Corbyn-Sultana party could draw level with Labour, new polling suggests
The survey, conducted by pollsters Find Out Now, indicates that a Corbyn-Sultana party could significantly dent Labour’s share of the vote. Of the 650 people polled, 15% said they would support the new party, matching Labour’s 15% share.
The greatest level of support for a potential new party comes from those aged 18–29, with 33% saying they would back a new left-wing party — ahead of Reform UK (24%) and Labour (18%).
Sultana, MP for Coventry South, resigned the Labour whip earlier this month to focus on leading a new party with the former Labour leader. There has not yet been a formal launch, but Mr Corbyn has pledged the party will “be for justice”.
Corbyn-Sultana party could draw level with Labour, new polling suggests
A new poll suggests that a party jointly led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn could be level with Labour in national voting intention.Connor Hand (LBC)
In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health
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The first data center for a $500-billion artificial intelligence project arrives in small-town Texas, alongside a potentially harmful natural gas plant.
The first data center in the Stargate project—a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiative backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank—is being built in a surprising location: Abilene.
The data center is set to cost $1.1 billion, and, to hear local officials say it, Abilene and its 130,000 residents have just struck gold. “It will impact the rest of the economy—our restaurants, our homebuilders—with that many new people coming in and taking these jobs,” Mayor Weldon Hurt has said.
What few headlines mention, however, is the project’s most troubling feature: a $500 million on-site natural gas plant that will power the data center—and pollute the surrounding community. When it comes to the Stargate data center and power plant in Abilene, the economic impacts are overstated, and the health effects are under-acknowledged. We must push for cleaner energy alternatives before Abilene’s residents feel the consequences.
Much of the Stargate project’s local support stems from its promise to bring jobs to a region that has long been considered part of small-town Texas. And while the economic potential of the Stargate project has understandably generated excitement, the long-term benefits may be far more limited than promised. Building a data center requires a lot of labor, but maintaining one does not—which explains why, despite the 1,500 people currently working on construction, the project has only promised 357 permanent positions. Undeniably, the over 100,000 jobs that OpenAI promised for the overall Stargate project seems fantastical.
Meanwhile, Crusoe, the developer of the data center, has been granted an 85 percent property tax break on billions of dollars of infrastructure—causing Abilene to forgo an enormous amount of potential revenue. Effectively, Abilene has traded its property tax profits away for job creation promises that will likely fall well short of expectations.
Worse yet, after they realize that the promise of job opportunities won’t materialize, Abilene residents will be left with the lasting burden of pollution from the power plant. The on-site natural gas power plant has been authorized to emit 1.6 million tons of greenhouse gases and 14 tons of hazardous air pollutants per year. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, pollutants emitted from power plants can have serious environmental and health consequences.
What makes Abilene’s case especially concerning is how close the plant will be to where people live. Densely populated neighborhoods are less than two miles away, and some homes and buildings are within half a mile. Living so close to a natural gas plant has been shown to have tangible impacts on population health. A 15-year study published in Environmental Health Perspectives found that people living near a power plant experience an 11 percent increase in asthma rates, a 15 percent increase in acute respiratory infections, and a 17 percent increase in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for residents in the same ZIP code.
Despite these risks, given Abilene’s relative isolation from major economic development, local and state officials are excited to see just about any large-scale investment. Governor Greg Abbott praised the construction, declaring that “Texas is the home of innovation.”
In their excitement, officials appear too willing to make costly sacrifices. “We kind of [have to] scratch and fight for everything good that comes our way,” former city manager Robert Hanna said, justifying the property tax break granted to the data center. But that “scratch and fight” should not require Abilene to trade away its tax revenue and, most importantly, the health of its residents.
Looking back, it’s no surprise that OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank decided to build the first Stargate data center and power plant in Abilene. They needed a semi-rural community where pushback would be limited. They needed local political support in a city where environmental concerns don’t sway decision-making. They needed their permits approved in a Texas regulatory environment where energy investment historically has overshadowed concerns about community health.
If this natural gas plant proceeds, Abilenians could face increased risks of asthma, lung infections, and other respiratory diseases. While permits for the natural gas plant have already been approved, the fight is far from over. Regulators still have the authority to require stricter emissions controls, mandate independent environmental reviews and audits, and increase clean energy quotas for the data center.
Most importantly, the public—especially Abilene’s own residents—deserve to know the full health impacts of the natural gas plant being built in their community.
They have the right to decide how much they are willing to give up for 357 promised jobs.
Trump believes Russia will win
Trump believes Russia will win – Politico
The US president sees Russia’s larger economy and military as decisive factors in the Ukraine conflict, according to a White House officialRT
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Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportationSam Levin (The Guardian)
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Aha.
Are you fucking stupid? Ard and Zdf dont even fucking belong to any media group. They are owned by germany.
