The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33219979
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33219979
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33219979
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
by Caitlin Johnstone
Jul 15, 2025
The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies named Omer Bartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For?
Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For?
Rhetorical and real threats to Canadian sovereignty pose a tough question to critics of the Canadian state: Do we align with liberal nationalists in defense of the Canadian project or do we remain …Alberta Advantage Podcast
Recensione di Elsa Crema Marmori. L'ultima fatica di Giuseppe Iannozzi
Due delle mie poesie preferite, le più viscerali per me: "Padre e figlia" e "Sorella di Perfezione".
"Padre e figlia" è un potente inno alla vita, alla gioia, al sorriso che apre il cuore e scaccia le lacrime. Il tutto di fronte alla Bellezza dell'esistenza e della natura con i suoi momenti belli e brutti.
"Sorella di Perfezione" appare un testo denso e potente, ricco di urla fra i denti: è impossibile sfuggire a errori e passi falsi: la perfezione è un obiettivo, un ideale per cui lottare e imparare a crescere, e crescere, lo sappiamo
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Laid off Candy Crush studio staff reportedly replaced by the AI tools they helped build
- Many of the staff cut will effectively be replaced by the AI tools they built and trained
- The London-based Farm Heroes Saga team is being ‘cut in half’ with about 50 people leaving, including key leadership
- One staffer claims employees are being targeted by HR for loudly expressing dissatisfaction internally
- King told staff it will present a new org chart in September after union negotiations. Many staff are now in limbo for the summer
- A recent internal survey showed morale at an all-time low – it’s now “in the gutter”
Laid off King staff set to be replaced by the AI tools they helped build, say sources
Insiders paint a grim picture at King with half the Farm Heroes Saga team set to depart and morale “in the gutter”.Mobilegamer.biz
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AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves
AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves
Our inability or unwillingness to have our attitudes and beliefs challenged isn’t just an aesthetic problem, it is a political one, writes José Marichal.José Marichal (Tech Policy Press)
Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Twitter | Paper PDF Seven years ago, OpenAI five had just been released, and many people in the AI safety community expected AIs to be opaque RL agents.www.greaterwrong.com
Palestinian American comedian uses humor to process the war in Gaza
Palestinian American comedian uses humor to process the war in Gaza
Comedy has long been a way to bring a different, lighter lens to heavy topics. That holds true for Palestinian American comedian Sammy Obeid, who has taken to the stage to spotlight the pain of the war in Gaza.Amna Nawaz (PBS News)
AI that delivers smarter glucose predictions without compromising privacy
AI that delivers smarter glucose predictions without compromising privacy
Managing diabetes is a daily challenge faced by nearly 40 million Americans. It involves tracking food intake, timing medication and engaging in physical…National Science Foundation
Well, they have to be accused of something to be detained.
Doesn't seem to be true anymore.
Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33213275
I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of this so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:
Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.
I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.
The site: abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.
Any workarounds?
This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?
Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?
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is the jobticket some special kinda ticket you cant get a physical card for?
for both my apprenticeship ticket and my normal dticket i got a physical one
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Are you 100% sure there is no physical card? Did you ask the local provider? I just ask, because I have a physical card for the Deutschland Ticket.
Other than that there is a Deutschland Ticket app. But it won't work for every provider. It does not for mine.
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Deutschlandticket.de App - Apps on Google Play
View your Germany ticket and manage your subscription.play.google.com
What happens if you go to the same website on desktop mode? In some regions they provide the Deutschlandticket as a qr code. Just make a screenshot of that.
