teawrecks @ teawrecks @sopuli.xyz

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If that were possible, then I think it proves their point that people are overreacting to the "fake news media".

But I don't think that will be possible, because it really seems like there's no way all of these piss poor executive orders won't have very tangible repercussions on the working class. It's already starting with govt workers being laid off, all retail chains telling shareholders that they'll be raising prices in response to tariffs, grocery prices continuing to rise, and people having loved ones shipped off to Guantanamo.

IMO, today it's protests, and in a year if it continues on this course, it will turn into outrage. Many many people are at their breaking point, not politically, but just from the ability to survive. He's going to say it's AntiFa, BLM, and Communists trying to stop him from saving the country, but only his core base will continue to accept that. Rhetoric and excuses don't put food on the table.

Is it using wayland? I think we were able to install KDE through the software manager, but only the X version.

If you had asked me Q1 a month ago, I would have said yes (and in general, it is a yes, with enough effort). But i run endeavour (arch) and my partner runs mint (which ships with the Cinnamon WM), and a few weeks ago I recommended that she try out KDE Plasma for its wayland support. Turns out, this is not something the mint community supports, you can't just install it through their software manager, and the mint forums will all tell you to switch to another distro that supports KDE. Meanwhile, on arch, I expect to be able to install it through pacman, choose it from SDDM, and I'm done. Maybe tweak something in my .config, but it's all downhill from there.

Just a datapoint. Some distros (and their communities) seem to be more receptive to experimentation than others, which can make trying new things easier/harder.

I would recommend fedora, debian, or endeavour + KDE/gnome. Good luck!

Thanks for sharing 👍

Also relevant: Americans think Bison and Buffalo are the same type of animal.

Hah! That's interesting! I wonder if that's purely by coincidence, or if there is some etymological reason for this.

I want someone to

• hand her a standardized test and ask her to strike out any questions she believes to be inappropriate for students to be asked, and once she has gone through and created a test that meets her standard of anti-wokeness,
• ask her to take it.

And I promise you she will fail it outright. I'll be impressed if she gets 30% of the questions right.

I think Lemmy has the capacity to have even more bots, because moderation is so inconsistent and underfunded. The big sites have the resources to fight bots, but ironically have an incentive to embrace them because it reflects well on DAU. IMO the only thing keeping bots off lemmy is a lack of ROI. Great, you spent how much to influence the views of a minuscule userbase in the corner of the internet no one goes to?

Still, it does feel sometimes like our share of braindead group think is higher than it should be...

Well.....there was a time when that was true. Now we've got a mostly dead internet. But yeah, if you're going to bother engaging because you believe they're real, then treat them like a person.

I take it this thread is the first time you've heard the phrase Right to be Forgotten?

Yeah, "Right to be Forgotten" is a bit of a misnomer. It's trying to be catchy, but oversimplifies the issue. At the end of the day it's a data privacy concern. It's less about someone else remembering you, and more about someone else resharing information they gathered about you with a third party without your consent. But that's harder to put a name to.

I think answering questions in the context of work is different, because then, yeah I agree, your goal isn't to answer their question, it's to solve their problem.

But if someone makes a thread asking "How do I serve a fileshare publicly", I think it's better to answer with something like, "Open this config, change these options, open these ports in your network, and restart these services. NOW, why do you want to do this? Because it might be a bad idea...etc." Assume that their usecase is private info, and that they are asking the question they mean to ask. Because when someone else who knows they need to do X comes searching for this thread later, you won't be able to ask about their use case.

I also made this adjustment in another comment, but I think at a minimum, if you're offering Y because you don't know how to do X, don't say "you shouldn't want to do X", instead be clear and say "I don't know how to do X, but Y might be an option for you". If no one reading the thread actually knows how to do X, then that's also useful info.

I had actually decided I'm not a fan of the Golden Rule for...reasons, and this is actually the first time I've heard that those reasons are referred to as the Platinum Rule. TIL.

Yes, the XY Problem (or in this case, the YX Problem).

I think it's still better to abide by the rule as I wrote it, because IMO it is actually more elucidating for someone to be able to explain how to do X as it is written, and then provide Y as a possibly preferable alternative, than for someone who maybe really doesn't know how to do X just propose Y instead.

It might even be the case that Y is the solution OP should be asking for, but 10y later when someone else finds that same thread, and Y isn't an option for them, the thread is much less useful.

At a bare minimum, don't say "you shouldn't want to do X", either explain how to do X, or be clear about the fact that you don't know how.

I do not claim to be an expert on this, just some dude with the internet, so answering that is going to be a team effort.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "borrowed" here. Do you mean money borrowed by the Treasury, or by people?

Yes, that's exactly the point I made.

The boomer generation is getting old. There are more people drawing from SS than paying into it.

• As a result, social security has been running a deficit since 2010
• In 2023 social security made up 1.3T, or ~20% of our deficit.
• According to a report last year, at this rate the social security fund will deplete in 2035

DOGE is shooting for optics, not actual savings. Cutting penny production is about $90M out of the $6.1T deficit. Which isn't as useful to the American people as the headline is for DOGE. Their goal is to get one of these headlines every month to make it look like they're doing something useful.

But 70% of our deficit is: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Military, and Interest payments on debt.

• They can't cut interest payments, period.
• They won't cut military, obviously, but there is probably a lot of low hanging fruit here that they should be scrutinizing.
• They might cut SS or Medi*, predictably eating the faces of their base.

And if they cut literally everything except for these, we'd still run over a $4T deficit. Meanwhile, the quality of life for Americans by cutting all that will get measurably worse.

So yeah, more likely is that they'll keep aiming for random little optics opportunities, while trying to find ways to funnel more of this money to Musk and his buddies via govt contracts.

They just have to say it's something Obama did that Trump is undoing. I actually think the less the right wing media even acknowledges it happening, the more successful it will be.

As they say, youth is wasted on the old...