Bild belongs to axel-springer, so on and so forth
Or in german, since I have no english words for the dogshit you are talking right now
Wurdest du a bissl zu oft vom Wickeltisch geschmissen? Hast du beim letzten mal Popeln ein wenig Hirngewebe mitgenommen? Haben deine Eltern die Muttermilchdosen mit dem Klarlackkonzentrat vertauscht?
sure and RT are angels with news brought from heavens of Putin
Zdf Ard are state media funded by each citizen to be neutral and have to verify their sources. They fuck up sometimes but doing overall a good job.
Bild can go to hell as they don't have enough journalistic standards and their former employees join nius fake news network firing for right wing agenda.
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My MAGA family member sent me an instagram post of a screenshot of a Mayo Clinic article headline that said measles prevents some forms of cancer, so we should just let it run wild.
Ignore the fact that the natural form of measles has the risk of causing too many complications and long term negative health effects to be considered effective, and the cancer prevention research is on genetically modified strain specific to fighting cancer cells. Naturally, the instagram post did not link to the full article.
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Honestly, Do we even need the caffeine?
Since quitting caffeine, I've felt a lot better. I used to wake up feeling like shit, drink my caffeine of choice, feel mid until it wears off, drink more, feel more mid, repeat, have trouble falling asleep.
Now I just wake up feeling mid, and go to sleep just fine. Big difference is that I save a bunch of money, and have less anxiety, and irritability, from all the stimulants.
I don’t bother with the stuff either, to be fair. Generally it just stops someone getting more tired, especially if it starts to be more of addiction than anything else.
But I guess it all goes back to the idea I mentioned of people being afraid of the concept of not having 100% energy at all times of day. Instead of trying to find solutions we should instead be asking why executives and fuckers like that demand unsustainable hours from people, especially as study after study shows that a four-day work week with six-hour days is hugely productive compared to what we consider normal.
I have…thoughts.
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I would say the drugs is a class thing…drugs are classy if youre rich, trashy if you’re poor.
I’m not USAian, but still.
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This true. Drugs are another tool to oppress people. The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
It’s been well over a decade since I had to take a drug test for a job.
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The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
The more money someone makes, it's also the less likely they're working a job where people can be seriously harmed or killed by the direct, immediate effects of their behavior on the job. Jim from Sales being on smack is less likely to cause injury or death in the short term than forklift driver Klaus being on smack.
Drug tests penalize people for what they do on their own time. They’re a stick used to beat the proles.
Someone blasted at work is a problem. Klaus getting blasted off shift isn’t.
Secondary affects are probably worse, and more diabolical. Why kill one person when you could kill millions! Klaus running over Andy while blasted is less evil than the guy who put lead in gasoline.⛽️ Sure it’s easier to imagine, but one tear doesn’t make an ocean.
Poor people are "crack heads", "junkies", and "drunks".
Rich people "have fun at parties", "Suffer from opioid abuse disorder", or are a "lush"...
Same shit, different tax bracket.
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If only we had an anti-vaccine vaccination. Take away the polio immunity for those troglodyte fucks. Let them suffer their own undoing.
Rather than have the affect their kids.
Are you kidding? .... it was the great old days for Straight White Christian Men ... they were free to be completely racist aholes, treat women like slaves, have as many children as they wanted and not take care of any of them, have the world at their feet, make a ton of money just for being who they were and they were accountable to no one.
The reason why the past was so great for a small segment of society was that it was so shitty for 99% of rest of the world
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I'm a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.
I don't understand how people can want to live in that world.
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Look what MAGA did, they pushed the narrative that the white man is getting pushed out of society. Even though the United States is mostly White Christians. They just believed what these bitches told them, didn't bother to look at facts.
That's the real crime.
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Straight White Christian MenStraight White "Christian" Men*
Straight White
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Christianity is Christianity.
What some people do based on a misguided and uninformed interpretation of Christianity is their own decisions masked behind Christianity.
Most Americans aren't Christian scholars, id wager most haven't even studied the Bible themselves, but listen to whatever their preacher tells them.
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- Boomer: I miss being young
- GenX: I miss being young
- Millennial: I miss being young
- GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money
As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren't fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.
I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.
There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn't have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren't that serious.
Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I'll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial
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Ever since the "Nobody knows how to fix a ~~car~~ computer except a ~~Boomer~~ Millennial" memes started trending, we've surrendered our "Better than that" card to GenZ.
Millennials are as vulnerable to this crap as anyone else.
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What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?
Older generations bitch about "damn kids these days don't respect their elders" ever since at least Socrates.
The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.
This is the way.
You're not special.
Why would it matter if they're genz/alpha? They are describing observed trends.
What in their comment has anything to do with people shouting respect their elders? Or younger people thinking old people are too nostalgic? It seems the opposite if anything, more based on older people's nostalgia for their time and younger people internalizing that, not fighting against it.
When did they claim to be special?
