TSG_Asmodeus (he, him) @ TSG_Asmodeus @lemmy.world

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Here's step four of Mint's installation guide:

Integrity check

To check the integrity of your local ISO file, generate its SHA256 sum and compare it with the sum present in sha256sum.txt.

sha256sum -b yourfile.iso

Then we get this:

you still have to have a decent familiarity with the command line

I think this is, for most people I've spoken with (including coders in games, my kids, etc) the major issue -- they don't want to have to use the command line for things. It's fine if you can, but that alone is a massive wall for some people. People are exhausted right now, and having to learn a variety of command line prompts instead of just clicking on icons is too much for some people. That can be argued till you're red in the face, but I think a major reason so many people bounce off linux, myself included, is that it's not 'as easy as windows.' We need to stop telling people it is, because that means they won't try again later.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3758652-here-are-the-gop-senators-who-voted-against-the-same-sex-marriage-bill/

https://newrepublic.com/post/169392/full-list-republicans-vote-against-same-sex-marriage

https://www.cpr.org/2020/02/14/why-4-colorado-republicans-tried-and-failed-to-ban-gay-marriage-in-2020/

and here's some anti LGBT-youth stuff https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1144

You'll notice that in each and every case, the anti LGBT stuff is all Conservative, because Conservatives have that 'call to the past' or whatever; where 'the way things were' in the past is always better, and in the past women didn't have rights, LGBT people couldn't marry, etc.

Liberals don't actively fight against rights unless it's an overall popular voter opinion. Conservatives do regardless.

I say this as someone who's about as far left as one can go. I think you're A. grossly underestimating how useful 'letting change happen' is when it comes to popular opinion on rights, and grossly underestimating how much damage Conservatives clawing and gnashing at allowing rights for more people is.

Gay marriage was legalized under a majority conservative court system way back in 2003.

Again, under a Liberal government. And I keep saying over and over -- I know they phone it in and constantly give bigot 'swing voters' things they want. I've never said anything against that. It had a 60% approval by the public in 2015 when it was fully legalized. So again, for like the fifth goddamn time -- Liberal governments can be forced to do these things by popular will. Conservatives won't (I'm sure there's like two examples someone will bring up, again, exception proves the rule.)

To sum: Liberals have to be forced to allow LGBT rights by popular opinion. Conservatives do this.

I'd say it was liberals that made it happen once there was overwhelming public support, which again, is performative, but drastically different from actively suppressing it. Someone has to pass the things into laws, and in the US it's either Republicans or Democrats, and across the board any services those poor people do have was introduced through Democrats.

Again, under duress, I don't argue otherwise. Up here in Canada it was the Liberals being forced to put Healthcare as a 'universal'* right by the NDP (our Left wing party), then the NDP again to force Liberals to put Dental care through. But they actually did it, and the Conservatives don't.

Liberals never actually fix what conservatives screw up.

They do, it's just they mostly concern themselves with the economic screw ups, less-so the rights ones.

Think 'gay people can marry and have kids to give us more economic slaves' vs. 'gay people can't marry, can't have kids, and we're going to use them as a scapegoat for our issues.'

I think the storytelling alone it manages to get across makes it top 3.

That said I always liked this one:

Cops don’t protect public safety, they protect capital.

I mean I know that, and you know that, but apparently they don't know that.

Can someone explain this to me?

The Crown corporation said last week it lost $315 million before tax in the third quarter, larger than its $290-million loss a year earlier.

The financial results put Canada Post on track for “another significant loss” in 2024, which would mark the seventh year in a row in the red.

Who gives a fuck if an essential service 'loses money'? Why is this never levelled at Firefighters, or this would be nice, Cops? Why the fuck can't we defund cops? After all they're a massive draw on our resources for study after study showing minimal positive impact. In fact, let's dive into that.

First, here's where the data is from.

1. Although perceptions of the role of police are changing, crime control and order maintenance are still viewed as primary police roles by the public and the officers themselves. Despite this widely held perception, a considerable amount of research indicates that "crime control activities generally occupy less than 25% of police officers' time, and for most officers, this percentage is considerably lower" (Griffiths & Verdun-Jones, 1994, p. 71).

2. The Edmonton Neighbourhood Foot Patrol Program represents a return to the tradition of the earliest days of policing where citizens are expected to police themselves. The program was started in 1987 in 21 of Edmonton's busiest neighbourhoods (Ministry of the Solicitor General, Correctional Services of Ontario & Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada (SG, CSO & SGC), 1993, p. 27). The program's objectives are to reduce calls for service, improve public satisfaction, increase officers' job satisfaction and solve community problems (Griffiths & Verdun-Jones, 1994; SG, CSO & SGC, 1993). An evaluation of the program, conducted between 1991 and 1993, found that property related offences decreased 26%, insurance claims for break-and-enters decreased 17%, calls placed to the dispatch centre decreased 39% and the number of reports taken over the phone decreased from 54,000 to 11,000 (Cassels, 1994, p. 73).

3. One difficulty arising from the expectation to maintain a crime control orientation while being asked to perform other duties by the public is the creation of considerable confusion and uncertainty among police officers about their proper role. One study found that officers in an Eastern Canadian department had considerable difficulty responding to a survey question about their role; 38% did not define any particular role in their work, 12% said their role is primarily public relations-social service work and 9% defined it mainly in terms of traffic law enforcement. Only 41% indicated that their prime role is law enforcement under the Criminal Code (Griffiths & Verdun-Jones, 1989, p. 59).

So why the fuck are we talking about the viability of postal workers getting raises when replacing cops with basic citizens increases the amount of crime prevention? These people don't even know their own job description!

I'm sure we'll read all about this in the news, any day now.

Swords Bard/Swashbuckler Rogue, I'm finally going to be able to make my favourite swordsman.

I am so psyched for Swashbuckler, oh man.

British Isles isn't the same as Britain.

Specifically:

The British Isles is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Continental Europe. It includes Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Shetland, Orkney and thousands of smaller islands. Traditionally the Channel Islands are included, though they are geographically closer to mainland continental Europe, off the French coast of Normandy. This, in part, has resulted in the term being disputed.

Man this is, I am pretty sure, the most irony laden post I've seen on Lemmy.

Users of Lemmy resort to downvoting when they can’t defend their arguments.

You got absolutely obliterated because you posted two links to 'articles,' one of which is just some guys blog, and then refused to defend anything the articles said.

Also you don't 'defend' a counter argument. You started the argument, offered a blog as 'proof' of an issue, when pressed on what the blog said you backed down and refused to defend it, and you just accuse everyone around of you of not having independent thought.

It is a fact that humans are more eager to show their disapproval than approval for something, like in restaurant reviews, where the only people who bother to leave a review are those with bad experiences.

YOU LITERALLY DID THIS. A guy said 'The Godot Engine is getting better every day.' in a post about Microsoft screwing up an app and you, yes, you started complaining about the team behind the engine! You're like the living embodiment of irony, hahahahahaha

🤘 666 minutes, that's metal! 🤘

Kaboom is a regular poster on the conservative community on Lemmy and also an actual fascist. Is it really at all surprising they’re complaining about it?

To all you bi/gay/etc younglings out there, never get stuck with crazy dick.

That is until they kicked everyone out for being “nazis”

Point to a comment where I show support for nazis.

You are the one who keep bringing up Nazi's. You can't bring it up, have people agree it's good to remove Nazi's, and then say "whoa I support the people kicked out, I don't support nazi's" after you yourself said they were kicked out for being nazis.

You're your own unreliable narrator and it is both hilarious and embarrassing.