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If I could package how it feels to spend just 24 hours in this w/o AC and somehow dump that feeling into every politicians brain, I would. Same for, like, poverty.
But if you spend your work day in AC and your home has AC, you are NOT equipped to judge how bad the heat is.
I've been homeless and eaten from dumpsters. No "think positive" mindset will get you out of that. You literally need someone to give you a chance to elevate your position in life.
It could be someone helping you fix your car, a place to sleep for a few weeks/months as you get back on your feet, a few weeks of groceries, a job, or nice clothes so you can go to job interviews and be presentable.
At present, I think the number of people that say they're willing to help VS the actual number of people willing to help has a large divide between them - with the willing to help being very small.
@hosford42 rent is a huge thing too, I was absolutely shocked when I was able to buy a house how much that alone changed my life, it took almost two decades of having a high paying job and practically living like a pauper to save up enough for the down payment and get the loan.
My monthly costs cut to 1/3 of what they were while I live in a much nicer/safer area, have a huge back yard, and a good sized house with garage. (moving from slightly-larger-than-studio apartment and street parking)
@hosford42 Once Upon A Time, if you wanted a job in the computer business you needed to read Computing and Computer Weekly (both weekly trade newspapers) because that's where all the jobs were advertised.
These comics were free ... if you had a job in the computer industry, otherwise you had to pay for them.
So ... well paid computer people looking for an even better paid job got the job ads for free, whereas unemployed computer people looking for any job at all had to pay to read the job ads.
Sen. Chris Murphy: "As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention is 22 years old, he recently worked in landscaping and as a grocery clerk. He never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job."
yeah but has chris murphy considered the fat defense industry lobbying checks he's going to receive in return for starting a war in response to a perfectly avoidable terrorist attack in our country?
@hosford42 You don’t really think people get and stay wealthy by getting money from other wealthy people do you? Amassing wealth almost always involves taking from the poor working class. The poor literally drive the economy.
Also, there are no, "just do X" solutions. The way that the whole system ... everything ... is set up in the U.S. does not account for the welfare of all citizens, and the bureaucracy of certain things (taking care of an expired drivers license or ID, or getting a copy of a birth certificate, for example) can make it nearly impossible to overcome.
@hosford42 this is something that has deeply bothered me the last 10 years or so as I’ve gone from “mostly broke college student” to “pretty successful tech manager”.
As I earned more, I could save more, and relied on credit less (no more rolling balances on my cards). And ironically it was only when I no longer seemed to “need” the credit that I got card offers for lower interest rates and my credit limits ballooned (again, despite rarely ever getting close to those limits).
The worst is how credit “worthiness” is used to gate-keep housing. The lower your score the more likely you’ll be turned away from housing opportunities, even if you actually have the money to pay for it.
@hosford42 it's probably more expensive for me not to have a vehicle than to have one. Paying relatively large amounts of money to have groceries shipped to me etc.
Can't ride busses because of pinched nerves (rapid stopping, bounces constantly, hard seats), so if it isn't a medical appointment (or is, but forget to contact Medicaid contractor for pick up), but absolutely necessary, paying through the nose to Uber to get there.
@hosford42 I have a friend who was engaged to be married. Lets just say that didn't happen. He and his partner split. He decided to live out of his car and travel the states for a year to reflect. He thought living out of his car would save him tons of money.
Turns out it was way more expensive to do so. Between the maintenance, gas, pay to park, pay to sleep, eating what he could put of his car. All of it was more expensive than his rent.
It's sad that it's far more expensive to be homeless
@hosford42 it's also gross how people with a lot of money can just ... be given more money by banks?
Like, there was a new account bonus I noticed in ads last year. If someone signed up for a new bank account with $250k, they would be given an extra $1500. For free, just for signing up. On top of whatever interest that kind of money gets already.
@hosford42 I still don't know how my parents did it. Working odd jobs plus finding the time to apply for government programs plus working in a community garden that was essential for putting healthy food on the table, and canning the excess so we'd still have healthy food in winter.
I only get a taste of it when I'm unemployed: suddenly my checking isn't free, I can't pay off my credit cards every month, no health care spending account, no tax breaks, deferring medical care “til later.” That's, like, nothing, comparatively.
@hosford42: I'm so sorry you have had to deal with that. Nobody should ever have to be in that position and wouldn't be if not for the predatory economic practices that favor greed, arrogance, and sadism. For a country with so much, we cause so much unnecessary suffering.
