I have a Kobo Clara HD, bought reconditioned (or maybe it was open box) and I love it. I use KORrader and have only used the Kobo store once or twice.

I second the recommendation of a used/reconditioned or open box Kobo. You should find something nice under/around $100.

So you're saying it was the of tanks.

What is it in Amerikkka? Surely not that bad, but maybe something like 80/20, not counting bots?

It's probably either bird -> cat -> human or chicken -> cow -> farm cat (raw milk) -> human.

But the Communists have the music.

It's kind of reassuring to see that he's not putting competent psychopaths in his cabinet.

Here in [Southern State], de la Cruz was on the ballot on the [Southern State] Workers' Party. You do what you have to for ballot access.

Except that he is now living in his mom's basement to avoid visitors at his doxxed address.

I've found the cheap Chinese razors are just fine if you pair them with a better quality blade. The one I have is functionally a copy of a 60's Gillette Superspeed. Maybe I've just been lucky.

They do last forever. I regularly shave with razors as old as the 1940s, but mostly the 1960's.

I've found it a little tricky to shave my head with a double-edged safety razor, but a GEM single-edged razor is brilliant for it. DE clogs quickly, and i tend to to nick myself behind the top of my ears. SE no such problems.

"Get politics out of politics" is actually a pretty good description of the Neoliberal project. Move more and more things out of the domain of politics and into the domain of economics so that they're not subject to popular control, but can also be portrayed as natural, just the way things are.

Your critique of Bernie's behaviour is correct, but Bernie's diagnosis of the failure of the Democrat party is also correct. Use the "worst guy" emoji if you need to.

And where did that bring you?

Ah, but he lost in the right way: campaigning nationally instead of the state he was running in, and thereby raising record amounts of campaign funds to pay into the pockets of DNC-associated consulting firms.

You joke, but modern Java is much less bad than it used to be, the JVM is very well optimized, and other JVM languages like Kotlin and Clojure are actually good.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. For application code, it's almost always better to use a language with garbage collection, in order to get memory safety without undue ceremony. Yes, some gc-ed languages are slow (Python, Ruby), but others are quite fast (JVM, .NET, Common Lisp, Haskell).

This kind of makes me want to write code in C out of spite.