Back in Rome, Amanita caesarea was a delicacy, but it can be confused with Death cap, or Amanita phalloides. It’s possible Nero became Emperor because Agrippina poisoned Claudius with Death caps.

That bastard right there is why I don’t pick white mushrooms.

Is SteamOS even available for desktop PCs yet? I don’t think it is.

From the SteamOS page:

We expect most SteamOS users to get SteamOS preinstalled on a Steam Deck or device that incorporates SteamOS. The only devices officially supported on SteamOS right now are Steam Deck and Legion Go S. We are working on broadening support, and with the recent updates to Steam and SteamOS, compatibility with other AMD powered PC handhelds has been improved.

Until this changes, which I think is in the works, I recommend using some other popular distro.

Right? Like, this should be obvious to everyone. Why don’t people immediately see this? It’s crazy.

Cut contact with family and friends who were bad for my mental health.

Guix is a package manager you can install on most distros and works beside other package managers, similar to Snap and Flatpak. And it’s a distro.

Have you ever argued on the Internet?

Not sure I’ll finish this one, but currently I’m reading Magna Carta by David Carpenter. It’s a pretty heavy historical book on - you guessed it - the Magna Carta, an important British legal document written on 1215. I picked this one up from the library refuse bin for a nominal fee. I suppose I felt inspired to read more on the document since it established that the king is not above the law and habeas corpus. Principles that some unnamed countries should consider.

I had some once, it gouda tasted better.

It’s almost cute, he’s angry at Norway for not awarding him with a prize that Norway doesn’t even give out. Truly a great mind of our time.

I’m sorry, but it’s been too long, and I don’t really remember it well enough to confidently say.

I’ve read the abridged version and best I can tell you is that yes, it is an interesting book. It is long, has a lot of characters, and cultural aspects that can be hard to understand to an outsider. I’d say give it a go. You can always just stop if it gets to be too much for you.

Certainly true, but being willing to debase yourself like this can’t be easy. Or maybe she’s just trash and it’s super easy for her, I don’t know.

By 2027 I’ll be a decade older. Or dead. Probably dead.

This is just naked manipulation. I would be ashamed if someone tried it on me, but what do you know, Trump completely laps it up. She’s a sly and calculating operator, I will give her that.

We truly do live in a clown world.

What I think irks me the most is that he’s acting like he’s the victim of a system he knowingly helped instate. He’s not the victim, he’s the perpetrator. To be able to learn from his mistakes, he would have admit to making any. He will never be able to change his behavior unless he realizes this and does an actual mea culpa with a deep dark look in to the abyss he mistakes for his soul. I’m not sure he has it in him. And unfortunately he is not the only one.

In this economy?

Dear Horrendous Cunt. I’m not American, so I don’t judge you because you “didn’t vote the same way” I did. I judge you, because you knowingly voted to place tariffs on your own business. Better yet, you dismissed everyone pointing out that this would only ever hurt you (and hurt pretty much everyone else besides, and some worse than you). Now that it is hurting you, I judge you to be terminally stupid, because everything you have done is stupid and you are stupid.

With all sincerity, go fuck yourself like you fucked your own livelihood.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson and A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold. Hell, I’ll also throw in Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley. I should reread that.

I can’t even begin to understand the severity of his personality disorder to be able to say something so absurd and disingenuous in public and completely without shame. The fucking gall, at a time like this, with his recent actions and rhetoric. I’m speechless.