Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly
Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly
Canada was not part of a mass walkout this morning during Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly.News Staff (CityNews Toronto)
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LA car wash owner sues for $50m after being slammed and detained in Ice raid
Rafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, a US citizen, was held for 12 hours after sustaining broken ribs and a traumatic brain injuryDani Anguiano (The Guardian)
Private alternative to life360 - Paralino
I just discovered this app. I know there are folks out there who think location tracking is the opposite of privacy but it's a nice security tool to keep track of your loved ones. I found this one thats fully end to end encrypted. I am currently in the works to migrate my family of 10 over. (This includes my grandparents who are less than tech savvy)
Just thought I would share in the event there was a father like me looking for a similar tool that doesn't sell your location data or breach your data.
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Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)
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Nice.
Very much so looking forward to seeing rigorous benchmarks of GPUs on linux.
I ran Arch for about a year and a half. It's great, you get the freedom to do anything you want provided you have the time and will to learn. Bazzite is the exact opposite: you can't do everything you might want, but you don't need to learn anything, you can carelessly play around in the little playground they setup for you.
I use Bazzite on my 2 desktop PCs, Aurora on my work laptop booting from an external 1tb nvme ssd via an usb-C m2 caddy.
It's pure bliss. I freaking love it. If Ublue ever disappears I'm fucked.
This is interesting because theres not a ton of direct Windows vs. linux game benchmarking, and now there's about to be. GN churns though a lot of hardware and testing.
And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.
Arch (with KDE I presume?) + Bazzite is not bad either. There's a lot of handwaving over they should have chosen this or that distro, but they're both very popular in the gaming space, so I feel that's fairly representative of many distros.
And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.
This is the most important part of this whole thing to me. Imagine Nvidia watching Steve shitting on them for having horrible drivers on Linux and millions of people seeing that.
although i prefer the arch distros for bleeding edge and rolling updates. Bazzite makes sense for testing because of the immutable.
A lot of more experienced pc users might end up liking arch distros later in their life, but I would never recomnmend arch based distros to people who aren't comfortable with linux yet.
Experienced here, did my time in Arch, learned a lot, perhaps even more than necessary, now retired to Fedora, then Bazzite and Aurora-dev. It just gets out of my way nicely. Something, something, Bell curve meme, plateau of enlightenment meme.
And I would absolutely recommend Arch to a technically competent gamer newcomer as the fastest way to get up to speed.
Horses, Courses.
Bazzite was my first attempt at really daily driving Linux. I ended up on Aurora dev and I don't have any reasons to move to something different.
The U-Blue OSs really feel like the future to me.
Incredibly cool tech, but it just works.
I daily drive Aurora on my work laptop on an external usb c m2 nvme ssd via a caddy. I love it.
Are you using devpods? It's always been buggy for me.
No i meant like uploading files somewhere or attaching stuff to Mails, when i have the folder already open.
Couldn't yet find a really satisfying solution to that
They're both "immutable" in the sense that they're setting up either read-only Filesystem Hierarchies (as in bazzite, which uses ostree) or Symlinking their entire filesystem hierarchy to a read-only "store" (as in nixos).
Bazzite uses something called ostree to "diff" the filesystem hierarchy much like git does, while Nix basically makes giant read-only store of files and hashes them, then weaves them all together into a "view" of a filesystem that gets symlinked into the context of a running program.
You don't necessarily need to make your own NixOS flakes, you can use ones maintained by others
It's great for homeservers
Can we count the mainstream tech tubers in recent months that have done these Linux/Bazzite videos?
- As much as I hate ETA Prime, I think he was one of the first
- PewDiePie
- Toasty Bros
- J2C
- Dawid Does Tech
- Ctrl Alt Rees
- Digital Foundry
- Lon.TV
- Chris Titus
- LTT soon
Chris Titus
Having his name on one of the most popular windows debloater was just as based.
LTT soon? They made a few Linux videos and still love windows too much to recommend it.
- Way too many videos
- Many of them redundant
- Frequency shows in the quality of his work
- Never says anything about where to buy products or how much they cost
- Clickbait central
Honestly, it's about damn time.