Don't give your friends chatgpt-based gifts, please. It's not nice. I certainly don't want to know a fraction of the rainforest died so you could have a computer guess what I might like.
I'm starting to worry about the day family members who know my wife and I do art together decide to make some sort of AI art gift for us. It would be extremely antithetical and it would be ignoring all of the shit talking we do about AI but they use it very often. And they like ai art. So hrm just trying to prepare myself
I would take a drawing as bad as *my* drawings as a gift rather than an AI generated image stolen from hundreds of other artists, and I would frame it and put it someplace nice because it would mean something other than "I didn't wanna spend too much time on this so I used the latest worst invention to make it"
hey Marc. Given it is your birthday soon. If I were to plant some guerilla seeds somewhere in Berlin's Grunewald.... what flower would you like to grow in your honour?
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Draw your own picture, draw it with love, spend time on it, make mistakes and start over, agonize over shading or imperfections, and give it to me almost bashfully, almost shyly, with a hope I might see something beautiful in it, despite your very human flaws.
And then I can say, honestly and gratefully "it's beautiful, you must have spent so much time on this, I love it, you're so talented, thank you so much."
@hosford42@techhub.social As someone else who has been on both sides of that fence, I can definitely confirm this.
And I want to add that in my case, this was in the Netherlands; people often believe that this is just a US problem, but it's really not. It may be *less* bad here, but it's still bad.
It's also incredibly irritating that everyone blaming poor people for their "bad decisions" has a ton of bad decisions behind them that they were shielded from the full brunt of.
(Look, even when you don't have a ton of money to pull you through, if you even have a little savings, or a strong professional network, or own a home, or... Any number of things can make the difference between being ruined by a "bad decision" and getting through without too much difficulty).
@hosford42 I've recently had to pay hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees because my rent was on autodeposit and they kept charging me money I didn't have for months after we moved out, plus other bills that hit an empty bank account as a result, with apparently no recourse to get that money back. We had to try to get the bank to stop payment three times before it stuck. Absolutely infuriating.
It's expensive to be poor. It's ironic but true. You get charges and fees for everything. Higher interest rates. Overdraft fees. Late fees. Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk. Losing your job because you can't afford to get your car fixed. Losing your car because you don't have a job. Even your mental faculties are drained, as you are forced to continually eat low-nutrition foods, "sleep" in miserable conditions, and be exposed to toxins and lack of medical treatment. The lack of liquidity wipes you out. Life really does kick you while you're down.
You can't tell someone trapped in that vicious cycle to "just" get a job or "just" make responsible decisions. Sometimes, no amount of good decision-making can stop the vortex sucking them down. So the next time you are tempted to place moral judgment on someone who lives in poverty, think twice.
Signed, someone who has been both a Have and a Have-Not.
I love that, of all the things I've written, my post on how expensive it is to be poor is the one that has gone viral. But I have to say, it is stressful for me. I'm autistic and I have limited "spoons" -- especially for social stuff. I'm not used to the continuous stream of notifications, or to not personally replying to everyone that adds to the conversation. I really appreciate all of you, even if I don't have time to reply. Don't let the conversation end here! And if there's an opportunity to take positive action, remember, that's more important than any words.
I hate to do this, but I need to ask for help for me, my wife, and my two young daughters. We are desperate. When I wrote the post above, I was doing well and trying to stick up for people down on their luck, because I knew what it's like. Now things have flipped. I've been unemployed since February, and the gig work I was supporting my family with since then has dried up too.
I'm in the final stages of the interview process with a major tech company, which will fix everything, but I'm out of money *right now*. Our electricity will be cut off in 5 days. Our car will be repossessed in a week or 2. We have taxes we can't pay that will lead to our house being taken. That first paycheck won't come till after we lose everything and go hungry, assuming I even get the job. Please send us a few dollars if you can spare them. Every cent counts. Boost if you can't send money. Advice is welcome, too. Thanks, all, in advance. It means the world to us.
One of the absolute BEST explainers I have ever seen for "It's expensive to be poor." is the Boots Theory from Terry Pratchett's book 'Men at Arms' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_th…
My brother is currently going through this. He has lost nearly everything with 11 days until he does lose everything. I flew out to try to help, but he's not very open to help. He is insistent on becoming homeless. Instead of pushing, I'm just listening to him. I have offered possible solutions, but I told him, all I'm doing is sending links. It's up to you. He is becoming more perceptive, so we shall see.
