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Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago.
Well, I really tried to daily drive the Freerunner, but it was just not there: unstable software paired with unfinished buggy hardware. Im still grateful for the project. It was my gateway to a professional career in embedded linux development.
I remember reading about these Openmoko devices before most people (certainly I) owned smartphones.
I thought at the time it was the most awesome idea ever, especially because I wasn't used to mobile Internet or even much computing. Now I am typing this from an Android tablet on a train in a foreign country without WiFi, so the world has definitely changed.
The federal government is putting up a cool $105 million toward expanding high-speed Internet in rural and northern Saskatchewan, according to Innovation, Science and Economic Development today.
Absolutely but the Saskatchewan party is doing everything they can to slowly sabotage the telecom by using shoddy contractors as much possible to privatize the crown corporation even though Sasktel gave them a budget surplus.
Hello all- I am seeking help trying to figure out why my internal microphone isn't being detected. I have followed a lot of troubleshooting audio guides such as this one and none of it has worked.
I'm on Pop_OS, with wayland, on an Asus laptop,
Here is more info if anyone could by chance help me
arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-07-03 15:19:48 EDT; 24h ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 2192 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 18486)
Memory: 16.4M
CPU: 15.088s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─2192 /usr/bin/pipewire
Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os systemd[2182]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os pipewire[2192]: mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply:>
lines 1-13/13 (END)
do anything for you? (The numbers are for sound card 0, 1, and 2. It looks like, if anything, only 0 would be relevant for you, but you can try the others just in case.)
This command cleans the controls created by applications.
It was a bit of a long shot experiment to begin with. The commands I posted can be useful when an audio device suddenly stops working after it has been working initially during a session, but since your problem is most likely about your device not being recognized at any time, it's not too surprising that they don't do much. Just worth the try.
It is probably due to this change in the Linux kernel. That broke analogue microphone inputs on lots of systems. After that change, there were quite a few additional patches fixing those problems on individual systems (e.g. this one), but there are still lots of broken setups around. I have no idea what the original change was about exactly. It appears to have broken more things than it has fixed, but what do I know.
Yes. Apparently the issue happens with both internal mics and mic connectors where you attach your own mic. The seconds link I provided points to a fix for a specific laptop that fixes a non-working internal mic.
No, it is not dumb. My second link was just an example to a fix of one particular laptop where this issue occurred. I mentioned all this just to point to the issue that might be causing your problem. I'm afraid this probably does not fix it for you. Maybe it has been fixed with a more recent kernel. You could check which version you are running (by running uname -a from a terminal) and maybe update to a newer one if your distro allows that. Alternatively you could downgrade the kernel to a version before this issue was introduced (a 6.10 kernel should work okay). Of course downgrading should only be a stop-gap solution.
I'm trying to see if maybe i've done something where I have pipewire, pulseaudio, wireplumber all set up at the same time? I also don't really understand the difference between them
Okay, so this is one of Asus's consumer models that fits in the "Windowstop" category, meaning a lot of the hardware is going to be windows-only for various reasons.
It's got an ALC272 which IS supported, but that doesn't mean the microphone will be, especially if it's on the USB bus for whatever reason.
Couple questions:
1) Do other microphones work, just not internal? 2) Does your volume control work as expected 3) Does the webcam work, and does the internal microphone work only when the webcam is engaged? 4) What do apps like Discord or Zoom detect as available for your inputs?
As a test, install pavucontrol and qasmixer. Open pavucontrol, and check ALL the input settings (there are many combos). If nothing there shows activity, launch qasmixer, select the 'hw' view on the right, then try selecting different mixers and see if one finally clicks.
If any of these are successful, your mic is detected, and your mixer settings are messed up so it's not being enabled as an input sink.
If none of these work, you're going to have to dig restart, then run sudo dmesg and grep through looking for information regarding audio devices, or similar errors to see if it can't detect it.
From the product specs, it looks like it might have Harmon Kardon speakers, which may also tie into the microphone, and that's going to be problematic if it's a USB device for a number of reasons I won't dive into. Overall, this model just seems to be problematic from digging around. Example: reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/160…
when i go on zoom or discord there is no available inputs
the internal mic used to work but then I had to do some update and now its not.
