Isn’t that what those supporters are there for? … to be scammed

Same here … last time, I took a tablet and watched two full movies of my own choosing that I wanted to watch. Instead of having the choice of 10 whatever movies that the airline has available, I got to watch what I wanted for the 7 hour flight. The rest of the time, I just slept.

Best combination - your own tablet loaded with your own videos and audio and a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.

Make sure to download all content before the flight to work offline, load it all and test it the day before the flight. Disconnect the tablet from the internet and leave it disconnected. (The first time I did this, I loaded tons of Spotify content, didn’t test it beforehand and couldn’t access any of it on the eight hour flight).

Best way to do it is to just download audio and video files that are not tied to any service like Netflix/Amazon/Spotify/whatever.

Give yourself hours of content to choose from.

Have a nice flight.

I’ve been on Linux for about 15 years now … I’m no pro and I’ve never really advanced in anything with the terminal

I tried doing stuff years ago but then I came at a crossroad … either spend my life learning the dark arts of the terminal and all the details of how every major system works … reinstall every time I have a new problem that I caused … or just leave everything alone and never tweak or adjust anything.

For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything … never had a problem since.

*Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all (that the company will admit to without you knowing)— unless you opt in

Gather up as much plastic garbage as you can and burn it all in your backyard … get your neighbour to join in and have a neighbourhood bonfire … plastic only! … tires work great too because they last longer and burn stronger.

In ten years, we’ll all be looking back at how great it was in 2024

This isn’t an Israeli or American problem anymore.

It’s a world problem.

We’re all complicit in allowing one country to destroy another.

We’re all complicit in allowing a genocide to occur.

When the Jewish holocaust occurred, the world said never again. It will never cease to amaze me that the latest genocide is being perpetuated by the same people who keep reminding the world of how terrible it is for one group of people to dehumanize, disregard, dismiss and destroy another people.

The best part is that this is just run of the mill environmental imbalances for the planet. It’s faced far worse scenarios than this. Even if we caused nuclear holocaust, the planet has seen similar natural events in the past.

Even if the ocean dies right now, it’s happened before and after a few million years it all came back.

So in the scale of millions of years … the planet is just suffering from a flu.

It’s us that will be destroyed and eliminated in the process.

From the planet’s perspective, we aren’t a civilization, we’re a temporary infection.

It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.

In that same vein of logic … they should name the Highway Construction Worker as our Provincial Animal at this point.

If only we could come up with a new more modern way of transporting heavy goods … like mass transports … using only one giant powerful engine … with trailers of goods all tied together by the dozens … on a sturdy road … maybe made of iron … we could build these roads specifically just for these massive transports, separate from the public to keep people safe and save our roads from damage.

Whoops … wrong thread (I am rewording my original response to this)

Trucks gained all importance because it meant it all consumed more oil and gas instead of saving energy by having trains. Why would corporations spend tens of thousands on fuel for a train pulling tons of material across the country when they could spend billions and billions of endless fuel on millions of transport trucks destroying roads made of oil and asphalt that have to be repaired on an annual basis?

I would join the same protest… but then later that week I’d join the next protest demanding they fix the road I just asked them not to work on.

It’s frustrating in northern Ontario because the combination of cold winters and lots and lots of heavy transport trucks every day means that our roads are no good after about four years.

Which means we only have two highway seasons …

Winter Season and Construction Season

It arrives with one critical screw missing making the whole thing unusable.

Puts ear up to avocado pit … all I hear is coca cola, french fries and cheese burgers coagulating and shit

That pit has about the same density and firmness as an avocado pit.

The average person ordering one of these: … I’ll take a size XXXXXXXXXXXL please.

The average store that keeps these in stock: Oh sorry, we’re out of that size, but we do have a size larger, do you want that instead?

The average person thinking about their choices: ??? … mmmmmm … ?? … OK! … I’ll take three

Add some olive oil and you’ll pass liquid at both ends in no time.

We’re all going to be held hostage by these dumb wars until the US election is over.

They’re turning Palestine and Ukraine into forever wars now because they are convenient distractions for all of us from ever having to deal with the fact that we are zombie walking into our collective global environmental disaster.

Simple and to the point, everyone should know and follow this. One of the best pieces of advice from the Dalai Lama

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”