This is so true. I remember feeling deeply resentful of the monthly checking fees I had to pay because I couldn’t maintain a balance over $1000. The interest I had to pay on credit cards because I couldn’t regularly pay off the balance, the car repairs every 8-15 months because I couldn’t save up for a newer car. Poverty is a vortex I won’t ever forget
It seems to be too hard for people who have never lived like this to realize what it is, that people don't even have the capacity to take a step back and think about things in greater perspective, you just can't afford it being overwhelmed by current tasks that require immediate response and when you have the free time you are allowed to have you are too tired for abstractions 🤷
It's expensive, but it's also incredibly time consuming in so many ways, too. Like commuting to work for two hours because you live far away in a cheaper area and don't have a car. My life is busy and exhausting and it's so hard to keep up. I honestly can't even imagine how poor people do it.
“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
It’s extraordinarily difficult to *plan* when one is poor. Which I think is probably part of the point (on the part of people who have a vested interest in keeping people poor). Planning is a luxury.
Plus you can only afford to buy cheap things (clothing, shoes etc) that won't last long. And over the years, you will thus have to spend more money on buying e.g. cheap shoes every year than you would spend for just one pair of expensive shoes that last a lifetime...
When these huge banks that you must have an account with can charge $5 to transfer money from savings to chequing we should all realize there is something terribly wrong with this society. @hosford42
I heard someone ask the other day "did you MAKE good decisions, or did you HAVE good decisions" and I think this is an important point of privilege to make... Not everyone has good decisions to make when the situation is dire.
A homeless person pays £2 just for fried potatoes because they don’t have the means to fry it themselves. If take out was cheaper, few of us would cook. We get a home and a kitchen to solve this problem.
The very wealthy get given free everything as people are trying to please them to either have them spend a lot of money or encourage a lot of money to be spent. Kings of old would receive the biggest gifts. Economics calls this loss leaders.
It is a scale. It’s incredibly expensive to be poor. As people get more wealthy they invest in themselves. It really is an increasing scale. Someone who can buy a brand new electric car won’t need to pay congestion charges when they drive it. If they have solar panels and a driveway, they won’t even pay for fuel.
Anyone who says they don’t care for money has never been poor. Money is just a tool, but it pays for things that keep you warm and safe. It pays for food.
So give to charity, but do better than that. Lobby against poverty, because charity is a patch on the failure of government. Sometimes this is as simple as voting.
I really appreciate this thread. It seems we have much in common. I know firsthand a lot of what you've described. I'm in a somewhat better place now, but still chronically underemployed. Like you, I've learned to cultivate somewhat better social skills over the years, but masking every day becomes exhausting and I find the prospect of advocating for myself on the search for better employment terrifying.
Really, our current society just doesn't work for a lot of us.
This is also enhanced when/if you're disabled because many medical conditions can be both worsened by conditions of poverty- like lack of real home temperature control and lack of the ability to get a special diet, and likewise are eased by conditions of having more money - for things like dishwashers, water softeners, easier to use vacuums and even part time home cleaning services. Meanwhile disabled who can't work often get less than minimum wage in work, even without transit costs.
@antijingoist One of the worst poverty fees is the increased cash prices charged to subsidize the increased credit card transaction fees that in turn subsidize reward points that benefit only a different socioeconomic class.
I added up the NSF fees I paid one year things got really crazy (COVID anyone?), to a 'credit union' no less. I almost died. Yes, 4 figures. My wife and I have the running joke about the $33.33 piece of cheese.
She had an earned free sandwich at some fast food place. Added cheese to the sandwich for 33 cents. Sure enough, balance had dipped to -$10 and poof $33 NSF fee for that 33 cent piece of cheese.
In case someone else wants it broken down for them, here's an episode of the Some More News podcast on why it's so expensive to be poor: youtu.be/oet62-F2Q9c
Hi. Conservatives love to label poor people as lazy and irresponsible, but America makes life incredibly difficult and expensive for the poor in ways that ke...
I don't agree... if you want to work you can find work easily. The problem is that many people are really picky, and only want to do certain jobs. Being poor because of your own job picky-ness seems to be the current "victime" trend imo.
Well said Aaron. I remember never being able to afford to fill my car, $10 max, nothing in the fridge or cupboard and always waiting for the red reminder for all bills. Now I’m retired and comfortable but I will never forget. My parents were working class, my mother had 3 jobs and it shaped me any my politics.
and when people are "being smart with their money", bug capital waltzes in and decides that the "free market" isn't free and starts gatekeeping normies from participating...
