President Donald Trump was brutally mocked over the weekend after he referred to Japan's leader as "Mr. Japan."The president made the statement during an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about tariffs.
Thanks for the source. After watching the video, the "Mr. Japan" bit was honestly much less noteworthy than the completely incoherent rambling about sending letters to countries congratulating them on the privilege of being able to "shop in the USA". He just kept repeating that and then naming random percentages. It felt like I was having a stroke trying to understand what he was even trying to say.
This. Also, he apparently still doesn't understand how tarifs work. Is he still under the impression the country he puts the tarifs on pays them and not the company who imports from them?
Have y'all seen the clip where a reporter at alligator aushwitz asks him how long detainees will be held there, and he doesn't understand the question, gets it repeated, and then still doesn't understand so starts rambling about how much he loves Florida and will be there as long as he can. He also takes the opportunity to say the oval office wasn't well cared for, but he's cleaned up and made it a "beautiful diamond".
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Sorry but he is totally your president. You can't be in favor of the democratic process of elections and then distance yourself from the outcome.
You as a nation voted for Trump. He's your president. You own the consequences along with all Americans.
I don’t keep up with everything he does
You should, if only to know when the ICE Gestapo might come knocking at your door or when it's time to flee because it's too dangerous to stay in the US.
Most people who say "Not my president" are Americans who feel ashamed. Nobody else in the world feels the need to say that because they have no reason to be ashamed.
No, were ashamed that our species is collectively capable of voting for a guy like him. We'd love to point a finger at Americans and imitate Nelson with a "Ha Ha!" of pure Schadenfreude (and maybe even a meme of "That's the worst president they've elected in the history of their nation! - That's the worst president they've elected in the history of their nation so far!" or watch from the distance saying "He's about to do something stupid")
But honestly, we just can't laught at Americans while they're not only affecting and destroying their lifes but also try to drag down as many others world wide as they can.
I don't live in America, I never had American citizenship, nor family or relatives or any responsibility to vote in your mess guys. Still my president you say?
Not initial replier, but I too immediately assumed you were an American who didn't vote for him.
Likely because of all the, people, we had running around Canada for five or so years saying "Trudeau isn't my Prime Minister!", amongst other more colourful anti-Trudeau slogans.
Funniest shit I've ever seen. The Republicans didn't need to cheat! Fucking acknowledge that the Democrats were willing patsies in getting Trump a second term, same as for the first. They could easily win elections by moving their politics even slightly left, but prefer to lobby exclusively for the votes of the seven undecided enlightened centrists in the country, then blame anyone left of those imaginary dudes when they inevitably lose.
There is no such thing as the Republican Party. It is 100% dead, and replaced by the MAGA Party. The Republicans may not have cheated, but cheating and corruption is the MAGA brand, and they can't help themselves.
Even if every poll showed MAGA winning by 30 points, they'd STILL cheat, because they wouldn't know how to NOT cheat.
Ah okay so it doesn't matter that the Dems are ineffective stooges who are doing all the work they can not to get elected, got it.
Like, if the MAGA party cheats so much, how come they win? Yes, they cheat, but bow come they are allowed to do that? Shouldn't their so-called opposition stop them? How come that doesn't happen? How come that they only seem to continue the politics of the MAGA people, like Biden did after Trump and like Kamala promised to do if elected?
You have a child's understanding of politics. Realize the political class as a whole is not out for your benefit and the game is fucking rigged.
While we don't all know he cheated, we do all know he totally would if he thought he could get away with it, and there are some troubling irregularities in the vote counts.
Well, we know they did at least one major act of elections fraud, but Pence wouldn't do their bidding and use the fraudulent electoral slates from 7 or so states. Which got him black balled by the GOP. So, who knows what else is happening.
Mr (Annoying) Orange or Mr Hairdo, I guess you could go with Mr Freedom but I'm not sure it's a good fit. Let's Build a Wall and Let's Build a Gulag isn't what Real Mr Freedom would say but that's just my opinion
I used to feel that way, but Trump has done so much damage he's just not fucking funny anymore, and I wish people would stop generating all the noise to point out how stupid he is. We know, and by now it's WAAAY past funny.
I remember when George W. Bush was grilled on the names of world leaders at the time and he flunked it hard... but even he wouldn't have made something as stupid as Mr. Japan...
Shigeru Sugita was considered one of the most influential sportsmen in his field and won the Mr Universe title in 1976 - the year before Arnold Schwarzenegger won the same competition himself
It's our Republic and I think while what is happening now is despicable it won't push enough people. Suspending elections. ... That will rouse the nation.
What makes you think suspending an election is going to tip the scales?
Mostly that at least right now there's hope for midterms to change things in Congress and then the presidential election to get Trump out. Right now we still have the trappings of a Republic. I think if elections got suspended all belief in a peaceful solution will be erased and people will react.
You have a point though, bread and circuses go a long way towards kowtowing the population. That and the risk of death at the hands of the state. I don't know where the line is that people will readily accept potentially getting shot especially if they're in white man suburbia.
I’m terrible with names. I fully admit it. But if I forget a name I just ask “what was his name again?” or something along those lines. A normal person would just keep saying “the prime minister”, or I don’t know, just make the effort to remember the names of major world leaders since it’s your fucking job. Not Mr. Japan OR Tim Apple.
Why some people think he’s intelligent is beyond me.
I thought he ment it as: Tim - Apple (as in Tim of Apple) or Tim, Apple (as in Tim and Apple). When you listen to the it really sounds like he's saying Tim Apple but I don't know if people really think he misspoke or if it's just too funny of a meme to pass up.
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Without Trump's giant ego & do what I say because of who I am personality running the show I think there would be a lot more scrutiny on his actions and less "gotta do what daddy says".
If Biden had done something like this there'd would half a bazillion articles about how he's falling apart from the left and right. Trump does it and everyone's just "oh how quaint a trumpism"
Because .world users are frothy dipshits who cant handle complexity or subtlety or poetic speech and often have like a fucking full-on perceptive filter about disagreement while they blather on about all their favorite genocides and voting blue no matter who (except him, obviously).
.world has Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net blocked, not Lemmy.ml. If .worlders could not see Lemmy.ml posts, they would not be able to see OP, OP's post, or the community we are commenting in.
Coincidentally, dbzer0 blocks Lemmygrad.ml as well.
.world is filled with frothing neoliberal/zionist fanatics tgat will just straight up pretend they didnt read shit if it contradicts their beliefs. More than half the time i run into someone totally oblivious who cannot get a bit its a .world. Also they're too fucking big, which is bad fir the fediverse in general and also makes dumping on them morally cool.