il mio quaderno delle uccisioni 🥰 (quadernino per raccogliere i cadaveri delle zanzare)
Ormai lo sappiamo: la probabilità di riuscire casualmente a cacciare fuori nuove idee geniali e prestigiose è inversamente proporzionale alla “sanità mentale” (intesa come la intendono i normaloidi, che puntualmente sono quegli individui sempre perfettamente banalotti e persistentemente dimenticabili) media del momento preso in esame… Ed è proprio per questo che io mi rifiuterò sempre […]
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il mio quaderno delle uccisioni 🥰 (quadernino per raccogliere i cadaveri delle zanzare)
Ormai lo sappiamo: la probabilità di riuscire casualmente a cacciare fuori nuove idee geniali e prestigiose è inversamente proporzionale alla “sanità mentale” (intesa come la intendono i normaloidi, che puntualmente sono quegli individui sempre perfettamente banalotti e persistentemente dimenticabili) media del momento preso in esame… Ed è proprio per questo che io mi rifiuterò sempre e comunque di prendere le “medicine”, e che come postulato a questa osservazione abbiamo proprio l’impeto creativo che ieri sera, nel mezzo della mia disperazione dovuta alle cose da fare, ho accolto senza pensarci due volte (…e che sul momento non ho avuto tempo di postare, mentre stamattina non ho avuto voglia, il pomeriggio me ne sono proprio scordata, e la sera appena finita ho fatto altro, ops). 🦟Allora, ieri sera è apparsa una zanzara davanti a me alla scrivania, di botto. Era molto scema, tant’è che l’ho ciaccata subito con le mani e senza nemmeno sporcarmi… ed è esattamente in quell’istante, vedendo bene a fuoco sotto il mio naso la carcassa di quell’essere della specie più assolutamente demoniaca — non banalmente fastidiosa, e non solamente aggressiva, ma attivamente invadente ed ostile, costantemente alla ricerca di creature a sangue caldo per l’intero globo terracqueo, con il preciso intento di violarle, fisicamente e, di conseguenza, emotivamente — ho avuto l’illuminazione definitiva. Quegli esseri immondi non vogliono semplicemente il mio o il vostro sangue — se così fosse, se lo prenderebbero tranquillamente da un piattino o qualcosa del genere lasciato in stanza, e detto francamente non mi dispiacerebbe affatto doverglielo cedere,
perché quantomeno avrei una scusa per tagliarmi considerata valida dai normaloidi…Quelle merde vogliono avvelenarci, con le loro punture fatte sempre a cazzo di cane, essendo loro spesso incapaci di centrare i vasi sanguigni, finendo per iniettare quantità industriali di sostanza irritante (è quella che causa il gonfiore) nell’epidermide, causando quel prurito infuocato difficilmente spiegabile a parole… 😖😡😠👹
Nel mentre che l’insettaccio allora giaceva morto ad aspettare, io cercavo un quadernino, di dimensioni piccole e poche pagine, giusto da usare per un solo preciso scopo… collezionare fisicamente questi cadaveri, affiancati da essenzialissimi necrologi (ovviamente scritti tutti con le penne colorate, in contrasto al nero della morte di per sé e di questi pezzi di biomassa). Non ce l’avevo, ovviamente, e non volevo prenderne uno buono grosso dal mio malloppetto, perché sul momento temevo che questa specie di mia sadica missione puramente vendicativa non potesse davvero continuare oltre quell’attimo… voglio dire, mica saranno tutte così sceme le zanzare da farsi continuare a prendere come ha fatto questa qui… E, invece, proprio stasera ne è uscita un’altra: siamo già a quota 2, su un totale stimato contenibile (se mantengo la corrente densità di archiviazione) di 72, per un raccoglitore che ho creato non altro che suddividendo 1 foglio protocollo A4 in una serie di fogli A5 spillati (quindi, blocchetto A6). 🐹
Forse è meglio che io sia arrivata solo ora, ben tardi come al solito, per fare questo post, allora… perché il quadernino è già molto più piacevole da vedere con ben due vittime, la cui esistenza malvagia è stata dalla sottoscritta terminata,per sempre
. Mamma mia regà, lo dico senza mezzi termini: non solo ho proprio una voglia morbosa ed irrefrenabile di commettere un terribile genocidio contro questi affari, ma, non capisco perché, sento di doverne esporre in questo modo i resti alla gogna perpetua; e, tra carta e scotch, in questo mi sento assolutamente invincibile. Spero solo che non si decompongano, perché voglio che rimangano davvero per sempre, deve essere un monito… ma incastrati così non dovrebbero evaporare, suppongo; spero. 