LanyrdSkynrd

The right move would be to break them up. Separate all the business units that collude to abuse their monopoly power.

Knowing the recent history of US anti-trust, it'll drag on for years and the government will settle for a money judgement and an agreement to stop doing things that they don't need to do anymore.

latine

Is it pronouced lah-teen or lah-tee-ney? I've never heard anyone say it

My mom was briefly dragged into right wing conspiracy shit because of a new age lyme disease support group she was a part of. It started with harmless woo-y treatment stuff, went to "Lyme disease is a bioweapon that slipped from the lab" and started going in the direction of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Fuckin wild because my mom was always a typical 1970's lib, called herself a hippie, and went to BLM protests.

My sister dated a guy who believed this. He once said to me, "If evolution is real why isn't every animal as big as a T-Rex?".

In fairness to him, he grew up in a cult where education was done by whoever felt like doing it that day.

I enjoyed Trust by Hernan Diaz. It's kind of hard to describe, but it's a novel set in the gilded age. It's told in a really neat way through letters and a book within the book.

I also liked The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It's a weird murder mystery with time travel elements.

Reading what I just wrote makes me think I'm bad at describing books because I probably wouldn't read them based on that.

The only thing about taking the PC is that any accounts that have 2 factor authentication(I think that's basically every bank), will likely require a new code if you move it to a different IP address. If your father can provide those codes to you, I'd say just take the computer when your brother isn't around.

You may also want to try adult protective services since your brother seems not to be able to care for himself and is in a bad living situation. They probably aren't equipped for immediate help, but at least they'll be staffed with empathetic people who will know more about your local services.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I wish I had more specific advice to give you.

I hesitate to write this last bit, but I wish someone had told me when my father got sick and I was the child that had to handle everything:

You're doing the right thing and you're a good person for doing it, but take care of yourself as well. There may end up being times when you need to step back for your own health and mental well being, if so, you're not a bad person. You can't help anyone else if you destroy yourself.

Tho, I suppose towns back then just had a general "don't ride your horse recklessly in town" laws, regardless of your intoxication level.

Yeah, when I was searching I found an article from 1901 where a guy was arrested after being drunk and riding a horse dangerously. He was charged with disorderly conduct and something like reckless riding(I don't remember the exact wording).

I just did some searching, and I couldn't find a single reference to any law criminalizing drunk riding that isn't fairly recent.

Looking at some of the state laws criminalizing drunk riding: Minnesota only criminalized it in 2000, Oregon explicitly extended the motor vehicle code to riding animals, and it appears several other states(NH,SD,MA) it was the courts determined that horses were considered vehicles under the law. Interestingly SD explicitly excluded horses from the definition of vehicles back in 2006. I didn't look at every state, but from those laws and a few articles I found about the earliest drunk driving laws(this one about Vermont is interesting) it seems likely that the constable was wrong.

I think the reason drunk riding probably wasn't illegal before cars is that it didn't really need to be. Horses aren't machines, they don't do exactly what the rider wants them to do at all times. If a rider is completely wasted and passes another horse or pedestrian, the horse will instinctively avoid them even if the rider directs them toward collision. It really only becomes an issue when 2000+lb machines zooming around that have the potential to scare the horse that the rider needs to be fully capable of taking control.

I don't know why I just did an effort post about this, but I found it interesting.

I think if I had one of the affected chips, I'd want it to fail while they're still replacing them for free. It sounds like the various measures data center people are using are only slowing the degradation, not eliminating it. Maybe I'd wait until it's clear the issue is not in the replacement chips though.

The high failure rates that have been reported are in situations where the chips are working hard 24/7. I think for most home users, were not going to see the failures for a few years, which is exactly what Intel is counting on by not doing a full recall.

I use Audiobookbay, and 3xforum

Audiobookbay has a lot of books, but the direct download links are scams or paid. You can use the magnet links, though. Either sign up for an account and you get access to a limited number of magnet links per day, or you can just copy the "infohash" field and put it at the end of "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:" without the quotes, and then paste that into your torrent software.

The 3xforum has direct download links, but a much smaller selection

Qanon has some really creative lore. Like JFK Jr faking his own death and having plastic surgery to avoid being assassinated like his dad, only to come back and help Trump defeat the deep state.