Everything this administration say or does is bullshit, outright lies and filth. Keep writing articles about what that pus fountain press sec spews, or the open sore attorney general, or the torn bloody asshole trump, it’s all bullshit open sewer nonsense. Nothing they say means anything, we have to do our thing in spite of it, and not actually respond in any way, or treat them as though they mean anything, cause they don’t.
This group has long carried out frequent and persistent cyberattacks against school broadcast systems across China, attempting to crack passwords, hijack broadcasts, and spread harmful content. The targeted school in this case had its broadcast system directly linked to a publicly accessible webpage, with the login password set as a simple string of consecutive numbers—an obvious vulnerability for the attackers. State security authorities immediately guided the school's management in implementing corrective measures, cutting off the foreign intrusion at its source.
The Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Monday disclosed a case in which an unidentified foreign IP address, disguised as a regular user, infiltrated a Chinese school's network broadcast system in an attempted cyberattack to manipulate broadcast con…
Millions of people using Windows 10 are facing a tough choice. Microsoft plans to stop offering security updates for the system, leaving countless computers
Most consumer hardware on earth does already (Android phones). The problem is those drivers are usually proprietary bullshit that's very difficult to integrate with anything but OEMs kernel fork & Android version. Unfortunately I don't really foresee that changing in the near future, hopefully if Linux becomes more mainstream, Linux phones become too and then we get some progress.
And for laptops/desktops, I think the situation is pretty good already as well. Many mainstream OEMs have an option with Linux pre-installed now, and the drivers there are mostly FOSS. I'm hoping that the problematic part vendors e.g. NVidia and Broadcom step up and provide sources for their drivers - otherwise they will continue to be a buggy mess that most people hate.
Nvidia recently started NVK for Turing and newer and even more recently it was made conformant going back to Maxwell, but that still doesn't give me a lot of hope for everything between Maxwell 1 (so basically just the GTX 750/750Ti for desktop Maxwell 1 cards) and Turing after driver version 580.
Also, Nouveau works for Maxwell 1 and earlier but ymmv with that stack, and it's still not like Mesa RADV and AMDGPU for Radeon cards going back to GCN1.
A big factor in Europe right now is a shifting relationship with the US.
Companies, governments, and individuals have some incentive to find alternatives to big US tech. For operating systems, Linux is really the only option.
Ok is what is the "META" answer to grandma's laptop is going to get borked. Put this USB stick in her laptop and press next a bunch of times and she can keep using it. You have 5 lines of text to explain this solution.
I think the trick has to be that somebody who has a bit of technical skill sets the laptop up initially. I did this for my mom a while back, and once I set it up once, it just worked from there on. Non technical users tend to have a fairly small set of things they need to do like check email, browser the web, and play media. Once that's working, they never need to change anything. In fact, they don't want to change anything because they get used to the workflow, and they're comfortable.
It would be great if people set up community centres where people can bring their old laptops, and somebody switches them over to Linux for them.
Ok, what I am hearing is Nixos but with an installer like this
Rufus ISO to usb stick stick usb stick into computer press magical button to boot usb <-- this should be the most difficult part of the process Screen appears, least amount of text possible Ask only the important questions, on a single screen
then one last big scary page "this will erase everything on your computer"
Check "I understand" then press"ERASE BUTTON" (or cancel and reboots)
then it reboots and everything your average grandmother needs right there a google button an office button and that's pretty much it
Cool, so we need two things, The most streamlined installer possible. "Grandma's Universal Nix.Conf"
The installer should be written using 4th grade simple english, no jargon
In the top right corner there should be a language selector.
There should be only one page of questions.
The installer should work completely offline.
The installer should detect all peripherals and modify the nix file accordingly.
The second page should only be tge warning about erasing everything
The installer should detect if a nixos installation already exist. If it does, then offer the user to repair the bootloader
Optionally, the installer coukd detect a windows installation. Check the amount of free space left on the drive.
In this case instead of a wipe, offer to shrink the windows partition and install nixos in the liberated space. Install a bootloader setup for dual boot. Auto mount the ntfs partition and place a shortcut to the c:\user folder on the desktop.
I think we can be even simpler than that. Don't ask any questions. Simply generate the hardware-configuration.nix and have a single configuration.nix that is unchanged:
Some easy-to-use and simple DE. I'm thinking something like lxqt or xfce, maybe Pantheon - but that would be more familiar to Mac users than Windows. KDE seems way too complicated to just have it in configuration.nix without touching it, and it can sometimes break on updates.
Chromium (with pre-installed ublock origin)
Libreoffice
Some flatpak store (so that people can install apps without touching configuration.nix)
Make a simple "update" app that just pops up once in a couple weeks or so, prompts you to click a button and then runs npins update and nixos-rebuild boot, and finally annoys you until you reboot (it should also update to the next stable channel when that becomes available, and make that a big deal so that a user understands it might change some of their workflows)
Set up the bootloader so that if a generation "fails" (some script in the autostart of the DE doesn't set a flag somewhere) on the next boot it boots a previous generation, kinda like Android's A/B slot system but better. I don't think systemd-boot allows this sort of thing, but I think it's possible with a GRUB script
Maybe add a shortcut to open tmate and copy the URL to clipboard, so that you can send it someone in the know and they can help you troubleshoot
Finally, use impermanence to make sure everything outside /home, /nix, and wherever flatpak are stored, is wiped on every reboot and recreated from the generation, so that "reboot it" is a viable troubleshooting strategy.
Installed should be downloaded by going to grandmasnixos.com On the front page, a single click starts to download a single file, that contains everything It is a tailored rufus executable with the ISO that contains everything to make it to first desktop boot When download ends, no internet connection will be required to make it to grandmasnixos desktop
When the file is clicked and a usb stick has been inserted beforehand, the grandmasnixos ISO is preselected, rufus autochooses the usb stick
User only needs to press "start"
The motherboard version is checked against a lookup table, and the user is told
Reboot computer a press $KEY_TO_USB_BOOT and choose to boot the usb key
Installation is a single screen that says "This will erase everything on this computer, to continue, click the checkbox below" [ ] I understand this will erase everything on my computer buttons below [ ERASE AND INSTALL GRANDMASNIXOS ] or [ CANCEL AND REBOOT] (first button only clickable if the checkbox is checked)
(there is an "Options and settings" button somewhere, it does not have to be clicked to continue)
No further user interaction until it boots into a working desktop
There is no password by default, the desktop auto-logs in, no remote access is possible until a password is set, sudo works passwordless
There should be no updating unless enabled, no telemetry, no call home of any kind, the system should be able to work offline and forever without an internet access and never nag the user.
