Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

No, we need to slam a Top 40 classic rock song in there because that’s the only thing the plebeians who see this movie will understand.

See also: the Beastie Boys bullshit in JJ-Trek.

Considering how few references there were in the post

Why use many words when few words do trick?

The Ukraine war started in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea.

They’re actually even nuttier, just a different kind.

¿Can U get… prrrreganté?

And everyone who helped cover up his crimes and those of his accomplices.

Or better yet, we could punish them in real life instead of engaging in fantasy.

What a shitty, dishonest retort. The entire goal is to be allowed to talk about it so he can organize and gain allies so there’s a chance to win, but you’re just telling him to pointlessly suicide-by-cop.

It’s not at all strategically comparable and it’s dishonest rhetoric and it’s cyberbullying. That’s the kind of shit that ought to be banned!

IIRC Hogg wanted to primary old incumbents with younger ones, but not necessarily with more progressive ones. It was more of a credibility (and possibly anti-corruption) thing than an ideology thing.

Don’t forget South Sudan.

If I could easily emigrate to a country that didn’t suck, I would.

Did he, though? Trump appointees are almost uniformly selected for their commitment to sabotage.

Having shared assets to maintain is legitimate, but the vast majority of HOAs (those governing single-family neighborhoods) don’t really have that as an excuse. Even if they do have something to maintain, like a private street or a pool, it’s only because the local government was shirking its responsibility to provide what should have been public infrastructure.

(And that’s why they’re so common: because low-density development is so ruinously unsustainable, governments heavily encourage developers to establish HOAs so that the time bomb of future maintenance is the homeowners’ problem instead of bankrupting the city.)

You hired somebody to put a shutter back on? It’s just a couple of screws!

HOAs are the direct result of racists trying to work around de-jure segregation being abolished, so yeah.

Huh. I just kinda assumed Norway would use the Euro, but TIL it’s not even a member of the EU. Weird.

I’ve been using AMD (and ATi) for 20+ years. An Arc GPU is the first* Intel product I’ve actually been interested in and seriously considered getting, in all that time. I still ended up picking an AMD 9070 XT because there isn’t an Arc card in that market segment, but maybe next time.

(* Other than a Chromebook I had to buy for college, which at the time didn’t have any reasonable AMD options available.)

Is there ANYTHING that’s going well for Intel?

Their Arc Battlemage discrete GPUs are a success, relatively speaking.

I now blame AOL for more than I had previously considered.

Look up the phrase “eternal September.”

2000 was better, though.