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Quite possibly a luddite.

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Honestly, I think this might be on to something. RFK jr was not always a lunatic - before he went insane he did some truly great things in his career. He then gradually made a turn for the worse, ending up as the mentally insane candidate we know today. It honestly explains his political platform pretty well.

It also reminds me of that great infowars interview with a Sanders supporter (correctly?) observing that they have worms in their brains.

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Is Linux Mint well adapted for touch screens?

I think I would go for GNOME if I were to use Linux with a touch screen. Then again, I'm using it anyway, so I'm probably biased.

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50/50 leftists and Russian troll farms or worse, by any charitable outside evaluation.

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As a leftist, I find them annoying because they make me look like an idiot by association.

How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food?

My local food bank can only provide 8 packages with referrals every time before you run out, and I have, but my situation hasn’t improved financially due to various set backs and I’m struggling to feed myself. I’ve heard that supermarkets throw out massive amounts, but have never been in a position where dumpster diving...

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If you don't have any luck dumpster diving it might be worth checking if any of your local supermarkets (or even bakeries) are using Too Good to Go. They decide how much to put in the package, but a generous place will give you a bunch of food for very little money.

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I think zoomers are young enough not to have the generational memory of how creepy mustaches are, so suddenly they're cool again. I'm afraid it'll last until the zoomers are old enough to be the creepy ones.

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Full beards are great. I can go a week without any maintenance and still look presentable. Any other style of facial hair is just too much effort.

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He had been serving an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence after being convicted of grievous bodily harm in 2005. The sentence had a minimum term of 23 months but no end date.

So it's not like he was supposed to be jailed for 23 months and then ended up being stuck inside for 17 years (which I wouldn't rule out could actually happen in certain countries in the world).

Many of those on IPPs were convicted for low-level crimes such as theft, including one person who has spent 12 years in prison after stealing a mobile phone.

Holy shit.

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And make damn sure it's an underground railroad. It's far too risky to put them on a plane.

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This one is amazing. The expressions, the attention to detail, the colours, the typography. And relatable as hell of course. Thanks for sharing!

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I've been curious about trying out mbin, and this seems like a good instance to do it on. So I absolutely like option 2 the best.

That said, I tried to sign up earlier today, and never received the registration email. Tried to sign up with an old Gmail account. Might be worth looking into. :)

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Garlic bread is not a thing in Italy at all. Italians eat white bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Garlic bread is an American dish, popular among Italian Americans as a substitute as they couldn't get olive oil in the US.

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Bruschetta is a completely different thing. I can't remember ever having it with butter at all.

Pane all'aglio is just Italian for "bread with garlic". Italian cook books will market it as an American dish.

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At which point the garlic kind of defeats the purpose.

After a couple of years in Tuscany I even started buying into the idea that salted bread is also a bit overkill.

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Sure, it's as Italian as a big mac and sauerkraut.

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The Simpsons gig is of course beautifully referenced to in Banksy's couch gag.

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Gillian Welsh - Everything is Free.

Great song about the difficulties of making a living off music now that everything is available for nothing. Father John Misty recorded a version when he was invited to the Spotify Sessions, which was a nice little fuck you to the people inviting him.

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A fun industry fact: Have A Cigar was sung by Roy Harper, as he happened to be in the studio and the members of Floyd thought he could be a good fit. Roy Harper is perhaps more known in the mainstream through the Zeppelin song Hats Off to (Roy) Harper than through his own recordings, though he's still alive and active.

Harper didn't feel like he was appropriately compensated for his work on Have a Cigar, which is ironic considering the overall thematic.

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The purpose of terrorism is to generate fear. This is something different, like oppression, displacement, or genocide. The purpose here is to replace people, not to spread fear.

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Possibly, but terrorism is really an understatement of what is going on here.

In the West after 9/11 there seems to be this assumption that nothing is worse than terrorism, but that's an incredibly privileged take founded in the conviction that the enemies of the West are too weak to achieve anything worse when attacking our civilization than to spread fear.

Once you start eradicating an entire population it's not, or at least not primarily, terrorism any more.

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Yeah. What is happening is beyond what most of us can fathom, and certainly beyond what we can express. And the feeling of powerlessness is not making anything better.

And everyone feels this way. I have a friend who is working directly with the UN in Palestine, she was working on it before this all broke and she's still doing it now. She says most of her job these days is to counter propaganda attacks from Israeli shell organisations, and that it feels like she's not doing anything meaningful at all. Any individual action just feels too small, and it's disheartening as fuck.

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Clearly Mike needs to stop being absurd.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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Let's see if Loops can fill the gap. Not sure if an open source alternative could generate enough hype to be viable - maybe if TikTok is banned in the US or something.

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