The good news is even the developers forgot about thunderbird.

I like their products and services and really feel like they respect me as a straight white male

Yes I use Thunderbird. This was the rare event where I was on my Windows partition which has bare minimum software.

I think you'll probably be fine with Stellaris. Though I'd be curious to know how your benchmarking goes. You may even want to consider trying a few different distros. I don't care much for Pop OS but I thought it was supposed to be optimized for gaming. Manjaro has pretty decent out-of-the-box driver configs too, though that distro has its own issues separate to gaming. If you're on Ubuntu you may have to manually point the system to proprietary drivers too.

I've seen some other weirdness with Proton emulation, but ProtonDB is extremely helpful at troubleshooting.

It's an old account that I use whenever I have to fill out a form or register for anything. I pay for Protonmail with a custom domain, so when they get cucked too I'll take my domain with me and not have problems transitioning between providers in the future.

Things have come a long way but I think you're being too rosy about gaming on Linux. Nvidia still has abysmal driver support. There's a noticeable performance disparity when I move from Linux to Windows partitions on the same hardware, even for games that aren't graphically intensive like XCom 2. I've seen the same limitations across three systems.

LibreWolf is pretty excellent if you're looking for sensible privacy-oriented out-of-the-box configs.

I'm trying to make sense of it. I don't think the vaccines we have will be found to meet any objective standard of "safe," at least in comparison to typical vaccines that weren't rushed to market, but I do think at least in the short term they lowered hospitalization and death from COVID, probably almost entirely for at risk persons (with negligible benefits for young and healthy persons). But the extraordinarily high death rate in 2021 is an awkward fact, to say the least.

Worth pointing out the German vaccination program was a lot like the US - Pfizer, Moderna, AZ being the primary options.

We also had far more deaths in the US in the year of the vaccination rollout than we did the year prior. Someone will have to answer how that happened.

I thought of him this morning while reading Victor Davis Hanson's history of Sherman's march through Georgia. There are many accounts of Southern women pushing their spouses and fiances into war, even postponing marriage until their man confronted northerners. Southern women were largely entitled, decadent, and lazy, while badgering men to go kill themselves.

This is really sick.

If you're looking for decent Linux vids Luke Smith is pretty good, but I kinda think he's full of himself and a tad unhinged.

https://searx.me/

Also I recommend following Mental Outlaw on Odysee. He's a good source for how to avoid the glowies and the corporate globo homo

That's an insult to garbage.

It's not impossible. As long as he holds total control over everyone's research funding, no one will speak against him. He can make or break careers. The moment he doesn't have that power, things might change. I'm not hopeful, but there's a possibility.

OH YOU MEAN WE HAVEN'T HAD SUCCESSFUL CORONAVIRUS VACCINES BEFORE? LIKE DUMB FUCKS LIKE ME ACTUALLY KNEW THAT AND THIS HARVARD EDUCATED CUNT DIDN'T? CHRIST

She must be trying to salvage her reputation after the vaccine failure and terrible messaging made her and the whole agency look like incompetent asshats.

Oops.

Revealed them to be incompetent asshats.

Link for the curious: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/moby-dick-9780198853695?cc=us&lang=en

That’s a long article but the whole thing is worth reading. Horrifying shit. Also there’s the typical soulless, tone-deaf corporate speak response to the terror these people have gone through: "Hertz cares deeply about our customers, and we successfully provide rental vehicles for tens of millions of travelers each year. Unfortunately, in the legal matters being discussed, the attorneys have a track record of making baseless claims that blatantly misrepresent the facts." Fuck these vampires.

The protests aren't over and they've blown up all over the country.

I usually don't agree with you, but I'm always happy that you're willing to take unpopular stances. Groupthink is tiresome.

That said, the public need more guns, not fewer. Our "betters" should fear us. It keeps them in check.

States with the highest levels of gun ownership also have the lowest gun violence. States with the most aggressive anti-gun legislation overwhelmingly have the worst gun violence. Virtually all the gun violence is perpetrated by people who don't legally own guns, they're virtually all black, young, males, and members of gangs. There's your violence problem.

The term “manpower” is deeply problematic pls stop

For what it's worth Eugyppius is a member of the German healthcare system and has been pretty reliable in his insights for the past year.

Speaks for itself but the fact that it's coming from a major company in one of the harshest vax regimes is pretty striking.

I actually considered compiling this list myself, along with the zillions of unethical medical atrocities and illegal experiments big pharma and the US government have perpetrated on American citizens since the 1940s. The list is mind-boggingly long, and a lot of it reads like an X-Files script (scientists posing as doctors injecting patients in hospital with plutonium, radiation experiments on prisoners' genitals, mustard gas experiments, etc etc etc). Basically just one big text that screams "Never ever ever trust scientists, pharma, or the government."