The desktop environment should be something occasional win10 using grandma will not get lost in
Taskbar at bottom Desktop that you can dump files onto and start stuff by clicking those files systray on the right Large font start menu Start menu includes a single settings panels that does everything a user needs (passwords, wifi, power management, update, timezone, language, locale, host and domain name, remote desktop etc..)
taskbar should have pinned the most important apps file browser, browser, calculator, notepad, word-like and maybe a mail client maybe a zoom? client or something equivalent but open source and usable ?
If updating is turned on, it should be very conservative, updates hand curated by grandmasnixos, basically never uses software that hasn't been proven rock solid for at least 6 months. Rolling back any update should be one-click-trivial
On first boot there could be an "out of box experience" screen that allows setting up
wifi password region/timezone/locale/language power settings host and domain name password enable updates enable remote desktop and services open easy user guide
So total, from download to desktop it should be 8 clicks total counting press F9 during boot as a "click"
There should be no updating unless enabled <...> and never nag the user.
I disagree, at that point you might as well continue using Win10. Security updates are the #1 reason to do this. Most computer use nowadays is networked (actually in a browser), and it's super important we keep that updated.
If updating is turned on, it should be very conservative, updates hand curated by grandmasnixos, basically never uses software that hasn’t been proven rock solid for at least 6 months
Eh, this sounds like a lot of work. Probably just use the stable channels, and only manually test when switching to a new stable channel.
Rolling back any update should be one-click-trivial
Agreed, should also be very obvious (like a label on the desktop that says "Issues after update?" and gives you a button to roll back and reboot)
The desktop environment should be something occasional win10 using grandma will not get lost in
This is the main question IMHO. I've not used any DEs for a while, so don't really know which one would fit this best while also being simple and robust.
Yeah basically, a turn key solution where your machine gets wiped and imaged with a Linux distro that does all the basic stuff most people need would be an ideal solution. A good way to look at it would be making sort of a Linux based console for non technical users as opposed to a general purpose computer. Tech people want the latter, but non technical users just want a reliable tool that can reliably handle a few tasks.
Yes, I find it baffling that this does not yet exist. I was installing debian the other day and the incessant one-question-at-a-time installation with long delays between the question was aggravating. In particular since none of these questions really needed to be answered at the time.
Proxmox does it better, but still with annoying questions and limitation like having a mandatory static IP address and making your enter an email address notification. This is all actually optional stuff and it could all be dealt with after the install is completed.
I've got only one machine left running Windows 10 at home: a desktop PC I use exclusively for gaming. I increasingly look forward to purging Windows from it and installing Bazzite when the EOL date comes around.
Imagine the sludge in their shriveled little hearts to feel anything but profound sadness and/or rage looking at that sign. I used to think there was good in everyone. I was wrong.
I know a lot of stupid people who choose to be good as well. Stupid people who know to trust scientists and who want to share and all that good stuff. Then there are the violent, monkey-brained goons whose only method of communicating is unfiltered violence. The latter are pathetic in all senses and no amount of being stupid will be an adequate enough excuse for their actions.
Quite the opposite in fact, they were directly inspired by previous settler-colonialism and successful genocide.
Writing in “Mein Kampf” in the 1920s, Hitler praised the way the “Aryan” America conquered “its own continent” by clearing the “soil” of “natives” to make room for more “racially pure” settlers and lay the foundation for its economic self-sufficiency and growing global power. Indeed, the concept of Lebensraum was coined and popularized by Friedrich Razel, who said his theory of colonization and racial replacement drew inspiration from the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” and its identification of “colonization of the Great West” as central to American history and identity.
Can’t verify that exact photo but the sign is real. Terrible ad-ridden site for Local 10 news but in the “Friday noon report” video you can see video with the sign in it.
As the first wave of migrant detainees prepares to arrive, Florida officials are finalizing construction on what critics are now calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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I know I'm not getting the metaphor here because to me, this looks like Republicans and Democrats working together to impale fascism using the power societies gain when wielding the "stake" of communism??
It seems to be a play on "horseshoe theory" where libs always place themselves in the middle and leftist and right wingers are on the ends, closer together. With the implication that leftists have "circled back" to facsism.
There is also "Fishhook theory", Where the same principle is true, but more in line with this "stick theory" where the Fishhook places the far right beside liberalism/centrism.
In this one, it's a stick, facsism is at the bottom, Dems and Republicans are just barely above that and communism is at the top. The main difference between this and fish hook is that fish hook relies on the curve coming back to make them close, while stick theory says they are just close period.
Tell me more about how democrats are not like republicans. How they're not owned by the billionaires. How they didn't deport people. How they implemented medical care for all. How they codified Roe.
This is not "both sides" but quite the opposite - there's a good and progressive side (top of the stick) and a depraved and evil side (bottom of the stick). While the parties differ in their demeanor (e.g. civility, rule of law), their goals are quite similar, which is why both are at the same position on the political spectrum.
The Democrats literally conceded immigration as a national security issue and changed the debate to who could solve it more efficiently in the 2024 elections.
Even before they publicly accepted the Republican framing, Obama built the concentration camps Trump was derided for during his first term.
Obama literally built them as and used them as concentration camps wtf are you talking about. They weren't all encompassing resorts that Trump remodeled.
Trump also claims he's only targeting criminals and human traffickers, the only difference is you rightfully don't believe him, but wrongfully believe the Dems.
It's not the same as always, it's worse under Trump2 than it was under Biden, or even Trump1. If Kamala won, it would also be worse than Trump 1 or Biden, you just wouldn't care. Just like you didn't care when Biden was as bad as Trump1.
The point is not that things are always the same, the point is that both parties serve the same donors and core system and will ultimately do what the system demands of them. That's why the Dems started pushing the same "immigration as a national security" issue, they were manufacturing consent.
Generic percentage increases to immigration enforcement are not the same as Kristi Noem tweeting about SIXTY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE, no matter how strongly you feel about the shit we were doing before.
The Idiot is talking about stripping natural-born citizens of that citizenship, and sending them all to cat-food factories in Sudan, and y'all still wanna bicker about Obama catching people crossing the border. Like you can't figure out there's a difference between a little over a million people, across eight years, and every Hispanic in America facing a no-trial black-hood flight to fuckoff nowhere, as soon as practically possible.