🥱Ma… sapete cosa? Vi butto anche una confessione, così, perché io sono fiera della mia malvagità, e me ne frego di cosa gli attivisti per i diritti degli insetti potrebbero dire… In realtà, questa estate, per il momento, non mi risulta di essere stata morsa nemmeno una volta dalle zanzare (o forse, letteralmente solo una volta e poi niente; anche perché di sera, che è il periodo in cui girano di più, io sto sempre segregata in casa)… o, se è successo, hanno prelevato il sangue sempre bene, ma francamente ne dubito. “Ohhh noooo, come puoi fare tutto questo, le zanzare ti stanno lasciando stare e tu le ringrazi in questo modo, razza di assassina” — SILENZIO!!! Il periodo che va dalla fine di un’estate all’inizio della successiva non determina la fine della guerra, ma meramente un periodo di cessate il fuoco; insomma, gli attacchi subiti in passato hanno ancora un peso, ed ora è francamente arrivato il momento più perfetto per le ritorsioni, le quali non sono ulteriormente ritardabili! (E, casomai questa argomentazione non dovesse convincere… diciamo che lo sto facendo per vendicare la gente a me vicina, che invece quest’estate sta venendo assalita tranquillamente, e la chiudiamo qui, buonanotte!) 😂🔪
#cadaveri #collezione #genocidio #mosquito #quadernino #sadismo #uccisioni #zanzare
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WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash
WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash
Some social media users had threatened to delete their accounts after WeTransfer's terms were updated.Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)
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Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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I’m gonna go find a trans femme barber just so that I don’t have to explain or justify myself, as I’m trans femme too, and she’ll just understand innately.
That does put the original problem back on the table, and my hair cut is more expensive now.
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My MAGA family member sent me an instagram post of a screenshot of a Mayo Clinic article headline that said measles prevents some forms of cancer, so we should just let it run wild.
Ignore the fact that the natural form of measles has the risk of causing too many complications and long term negative health effects to be considered effective, and the cancer prevention research is on genetically modified strain specific to fighting cancer cells. Naturally, the instagram post did not link to the full article.
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Honestly, Do we even need the caffeine?
Since quitting caffeine, I've felt a lot better. I used to wake up feeling like shit, drink my caffeine of choice, feel mid until it wears off, drink more, feel more mid, repeat, have trouble falling asleep.
Now I just wake up feeling mid, and go to sleep just fine. Big difference is that I save a bunch of money, and have less anxiety, and irritability, from all the stimulants.
I don’t bother with the stuff either, to be fair. Generally it just stops someone getting more tired, especially if it starts to be more of addiction than anything else.
But I guess it all goes back to the idea I mentioned of people being afraid of the concept of not having 100% energy at all times of day. Instead of trying to find solutions we should instead be asking why executives and fuckers like that demand unsustainable hours from people, especially as study after study shows that a four-day work week with six-hour days is hugely productive compared to what we consider normal.
I have…thoughts.
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I would say the drugs is a class thing…drugs are classy if youre rich, trashy if you’re poor.
I’m not USAian, but still.
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This true. Drugs are another tool to oppress people. The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
It’s been well over a decade since I had to take a drug test for a job.
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The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
The more money someone makes, it's also the less likely they're working a job where people can be seriously harmed or killed by the direct, immediate effects of their behavior on the job. Jim from Sales being on smack is less likely to cause injury or death in the short term than forklift driver Klaus being on smack.
Drug tests penalize people for what they do on their own time. They’re a stick used to beat the proles.
Someone blasted at work is a problem. Klaus getting blasted off shift isn’t.
Secondary affects are probably worse, and more diabolical. Why kill one person when you could kill millions! Klaus running over Andy while blasted is less evil than the guy who put lead in gasoline.⛽️ Sure it’s easier to imagine, but one tear doesn’t make an ocean.
Poor people are "crack heads", "junkies", and "drunks".
Rich people "have fun at parties", "Suffer from opioid abuse disorder", or are a "lush"...
Same shit, different tax bracket.
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If only we had an anti-vaccine vaccination. Take away the polio immunity for those troglodyte fucks. Let them suffer their own undoing.
