zarkanian

The reason why only a minority of the homeless are drug addicts is a practical one---Drugs Are Really Expensive. Housed people are more likely to do drugs because they can afford to.

Same! Crazy to think that it's been that long. My first real Linux OS was Kubuntu Dapper Drake.

Oh, so you were only doing it to be trendy? Weak.

Keep Windows in a virtual machine where it can't cause any trouble.

I switched back to Windows, because Mandrake was frustrating, but Kubuntu got me back a few years later. It helped that I was into Richard Stallman and the philosophy of free software. There were a few Linux supporters in the local punk scene, too.

Immor-tangelo.

Why would that have looked like? Hopefully less pandering to Republicans.

Really? That's your takeaway? She lost because she wasn't entertaining enough?.

People don’t “want to work.”

I don't think that's true, but I suppose then we'd have a debate over what "work" is.

Statements like that are technically true, but how helpful are they for contributing to a conversation?

Well, we were having a discussion about renting vs. owning which you seemed to understand were two different things.

People don't "want to rent". They want shelter. It's just that renting is the easiest way to get that.

This guy's giving me Robespierre vibes.

I drastically reduced it by switching to Linux.