pingveno

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[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I must be really out of the loop. Where were people saying this?

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't every day except Christmas the right season for this meme, since those are the days this lazy bum doesn't work?

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I've thought about making the leap, but this is a work machine so I want to make sure it's rock solid.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried for a bit and it was great, no complaints. However, I was having issues getting NixOS set up as quickly as I would like, so I went back to Pop!_OS. I'm looking forward to the next release of Pop, which will have full Wayland by default.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. It is normal for your body to have some level of cancer cells, but the immune system constantly keeps cancers in check. As the immune system weakens, cancers are more likely to become problematic. There's even a group of cancer that is so much more likely to happen in AIDS patients that they're known as AIDS-related cancers.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

At its best, nationalism in some forms can help unify people from disparate backgrounds into an imagined national identity. Unfortunately, most nationalism rots into division instead. Christian nationalism in the US, Hindu nationalism in India, Nazis in Germany. These all reject members of the physical nation in favor of their crazed fantasy version.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to explain my math point a bit more, let's take the definition of recent by decade, where all presidents serving within those decades count:

  • 1 decade (2014): 3
  • 2 decades (2004): 4
  • 3 decades (1994): 5
  • 4 decades (1984): 7
  • 5 decades (1974): 10
  • 6 decades (1964): 11
  • 7 decades (1955): 13
  • 8 decades (1945): 15

Even going back fairly far, we still have a pretty small sample size to draw conclusions for presidents specifically.

I agree with you on the age issue as a broader problem. There we have a solid sample. We've become a gerontocracy at the federal level especially, with the older generations holding onto power far past when they should have moved aside to allow in new people and fresh ideas. People in their 80's and 90's holding on to seats clogs the pipelines so that everyone else is prevented from moving up.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is recent? W. Bush was four presidents ago, Clinton was only five presidents ago. We're only on our 46th president since Washington was inaugurated in 1789, 235 years ago. When you go through presidents that slowly, it's easy to have your sample thrown off if you just include a couple of decades.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I always felt empty and alone until I had a nice strong man to pump me full of babies! Ugh.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I have only been to a stripper bar once. I thoroughly enjoyed the women's poll dancing skills. Then again, I am gay so it wasn't going to do anything sexual for me anyway.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

generics are the exact same drug

Yes but. From what I've heard, sometimes when switching to a generic, there might be subtle differences in manufacturing that affect how an individual absorbs it. For something minor - an off the shelf pain killer - probably not a problem. For someone where it's imperative that they maintain a certain blood level of the drug, some caution is a good idea.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Queen of the Night, but it becomes Screamo of the Night?

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