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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Americans never change, huh? It's 1774 all over again (in which Americans got so salty about people speaking French that it contributed to them choosing revolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Act

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

No cjarsons in Friuli? Come on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even know we had reserves...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel very strongly against us being the 51st state -- I'll literally lay down my life before I let it happen -- but I don't think this should be illegal or banned. If this bothers you, vote with your wallet.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

The article should mention whether or not this would affect their sovereign wealth fund, and if so, in what fashion... Not to mention how EU environmental regulations may affect what is essentially a petrostate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Life expectancy is calculated based on people born at the time of the survey.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow, 86 in Madrid! Impressive.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're already starting to see astroturfing on Reddit, and I'm sure there's more on other platforms I don't use. Facebook must be even more of a cesspool than usual right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The american elite managed to convince ordinary americans that evil foreigners are to blame for all their problems.

No they didn't. Millions of Americans already believed this and were waiting only for permission to externalize it.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.

It's appalling to see how quickly American higher ed bent over for the fascists. Why would anybody study there? Come to Canada or the EU instead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

What did PP do for work before politics?

He worked at a call centre during university but literally never had a full-time job outside politics. Unfortunately for him he hasn't been able to leverage that extensive experience into having good political instincts or any semblance of charisma.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If anything, they haven’t condemned our fascist government enough. I think they’re still largely in shock.

There's no sense in pointless bluster. Much is happening behind the scenes.

 

Leopards will enjoy a well-deserved meal. A few choice morsels:

In the 2008 presidential election, more than 75% of Madawaska voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, a Democrat. Last November, Donald Trump received just over 50% of Madawaska’s vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the town in decades.

“My father had 13 kids. We all lived and worked on the farm. We were born and raised Democrats because back then, in the ’40s and ’50s, the Democrats were the working man’s party,” Morneault said. “When I told my dad I’d turned Republican, he called me a turncoat. A traitor.”

Both Morneault and Campagna say their politics are informed by their religion. The bulk of their support for Trump comes from his opposition to abortion, and much of their disdain for Democrats comes from their support for LGBTQ+ rights.

 

In which China tells Cuba that it should stop being so communist if it wants to succeed:

China publicly supports Cuba’s right to choose its own path to economic development “in line with its national conditions”, but privately Chinese officials have long urged the Cuban leadership to shift from its vertically planned economy to something closer to the Chinese model, according to economists and diplomats briefed on the situation.

Chinese officials have been perplexed and frustrated at the Cuban leadership’s unwillingness to decisively implement a market-oriented reform programme despite the glaring dysfunction of the status quo, the people said.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28766034

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

Based on recommendations in that thread, I also checked:

/etc/systemd/system
/etc/default/
vboxautostart.service
KDE "restore session" settings

Any ideas are much appreciated!

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Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

 

My wife and I are thinking of going to CR this winter, but we have a few other potential destinations on our shortlist. Talk me out of going to Costa Rica!

 

I don't think I've seen anyone else here with an 8:9 monitor, so I'll break the ice! The color theme is Layan Light; everything else is stock KDE.

 

I stumbled upon this community for the first time a few minutes ago. I like gardening and houseplants, but never heard of people recretionally growing mushrooms of the non-magical kind. Is it for food?

 

It seems the bot has stopped reposting content from Reddit?

 

This was recorded in Cleveland for a radio broadcast; the tape became available as a bootleg and is known as one of the most important ones in the band's history.

It's the first-ever recording of "Fly by Night" and only their third performance with Neil. We can hear snippets of what would later become "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" in the Working Man solo.

A quote from Geddy regarding bootlegs:

A lot of people say 'It takes away from record sales' but [...] the fact is that any fan who buys a bootleg is still going to buy your record. So, who is it harming?

 

Sorry if this community isn't the right place to ask — I got a USB webcam that works great in Teams, but lags tremendously (3-4 seconds) in Zoom. I doubt the Zoom app is introducing that lag on its own, but how would I troubleshoot this?

This is on EndeavourOS (basically Arch)

 

Good interview with Geddy about his autobiography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkvpWMTuUI

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