Tfw you were born too late to get blown up in Korea
I dunno, man... Cocain in soft-drinks and being able to support a family with house and car on a single income?
And it's not like we're rid of drug addicts, wife beaters or anything else nowadays...
A tough choice for sure.
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On the other hand:
- Many of the pro-worker policies from the New Deal are still in place, and my union is strong
- The owner of that factory over there is in the 90% tax bracket, isn't it great how he's paying society back for his good fortune?
- Every other major economic power in the world was just absolutely flattened in a war, and our country wasn't touched
- Because our country was relatively safe during the war, the best and brightest migrated here, and we're now benefiting from their ideas and inventions
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Yup, the 1950s was only better for white people, but there's a reason that white people look back on it with fondness.
But, I'd guess that even for black people it was better than the 1930s. When the economy shinks, they're the first to lose jobs. When it grows they're the last to get them. In the 1950s things were booming so my guess is that black unemployment was low. Still, for working class white males the 1950s may have been a peak, for most other people things have just been getting better every year since then.
Imagine how good it could be if everyone got some of the things working class whites got in the 1950s: strong unions, good labour protections, high tax rates on the ultra rich, etc.
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christians thought that left-handedness was "sinister" and associated to the devil, so they made it illegal.
Edit: i know it sounds like a joke, but it is not. this is not the onion. that's the actual reason.
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I can't get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
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Back in my day, we could drink gasoline right out of the pump. If you were feeling ill, you just head over to the nearby asbestos wall and give it a good lick.
Then you go out and yell racist shit and put women in their place.
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Yeah, but we did tax the everloving fuck out of the grotesquely wealthy, which made for a stronger middle class.
That was before they realized they could just pay our traitorous politicians pocket change to lower their tax rate.
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When you get older, pretty sure you’re going to say the same thing….
“Man, the 2020’s were so nice, such a simpler time…. Back when genocide was in vogue and child molesters controlled the world.”
Lavrov accuses Ukraine of abandoning peace talks
Lavrov accuses Ukraine of abandoning peace talks
By rejecting the Istanbul format, Kiev is displaying “disregard for its own citizens,” according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey LavrovRT
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Therefore: no.. I don’t read murican news.
However as a native russian speaker I know what horrendous lies that MonkeyDPutin is telling his folks
Russia's Game: Shooting Down US-Made Missiles With Ease
Russia's Game: Shooting Down US-Made Missiles With Ease
Donald Trump may let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with more ATACMS missiles. Is it another ‘game changer’?Sputnik International
Zelenskyy changes the government of Ukraine to get closer to Trump
Zelenskyy changes the government of Ukraine to get closer to Trump – WP
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reshuffling his government to improve relations with the administration of US President Donald Trump. This was reported in the Washington Post (WP).newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The warning was delivered to Karim Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defence lawyer at the court who told Khan he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor and, according to a note of the meeting lodged on file at the ICC and seen by Middle East Eye, was "authorised" to make him a proposal that would allow Khan to "climb down the tree".
This, it was suggested, would allow Israel to access the details of the allegations, which it could not do at the time, and challenge them in private - without the outcome being made public.
Kaufman told MEE: "I do not deny that I told Mr Khan that he should be looking for a way to extricate himself from his errors. I am not authorised to make any proposals on behalf of the Israeli government nor did I."
ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was warned in May that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were not withdrawn, he and the ICC would be "destroyed".David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The warning was delivered to Karim Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defence lawyer at the court who told Khan he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor and, according to a note of the meeting lodged on file at the ICC and seen by Middle East Eye, was "authorised" to make him a proposal that would allow Khan to "climb down the tree".
This, it was suggested, would allow Israel to access the details of the allegations, which it could not do at the time, and challenge them in private - without the outcome being made public.
Kaufman told MEE: "I do not deny that I told Mr Khan that he should be looking for a way to extricate himself from his errors. I am not authorised to make any proposals on behalf of the Israeli government nor did I."
ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was warned in May that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were not withdrawn, he and the ICC would be "destroyed".David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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At the time of the meeting, Khan was facing investigation over sexual misconduct claims. Two weeks later Khan stepped down on indefinite leave following the publication by the Wall Street Journal of new and more serious sexual assault allegations.
I obviously don't know anything about the veracity of the sexual misconduct or sexual assault allegations, but the timing of this stuff makes it seem like Israel is at least involved in raising these allegations. And it's exactly the sort of tactics that would likely be used to carry out such a threat.
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Holidays in the Lake District
I recently went on a holiday trip to the Lake District in England, staying a week in Windermere. This was a really nice break, and it’s a wonderful place to explore.
