Backing up claims with facts is not “spoon feeding” people reality. It’s the basic mechanism of knowledge transfer and debate.

If you can’t back up the claims, don’t make them. No amount of ad hominem attacks will make your arguments better without factual support.

Saying, but not supporting with facts.

Whew, good thing I didn’t claim that then.

Perhaps you have fallen into the common trap of thinking “better than Trump” equates to “objectively good”.

At the start of his term we were hiding in houses and fighting for toilet paper and by the end of it things were much better.

Hugely disingenuous to claim that a global pandemic ending was a policy change.

And while the IRA was a decent piece of legislation, I’d love to hear how it was the “most progressive bill” since the New Deal. Hint: expensive ≠ progessive, especially when tangible results are hard to pin down.

(Not saying Biden was a bad president, but it’s fair to say he was a mediocre one)

Can you name some examples?

It’s true that there are about $500 million dollars that will come from a pied-à-terre tax on second homes, which effectively is a tax on the rich.

It’s also true that billions of dollars (i.e. considerably more than $500 million) come from deferring pension fund payments, which is generally a bad thing that kicks the can down the road and is not what Mamdani campaigned on.

He campaigned on things like corporate tax hikes and additional taxes on the rich far beyond the pied-à-terre tax. To date, these have not materialized.

I like the guy, and I hope he starts actually doing the things, but we need to hold politicians accountable when they don’t do what they said they would do. If he weren’t a socialist, he wouldn’t be getting a pass here.

He’s got plenty of time to turn it around, but as it stands, I don’t find it controversial to say the reporting on this budget has been a bit more spin than win.

Biden was the best president in my lifetime

This is impossible unless you’re under 18, which is against the TOS of most/all Lemmy instances.

Because it was lower under Biden. We have numbers.

I’m so tired of living in a timeline where we pretend facts don’t exist to avoid upsetting the MAGAs.

Most people in the world want love. I hope the best for you and yours.

Yeah that’s fair. My RAM usage is through the roof lately, but it pretty clearly happened when I switched to a multimonitor setup. I’m much more likely to have a lot of stuff in the background now because it’s easier to have a lot open at the same time in the practical sense.

But I was lucky enough to grab a 64GB kit before prices went into the sky. Believe it or not, I was regularly up against the limit when I had 32GB.

“Starting to”? 16GB is just a few tabs open for long enough.

Assuming around USD $220 for a 16GB kit of DDR5, it now costs $27.50 more to run Ubuntu.

Spoiled for choice is a good thing, and it’s one reason why Linux is great. I think the community could do better at two things in this regard:

1. Helping new users understand that the choice is not really a major one (relative to making the switch to Linux). Adjust whatever to your needs as you learn, or distro hop.

2. Not jumping down new users’ throats if they pick Ubuntu / Mint / Fedora / whatever. Again, the freedom is a plus. A new user picking Ubuntu doesn’t make an older user need to use Ubuntu. Let the new user have that joy of discovery how they want it.

I think if we all focused on these, the community would be better off for it. I’m all for a good ribbing about distros between experienced users, but it definitely can scare newbies away.

Aaaand, if it was as simple as an executive order, one wonders why he couldn’t just pay the TSA the whole time.

Surely he didn’t just want to normalize ICE in airports before they end up at polling places.

Inb4 the White House calls it a “democrat shutdown” again.

His skin would clear up if he stopped drinking.

They’re not really supposed to be played like Mario. Sonic is about getting through the level aa quick as you can without dying.

To be fair, the game doesn’t really reward you for doing that (besides the time bonus). But the levels are designed for it.

Is this winning?

That’s the thing: we keep hearing “AI is a tool”, “AI is a tool”, “AI is a tool” in an effort to legitimize and rationalize its use. But in the wild, it’s clearly being used as a human replacement strategy.

Maybe too simplistic for what you’re looking for, but Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager allows you to do some of it.

It’s based on an older title IIRC, and it’s a game more tuned towards education with relatively few graphical elements. You won’t be flying missions directly, nor do you have sandbox capabilities, but for mission planning / R and D / mission control, there is some fun to be had.

I go back to it occasionally.