Yes, it’s astonishing that Ontarians still haven’t figured this out.

Jesus. They had to promise to promote white supremacism and defend fascists, or the new Nazi regime would have crushed them out of existence for their impermissible assistance to democratic forces. And we all know that “countering antisemitism” would be great if it meant what it says, but it doesn’t mean what it says.

Also, there goes AP again with the blandest headline ever for a shocking story.

It’s characteristic of right-wingers that they refuse to learn from experience, to reflect on it and change their attitudes, and generally to grow as people. They cling tightly to the prejudices they start our with, and by which they define themselves, and demand that the world stop changing. It’s a losing strategy, but they grow ever more bitter, angry and dangerous as reality continues to frustrate them.

If they’re so determined to protect their Nazi captain, perhaps they deserve to lose the ship.

Yes, Lemmy wouldn’t let me upload that gif either. I doubt it’s because of the content - seems more likely to be a bug.

It’s not ambiguous.

Right now it’s a bit of an emergency and we can’t be too picky. The priority is to keep the Conservatives away from power, or our country could go the way the USA is, our minorities and immigrants will be persecuted, our economy will suffer, and it will become impossible to achieve anything positive politically. You can’t make an alliance with the Conservatives while they are in thrall to MAGAism, and they can’t be trusted when their MAGA buddies in the USA have their sights on annexing Canada.

Russia has long threatened Canada from the north, but Canada’s alliance with the USA deterred it from attacking. Now the USA is considering stealing Canada’s resources and gaining access to strategic Arctic waters, Russia will also know that Canada is vulnerable because the USA will no longer defend it. So now these two predators are circling Canada and may even be coordinating plans with one another.

Conservative “values” are just cover stories for greed, selfishness and prejudice. They grew up with a set of prejudices and they refuse ever to reexamine them. So they adjust the “values” to suit. Conservatives are incurious, stubborn people who refuse to grow.

The Chuck Schumer school of resistance.

The USA was given a choice of Nazis or not Nazis, and it chose Nazis.

There are tarpits like Nepenthes but they use up your CPU resources and I imagine it would be pretty easy to update a scraper to recognize these generated pages, since they’re all structurally similar.

I’d like to see this extended to software developers in non-game industries.

Yes, I hope the Canadian federal and provincial governments recognize this. And I hope we don’t get a Conservative federal government, because Conservatives tend to be bad at understanding the notion of investing in society for the benefit of all. In fact, they’re hostile to it.

I think many people have known for years, like you. Articles like this help to bring it to the awareness of others who haven’t yet understood. There’s really no harm in repeating the message, and it doesn’t indicate that no one has realized what’s going on.

Canada and other countries need to start accepting refugees from the USA. Particularly, for now, those facing political persecution, those being persecuted for abortion-related matters, and transgender people. Soon that might need to expand to other LGBTQ+ people if the fascists ramp up their persecution.

Half of the time when I press the Windows key Windows does nothing at all, or pops up an empty box where the Start menu should be and leaves me wondering whether it will eventually fill the box with things. When I finally get to click an icon, half the time nothing happens, or maybe the menu disappears and then nothing happens. But programs are so slow to launch that you don’t know for sure nothing happened, so you have to wait half a minute before trying again. Then 2 instances of your app launch together. And then there’s the constant focus stealing in Windows, still unfixed after decades.

I really don’t get how people can prefer that interface to basically any of the Linux ones. They’re all faster and more functional than Windows. I do understand the issue with specialist photo, video or music software though. I still need to keep a Windows machine (physical or virtual) handy for the Affinity suite, Ableton Live, and legacy projects in Visual Studio. But my daily computing experience has been so much smoother, faster and more relaxing since I switched to Linux, and I think most ordinary users would actually have an easier time with something like Linux Mint than with Windows.

It’s the first rolling distro I have tried, and I’ve been running it for about 3 years now without any real problems. I think maybe twice there have been updates that cause issues, out of hundreds of updates per week. It’s surprisingly solid, and everything’s up to date.

Not everyone would want hundreds of updates per week of course, but it’s up to the user to decide how often to install updates. Unlike Windows, the updates don’t intrude, and they are fast.

Then we know what his standard is: he means he’s no more harmful than Hitler.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed helps because you can create a btrfs snapshot at any moment and then roll back to it if you get in trouble. And it does this automatically whenever you update the packages.