palordrolap @ palordrolap @kbin.social

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Are you somehow closer to the truth, or are you, like the rest of us, getting news from various sources and making your own mind up?

Because if so, my ad hominem kind of applies to all of us internet forum idiots and armchair politicians. Those of us without obvious declarations in our profiles could be argued to be the stealth ones, trying to swing people this way and that with who knows what agenda.

Why do we reach the conclusions we do anyway? Do we stand to gain anything?

At least in your case, it seems more obvious why you do, wearing your colours on your sleeve (metaphorically speaking) as you do.

If you would like an inkling of why I think the way I do: I'm never in favour of it when a larger power goes in, guns blazing, to override a smaller one, like there's literally no other way. And they always, always go too far, refuse to back down, and a huge number of people die senselessly because some ideologue thinks that a lesson needs to be taught. (Curiously, the ideologues themselves tend to be a long, long way from the bullets.)

It's happened in history so many times. My own damn country has been the aggressor. It wasn't right then, and it's not right when it's done now.

Please note that you literally cannot tell which conflict I'm talking about here. There's at least three.

Your profile picture (at time of writing) is literally a Russian cosmonaut. Your bias is showing. (Pretty sure your profile banner is from Russian propaganda too, though I'm sure you'll correct me if that's untrue.)

But I suppose that does make you more overt and honest. Not necessarily right, but definitely honest.

(Unless you're an anti-Russian double-bluff. I can't profess to be an expert on the psychology of this sort of thing.)

Surprising you haven't come across a man page that basically says "We couldn't be bothered putting everything in here, check out the info page on it instead."

I feel like I find myself on one of those every 6 months or so.

Standard Bash with a twist:

    
[ /full/path/~-prefixed where possible ]
 user@short-hostname $ _


  

(Underscore = cursor, not part of prompt, in case that's not obvious.)

It's similar enough to the most common Bash prompt that I don't feel totally alienated on a different system but different enough to be unique / useful.

The carriage return is deliberate. Paths can often get quite long in my homedir (if not other places), even with the ~ abbreviations. I can't imagine anyone likes starting to type a command more than halfway across a screen because of a long path; this was my solution.

The spacing is deliberate too. The brackets are hard to distinguish without the spaces either side of the path. On the second line, the 1-char indent and the spaces around the obligatory $ were the layout I found most pleasing.

There are embedded colour codes, but it's designed so that it looks fine without them, just in case.

As for other configuration, I use whatever comes with the distro I'm using, especially any command-completion, etc.

"The" Yorkshire dialect? That's asking for trouble. There's more than one. In fact you could argue there's as many as there are placenames in Yorkshire. And then there are the unspoken-of hybrids on the borders to other counties, even, horrors, Lcashire. [There's an old saying: "They're odd in Tod" (i.e. "people in Todmorden are strange"), and that'd be why. At least partly. Straddling the border and all that.]

There's a similar situation on the continent. Every village has its own dialect that can be radically different from the country's standardised language, and slightly different to the village next door, and like those in Yorkshire, they're also on the verge of extinction.

(I would like to have delivered this comment in my local dialect, but I regret that I don't know enough of it, even if I do unwittingly use a few words and phrases here and there with family. The closest you'll see here is the use of "there's as many" rather than "there are as many".)

There is at least one case of parents, told at a very early stage that they're expecting twins, deciding to remove and freeze one of the embryos for later reimplantation, so even with actual identical twins, they can be different ages.

But yes, transferring minds is not something we can do. I'm not sure it's something we'll ever be able to do.

Should it actually become possible, I assume that certain parties would even advocate for the unique life/lives of the clone(s). The argument would be that the clones' chance at life shouldn't be overwritten by other being's attempts at extension of life.

"Ethical minefield" doesn't even begin to cover it!

No more than identical twins are the same person.

Where possible, get things in writing. Even if you have to do most of the writing yourself.

"Dear boss, please confirm that, as discussed this time>, warnings A, B, C, etc. are not to be considered important and that we're pushing ahead." CC everyone on the team and maybe another boss or two if you dare. Wording it better than I have here is undoubtedly possible.