These technical people should be ashamed it took them so long to adopt Linux.
Ah, the RTFM argument. So you didn't go to school, did you? You picked up a book and just started educating yourself?
Gamer's coming to Linux and messing up all the forums and chats with their pleas to make their Windows games work is NOT a good thing.
- It promotes non open source software.
- They complain about their games, when the problem is the software wasn't written for Linux. Complain to the makers and the makers of Wine and Proton. ANY issues are not Linux issues. Linux is perfect.
There are big issues with the modern video games industry. Like a lot of software they deny user's computing freedoms, and as such facilitate designs to repeatedly make money using psychology tricks. However, to reject video games as a waste of time goes to show how one can not know what they're missing.
Video games are a peak of higher-functioning life: play. A structured form of play which can go beyond physical games. Life is poorer without the immergent stories of a fantasy world (Dwarf Fortress) or competing in a consequence-free violence of street-fighting (Street Fighter).
I do not want to live in such a world. Helping others, especially when it is at little to no cost to you should be common sense to everyone.
I will strive towards making the world such a place, and I implore everyone, including you, to make the world a better place for everyone - including you.
Helping others learn when they are not willing to google, read, visit a library, etc, is called enabling, not helping. Helping those that try and get stuck is helping.
Learn the difference.
Sometimes you gotta be realistic that the majority of the population wouldn't have found Linux as friendly as many here are, even today, while Windows or is/was kinda the obvious mainstream choice for running any software... The balance seems to tip slowly, but honestly it took decades.
Even today you're still all debating which distro that didn't exist 10 years ago is the best, and which office suite can match Microsoft's... How am I going to convince my non-nerd friends to use Linux over Windows in that context.
About gaming, it's a matter of being able to run AAA games without issues, like, no bugs and anti-cheat problems. It's only since SteamOS that it is getting enough programmers and mainstream attention.
This is the way, but once again it required the power of a dominant company to move the lines.
This literally doubles (if not more) the workload to run these benchmarks, not to mention having to write new automation procedures and Steve just not being familiar with Linux at all, all for 2-3% (tops) of his audience.
Be glad that he is doing them in the future and don't be a demanding, entitled prick.
and Steve just not being familiar with Linux at all
Yeah, that's the problem. Just like with LinusTechTips, these youtubers aren't half as knowledgeable as they'd like their audiences to believe.
They should be ashamed, and you should stop being being a simp.
entitled prick.
Grow the fuck up.
You either don't watch Gamers Nexus videos or you watch them and genuinely don't understand enough to know how in-depth his tests go.
LTT is garbage "entertainment" though. I'll agree with that.
This is definitely something that has been coming for some time. Yes, I am a little surprised it has taken this long for a major channel know for hardware reviews for gamers to take this step... I would have thought that the popularity of the Steam Deck, and all of the handhelds that are now running Linux would have been a motivator.
But it seems that Steve is really seeing that there is more of a progression of people not wanting to go to Windows 11, and the issues surrounding Microsoft's insistence on adding creepy features that no one asked for (like Recall) as the push they needed.
And I agree, Bazzite is probably one of the best choices that they could make. The immutability of the system will allow them to have consistent images that won't change on them randomly. That is a definite requirement when dealing with this type of benchmarking.
Thid is great, from English speaking channels I only know AncientGameplays doing linux benchmark comparisons to Windows on gaming.
*Spoilers: If you use AMD you're not leaving performance on the table, if you're team green... it's a work in progress.
RT is currently still shit on Linux, but I don't use it anyway.
Since my main rig is still stuck on Nvidia GPUs for the time being I'm still stuck on Windows. 30% performance reduction will lead to less than 60 FPS experience on my end.
But on my Ally handheld, I've been hopping between Bazzite, SteamOS, and CachyOS.
I'm a little confused by some of the discussion. Surely the problems they're talking about with variations in the test system also apply to windows. You result can be affected by:
- Which windows updates have been applied
- Which version of the drivers have been installed
- What other software is on the system
Linux is the same, but they seem to be more concerned about it. Can someone explain?
