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Biden needs campaign ads calling Trump out for passing unconstitutional anti-gun legislation.

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Tori Amos’s Silent All These Years. That mercurial little piano riff. The painful lyrics. The liberation of the middle eight. It’s a perfect song.

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Vampire Survivors is so much better than it has any right to be. It’s a great way to kill time if I have my Steam Deck around.

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I get it. I love the slow pace, the beautiful cinematography, the careful dialog. But it’s not for everyone.

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The sequel was worse: a hackneyed “elements” magic system and a plot that would only work on a much longer time scale. Too much stuff crammed into too little movie.

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“Filmed on a canoe” is how I put it.

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Dolly Parton is the kind of saint the Catholic Church will never canonize.

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I bought a bunch of little pride flags to stick in the ground around the neighborhood and a banner for my front yard when I saw this a couple days ago. Fortunately I live in a great city for queer folk, but you go just a mile north or east of here and it gets ugly pretty fast.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Yeesh. Colorado has a lot of rural space with a lot of folks who think like that. The borders between the liberal city/college types and the MAGA country types can be pretty thin.

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We have One Particular Family who ran Trump and Tina Peters campaign yard signs for months back in the day, but who have conspicuously shut the fuck up since all the convictions and such. Their back yard butts up to public space where I plan on dropping at least one. I won’t mess with their private property, but I will put a flag down behind their house.

Do you use both a personal desktop and laptop?

I’m moreso curious if laptop functions have been offloaded to phones. If you have a full gaming desktop, do you see the use case for an additional laptop? or if most people here don’t see the need for the increased processing power of a desktop, do you just use your laptop and a phone?...

aphlamingphoenix ,

Primarily use my desktop (nothing beats a proper desk setup for Getting Shit Done) for work and gaming. I have a laptop that I use less frequently, but it’s an acceptable way to take work with me if I have to. It won’t play any games more graphically intense than Slay the Spire, but that’s not the point. I use my phone for Serious Business only when absolutely necessary. Anything short of a proper desktop setup feels like a crippled user experience, and phones are the most crippled experience of them all.

aphlamingphoenix ,

This was done on The Other Site a while back. /r/proudboys got taken over and turned into a queer meme page.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Some of it is a fad that will go away. Like you indicated, we’re in the “Marketing throws everything at the wall” phase. Soon we’ll be in the “see what sticks” phase. That stuff will hang around and improve, but until we get there we get AI in all conceivable forms whether they’re a worthwhile use of technology or not.

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We recently went through a nuke-n-pave on my kids desktops. I plugged in an external drive for them to do backups, and we walked through the process. This was in Fedora with pretty much default Gnome tools. They came away understanding the process and how to track it, but I think they still don’t really understand file organization.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Imagine the Biden campaign constantly trying to get interviews with “the Republican candidate’s probation officer”.

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IANAL, but I believe that is up to the judge’s discretion, as is the sentence itself.

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The main argument from prosecution to this end was that the encounter happened in 2006 (ish, I might be off) but the hush money wasn’t an issue until the election campaign. Therefore, they argued, it was paid (and covered up with false business records) to influence the election.

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Anything short of “all people are humans and we pass no judgment on the infinite variety of human expression and behavior” is offensively out of sync with reality. Any amount of perpetuating papal bigotry is out of sync with the teachings of the holy guy he’s supposed to be representing.

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Sprout

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Modest Mouse called this out in their song Novocain Stain back in '97 or whenever.

Interchanges, plazas and malls And crowded chain restaurants More housing developments go up Named after the things they replace So welcome to Minnow Brook And welcome to Shady Space Well it all seems a little abrupt No, I don’t like this change of pace

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Or “What if you win?”

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Depends on the afterlife.

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The wealth was generated by firing employees.