This thread has been fucking great for blocking people who would have insisted, whatever this new Auschwitz thing is, it's just as bad as something Hindenburg did.
The lesson from Hindenburg that is true to this day is that liberals and "moderates" will ALWAYS side with the fascists against any socialist movement because they serve the same master. Have you been watching capital's media lap dogs respond to Mamdani's candidacy? Just keep watching and observe how many "mainstream Democrats" fall in line behind human trash piles Cuomo or Adams.
Saying the good cop is "better" then the bad cop may be true in some sense but is ultimately irrelevant and distracting. Both are your enemy and if you trust either one, you'll get fucked every time.
Sucking up to the Democratic party is like expecting that sucking up to the good cop in the interrogation room will lead to leniency in the courtroom (aka a fool's gambit)
Well sure, Republicans are currently actively trying to strip away trans rights, build a military with the authorization to operate within our borders, black bag people in the streets without charging them with a crime because they don't like what they have to say, and deploying the goddamn Armed Forces against their own citizens when they have the audacity to peacefully protest about it, and Democrats are voting party line against every single one of those, but they aren't saying no louder than that, so they're the same.
No one is better at mental gymnastics than leftists, I swear to god.
OP this is wildly inaccurate because you didn't put a smiling mask on the Democrats OR show how they are actually an infinitesimal bit better than the Republicans and they're dying on that hill
The Federal Council wants to explore the possibilities of joining the European Union’s €800-billion rearmament programme without compromising Swiss neutrality.
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As the Trump administration steps up attacks on US universities and scientific institutions, the European Union is campaigning hard to attract scientists from the United States. But how many can the bloc take?
I already know scientists moving to Europe because they couldn't find places to work in the US. Labs are not hiring here anymore, but the Euro labs seem excited and able to being in new talent
The Iranian Embassy in India has issued a warning about fraudulent social media accounts impersonating official Iranian entities. These fake accounts are disseminating false information, including claims about Iran reconsidering the Chabahar port agreement with India. The embassy asserts that these accounts aim to undermine the relationship between Iran and India.
It won't compile, as cloned. It's more than just the directory structure which is completely silly. It's not surprising it didn't work, given it's messy state. I had to modify it a bit, so it could easily be something I did.
Anyone have Vial working? It's a popular keyboard so I expect someone has solved this problem. If no one responds, I'll take it on in a week or so so we can all enjoy ou R75 on linux with Vial.
The problem seems to be lack of ability to give the board a magic serial number. The vial app looks for a specific string in the serial number ("vial:") to identify a vial capable keyboard. My R75 won't accept a serial number, no matter what I do.
Apparently, this is a limitation of some cheap USB controllers (always answer 0 to all serial requests). I don't know if that's true but ChatGPT tells me it's so.
udevadm info -a -n /dev/hidraw$(ls /dev/hidraw* | tail -1 | tr -dc '0-9') | grep -i serial 2 ✘ ATTRS{serial}=="00000000000000000000000000000000" ATTRS{serial}=="0000:09:00.0"
Apparently, the magic number can be coded into the UID, also. I'm working on that, too, with no success so far. Apparently, USB controllers don't stand in for UID in any case.
I'm struggling with this. If anyone has some ideas or clear direction, I would consider it a favor. If I can manage to make it work, I'll publish the firmware for everyone.
Even if someone got the mossbed firmware to work, that would be helpful to know. I have been banging on it for three days with no luck. This is the most expensive, cheap keyboard I've ever purchased. lol!
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have carried out a special operation to eliminate the Russian agents who killed SSU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv under orders from the FSB.
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The Russian president thanked his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the Brazilian BRICS presidency in promoting the strategic partnership within the association
The Israeli enemy continues to bomb southern Lebanon almost daily and maintains occupation over five posts along the southern border, in violation of a ceasefire deal reached following a brutal 66-day Israeli war in late 2024.
The Zionist occupation has also struck Beirut four times since the ceasefire agreement was sealed on November 27, 2024.
The June 2025 US-Israeli military assault on Iran—featuring Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the US Operation Midnight Hammer confronted by Iran’s defensive Operation True Promise 3—despite achieving short-term tactical victories, represents a prof…
Azerbaijan is getting freaky with it. Like Myanmar I might have mere months left to learn how to present myself as a fake expert on the subject I posted a good analysis of it by the least creepy exmilitary analyst in /c/geopolitics. Not Marxist just more Mearsheimer-slop
You make me laugh, and I need that, so thanks! I'm sure your analyses are closer to accurate than my best guesses. I suppose what government or economic system states call themselves (or what media calls them) mean fa anymore. I'm not sure if we live in a post-truth world, or always have and it's just so glaringly obvious, only those really emotionally invested in their illusions and those without mental capacity to identify them (whether through overwork and other stresses or direct learning/developmental disabilities) insist otherwise. Maybe most fall somewhere between those points, I'm certainly not as informed as I prefer.
I'll have a look tonight or tomorrow. My project hours are all over the map, right now, which means my neighborhood and household obligations are, too.
Explaining his decision to travel to Venezuela for the commemoration, he said: “I was in France, preparing to return to the Congo, when I received a request to record a video for this tribute. But I didn’t hesitate—I told them I wouldn’t send a video; I would go in person. Venezuela is a country that has led a struggle similar to ours. For years, its leaders have fought for their people, just as Lumumba did to liberate the Congo from colonialism. I am certain that if Lumumba were alive today, he would be a brother to Simón Bolívar, a friend to Nasser, Nkrumah, Hugo Chávez, and all those who have dedicated their lives to justice and the liberation of their peoples.”
He didn't hesitate to go pick up a briefcase with money and talk this nonsense in Venezuela. Even the last sham elections are so rigged no one in South America accepted the results beyond the member of the axis of evil.
Actually you're being insulted with a rhetorical question, get it right next time. Ad hominem is saying an argument is invalid because of who is saying it.
You've got it the wrong way round, the axis of evil which is NATO did denounce the elections. Most of the rest of the world sent observers who confirmed the results.
Few exceptions, of course, as Lula seems to rather like how his ass feels on the fence and Boric hasn't found a boot big enough that he won't have a go at licking it.
There should be no veto power and states* that export violence and their proxies should have no place on any human rights councils.
He recalled his father’s words: “Independence is not a gift. We cannot import democracy or revolution; we must create our own. What works in the United States may not suit Burkina Faso. Venezuela has chosen its path, and each country must decide what is best for its people.”
If only the global West could innerstand and overstand this.
