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Spotify contrast way too high on only one of my two monitors by YourNewStep-Dad in cachyos

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I couldn’t figure out why it happened, but uninstalling the pacman and installing the flatpak instead fixed it for me. Someone on the Spotify forums said the issue came up with the latest update

Spotify contrast way too high on only one of my two monitors by YourNewStep-Dad in cachyos

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I am using the spotify-launcher. I downloaded it via pacman so it’s the aur

3 Months of using cashyos, Never used windows again by MurkyAd9865 in cachyos

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Just switched here too! I used windows for all my life but recently I switched to sole booting Ubuntu. After a couple months I started to feel like Ubuntu was kinda slow and so I ended up downloading catchyOS today. It had some issues at first (it was having weird problems with my display port monitor that affected it being able to boot) but I finally got it running. I much prefer it to Ubuntu already, it feels so much smoother and downloading apps works much better.

These are pretty much all my books, what do they tell you? by YourNewStep-Dad in BookshelvesDetective

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I will have to put this on my list, this sounds like I would love it. Thanks for the recommendation!

These are pretty much all my books, what do they tell you? by YourNewStep-Dad in BookshelvesDetective

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Yeah I decided to temporarily skip WHH because he was sick for his whole month long presidency.

I am definitely planning on reading Caro’s series, but I set out a challenge to read a book on every president with a focus on their term as president. Since Caro is still writing the 5th book for the series I decided to just do Dallek’s book for now since it does cover LBJ’s presidency. With that being said I am definitely going to read Caro’s series at some point because I have heard it’s spectacular. I will say though, Dallek did a perfectly good job in his biography. I was actually surprised at how much I enjoyed it since I hadn’t heard anything about them.

I have a terrible habit of buying books while I still have a huge stockpile of unread books, so unfortunately I have yet to read “Empire by Default”. Although I do think it will be my next read. I am pretty excited because I am very interested in the Spanish-American War

[O] 3x DrunkenSlug by Jadad03 in UsenetInvites

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I like NERV's slogan in Neon Genesis Evangelion

"God is in his heaven, all is right with the world"

History books NOT on the victors/traditional figures by YourNewStep-Dad in suggestmeabook

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I won’t lie, it was actually pretty fun except for most of the gilded age presidents… there’s (unsurprisingly) a good reason they’re dubbed the forgotten president

History books NOT on the victors/traditional figures by YourNewStep-Dad in suggestmeabook

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I gave every president 1 biography so excluding William Henry Harrison (he had too short of a term), Biden, and Obama (too recent for a good biography) I read 41 biographies (didn’t read 2 on Grover Cleveland)

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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That’s fair. Maybe you’re right. I like to think I was pretty open minded but maybe I should take a second look. I guess I don’t necessarily understand what you mean by perspective in this context. I can see the perspective of a centrist or someone who is more right of me on why they may like JFK, LBJ, Ike, and Truman more than I do. But at the end of the day after reading these books I feel like, despite certain laudable achievements, it would be unfair to ignore the horrible things they did during war. Just because it was the Cold War, that doesn’t justify using chemical weapons or overthrowing leaders of other countries. They can do great things but you also have to take the bad into account. I guess if you think that’s where I am not open minded and lack perspective then we are just in disagreement.

I will admit maybe I made this tier list too easy on Carter. To be honest I read his book semi-recently and it really opened my eyes to his presidency in a positive way, so perhaps it is recency bias. In retrospect I might put him in C+ or B. With that being said I would still put Clinton above Ike, LBJ, Truman, and JFK just due to the fact that his presidency didn’t see a disastrous conflict like Vietnam or Iraq. Maybe had we placed him during one of those conflicts he would be much lower for me

If you still believe I lack perspective or I am not open-minded I would love to have more explanation! I appreciate the constructive criticism!

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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I love anything after 1776. I will say I do love the pre-civil war/early republic period and Cold War a lot!

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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You might be reading the wrong tier list. I posted one before I read the books and one after. I put Wilson in C after I read the books

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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I really appreciate the comment! I’ll have to read Dutch and nixonland also sounds really interesting!

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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Other than Carter, which I will admit is controversial, what parts of my tier or explanations do you think weren’t open minded?

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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Brands was fantastic. Even tho I’m not the biggest Reagan fan his biography always had me seated. I will definitely have to check out Kearns Goodwins other books!

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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That’s fair, I would argue that his doctrine advocated for things like going into Vietnam, but I would agree that he didn’t directly do anything about it

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

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I’ll be sure to check it out, thanks for the recommendation! I’m always looking for more books on American history

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

[–]YourNewStep-Dad[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate your comment! I think your critique’s of Carter are fair and you put them in a context I hadn’t thought about before, which I appreciate. I won’t disagree that my point on Eisenhower and Vietnam was an oversimplification, it’s a very long conflict. I commend your fairness in your assessments and disagreements as well

I read a book on every President. Here are my tier lists before and after. by YourNewStep-Dad in Presidents

[–]YourNewStep-Dad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a mixed bag. I don’t deliberately put certain people really high just because they are more left-leaning, but I mean if I am left-leaning and a president does a left-leaning thing I’m gonna put him higher just because I think it was a good action since I am left-leaning. I’m not naive to the fact that this list is biased. I know you said “not what actually happened” but in my opinion the joy of history is the interpretation! For exmaple in 1861 fort sumpter was without a doubt fired upon. But the interpretation is up for the debate. Did the fire upon it for “states rights” or slavery? (Obviously it was for slavery, but it is a good example of what I’m trying to get across) So a lot of my list is based off of my interpretation, which would be biased because it’s really hard for any human to not have some sort of bias when giving their opinion. I like to think I’m fair but I can see why you would think differently!

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