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you forgot about the part where you can't afford back surgery or proper mental compensation because you can't afford to get a proper bed to sleep on, or needing to choose between power and water, or the phone bill. or the part where society wants you to be in debt where you constantly oh someone something, even if it's interest rates. how about the part where paying your bills and things that you need to pay off, doesn't even count towards your credit what so ever. and about the part where in most situations, having bad credit is better than having 0 credit? been there, did all of this. I tried to buy the tea shirt, but de sided I was to much in debt to get one.
And someone could do everything "right," but still end up in poverty through no fault of their own. Systemic inequity, discrimination, health, collapse of their career field, layoff, wage suppression, accident, etc.
Rocketing towards my 60s. Soon it will be better to take early retirement and be badly off than to get involved with the #DWP To them you're just a number, not a person. Not that they would say that of course. They're here to help you. My a**e.
This! Plus you don't have the financial flexibility of someone with means, no savings, no access to credit, often your social circle/family is also poorer so getting help if there is some issue is harder/impossible.
@wendynather and somewhere someone who should have a cartoon top hat and monocle says “Clearly if I were in that position I would simply choose to be not-poor and avoid all that. Have you even considered just not being poor?”
Thank you for the inspiration, I needed the extra push to share my story. When I was 17 I was homeless for the first time for 2 years. It was only through the charity of my first wife's family that I was able to get off the street. The second time I was 35 and spent 5 years homeless and an out trans-woman. That was 11 years ago. If there is one thing I learned it was that we can only survive hardship with solidarity and perseverance, and with those things we can defeat anything!
And as you touched on mental faculties, when days bring you only suffering, that small emotional reward that comes with a pizza, a packet of crisps, or a can of beer is way harder to resist. When I was poor, I could not make myself have salad for dinner instead of fried chicken, or go for a run in the park instead or seeking relief in beer and a reality show. And worst of all, knowing that it will never get better because you don't see how it could, just makes you stop trying.
so true. When I moved back from the EU to Canada, I had to start my credit rating from scratch - at the same bank that had profited off my mortgage and investments, 12 years prior 🙁
Suddenly I had so much more compassion for immigrants and people fallen on hard times. They make it SO hard to advance. Algorithms replace people & have no heart-strings to tug at.
Being poor is a lot of work 🙁 Juggling funds, gaming arbitrary rules & finding creative solutions is exhausting 🥺
sí, es duro ser pobre, se trabaja diez veces más para conseguir cien veces menos. No es fácil, aunque uno termina agarrando sus truquitos para tener una vida digna a pesar de ello
You can't afford to get a good car, so it's constantly eating away at you with repairs. And because you have no credit rating, you're losing even more money on a bad interest rate.
No a/c, it's broke. Money to fix it. No heat, it's broke. Money to fix it.
The ‘poor tax’ is a terrible thing, and the finger wagging response to poverty issues gets me steamed: #SafeSupply, #HousingFirst, #GuaranteedBasicIncome all put the person first, as it should be.
LB: > Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk.
This bit.
I'm fortunate enough to be in a place right now where the bills are paid, and my wages just about stretch to the end of the month. But we've just adopted a pair of beautiful cats, and it freaks me out if I can't afford to have at least three weeks worth of food for them. That stress is really low level shit, but boy does it build up.
In those situations, anything that gives a baseline security is extremely valuable. making sure we have baseline housing, food security and healthcare frees up so much means and mental energy when you have nothing to be able to turn things around, it's not even funny. I always made sure my public transport was taken care of because even just being able to visit friends also meant more varied food. That's an option most people in the US don't have.
Man this resonates with me. The mental tax alone of not having money (to something as simple as counting the dollars you've put into your grocery cart) is incredible.
Most people who say crap like "well make better decisions" rarely were in situations where they ever had to make decisions.