Yo, put up some context or you're just circle jerking. Not everyone knows those historical deep takes, everyone not in the know will dismiss this as some level of conspiracy theory without sauce
Okay but every time anyone posts anything historically accurate, .world goes "lies!” ffs, they're down to denying that h Hitler was defeated because of Russia and can't bring themselves to write the opening line of "First They Came," as a Lutheran pastor originally wrote it. Yes, we're not only that unaware of history, but that propagandized.
President Tinubu, who also travelled to Brazil for the summit, has been criticised for his response to the killings. Rather than a decisive security operation or national address, the President has urged Governor Alia to “engage in dialogue” with the attackers, an approach widely condemned as tone-deaf and dangerous.
Despite ongoing violence and humanitarian crises in Benue State, the state’s governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has sparked national outrage by attending the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, alongside President Bola Tinubu.
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Duck.ai is one of the few online places to chat with AI privately. Self-hosting your own AI model is a better option, but not everybody has the hardware for it. DuckDuckGo has made deals with the model providers to keep your chats private, so it's an easy option to recommend.
If you're like me, you probably clear your cookies a lot (or always browse in incognito). This means that any time you visit Duck.ai, you have to set all your settings again. One solution is to set Duck.ai as an exception to your browser data deletion, but that makes me uneasy. After getting fed up setting my preferred settings each time, I wanted to see if I could automate the process.
The Bookmarklet
Bookmarklets are essentially bookmarks in your bookmarks bar that, when clicked, run your own JavaScript code on whichever page you're visiting. This was a neat trick that some of my classmates used to edit pages when the Inspect Element was disabled on school computers.
I wrote a short bookmarklet that will automatically set my preferred settings in Duck.ai:
(Steps may vary between browsers) 1. Copy-paste the bookmarklet code above (including the part that says javascript:) 2. Right click on the bookmarks bar in your browser 3. Select "Add page..." 4. In the field that says "URL", paste the code you copied 5. Name the bookmarklet whatever you want, for example: Debloat Duck.ai 6. Click "Save" 7. Visit Duck.ai (which redirects to duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+A…) You must visit this page before running the bookmarklet, because bookmarklets can only run code on the page you're currently visiting. 8. Click on the bookmarklet you just created. This will run the code.
You should now have a distraction free, private chat.
Explanation
Duck.ai stores its settings in the browser's "local storage". If you open the Inspect Element (either by right clicking on the page and clicking "Inspect" or by pressing F12) and navigate to Application > Local Storage > https://duckduckgo.com/ you will see a list of settings and their corresponding values.
By default, these settings are a tad too distracting for my taste. The bookmarklet I made does the following: 1. Hides prompt suggestions 2. Dismisses the promo by setting the shown date to something impossible in the future 3. Disables using approximate location for responses 4. Collapses the sidebar 5. duckduckgo_settings doesn't actually do much, and the values there are, in fact, not documented on this page 6. Disables chat history 7. Sets the preferred model to Mistral Small 3, which is open source and has low moderation.
You can set your preferred settings before running the bookmarklet and edit the bookmarklet code according to your own settings.
The code then iterates through these settings, and sets each one. Then, finally, reloads the page to apply the settings.
Updates
This project is far too small to make an entire repository for it, so I will try to just update this post with any new code. For example, duckaiCanUseApproxLocation is a new setting that was added in the last few days.
You can load the script into violentmonkey (minus the last line because it kept refreshing the page) and it's applied automatically that way. You can also submit it to GreasyFork to make it searchable.
Personally I find chat models that don't provide sources to be completely useless, that's why I use Perplexity (occasionally).
I think you can ask duck for sources or links each time you want them, but it would make some sense for a search engine in particular to give the links in any case.
You can add &kbe=0 to the end of the URL when you search to disable it. If you know how to add custom search engines this is the easiest way.
Otherwise, you can add "kbe":"0" as a value inside the duckduckgo_settings parameter in the bookmarklet, like this:
'duckduckgo_settings': '{"description":"Each key is a setting documented in https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/settings/params/","kdcm":"6","kdcs":"0","kbe":"0"}',
I used the block element feature of Ublock, but I don't know if that works in incognito or if it blocks their cookies. I also grew tired of having to disable it but didn't consider the ramifications of making it invisible to me 🤔
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I don't understand how this is possible if this is a private, account free service.
Overall, I don't get what ddg gets out of this very expensive to offer service. Which means I don't teust its a way to privately use LLMs.
I don’t understand how this is possible if this is a private, account free service.
It's likely there in case (for example) you, in court, testified to using Duck.ai for illegal purposes. DuckDuckGo themselves would not be the ones dragging you to court, but they could get caught in the crossfire, so they want to avoid liability.
Overall, I don’t get what ddg gets out of this very expensive to offer service. Which means I don’t teust its a way to privately use LLMs.
These are the possible motives for each side:
DuckDuckGo gets to add AI to their service, which attracts users. DuckDuckGo is paid in sponsored results at the top of searches, so more users means more money.
The AI providers are willing to provide free/cheap service as a sort of sponsorship to attract users of their own. If you are using GPT on Duck.ai and decide you like it, you may be incentivized to use OpenAI's own service to chat with the better model, since the models on Duck.ai are not top of the line. It's the same thought process behind free tiers in services.
What about the third party (you the user), and fourth party (everyone whose creativity was fed into the machines, and everyone who has to accept your LLM generated slop like it's useful and/or contributing to the conversation)
This project is far too small to make an entire repository for it, so I will try to just update this post with any new code
If the size it's the only reason to not create a repository, you could just use something like gist.github.com, at least, it would be more accessible for anyone not on lemmy
Palestinian negotiators from Hamas have proposed a handful of amendments to a U.S.-promoted framework for a 60-day Gaza ceasefire agreement. According to a response that Hamas submitted to the U.S. and Israel and regional mediators from Qatar and Egypt, the Islamic resistance movement hopes the potential agreement will lead to an end to Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza that has lasted for 22 months. Obtained by Drop Site, the document is dated from July 4, when Hamas submitted its formal response to what President Donald Trump called the “final proposal.”
In its revisions to the Trump-backed draft, Hamas proposed stronger language in the framework to ensure that the initial 60-day truce be extended indefinitely—under a U.S. guarantee—until an agreement is reached on definitively ending Israel’s war against Gaza. It also wants Egypt and Qatar listed not only as mediators, but as guarantors of the agreement along with the U.S. “The mediators-guarantors guarantee the continuation of serious negotiations [on a permanent ceasefire] for an extended period until the two parties reach agreement, and the continuation of the [ceasefire and flow of aid] agreed upon in this framework,” Hamas’s draft asserted.