Is there a chance that there is some config file that is blocking something? like i made some kind of setting in a config file that is making this happen?
Hello all- I am seeking help trying to figure out why my internal microphone isn't being detected. I have followed a lot of troubleshooting audio guides such as this one and none of it has worked.
I'm on Pop_OS, with wayland, on an Asus laptop,
Here is more info if anyone could by chance help me
arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-07-03 15:19:48 EDT; 24h ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 2192 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 18486)
Memory: 16.4M
CPU: 15.088s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─2192 /usr/bin/pipewire
Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os systemd[2182]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os pipewire[2192]: mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply:>
lines 1-13/13 (END)
Dumb question: do you have a key on your keyboard that disables the microphone? I don't have my laptop in front of me, but I know there's a key that disables the trackpad and another that disables the camera. I realized that I'd accidentally hit those by going through something similar to this.
You definitely seem to have what looks to be the right audio device getting detected.
The device that is "unplugged" should be the 3.5mm jack on your laptop (if you have one) not the internal mic.
My first guess is that your audio device is in the wrong mode. If it is currently set to something like "stereo output" change it to "stereo output+mono input" or "stereo duplex" from pavucontrol or audio settings.
Audio devices can have multiple modes or "profiles" that determine what they do.
For my headset I have:
For my internal sound card I have:
If I set my headset to one of the options that doesn't have "+ Mono Input" the mic stops working and doesn't even show up in settings and apps anymore. Same if I use the "Stereo Output" mode on my internal sound card. They must be set to a mode with both output and input enabled to work.
I can see this from "Sound" in my KDE settings, but you can also configure this in the "Configuration" tab of pavucontrol.
Do I really have to have written "stop changing the defaults"? Like if Firefox kept changing its keyboard shortcuts would that be non-annoying as long as you can reset them? Oh yes, they DO that.
At least KDE Qt is working on making their apps cross-platform. Unfortunately most GNOME apps I know of receive updates for a couple years & then die off like this, and will occasionally get replaced. I think the issue partly stems from the pain points that have come with GTK+.
I'm not sure if that's true. The mint team has their X-Apps project which is designed to be a cross DE GTK app initiative. Having written GTK software I also haven't found many pain points myself. Most of the problems with gnome seem to be the gnome team and not the surrounding projects.
Evince is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript.
The gitlab repo for Evince was created May 22, 2018 and looks to be last updated yesterday.
Papers:
Papers is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and DejaVu.
The gitlab repo for Papers was created March 29, 2022 and looks to be last updated 3 months ago.
I think in my years of using Gnome I've never used either, and had to search apps to see if I even had them installed. I have Evince under the fantastic title "document viewer" which is fixed in that commit yesterday. As for Papers, I don't even have it installed on 49-alpha.
I had no doubt that it was, I guess my post was more that they have both been around for a bit doing close to the same task. So for the people pretending this is "Gnome abandoning things like they always do" I think it's kind of silly to not expect a "default" app that is more than 7+ years old to be replaced with something newer.
Especially because these are the "default" apps that I would expect to be replaced once someone learns the DE and outgrows the defaults.
Why? I haven't been following smart glasses development at all, but a camera is one of the things I would just expect it to have, and would be surprised if it was missing. Like, isn't that a requirement for some kinds of AR? Seems like if you are against smart glasses with outward cameras, then you're really just against smart glasses period.
Laurent Borzillo is secretary general of the French association Forum de défense et de stratégie. He was awarded the FRQ's PBEEE postdoctoral fellowship (2023-2024) and, in recent years, has been a co-recipient with various colleagues of grants from the French, German (DAAD), and Canadian governments for various projects on the politicization of defense issues, disinformation, elections in Europe, and the transatlantic security architecture.
The article touches on some history, terminology, and wider discussion. I didn't pull out any parts for this one since it felt important to read in full and excerpts ended up losing context
Through its numerous statements and decisions, the Trump administration is breaking with the American hegemony that has long structured the international order. The country will emerge weakened.