I have met at least 150 people living in the worst of that vortex, homeless, when giving them bicycles. Decent people trying to claw their way back out of it. Most I meet once and don't know how they have done; a few have gotten jobs they could get to on the bike, gotten low income apartments, are climbing out. One now has job, home, and car; he helps others, has brought them to meet me to get a bike. It is a hard life and the survivors are some of the best people.
don't forget that you can't store stuff that you only use occasionally because you have a tiny apartment and can't afford a storage locker, leaving you to either beg off friends (if you have them) or rent per use. And most services require a significant time investment (lots of standing in line, regular reapplications, traveling to offices around the city) so they're especially difficult to access if you're working poor cause keeping up with that is like an extra part-time job
and you don't even need to put the bar that low; if you make just enough for the month, you still get hit by banking bullshit and abusive fees until you can't save a single cent, and you'd consider yourself lucky if your debt didn't increase, while your brain is required to focus on keeping a shit job
OMG! It's so damned true! You're not the only one to have been a Have and a Have-Not and the Have-Nots are growing. I'm telling you, a lot of what's going on is a scam against the people for those in power and the wealthy to get richer while people grow poorer. I'm one of the 63-70% that are living paycheck to paycheck, depending upon the source. Many I know are working two jobs or on Social Security and working or SSI for disability and working or just the Social Security or SSI alone. I know too many who don't even get $1,400 a month. Regrettably, it's only going to get worse.
recent 'have not' here. I was a have and now have a little more than I did when I was unhoused. Absolutely we are fined nickel and dimed, well family members and well to do friends complain about a small tax here or there. Hidden homelessness is real and I have experienced it. There's a lot of shame.. there's a lot of freedom and also interesting and good things to come of the experience because I chose to find those good things. But that was my journey not everyone will feel that way
I sometimes romanticize the sound of rain on the back of my van's windshield. Curled up with my wife and my cat in the city at night. How we drive to the lake and open the trunk. We didn't know how we would have handled things. I had friends who didn't help who always talked a big game about how they'd help or be there or die for me and my wife. People who attended my wedding. Family members who didn't want anything to do with us. We didn't even do drugs. Not that that matters
First... screw the people with the judgment. If someone is poor it is because society has failed them not the other way around.
Second, systems are built with the ends in mind and the means to get there. The system is built to ensure this out come. Boot theory is a thing and I think I see some here posting it so...
Lastly... go you go! You posted this when you could have looked the other way and didn't. Takes guts in the society we have. May good things come to you (us all). ✊
This is so true. It sickens me that people are expected to have two or three jobs to just barely survive. Minimum wage should be so much higher - one full-time job should provide a decent living.
It's so hard for me to fathom how this "penalize the poor so the wealthy who need nothing can have more" became the accepted way to organize society. It's *irrational*, and irrational makes me very unhappy.
I wish that the left in general would be able to distinguish between actual victories and symbolic victories. Symbolic victories are what you get when you can't win actual victories, and usually represent recuperation or other forms of counter-insurgency:
I pretty much hate symbolic victories. DEI programs, for instance, or Pride logos for companies, never did anything to alter their institutions and when they went away no one really missed them. No effective constituency continued to demand them.
The whole "class politics vs identity politics" debate was confused by people defending symbolic victories on both sides.
My neighbor and husband got their kitchen do-over recently. Last evening, it just dropped from the ceiling. Freaked them out. 😂 It was on one of those cords, so it didn't hit the floor, lol.
Bonnie Freeman, Ian Freeman's wife shared an important post on X today:
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"No fully shut nuclear power plant has been restarted, but at least one other attempted restart - of the #PalisadesNuclearPlant in #Michigan - is under way.
"As the technology industry drives U.S. electricity demand to record highs, nuclear power has broadly seen a resurgence of interest after decades in decline. New York plans to build a new nuclear power plant, which would be one of the first to be constructed in a generation."
Fun fact… my great uncle was the one who rigged the control rod mechanism for the Chicago Pile 1 making it go critical. Without him, we wouldn’t have had an atomic bomb.
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"The American people cannot believe a word you say" because of election denialism and adjudicated lies, Rep. Stanton (D-AZ) tells Kari Lake (who twice lost statewide elections in Arizona).
So this is easy to do now in America. Let's ban all vaccines until a child is at least 2 years old - and parents - keep this video and DO NOT vaccine your baby for anything. Wait until it has a strong
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The latest instalment of the #Palestinian resistance’s miracle-making transpired in Khan Yunis on Tuesday (June 24) when it dealt multiple blows to eliminate all seven Zionists inside an armoured personnel carrier (APC) in another of its trademark complex ambushes. All seven dead Israelis belonged to the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion in what one Israeli outlet called “one of the deadliest incidents for the Israel Defense Forces in months.”
