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halfempty, 5 months ago

File this under "shooting yourself in the foot".

halfempty, 5 months ago

I never particularly cared for the Unity desktop. The first few times I tried it, there were hardware incompatibilities, slow performance, and crashing. Gnome3 is a complicated mess. I prefer to keep it simple. XFCE is fine for me.

halfempty, 5 months ago

I would like to see more concrete actions limiting corporate price-gouging, and not just words. Corporations aren't going to do anything just because the president says "stop doing it".

halfempty, 5 months ago

Trump blatantly incites his followers into violence, and directs them toward specific targets. That is outside of the legal bounds of "freedom of speech".

halfempty, 5 months ago

Maybe it's because everyone is struggling with high costs of housing, food, and healthcare, among other things, while wages have remained flat and stagnant for decades.

halfempty, 5 months ago

I must admit, I don't get why Biden would go so wholeheartedly pro Israel here. I get that the US has been allies with Israel for decades, and we would probably continue that. But his support goes further, and gets out of balance in terms of public perception of Israel (which does have broad public support), and a clear genocide of Palestinians in Gaza which also has broad public recognition. He probably would have been better to try to thread the needle between the two.

halfempty, 5 months ago

What could possibly go wrong?

halfempty, 5 months ago

I am very skeptical of anything coming out of the information war related to this conflict.

halfempty, 5 months ago

I keep trying other distros, and then coming back to Debian unstable XFCE. Linux Mint Debian Edition is ok. At work I did lots of Enterprise Redhat, but I'm glad I don't have to use it after I retired.

halfempty, 5 months ago

Been there. Done that. Not again.

halfempty, 5 months ago

I understand Jill Stein's connections to Russia are because of RT (Russia Today), who was publishing lots of US progressive content back in 2016, at a time when no US media would touch any of it. Yea, it sucks that we had to have Russia of all places publish progressive content, such as Pro Bernie Sanders, StandingRock protests, and Green Party positions to get any visability AT ALL. So Stein was at a table with other people who were getting their issues published by RT, and Putin joined in. Now I wouldn't get anywhere near any RT content.

halfempty, 5 months ago

I believe that Firefox has a mechanism where millions of users all have the same fingerprint, which makes the whole concept of browser fingerprinting useless.

halfempty, 5 months ago

Evidently, section3 of the 14th amendment doesn't explicitly apply to US Presidents. It explicitly applies to any officers and military under the US government. I suppose legal types have to be quite specific in the basis for a ruling, if "any officers" doesn't include the Presidency. Stepping back, it doesn't make much sense that a President who incites an insurrection would NOT apply, but that's how it was written back then.

halfempty, 5 months ago

Sure seems to me that the California Utilities Commission is serving the big utility corporations at the expense of people wanting rooftop solar, and at the expense of our renewable energy future. Solar is cutting into their profits.

halfempty, 5 months ago

Nazi racist defends Elon Musk anti-semitic remarks. No surprises.

halfempty, 6 months ago

I am so tired of Biden and Trump's bratty entitled children. All of them are detestable.

halfempty, 6 months ago

What complete bullshit propaganda. Rashida Tlaib is one of very few congresspersons with a shred of humanity about the massacre in Gaza and is willing to speak up about it. She has nothing to do with Hamas. That is just how they stoke hatred.

halfempty, 6 months ago

I support the squad, and feel that they are the only ones in Congress that are even close to representing me. Powerful AIPAC and corporate billionaire money doesn't like them, and will use their money to silence anyone who challenges their power.

halfempty, 6 months ago

Article says the most likely reason is that Xwitter started charging for API access.

halfempty, 6 months ago

Manchin is not moderate by any stretch. He is so blatantly beholden to his special interest money sources that he doesn't seem to have any political direction at all. He's a democrat by title who pretty much hangs out with the Republicans, and also votes with them. That's not moderate.

halfempty, 6 months ago

Somewhere along the line, Whoopi became a Hillary Clinton clone.

halfempty, 6 months ago

Hard to believe Tumblr lasted this long even. They killed like 3/4 of their content (and audience) when they decided to not have any porn like 4 years ago. Everybody left. An early example of enshitification.

halfempty, 6 months ago

But the MAGA House Republicans DO want a Government shutdown. We must face that basic fact. They are anti-government, so a government shutdown is exactly what they want. We must find a way to make a shutdown cost them something which they find important, or they will never try to work out a solution.

halfempty, 6 months ago

Hillary is toxic to the brand. The Democrats would be wise to keep her at arms distance.

halfempty, 6 months ago

I steam milk for latte's quite a bit. Tip carafe so wand tip is at the side just under the surface of the milk, with the stem against the spout. Engage steam just enough to you hear a tearing sound. Gradually lower the carafe to maintain the tearing sound for 17 seconds,(the sound changes) then immerse the tip until the carafe is getting too hot to touch. Then a tap on the counter, and a couple swirls to break up bigger bubbles.