Laurent Borzillo is secretary general of the French association Forum de défense et de stratégie. He was awarded the FRQ's PBEEE postdoctoral fellowship (2023-2024) and, in recent years, has been a co-recipient with various colleagues of grants from the French, German (DAAD), and Canadian governments for various projects on the politicization of defense issues, disinformation, elections in Europe, and the transatlantic security architecture.
The article touches on some history, terminology, and wider discussion. I didn't pull out any parts for this one since it felt important to read in full and excerpts ended up losing context
Through its numerous statements and decisions, the Trump administration is breaking with the American hegemony that has long structured the international order. The country will emerge weakened.
I am new to linux knows very very basic linux like using it for more then year know how to sort little issues etc. I have my laptop with me having specs as following: **Hp Elitebook 840 G4 Core i5 7th Gen 8gb Ram 256 gb SSD Full Hd 1080 maybe resolution Currently using Fedora KDE Edition **
Use for basic working sometimes it gets load sometimes but still a good one.
Help me if you can install Tekken 7 or if not then tekken 3 will work for me as well.
I dont litterly know anything fully technical so kindly if you gonna tell me explain it to be with step by step detailes please and let me know each thing. It'll be great help 🤞
Note: If Tekken 7 can't be installed on fedora or need anything else to change, kindly recommend me, mostly i have used debian based systems and rest i have is fedora so if anything is nkt suitable, let me know please.
Gonna post in multiple communities to get extra help. Thank you
Sure. The steam version is easiest, just install steam, get the game through steam and it should just work. Heres a website that tracks compatibility with linux through proton, valve's solution to running windows games, its installed by default when you get steam: protondb.com/app/389730
It has a pretty simple GUI and you can click your configs together.
At first you have to define a "bottle" which simply represents an virtual environment for your Windows-Application or Game.
You can define which Windows Version you want to create and it asks you, if it is a Desktop-App or a Game you want to run. And based on that it will create an environment prepared for your Individual situation.
Idk if you have the specs to run tekken 7 but you can try if you already own the game. sudo dnf install steam Then open steam and go to the settings look for compatibility and make sure thats on. Then try running tekken 7.
If tekken 7 is to laggy you can try tekken 3. If you want to try that I can type up instructions. You can either install the PC version or use a ps2 emulator and play the ps2 versions. I'd recommend the ps2 emulator because its easy and the games are easy to find.
Im all for piracy, but cant OP make it kinda obvious at least instead of scaring away New users by making it look like Linux is way too hard
Also, there are like thousands of threads about this already on other Forums made for piracy, and its still the same: download steam or Heroic, add New game, select the exe, and play
Oh I completely agree with you. Second problem being it also looks like they're asking how and where. The resources are there, and it's still relatively simple regardless of the OS. Just sadly not the best community for this sort of question. They're going to need more than just an emulator for instance lol.
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Starbucks, Chips, irgendein gekauftes Backwerk, Fertiglebensmittel sind jetzt nicht gerade günstig (vor allem wenn man, wie abgebildet, Markenprodukte kauft). Das Problem ist, dass günstige ballaststoffreiche Lebensmittel oft ziemlich viel Aufwand und auch Fähigkeiten erfordern, um daraus schmackhafte Mahlzeiten herzustellen (und wenn man alleine wohnt muss man dann tagelang Kohl, Salat o.Ä. essen). Naja, und manche Obstsorten sind wirklich teuer, z.B. Beeren.
Insgesamt wird die rechte Seite erst dann wirklich teuer, wenn man das Essen von anderen herstellen lassen will.
Salat der Wahl + Ein Feta oder Mozarella (oder was danach aussieht, aber nicht so genannt werden darf, egal) + ein paar Cherrytomaten oder eine große Tomate kleingeschnitten + Ein paar Nüsse oder Sonnenblumenkerne oder Kürbiskerne o.ä.
Alles schnippeln und zusammenwerfen. Olivenöl und Essig dran, und ein bisschen Salz und Pfeffer.
Dauert keine zehn Minuten und mehr als Würfel schneiden muss man auch nicht können.
