If you want the highest quality, lowest cost, and most convenient listening experience (especially portable) then get CDs. If you enjoy the ritual of using the turntable and you also want something that looks good on the wall, get vinyl.

Or do like me and get some of both!

all rock solid af

monit, postfix, gearman, dhcpd, bind

What are you doing Hermes?

I run into my share of disagreeable people. I just block and move on. I rarely waste my time giving them any engagement at all. For me at least, there aren’t actually that many I needed to block, just a loud few.

I don’t experience that in the comms I frequent. Do you have an example thread?

No, its extremely unlikely.

That’s very unlikely. These romance/pig butchering scammers operate from outside the USA and have no interest in attracting the kind of attention such an attack would bring.

Planning the trip is almost certainly to build trust and make the relationship seem real. All with the goal that the target willingly gives the scammer the money. If he goes to Los Angeles after she cancels, there will be no driver to pick him up.

What should we expect next?

Likely she will cancel the trip at the last second and claim to have a work or family emergency. Then she will need money.

Or shortly before the trip she will share an investment opportunity and offer him to join her in it. It will turn out to be fake.

Or both.

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Could be because OP is a known linux hater who likes to stir up arguments about it

As users, do you feel secure with the use of blockchain to protect your privacy?

Who wants to tell them?

The restaurant business in the USA is a total scam from start to finish and here is why: There are multiple ways or “systems” to run service in a restaurant.

Most places outside the USA use a team service system. This means that the service team is trained to do all of the front house roles: taking orders, delivering food, making drinks, clearing tables, etc. They all trade off doing what is needed at any given time. This makes two things possible: Having a much smaller staff and paying them all a living wage, regardless of how many customers come in that day. It also means that there will not be anyone constantly interrupting you to try to up sell you more items. If you need something, you are expected to signal a staff member. No tipping is expected or needed.

In the USA by contrast, they run a system where a much larger staff is needed because the servers are acting like commissioned sales people. Each server focuses on a small number of tables with the intent of getting them to spend as much as possible. In exchange for this hovering continuous sales pitching, you get to also pay for the server. You have to because the USA system requires it. An owner cannot afford to over staff on their own so they get the customers to pay for it, on top of the food prices. The myth is that this system encourages better service because of tipping. The reality is that this system encourages constant up sells and manipulation to get you to spend as much as possible because the tip will be a percentage of that bill.

when i was 15 i spent one summer working at a summer camp making and serving icetea

If we were talking Product Manager, I’d gladly help. But this just sounds mean.

No, only the official google clients do link hijacking. Thunderbird doesn’t do it.

You can also get Drip for android via F-Droid

even with good moderation the trolls or intellectually dishonest will wear you down

This is already my experience with any kind of nuanced or challenging topic. There are even examples in this very thread.

I’m not talking about trolling.

I’m specifically looking for discussions where Intellectually Honesty is practiced because that’s how the people involved would like to engage in discussion.

edit: typos

If you can commit to having an open and intellectually honest discussion about it, I promise you won’t have any logical reasons to support the catholic church afterward.