The towns of Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere are lovely to explore, with plenty of nice places to eat out at. La Trattoria and Jintana in the town centre of Bowness are particularly good. The bus routes connecting the towns nearby, and with stops making walking routes accessible outwith the towns, are all fairly frequent and quite cheap to use. Walking in the towns in OK, but the traffic can be quite bad, and I really feel that the whole area would benefit from some modern traffic reduction schemes. There are a few cruises around the lakes that are a bit expensive, and a cheaper frequent ferry service to get across for walks or cycles.
I did two long distance walks over a whole day. I started with a clockwise walk around the lake, starting at Windermere, taking the ferry across, and hiking up Claife Heights, then continuing round to Ambleside. I stopped off at Wray Castle, which unfortunately has been closed for renovations. The views from Claife Heights gave some very nice vistas of the pikes to the west, and the air force exercises that take place over the lakes, while I had a picnic lunch.
The walking routes on the west side of Lake Windermere are fairly good, with lots of segregated pathways for cycles and hikers, but there are quite a few areas where inexplicably you have to rejoin a very busy carriageway which makes for some unpleasant negotiations with traffic.
Later in the week I did a longer walk starting with a bus up to Troutbeck, where I hiked along to High Street, and then back along the hiking trail to Windermere. This walk was less pleasant than the first as I spent most of the several hours stuck in cloud cover. The path is well marked so as long as I didn’t stray I couldn’t get lost, but it did mean that I missed out on the nice views, only getting a small glimpse of the valleys nearby at the very top of the trail.
I managed to see a lot of dragonfly and damselfly, and even a far off glimpse of a red kite. There were a lot of sheep, and a few deer, up the mountains.
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Jeffrey Sachs: End of the Western-Centric World & Rise of BRICS
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Swapping from Win10 on laptop
I have an old laptop that I use as a Minecraft server as well as running RPG campaigns during game night. I'm getting tired of Windows 10 and I'm looking for a good replacement. I don't have a lot of experience with Linux lately, the last time I did anything with it was maybe 10 years or so ago and I used Ubuntu, which I've read here is maybe not a good choice any longer. Stats of laptop are below. Recommendations are appreciated, thanks.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.70 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro K2100M (2 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (113 MB)
What program are you using for your rpg campaigns?
Minecraft server is fairly universally supported.
All of these can be run on any Linux distro. Dropbox is probably a better choice than Google Drive as Google drive doesn't have an official Linux app (but you can get it working beyond just using it in a Web browser if its a must).
I'd go.with Linux Mint as it's well supported but any point release distro will serve your needs well. For example Fedora KDD or OpenSuSE Leap, Debian etc. I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu.
+1 for fedora kde
I've tried dozens of distros this year. Kept arch for my personal use and fedora for shared. Fedora was the easiest to setup with everything working as they should out of the "box".
unless you use a touchscreen, don't install gnome
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Or the current Debian testing, which will become stable soon. If you have experience with a Ubuntu from 10 years ago, you might know about apt already. If not, the package manager is already integrated into gnome-software. Additionally you can easily enable Flathub for flatpak and install packages using gnome-software afterwards.
And yes, I would avoid Ubuntu on the desktop because of snap and other weird choices for defaults.
On the server however my experiences with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 were not bad. But if it were my choice I would go Debian stable for servers.
If you want to do less maintenance, Fedora has good defaults and will have major updates twice a year. But, if you don't want to get custom to new things on your machine that often, Debian is my recommendation.
Only if you have too much time, try Gentoo. I've used it for more than 15 years on the desktop besides Debian on Raspberries.
It's relevant for a few reasons with regard to new users:
1) Snap is SLOW
2) Snap takes up a massive amount of space
Switching somebody with 256GB of storage to Ubuntu and pointing them to the Gonna software store to install whatever they want is just asking for confusion and problems.
What happened to all my disk space?
Why does it take 8 seconds for a browser to start?
These are new users who expect things to operate as they've known them to operate coming from Windows or MacOS. Ubuntu is just problematic to that point of view.
I've switched hundreds of desktop users in the past few years, and the above expectations and experience is what made me switch to Fedora.
Ubuntu is problematic at current.
You're not getting it...
A 125MB package like Firefox has up to 5 versions by default kept under the Snap system. Do this 10x across different packages, and suddenly you're missing a lot of storage you can't account for.
Second, SNAP IS JUST SLOW. People don't like when it takes 5-10 seconds to launch a very simple app. Let's not even get into the performance being absolutely horrendous when you need direct access to memory or GPU. It's not what people want.
Last, your problem with Nvidia drivers lies with Nvidia themselves. I run a cluster of a thousand instances which never hiccup on the Nvidia server+CUDA drivers.
Desktop is a shit show, and that's their fault. Don't blame your misunderstanding of these two things to be the fault of the distro.
Oh no 1gb of space is being used windows users totally care about that as they go from an OS that out of the box takes 100gb to one that takes 30gb. Thats pretending what you said is true because Snap doesnt store 5 versions by default it stores two. Secondly the common runtimes are shared between applications and versions so the amount of extra space when storing multiple versions is minor also distro packaging also stores multiple versions by default 3 if I recall correctly for dnf.
