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Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is now available for Download


Switching my computer from Windows to Linux is one of the best decisions I have ever made🔥👌
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in reply to Davriellelouna

I just briefly went through what's in the update. It's mostly visuals and some minor integrations? Or am I missing something?
in reply to Mavytan

Its a point release, so that's to be expected.

They also updated to kernel 6.14 and updated mesa to 25.0.7, which means for people like me with a Radeon 9060 XT, it's no longer necessary to use a PPA for updated mesa.



Project 2025 group wants huge changes to policy to encourage more kids


The right-wing think tank behind Project 2025 is now crafting new policy suggestions, including an incentive for married couples to have more children, according to a report.

Following its controversial 900-page blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term, the Heritage Foundation is now drafting a new position paper that includes calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family,” referring to the program to develop the first nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported.

The forthcoming paper, titled “We Must Save the American Family,” reportedly urges the government to pour funds into individual families rather than child care programs, like Head Start, according to the Post.

The Heritage Foundation is also urging the president to issue orders that require all proposed policies to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family.” If a program scores poorly, it should be revamped, according to the Post.

“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” the paper reportedly reads.

#News
in reply to Basic Glitch

What could possibly spook The Heritage Foundation of all groups to make this tiny leftward shift just a few years after their big evil strategy was released? They’re still an evil organization, but they’re that last group I’d expect to say the government needs to spend more money on more people.




Does this cellphone habit raise risk of hemorrhoids?


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3 in 4 Gaza Detainees Held Without Trial by Israel Are Civilians, Military Database Says


3 out of 4 of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held without trial as "unlawful combatants" by Israel are civilians, according to data from a classified Israeli military database.


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Hamas to Trump: We Are Ready to Release All Israeli Captives in Comprehensive Ceasefire Deal


Three weeks ago, Hamas agreed to a U.S.-Israeli-drafted ceasefire, but its offer was ignored. Now, the movement says it will accept a comprehensive deal in a renewed bid to end the genocide.


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UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action


"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children's lives," said one Metropolitan Police officer.


Noem Says Angola Chosen for Migrant Detention Because of Its 'Notorious' Violent History


As a court in Fort Myers, Florida prepares to address the legal rights of immigrants detained at "Alligator Alcatraz," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces a new prison in Louisiana to house arrested migrants. Will the notorious Angola facility perpetuate the abuse and repression seen at Alligator Alcatraz?
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Chess.com discloses recent data breach via file transfer app


Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chesscom-discloses-recent-data-breach-via-file-transfer-app/

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European leaders press Trump over peacekeeper plan for Ukraine


Leaders ask president on call to detail security guarantees US could give to European force in event of ceasefire


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Canada: one person killed and six injured in stabbing in remote First Nation community


Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the suspect who attacked Hollow Water First Nation has also died


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Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds


Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say


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Japan police admit to underestimating stalking threats in murder near Tokyo


The local police could have warned the accused and taken measures to protect the victim.


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Taiwan accuses China of breaching international law over drilling


Island’s government demands halt to Chinese oil and gas operations in its exclusive economic zone


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Nepal to block some social media including Facebook


Nepal had mandated registration for social media platforms in a bid to crackdown on misuse.




UN body finds US and UAE responsible for Afghan refugee's arbitrary detention


GENEVA - A U.N. body has found that the United States and the United Arab Emirates are jointly responsible for holding an Afghan man in arbitrary detention in Abu Dhabi for over two years in a case rights groups say is emblematic of thousands of others.


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Reform given almost £1m by former Tory donors in second quarter of 2025


Funders include treasurer Nick Candy, who promised Farage’s party a seven-figure sum when he took the role


Mamdani, AOC and other DSA members should leave party: Dem Rep. Tom Suozzi insists


No other liberal news outlets are covering this.
in reply to return2ozma

How about you leave. Like, what are y'all even fucking doing anymore? You guys are more unpopular than you ever have been and it's literally your own fault.


Xi Jinping holds talks with Kim Jong Un






By chasing ideology and empty slogans, the EU has handed its energy lifeline to China and completely subordinated itself to U.S. interests.


At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Beijing, Russia, China, and Mongolia signed a legally binding memorandum for the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. Stretching 2,600 km and carrying a price tag of $13.6 billion, this pipeline will deliver 50 bcm/year of Russian gas from the Arctic directly to northern China via Mongolia, bypassing Europe entirely.