The original language contained more vague language and clauses, such as “if necessary,” and only placed the role of ensuring that negotiations continue on Egypt and Qatar, not the U.S. Hamas’s terms would make clear that the U.S. is responsible for Israel holding its fire during the 60-day initial truce and during subsequent negotiations for a long-term ceasefire.
OTTAWA - Tesla legitimately claimed thousands of electric vehicle rebates in the final weekend before the department suspended its rebate program in January, Transport Canada said on Friday.
Expect a steep learning curve even if you know Linux inside out. Don't assume things work the way they did on Arch (or most other distros). If your hardware doesn't work well, or you otherwise need some proprietary stuff, check out gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix. Good luck!
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Yep. Totally using nonguix. I'm trying out Guix for the reproducibility and system management, not (just) for the FOSS software.
From my initial research, I thought that Guix was only going to allow 100% FOSS software. But I've learned that's not the case. It's actually pretty easy to add additional channels in order to install non-FOSS software. The third-party channels integrate nicely!
I've not used Guix but I don't think any distro has anything close to number of desirable available packages as arch--- so be prepared for that. My ventures into debian, suse and fedora were made quite annoying by having to work around the many missing packages. Including user-facing applications, dependencies and background programs. I never quite got down with distrobox, maybe that's the cure.
this chart on wikipedia gives the impression that Debian has more packages but that's not the way it feels when you are looking for something. Maybe they have a lot of dot matrix printer libraries from 1992 or something which bring the number up.
Arch includes a lot of not-at-all-free packages (which it is impossible to distinguish in pacman or other tool as far as I can find), orphaned, new packages that haven't yet made it into other repos, and packages where no attempt has been made to submit them to other repos.
On arch I have virtually never had to go outside the repos for packages. It's very hard to give up once you are used to it. (Even though it's better to use properly libre/free stuff and other benefits of a more curated approach like security, stability and quality.)
The thing about Guix (and Nix) is that there doesnt need to be a package in the repos. You can either make your system automatically compile from source (which is how many AUR packages work) or use something like distrobox, bottles, flatpak to run extra software
You also need to source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh in order to get the desktop icons to show up in the GNOME app launcher. (Using guix home for that!)
Need to work on getting distrobox setup next. I was able to guix install distrobox, but it requires some extra configuration apparently.
Btw, here's the guix home configuration file I used to add the contents of flatpak.sh into my ~/.profile, in order to update the XDG_DATA_HOME env var.
Neat. Although, I wanted to go through the installation ~~pain~~ experience. Eventually, I'm hoping to run Guix on a server. I'm starting with my laptop first.
– Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land - I was trying to install on a Mac Mini and had to go nonguix pretty much right away. That kind of spoiled the whole effort.
– Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those 'no, this is where you don't want a closing brace' moments and my zen was blown out of the water.
I would have soldiered on, but personally I like Arch first and foremost because I can (and do) have a local repo by rsyncing a rotation of mirrors couple of times a week. Just in case the Internet dies one day, you know. I realised Guix was not really suitable for the apocalypse use case, so after that brace episode I decided to stick with what my spine already knows.
After all that is said – I really hope you fare better 😁
Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land ... had to go nonguix pretty much right away.
Yep, same here. I started with nonguix. I didn't realize it was easy to add additional channels.
Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.
Aaaah. I juuuust had this happen to me. Took me a bit to balance the parens again! 😂 Although, so far Scheme seems nicer than Nixlang. I've also had curiosity to learn a functional language, so Guix gives me a reason to learn about functional programming.
personally I like Arch first and foremost because I can (and do) have a local repo by rsyncing a rotation of mirrors couple of times a week.
Are these mirrors for prebuilt packages? If not, you should be able to pull from other channels, create your own channel and include all your packages while building them locally.
Sure, but then I'd be downloading every single source 'package' and compiling for both x86 and ARM - not exactly feasible. Keeping just the sources might be an option though. The point is to have the whole repo, not just the packages I use, so that in the SHTF scenario I can help others install Arch and any software they may need on their machines. Muhahaha, Arch will prevail 👻
I've also wanted to try out Guix for a while.. part of the reason I'm leaving a comment is just so I can recheck these posts later 😛
But when I do I for sure will start out from nonguix because I'm quite confident that my hardware won't be supported (I even have a recently purchased Wifi 7 card that relies on ath12k module that I'm quite sure won't be in the official Guix repo.. maybe I'd even need to compile it myself..)
I see in the nonguix readme that there's a way to generate an iso that includes already a nonguix kernel, so I'll have a look at that.
It even looks like you can create a writeable image to run from a USB thumbdrive, which looks very interesting, I gotta try that!
I've been burnt by Arch before which is what has got me into exploring other distros. I might ultimately end up again in Arch like you, who knows, but it looks like the way Guix works is well suited for hosting your own repo too.. I think I've seen before someone hosting their own Guix repo in github, including also a bunch of configuration for their system, which got me curious.
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I love it especially because of the guix shell and guix shell container for dev environment isolation. It is a whole different ecosystem from the ground up though so it's not an easy ride. But those two features make it worth it for me. Also it's GNU distro which imo is a plus.
guix shell and guix shell container for dev environment isolation
Yeah! This is one of the features I'm most interested in. I haven't gotten to using this feature yet, but I was curious about it.
Let's say I'm working on a project that requires Go, Node, maybe some C library, and GNU Make. Seems like I would be able to use guix shell for this, right? Great.
Now if a friend wanted to work on the project, could I share my guix shell configuration with him? (Assuming he's also a Guix user.)
I'm currently using distrobox.ini plus distrobox assemble for this kind of workflow, but of course this isn't totally reproducible.
Let's say I'm working on a project that requires Go, Node, maybe some C library, and GNU Make. Seems like I would be able to use guix shell for this, right? Great.
Iirc guix shell is for one off package or programs you want to test, say you want to quickly format a drive to exfat or so, when you exit the sub-shell, the installed packages are discarded
guix shell containers would work best for your scenario but I have little experience with them
yes, you would share with him guix manifest which is a file that specifies which packages should be present. What is important to note are inferiors which is a mechanism to version lock the packages.
thats it 😀 Now you need to pin package versions to guix versions via inferior so that you can share the manifest and be sure you have exact same stuff on the other machine. Otherwise the specified packages get updated everytime you update your system. I learned that the hard way by having to wait for latex to download everytime I updated my system.