Rather than have the affect their kids.
Are you kidding? .... it was the great old days for Straight White Christian Men ... they were free to be completely racist aholes, treat women like slaves, have as many children as they wanted and not take care of any of them, have the world at their feet, make a ton of money just for being who they were and they were accountable to no one.
The reason why the past was so great for a small segment of society was that it was so shitty for 99% of rest of the world
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I'm a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.
I don't understand how people can want to live in that world.
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Look what MAGA did, they pushed the narrative that the white man is getting pushed out of society. Even though the United States is mostly White Christians. They just believed what these bitches told them, didn't bother to look at facts.
That's the real crime.
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Straight White Christian MenStraight White "Christian" Men*
Straight White
--> Christian <--
Men
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Christianity is Christianity.
What some people do based on a misguided and uninformed interpretation of Christianity is their own decisions masked behind Christianity.
Most Americans aren't Christian scholars, id wager most haven't even studied the Bible themselves, but listen to whatever their preacher tells them.
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- Boomer: I miss being young
- GenX: I miss being young
- Millennial: I miss being young
- GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money
As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren't fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.
I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.
There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn't have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren't that serious.
Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I'll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial
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Ever since the "Nobody knows how to fix a ~~car~~ computer except a ~~Boomer~~ Millennial" memes started trending, we've surrendered our "Better than that" card to GenZ.
Millennials are as vulnerable to this crap as anyone else.
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What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?
Older generations bitch about "damn kids these days don't respect their elders" ever since at least Socrates.
The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.
This is the way.
You're not special.
Why would it matter if they're genz/alpha? They are describing observed trends.
What in their comment has anything to do with people shouting respect their elders? Or younger people thinking old people are too nostalgic? It seems the opposite if anything, more based on older people's nostalgia for their time and younger people internalizing that, not fighting against it.
When did they claim to be special?
I dunno, man... Cocain in soft-drinks and being able to support a family with house and car on a single income?
And it's not like we're rid of drug addicts, wife beaters or anything else nowadays...
A tough choice for sure.
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On the other hand:
- Many of the pro-worker policies from the New Deal are still in place, and my union is strong
- The owner of that factory over there is in the 90% tax bracket, isn't it great how he's paying society back for his good fortune?
- Every other major economic power in the world was just absolutely flattened in a war, and our country wasn't touched
- Because our country was relatively safe during the war, the best and brightest migrated here, and we're now benefiting from their ideas and inventions
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Yup, the 1950s was only better for white people, but there's a reason that white people look back on it with fondness.
But, I'd guess that even for black people it was better than the 1930s. When the economy shinks, they're the first to lose jobs. When it grows they're the last to get them. In the 1950s things were booming so my guess is that black unemployment was low. Still, for working class white males the 1950s may have been a peak, for most other people things have just been getting better every year since then.
Imagine how good it could be if everyone got some of the things working class whites got in the 1950s: strong unions, good labour protections, high tax rates on the ultra rich, etc.
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christians thought that left-handedness was "sinister" and associated to the devil, so they made it illegal.
Edit: i know it sounds like a joke, but it is not. this is not the onion. that's the actual reason.
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I can't get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
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Back in my day, we could drink gasoline right out of the pump. If you were feeling ill, you just head over to the nearby asbestos wall and give it a good lick.
Then you go out and yell racist shit and put women in their place.
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Yeah, but we did tax the everloving fuck out of the grotesquely wealthy, which made for a stronger middle class.
That was before they realized they could just pay our traitorous politicians pocket change to lower their tax rate.
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When you get older, pretty sure you’re going to say the same thing….
“Man, the 2020’s were so nice, such a simpler time…. Back when genocide was in vogue and child molesters controlled the world.”
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Holidays in the Lake District
I recently went on a holiday trip to the Lake District in England, staying a week in Windermere. This was a really nice break, and it’s a wonderful place to explore.
The towns of Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere are lovely to explore, with plenty of nice places to eat out at. La Trattoria and Jintana in the town centre of Bowness are particularly good. The bus routes connecting the towns nearby, and with stops making walking routes accessible outwith the towns, are all fairly frequent and quite cheap to use. Walking in the towns in OK, but the traffic can be quite bad, and I really feel that the whole area would benefit from some modern traffic reduction schemes. There are a few cruises around the lakes that are a bit expensive, and a cheaper frequent ferry service to get across for walks or cycles.
I did two long distance walks over a whole day. I started with a clockwise walk around the lake, starting at Windermere, taking the ferry across, and hiking up Claife Heights, then continuing round to Ambleside. I stopped off at Wray Castle, which unfortunately has been closed for renovations. The views from Claife Heights gave some very nice vistas of the pikes to the west, and the air force exercises that take place over the lakes, while I had a picnic lunch.
The walking routes on the west side of Lake Windermere are fairly good, with lots of segregated pathways for cycles and hikers, but there are quite a few areas where inexplicably you have to rejoin a very busy carriageway which makes for some unpleasant negotiations with traffic.
Later in the week I did a longer walk starting with a bus up to Troutbeck, where I hiked along to High Street, and then back along the hiking trail to Windermere. This walk was less pleasant than the first as I spent most of the several hours stuck in cloud cover. The path is well marked so as long as I didn’t stray I couldn’t get lost, but it did mean that I missed out on the nice views, only getting a small glimpse of the valleys nearby at the very top of the trail.
I managed to see a lot of dragonfly and damselfly, and even a far off glimpse of a red kite. There were a lot of sheep, and a few deer, up the mountains.
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An account and photos of a recent holiday to Windermere in the Lake Districtlonm (LonM's Blog)
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Swapping from Win10 on laptop
I have an old laptop that I use as a Minecraft server as well as running RPG campaigns during game night. I'm getting tired of Windows 10 and I'm looking for a good replacement. I don't have a lot of experience with Linux lately, the last time I did anything with it was maybe 10 years or so ago and I used Ubuntu, which I've read here is maybe not a good choice any longer. Stats of laptop are below. Recommendations are appreciated, thanks.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.70 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro K2100M (2 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (113 MB)
What program are you using for your rpg campaigns?
Minecraft server is fairly universally supported.
All of these can be run on any Linux distro. Dropbox is probably a better choice than Google Drive as Google drive doesn't have an official Linux app (but you can get it working beyond just using it in a Web browser if its a must).
I'd go.with Linux Mint as it's well supported but any point release distro will serve your needs well. For example Fedora KDD or OpenSuSE Leap, Debian etc. I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu.
+1 for fedora kde
I've tried dozens of distros this year. Kept arch for my personal use and fedora for shared. Fedora was the easiest to setup with everything working as they should out of the "box".
unless you use a touchscreen, don't install gnome
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Or the current Debian testing, which will become stable soon. If you have experience with a Ubuntu from 10 years ago, you might know about apt
already. If not, the package manager is already integrated into gnome-software. Additionally you can easily enable Flathub for flatpak and install packages using gnome-software afterwards.
And yes, I would avoid Ubuntu on the desktop because of snap and other weird choices for defaults.
On the server however my experiences with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 were not bad. But if it were my choice I would go Debian stable for servers.
If you want to do less maintenance, Fedora has good defaults and will have major updates twice a year. But, if you don't want to get custom to new things on your machine that often, Debian is my recommendation.
Only if you have too much time, try Gentoo. I've used it for more than 15 years on the desktop besides Debian on Raspberries.
It's relevant for a few reasons with regard to new users:
1) Snap is SLOW
2) Snap takes up a massive amount of space
Switching somebody with 256GB of storage to Ubuntu and pointing them to the Gonna software store to install whatever they want is just asking for confusion and problems.
What happened to all my disk space?
Why does it take 8 seconds for a browser to start?
These are new users who expect things to operate as they've known them to operate coming from Windows or MacOS. Ubuntu is just problematic to that point of view.
I've switched hundreds of desktop users in the past few years, and the above expectations and experience is what made me switch to Fedora.
Ubuntu is problematic at current.
You're not getting it...