I think a big part of why they talked about it in the video is to explain their base assumptions for the test. They've discussed it with Windows enough that they don't need to say those anymore, but the Linux tests are new.
In addition, they do need to change theur workflow simply because they can't use the same software and scripts for Linux.
They're also addressing the reputation that Linux has among Windows users, even if that reputation is outdated
i guess it's my new version of archbtw
i just find this distro to be genuinely worth everybody's try, as it's easy to set up, and it comes with custom-built packages (they mostly just add some comptime flags), that favor optimisation for the modern hardware over backward compatibility.
but in this case, actually, I proposed it bc i've seen synthetic tests that compared this distro to others, and it yielded interesting results, so i actually wonder about what the results would be in the gaming context, as the testing specific varies greatly.
in other words
I'M THE NERDEST NERD, AND THOSE NERDS AREN'T NERDING THEIR NERDY STUFF ENOUGH
or... something like that
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I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu and when it comes time to troubleshoot, youll get less support than the upstreams. Both searching existing posts and making new posts there will be less answers. Unless you make a search fo the upstream, and then there's a chance your distro tweaked something and it's different.
What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.
I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu
Mint is easier to setup than Ubuntu, and not only it's newer, it's based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu also is easier to setup than Debian even though it's newer and based on it. Being a new distro has nothing to do with being easy to setup.
Bazzite is special because it's an immutable distro, so it's highly unlikely you'll break stuff by poking around.
What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.
As opposed to Cannonical, which has been making slow pushes over the years to control Linux via Snaps?
They're aiming for "something the viewer can achieve themselves".
99% of ex-Windows users won't be going for Arch, Debian or Fedora. It's supposed to be easy to get in, difficult to screw up.
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Hegseth’s Self-Centered Reason for Calling in Generals Leaks
Hegseth’s Self-Centered Reason for Calling in Generals Leaks
The Fox News host-turned-defense secretary is all about the optics.Sarah Ewall-Wice (The Daily Beast)
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Berlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe
Berlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe
Germany’s quiet diplomacy helped secure U.S. support for Ukraine. But its long-term security ties to Washington are entering uncertain territory.Chris Lunday (POLITICO)
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No, no, it's obviously because Trump is a Putin agent and is making it easier for the ~~mongols~~ bolsheviks to attack Europe!
I bet there are people who actually think this too.
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
: Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRsDan Robinson (The Register)
A funny thing happened back in the middle 1800s. A man ran a 7-ton electric locomotive a mile and a half.
The motor was powered by a storage device. In the late 1800s, people drove their cars around all day using a storage device.
These storage devices became better and better, until they could power trucks and buses for hundreds of miles.
They are still getting better and better. Of course they can be depleted, and it's good to havea backup methods to
cover these cases and to keep the storage devices charged when there's no sun or wind. Hydroelectric dams powered
by water-storage are widely-used, and some flat places still burn fossil fuels to do that as well.
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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1. Network is created that doesn't discriminate on speech.
2. The left wins debates and it becomes increasingly liberal over time.
3. Far right billionaires buy it to stop those process.
Because the person I replied was trying to say that the person they replied to was falling for propaganda and compared it to call millenials lazy. We know for a fact that millenials generally work harder, and for less, than the older generations that were/are doing the complaining. In this case, we the older generation is complaining about Gen Z not being nearly as progressive as one would expect, even to the point where we can say they actually have a problem with conservatism, and the statistics back that up as fact.
TL;DR: “millenials are lazy” is made up to try to pay us less despite the statistics showing it to be a huge lie and “GenZ has way too many conservatives” is an observable fact complete with actual numbers.
Young women are the most progressive group in American history. Young men are checked out
Gen Z is seeing a ‘historic reverse gender gap’, with women poised to outpace men across virtually every measure of political involvementCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
I wonder if gen Z has media literacy. I am expecting approximately 0% to discontinue TicTok as result of the acquisition.
Edit: Sorry for being lizardy.
