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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:53:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-15, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 1/15/25 5:48 AM, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-01-14, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-14 04:29, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-13, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-13 07:16, RonB wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-01-12, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2025-01-12 02:54, RonB wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-11, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-11 04:10, RonB wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-10, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> RonB wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Apparently L.A. is burning because they quit making fire breaks on the hills
>>>>>>>>>>>> overlooking the city because "they interfered" with the migration of some
>>>>>>>>>>>> breed of mouse. And the water shortage is partly caused by the removal of
>>>>>>>>>>>> dams in north California. (That and they sent their "extra" fire equipment
>>>>>>>>>>>> to Ukraine.)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 'Course, the fire chief is a lesbian whose main agenda is increasing
>>>>>>>>>>> "diversity" in fire fighters.  Sheesh.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> California was almost a "paradise" when my dad moved their in the early 50s.
>>>>>>>>>> They've sure managed to screw that up in the following decades.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Instead of beating the living Hell out of beatniks and variations of
>>>>>>>>> Communists, they tolerated them. Once Berkeley was taken over, it was
>>>>>>>>> downhill for the state.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That said, I believe that there are a lot more conservatives in
>>>>>>>>> California than the election results suggest. These people don't believe
>>>>>>>>> in fair elections, and there is much reason to believe that there is
>>>>>>>>> rampant fraud there enabling the Democrats to stay in power even when
>>>>>>>>> the people want to get rid of them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The main thing I'm worried about now is that another big batch of
>>>>>>>> Californians will move to Idaho. Which would be (mostly) okay (except they
>>>>>>>> drive the price of property way up) if they didn't try to export the same
>>>>>>>> politics that turned California into a shithole into Idaho.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think that Californians feel the need to live in areas with lots of
>>>>>>> population, so Idaho is not likely to be a destination. Texas maybe, but
>>>>>>> not farm central.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We've gotten a LOT of Californians here. The city I live in (just west of
>>>>>> Boise) was, for a couple years, the fastest growing city in the country.
>>>>>> Mostly because of the influx Californians (plus some from Seattle and
>>>>>> Portland). Mostly they want to get out of the Woke shitholes they were
>>>>>> living in. The biggest downside is that they've driven the price of housing
>>>>>> way up. But I can't blame them for wanting to get out of California.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't blame Californians for wanting to escape the state's woke
>>>>> ideology, but I _would_ blame them for wanting to vote in the same kind
>>>>> of people in Idaho.
>>>>
>>>> So far they're not doing that — or at least they're not in the majority.
>>>
>>> These people are like hyenas though, so I wouldn't be surprised that
>>> "progressive" "liberal" "social democrats" will move to Idaho
>>> specifically to try to turn the tide over to the Democrats, similarly to
>>> how 12,000 Antifa assholes travelled to wherever there was an AfD
>>> meeting in Germany to stop people from supporting the party.
>> 
>> It's going to be hard for them to overcome the Morman base in Idaho. The
>> Mormans pretty much vote in a block and they vote Republican.
>
> I'm sure that they will find a way to convince them that Republicans, 
> particularly Christian ones, are a menace to Mormonism. They've already 
> convinced negroes and faggots are conservatism is a threat to them even 
> though we tend to leave them alone in general. Heck, we usually befriend 
> them when they emerge as unicorns and prove to be useful to society.

I don't know that Idaho's 4 electoral votes are that important to the 
Democrats.

>>> By the way, I finally got rid of Fedora and migrated over to Pop!_OS. I
>>> like Fedora, but they have way too much trouble with the NVIDIA driver
>>> for it to be viable. I considered Nobara, but I have to admit that I can
>>> at least be assured that I won't have trouble with the proprietary
>>> driver in System76's operating system.
>> 
>> Good luck. I gave Pop!_OS a trial run once. For some reason (I can't
>> remember exactly why) I didn't like it. But what I want in a computer is not
>> the same as what you want in one. I've heard good things from some people
>> about Pop!_OS, but I hate the stupid way they spell the name with an
>> exclamation point and an underscore. Why not just PopOS?
>
> It didn't last long. It supports NVIDIA very well but I can't stand 
> GNOME anymore (I've fallen in love with KDE), and I discovered that for 
> no reason whatsoever, Pop!_OS freezes when I open an application if the 
> operating system has been on for more than ten minutes or so. Like every 
> other Ubuntu-based distribution I've tried, it also eventually freezes 
> requiring me to restore functionality through a CTRL-ALT-F3. I don't 
> know why Ubuntu-based is so bad, but I've lost the patience to figure it 
> out. Fedora's base is already better, and I'm shocked at how stellar 
> Arch's (through Manjaro) base is.

So you're using Manjaro now? I don't know that I've ever tried it, but I've 
considered it. Do they have a Live USB "install"?

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien