Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Everybody saw this coming.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

When we show up, we win.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Bark louder, little dog.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

“But what about the lurkers?”

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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Sometimes I Want to Scream

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I hate starting these Windows v. Apple fights since I own both, but somehow I have done something improper and now all I can get out of my speakers is background sound and not the voices of the singers. It is like it is treating my front speakers like rear speakers, and for the life of me I do not know how to fix it and IT IS MADDENING.

*** Update ***

This is the Windows machine. Somehow I had set it to 5.1, but it is fixed. Now I can hear James Brown say it loud that he is black and proud. All is well.

And sweet jeebus, the grammar in this post was atrocious. I think I was having an out of body rage experience when I wrote the earlier post.

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  3. 3.

    Zifnab25

    Apparently, installing Ubunto will get you kicked out of your graduate program. At least according to a story I read on Digg.

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    Joel

    I’ll see your scream and raise you an ‘anguished.’

    My pipes froze. My house flooded.

    The area plumbers won’t come on an ’emergency’ call unless you’re a customer. I said, "If you come, I’ll -be- a customer."

    But no. Their policy is to only come to people who, what? Have a plumber on retainer? LIke a guy in a sitcom, the wise-cracking plumbers who’s always around?

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    RandyH

    I had a similar issue a while back. After messing with the drivers and replacing the actual sound card (where I was SURE the problem lied) and still experiencing the problem like you describe, I tried it out with some headphones (plugged directly in to the computer.) Sounded fine.

    It turned out to be my speakers so I replaced them. My cat had chewed on the audio cord between the PC and the speakers.

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    The Other Steve

    Somehow you’ve turned on some kind of 5.1 channel thing. That’s impressive, I didn’t even know you could do that.

    My favorite was the guy who changed his foreground color to black, and his background color to black and then complained about how he couldn’t see anything.

  11. 11.

    JL

    @Joel: Sorry! Is Joe still in Israel? If you can’t turn off the water at the street, call the city that you live in.

  12. 12.

    MikeJ

    Start menu->control panel->sounds and audio devices

    Bottom of the volume tab has a section about speakers. Advanced settings button will let you change them from 5.1 to desktop speakers.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Darkness

    "My cat had chewed on the audio cord between the PC and the speakers."

    Blame Tunch!

    Joel, yikes!

    We had some non-licensed plumbing work done by some very nice Jamaicans. Hasn’t leaked yet. Try calling a general contractor and explaining your situation. He or she may "have a guy" to send your way.

    Are you in Montreal, btw? My in laws found out the hard way that contractors had divided the city into non-compete zones so you could only ever hire the guy for your area and if you thought him an idiot or pizzed him off, you were just stuck.

  14. 14.

    Joel

    In Maine. Fortunately, it’s warmed to -6, so everything’s looking good!

    And I hadn’t even thought of JTP! I don’t know what I’m thinking.

    Finally found someone, though. Yay!

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    Comrade Darkness

    And sweet jeebus, the grammar in this post was atrocious. I think I was having an out of body rage experience when I wrote the earlier post.

    Over your speakers?

    I think you may benefit from a few rounds of yoga/mindfulness. Just a thought.

    It’s all small stuff.

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    bago

    If you want 5.1 channels of sound, there will be complexities involved due to upgrading from 2 channel sound. One might make the argument that it is at least 2.5 times as complex.

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    grendelkhan

    Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you unleash the nerd rage before. Well played.

    (I’m trying to track down a particularly nasty and hard to trigger kernel bug at the moment; I’m on my ninth test kernel, and while I think this one is good, it also has a habit of crashing my X session, causing all of my apps to quit. If only there were something like screen, but for X rather than for character terminals, that’d be nice.

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