After repetitive exposure to this propaganda (repetition priming), the people were beginning to believe and stand up for what each respective government had been flashing before their eyes, without them even knowing it.
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The fact of being exposed to propaganda and misinformation, repeatedly and continuously, has a psychological affect over time.
The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges.
Propaganda, Jacques Ellul
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Anti-Vax Activists Staged a Rally Exactly Where an Anti-Vax Gunman Killed an Officer Last Month
Anti-vax activists stage a rally exactly where an anti-vax gunman killed an officer last month
One sign read, "Anti-Science, Pro-Informed Consent.”Mother Jones
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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How One Word Could Make the Difference in the Revenge Case Against James Comey
How one word could make the difference in the troubling case against James Comey
The former FBI director didn't say what the indictment claims he did.Mother Jones
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Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
"Pete #Hegseth’s big, urgent military summit will just be a “pep rally” for what he calls the “warrior ethos.” "
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
The defense secretary is putting the entire U.S. military at risk to hear himself speak.The New Republic
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes
It’s becoming somewhat of a running gag that any device or object will be made ‘smart’ these days, whether it’s a phone, TV, refrigerator, home thermostat, headphones or gla…Hackaday
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Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott - The New York Times
Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
The company is one of two that has been pre-empting Mr. Kimmel’s show since he returned this week.Benjamin Mullin (The New York Times)
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Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Washington, D.C. — Today, Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released partial records from the third batch of documents produced by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate, which includes phone message logs, copies of flight logs and ma…The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Subscription service is Meta’s response to regulatory warnings over crunching users’ data to serve targeted adsDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Why Emerging Economies Choose EVs Over Gasoline. Chinese EV automakers are starting an export strategy by building their manufacturing outside of China. 2 mil. oil barrels are being displaced per day.
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Democrats release Epstein docs with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.
The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.
Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”
House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Small tranche of documents includes meeting itineraries, flight manifest and redacted financial transactionsAlex Woodward (The Independent)
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Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti
Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti | Truthout
Now, as Raunaq Alam’s team attempts to appeal the judge’s decision, he reportedly continues to be targeted.Negin Owliaei (Truthout)
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Bondi fires a third federal prosecutor in Miami office, linked to anti-Trump posts
But Rosenzweig — considered to be among the rising prosecutors in the office — wasn’t fired because he had been associated with the criminal investigations of Trump by the Justice Department’s special counsel during the prior Biden administration. That was why two other respected federal prosecutors in the Miami office were abruptly terminated this year.
Rather, Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami. When he was working for the prominent law firm Kobre & Kim in Washington during Trump’s first term, Rosenzweig posted criticisms of the president starting in 2017 — posts that were recently brought to the attention of the Justice Department.
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.
The comment on X by state representative John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a reaction to a short clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US representative Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, entitled “The Resistance Lab.” In the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for street protests against the Trump administration.
“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried, convicted and hanged … it will continue,” he posted.
Nothing in either the clip or the longer video actually suggests Jayapal is advocating for the overthrow of the US government. The video carries explicit calls for non-violent protest and discussed with alarm a rise in political violence in the US.
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
John Gillette on X called for ‘people like’ Pramila Jayapal to be ‘hanged’ in response to her video on anti-Trump protestsGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech
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The protests against Netanyahu came as Israel is causing a famine in Gaza with its near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, which has killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Israel has launched a full invasion of Gaza, and its right-wing government has explicitly said that it plans on expelling all Palestinians who are still living in the exclave. The Israel Defense Forces’ assault has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israel has become increasingly isolated on the international stage in recent weeks, as the governments of France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia have all formally recognized Palestine as an independent state.
Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech
"I don't recall seeing such a large walkout for quite some time at UNGA," said one observer. "Israel has chosen to be a pariah and is increasingly treated as such by the international community."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Netanyahu's UN speech contained at least eight blatant lies
Netanyahu's UN speech was nothing more than “misleading rhetori aimed at justifying war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people
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Facebook and Instagram ad-free subscription arrives in the U.K.