A 125MB package like Firefox has up to 5 versions by default kept under the Snap system. Do this 10x across different packages, and suddenly you're missing a lot of storage you can't account for.
Second, SNAP IS JUST SLOW. People don't like when it takes 5-10 seconds to launch a very simple app. Let's not even get into the performance being absolutely horrendous when you need direct access to memory or GPU. It's not what people want.
Last, your problem with Nvidia drivers lies with Nvidia themselves. I run a cluster of a thousand instances which never hiccup on the Nvidia server+CUDA drivers.
Desktop is a shit show, and that's their fault. Don't blame your misunderstanding of these two things to be the fault of the distro.
Oh no 1gb of space is being used windows users totally care about that as they go from an OS that out of the box takes 100gb to one that takes 30gb. Thats pretending what you said is true because Snap doesnt store 5 versions by default it stores two. Secondly the common runtimes are shared between applications and versions so the amount of extra space when storing multiple versions is minor also distro packaging also stores multiple versions by default 3 if I recall correctly for dnf.
I think the fact that you think a win10 user cares more about an app taking a few seconds longer to open on first load than their GPU driver being unstable(from a new user perspective) is everything. Yes! the driver is nvidia's fault but its also fedora intentionally choosing to not ship it out of the box. Many other distro's do this so nvidia users dont have to go through the hassle of foss drivers and them breaking every kernel update.
Also I dont blame fedora for this, fedora doesnt target new users and as a fedora user I like that they aim to ship a fully foss system and I think they make it easy to include properitary packages if thats something you want. However its pointless to point someone to a distro where you have to then give them a bunch of extra steps to enable basic functionality when there are plenty of distros that work out of the box.
For a new user one of the ublue spins is a good choice. They get the base fedora experience with nvidia gpu's sorted out of the box and flatpak.
You apparently don't deal with actual end-users, so let me inform you...they absolutely fucking care.
You seem to keep skipping the part where SNAP IS 10X SLOWER.
Get lost with your lazy argument.
I decided to go with Linux mint. After installing it alongside windows, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?
Link from boot repair: paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/
Did you nuke the whole disk? Just 1 big Linux partition?
Try enabling/disabling Secure Boot.
That's not entirely true. Snap is a good reason to avoid Ubuntu as you're not given the choice whether day to day apps like Firefox are a native app or snap app. You can only have snap versions. The lack of choice in having a slower less efficient version of apps forced on users without official alternatives is a good enough reason for people to recommend avoiding Ubuntu.
That is regardless of all the commercial and proprietary concerns people have.
That does not apply to Ubuntu based system like Mint where users are given choices and still benefit from other aspects of the Ubuntu ecosystem.
I don't disagree that snaps aren't the best thing but Ubuntu does allow you to turn off auto updates now if you want and although it took a little extra setup, I also use the .deb version of Firefox right now. It works well. I'm running Kubuntu 24.04.
For servers especially, Ubuntu can be a really good option. I've heard some people actually like snaps for servers because the auto update so its one less this to worry about. Yea you can setup a script to do that too but its a nice to have for some folks.
All that said, its not for everyone, but for servers I think Ubuntu is a good option just for compatibility alone, not to mention the documentation, tutorials, etc.
Thats just my opinion though.
If it is FUD, can you please point out the factually inaccurate claim?
Actually, let’s just walk through the claims made.
- Ubuntu does not give you a choice between Firefox as a Snap or as a traditional deb package
Fact check: it does not (only Snap is provided)
- The Snap package is slower and takes up more space than the deb package
Fact check: it is and it does
- Other Ubuntu based distros, like Mint, replace Snaps with deb packages
Fact check: they do
“Wild”
Other information:
On Ubuntu, you can get a deb package directly from Mozilla. Not a big deal but that statement made in the post is true.
Putting "company things" in quotes like you don't believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down...
Ubuntu is fine for very beginners, but don't lie and say "it's fine", only to have any competent user discover
very quickly that snaps take precedence over deb, snaps will be reenabled on minor release upgrades, even if you disabled them, ubuntu's built-in NVIDIA install support has become abysmal, ubuntu has recently made the choice to fall out of step with its own supported DEs with regard to xorg support, etc.
