GFGJewbacca

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[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

I can almost guarantee you that if it happened Greta would be labeled an agent of Hamas to justify murdering her.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a simple man. I see a Hitchhiker's Guide reference, I upvote it.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate to burst your bubble there, but actually it's the exact opposite. Abraham hears what God is going to do to Sodom and Gomorrah (and that's only because God chooses to tell him), and thinks to himself, "Oh shit, my cousin is there. I don't want him to die."

So Abraham starts out small. He says, "if I can find 50 good people, you won't murderhobo everyone?" "Fine," God replies. Now Abraham has something he can work with. He tries 45, God says cool. Abraham gets God to agree on 40, 30, 20, 10, each time God agrees. At 10, God up and leaves, and Abraham just chills there.

But of course, they can't find even 10 in those cities. Oh well

 

surprised pikachu face

 

Police say they evacuated Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family from the official governor’s residence after someone set fire to the building.

No one was injured.

The fire broke out overnight on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which Shapiro and his family had celebrated at the governor’s official residence in the state capital of Harrisburg. State Police said in a statement that, while the investigation was ongoing, they were “prepared to say at this time that this was an act of arson.”

Police gave no other details about the cause.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, love me a fluffernutter. Haven't had one in years.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My grandma, a high school English teacher, drilled that into my dad's brain, who in turn drilled it into me. It works so well.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This is pretty much what I see in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" universe.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I'm a simple man. I see a Douglas Adams reference, I upvote.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

How dare you say Debian is the best distro! I use it on my work computer and it's very stable (despite the fact that the flatpak of Ferdium mysteriously stopped working). Clearly the best distro is Manjaro, which I use on my gaming laptop.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

God, I can hear this gif so well. One of my favorite songs/music videos.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That's a fair point. The US empire expanded tremendously after all the war profiteering from WW2, which allowed for the evil that we see today.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would argue that the British Empire and Belgium were pretty fucking evil long before the US came into existence.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Or it serves as a way to dissipate the smoke smell when breathing out. In my college days, we called it a "sploof."

 

Summary

A swath of Democratic-led states and civil rights groups have filed the first lawsuits challenging executive orders Donald Trump signed after taking office, including one that seeks to roll back birthright citizenship in the US.

A coalition of 18 Democratic-led states along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Tuesday arguing the Republican president’s effort to end birthright citizenship is a flagrant violation of the US constitution.

That lawsuit followed a pair of similar cases filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant organizations and an expectant mother in the hours after Trump signed the executive order, marking the first major litigation challenging parts of his agenda since he took office.

Edit: Count is now 22 states. Thanks empireoflove2!

 

"Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.

The French president said that he can’t pretend nothing has happened, that the outcome of the EU election is not good for his government and that the rise of nationalists is a danger for France and Europe."

 

Donald Trump has been found guilty of using a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

The verdict came after a jury deliberated for less than twelve hours in the unprecedented first criminal trial against a US president. It marks a perilous political moment for Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination, whose poll numbers have remained unchanged throughout the trial but could tank at any moment.

 

I've been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying "KDE rules, GNOME drools," and "GNOME is better, KDE is for babies." But then I thought, "Why not give KDE a try? The worst that happens is I go back to using GNOME."

Now I get it. The level of customization is incredible, it's way faster than GNOME, and looks beautiful too. At this point, I'm not going back.

I'll happily contribute to the playground fight over desktop environments. KDE rules, GNOME drools.

 

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”.

Rufo, a Manhattan Institute fellow who has been a hugely influential figure in DeSantis’ culture war policies in Florida, did not disagree with the sentiments. Instead he commended speakers for their “thoughtful points” and presenting the discussion as a model fo

 

About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay.

Members of the United Auto Workers union began picketing at a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan, near Detroit, and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio.

It was the first time in the union’s 88-year history that it walked out on all three companies simultaneously as four-year contracts with the companies expired at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

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