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Eugene V. Debs' Ghost @ eugenevdebs @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  • Yep if you have Russian blood in you you're guilty of all crimes of its government, even if you're against Putin.

    It's so cool and not at all xenophobic.

  • I trust the reliable and reputable experts of laws of EFF (literally founded to protect digital freedoms) and the ACLU (literally founded to protect the liberties that America tries to stop) then some random person thinking more laws is better.

  • I keep one in my keychain for the random instances I need one, especially when I'm away from home.

    It's come in handy more than I thought it would.

  • "You don't understand, this cop is on the side of the people. Please ignore all the others who weren't when we said they are. This is the good apple in the rotten bunch!!"

  • Common Catholic L, not a big shock. So much for a "He's a good Pope". Like there could be a good cult leader.

  • Coke was good, New Coke sucked, and when they went back to Coke Classic, people were so happy they didn’t even notice that they swapped out the sugar for corn syrup

    While I agree with the general statement of your comment, I do wish to be a bit "um actually 🤓☝️"

    The new product continued to be marketed and sold as Coke (until 1990, when it was renamed Coke II) while the original formula was named Coca-Cola Classic, and for a short time it was referred to by the public as Old Coke. Some who tasted the reintroduced formula were not convinced that the first batches really were the same formula that had supposedly been retired that spring. This was true for a few regions, because Coca-Cola Classic differed from the original formula in that all bottlers who had not already done so were using high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) instead of cane sugar to sweeten the drink, though most had by this time.[11]: 183 

    The putative switch was planned all along to cover the change from sugar-sweetened Coke to much less expensive high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a theory that was supposedly given credence by the apparently different taste of Coke Classic when it first hit the market (the U.S. sugar trade association took out a full-page ad lambasting Coke for using HFCS in all bottling of the old formula when it was reintroduced).[11] In fact, Coca-Cola began allowing bottlers to remove up to half of the product's cane sugar as early as 1980, five years before the introduction of New Coke. By the time the new formula was introduced, most bottlers in the U.S. had already sweetened Coca-Cola entirely with HFCS.[2]

    New Coke was a major fuck up, but it wasn't a cover up for swapping to HFCS. Reagnomics/shifting safety laws enabled it being used, before New Coke happened.

  • It was that bad because the media ignored it. Decades of "mistakes" of being racist and sexist, and then being in the oval office made him senile.

  • Never have, never will. I've become disillusioned with the platitudes that the DNC sells the public. If they want to win, give them something that makes them not consider fascist lies of how they'll make everything better.

    But instead its means tested, racist, classist solutions that only major revisions to laws and the way a government operates could fix. And no politician wants that.

  • Ah yes, the environment being fucked, causing issues with water, weather, crops, animals, is exactly the same as if you wondered off, you might have been attacked by an animal.

    Dumbest take possible. Don't have kids, you'll spread your stupidity and doom them to the climate change holocaust.

  • A more complex but more commonly used program is rsync

    rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive is treated differently than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive/ which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive/

    It's a great tool for making copies onto drives, even servers. But man you have to double check how each folder path is laid out, otherwise it'll write the files of one folder to the main drive, unorganized.

  • And people say I'm somehow selfish or pathetic for not wanting to give any possible kids an undue burden, even assuming they are a white cis-male able-bodied person, the exact thing a fascist wants in this nation.

    It's just foolish or genuinely spiteful to have kids in this time. Even if you can give them a good childhood, healthy, happy, nothing wrong with em at all, you can't fix the climate.

  • Sudo

    Jump
  • On my Debian system, I still get mail when I failed to use sudo in time on a machine, and that gets reported via mbox.

    First time ever, I had to look up "How do I check my debian mail?".

  • Democrats are the Leopards Eating Faces Party, Republicans are Let Leopards Run Free Without Regulation Party.

    Every time they give Republicans an inch, they'll take a mile. And then publicly cry "Giving them a mile was a mistake, we wanna walk back a foot!"

    If AOC is targeted, wanna bet enough Democrats vote yes to remove/arrest her in appeasement of Trump, thinking they'll be saved?

  • Man that was a bad look for him. I was 100% for the lockdown to help slow COVID. But it was just emblematic of the issues people had with him.

    He told everyone to be locked down and stay tight. He got to stay having parties with his friends in his wine houses in Napa Valley, which somehow got lighter restrictions for COVID policies and punishments for disobeying them.

    Jimmy Carter had his issues in the office, but he practiced what he preached. When he wanted America to stop spending so much gas during the various crisis, he had the white house turn down its gas he wore swears, publicly and privately.

  • Democrats learned from their mistake in 2008, allowing a younger person to enter the race and not tip the scales. They made sure to never let anything unplanned happen ever again. As long as I have been able to vote, I haven't had a fair primary for the party that is closest to my views on the nation level.

    Republicans didn't really expect Trump, and they liked that he drove in viewers with his batshit insane rants about Mexico. He brought in viewers and water cooler talk about "Did you see him talk about his dick at the debates?" The RNC rolled with the punches of Trump's lunacy.

    Doesn't help the media gravitated to him, giving him free press coverage. No such thing as bad news for fascists, after all. And while the media gave free attention to Trump, they somehow never covered Bernie when he was winning states and popularity votes, especially when he was more likely to defeat Trump in a 1v1.

    Just... "funny" how the media focused on fascism and ignored the person who wanted to make fascism unviable.

  • California doesn't really like brown people. Source: White Californian who is around discussions about brown people from liberals and conservatives.