One of these days they’ll realize that putting restrictions on the weapons given to Ukraine is playing into Putins hands. They’re so fearful of “escalation” when Putin’s already escalated.

Putin knows opening up a second front by attacking another former SSR would force the rest of the world to acknowledge what they already know - that he has no interest in any peace he hasn’t solely dictated - and actually respond to the obvious threat. So, he’ll play the war of attrition against Ukraine, Trump will fellate him, Europe will do little, he’ll rebuild his army and go after the next former SSR. Rinse, repeat. Modern leaders have no stomach for dealing with a bully like Putin. Or even a stupid Billy like Trump.

Reminder that Citizens United was 2010. Just before the bump in the graph. Hard to argue it’s had any effect! /s

Well, not really po-tay-toh/po-tah-toh. They’re 2 different utilities that do 2 different things. If you ask the wrong question, you’re not going to get the answer you’re looking for.

What you’re asking about is an antivirus. It’s been awhile since I messed with this on my Linux systems, but last I looked, ClamAV was most commonly recommended. You can probably search for “Linux antivirus” and find some recommendations.

Generally speaking, the earlier recommendations to stick with official repos is excellent. When you venture outside of that, you increase your administrative overhead because those manually installed apps won’t stay patched with a simple “apt upgrade.” That said, a well written cron job could keep them up to date for you.

As for where to install things, it’s personal preference. I prefer using my home directory. If that doesn’t work, my fallback in /usr/local, which is either its own partition or symlinked to the /home partition). I mention the partitions because having separate /home and possibly /usr/local makes it easy for these customizations you install to survive a reinstall. Backups will also help with this.

You have to ask yourself what this system will be used for. If it’s a daily driver that you want to “just work” I would stick to official repos, and minimize customizations. Windows makes a lot of choices for you. Linux expects you to know what you want to do.

Just plain delusions. All kinds. Basically her brand.

… As they should.

… But they won’t.

And fuck every single one of the senators who voted to confirm him. They are a rubber stamp. Actually, that’s disrespectful to rubber stamps everywhere.

Narrator: They’re looking forward to voting for JD Vance to finally get that trickled down wealth.

Super old, but also a cockroach of a human being. They tend to outlive expectation.

Doesn’t sound like they aren’t saying it “feels like” anything. Sounds like they’re calling it what it absolutely is.

This is what “running the country like a private business” looks like. Line must go up.

There is a special place in Hell for all these self-professed “Christians.”

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I was thinking about this the other day. Awhile back I was talking to my mom about, I think his name is Haberman? There was an article about him awhile back that, among other things, took issue with him doing ads for athletic greens. She said she doesn’t hold that against podcasters since they have to pay the bills like anyone else. The article’s issue was that, given his background, he would know better that AG1 is basically placebo - that to get the advertised benefits, one would need to drink a prohibitive amount. While I hate ads, I also like not paying for some things. I don’t care that Robert Evans does Better Help ads. He’s not a psychologist or psychiatrist, so I know he’s just reading ad copy to “pay the bills.” I would have a larger problem if the hosts of Maintenance Phase did this. They’re also not professionals in those fields, but they have researched them pretty extensively; so I would expect them to know better.

It alright. Trump will welcome this persecuted white guy with open arms.

You make it clear that you don’t like new things. You really need to recognize that this makes it difficult for your loved ones to buy you gifts. I’m old enough that I generally don’t want anything for Christmas or my birthday. I have enough stuff. What I want is time to spend with the people I love. That doesn’t mean I refuse gifts or complain about them, because a gift means that someone saw something that made them think of you; and they bought it for you to celebrate your relationship. So even if it’s a bad gift, it’s coming from a good place.

I know autofs will work with nfs. Never used it with SMB. I’ve used it on a share of /home to specifically mount /home/user as needed (e.g., at login).

… Including…?

I’m getting so sick and fucking tired of people tying earnings potential to whether something is good or bad. Same thing with tying wealth to intelligence. It is so monumentally stupid and shortsighted.

First, it’s important for people to understand that democratic governance is compromise. At least when elected officials play by the rules (cough, Trump/GOP).

Second, I don’t think Mamdani was ever going to turn. NYC into a “socialist paradise,” like all the rich/right-wing/centrist Chicken Littles warned. The best he can hope to do is pull the state party back to the left. Maybe find some success with progressive policies and open the door for more progressive candidates.

Democrats have been trying for so long to get the mythical “moderate Republican” vote that they’ve effectively become the centrist party, and it’s allowed the GOP to move further and further to the right to where Tea Partiers are now the moderates! It’s good to see a true progressive win a major election, even if it is NYC (the city did also elect Rudy & Bloomberg to the post).

While I agree with the first half. Someone has to convince the Congress of the other half. Otherwise, it unfortunately absolutely is legitimate.