Ah yes, the old “everyone is leaning fascist” and “Trudeau is a fascist just like Trump.”
No, not everyone is leaning Fascist. And even though I don’t like him, there’s a big difference between Trudeau and Trump.
Again, if you Americans stayed home and didn’t vote, you are complicit in everything that Trump does.
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dang bro, I think you forget to realize that globally everyone is leaning fascist and everyone is wrapped up in it. This isn’t solely at the feet of Americans. And it’s not like Justin Trudeau doesn’t continue to be a fascist and fuck over indigenous people and Canada has a huge Islamophobia issue or anything. The western societies are all complacent. It’s not just Americans. But keep blowing off that steam while you work towards dismantling yours and our mess.
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Comments like this are why I know a whole lot of self-identified “progressives” are full of shit and aren’t taking things seriously.
Trump is imposing a 25% tariff tax and is threatening to annex Canada, and the response here is “I’ll miss Coffee Crisp”?
GTFO. This is just a game to you.
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Bummer. I'll miss Coffee Crisp.
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I'm not being dismissive of your words, I understand your fears. The USA invaded my ancestral homeland and "annexed" a good chunk of it. We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us.
That was then and this is now. Trump talks a lot of shit, I don't believe the international community would allow the USA to go on a land grab spree.
@josuex I absolutely believe the international community would allow the USA to do a land grab. Maybe the EU might make a nominal fuss. But everyone else? Nope.
The thing is, if the USA invades Canada—and that possibility should be taken very seriously—then that means everyone would be foolish for allying themselves with the USA in any sense.
Because hey, Canada is the USA’s closest trading partner. And all that means is that we’re suckers.
Took my son to McDonald’s today after not going for years and was shocked at the price of a cheeseburger. So I looked it up and a cheeseburger went from $1 to $3 over the course of Biden’s presidency.
I can see why people voted for Trump since Democrats didn’t even acknowledge this problem.
Unfortunately for those voters, not only does he have no plan to lower prices, many of his policies are just going to make the problem worse.
There is also this rather interesting distinction between how economists define inflation, which is a price change and how people defined it in their daily lives.
That definition is stuff we can’t afford anymore or stuff we have no hope of ever affording.
When there’s a spike that lifts prices by 10% or whatever and we just don’t go up with them, people are permanently underwater. Worse, the fan is sure to kill any hope of wage improvement. The Fed is out to kill prosperity.
This is cherry picking. Wherever you got those facts they give an incorrect conclusion.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
"The BLS also found that prices in "limited-service restaurants" [fast food] increased by 47% since 2014."
So your McDonalds meal is likely at most 50% more than 2021.
That's an increase, and there was a lot of inflation coming out of Covid, but it is not 300% 2020 prices.
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$15 Big Macs: As inflation drives up fast food prices, map shows how they differ nationwide
Here's how much prices for cheese burgers and signature meals at five fast-food restaurants increased between 2014 and 2024 amid inflation., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
Since I never had the opportunity to have a goth teen girl phase, I think I've somehow wound up there permanently in my 50s.
I'm not sure what to do with this.
But I'll continue to be weird in your social media feed because it's cheaper than liquor and therapy.
CIA says ‘more likely’ COVID-19 escaped from a lab
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CIA says ‘more likely’ COVID-19 escaped from a lab
The intelligence agency says it has ‘low confidence’ in assessment and will continue to evaluate credible information.Al Jazeera
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains how the ultra-rich are beneficiaries of an unjust economic system where billionaires don’t make money, they take money. It’s impossible to have that much money without profiting off of other people's lack of it." teenvogue.com/story/billionair…
Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s Why
Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few powerful billionaires at the cost of economic hardship and precarity for the many.Rebekka Ayres (Teen Vogue)
I have talked about accessibility a lot here. But now, it's my turn to ask some questions! I fully admit to being guilty of not capitalising the first letter of each word when writing tags, unless said words are usually capitalised. As a screen reader user, I do realise this can lead to confusion. But are searches on Friendica and elsewhere in the Fediverse case sensitive? If I write goodwriting will it show up in the same listings as GoodWriting? If not, which should I follow, and what about single words, such as writing, which screen readers say correctly? Should I capitalise those (or not) for consistancy?
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Im dritten Beitrag wird erklärt, wie Du Mastodon mehr nutzen kannst, indem jetzt alles auf den Schirm gebracht wirdBernhard Mosolf (CompGen - Verein für Computergenealogie)
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(Toy) balls found in #Egypt, dating around 1,500 BC (18th dynasty). They are hollow and made of linen, with an elaborated red, blue and green decoration, formed by strips of reed. Balls like these were also used for rituals and acrobatic performances.