Meta is introducing a subscription service in the U.K., allowing Facebook and Instagram users to pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience.
https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-and-instagram-ad-free-subscription-arrives-in-the-uk/
Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses
Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
: Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defensesCarly Page (The Register)
Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules
DJI loses its lawsuit against the US government.
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Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules
A district court “cannot conclude” that DJI is “indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist Party,” but found the DoD can call it a Chinese military company.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption
Critics are warning the change would make life more difficult for LGBT people.
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California dumps its Trump-battered electric truck rule
The rule requiring private fleets to buy increasing percentages of zero-emission trucks never officially took effect.
Sorry about the sourcing. No other coverage yet
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Hypx! You’re back!
I missed your oil lobby talking points, still pushing hydrogen in the year of the production Sodium battery?
Is there a point where you will accept that Hydrogen is only going to be useful in the most nichey of niche of applications?
US Plans to Use Emergency Powers to Save More Coal Plants
US Plans to Use Emergency Powers to Stop More Coal Closures
The Trump administration plans to continue using emergency authority to stop coal-fired power plants from retiring, according to people familiar with the matter.Ari Natter (Bloomberg)
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I was disappointed but not at all surprised when I reread it.
I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of climate change misinformation
What President Donald Trump is doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters, and making a mockery of our country as he does so.Michael E. Mann (San Francisco Chronicle)
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That's just inaccurate... Trump said a couple of earnest Truths!
Like: "He's the president"... technically true.
And also, "America is really a hot country now" though that slides in under He's only correct because of global warming... which he, uhh, denies... but still TECHNICALLY true.
Now, everything else that leaks out of face-anus is lying bullshit... but still.
I'm internally crying and screaming and raging. I am so fucking scared. And no one even notices.
I am so sorry. This was predicted by Silent Spring. It seemed so far fetched at the time, but decades of overuse of pesticide have probably lead us to this.
It does start to make sense why all the oligarchs are so concerned about immigrants. They probably know what is coming.
Silent Spring annoys me, but her heart was in the right place, as was her science. But if the Western world had used our money and influence to press the attack with DDT, for just one more decade, we could have wiped out malaria. Just as we did in the United States.
Once we wiped it out? Typical America, "not my problem". So we said, "Use DDT all you want, but the most powerful nation on Earth won't trade with you any longer." That's a ban in all but name.
Fuck me. Just 10 more years and we could have saved tens of millions of lives. But they were brown people, whatever.
And I'll say that at the same time as stating that we should ban all pesticides and herbicides for non-professional use, and tighten the grip like hell on farms and professionals.
Worked the outside lawn and garden at Lowe's. Had a coworker tell me, "If it's for killing, it's inside. If it's for growing, it's outside." I saw us sell tons of it into urban lawns. And that doesn't count professional killers. Recommended some poison to a guy one day, "What do you use?" "I don't use any chemicals excepting fire ant bait (hydramethylnon!) because they're invasive and destructive." Man looked at me like I was crazy. "You don't kill anything?" "Ya got me, I also trap carpenter bees, destructive little fuckers, but that's it."
I never knew about the malaria thing, pretty grim when you consider how much human suffering it causes.
I agree that fertilizers and pesticides should be restricted to professionals and tightly controlled. Blanket spraying of fields, for instance, where less than 1% of the herbicide or insecticide gets to its intended target would be banned outright.
I appreciate your stance on protecting life even of it is sometimes inconvenient.
We on the same page. Wish to god we could somehow band together in our common cause. I have no idea how to even find people like us, no idea how to fight.
How do we convince people that buying up pallets of herbicides and pesticides are to be banned? How do we show people that their perfect lawns are deserts? How do we start work on a population that has worse science education than I got in elementary school 70s? And half of them didn't get it?!
I want to scream. But how to convince people that say, "Well! Bugs aren't so bad this year!" Yeah, except for the fire ants in places I've never seen them. They're thriving.
I do not know what to do. Probably be moving to the Philippines to take my wife home. Lot's of reason's that's a bad move ATM, but at least life still thrives there, a sort of human "base camp". Fuck me, if things truly went south around here, there would be about a week worth of squirrels in the woods, and then we'd be starving.