Putting “company things” in quotes like you don’t believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down…
That's not true. I believe them. I just don't care.
I personally generally recommend Mint as a good starting distro. It is widely used, which means lots of support readily found online. It also has some of the benefits of Ubuntu without having the Snap forced on users. It also generally works well on a wide range of systems including lower powered systems due to its selection of desktops.
Your laptop is decent and I'd personally be running a slick desktop on that, specifically KDE. But alot of that comes down to personal preferences, and Mint isn't the best KDE desktop as it's not a main desktop for it (although it is available).
However once you get to grips with the basics of Linux I think other distros offer better more focused benefits for different user groups. There are lots of choices such as Gaming focused distros, rolling release vs point release distros, slow long term projects like Debian vs bleeding edge focused projects, immutable systems etc.
I personally use OpenSuSE Tumbleweed because it's cutting edge, but well tested prior to updates, with a good set of system tools in YaST, and decently ready for gaming and desktop use. I also like that it is European. But that may not be a good fit for your specific use case. Leap, the OpenSuSE point release distro would be better - a nice KDE desktop with a reliable release schedule and a focus on stability over cutting edge.
What software do you use for RPG campaigns? Is it just PDFs and word processors, or do you use a an online VTT? It should mostly be fine, but I figured I should ask.
Also, what are you doing in terms of the Minecraft Server? While I think most support Linux, there could (not certainly are) be weird caveats depending on the server.
To be fair Ubuntu is still okay especially starting out, it's one of the more polished distros with a ton of online documentation when you need to search around and figure out how to do things. And no one says you have to stay with a distro, once you're comfortable with Linux it's easy enough to check out other distros.
That aside a lot of people have been recommending Mint for new users so that's definitely one you can check out if you want to try branching out now rather than later.
PS - Nvidia has a less than stellar reputation for their Linux drivers, you may want to consider reading up on that for whichever distro you choose. I have an Nvidia GPU (old non-Quadro class) running on Debian, works fine now but I did have a few false starts getting it going properly at first.
That hardware will fly on Linux.
Given you use NVIDIA I might recommend Mint over Ubuntu.
I do not want to over complicate things but there is some information that may help given that you have NVIDIA hardware.
Linux is going through a technology transition in its graphics technology from something called Xorg (x11) to something called Wayland.
Mostly you do not have to worry about this. Don’t let it distract you.
Everybody will be using Wayland in a year or two but right now today, it depends on the distro and desktop environment you choose. For example, current Ubuntu will default to GNOME on Wayland. Linux Mint defaults to Cinnamon in Xorg.
Until recently, NVIDIA has been buggy with Wayland. Specifically, NVIDIA needed something called “explicit sync”. This has now been added to newer NVIDIA drivers, Wayland compositors, Mesa, etc. So things work great now if you use the latest versions of things.
Again, you may not need to know any of these details. So, why am I bring it up?
Well, if you have an “up-to-date” distro, NVIDIA will likely work well. But if any of the required components are not available or older on the distro you use, you may have problems with NVIDIA. Only “may”. It may also work fine.
To avoid problems, you can use a very up-to-date distro like EndeavourOS. Or you can use a distro that will default to Xorg for now, like Linux Mint.
If you use a distro with older software versions, like Debian, or older software drivers, like OpenSUSE, or that lacks proprietary drivers, like Fedora, NVIDIA hardware can be a pain.
The reason people recommend AMD or Intel for Linux is because none of the above really matters on that hardware. They are more likely to “just work”.
Again, I hope I did not complicate things. I offer all this just so you can make sense of things if you run into trouble. You probably will not. And in a year or so, none of this will matter anymore even on NVIDIA. On many distros, it already doesn’t.
You never see it mentioned, but PCLOS is a great Linux starter OS. It was started by Bill Reynolds, TexStar, and is tock solid. It is my go-to when installing Linux for new users because it is extremely stable, has a great community, and avoids anything bleeding edge.
www.distrowatch.com is a great place to get an overview of most Linux and BSD distros.