I think the fact that you think a win10 user cares more about an app taking a few seconds longer to open on first load than their GPU driver being unstable(from a new user perspective) is everything. Yes! the driver is nvidia's fault but its also fedora intentionally choosing to not ship it out of the box. Many other distro's do this so nvidia users dont have to go through the hassle of foss drivers and them breaking every kernel update.
Also I dont blame fedora for this, fedora doesnt target new users and as a fedora user I like that they aim to ship a fully foss system and I think they make it easy to include properitary packages if thats something you want. However its pointless to point someone to a distro where you have to then give them a bunch of extra steps to enable basic functionality when there are plenty of distros that work out of the box.
For a new user one of the ublue spins is a good choice. They get the base fedora experience with nvidia gpu's sorted out of the box and flatpak.
You apparently don't deal with actual end-users, so let me inform you...they absolutely fucking care.
You seem to keep skipping the part where SNAP IS 10X SLOWER.
Get lost with your lazy argument.
I decided to go with Linux mint. After installing it alongside windows, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?
Link from boot repair: paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/
Did you nuke the whole disk? Just 1 big Linux partition?
Try enabling/disabling Secure Boot.
That's not entirely true. Snap is a good reason to avoid Ubuntu as you're not given the choice whether day to day apps like Firefox are a native app or snap app. You can only have snap versions. The lack of choice in having a slower less efficient version of apps forced on users without official alternatives is a good enough reason for people to recommend avoiding Ubuntu.
That is regardless of all the commercial and proprietary concerns people have.
That does not apply to Ubuntu based system like Mint where users are given choices and still benefit from other aspects of the Ubuntu ecosystem.
I don't disagree that snaps aren't the best thing but Ubuntu does allow you to turn off auto updates now if you want and although it took a little extra setup, I also use the .deb version of Firefox right now. It works well. I'm running Kubuntu 24.04.
For servers especially, Ubuntu can be a really good option. I've heard some people actually like snaps for servers because the auto update so its one less this to worry about. Yea you can setup a script to do that too but its a nice to have for some folks.
All that said, its not for everyone, but for servers I think Ubuntu is a good option just for compatibility alone, not to mention the documentation, tutorials, etc.
Thats just my opinion though.
If it is FUD, can you please point out the factually inaccurate claim?
Actually, let’s just walk through the claims made.
- Ubuntu does not give you a choice between Firefox as a Snap or as a traditional deb package
Fact check: it does not (only Snap is provided)
- The Snap package is slower and takes up more space than the deb package
Fact check: it is and it does
- Other Ubuntu based distros, like Mint, replace Snaps with deb packages
Fact check: they do
“Wild”
Other information:
On Ubuntu, you can get a deb package directly from Mozilla. Not a big deal but that statement made in the post is true.
Putting "company things" in quotes like you don't believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down...
Ubuntu is fine for very beginners, but don't lie and say "it's fine", only to have any competent user discover
very quickly that snaps take precedence over deb, snaps will be reenabled on minor release upgrades, even if you disabled them, ubuntu's built-in NVIDIA install support has become abysmal, ubuntu has recently made the choice to fall out of step with its own supported DEs with regard to xorg support, etc.
Putting “company things” in quotes like you don’t believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down…
That's not true. I believe them. I just don't care.
I personally generally recommend Mint as a good starting distro. It is widely used, which means lots of support readily found online. It also has some of the benefits of Ubuntu without having the Snap forced on users. It also generally works well on a wide range of systems including lower powered systems due to its selection of desktops.
Your laptop is decent and I'd personally be running a slick desktop on that, specifically KDE. But alot of that comes down to personal preferences, and Mint isn't the best KDE desktop as it's not a main desktop for it (although it is available).
However once you get to grips with the basics of Linux I think other distros offer better more focused benefits for different user groups. There are lots of choices such as Gaming focused distros, rolling release vs point release distros, slow long term projects like Debian vs bleeding edge focused projects, immutable systems etc.
I personally use OpenSuSE Tumbleweed because it's cutting edge, but well tested prior to updates, with a good set of system tools in YaST, and decently ready for gaming and desktop use. I also like that it is European. But that may not be a good fit for your specific use case. Leap, the OpenSuSE point release distro would be better - a nice KDE desktop with a reliable release schedule and a focus on stability over cutting edge.
What software do you use for RPG campaigns? Is it just PDFs and word processors, or do you use a an online VTT? It should mostly be fine, but I figured I should ask.
Also, what are you doing in terms of the Minecraft Server? While I think most support Linux, there could (not certainly are) be weird caveats depending on the server.
To be fair Ubuntu is still okay especially starting out, it's one of the more polished distros with a ton of online documentation when you need to search around and figure out how to do things. And no one says you have to stay with a distro, once you're comfortable with Linux it's easy enough to check out other distros.