Then you can perhaps stall and work on other things until you get a response one way or the other.

And if that results in shitty boss behaviour or employment jeopardy you have a timestamped e-mail that you can point to as the beginning of the end.

Of course, if you really need the job and can't put yourself in that situation, instead document things for later. You can fire shots and warn customers on the way out rather than rocking the boat there and then.

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Were they sugar free and were they to help him do that thing that we often ask if bears do in the woods?

Half-baked idea: Rather than not putting people in, start letting long-servers out to make room.

Lots of problems with it, sure, hence half-baked, but there must be quite a few long servers whose early release would be less harmful than letting the unimprisoned receive no punishment (or even extended inconvenience) at all.

Or are prisons already full of people who are more harm than the people we can't fit in there any more?

I mean, if hospitals can kick people out when they need the bed...

Well, he is allegedly fond of the poop emoji.

Perfect tagline for that site: "Y tho"

...and they replace the alien with the fellow in the meme (who was a Pope apparently. Who knew.)

OK what's the deal with those m's and w's?? It looks like a standard seriffed BIOS/ROM font except for those.

Better quality

(Full disclosure: was found with reverse image search, linked from spez-site.)

Surprised this isn't a better known / prevented vector. I remember experimenting with variant IPs like this in IE6 over 20 years ago.

Checking now with Firefox and it auto-translates on the line below as I type one in. (Tried both 0x7f000001 and 2130706433 because they're both variants of 127.0.0.1, and if there's something bad running on that address you have other problems.)

Irrelevant nerd fact: 2130706433 is a prime number.

Because you gotta go fast.

At this angle, the attacker could pass for Ed Miliband.

Official support of KDE was dropped by the Mint team a while back, and I'm pretty sure LMDE has only ever been Cinnamon too.

Despite this, it is possible to install and use a different desktop manager.

KDE and all the usual KDE packages remain available from the Software Manager, and a different DM can be selected at the GUI login screen (once installed, of course).

If you don't even want to touch Cinnamon once, I suspect you could jump to a text-only terminal, enter apt install kde-standard etc. and then jump back to the GUI login to see if it knows about KDE. A reboot (or similar) might be needed? That should be all though. (Very reminiscent of deliberately using command line ftp or a Windows port of wget to get Firefox back in the day when people didn't want to touch Internet Explorer, but Cinnamon isn't that bad, surely? ;) )

(FWIW I don't mind it. I switched from Win7 back in the day and Cinnamon was similar enough that I felt at home. One day maybe I'll switch to something else. KDE probably won't be it, but you never know.)

Additional to the Mint suggestions: Mint tones down the "Ubuntu-ness" of their default distribution, but it's still Ubuntu under the hood. LMDE is the version of Mint based on straight Debian skipping the Ubuntu "middle-man" if that sounds more appealing.

Can't speak to compatibility one way or another, though.

My computer is old and made of parts from well-known manufacturers. Everything in it is pretty well-known to the open-source community at this point, so that might well be giving me a huge advantage with regard to drivers and such. (Case in point, I have an NVIDIA graphics card and Intel i7 from the tail end of the era where people wouldn't advise you against getting either, and in fact might have outright recommended them over AMD. Yes, that old. Legacy proprietary drivers work fine for me.)

The Tory line is usually about excluding "the other" who are the scapegoat for all the ills of society.

If you're working class and vote Conservative, you're wanting someone excluded from society who isn't you.

You believe that through sheer hard work you can climb the ranks of society occupied by other Conservative voters. Each person on their own merit. "The other" is some part lazy, corrupt, or unable to do things "the right way" and will make everything so much harder.

The proof of this is the very fact that you seem to be spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere in climbing the ranks of society, and "the other" is in plain sight. See?! See! It must be "the other" who is at fault!

What you fail or refuse to see is that from the point of view of societal ranks above your own, you're part of "the other". Nothing will change your mind about this, nor theirs.

Now, not to be completely partisan here, it's true that non-Tories have their own "the other".

When we're being nice, we call them Tories.

(Last part lapsing into silliness of course. There are plenty of non-Tories who have questionable prejudices of their own. Brexit going the way it did would appear to contain some proof of this.)