In Europe, 50 bcm of Russian gas is worth $16.5 billion today. U.S. LNG for the same volume costs around $25 billion, while direct purchase from Russia, based on recent Gazprom deals with China, would've been roughly $6–6.5 billion. Europe’s cheap Russian pipeline gas, once the backbone of German industry, will now flow to China securing a stable, cheap energy supply.

Pushing Europe to sever its energy ties with Russia has inadvertently transferred strategic leverage to China. Europe now overpays for U.S. LNG, loses industrial competitiveness, and slides toward recession creating a perfect scenario for intra-European tensions.

President Xi framed PoS2 as a cornerstone of the “no-limits” strategic partnership with Russia, guaranteeing China a reliable, land-based energy corridor. Russia secured a guaranteed buyer, China locked in long-term supplies, meanwhile Europe faces the erosion of its industrial and geopolitical position.

By divorcing itself from affordable Russian gas, Europe has eliminated any realistic chance of industrial recovery and viable economic future. The global energy map is being rewritten with European decline accelerating, while China and India continue to rise strategically and economically.

Europe faces the final collapse of its industrial and geopolitical relevance, while the US loses its only truly successful historical project which was the "rules based international order".

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Why would they have to buy solar panels from China? Europe is more than capable of manufacturing their own.

Russia and China working together, does not mean that Europe loses anything. It's not a zero-sum equation, where success is mutually exclusive.

And your article is over a year old. You are intentionally ignoring the current assessment.

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in reply to Archangel1313

Why would they have to buy solar panels from China? Europe is more than capable of manufacturing their own.


If that was the case then they would be manufacturing them. Also, in case you weren't aware, stuff like solar panels needs rare earths which China has an effective monopoly on.

Russia and China working together, does not mean that Europe loses anything. It’s not a zero-sum equation, where success is mutually exclusive.


Yeah it does because the US is taking advantage of the vulnerable position that Europe is in, and the Europeans are simply accepting it because they have no other choice.

As Sabine Weyand, Directorate-General for Trade at the EU commission, admits: "If you didn't hear me say the word 'negotiation'—that's because there wasn't one." The U.S. dictated terms in a "strategic compromise, not an ideal economic solution" that European leaders know will destroy their economies.

Europe agreed because it is unable to manage its own security. "We have a land war on the European continent. And we are completely dependent on the United States," Weyand explains. Member states were not prepared to risk further escalation, so they chose economic submission out of fear and total dependence on the U.S.

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And your article is over a year old. You are intentionally ignoring the current assessment.


I'm intentionally ignoring propaganda and focusing on the actual facts. The type article you linked have been written on daily basis for the past three years and were proven false each and every time. I guess you happen to be the kind of credulous person who's not capable of learning from past experience that these types of articles are aimed at.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

If that was the case then they would be manufacturing them. Also, in case you weren't aware, stuff like solar panels needs rare earths which China has an effective monopoly on.


Europe already does manufacture solar panels...and China does not have an "effective monopoly" on the materials used.

As Sabine Weyand, Directorate-General for Trade at the EU commission, admits: "If you didn't hear me say the word 'negotiation'—that's because there wasn't one." The U.S. dictated terms in a "strategic compromise, not an ideal economic solution" that European leaders know will destroy their economies.


That's a criticism of the negotiation tactics used by the US...not an admission that the EU has no choice but to accept those terms. Especially if, as indicated in that last sentence, that it would "destroy their economies".

I'm intentionally ignoring propaganda and focusing on the actual facts.


That's weird. Your original article was citing the IMF as if it were a reliable source of information. The article I posted was also citing the same source, just using a more current assessment. It seems you only trust information that confirms your bias, and ignore it when it doesn't...even when the source is the same?

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in reply to Archangel1313

Europe very obviously isn't manufacturing solar panels in anywhere near the volume they would need to make a dent in energy transition. Again, if that was the case Europe wouldn't be in an energy crisis right now.

And yes, China does in fact have an effective monopoly, it's 69% for most rare earth and around 90% actual processing of them
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That’s a criticism of the negotiation tactics used by the US…not an admission that the EU has no choice but to accept those terms. Especially if, as indicated in that last sentence, that it would “destroy their economies”.


It's a clear admission that Europe was forced to take an incredibly bad deal. European economies are literally collapsing as we speak, and the US is making their exports more expensive while forcing them to buy overpriced LNG, invest money in the US, and ramp up military spending. Anybody with even a minimally functioning brain can see what this all means for Europe.

