Do you have any insight into getting Linux to play nice with the different components of fusion drives? I have an old iMac and Mac mini both with Fusion Drive and after installing fedora or Ubuntu the SSD is seen and mounts fine but while the HDD is seen it doesn’t mount at startup despite setting it to mount at startup. I’d like to use these machines for some archiving and media hosting but that’s difficult if I can’t reliably access the much higher capacity drives.

Can we stop reporting on Biden or whoever else using salty language unless it’s something along the lines of “I’m cutting off the fucking military aid.”?

It might help to have some examples. Are you a student talking to other students? An office worker talking to colleagues? An attempt to converse with (say) a busy clerk at a store is less likely to go well than a casual chat with someone who is also waiting in line.

And sometimes there’s genuinely nothing to talk about, and recognizing that is a useful skill.

I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.

I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.

And why is that “inevitable?” Is it because capitalism makes agrarian life basically impossible?

The problem with studies based on any current trends is that they are all framed with the assumption that capitalism will continue to be the dominant socioeconomic system.

I recently heard a “housing expert” say that cities have to keep growing, there’s no sustainable static level of population, and I thought “there’s better be or we’re all fucked.”

The problem with capitalism is that it only works if there’s perpetual growth, which (as many before me have pointed out) is the logic of cancer.

I feel you. Even with diagnosed ADHD my parents treated me like I was “lazy”. Feels bad. I’m glad you were able to have that talk with your dad.

I really appreciate hearing from someone who is actually in France.

Also, have the moderates in France completely failed to understand history? Moderates cozying up to the far right is how we got the Nazis running Germany.

IIRC, the Intercept started during the first Obama term.

Recent research has called the bystander effect into serious question. In 90% of observed real world circumstances intervention by bystanders occurred.

“Hey babe, want to whack my birdie?” “Give me that shuttlecock!”

Say it with me now, you all know the words:

Every Accusation Is A Confession

That’s real leadership right there.

My first thought seeing this headline was “I hope there’s a way both of them can lose.”

My thought was you make him a black South African who lost his family to apartheid related violence.

“Fuck, the Olympics are taking up every public space in town. Let’s go see a movie.”

I could swear they have a policy about firing on their own people if the situation warrants it…

Yeah. It would be extremely questionable but still a little believable if the situation was “we met at a club that was supposed to be 21 and up and I thought she just looked young.” The reality is he traveled to another country to rape someone he knew was a child.

Defunding public media is not about the money the government spends on it. It’s about eliminating journalism that is not accountable to corporate power and money. The control the wealthy already exert over publicly funded media is never enough, people with the kind of money where control of the media is a possibility want to be able to fire a reporter who pisses them off personally.

Gosh, maybe this is what’s needed to get the moderates to work with the left rather than playing footsie with the fascists.