Here’s how the deadly operation unfolded:
During an attack launched by the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion of the 188th Brigade in #KhanYunis, a resistance fighter approached a Puma armoured personnel carrier (APC) containing seven soldiers from the engineering unit and attached a shrapnel-type explosive device to it before withdrawing safely. The device exploded, causing the armoured vehicle to catch on fire.
I am all in favor of this. There are beer flights at so many restaurants but tiny strong & delicious cocktails with small foods would be such a great starter to a meal. Something bitter but not enough to get drunk and not be able to enjoy the food.
When I am working up a recipe, often I will invite people over and make 4 different versions but then split each drink into 4 little dixie cups so that each of us have only one drink's worth of alcohol. That doesn't fix the drink getting too warm problem but does let us test them clear headed.
Using downsized recipes is pretty standard for me when I'm drinking at home. For a lot of cocktails, half-size or third-size is just fine, especially when you start experimenting with ingredients and ratios. And I have something of an issue with actually committing to a full-size drink (i.e. I often get bored of it halfway through).
However, one of the biggest barriers to entry is the need for smaller glassware, which, while not impossible to source, is limited in its variety. “Where I see a lot of room for improvement is tiny rocks and tiny Highball glasses,” Zielinski says, noting that miniature coupes or diminutive Martini glasses are more readily available.
This is definitely an issue. I've been using stemmed liqueur glasses for small Martini-style cocktails, but even in somewhat smaller rocks glasses a half-sized Old Fashioned-style drink just looks lost.
🗨️ There's no peace with genocidal child killers, Israel is not Iran, there will be no peace with the United States of Hate either. Throwing 15 t bombs on nuclear facilities is a war crime, so begging war criminals for just another shady peace agreement is the last cry of despair.
"Government social media surveillance invades privacy and chills freedom of speech, and it is prone to errors and misinterpretation without ever having been proven effective at assessing security threats," EFF’s Sophia Copetold The Register. theregister.com/2025/06/25/us_…
Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has arrived in Belarus on an
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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. The billionaires are the richest, and poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth.
America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth…
BREAKING NEWS…I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister! Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land. Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON! We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu. Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this “Horror Show” since May of 2020 – Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, “concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges” in order to do him great harm. Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State. Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States, ME, than Bibi Netanyahu. It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF “JUSTICE” CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!
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This Monday, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced a significant increase in the country's certified oil reserves.
I strongly dispute the notion that anything used for an entire year can be defined as “one-time-use”, but you raise some great questions!
I can't speak to the new plushies, but the original Mastodon stuffed toys are roughly 500-gram products primarily made of polyester. Given their simpler material mix, they likely required comparable, if not less, energy to manufacture as standard umbrellas.
I also don't know where the new plushies are made, but the original Mastodon stuffed toys were manufactured in facilities certified by ICTI's Ethical Supply Chain Program and Intertek's Workplace Conditions Assessment.
Further, plushies are useful in providing emotional comfort, which I would personally rank as at least equivalent to brief protection from the rain while walking.
Recent figures estimate that roughly 1/3rd of annual toy sales are plushies.
Mastodon's stuffed toys have additional value beyond that, serving as both a funding source and a physical advertisement for an increasingly important open-source project.
Those uninterested in owning one of these small-batch indie toys can support Mastodon in a variety of other ways, such as a monthly pledge to their Patreon campaign.
"IntelBroker's" real identity is Kai West, a British national, according to court filings now revealed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today.
U.S. is seeking his extradition from France, where he was arrested on February 5 and detained.
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Christopher G.
The Iran crisis has shown yet again how Israel dominates U.S. politics. It also made clear that Zionism is an ideology based on nothing but brutal violence. The urgent task before American Jews is to dissociate themselves from this rogue state.
I've finally started having some free time lately and have been working through my Steam library, most of which is Windows games I'm playing with Proton.
I wanted to install some mods, and wanted a mod manager for this. Nexus Mods has Vortex, which is not available for Linux. In any case, running Windows games on Linux through Proton on Steam is fairly specific; the game files will be at certain locations on a Linux filesystem, not at the same locations as they would be on a Windows filesystem. So I think I would need software that has specifically been designed for this use-case (Windows games from Steam running on Proton).
Are there any such mod managers out there? What do other people do when playing games on Linux? I can't be the only person who wants to play video games with mods.
It should be a thing! Linux has lots of games now. Linux has lots of games with mods. Linux needs mod managers! Voice your want for it here, discuss, and best: contribute to the open source code for Vortex! :3 Link to the development forum where ther…
Oh amazing. Seems like it's still in early development and only supports Stardew and Cyberpunk but I look forward to it being more mature and supporting more games.