That’s weird. Your original article was citing the IMF as if it were a reliable source of information. The article I posted was also citing the same source, just using a more current assessment.


I don't know what you find weird about the fact that Russian economy has in fact grown as the last assessment indicated while there is zero reason to expect that to change going forward. Russian industry is growing, Russia just secured a whole bunch of trade deals with BRICS countries, there is zero reason to expect that the trajectory of Russian economy will change for the negative.

The article you linked talks about falling oil revenues, but if you bothered looking at Russian economy you'd see that oil exports are not a major part of the overall economy nowadays. Western sanctions have already been turned up to the max, and there's nothing left to sanction. That's why the west was trying to do secondary sanctions on India which caused India to get closer to Russia and China instead. If the sanctions were going to achieve anything that would've happened early on. Now Russia has already restructured its economy away from the west. Meanwhile, it's hilarious to talk about Russian deficit exploding when western deficits are far higher. If Russia is in trouble with a €56 billion deficit what can we say about the US?

It seems you only trust information that confirms your bias, and ignore it when it doesn’t…even when the source is the same?


It seems like I'm using my brain to think about the situation, and relying on historical precedent to extrapolate what we might expect in the future. You should try doing that some time.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Lol! I'm not sure you understand what the word "monopoly" means. Sure, China currently controls the majority of rare earth production...but that's based largely on the convenience that results from China's investment in its own infrastructure. It doesn't mean that other sources cannot be utilized. It's always nice to go with the cheapest option, but that hardly amounts to a "monopoly".

And I also think you misunderstand how EU law works, regarding trade agreements. The "deal" that was recently "agreed to", is not binding. It simply represents the first round of negotiations, and consists of a proposed outline. It has also been harshly criticised by nearly all European leaders, and will most likely not be ratified. At least not with the current conditions.

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in reply to Archangel1313

Controlling vast majority of production is precisely what it means to have a monopoly on a resource. Literally nobody else has significant infrastructure to do refining and processing right now. Building out this infrastructure would take decades. Here's what NPR has to say on the subject:

Many so-called rare earth elements are actually quite common, and they are mined globally, but China has a near-monopoly on refining them for use in everyday electronics, like smartphones and speakers, as well as for crucial defense systems, like fighter jets.

When China decided to tighten control over supply chains for seven rare earth elements this spring, O'Connor says he felt the pinch immediately. One investor touring the company's vault at the time offered on the spot to buy O'Connor's entire inventory of terbium and dysprosium, two valuable "heavy" rare earth elements, he says.


npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-54751…

Nah, I understand how the EU "works" perfectly fine. In fact, I wrote about it in detail here and I pointed out precisely this problem:

Yet, there is an obvious problem with this scheme: the EU lacks an independent treasury. It is merely an administrative organization where individual countries must actually provide funds. Every Euro Brussels spends must be squeezed from member state budgets, making any deal signed by Ursula von der Leyen only as good as the day countries actually pony up.


If the EU "leadership" keeps pushing their agenda there likely won't be an EU for much longer because countries will prioritize their national interest over the promises Ursula made to daddy.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Why would they have to buy solar panels from China? Europe is more than capable of manufacturing their own.


How are people like this? I'm used to the lib bingo stuff by now but somehow every day we reach new levels of detachment from reality that shouldn't even be possible.

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I expect that the retreat from reality will intensify as the collapse of the western model continues to progress.


US jobless claims rise, private payrolls growth slows


The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased more than expected last week, while hiring by private employers slowed in August, offering further evidence that labor market conditions were softening.

The reports were released a day after government data showed there were more unemployed people than positions available in July for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Job growth has shifted into stall-speed, with economists blaming President Donald Trump's sweeping import tariffs and an immigration crackdown that is hampering hiring at construction sites and restaurants.

The Fed's "Beige Book" report on Wednesday noted that "firms were hesitant to hire workers because of weaker demand or uncertainty." The softening labor tone was reinforced on Thursday with the release of the ADP National Employment Report, which showed private employment increased by 54,000 jobs last month after advancing by 106,000 in July.

The downbeat assessment of the labor market was also evident in the Institute for Supply Management survey, which showed a measure of services sector employment contracting for a third straight month in August.
Economists, as a result, are bracing for another month of tepid job growth when the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes its closely watched employment report on Friday. A Reuters survey of economists estimated nonfarm payrolls increased by 75,000 jobs last month after rising by 73,000 in July.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-jobless-claims-rise-private-payrolls-growth-slows-2025-09-04/