You need to edit your /etc/config.scm or where ever you store your system config. Import the right modules/services, add your user to cgroup, add iptables-service-type to your services, add rootless-podman-service-type and configure it.
(use-service-modules containers networking …)
(use-modules (gnu system accounts)) ;for 'subid-range'
(operating-system
;; …
(users (cons (user-account
(name "alice")
(comment "Bob's sister")
(group "users")
;; Adding the account to the "cgroup" group
;; makes it possible to run podman commands.
(supplementary-groups '("cgroup" "wheel"
"audio" "video")))
%base-user-accounts))
(services
(append (list (service iptables-service-type)
(service rootless-podman-service-type
(rootless-podman-configuration
(subgids
(list (subid-range (name "alice"))))
(subuids
(list (subid-range (name "alice")))))))
%base-services)))
Then of course you run guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm.
Now you can do a simple guix install distrobox. If you install distrobox first, you don't end up using rootless podman and you run into more problems that way. (You have to use distrobox --root.)
After that command, everything should work like normal. Enjoy. 🍻
distrobox create --image docker.io/library/archlinux:latest --name arch-dev
distrobox enter arch-dev
Btw, here's how you configure HiDPI for GNOME. Unfortunately, my laptop has a hydeepeeay display, so it's not fully compatible with Linux. (It's 3840x2160, so at least 2x scaling is possible, hypothetically.)
Commands from the Arch Wiki, but also adds cursor scaling:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "[{'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor', <2>}, {'Gtk/CursorThemeSize', <48>}]"
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
The default GNOME configuration is some how missing that. I didn't have to do that in Arch, but I do in Guix. IDK. Anyway, if you don't run those commands certain apps will be tiny, including a tiny mouse cursor.
I want to love Guix (both the package manager and the distro). I want to love Scheme. But I can never find any good tutorials for Scheme and using it with Guix. The GNU documentation is more of a reference than a tutorial. I use Emacs on the daily, and I just can't get into Scheme.
A preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators said on Saturday the fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad last month showed the plane engines' fuel switches shifting from run to cutoff within seconds of each other.
Israel’s war in Gaza is chipping away at so much of what we – in the United States but also internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict. It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other.
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
Yeah but alliances like NATO and the UN weren't built to prevent genocide. They were built to protect certain power structures and to keep certain nations in control. Stopping genocide was sometimes useful in accomplishing this but nothing more. They never actually cared about people and never will.
That's so true. 30 years ago the US, with the help of it's vassals, hid its Imperial wars and resource extraction under the banner of globalization and human rights.
The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has been linked to a project widely condemned for proposing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, involving a sweeping postwar redevelopment of the besieged Strip.
Although TBI insists it neither endorsed nor authored the slide, two of its staff members participated in discussions related to the initiative.
The Tony Blair Institute was founded by the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2016 to allegedly promote global policy reform and combat extremism.
Plans include a "Trump Riviera" and infrastructure named after wealthy Gulf monarchs, according to documents reviewed by the Financial Times (FT) and revealed on Sunday.
Boeing reached a settlement Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to the devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets.
The five-hour incursion included a landing operation involving several helicopters and vehicles, and was described as ‘the first of its kind’ in the area
BANGKOK (AP) — China said Sunday that European medical device companies will be barred from selling to the Chinese government as a countermeasure for the European Union’s restrictions on the sale of similar products from China.
After the commission found that China has asymmetrical trade barriers for EU medical devices, it recommended some actions. For the past year EU was trying to negotiate China opening their medical market to the same level EUs market is open to China. It failed.
More symmetrical tarrifs incoming (from both sides).
Surveillance footage released by the DOJ to support its claim that Epstein's suicide was not suspicious contains metadata suggesting the video was edited.
Question is in the title: What is the supposed workflow for vanilla Gnome for keyboard users?
Is there any video/design documents which explain, how the workflow is supposed to be?
Assume, I have a full screen web browser on workspace 1. Now I want to have a terminal... I hit the super-key, type terminal, hit enter ... and then I have a terminal which does not start maximized on workspace 1, so I can either maximize the terminal and switch between the applications, arrange them side by side... or I can navigate to workspace 2, start the terminal there (the terminal will not start maximized again on an empty workspace 2) ... and switch between the two workspaces (AFAIK there are no hotkeys specified by default to navigate directly to a workspace)...
What I simply do not understand: Does the vanilla Gnome workflow expect you to use mouse and keyboard? Like hit super, use mouse to go to next workspace, type terminal, click to maximize terminal (or use super-up)?
It just seems like a lot of work/clicks/keys to achieve something simple. And to my understanding Gnome expects you to use basically every application with a full screen window anyway, so why does it not open a new application on the next free workspace full screen by default?
Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts from Settings will show all the available keyboard shortcuts. You can also create your own custom keybindings
These seem like a lot of personal design complaints rather than actual issues with GNOME itself.
And to my understanding Gnome expects you to use basically every application with a full screen window anyway
You misunderstood, that's not what GNOME expects at all. Your app not maximizing on startup is because the app doesn't maximize on startup. GNOME doesn't have a setting to maximize all apps by default since that should be the app's responsibility.
If you want the auto-tiling window manager experience, you'll need to install an extension (Paperwm, tiling shell, Forge, Pop shell). Extensions are like applications, there's no shame in using them.
As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.
As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.
U.S. Congress members from both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would grant President Donald Trump the authority to allow Israel access to B‑2 stealth bombers and bunker‑busting bombs if it becomes clear that Iran is continuing to develop nuclear weapons.
According to the proposed legislation—currently awaiting approval—this would enable unprecedented operational cooperation, including deployment, equipment and training, but without transferring permanent ownership or direct control to Israel.
Under bill submitted to the US House of Representatives, Trump would be allowed to authorize Israel to use B-2 bombers and bunker-busting bombs if it is determined that Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons
I imagine this so Israel can continue attacking Iran and the US can distance themselves from the political fallout, while still reaping the 'benefit' of Iran's military capabilities being damaged.
Gotta wonder when Russia and China will decide to be more open in this new cold war and hand larger weapons to Iran.
Russia seems to be actively colluding with Israel as it refuses to sell any anti-air defense systems and fighter jets to Iran. Whereas Russia is happily selling to India and Turkey.
