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Victim reports his father missing. Police instead interrogated him for 17 hours, said they killed his dog, and withheld his meds from the victim. Victim tried to commit suicide in the room. (lemmy.world)

At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator....

aleph,

The tax payer pays up almost $1M and these scumbags remain employed. How predictable.

Also, just in case anyone isn’t aware: rule number one if you’re in the US and police ever bring you in and try to interrogate you is to shut down and demand a lawyer. Legally, the interview has to stop immediately until you have one present. If the officers don’t comply, then you know they’re corrupt and there’s no reason to believe anything they say from that point onwards.

Some questions about fedora

Hello. These questions are self-hosting related, but I feel they do partially belong here as they are also about fedora linux in general. I have a server which is currently running Debian. It has an arc GPU, and no matter what I do, video encoding refuses to work. I was thinking I might move it to Fedora, but have some questions...

aleph,

I’ve personally had issues with Fedora’s version updates - once with Fedora and another with Nobara (which is Fedora based). In both cases, dependency conflicts broke the update and they were a considerable pain to fix. It was enough for me to switch to a rolling release distro and never look back.

aleph, (edited )

I’m seeing exactly the same thing. Certain companies re-listing the same position for months on end, despite hundreds of people applying.

According to this article I read recently, some companies are either doing it to give the illusion that they’re thriving and planning to take on more staff, or just to keep a pool of potential applicants on the back burner just in case.

It sucks. I’ve been looking to make a career change for over a year, and have only had two interviews despite sending out literally hundreds of applications.

25 Years Later, I Am Now A Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Apologist (kotaku.com)

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is historically significant for many reasons: it was the first Star Wars movie in nearly 16 years, the last Star Wars movie shot on film, and a polarizing, pulpy entry in the storied space fantasy franchise. It debuted on May 19, 1999, 25 years ago almost to the day, and earned over $1...

aleph, (edited )

I think it’s a generational thing. Most/many older Star Wars fans (such as myself) who were already adults when the prequels came out hated them from the get-go.

I recall being the reaction being pretty much this:

youtu.be/zJlgpozN31s?si=GH7G1NF-_3Wlh-IK

aleph, (edited )

Sure, the acting and dialogue in Start Wars were always dodgy, but at least in ANH you had a solid retelling of The Hero’s Journey and the charm of practical effects. tPM was just a big, bloated, incoherent, CGI-ridden mess with only a couple of good actions scenes thrown in.

aleph,

Political intrigue just like Andore! I mean people love that one and it’s just a guy being a giant dickhole for 12 episodes.

That right there is fighting talk.

the sequel trilogy is bullshit.

Oh, indeed.

aleph,

I find that lemmy has less of an echo chamber, but the average political stance is a lot more left-ish than reddit.

This is true once you’ve blocked Lemmygrad and Hexbear, which are as much echo chambers as r/The_Donald ever was.

aleph,

You’re fine as long as you don’t decide to jump in and offer a contrary opinion.

aleph,

Ah ok, so what they mean to say isn’t so much that fossils contradict evolution but that the existence of fossils can be explained by the biblical account of Noah’s Flood.

Not the same thing of course, but then hardly surprising given the apparent level of scientific understanding on display.

aleph,

They show how fossils contradict evolution

I’ve heard most creationist talking points before but this one is new.

How do they attempt to argue that the existence of fossils contradicts evolution by natural selection?

aleph,

I wouldn’t put it past these showrunners. It’s probably going to be because she’s “too proud” to make it known that Sauron tricked her, but if you ask me that isn’t any less stupid than a Sauron-Galadriel romance.

aleph, (edited )

First order of business: justify why Galadriel spends the entire first season looking for Sauron, discovers who he is, and then proceeds to tell absolutely bloody no one as he helps forge the three elven rings and then saunters out of Eregion like he owns the place.

aleph, (edited )

It depends how you’re using the term ‘genocide’.

While the CCP might not necessarily be intentionally mass-killing ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region, there is very strong evidence that they are doing their utmost to stamp out Uyghur culture and forcibly assimilate them. In the process, people are being incarcerated, tortured, and raped, amongst other things.

It could be argued that this is a crime under international law, where the definition of genocide includes

intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Or you could argue it is ethnic cleansing instead. Either way, it’s a lot more serious than just overzealous “counter-terrorism” measures.

aleph,

Why shouldn’t three elected politicians make a statement to the local press?

aleph, (edited )

That reminds me of this real exchange in the Missouri state legislature regarding the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that banned any mention of “sexual orientation or gender identity” in schools.

aleph, (edited )

They could simply continue from where they left off in Season 1 and fill in the blanks? I personally felt the ending was a little unsatisfying.

Either way, it’s a bold move. It wouldn’t be the first time a team of writers has had to come up with completely original material and fallen flat on their faces.

aleph, (edited )

-> Protests go on peacefully for X number of days.

-> University management call in the cops.

-> News headlines the next day: CAMPUS PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT

aleph,

If the showrunners learn from their mistakes and actually fix the myriad pacing/characterization/dialogue issues from season one, there’s a slim chance they might be able to turn the show into something half decent.

Now that they’ve got all the pointless mystery boxes about the identity of Sauron/The Stranger out of their systems, they can hopefully leave those far behind as well.

aleph, (edited )

Each to their own.

Gnome with GTK4 + adw-gtk3 looks far cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing than Plasma + Breeze, IMO.

aleph, (edited )

Gnome lets you do this on the primary display, but afaik it’s not possible on the secondary/tertiary displays.

NorthWestWind, to showerthoughts
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Philosophy is just applied existential crisis

@showerthoughts

aleph,

That’s true if you’re only talking about what was once called ‘natural philosophy’, but there are still many areas where philosophy and physics don’t really overlap - ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, language, existentialism, etc.

aleph,

Grace Ocean and Synergy filed a petition on April 1 in Maryland federal court to limit their liability from the crash. If the court grants it, the companies’ liability could be limited to the present value of the ship, which they estimated to be $42.5 million, according to the petition. Source

Which would leave the tax payer footing the bill for the remaining $1.46B cost of reconstruction. Classic.

aleph, (edited )

I still wouldn’t call it “precise” in the slightest.

Even assuming that this ratio remains constant after the remaining 10,000 unidentified bodies are accounted for, men of fighting age only account for 40% of those being killed and not all of those will be actual Hamas fighters.

aleph,

Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

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