This is the kind of service government should provide. Would you go to a restaurant where they make you calculate your own bill, and if you calculate sales tax wrong, you get penalized? It’s up to the service provider to say how much you owe.
Very valid points. I forgot WordPad existed and I use Notepad way more than I’ve ever used WordPad. But many people still havent really used computers much in depth beyond specific things they’ve been shown.
I know I could just use Google Docs or throw LibreOffice in there, but many people now in retirement age have still managed to dodge learning much about computers.
If you deliver a new computer that can’t type a letter, send an email, and play YouTube out of the box, that seems like a fail. And I feel many that won’t know what do do without something like WordPad also may not have an Internet connection, nor should they have to if they just need a presentable looking doc.
I deleted my tangent on spears a few times! Everybody in history has used the spear and in massive numbers. Cheap, easily made and repaired, and lower initial training required. If we count bayonets as spears, they’re still used today.
From watching Skallagrim and Scholagladiatoria on YouTube, it’s a pretty loaded question. As shields and armor evolved, so did the weaponry to counter them. Also, if you were primarily in horseback, you would have different weapons than a foot soldier. A large two handed sword would work for someone on foot with armor, because it wouldn’t be too big to use while mounted and you don’t need the other hand for reigns or a shield. So basically through history it’s balancing what gear you have vs your enemy.
A Roman gladius has probably killed more people than most swords. It was used for a long time and looks pretty simple to produce compared to later swords. It was also used by well trained troops, not armies of random people. Not really Inigo Montoya style though.
Most of the pics I see of Estalian Diestro are using cup hilted rapiers, and falchions in some cases. A falchion (13-16 century )would come a bit before the rapier (15-17 century) if you have an early or later time period you’re looking to emulate. If you want Inigo, that’s the rapier.
I’m gonna agree with the other comments so far. They’re just healthier things to distract you than you’d get with drugs or alcohol or self abuse. I’m going through a rough patch right now that is a little worse than my meds can level out for me. I’m going over to someone’s house today and I’m looking forward to playing with their puppies. I’m expecting that will relax me for a bit, but tomorrow my situation isn’t really changed. But it gets me through one day.
Pipe down and watch the picture!
I will stand by until such time as I am needed again!
Honestly it was better than I expected. If Ramaswamy wasn’t there, I really wouldn’t have minded it that much. He just came off so sleazy to me. Christy said something along the lines of he was the ChatGPT candidate. If you had an AI make a young, slick, influencer-looking MAGA Republican, it probably would look a lot like him. He was very Trump-like in behavior, talking over people and saying purposely ignorant things. The rest were plain vanilla Republicans closer to what we used to get, except Desantis, and Scott to a lesser extent.
If either the Bush presidents seem bearable at this point to you, the rest of the candidates were as tolerable as Reps get. More just Crap Original Strength instead of Crap Ulta Plus Xtreme.
I wasn’t familiar with Ramaswamy before, and part of me wishes that I still wasn’t. That guy is a whacko even in that stage and most of them told him so, which was about the only highlight. Audience cheered waaaay too much for comfort at some if the things coming out of his mouth including being the only one to explicitly claim climate change is a hoax. The others never said if they believe in it or not, they let Ramaswamy take the attention off that.
Christie did his Trump bashing, but doesn’t seem to have improved on any of his it beliefs. Mostly blamed libs for NJ problems. Did have a bit of fun when they asked him about aliens though.
Haley was, well, not a pleasant surprise, but it’s amazing how a few years can really affect who is “moderate.” She went for the throat regarding Putin, had a moderate, respectable for a Republican view about abortion rights, and called out China, and also a few fellow candidates for making up stuff.
Pence was about how you would expect. Got everyone to admit he did the right thing ignoring Trump on Jan 6. Otherwise nothing new from him. Still says he would support Trump as president.
Desantis did his anti woke crap and took credit for the federal aid Florida got after emergencies. Pretty much promised to make the US into Florida. Repeated a few times how he’s going to serve Biden “back to his basement.” He didn’t get much more attention than anyone else, so no new momentum for him.
Others were pretty much a snooze other than talking about using the military on the southern border. Won’t be dedicating any extra of my time to those guys. That’s about all I remember. Only half paid attention through most of it, I don’t swing that way, but I’ll hear them out.
Oh that is cool. I thought it had an ending but I lost a lot of plot points between seasons which is probably why I have no idea what happened after season 1. I’m good with a graphic novel to wrap it up.
Now I just need someone to finish Infinity Train!
That is pretty awesome. I clicked through to the Instagram and there are some cool builds pics that somewhat show how it works.
Perfect guitar for that band. Next version needs to shoot sparks!
I haven’t decided if it’s any better yet. I’m pretty far left, but radicals on both extremes get pretty weird. At least it’s different propaganda!
Hah, I do remember hearing something like that about one of the conservative forums last month. I think Teddy Roosevelt would approve.
I read the Wikipedia summary of the coup fallout. It seems Prigozhin was cooperative to turn all legit businesses and paramilitary equipment over to Putin. His former media outlets turned on him and painted him as a traitor, but he still cooperated. I feel it’s unlikely to be a mutual plot to fake his death, they’ve executed other people for far less than a public coup though. He may have thought he was getting some kind of lieniency, but I think they’re toast.
I should go back and rewatch this. I really enjoyed the first season, but then I know I watched the rest but couldn’t tell you what all happened.
Not that I liked him, or really thought he was too much safer in Belarus, but why did the guy think he’d just be able to chill in Russia after making his murder crazy boss look stupid?
Most don’t want to be the first or only one to get the spotlight on them. I’m very shy and reserved in person until I feel I know someone well, so I’ve enjoyed the smaller audience here. Heck, on this instance there isn’t even a down vote. So i try to take advantage of it to work on myself.
Sometimes I’ll start to post, and change my mind, but at least it has me trying more. It’s a process, and like anything else, they’ll be things that fall flat. But most groups seem to be positive, especially here. I try to upvote just about everyone that interacts with me to encourage them back too.
That would only be useful a few days a year though. They end up with something much better and fun all year round, so it serves a valuable purpose!
For more fun: !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org
The ratio is probably the same or better technically. They have about 400k subs and the posts get like a dozen comments. I didnt post there though, because there were a good number of daily posts. It’s dead here so far, so I decided it was up to me to be the change I wanted to see.
I do feel good breaking into the 100+ likes, but it’s just kinda one sided feeling. Like if you say hello to someone and they smile, but don’t say hi back ever, if that makes sense.
Being able to max my HSA contributions was one of my signs that I finally “made it” in my career. The advantages of HSAs are great for those that don’t need to use them. Same with the required high deductible health plan itself.
Now my job is going away next month, and guess what does me no good then? No health plan, and I can’t contribute that money to the HSA, not that I’ll be getting any money. When I’ll need protection most, it’s not there. If the solution is to help everyone, universal healthcare is the only way to do it.