Saved an old desktop and laptop from the trash by installing mint and Firefox with ublock. The desktop lasted them for years without any problems, and I think the only problem I supported on the laptop over years was the boot mount filled itself up during updates and needed to be cleaned up.

The headline is heavily biased towards reality, here’s a few more sources supporting the headline

Israel attacks hospital in northern Gaza: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c80r2y47rz4t

intensifies attacks, Jabalia has been intensely targeted over the last couple weeks: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-kills-least-40-gaza-tanks-deepen-raid-north-2024-10-15/

People at the hospital were burning alive: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-gaza-hamas-hospital-bombing-rcna175237

And genocide intent: https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Database-of-Israeli-Incitement-to-Genocide-DECISION-MAKERS.pdf

I bet it ends up being caused by something far more innocuous than any of the first guesses that come to mind.

You can’t just look at the total numbers and %'s because not every vote has equal weight, the way the electoral college is set up and fptp elections means votes in contested states and districts count for much more than if you’re from a highly partisan area.

Gross weirdos, too fragile to even have a conversation without making rational arguments illegal.

Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, an Arizona-based conservative lobby group … spent the past quarter-century working with officials from Africa, Europe and the Middle East to oppose abortion, gay marriage and sex education not centered on abstinence … She said Family Watch has never supported anti-LGBTQ legislation in African countries and wasn’t “responsible for the treatment of homosexuals under African laws.”

Get the fuck out of here, advocating against human rights and brothers & sisters in humanity for decades has consequences!?

He doesn’t give a shit about touring the facility, he’s whining he and his compatriots were justifiably relegated to the kids table because they aren’t serious, responsible adults or politicians. Fuck Mike Johnson.

They wouldn’t need to increase their birth rate to replacement levels if they end the war in Ukraine and adopt more pluralistic policies and provide better job opportunities and social securities for immigrants.

Just another reminder of the hypocrisy that Russia receives weapons and munitions from several countries and doesn’t restrict their use in Ukraine territory the way Ukraine has been restricted with NATO supplied weapons.

Water horse ham

By the US they mean wealthy owners and shareholders of the automobile manufacturers that failed to invest profits in technology updates to keep their products competitive in an open market. Workers, parts manufacturers, etc would be happy to build and work on economy priced EVs.

I’ve used Dia for years, great simple tool for diagramming & if I need something more I’ll switch to graphviz dot files

About to be a bunch of confused conservatives showing up in Kursk with a few bullets and no training?

FOMO + FUD = FFOMOUD?

Yeah he did so well the Saudis gave him a couple billion to manage /s

Hopefully Putin is having more dreams of Gaddafi’s last moments, wondering if the same will happen to him

Just one person’s perspective but I spent 10’s of thousands on a stem degree at a mid tier public university and did some research during undergrad. The program i was in dropped by over 2/3 the number of students from first year to fourth as people changed degrees or dropped out so there was some challenge. I could have stayed in academia to do grad/post grad work for about half the starting pay as working in the public sector or non profits, and higher for corpos. The prospects were non competitive pay for about twice the work to stay in academia at least when I was looking around a decade ago. If I didn’t have to take on so much debt for tuition I probably would have stayed.

Good, less leaches on the working class

Comp sci undergrad from a mid tier university graduated in 2012, didn’t need Windows at all. I mostly used an Ubuntu desktop, pocket sized mini laptop with bsd, and a red hat vdi the school provided during a research assistantship.

The school had labs in the library and comp sci building if you needed windows for something but it never came up. Group projects shared files on school provided web based tools or dropbox and used the same for class forums, sharing docs and assignments, etc. Some web stuff was broken for Firefox and had to use chrome, but never hit anything requiring IE (pre Edge).

Even if you’re not in a technical field you may want to explore some of the common tools they use like git for version control (like save/restore points in a video game), LaTeX/TeX for better typesetting than office, and off-site backups.

Won’t be seeing pictures or video evidence of any of that on corporate news, censorship does people a disservice