You're right about some things but theres a few misconceptions here.

Farming is not back breaking work. Unless you grow a crop of potatoes or strawberries and try to harvest them yourself.

Here with a not-very-big farm you could grow hay to sell as fodder. Thats a few days on a tractor to seed then a few days on a tractor to cut and wrap.

You could also just lease the land to another farmer for them to run their livestock.

On a farm any larger than a few house blocks you e got a huge asset that kind of cant avoid producing value in some way.

The other aspect of retirement is that the objective usually is to avoid spending money rather than making money. You're right that growing a few of your own herbs is not going to save much money.

If youve got room and time then growing most of your own food doesn't really require "homesteading". Get a cow butchered, give half to the neighbour, that and eggs and chickens can be your protein for 6 months, then the neighbour gives you half their cow and so on.

The keys are time, area, and rural contacts. Yes you wont have the latest gadgets - you'd have e to pay for those from your pension - but the lifestyle is very survivable.

LOL.

Isn't it. I see I wasn't missing anything. Someone mentioned that the pool cost $16m. Wow.

Exactly. What kind of fucking spineless head of state doesn't take responsibility for casualties of war.

I desperately wish that he could have his wealth crumble to dust, having been a trillionaire for a minute.

I know its not going to happen but a guy can dream.

Pay walled.

Hey why dont we all put our passwords in the same place. It will be fine, we'll do security stuff.

I sure as shit did not know that vaccines would become a political issue.

I think the kompromat is what allowed them to function. None of them could move against epatein because he had evidence of their involvement.

The "discovery of the number 0" thing always bugs me because obviously no one needed to discover the number zero as it's used to express "I own zero goats".

The important discovery was the use of 0 as a placeholder in a column indicating no value, when writing the number 10 for example. Basically it's the discovery of a positional numeric system where the position / column of the digits means something.

I've never heard the saying "the customer is always right" used genuinely tough.

Its only ever said to point out what a stupid saying it is.

The short answer is no.

I have played around with ollama and whisper. It's just too slow to be practical. The cost of the hardware is preclusive.

That said, I do selfhost openwebui and use inference end points from huggingface and ovh.

I've never used chatgpt or claude and I have to wonder whether those alternatives are really as terrible as the models available on huggingface. The output is always super plausible but usually just plain wrong.

Im not American. Help me understand what's going on.

Primaries are a selection process to see which candidate is going to stand in the election for a given party?

Who votes in primaries?

Why does there seem to be such disparity in the views of candidates from the same party?

Venture capital is drying up so they're using revenue to pay for the build out.

Its true that no one is "victorious", but thats truly remarkable given the disparity in power between the US and Iran.

Iran has successfully resisted, which is an undeniable achievement.

They're also holding the Trump's feet to the fire over his childish bluster. He posted a mean "truth", so they left the negotiations and closed the strait. They will control his rhetoric - something no one else has been able to do.

Anywhere on the fediverse. You just start your question with "windows was much easier than Linux because ..."

XKCD called this geek sniping. Its like a glitch in the minds of Linux dweebs.

I've answered this so many times.

Banks, my uni, accounting software I use at work.

Its a well acknowledged and much discussed fact that the web is buggy with ff.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Yeah there's loads of reasons not to support a bill which don't mean you don't support the idea.

Suppose a bill said billionaires should be taxed 50% of their wealth but only if their name doesn't start with "E".

Thats not how law making works though.

If you pass a bill then the job is done. It might be decades before it comes up again.

Poorly drafted legislation can ruin lives.

My theory on Vietnam, Philippines, and India is that they think of the US as a favourable migration destination, and probably have relatives or contacts living there.

Also their political class is worse than Trump.