That aside a lot of people have been recommending Mint for new users so that's definitely one you can check out if you want to try branching out now rather than later.
PS - Nvidia has a less than stellar reputation for their Linux drivers, you may want to consider reading up on that for whichever distro you choose. I have an Nvidia GPU (old non-Quadro class) running on Debian, works fine now but I did have a few false starts getting it going properly at first.
That hardware will fly on Linux.
Given you use NVIDIA I might recommend Mint over Ubuntu.
I do not want to over complicate things but there is some information that may help given that you have NVIDIA hardware.
Linux is going through a technology transition in its graphics technology from something called Xorg (x11) to something called Wayland.
Mostly you do not have to worry about this. Don’t let it distract you.
Everybody will be using Wayland in a year or two but right now today, it depends on the distro and desktop environment you choose. For example, current Ubuntu will default to GNOME on Wayland. Linux Mint defaults to Cinnamon in Xorg.
Until recently, NVIDIA has been buggy with Wayland. Specifically, NVIDIA needed something called “explicit sync”. This has now been added to newer NVIDIA drivers, Wayland compositors, Mesa, etc. So things work great now if you use the latest versions of things.
Again, you may not need to know any of these details. So, why am I bring it up?
Well, if you have an “up-to-date” distro, NVIDIA will likely work well. But if any of the required components are not available or older on the distro you use, you may have problems with NVIDIA. Only “may”. It may also work fine.
To avoid problems, you can use a very up-to-date distro like EndeavourOS. Or you can use a distro that will default to Xorg for now, like Linux Mint.
If you use a distro with older software versions, like Debian, or older software drivers, like OpenSUSE, or that lacks proprietary drivers, like Fedora, NVIDIA hardware can be a pain.
The reason people recommend AMD or Intel for Linux is because none of the above really matters on that hardware. They are more likely to “just work”.
Again, I hope I did not complicate things. I offer all this just so you can make sense of things if you run into trouble. You probably will not. And in a year or so, none of this will matter anymore even on NVIDIA. On many distros, it already doesn’t.
You never see it mentioned, but PCLOS is a great Linux starter OS. It was started by Bill Reynolds, TexStar, and is tock solid. It is my go-to when installing Linux for new users because it is extremely stable, has a great community, and avoids anything bleeding edge.
www.distrowatch.com is a great place to get an overview of most Linux and BSD distros.
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide
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Evaluating AI language models just got more effective and efficient
Evaluating AI language models just got more effective and efficient
Assessing the progress of new AI language models can be as challenging as training them. Stanford researchers offer a new approach.news.stanford.edu
Republicans Proceed with Bill to Increase Energy Costs and Make Americans More Vulnerable to Nuclear Threats
Republicans Proceed with Bill to Increase Energy Costs and Make Americans More Vulnerable to Nuclear Threats
During today’s Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee markup of the 2026 funding bill, House Democrats exposed how the bill increases costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our nation…House Committee on Appropriations
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US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil
US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil
Close Trump allies like Steve Bannon say "the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS dedollarization effort". The US fears the Global South challenge to the dollar's exorbitant privilegeBen Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
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Musk declared on Twitter, “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it”.
i used to think that trump et. al. unmasking de facto american international policy would help make americans understand what's happening, but now it's clear that they just never cared.
we would not be the same country any longer
Newsflash: you're way past that point. No one believes, trust or respect the USA any longer.
It's also interesting for California and other blue states.
Since Trump is attacking the blue states especially, there's a form of warfare there. As we all know, wars are really expensive and are often decided by who can stay solvent longer.
Normally, that would be California and other blue states, because they have the better economy. If they stopped paying taxes, that would severely harm Trump.
However, through the federal reserve, Trump can just print infinite amounts of dollars, and that effectively overrides the blue states' strong economy.
So the blue states have a serious interest in de-dollarization, sothat Trump's money-printing federal reserve becomes meaningless.
basically when the federal government goes into debt, that basically means that the federal reserve which you can imagine like a big bank hands out a loan to the government.
the government doesn't really have to pay back that debt, ever. (it technically has to but that can be avoided by simply taking out a new loan at a later time).
i hope i explained that correctly.
the federal reserve which you can imagine like a big bank hands out a loan to the government.
No. Debt goes directly to markets. Federal Reserve QE operations are acts of imagining new money to buy bonds from the market. You are describing QE operations, not debt. Past QE operations have forgone interest on Federal reserve holdings, gifting it to Treasury such that the bonds that Fed holds become interest free. The accounting magic is that when the bond is finally due, the Federal reserve does get paid in order to erase the imaginary money they created to buy the bonds. But a given QE balance sheet level, they just buy a new bond from the market with new imagined money.
They simply do press a button and numbers appear in a federal account. There is some bureocracy involved but that's how it works in a nutshell.
