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How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.

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Maybe there’s a better place for this question, but how do you make sure a used laptop is safe? Or would removing Windows and installing Linux be enough?

I want to buy a laptop for Linux, and would buy a used one so that it’s cheaper but I have to admit I worry about it. I know one could be worried even about new laptops and what manufacturers could be up to, but I feel like the unknown arbitrariness of a used laptop gets to me.

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I have premium and I have no idea. I just pay it to support them.

It’s an excellent password manager. I love it!

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As a fellow side sleeper who just bought a Purple mattress, just remember to buy a plush/soft mattress. The reason you are hurting is because you are sleeping on your side on a, probably, cheap and firm mattress.

Firm mattresses are for back sleepers. Soft mattresses are for side gang, like us.

I will say Purple is just incredible if you can afford it but try it at a store first before committing. The important thing, though, is to get a soft, well-made mattress.

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…I’ll go way out on a limb and suggest that this could’ve been handled better.

Yeah, I mean, they could stop evicting people and sentencing them to homelessness.

That would be a start and would have avoided this entire thing.

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I’m confused again.

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I hate AirBnBs because they make housing less available for everyone, but are they really that or as expensive as hotels now? I feel like hotels are probably still more expensive.

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Well, despite the fact that I hate Trump, I think the Democrats are fucked by picking Joe Biden as the candidate for 2024.

Biden is terrible for the working class. He started his Presidency by going back on the campaign promise of $2k stimulus checks, couldn’t forgive student loans as promised, broke a strike which then led to multiple train disasters, billions in aid to Ukraine but lets the US crumble under cost-of-living crises, and generally ignoring the fact that he should be retired at his age instead of running this country is not helping anyone except the Right.

Biden will be the last Democrat President the way this is going. Pathetic way to go out.

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Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

— Epicurus

I’m not a huge fan of Heidegger but I do think he was a genius and a juggernaut in philosophy, unavoidable. He argued human being, or Dasein more accurately, swings between more authentic, self-owned living and inauthentic, crowd-oriented living which he referred to as “fallenness” but despite the connotation it is not necessarily a negative. It is part of our condition and is natural, for lack of a better word. Meaning, don’t be too hard on yourself for not living a perfectly philosophical life.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

— David Hume

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