Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho

joined 2 years ago

For people that may be unaware, his wife is Indian American :

*Republican 2024 vice presidential candidate JD Vance once said about his wife, Usha: “Obviously, she’s not a white person … But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom.” *

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's actually a word for it:

Kakistocracy

Who knew high school drama teach would be such incredibly relevant job experience.

I'm definitely using that one.

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It remains to be seen what the much bigger tarifs package is gonna cover:

_Tuesday’s tariffs are the first of two phases announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, said to total $30 billion in U.S. goods. A further round of tariffs on a wider list of American products, valued at $125 billion, is expected to come into effect 21 days later, following a public comment period.

This second list will be made available in the coming days, and will include passenger vehicles, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles and boats, steel and aluminum products, aerospace products, and more, according to the finance department. _

Why do I get the feeling we're heading for another crash like 2008?

Have the banks not learned their lesson? Don't they know the tax payers will bail them out and that no one will ever go to prison?

That slap on the wrist is really gonna sting this time!

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Their first five albums were my favorites

Including "With Sympathy"?

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a word for it: Kakistocracy

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I find this to be actually better: his empire will either be split up and weakened by the kids infighting, or turned into something completely against everything he worked all his life to accomplish.

We get the added bonus that he will know this, think about it, and be angry about it, until the day he dies.

I, for one, am very happy.

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It would be a real shame if the line got flooded with credible, false leads...

Putting the number here just to make sure nobody calls it by accident.

800-577-TIPS

He's just using this as leverage to get more concessions out of Canada and Mexico. He's announcing the tariffs months before he can even try to implement them.

It's gonna work too. Look how we're scrambling about border security in Canada now.

I wish the rest of the world would just stand up to him and impose the same tarifs on the US. He would cave: he's just a bully full of hot air. And I'm being nice.

The US consumer could finally get to see what they actually voted for.

But what do I know: actions don't seem to have consequences anymore.

I had a similar thing happen to me with Dark City. It took me 30 minutes to realize that the contrast on my TV was turned all the way down and that in fact, you were supposed to see something that wasn't just really, really dark.

[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Presents "facts"

 

That was quick!

 

I hope it’s OK to post to this community to ask for help. If not, just let me know where I should go.

The Initial Situation

I have an old Aspire E1-472G with a GeForce 820M, which I’d like to give to my son who loves to play “There’s poop in my soup.” The laptop was fine with Mint for Office stuff and browsing, but I couldn’t get it to use the 820m to play games: it would always default to the onboard video card. I tried switching to the Nvidia drivers but all I got was a black screen. So I decided to format and install a gaming-friendly version of Linux. I opted for Pop!_OS, since it looked like it may solve my 820 m problem.

The Problem

I created a Pop!_OS boot USB drive, installation went fine, used defaults for partitions, rebooted, took out the USB drive and… “Operating System not found.”

What I did

Checked boot order: SSD drive is #2, right after USB.

Boot mode: Legacy Bios, but I’ve tried UEFI also–same result.

Tried reinstalling: same

Looked for help online: After reading dozens of posts and their solutions, I can’t get it to work but I suspect it has something to do with Boot Mode or the partitioning, but I can’t figure it out.

My level of skill

I come from Windows and I have installed Mint a few times. I can copy paste stuff in the Terminal, but really, I’m pretty much useless besides that.

What I Hope to Get

I’m not set on POP_OS so if there’s an easier solution, I’m all ears. I think I’m just overlooking something that would be obvious to a more experienced person.

Thanks for your help!

** Update 2024-11-03**

I had some time this morning to tinker with it.

Things I've tried

1-Manually change boot order/put ssd first in BIOS: same result

2-Tried reinstalling while manually doing the partition: same result.

3-While rebooting with boot key, I checked the files on the SSD: I'm no expert, but everything seems there. bin, boot, dev, etc, home, ...

4-Currently downloading the boot repair disk octopus_ink recommendend. It's 2.6G so it's taking a while.

Options I got left

1-Update the bios: seems easier said than done. I'm gonna have to read up on that. 2-Probably my next move: just give up and try another distro! I'm looking at Nobara. https://nobaraproject.org/

Thanks for the suggestions. If ever I get it to work, I'll report back.

 

_More flyers on the horizon

Campaign Life Coalition has already registered as a third-party advertiser with Elections New Brunswick ahead of the Oct. 21 race, previously telling Brunswick News it plans to issue a voters’ guide and other materials.

Under third-party advertising rules, individuals and groups are entitled to each spend up to $17,600 province-wide on election advertising during the official campaign period.

However, Elections New Brunswick has acknowledged it doesn’t have the power to investigate complaints of collusion between groups, political parties and candidates to get around spending-limit rules. It also doesn’t have the power to levy administrative fines if parties are found to be in violation of the rules.
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Elections New Brunswick asked for both of those powers in a 2019 electoral reform report submitted to the legislature. Only two out of 108 reform recommendations in the report were acted upon, according to Elections New Brunswick.

Campaign Life Coalition postcard is pictured here._

 
 

While almost every home owner will get a higher property bill this year, can you guess who will get to pay less?

According to provincial assessment figures, the city's largest industrial property, the Irving Oil refinery, has received an assessment increase of 1.66 per cent for 2024.   

However, under provincial government property tax rules, Saint John's 2.5 per cent property tax rate cut has to be shared equally with all property owners. That will reduce municipal property taxes collected on the refinery in 2024 by about $25,000.

 

 

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.

Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.

The jet, which was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June.

Grey Zone said local residents heard two bangs before the crash and saw two vapour trails.

Tass news agency said the plane caught fire on hitting the ground, adding that four bodies had already been found.

The aircraft had been in the air for less than half an hour, it said.

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