The US can do this freely without much repercussions because of the US role as an intenational reserve currency, the inflation that comes with printing dollars is offloaded to the rest of the world while the US increases it's amount of dollars.
Not in disagree with that statement to some degree. But going full authoritarian, and I mean full to the point if mythical scenarios that some people online are spouting. I just don't see that happening. Sure there's a shit load of injustice, imbalance of power, overreach, all sorts of adjectives, adverbs, etc. But I think some of these what ifs or scenarios are far fetched and the internet loves to reach.
There's been loads of cover ups, breaches of power, scandals, you name it. But printing infinite money because trump says so and crashing the global economy is not high up on the bingo card. Anything is possible. I'm just saying it seems highly unlikely is all.
Increasing supply (printing) without increased demand (taxes) will cause the price (dollar value) to go down. If it goes down too fast, then nobody will want dollars until tax season, and the dollar will hyperinflate.
Conspiracy theory: that's exactly what Trump wants because he takes crypto bribes.
it all fits together really nicely, somehow. i'm not sure whether trump actually has a plan or things just randomly fit, though:
- texas wanted to secede from the US for centuries (i believe this is actually a big point that people give too little weight to)
- the US realizes that the US is not simply going to "allow" texas to secede
- conservative thinktanks realize that the only way that blue states are gonna be ok with texas seceding is if they themselves dramatically understand the relevance of state's autonomy and self-responsibility
- trump attacks california and new york to make blue states understand the importance of having greater independence from the federal government
- blue states are gonna demand greater independence from the federal government in the next months (2025-2027)
- texas can then comfortably also claim greater autonomy for itself
Countries that value financial sovereignty.
Keep it by storing a tradeable reserve in other currencies. And or gold and silver but that has become less common.
The doller has won purely because it is respected around the world. Because most nations have some desire to trade with the US.
As that desire weakens sovereignty or your own currency is less strong if you are holding less stable currencies. And the doller is looking less and less stable every time trump talks.
The doller has won purely because it is respected around the world
That is not correct, dollar won because US, being the economical winner of WW2, made all other notable capitalist economies dependent on it in Bretton Woods accords and effectively hegemonised oil trade in much of the world.
Well yes. That is why it was respected. America used it's delayed entry to build it's reduction capability. Used that to help win. Then not having exhausted it took advantage.
But while correct. It's a more accurate way of saying the doller was respected. As a strong trade currency other nations could use.
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
I am once again begging liberals to stop treating Wikipedia like it's The Holy Scripture.
When has any global standard ever been elected. What process even exists to do so.
The whole idea that some other nation gaining power post ww2 being more democratic is just crap
The pre WW2 world was far from some democratic ideal. The US just took over from Europe's fiscal control using exactly the same techniques. Just as the UK took over from Spain etc.
Is it shitty yes. But the idea that if any of these nations sat back. Some peaceful agreement between waring nations would have evolved. Is just fantasy. It is looking back with a modern mindset that simply did not exist in any power regime at the time.
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BRICC current dedollerization has more to do with his tarrifs attacks harm to international trade then then anything else. Making trade with your nation less profitable. Is a rather stupid move if you want the world to use your currency to trade amounts each other.
When the global currency is run by a petty man child. It is the nations not making an effort to move away from it that are more worrying.
The western countries are dependent on the imperial framework of "the eyes" cooperation, other intelligence and security cooperation, NATO cooperation, similarity of financial, patent and IP regulations, similarity of legal systems, interconnectivity of their elites and various blackmail material on those, and their common crime networks (one would hope that at least mafia groups should align along some other clusters on the map, but it doesn't seem so).
Those regulations support the status of western elites, which means the elites themselves won't reform anything in any good direction.
The NATO cooperation is extremely efficient and comfort-providing - instead of countrywide mandatory conscription you have small groups of professional soldiers and military bureaucrats, military matters are not something that all the society cares about.
Instead of domestic military industries sufficient to fulfill the needs of a military you can have as much silent and respectable corruption as you wish. It's both convenient for the population and for the elites (criminals) to have a small professional military, an international (imperial) MIC framework, all not influenced significantly by domestic popular opinions.
Intelligence cooperation allows domestic intelligence services to bypass all limitations that exist for them on paper about their own citizens. It also makes every such service more powerful than intended.
Similar financial regulations lead not only to good things, like smaller cost of doing business, but also to bad things, like monopolies. Even the EU supposedly big regulations don't prevent big tech from abusing honestly whatever they want. GDPR is a farce in its actual enforcement.
Patent and IP regulations - well, that's basically a way to legal monopoly, and that's how it works. BTW, let's just remember that even trademarks are a relatively new thing legally. And copyright. And patents. And when all these were introduced, that was similar to state monopoly on alcohol beverages in some countries or state monopoly on tobacco in others, and was reasoned legally in exactly that way - authorship and right to print something should be registered for the crown to have an income from that, not because of some ownership of ideas or protection. It still works like an imperial mechanism.