I used vortex it works pretty for windows games there no difference for mod manager where to work cause it think that it windows and files hierarch in windows prefix as is it expect vortex .So simply just install vortex in same wine prefix where u had installed before and that's it.
TLDR: ModOrganizer 2 works well under Linux (native) with Steam, and does not require any install scripts, Lutris, or otherwise. This process can also fix broken installs from scripts that went awry,
Protontricks can help for some games. Personally I used it to install Openplanet for Trackmania which doesn't have any sort of explicit Linux support specified.
What Protontricks does is allow you to run installation files within the context of a steam game, as you mentioned. Simply launch Protontricks and select the game you're trying to modify and it will mount it properly for you. Then choose "Run an arbitrary executable (.exe/.msi/.msu)" and proceed to run the installer as you would normally.
Sometimes the path can still be a bit janky. For example when Openplanet wanted to install to the Trackmania directory as mounted through Protontricks, I had to specify: Z:\home\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Trackmania.
I'm not sure why one of those is flagged. From what I can see its just the obnoxiously written write_file.content one-liners and lots of regex/sed, but nothing looks wrong with what its doing.
For Bethesda (and other compatible games), ModOrganizer 2 via SteamTinkerLaunch has worked reasonably well for me. There’s some jank involved but nothing terribly complicated for anyone who’s already used to Linux gaming hoop jumping. STL also supports Vortex but I’ve never personally tried it.
<br />To add in about game modding on Linux:
https://github.com/limo-app/limo
https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.limo_app.limo
Limo is a universal mod manager that is linux native.
And I do mean universal. It’ll work with literally any game, you just have to take a bit of extra time to configure things for games that do not yet have a supported preset configuration out of the box… but at this point, that includes most games that are generally reliant on some kind of mod manager type program on Windows, to keep track of 10s or 100s of simultaneous mods.
It works very much along the same lines as something like Mod Organizer 2, though there are some differences, read the wiki.
It sets up a virtual file system that allows mods to be set up outside of the main game directory itself, and will override them such that the mods actually load, but they can be ‘undeployed’ to revert back to vanilla, you can set up different profiles of different mod configurations and deploy/undeploy what you like.
It can also manage load orders, supports formats such as fomod and similar for games like Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, you can set up tags and category groupings, and it also shows you conflicts between mods down to the specific files, showing you a chain of overwrites to the final file from the final loaded mod.
It doesn’t support things like LOOT, which purport to autogenerate correct load orders… but frankly, thats fine, because shit like that doesn’t even work properly in situations you’d use it in on Windows 90% of the time.
EDIT: Wow, apparently it does support LOOT now, it did not a few updates ago.
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I have successfully gotten FONV working using Limo to set up uh… there’s a variant of the Viva New Vegas mod setup guide aimed at Steam Deck users, but it tells you to set up Mod Organizer 2 on the Deck… which you can do, but its rather input laggy and there are other inconveniences…
Here it is, Mirelurked Viva New Vegas:
https://ashtonqlb.github.io/mirelurked-vnv/intro.html
I had to alter a few steps from this to get it working with Limo, but they were basically just… set up Limo instead of MO2, and you have to handle NVSE a bit differently, because it literally replaces/overrides the entire main game exe.
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I have also used Limo to mod Cyberpunk 2077, works with more in depth frameworks like CET, RedExt, etc, as well as using the Decky Framegen plugin to insert FSR 3.1 Upscaling and Framegen into CP77, which gives better quality and fps than the official FSR 2 and 3 implementations that come with the vanilla game and are vanilla supported on a Deck.
You basically just have to launch the vanilla game via the normal launcher first, check the ‘enable mods’ switch, fully load the game…
Then you can set up the Framegen mod, which adds a custom command in steam to the launch parameters… and then you can also setup the ‘skip intro’ mod, which is reliant on both the mod being present, as well as additional command line parameters…
There are a bunch of reddit posts complaining that the FrameGen mod doesn’t allow other additional launch arguments, but they are wrong.
All you have to do is append those additional launch args … at the end of the FrameGen mod’s launch arg. This just doesn’t seem to be explicitly documented anywhere, by anyone… I may have been the first person to figure this out?
Anyway, after that bit of silliness, setting up other mods for CP 77 using Limo is fairly straightforward.
