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LOL reminds me about the bigot during the first Trump administration harassing Puerto Ricans because he claimed they are aren’t American citizens. Get ready for even more of this nonsense in the next 4 years, ugh.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/us/illinois-puerto-rico-park-officer/index.html

or that mainstream (S&P, Nasdaq) financial investments were no longer sound, what can one do to prepare for “the worst”?

Investors that factor in world markets would probably do okay as long as you’re talking just U.S. economic troubles. e.g. right now VT (total world stock ETF) is weighted 64.70% U.S. market due to market strength. So in theory if the U.S. tanked and other countries have better markets for investing then the weights would shift to the other side and maybe being closer to 30% U.S. vs rest of the world’s markets weighted towards 70%.

If you’re not seeing anything of concern in the SMART info then there’s little to worry about. You could install/run smartctl from the command line, or for something with a gui try gsmartcontrol / any other app that can interact with your hard drive diagnostics.

Hard drives can last a long time, as a general rule if your hard drive made it through its first 1-2 years without issue then there’s a good chance it’ll keep chugging along for years. I personally haven’t found that hard drives consistently die in 5-7 years, not too sure where you got that info from.

In any case backups are your friend, not just in case the hard drive dies but there’s always the possibility that your entire OS blows up somehow or you get a bad case of malware.

Stuff like that already exists, it just isn’t overly popular or mainstream. You don’t even need to build that on bittorrent.

Off the top of my head both https://getaether.net/ and https://retroshare.cc/ are p2p for social media/forums that sort of thing but I’m sure there are others.

If they’ve been dead for a while then the body is going to be quite decayed so that unfortunate person would end up dying again immediately.

Unless you’re suggesting this thing that came to life is no longer human. So in that case decayed body/flesh, missing organs/bodyparts, etc. no longer prevent it from “life”. But I’d argue that isn’t a human coming back to life, more like a corpse transforming into something else.

Since you mentioned it cold brew coffee is less acidic vs hot coffee and I think(?) less than hot tea as well.

OTOH cold brewed tea probably edges out all of them in terms of low acidity.

Not too sure if you meant hot or cold tea, just adding some extra info :) For me cold brew coffee is way, way easier to drink and it’s become my daily go-to.

I don’t think there is an earlier option for less money

Sure there is, go to the SSA website itself the earliest eligibility is 62

https://www.ssa.gov/retirement/eligibility

You can also register yourself there & see your own estimates based on when you expect to claim social security.

Could you bear to wait eight more years for the 100%? You’ve already waited 62 years! What’s 8 more?

It’s easy to think that way in your younger years. That’s a much more difficult request for people actually in their 60’s, lots of people make it to that age with broken down bodies, various illnesses/prescriptions/whatnot & probably can’t see themselves continuing to do the work thing throughout their 60’s let alone 70.

There’s also the problem of holding down a job at that age, ageism exists in a lot of industries so a lot of these people are first in line for layoffs / taking a massive pay cut from their earlier jobs vs being a Walmart greeter or just being unemployed.

But sure… in theory if you manage to stay fit & healthy well into your old age & are able to hold onto your normal job then sure working into your 70’s or more could be plausible. People probably worry less about that stuff once they’re higher up on the corporate ladder - though at that point they should already have fat 401K plans & other investments so the social security aspect becomes less relevant.

Eh it’s not terrible but I usually only buy those burgers when they’re on sale. But I get it, sometimes you want to splurge a bit.

The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit movies. If I could manage it usually would head up to the theater to re-watch every 1-2 weeks.

They were all movies released in December. I still distinctly remember heading up to the IMAX in Manhattan late night after work so the movie would finish up around midnight(?). After watching these movies I’d walk out of the theater into a cold and snowy NYC. Felt a bit surreal, especially after the last 2 Hobbit movies where most of the movies were centered around cold climates.

Pixel 7 / Google Chrome

I rarely do much web browsing on mobile so that suits me fine for quick things. But if I were browsing Lemmy I’d use Tor Browser like I already do on desktop.

eSim, that seemed to be the default for my provider/phone (Google Fi with Pixel). It works fine. The online activation seems to work okay, I’ve even moved to different Pixels without much hassle.

That aside overall I’m indifferent to using Sim or eSim.

Might be a bit more than mildly infuriating.

Not sure about your area but where I’m at a ton of smaller venues are using the dice.fm app for ticketing, it also allows users to follow venues/bands for upcoming shows.

Bandsintown also tracks bands on tour & could be useful though I get the feeling it’s better for tracking bigger bands/artists.

Slightly old school but also keep in mind lots of venues/promoters still have email lists you can subscribe to for news/updates.

Beyond that I still keep an eye on Facebook/Instagram for keeping track of those things (I know that’s not the answer you want sorry), a lot of times that’s what the bands/artists are actually posting to.

Hot honey is pretty good if you’re into the whole sweet/spicy combo. In NYC there are now pizzerias serving pizza with hot honey… it sounds a bit odd but surprisingly quite good, definitely worth a try.

Not only that, it was a brand new account on a totally different Lemmy instance that demanded lemmy.world admins remove piracy related communities.

Honestly it seems like lemmy.world admins were trolled by some random throwaway account and took the bait.

EDIT: The post in question in case others haven’t seen it https://lemmy.world/post/3175920, a new account from lemm.ee makes their first & only post in lemmy.world demanding that they defederate & remove anything piracy related.

The Liftoff app can probably do it, I know for sure it can have multiple instances in guest mode (not logged in) & can group the view for all of them as local. Haven’t seen other apps that can do that.

I suspect most people (including me) are probably lurkers/upvoters. The lurkers will have more to say when the new season is live :)

Also, where does that subscriber count come from? I looked at this community via 3 different Lemmy instances & saw different numbers on each of them… maybe that number is just specific to the amount of local instance members subscribed to that community. Here at lemmy.zip we’re at 18 subscribers for !futurama@lemmy.world

The old Adult Swim series are fun to rewatch. Sealab 2021 and Aqua Teen still hold up!

For new equipment you may want to make sure it is Windows 11 compatible otherwise your Windows 10 laptop only has about 2 years worth of updates left https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro

Alternatively could be good time to look into installing Linux.