It is hard to organize an environmental movement because it has all been turned into politics. It seems everything has become political including health care now. I am beside myself just like you.
There are some existing movements like Garden for Wildlife though.
content.gardenforwildlife.com/…
Good luck and I think getting out wouldn't be a bad idea. I took my family to Alaska already because leaving isn't an option for us. At least I know we could survive here if we had to.
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Not everyone hears this sort of thing.
Had a lady I was helping at Lowe's comment on the weather. She was lightly questioning, partly stating, that the weather was weird, but just a normal variation. Which can be true!
Asked her to remember the snowfall last winter (that was 3 minutes), record for Florida, and our town scored that record. I was in it, it was wild.
"That was a massive bolus of hot air from the other side of the planet hit the polar vortex, sent that freezing air down here from Canada. That's climate change, and it ain't normal, not over human lifetimes."
About exactly what I said, and she was a bit taken aback. Again, she was kinda questioning, feeling out another opinion. LOL, didn't expect the guy loading bags of soil in her SUV to talk like that. I know, "And everyone clapped!"
That quote was best I can remember, and she was taken aback, could see her gears turning.
Talking to people is like mastering tech support. Talking over your listener? You've shamed them. Talking under them? You treated them a fool. You gotta meet them on their level.
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in reply to Brunette6256 • • •This app would of been great help to me a couple of years ago!
I'll wait for this personally:
"In the future, we plan to release a version of Paralino for Android that is free of Google services and available as a direct download."
The dev also explains the current status of the app here in the comments:
discuss.privacyguides.net/t/pa…
Paralino Location Sharing service
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in reply to Brunette6256 • • •Is the server self-hostable with all features, or planned in the future?
Either way, really cool. I'd be interested in setting it up at some point.
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in reply to sonofearth • • •Thanks and my apologies for not being clear enough but I've been running HomeAssistant for years now, so that part is covered, I mean specifically location tracking.
I imagine it's in companion.home-assistant.io/do… but checking. Unfortunately this feature specifically does not seem supported in the Web client, which is what I tend to prefer. For this specific situation I might reconsider. Are you using it and if so how?
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in reply to utopiah • • •Aah gotcha. I don’t remember exactly. I was using HA a year ago for about a month just to test around, but my home doesn’t have any smart devices so I got rid of it.
But as far as I remember, it was something in the HA settings itself (probably in the admin account or in the map). Just give location access to HA mobile app and it should work perfectly.
utopiah
in reply to sonofearth • • •No worries thanks the clarification.
FWIW your house does not need smart devices, you can add them yourself as easily as adding a light bulb and a ZigBee dongle on your RPi or even desktop (but nicer if it's always on IMHO).
You screw the light bulb in and if you leave the house one day for another one, you just unscrew it. Sure you can do more, e.g. replacing light switches, etc but you can also add plugs the same way.
I'm not trying to say anybody "needs" that, only highlighting that it's not a heavy thing to setup and remove.
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in reply to Brunette6256 • • •I tried it a while back. Doesn't work without Google Play Services.
There is a good alternative called Zood location but its only for Android.
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in reply to Brunette6256 • • •Well, there are also others, but I had mencioned only the FOSS alternatives. The others I found are proprietary, iOS only, paid or discontinued.
Mabe you can find those which you want to use in AlternativeTo
alternativeto.net/software/par…
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in reply to Brunette6256 • • •I've been using this app with one other person for shared tracking. we've been satisfied with the (lack of) battery drain, which was my main concern about the app (not for anything specifically about Paralino). so far, no issues or qualms. will be nice when it no longer relies on Google Services on Android.
I only have location services enabled under certain conditions when away from the house, but it seems to handle the off / on of this service just fine without having to restart the app or anything. unsurprisingly, it also let's me view the other's location even if my own location is disabled at the moment.
we have ours sharing location, battery percentage, and network type from each device.
paid features let you add more connections to share locations with, create additional groups, and other small QoL things like being able to attempt a forced refresh of the other person's location, etc.
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