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… I am doing all this on Bazzite on a Deck, but you could do it on… presumably any linux distro that supports flatpaks and proton (the translation layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux).
There will always be a few ‘weird’ mods that are just totally reliant on a whole bunch of Windows specific things to work, or just cannot be made to work without actually overwriting some core game files in the main, real directory itself…
And, some of these mods will require a windows component dependency, like vc_2017 or vc_2022, you set those up with something like ProtonTricks or SteamTinkerLaunch to modify the proton config per game, instead of trying to install the exe system wide as 99% of the windows oriented mods will tell you to do…
But so far, I have found either my own solutions for these cases, or someone else already has, or someone has just made basically a linux compatible equivalent for such a windows reliant mod.
… You can also just choose to run MO2 on Linux, it will work, its just… buggy, and overlycomplicated, imo, you’ve got to set up a custom wineprefix for the MO2 UI to not do dumbshit, give it thr dependencies it needs, and then you’ve got to do this for each different game you want to mod with MO2.
I found that Limo is sufficiently capable and much less hassle to use once you take the time to understand its differences from MO2.
I’m not super-familiar with mod managers in general but my experience has been that they just work with proton more than you might expect. I know for sure that unity mod manager works fine in proton; I use it for railroader.
I use Limo, it takes some getting used to after using Mod Organizer 2 for so long but it gets the job done. I havent used it for any huge modlists yet though as it tends to be a little buggy/unintuitive sometimes.
There's also a way to get MO2 on linux, should he on github as modorganizer2-linux-installer.
It's using OverlayFs to lay mods on top of the game files which allows for easy switch-arounds of mod sets while keeping each mod separated in their own folder. It's based upon config files and allows to freely collect mods in sets, even nested.
It's probably full of unnoticed bugs because I'm the only one using it, but it works 🤷 I do have a bunch of convenience stuff queued up locally though. They need a bit of polishing but soon it's ready for another push.
I tested in these games - ls -1 "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mod-manager": * Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.toml * Cyberpunk 2077.toml * FlatOut 2.toml * Gotham Knights.toml * Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.toml * Ready Or Not.toml * Stellar Blade.toml * The Witcher 3.toml
very niche but i think it deserves a mention: the Outer Wilds mod manager doesn't just support Linux natively, but it even has a CLI version, and it's up on AUR and Flatpak
as others have said though, r2modman/thunderstore manager also runs in an appimage and works perfectly well for games it supports, and MO2 and Vortex work more or less alright if they're in the same prefix as your game or potentially even if they aren't.
It's not ready yet (preview state) but NexusMods is developing an app for managing all their mods: github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMod… for Linux they're releasing both an appimage and a standard setup.
I am using r2modman most of the time and it works well for the modded games I play on my machine. I uses Thunderstore so it might not have the biggest library of mods for all your titles but it's worth mentioning imo.
I suggest Prisim Launcher for Minecraft, but if you also play other games and want mods I can recommend r2modmanPlus they have a appimage and platform specific builds that you can download and its opensource!
I haven't done it a lot, but running a Windows mod manager in the same prefix as the game should work where there isn't a Linux native version available.
I've not really tinkered with any kind of settings and just use Steam's default which is to have a separate C: drive for every Proton game, so does that mean I'd need a separate install of a mod manager for every game? Ideally I'd like to have just one mod manager that recognises all my games (that are supported by the mod manager at least)
Depending on the game and comfort with bash scripting you can roll your own mod managers. I don’t really play Minecraft anymore, but if I did it would be heavily modded. In an effort to avoid installing a client/launcher beyond the one I already use I just keep folders for mod lists and configs, and then have bash scripts with aliases to do all the necessary file moving to swap between mod packs.
This doesn’t really work for most other games, but for things that run natively on Linux can usually do the trick.
For things running through proton it’s a bit more involved, but I also found a lot of satisfaction in figuring out how to manually install mods within the proton prefix. Used to have to do that a lot to mod Skyrim when it first came out and I got it running through wine on a school issued MacBook.
github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinke… for when you need MO2 or Nexus (that isn't Stardew). Keep in mind this will install a new instance of the app for each game you use it with (in its proton prefix folder).
github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMod… is the current version of the new Nexus Mod Manager App, which has linux support. Currently it only has game support for Stardew Valley.
As many others have said, go with PrismLauncher for Minecraft. Modrinth's launcher works fine too, but doesn't have curseforge support.
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