The thing is why would it ultimately need to clone an actual person rather than use a prompt to describe the type of voice followed by iterating until you like a fully synthetic voice at which point there is nobody to pay

Most places are around 1% of value with many having caps on increases in value or other differences in taxed and actual value. This means his house is worth 1,000,000 to 1,600,000

If he was really living on 24k he wouldn’t be able to pay 12,000 in property tax. He bought when it cost almost nothing and spent most of his life paying neither rent nor mortgage unlike most of us and has a reasonable retirement.

He could at any time sell and live better than you or I even if he didn’t have a dime other than the house. Instead he uses his time to whine about his good fortune.

Nobody needs a summer and winter home tax the living shit out of rich fuckers with 2

Its almost 2000

If I could either work for 30k at home or do a 140k job abroad for 80k I would willingly get ripped off and exploited. It doesn’t make it less bullshit that we don’t offer such talented folks citizenship and a fair wage.

You cant name one godamn thing that matters and you are completely weaseling out

I’m not paying any money to fucks that bend over for Trump either. Buying and shooting the stuff I oppose is less effective than not buying it.

What as a normal person is there to be done? I shall vote for local people who will resist Trump. I shall vote against Trump and if I’m not allowed to vote I’ll fight.

Basically the only realistic thing an individual could do that would have any effect would absolutely be violence.

We won’t invade Canada

I wish I could just be a Canadian and worry about going to work and going to the doctor and normal risks and not whether I can even get care or if the country around me is going to collapse around me.

I work in Seattle and live near it.

Our EC votes here in WA went for the Harris. I told everyone who would listen offline and online in this state and in other states why we shouldn’t vote for Trump.

I am working or commuting to work 60 hours a week and we are losing our health insurance. I’m already scrambling. If I showed up in a city which 60%+ of the pop agrees with me and held a sign for a few hours it wouldn’t change a goddamn thing except get some honks and nods for sympathetic folks who also feel this way.

More than the probably unactionable threat of invading Canada I’m worried about the following in no particular order of importance.

• Not being able to get meds for my sick wife

• Health care collapsing in America

• Our economy collapsing

• A trade war with our neighbors and allies you know folks like Canada

• People going hungry here

• People dying of hunger overseas without the aid we used to provide

• Vaccination and public health collapsing followed by potentially worse threats than covid like a deadly flu pandemic if the bird flu adapts to us well enough to explode without adapting enough to avoid massive fatalities. Note there is no reason to believe this would leave other countries unscathed

• Ukraine being ground under Putin’s toes because they won’t give it and allies like us abandon them with millions dying and tens of millions living under occupation

• Almost 2M of which half are children in Gaza being murdered in the course of driving them from their homes

• Trump allowing Putin’s aggression to get way out of hand and then trying to play savior thus kick starting WW3

• A nuclear apocalypse

• Climate change being impossible to reverse because we are so far behind that it doesn’t matter what we do if we decide to make changes 20 years from now instead of today. Also factors that seem to suggest this may get much worse much faster than earlier thought like the amount of CO2 sequestered dropping off or the Clathrate gun hypothesis

• Mirror life being way to attractive to stupid people as bio weapons to stupid people despite a host of scientists coming out against even peaceful research in that direction

• Taiwan going to war with China and chip production dealing a further blow to the economy since it will take literal years for us to replace Taiwan for complex chips

• Not being able to vote Trump out of power in 2026 2028 because they don’t let us

• Trump rounding up millions of people into migrant camps but not being able to deport them very quickly leading to multi year detention of immigrants in hostile concentration camps that ultimately become death camps

Literally every issue here is more likely than us invading Canada. It’s not that I don’t care about Canada. It’s not that I don’t emphatically disagree with Canada’s treatment. I just can’t do a goddamn thing.

Everyone has a right to go their own way. Everyone has a right to have an opinion on how you go your own way.

And no, it doesn’t run worse

Flatpaks that aren’t official products of the source project sometimes have interesting issues pertaining to their permissions, are harder to set as the handler for files, harder to enable usage of system tools, don’t follow system themes, are harder to start or use from the command line, and yes start slower than native apps.

I like the idea that even stable distros can have latest stuff easily or distros which don’t package a given project. I use a few myself. It is certainly annoying that it ends up teaching people about what dirs they need to share with flatseal, flatseal, desktop files, and the command line for something which is supposed to simplify things.

Kinda feels like less work to use rolling release with a more comprehensive set of packages.

There’s a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram).

This is the dumbest conceit of the arch community. I learned Linux using Fedora back when regular usage required more know how than installing arch does and it was enormously helpful to have something you could click and install and THEN learn in a functional environment. Also following the guide isn’t THAT hard its just a waste of effort for a million people to do so.