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'I don't give a damn about the West,' says Lukashenko as the EU threatens sanctions
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'I don't give a damn about the West,' says Lukashenko as the EU threatens sanctions
Final votes are still being counted and the result isn't expected to be released until later on Monday morning but state television predict Lukashenko winning with almost 88% of the vote.Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)
As I pointed out last week, the US owning TikTok would mean that it would be restricted from removing or moderating any content inconsistent with the First Amendment. That would be a disaster.
wake up babe robot tentacles are a thing now
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I was born to womansplain why this is sooo inaccurate, lol
As a grammar prescriptivist, I take writing and proper use of words very seriously. I recently saw a post about ending text messages with full stops. Apparently, some think this is a bad idea. No. It's called using punctuation correctly! Perhaps, they should read a few grammars instead of playing their silly video games! The same is true of netspeak, textspeak, corporate spaek, and abbreviating everything. Likewise, I have no use for political correctness. I refuse to use words such as visually-challenged, vertically-challenged, etc. I will say blind (or visually impaired if the person has some vision), short, fat, etc. Unless I'm writing poetry and am seeking flowery words for things, I call them what they are. I also have no time for so-called gender-neutral words, unless they honestly make sense and are actually descriptive, such as firefighter or police officer. But I'm just as likely to say fireman, policeman, waiter, steward, actor, chairman, etc. and change the gender when necessary. I also refuse to use the singular they. There are two sexes (gender is for grammar). You're either one or the other. This absolutely doesn't mean that you can't change your sex. If, for example, I meet you as a woman and you change to a man or are a drag king/queen, I will certainly change my use of pronouns when discussing you or talking about you, either permenantly or temporarily, as the case requires. But unless you literally have multiple personalities or are a machine or an inanimate object, you are neither a they nor an it, and you're certainly not some made-up pronoun such as xe. I would never cause harm to those who use such words. I would just consider them to be silly or confused.
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Your preferences are yours and you choose what you prefer. However, we live in a society where it is important to be aware where language can be detrimental to women.
The difference can be simply felt in how much you get paid compare to a man in the same role. Please search "gender pay gap" and you will find that in the legal industry, for example, men can earn as much as 59% more than a women in the same role.
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Why is it that people I know who decide to jump into #Linux for the first time go for Garuda? I mean, there's nothing wrong with it per-se, but it's also not an incredibly user friendly distro for first timers. Vim should not be a default, it should be an opt into, for example. Flatpacks should not be pushed over native packages, and yet they are (and then they cause issues as a result!)
Just... ugh.
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Billionaires even in Australia (and I presume everywhere else) are sucking up to him, asking for what will make the US a better "investment opportunity." I urge Australians to elect politicians who will thwart
Digested week: Toadying Brits finally come to realise Trump has no need of them
Truss, Braverman, Farage and Fox flock to US hoping for a seat at president’s inauguration – to discover he has moved onJohn Crace (The Guardian)
#Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde re empathy, analysis & human relationships. Human beings can disagree yet don't need 2 resort to vicious thoughtless outbursts. It is often by perceptive & perspicacious questioning that human beings reach meaningful solutions. shorturl.at/xMgDE
The ‘nasty’ bishop is not alone – and Trump should brace for more episcopal fireworks
The very people the new president thought he could rely on look like they can’t be counted on to rally to his cause after all, writes Catherine PepinsterCatherine Pepinster (The Independent)
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Como comprar ingresso na Ticketmaster
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Liberux NEXX Is a New (Still in Development) Linux Phone
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“Huddling near friends Friday, the girl felt tears start. Children near her were crying, too. One friend started sobbing so hard her nose bled, the girl said. “Everyone was so scared,” the 10-year-old said, “because we didn’t know if it was a shooter or the immigration police.””
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Running multiple #web #services doesn't have to be complicated, and it can be a low effort hobby or side gig for busy professionals. Here's how #Caddy makes it simple by handling #reverseproxy and #HTTPS certificates, plus a #Python #script I use to set up new services behind #Cloudflare #DNS with a single command.
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観客が選んだ名台詞ベスト3の中には「(朝鮮の市民は)国難が起きる度に異常な力を発揮する」という伊藤博文の台詞も。
興味深いのは、「現在と大きく違わないことが驚きであり、悲しい。」といった感想があるように、多くの観客が劇中の伊藤博文をユン大統領に重ねていることですね。それだけ普遍的で深いキャラクターになっている証拠でもあるだろうし、優れた抗日作品が国を越え、日本人にも感動を与える理由だと思います。腐った権力との戦いは国や民族を越える。
The 'Super Bowl for Nerds': Scenes from the Microsoft Excel World Championship - Slashdot
At December's "Microsoft Excel World Championship" in Las Vegas, "finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities," writes the New York Times, "as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an…tech.slashdot.org
Deal reached to allow displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, says Qatar
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Deal reached to allow displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, says Qatar
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday that displaced Palestinians would not be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza until the civilian hostage Arbel Yehoud was released by Hamas.Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)
Disinfo agents on social media successfully told progressives, “A vote for Democrats is a vote for Palestinian genocide—so stay home in protest.”
During his last week in office, Biden helped negotiate a ceasefire.