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Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia
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Parte in Italia il test UE per la verifica dell'età sui social. Scopri come funziona, l'impatto sulla privacy e cosa cambia per te con il nostro approfondimento.Pietro Iaria (Pianeta Tecnologia)
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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
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in reply to Peter Link • • •ByteJunk
in reply to madeinthebackseat • • •I don't think that's where we're failing.
It became very obvious, a couple of weeks into Israel's retaliation, that this wasn't ever about the Hamas attacks but about wiping out every single Palestinian from Gaza.
But the EU is still searching for a spine, the US condones it, and the rest of the world doesn't really care enough.
And here we are, with dozens and dozens of innocent people being massacred every single day. It makes me sick to my stomach...
IttihadChe
in reply to ByteJunk • • •Aceticon
in reply to IttihadChe • • •It depends on the country.
Germany "unwaveringly supports" it (it's tradition for them to support large scale extreme Racist Genocides, I guess) as does Italy (though there it seems more of a "brotherhood of Fascists" thing between their ruling coalition and the Zionists), whilst Spain and the Republic Of Ireland ~~condone~~ condemn it, and a bunch of others like The Netherlands and France make some noises of discomfort about it but still keep on selling weapons to Israel.
There really is no EU-wide agreement on this, though most of its member countries are slowly shifting against Israel.
PyroNeurosis
in reply to Aceticon • • •Either you meant to say condemn, or I have seriously misread the situation.
Aceticon
in reply to PyroNeurosis • • •Oops!
Thanks, corrected it now.
IttihadChe
in reply to Aceticon • • •Idk about Ireland, I could believe they are actually against it due to their history. But while the people of Spain strongly condemn it, and Spain thus puts out statements opposed, the government still supports it materially. Every so often they claim to stop buying/selling weapons from them, but continue to do so.
Unless I've missed something recently which is entirely possible I guess.
And as for other countries making noise of discontent but continuing support, that's still support. Joe Biden publicly claimed to call for ceasefire all the time, but continued to send weapons and never actually seriously demanded a ceasefire. It's rhetoric to subdues the populace on a topic they strongly disagree with the government.
小莱卡
in reply to IttihadChe • • •Exactly, i hate how people think Spain "condemns" Israel because Pedro Sánchez pays some lip service to satisfy it's voting base, but in actual reality they support Israel. Every single time that Pedeo Sánchez has states that they are no longer doing business with Israel, it's proven that they indeed continue doing business with Israel.
People only caring about fucking rhetoric and not reality drives me insane.
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in reply to IttihadChe • • •小莱卡
in reply to Aceticon • • •queermunist she/her
in reply to madeinthebackseat • • •Not exactly.
The ruling class gets to decide the score. They didn't fail to recognize the atrocity quickly enough, they supported it.
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in reply to electric_nan • • •小莱卡
in reply to Peter Link • • •some_guy
in reply to Peter Link • • •Zerush
in reply to Peter Link • • •Spain and some other EU countries since time called it what it is and Netanyahu an criminal. Even dicovering that Hamas is supported and funded by Israel to justify this genocide. This makes Netanyahu even more vomitive than it is already and all orange guys which support him
politico.eu/article/israel-fun…
EU’s top diplomat accuses Israel of funding Hamas
Šejla Ahmatović (POLITICO)小莱卡
in reply to Zerush • • •Remind me what did Josep Borrell do when he had power? This is the "europe is a garden" guy btw.
Not to say that he is wrong here, but this is just lip service from a career politician serving the very same people that pushed the genocide.
I just don't like Spain getting good rep because of empty rhetoric, while in reality they materially support Israel.
Zerush
in reply to 小莱卡 • • •It's not the only one who said it, it is known as public domain since years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_…
businessinsider.com/israel-sec…
irishtimes.com/world/middle-ea…
‘Buying quiet’: Inside the Israeli plan that propped up Hamas
Mark Mazzetti in Tel Aviv and Ronen Bergman in Jerusalem (The Irish Times)小莱卡
in reply to Zerush • • •Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to Zerush • • •????????
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in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to 小莱卡 • • •