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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> Blair’s Labour—for all their faults—at least stopped the bleeding, Stopped the figurative bleeding and started the literal... But by stopped the bleeding, do you mean kept at levels comparable to those set by the previous conservative
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
It is pretty blatant dishonesty to call it defunded or reduced spending though, as much as some ideologues like to claim it is.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> At least until mushroom clouds dot the horizons and the nuclear winter starts. Then the sun won't rise for a few years. That's more fearmongering though. Nuclear winter doesn't mean blotting out the sun, it would be most
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
This isn't an argument though, you'd have to try to claim that a new scheme with a president (or whatever idiotic scheme the ruling class tries to foist on people) would cost less. Stripping most of that funding from the useless c
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
No, it's completely different, because this is not important at all. Evidence-free assertions of aforementioned grifters notwithstanding. But tacitly admitting a poor cost/benefit with a reductio ad absurdum argument is not a grea
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
When you die and go to secular-heaven you will be able to tell Saint Dawkins that you successfully resisted the billionaires by not giving them the pleasure of messaging your friends on their platforms, and will be permitted entry. Just don
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
A wasted opportunity for grievance peddlers and hand wringers to steal more limelight and derail public discourse from more important things, so they can hear themselves speak and act like they're bravely engaging battle at great risk
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> Yes, all kings are bad by definition. By what definitions? Just claiming without evidence that something is bad "by definition" does not make it so, or relieve you of the need to accompany your assertions with any reasoning.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Thanks for letting everybody know.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> It was an architectural mistake to start bypassing GLX and depending on DRI at each app, 1. Well I assert that it was not an architectural mistake. So that doesn't really move the conversation. 2. Whether or not it was a mistake,
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> There never going to fully "leave" Xorg (Debian still ships token ring software FFS so the idea that they'll stop shipping X is just a weird fantasy some people have for some reason) Obviously we're talking about us
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
More advanced in terms of supported features and hardware. Taking one off the top of my head that was relevant around the time Android was being developed, dynamic ticks which is important for low power operation. Linux supported this in 20
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Pitchforks can be lowered. From the article: > The sentencing change comes after her co-conspirator, Sunny Balwani, also saw two years shaved off of his 13-year sentence, with his projected date of release now 1 April 2034, according to
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> Sure, Linux is on many, many devices which have proprietary UIs. And there it does pretty well, because the kernel just provides generic functionality cheaply. It’s a commodity backend that could be swapped with another commodify backe
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> Waypipe requires software rendering from any server that doesn't happen to have its own headless GPU. X has to do that with DRI and client side rendering too, doesn't it? > As long as Wayland doesn't deliver a remote
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> This is about OpenBSD, whose team continues to maintain and update Xenocara. Did you reply to the wrong comment? How does this address what I wrote? > If I had to guess I would guess that when Linux distro grow tired of the new shin
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Network transparency at the GUI is not the way the "heavily networked world" is going though. In a lot of ways it doesn't scale. You want to administer and run things in a programmatic way, which means command line or an appl
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
The existence of Wayland does nothing to detract from the existence of X or its users or developers. Nothing stops anybody from maintaining and developing X. You can download and install X for your Wayland distro. Not sure that anybody who
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Fair.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
I know what you mean, it's just wrong. Spending on mental health is not tied to tax rates constitutionally such that politicians can't change it. They're probably glad not to change it because misinformed voters think it&#x27
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Weird in what way? There's a dozen with higher average minimum temperatures, several with not signifiantly more rain (or less, Texas).
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
That is not the reason that spending on mental illness can not be increased.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> But then Ronald Reagan (as governor of california) cut state mental illness funding. > Now clearly mentally ill people - who needed help - were turned away unless they were clearly "a danger to themselves and others". It&#
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> “There is a link between drug trafficking and organized retail crime,” Kobach told lawmakers in June. “Organized retail crime is a problem that is getting worse, not better. And it does not exist in a vacuum. These criminal enterprises
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
A damning indictment of government driven rocket programs in the US and the EU.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
I was sincere too. Hope you manage to cheer up and stop being so scared and hateful one day and wishing for god to smite people for not being the same way you are.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Such a bitter angry hateful sad way to go about your life. Wishing for god to punish people for not being a mopey sad sack like you are. Lot of projecting in your comment I'm afraid, none of it applies to me despite your seething armch
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
Wrong again, it was name calling.
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
That's not a crucial difference for me when you include all my other examples. There are things you might or could have done, but it's not reasonable to think you can make perfect decisions. Life is full of ifs and buts. There mi
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by throwawaylinux 3y ago
You got that right. I inform myself, I empathize with people, and I don't live in fear of things largely out of my control. Millions of people including my loved ones and likely I will die of a heart attack or cancer. Millions of elder

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