floofloof

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Fascists like fascists.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

The only thing they really want to conserve is privilege.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Conservatism is poison. It's time humanity moved past it.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

Making cycling more difficult and adding hugely expensive roads and tunnels to encourage more fossil fuel vehicles. As usual, Conservatives head in the opposite direction from where we need to go.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Honestly I can't remember the details. It was a few months ago and it may have been just a temporary thing or a quirk of my installation. I think it had to do with some component relating to DBus not being present that I couldn't figure out how to fix.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had trouble using Flatseal to adjust permissions for Flatpak applications in Linux Mint. But that was a few months ago and may have been fixed. Other than that I never really had trouble with stuff being broken or unavailable in Mint.

I guess if you use very new hardware you might prefer a newer kernel than the one Mint uses. Or if you want the latest versions of packages, a rolling distro might suit you better. Or you might prefer a different filesystem. But if none of this bothers you, there's no need to switch. Mint generally works well.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Turns out that giving them tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons doesn't discourage them from using weapons.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32178924

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32178822

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21547846

A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32178822

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21547846

A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21547846

A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.

 
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

Say "Flock forks Flutter" ten times fast.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/11985139

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The AI is supposed to automate everyday, web-based tasks by taking screenshots, interpreting the information, then clicking buttons or entering text.

Like Microsoft's Recall. What a funny coincidence that all these new AI tools need to keep taking screenshots of what you're doing on your PC. That could reveal all kinds of things. Thank goodness Google and Microsoft have proven themselves to be utterly trustworthy.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why Republicans are intent on making sure voters' wishes no longer matter.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27097259

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

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