Similarity of legal systems - I'll admit at some point I thought English law is the best thing after sliced bread. But I'm not so sure at this point. At some point a German court acquitted Tehlirian, after all. As an example of the main competing family of legal systems.
Elites and crime - I mean, your whole part of the world is in the "trade and denial" stage after really buying the 80s and 90s idea that democracies and institutions don't require perpetual struggle to maintain. That is, fiction of those years would usually argue with that idea, but sometimes wide masses just want to believe something so badly that no art can dissuade them. And in the 00s it was decided.
OK, too much text.
What I really mean is that for Canada it doesn't make sense to join BRICS unless it manages to pull a Brazil and somehow switch the camp from "imperial" to "fringe kingdoms".
What I really mean is that for Canada it doesn’t make sense to join BRICS unless it manages to pull a Brazil and somehow switch the camp from “imperial” to “fringe kingdoms”.
Canada needs more direct investment from anyone willing to make it. The US is not on the list anymore, and the political unanimity that still pretends that US is ally are simply all traitors.
You mean like if the Alberta independence referendum succeeds and the country collapses? If Alberta goes, Quebec independence soon follows, and at that point Canada mostly just Vancouver+lesser provinces.
And then all three countries join BRICS. 😎
Russia is trying to genocide Ukranians, and India has a Hindu Nationalist leader (aka a synonym of our local Christian Nationalist leader)...so yes, I completely understand that the West will do its best to undermine it's political opponents, but also, they haden to have some existentially oppressive and shitty aspects to their collective as well.
Fuck the US, but also fuck Putin and fuck Modi.
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Not sure that is specific Project 2025 item, though it is a consequence of Trump trade policy. US$ value is a function of total trade with US. A $ is not destroyed when it is sent abroad, and there is general appeal to use it to buy US assets to ensure the wealth to purchase more imports. Unjustifiable extortion is resulting in less capital inflows to US treasuries even as the colonies rulerships seemingly submit to the extortion.
As OP's charts show, China saved the US in GFC aftermath legitimizing their extreme QE and bailouts.
I would be willing to bet the absolute geniuses behind project 2025 planned for a very specific percentage of devaluation in order to still be wildly wealthy but absolutely crush the general pop.
They just can't do it because they are fuckin idiots. They will burn it all down trying though.
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia
Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia
Parte in Italia il test UE per la verifica dell'età sui social. Scopri come funziona, l'impatto sulla privacy e cosa cambia per te con il nostro approfondimento.Pietro Iaria (Pianeta Tecnologia)
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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
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Unearthed 2014 article shows Zohran Mamdani’s early advocacy for Palestinian rights
A resurfaced college article has shed light on Zohran Mamdani’s long-standing support for the Palestinian cause, years before he became a leading figure in New York politics.
Mamdani, now 33 and the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, co-authored the piece as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College, where he co-founded the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Published on January 10, 2014, in Bowdoin’s student paper, The Bowdoin Orient, Mamdani’s article strongly endorsed the American Studies Association’s (ASA) decision to join the academic boycott of 'Israeli' institutions, a move aimed at pressuring 'Israel' to end its occupation of Palestinian territories
Unearthed 2014 article shows Zohran Mamdani’s early advocacy for Palestinian rights
Zohran Mamdani with a screenshot of his college article (Credit: AFP)Roya News
BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race
As always, "here's how" can be excised from a hed without any negative side effects.
In mid-2022, when BYD executive Lian Yubo was asked to compare Chinese manufacturing with Tesla’s technology, he remarked that Elon Musk was an example that all Chinese carmakers could learn from.“Tesla is a very successful company no matter what. BYD respects Tesla and we admire Tesla,” he said in an interview on Chinese state media.
Yet just three years later, Tesla’s technological lead over its Chinese rivals has narrowed dramatically. It is fighting to stay ahead in the world’s largest car market, its sales are falling in many other countries and its efforts to develop fully self-driving vehicles are running into regulatory roadblocks.
Having once scoffed at the idea that BYD could ever be a competitor to Tesla, Musk returned from a visit to China last year with a sombre assessment for his senior management. “He had seen the BYD factories, the cost and their tech,” says one former Tesla executive, adding that Musk believed China was winning the electric vehicle race.
As Tesla’s sales decline following Musk’s forays into US politics and amid a lack of new models, BYD has overtaken it to become the world’s largest manufacturer of EVs. Its annual revenues surpassed $100 billion for the first time in 2024.
BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race. Here’s how.
With technology gap narrowed, BYD is poised to outsell Tesla this year.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •They could draw level with Labour, sure. But hypothetical polls like this are pretty much worthless in terms of predictive value.
What this does show is that lots of people, especially young, left wing people, are angry at the government and want them to change direction.
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