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Official statement on the matter reads:

All students are treated equally at MCA…

Except this case proves that to be a lie. I’m sure there were boys in suits there. Unless boys are also required to wear dresses? If that’s not the case, then this is a clear case of one student being treated differently from others.

aphlamingphoenix ,

We call him Blucifer. He has freaky glowing red eyes and asshole veins.

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They already do this in church. They don’t need to risk trying it in a public bathroom.

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“This is a show tune but the show hasn’t been written for it yet.”

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He gets paid to take permanent brain damage. We shouldn’t take anything he says seriously.

Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics

I finally did it and got an used RX 6950 XT to replace my GTX 1080 Ti. I’ve been using this card ever since I moved to Linux and now I’m wondering what exactly I have to do. On Windows it’s mostly run DDU and install the new AMD drivers, everything else will probably work the same with Afterburner etc....

aphlamingphoenix ,

I did this swap recently as well, on Fedora. I had to do literally nothing, as the drivers were already available and installed. I uninstalled akmod-nvidia to tidy up, but I suppose even that wasn’t strictly required.

aphlamingphoenix ,

He was receiving an honorary degree from Duke and spoke at the commencement.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

aphlamingphoenix ,

I still remember having to operate on their old desktops with the snap-down clamshell design. Infuriating.

aphlamingphoenix ,

So the church was homophobic a decade ago and then fought to protect their legal right to make an example of that homophobia to the children they’re supposed to be stewarding into the world for a full decade and now rest their case on homophobia… “Why are our attendance numbers dropping? Could it be that we’re completely out of touch with reality? No, it’s reality that is wrong.”

aphlamingphoenix ,

I think container tabs, which is currently an official Mozilla extension, should be native.

aphlamingphoenix ,

iirc, you install it via an extension. It’s simple enough. I just love the feature.

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....

aphlamingphoenix ,

To split some hairs, I’m not trans, but I’m all in favor of trans rights. If I take action in favor of trans rights, I’m a “trans rights activist”, but not a “trans activist”.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I think the connotation is that a Muppet is controlled by someone else. Their every thought, word, and action is the intent of their handlers.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I had that scene with the prostitutes from Fargo in my mind.

aphlamingphoenix ,

There’s a trust issue here as well since AI only works if you train it and we are training it with our activity, reported to private companies who can do whatever they please with it. I don’t trust anything Microsoft does.

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It also encourages you to shop at, say, Kroger rather than Safeway.

US Supreme Court justices scrutinize Trump immunity claim (www.reuters.com)

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday quizzed lawyers for Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith about the former president’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss, posing questions about what happens if a president sells nuclear secrets, takes a bribe or orders a coup or...

aphlamingphoenix ,

Yeah, like where is the example of such abuse? Is this not the first such prosecution in American history? Seems absurd to me to suggest that there might be a problem of abuse, or that the criminal justice system doesn’t already set a high enough standard for conviction generally, or that this case doesn’t rise to a level of severity justifying prosecution.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I’ve never had rhubarb. I’ve heard it’s sweet (people make pies out of it), but it looks like celery, which is one of my most hated foods. What does it actually taste like? Is it palatable raw?

aphlamingphoenix ,

That was roughly my experience with East of Eden.

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There was an attempt by Twitter at one point to use “420 Enhance Your Calm” as a code to indicate you’re being rate limited.

aphlamingphoenix ,

They don’t want to pay out for expensive drugs. They can’t be profitable if they pay for the healthcare your doctor prescribes for you.

aphlamingphoenix ,

One day you may wake up in an unreasonable cult! And you may ask yourself, “How did I get here?!”

aphlamingphoenix ,

Since the act of writing to an SSD is an act of wear that will eventually lead to a broken storage device, using an SSD for swap is a uniquely bad idea, right? Are Macs still designed so that you can’t replace your own hardware easily? I’ve never owned one, but I was asked to service one many years ago and it was a real pain.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I did the same thing. It’s one of the cheapest upgrades you can get for a PC, but Apple will charge triple the actual cost to maximize profits.

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The DARE Effect, I think we should call that.

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