And now Trump is calling for literal ethnic cleaning of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
You never should have stayed home.
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Hard disagree. People who stayed home because of Genocide were aware Trump would be worse, but were unwilling to co-sign the idea that Dems could have a little mass murder as a treat.
Now we’re in the same blame game that happened after 2016. Instead of talking about how vote suppression likely changed the result and the absolute necessity to turn out votes in the midterm - we’re instead going to spin our wheels.
What was that about disinformation?
@pliny Stop right here:
People who stayed home because of Genocide were aware Trump would be worse
That’s the problem. By not voting, they chose the worst outcome. Biden might have had his hand in terrible things, but the alternative is even more terrible and harrowing.
It is always a moral imperative to be less harmful than more harmful.
If you chose more harm, you are the problem.
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In case it's not obvious in my #degoogle #demetanisation #demeta streak... I've also ditched the artist formerly known as Twitter. A writer friend of mine once referred to Twitter as an intellectual cesspool... and that was before it got #musked
New #Fediverse Instance Home = new #Introduction Toot.
As per my profile I am a Scotsman in Kentucky. Born 1967 and moved to USA in 1999 to marry my wife Arianna.
Most of the details you need of my life are in my #HPR (Hacker Public Radio) shows: hackerpublicradio.org/correspo…
These include:
hpr4258 :: Introduction and History of Using Computers
hpr4288 :: God's Pantry Food Bank (my workplace)
#Linux #FoodBank
Today I joined polymaths.social
According to Wikipedia:
"A polymath or polyhistor is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems."
With my many years and experiences I believe I fit this description.
Please feel free to ask me anything. I shall attempt to answer.
Hacker Public Radio ~ The Technology Community Podcast
Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.hackerpublicradio.org
All right. Got most of my #docker containers moved over to #proxmox. I had to rebuild my Homarr page, but that's fine. I've made some progress on the reverse proxy, by running #haproxy on #pfsense. Setup the proxmox backups.
I still have to configure a container, and get the rest of the reverse proxy to work. I'd also like to setup local DNS
Separately, #reolink is pissing me the fuck off.
All in all, a quite productive nerdy weekend.
Si cómo a mí, te ha pasado al usar #uv el error de pkg_resources no encontrado, te cuento porque sucede y cómo solucionarlo.
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Módulo pkg_resources no encontrado en ambientes UV
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[Testing Update] 2025-01-27 - Last Update of the year - libpamac, pamac-cli, libnfs
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[Testing Update] 2025-01-27 - Last Update of the year - libpamac, pamac-cli, libnfs
Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. This also marks the last update of the year.Manjaro Linux Forum
Despite the fact my server federates on #Threads, my account is invisible there.
Which is exactly why I’m skeptical about Threads. 🙃
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@ezmyrelda @jens I’m not on Twitter or Meta—and haven’t been for years. And I’m livid that my government—specifically, the Canadian government—still depends on American companies for public-facing communications when they should be building local social media infrastructure.
But they’re there. They even insist on staying there. And it’s maddening they’re letting Elon Musk restrict such critical information.
Why the hell are Trudeau’s posts on Twitter and not the Fediverse? That should be a scandal.
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in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I'm getting less and less patient with those "let everyone burn because I won't settle for the lesser evil" types.
Yes indeed there's a lot to criticise the Democrats on, and to hold them accountable for. II can understand one would want to stay true to their own convictions, and not support them with their vote. But is it worth the mass deportations, end of women's rights, end of trans people's rights, end of freedom of the press, and very likely invasion of sovereign nations?
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in reply to Chris Trottier • • •First apart agree.
Second part, piss off.
If someone could not vote for a party supporting a genocide, then the parties are at fault not the voters (or non voters).
Chris Trottier
in reply to Estarriol, lucozade dragon • • •@Thebratdragon Nope, they could vote but choose not to. And not choosing is still a choice.
Specifically, if you didn’t vote, you chose to not stop Trump.
Estarriol, lucozade dragon
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •they had the choice of, genocide supporter or genocide supporter.
How is that a choice?
or are you just shit scared that the US overseas policies will now be enacted at home?
You didn't care when it happened to others and suddenly worried you are in the crosshairs. That is your fault. Not anyone elses.
Chris Trottier
in reply to Estarriol, lucozade dragon • • •@Thebratdragon If you can’t see the qualitative difference between Trump and Harris, congrats, you’re the mark.
And I’m not American. I am Canadian.
I am indeed shit scared because someone right next door is about to do crazy things.
Maybe you think, being in the UK, you’re insulated from all this nonsense. You’re not.
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in reply to Chris Trottier • • •ABOUT TO? was already doing crazy things.
Genocide is genocide, it is unsupportable full stop.
You however have made the decision that it is only bad if it might happen on your continent.
Vote for this genocide supporter over that genocide supporter, is not offering a choice. It is telling me that you can stomach genocide.
Chris Trottier
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