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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • The exact same way the government pays for anything else, be it subsidies to artificially lower the cost of corn or milk, more equipment that the US military has asked Congress to stop buying, forever wars over oil procurement, world class unlimited healthcare for politicians, subsidies to the ultra wealthy and corporations by way of waiving their tax liability, bloated contracts for projects that still end up exceeding their budgets, increased pay for members of the military who quit with the goal of immediately getting rehired as a civilian contractor doing the same job for more pay, roads, teachers, conservation efforts, airport security, border security, disease research, energy research and nuclear materials transportation, space research, etc.

    Taxes

    You’re gonna pay taxes regardless. The government uses that to pay for so much stuff–some shit, others useful. Wouldn’t it be nice if we diverted some of the shit spending to nice spending?

    Edit: I realize this comment is US centric, and this ain’t exactly the right community for it, but we have the same problems in the States and the same oft-repeated ill-conceived retorts about paying for stuff. My final point remains true. You’ll still pay taxes, why don’t you prefer they go to good things?






  • It’s worth noting that one of the guys involved in the effort, James Comer, did exactly the same thing he is trying to impeach Biden over (loaning $200,000 to a family member and having it be repaid). Only difference is when Biden did it he was a private citizen. When Comer did it he was in government, oh and he used shell companies.

    Meanwhile, another member, Jim Jordan, head of the judiciary committee (and who has no professional judicial or legal experience at all, never having passed the bar or practiced) defied a subpoena.

    The entire thing is a farce to try and undermine the very legitimate impeachments of Trump.





  • While not a “Windows program,” Ninite allows you to queue up and download a lot of the most common software installs you’d make after a fresh install.

    In terms of actual windows programs, I quite like “Everything.” It’s basically a database of all the files on your computer that allows for near instant searching.

    “Space Sniffer” is an excellent utility for finding what takes up a lot of room on your drive.

    “Unidentified flying raw” is a free program that allows the manipulation and conversion of raw picture files. I use it before editing in Gimp, but if you have Photoshop, it’s not necessary.

    “Dark Table” is an acceptable free light room alternative if you have the patience. It’s pretty slow though.


  • If a movie was shot in 3d and the CGI was designed in 3d and the movie was produced for 3d I’ve generally enjoyed them (Avatar, Gemini Man, Alita Battle Angel). If however the 3d is produced by an off shore sweat shot rotoscoping a 2d shot then layering everything over a parallax background that’s an immediate pass.

    I’d love if there was a 3d movie distribution app/platform for VR headsets though. I had to buy the 3d Blu-ray release of a movie, a PC Blu-ray drive, Blu-ray ripping software, then render that to a stereoscopic player and set a VR app to copy my desktop in stereoscopic mode just to watch it. That cost like $100 for a movie, and it seems more people have a quest or some shit then ever had a 3d TV.