would be astounded, but the vast majority of the time I had little to no success. Maybe I just sucked.

Whereas these days I hit the play button on Steam and it works 100% of the time, in my experience. I basically only ever play games with friends online, and none of them even knew that I'd switched from Windows to Linux at some point in the middle.

I think we're different kinds of gamers, though, because you said Wine recently fixed a frame timing issue that made rhythm games and racing games playable after they'd been unplayable forever... but I don't care about that at all. I don't play those games, and those were never the problems I had in the dark ages, but I'm glad you're all good now too!

She seems to have developed balls. Good for her!

I don't care about Mullvad, but this is an interesting philosophical question. How far does that chain of money carry responsibility? Like, what if you donate to a hospital, and a nurse at the hospital uses their wages to buy bread, and the owner of the bread factory is problematic?

Definitely some fraction of my donation went to the bread factory owner's politics, but is it my responsibility? Should I withhold donations to the hospital until they've pressured the nurse to buy a different brand of bread, or let them go?

Definitely the bread factory owner has a bunch of money, and money is power, and that money was given by customers in exchange for bread, so at some point if we want their power to diminish steps must be taken. But is the hospital donor's money the right lever for that? Does it outweigh the benefits?

What if the bread factory's owner is fine, but has a worker who spends their money on a problematic cause. Is it still the hospital donor's responsibility?

Okay, okay... I think I'm getting it. You're saying darker skinned people are in Drag! I think I've got it now.

I'm not sure I know this use of the term ethic, but it sounds interesting. Care to define or illuminate?

Having the bios able to see the disk, but a live boot can't, makes no real sense to me. If a partition was messed up I'd get that, but to not even see there is a disk to partition, doesn't feel right. I know it's probably a dumb question, but you didn't happen to be messing around in BIOS settings or something right? Is it possible you changed some settings a while ago but haven't rebooted in a while, and this issue was waiting for you this whole time?

If you don't have any other slots on the mother board to try the disk in, you could buy an external adapter for whatever kind of disk you have, which would allow you to use this thing as a USB drive. That should at least allow the live boots to see it.

Also also, is it possible you have two disks, and grub is on one and your data is on the other? Again, kinda weird question, but it's a kinda weird situation...

You're pitching it as though you have the women and you're trying to convince them. But what if you're the other person. What if they've already got a longer-term partner, and you're brought into their situation. Would you still be suspicious that they aren't okay with it?

For sure for sure, but I will say that in my experience the proper "poly" communities, at least in my area, have a higher rate of people who have thought about the nature of relationships and often already have some kind of stable attachment already.

Not all, for sure, but the odds are different for finding someone who has already demonstrated their ability to maintain connections to people over time, and is looking to extend that. Whereas in the monogamy world, every person is single for some reason, and you're hoping it was the other person last time. 😛

Honestly, because it's all I've ever known. As far as I'm concerned the voices are me, the real inner me, and things I say out loud are just an expression of that. Who are you when you're alone and quiet?

I've spent a lot of time with Open Source Programmers and other nerds, including in person, and I believe at least some of the issue is that some of them feel grooming and hygiene is purely aesthetic, bordering on "shallow". Like the way many of us think about Looksmaxxing or cosmetic surgery.

Like, you spend a bunch of time and money doing your hair or washing your clothes? That time didn't improve your card playing, it didn't teach you anything new. Shouldn't people be judged by what's inside instead of what's outside? Shouldn't people be judged by their skill or merit rather than their looks?

And I intentionally wrote that last one to feel borderline, because I think a lot of people do feel that way, and do believe those things, but not to the same extent. Their boundary for "hygenic enough" requires clean. And maybe the folks I'm characterizing don't know that it's actively unpleasant to be around someone who smells bad? Or maybe they're so steeped in it they don't know how bad it is?

Tangentially, this is one of the reasons some fem people struggle in these spaces. Any amount of eye-shadow, nice shirt, or hair-style is deemed as "superfluous", and so any person who spends their time and money on such things is regarded with suspicion. They're an idiot who wastes their time on looks at best, not to be trusted making other decisions, or a charlatan trying to trick lesser men with their wiles at worst. Those are the only two choices, because there's no other imaginable reason someone could do these things.

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Huh, well if you couldn't see a way to make money with it, maybe you shouldn't have bought it...