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acockworkorange, 2 months ago

Did you try logging into your root user account? That will allow you to see current mount points.

Maybe something went wrong with mounting the new volume to /home. Maybe the Btrfs @home volume doesn’t like being mounted anywhere else but /home. TBH I don’t think it’s the latter, but you can’t troubleshoot unless you login. And you have to login as root, as the home path for root is /root, therefore immune to your conundrum.

vexikron, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

So… quite honestly this is probably a translation issue and cultural differences.

In China, throughout Chinese history, if a local government body /openly defies/ a greater authority, to the point of defying direct orders regarding the deployment of highly armed and combat capable forces… and you now have a scenario where armed forces loyal to the local government are literally right next to armed forces of the greater authority… and both official governments are claiming they have the right to do what they are doing, and the other does not…

This is functionally nearly always a situation that ends up spiralling into war, and basically the inherent assumption is that the local government should be subservient to the greater government, and they should know that what they are doing is likely to lead to armed conflict, it is likely to escalate, thus functionally when you add together the assumption that the local government should submit and is not, and the proximity of opposed armed agents of the state on both sides… basically this would be viewed as Texas declaring war on the Federal government.

We interpret the situation as, well, Texas didnt declare war because they cant actually do that legally!

In so doing we kind of forget that /thats not how civil conflicts fucking work/.

Basically put another way, if an armed conflict does start here, and then it broadens, and then 10 years later youre reading about it in a history text book…

Is the term civil war going to be used?

Or will we all agree to call it the special military and police action to quell an illegal use of force by rogue and criminal elements within the united states government?

Which of those do you think is going to more easily translate to Mandarin and Cantonese and what not?

EDIT: I am /far, faaaar/ from a fan of the current Chinese government for a great many reasons.

But, it can always be a useful exercise to read how other country’s media outlets report on your own country’s domestic affairs.

Is there outright propaganda and lies in some instances? Absolutely.

Is that happening in this case?

In my opinion, not really, no.

I personally, as an American living here my whole life, would basically agree that at the very least, what Texas is doing is done with the implied threat of, and known public support for /functionally/ starting what /basically/ amounts to a civil war, by engaging in escalating brinksmanship, seeking other allies (whats it 25 states now are waiting for Abbot to ask them to send their NatGuard to Texas), and both sides are moving combat capable chess pieces on the board in highly public ways.

Sure its not technically a declaration of war or secession, but uh, thats because /technically/ those things are impossible, even though they realistically are not.

My only possible actual quibble here would basically be that eh probably most Americans wouldn’t view it as a war or secession attempt until shooting starts and a formal declaration of ‘we are forming confederacy 2, this time so we can shot hispanic migrants and form a theocracy instead of uphold slavery of blacks’.

Which… again. A declaration is about /intent/, not necessarily precisely timed with action toward that intent.

Basically, at best, this is a nearly totally unprecedented situation in US History, basically totally unprecedented in a century.

Most Americans suffer from massive latent, unconscious American Exceptionalism across the political spectrum, assuming kinds of status quo type norms that simply are not actually evidenced by both history in general of societies around the world, as well as literally our own.

There are of course many issues where I think generally, the modern culture of China suffers from its own kinds of blinders… but not on this kind of an issue.

Even in this thread we have a comment of basically “yeah right, they wouldnt win in the long run” which both denies the proximal possibility of a civil conflict, but also admits that it could happen, but that itd be /dumb/ if it happened.

As if wars have never been fought for reasons one or even both sides think are dumb, or wars have never been fought when it seems very likely one side would lose.

Remember when nearly everyone thought Russia would never invade Ukraine because it would be dumb, and then he did, and then nearly everyone thought Ukraine would basically be steamrolled, and it wasn’t?

raccoona_nongrata, 3 months ago

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rockSlayer, 4 months ago

This question is very expansive, so it’s hard to say exactly why you feel what you do. Instead, let’s analyze the structure of modern society from a proletarian perspective. The people in power are placed there through an oligarchy-controlled democratic system, i.e. the democratically elected individuals are undemocratically selected by people that control the means of production to run the show, so all elected members in both established parties in the political class are chosen to be beneficial to the ones with money. The liberal right party (republicans) are increasingly beholden to merging the political class and the economic class together, i.e. fascism.

The other party is torn between liberal progressivism and don’t want to cede too much power to corporations, though they still believe that free market capitalism is the most efficient method of distributing resources so they still cede substantial power to an unelected oligarchy. The positive aspect is that this liberal left is dogshit at messaging and pretty much everything else that would give them an advantage. This presents a solution actually. Through external pressure and internal realignment, the liberal left can be pushed into a progressive left position due to the hands-off nature of the oligarchy.

You should feel bad about the current politico-economic system because it’s inherently cruel. But that human touch also pushes progress forward and encouges sympathetic progressive individuals to get active, realigning the liberal left into a progressive left. We also need to know about the right time to take action, which is why we need to stay informed.