Not sure what is happening with China. The Iranian defense minister went to China after their war with Israel was over
Mothra
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in reply to Mothra • • •'Brain is peanut butter': Trump mocked for calling Japanese leader 'Mr. Japan'
David Edwards (Raw Story)jonathan7luke
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in reply to jonathan7luke • • •xorollo
in reply to jonathan7luke • • •Have y'all seen the clip where a reporter at alligator aushwitz asks him how long detainees will be held there, and he doesn't understand the question, gets it repeated, and then still doesn't understand so starts rambling about how much he loves Florida and will be there as long as he can. He also takes the opportunity to say the oval office wasn't well cared for, but he's cleaned up and made it a "beautiful diamond".
xcancel.com/atrupar/status/194…
whyNotSquirrel
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hOrni
in reply to Mothra • • •Mothra
in reply to hOrni • • •ExtremeDullard
in reply to Mothra • • •Sorry but he is totally your president. You can't be in favor of the democratic process of elections and then distance yourself from the outcome.
You as a nation voted for Trump. He's your president. You own the consequences along with all Americans.
You should, if only to know when the ICE Gestapo might come knocking at your door or when it's time to flee because it's too dangerous to stay in the US.
TJA!
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •ExtremeDullard
in reply to TJA! • • •Elvith Ma'for
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •No, were ashamed that our species is collectively capable of voting for a guy like him. We'd love to point a finger at Americans and imitate Nelson with a "Ha Ha!" of pure Schadenfreude (and maybe even a meme of "That's the worst president they've elected in the history of their nation! - That's the worst president they've elected in the history of their nation so far!" or watch from the distance saying "He's about to do something stupid")
But honestly, we just can't laught at Americans while they're not only affecting and destroying their lifes but also try to drag down as many others world wide as they can.
Mothra
in reply to TJA! • • •Elvith Ma'for
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Now I'm just sitting here waiting for a reply along the lines of:
No, he's not my president - I'm from Europe/Asia/Africa/South America
Hexarei
in reply to Elvith Ma'for • • •blipblip [they/them]
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]
in reply to blipblip [they/them] • • •CloutAtlas [he/him]
in reply to blipblip [they/them] • • •"You mess with Michael Bay and you mess with America. I want you guys out of my country by tomorrow morning."
"But this is Japan!"
"Every country in the world belongs to America"
Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Not my president.
I’m a kremlin agent
GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •ComradeSharkfucker
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •PolandIsAStateOfMind
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •ComradeSharkfucker
in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • • •ByteJunk
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Mothra
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •neomachino
in reply to Mothra • • •Hyacin (He/Him)
in reply to Mothra • • •Not initial replier, but I too immediately assumed you were an American who didn't vote for him.
Likely because of all the, people, we had running around Canada for five or so years saying "Trudeau isn't my Prime Minister!", amongst other more colourful anti-Trudeau slogans.
obnomus
in reply to Mothra • • •BarneyPiccolo
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •NuraShiny [any]
in reply to BarneyPiccolo • • •BarneyPiccolo
in reply to NuraShiny [any] • • •There is no such thing as the Republican Party. It is 100% dead, and replaced by the MAGA Party. The Republicans may not have cheated, but cheating and corruption is the MAGA brand, and they can't help themselves.
Even if every poll showed MAGA winning by 30 points, they'd STILL cheat, because they wouldn't know how to NOT cheat.
NuraShiny [any]
in reply to BarneyPiccolo • • •Ah okay so it doesn't matter that the Dems are ineffective stooges who are doing all the work they can not to get elected, got it.
Like, if the MAGA party cheats so much, how come they win? Yes, they cheat, but bow come they are allowed to do that? Shouldn't their so-called opposition stop them? How come that doesn't happen? How come that they only seem to continue the politics of the MAGA people, like Biden did after Trump and like Kamala promised to do if elected?
You have a child's understanding of politics. Realize the political class as a whole is not out for your benefit and the game is fucking rigged.
forrcaho
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in reply to forrcaho • • •nul42
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Darren
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •obnomus
in reply to Mothra • • •Mothra
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in reply to Mothra • • •distantsounds
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •fittedsyllabi
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •Greyghoster
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •Rekonok
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •mrjapan.jp/images/2023/13_2023…
NGL their prime minister is cute
ComradeSharkfucker
in reply to Rekonok • • •But_my_mom_says_im_cool
in reply to Rekonok • • •KairuByte
in reply to But_my_mom_says_im_cool • • •But_my_mom_says_im_cool
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •Dultas
in reply to But_my_mom_says_im_cool • • •MetalMachine
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •Darleys_Brew
in reply to MetalMachine • • •Almacca
in reply to Darleys_Brew • • •Darleys_Brew
in reply to Almacca • • •Almacca
in reply to Darleys_Brew • • •Alcoholicorn
in reply to Darleys_Brew • • •He has a way with words, but only for the dumbest purposes. "This has not been touched by human hands" -Trump Describing McDonalds.
"Theres nowhere to hide in the oval office. It doesnt have corners"
Lovable Sidekick
in reply to MetalMachine • • •rickdg
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in reply to daw • • •LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •小莱卡
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in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •billwashere
in reply to crusa187 • • •folaht
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •Is that the same person as Mr. Orange, aka Oraanutan-san?
Lovable Sidekick
in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •Legendary bodybuilder champion 'Mr Japan' who Arnold Schwarzenegger envied dies aged 78
Charlotte Owen (Daily Star)ComradeSharkfucker
in reply to Lovable Sidekick • • •RDAM_Whiskers
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in reply to RDAM_Whiskers • • •laranis
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LePoisson
in reply to LandedGentry • • •Mostly that at least right now there's hope for midterms to change things in Congress and then the presidential election to get Trump out. Right now we still have the trappings of a Republic. I think if elections got suspended all belief in a peaceful solution will be erased and people will react.
You have a point though, bread and circuses go a long way towards kowtowing the population. That and the risk of death at the hands of the state. I don't know where the line is that people will readily accept potentially getting shot especially if they're in white man suburbia.
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in reply to ComradeSharkfucker • • •I’m terrible with names. I fully admit it. But if I forget a name I just ask “what was his name again?” or something along those lines. A normal person would just keep saying “the prime minister”, or I don’t know, just make the effort to remember the names of major world leaders since it’s your fucking job. Not Mr. Japan OR Tim Apple.
Why some people think he’s intelligent is beyond me.
Gowron_Howard
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in reply to Entertainmeonly • • •I honestly think so.
Without Trump's giant ego & do what I say because of who I am personality running the show I think there would be a lot more scrutiny on his actions and less "gotta do what daddy says".
Glytch
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Coincidentally, dbzer0 blocks Lemmygrad.ml as well.
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