AugustWest

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My thought was XFCE feels a lot like XP/7 era Windows, and so would be familiar. But I can see Budgie being attractive for someone where it’s just like “here’s the button for your email, here’s how you get on the internet” and they don’t need to touch anything else.

If they are used to Windows, go with KDE.

I’d say Cinnamon or XFCE. Plenty customizable enough for this use case and very straightforward.

I know this isn’t the issue, and I am fully in favor of expanding social safety nets including food stamps, not reducing them…

That said, I find no conceptual issue with limiting the kinds of items food stamps can be used for to actual food. No one needs soda or candy bars or whatever other processed, practically poisonous crap we eat. We’d all be better off if we didn’t. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to limit tax-dollar funded food assistance programs to actual food items.

If you disagree, tell me why.

The population of the Chicago metro area (excluding the 2 WI and 2 IN counties that get lumped in) accounts for 66% of the population of the state.

The combined population of the Houston, Dallas, and Austin metro areas only account for 58% of the population of the state.

Not only that, most of Chicagoland is blue, but you cannot say the same for Texas cities where most of the outlying suburbs of the metro area are red.

The population of Houston proper, Dallas proper, and Austin proper combined only make up 15% of the population of Texas. But Chicago proper alone makes up over 21% of the population of Illinois. Throw in Aurora and Naperville to make the 3 city comparison a little more fair, and you get almost 26% of the population of IL.

That’s not a Trump original. I’m sure it’s been said before that, but it’s a line from The West Wing. The president’s chief of staff makes the comment “To sweep all fifty states, the president would only need to do two things: blow the Sultan's brains out in Times Square, then walk across the street to Nathan's and buy a hot dog.”

I've seen another one ask for pasta with ketchup and being asked to leave the restaurant as they didn't even have ketchup and the chef refused to cook for them.

And the whole restaurant clapped?

those coming from the US are, without rivals, the worst ever tourists that can visit the country.

That's not to generalize

But the general rule here is

What a roller coaster.

on A/B: Part Duex · c/lemmyshitpost · 7 pts · 128d

Basically what’s been said. Lycopene is the pigment that is staining. It’s hydrophobic and is really good at bonding to plastics for reasons outside my understanding. Soap and abrasion will loosen it, but because it’s hydrophobic it has nowhere to go. The absorbent paper towel gives it something else to bond to.

on A/B: Part Duex · c/lemmyshitpost · 14 pts · 129d

This might change someone’s life: Instead of washing your spaghetti stained plastic container with a sponge or throwing it in the dishwasher, fill the container to maybe 30% full with hot tap water, add a couple pumps of dish soap, chuck in a paper towel, close the top, and shake. It’s honestly astonishing how effective that is.

on The Vitamin™ · c/adhd · 14 pts · 139d

The approval process is supposedly a pain, but Japan allows Vyvanse now.

You mean the super conservative, etho-nationalist German Empire that also conducted the Herero and Nama genocide, keeping the survivors in concentration camps to use for slave labor and torturous race related medial experiments?

Hitler didn’t convince the Nazi generation to suddenly be Nazis with his compelling oratory. He latched onto a deep rot which had already been present in that society for a long time.

Sounds a little familiar for some reason.