It’s tiring, seeing everything in the world happening, and knowing that we as individuals can’t do much. But we can still do something, and when the time is right we can be massively influential. Don’t lose hope, and don’t forget that we always need to push for a more just society.

Deestan, 4 months ago

It is Hamas’ goal to maximize martyrs, and they have officially stated so on several occasions. They were slowly losing the decades-long conflict with Israel (who have in no way been playing fair before this escalation btw). If they ensure enough suffering in their own population, they have more desperate traumatized orphans to recruit, more enraged sympathy from neighboring countries also in conflict with Israel, plus lessening the support from Israel’s western allies.

Stamets, 4 months ago

I have been laughing at this comment for the past 8 minutes

Max_P, 4 months ago

I think in this context it’s meant on a technical level: as far as the fediverse is concerned, there’s not a whole lot instances can do. Anyone can just spin up an instance and bypass blocks unless it works on an allowlist basis, which is kind of incompatible with the fediverse if we really want to achieve a reasonable amount of decentralization.

I agree that we shouldn’t pretend it’s safe for minorities: it’s not. If you’re a minority joining Mastodon or Lemmy or Mbin, you need to be aware that blocking people and instances has limitations. You can’t make your profile entirely private like one would do on Twitter or any of Meta’s products. It’s all public.

You can hide the bad people from the users but you can’t really hide the users from the bad people. You can’t even stop people from replying to you on another instance. You can refuse to accept the message on the user’s instance, but the other instance can still add comments that don’t federate out. Which is kind of worse because it can lead to side discussions you have no way of seeing or participate in to defend yourself and they can be saying a lot of awful things.

Pietson, 5 months ago

Does P equal NP?

tqgibtngo, 5 months ago

You can consider using Stonecrusher's "simpleMenuWizard" to apply custom CSS to hide a menu item. (Disclaimers: I'm not affiliated with the developer, and I haven't used this myself.)

https://github.com/stonecrusher/simpleMenuWizard

The simpleMenuWizard "link-context.css" file contains a commented list of the IDs of most of the menuitem elements of link context menus.

https://github.com/stonecrusher/simpleMenuWizard/blob/master/simpleMenuWizard/link-context.css

As listed there, the "Copy Link" menuitem element's ID is "context-copylink". If you want to hide that menu item, you would uncomment that line in the list (by removing the '/*' at the beginning of the line) as described in Step 5 of the simpleMenuWizard instructions.

At the time when I'm writing this reply, the aforementioned list hasn't yet been updated to include the "Copy Link Without Site Tracking" menuitem's ID. If you want to hide that menu item, sorry I can't check its ID for you right now, but here's how you can find it:

Enable and open the Browser Toolbox.

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browser_toolbox/

In the Browser Toolbox, click its 3-dots icon to get an options menu. Click "Disable popup auto-hide", to make context menus persistent. Invoke a context menu on a link (the menu should persist). Use the toolbox inspector's element picker to pick the menu item that you want to hide. Then you can find that menuitem element's "id" attribute in the inspector. (Open the 3-dots menu again and click "Disable popup auto-hide" again to re-enable auto-hide.)

CatradoraSomething, 7 months ago

I asked several, like why do ya’ll seem to hate these tankie fellas more than usual? Like they seem to be jus other commies, but we really really hate them or smth.

Im not speakin german, jus answer the title question an thats good enough

again every time I ask a question about this everyone gets very hostile that im not just in the know or smth

worldwidewave, 7 months ago

While the Demographia report found Gaza City isn’t as packed as the world’s most dense cities, including Dhaka, Bangladesh, which has over 80,000 people per square mile, it’s more crowded than global cities, such as London, and three times more dense than Los Angeles, the most population-dense area in the US, according to the report.

CNN

They’re telling 1.1 Million people to move in 24hours in an area more dense than LA or London. In an area without power, fuel, or food.

dustyData, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

On the point of pentameter and other ancient writing quirks. It’s because writing was expensive and not really that common. Ink, paper, quill. It all had to be painstakingly made by hand. Then all the training on reading and writing was a huge time investment as well. So it was relegated to the high classes. And slaves, they used slaves as scribes and basically as personal computers.

So, most of culturally relevant works were actually poems. Lacking writing tools, long passages of texts are hard to memorize. But, poems in regular rhyme and accompanied by structured melodies are actually very easy to memorize. The Odyssey was one such a song.

A master could teach his disciples the words and melody of extraordinarily long passages of information. Names, history, dates, myths, moral essays, by teaching the song. Performing the different passages several times allowed memorization and then they could perform this either for entertainment or for study and analysis via rethorical discussion. This oral tradition is how we have theater plays, stories and songs from 5 thousand years ago. We are pretty certain today that Homer didn’t wholly originally wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. He belonged to this oral tradition and put it down into writing. Something that might have been seen as unnecessary at the time, for text was relegated to legal documents and treatises and court proceedings.

EDIT: Here’s a practical demonstration. Write down the lyrics for Mr. Brightside. Chances are that you know them by heart.