Ja, und den Salat kann man dann 3 Tage lang essen wenn man alleine wohnt. Bei mir fliegt dann selbst bei den kleineren Salaten (z.B. abgepackter Feldsalat) idR die Hälfte weg.
Ein Salatkopf hält sich auch einige Tage frisch und du kannst die für dich passende Menge Salat jeweils frisch zubereiten. Ein halber Feta oder Mozarella kann auch geöffnet zwei drei Tage überstehen.
Da es nur zehn Minuten dauert, das zusammenzuwerfen, bist du immer noch schnell als bei Nudeln mit Pesto.
Ich weiß, ich nur ein lustiges Bild. Aber ich habe so viele Gedanken dazu, das ich nun Stichpunkte raushauen muss. Bitte nicht zu hart runter wählen, ich spitze zu und meine nichts davon böse:
Kochen ist Selbstermächtigung
Wer keine Zeit hat um einmal am Tag 45 Minuten Essen zu kochen setzt die Prioritäten falsch
Kalorien sind billig, Nährstoffe teurer
Peinliche Deutsche kaufen so billig wie möglich und werden dann krank und dick.
Übergewicht ist eine ganz natürliche Reaktion auf ein unnatürliches Nahrungsangebot
Nein danke ist ein mächtiges Werkzeug
Überall Singles mit kalten Küchen! Vielleicht ist die Hyper-Individualisierung eine kapitalistische Falle, die absichtlich traurige, einsame Konsumenten produziert. Zurück zu Punkt 1.
Peinliche Deutsche kaufen so billig wie möglich und werden dann krank und dick.
Wenn man sich die linke Seite des Posts ansieht: Marken-Coffee-to-go, Marken-Cola, Marken-Chips, Marken-Sandwich sind aber gar nicht so billig wie möglich. Das gibt es alles billiger von Eigenmarken und Konkurrenzfirmen. Vielleicht ist der Post da einfach nicht akkurat, aber die Produkte würden ja nicht angeboten wenn sie niemand kauft.
Überall Singles mit kalten Küchen! Vielleicht ist die Hyper-Individualisierung eine kapitalistische Falle, die absichtlich traurige, einsame Konsumenten produziert.
Wo will man auch heutzutage noch Partner treffen? Bei Tinder? Im immer seltener werdenden Dritten Raum (ein Ort, an dem Leute sich aufhalten können ohne Geld bezahlen zu müssen)? "Hyper-Individualisierung" klingt, als hätten die Singles einfach nur keine Lust sich Partner zu suchen.
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Stylus taps are registered as well as button presses (on the last cursor position). Cursor doesn't change position. "Test tablet" in "Drwaing Tablet" KDE settings only displays Stylus release events. X11 works. Finger touch still works.
Solution
Rename or delete ~/.config/kcminputrc, or remove config section related to "Pen" (not tested). Deleting the config resets other mouse pointer settings like speed, device enabled/disabled and calibrations. Then log out and log back in.
Precursor
Testing pen in "Test tablet" section.
Other attempted fixes
Log out and back in - Fail Reboot - Fail Moving cursor on login screen and during login process - Fail Insert and remove pen again - Fail Shutdown and disconnect battery (in UEFI) - Fail Removing kcminputrc after diffing with Timeshift snapshot and filtering for interesting files with grep - Pass
System info
OS: Arch Linux x64 Host: Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga Kernel: 6.12.30-1-lts DE: Plasma 6.3.5 Libinput: 1.28.1-1 Last full system upgrade: 2025-05-28
It’s days like this that make it hard to work in news — and, for you, I’d imagine it’s also hard to listen to it.Because a lot of bad stuff has come out rece...
I watched it, there's no mention of donating to anyone in this video and no donation link in the description aside from her standard Patreon and social media info.
No, she is saying your power is in pressuring MPs and other politicians to push back against C-2, push back on Carney being an American suck-up, supporting sanctions on Israel, boycotting products and services that support the genocide and Trump's deportation scheme, push companies to drop Gardaworld for their involvement in constructing the concentration camp, and on. The point is that all this bad doesn't take away what options we have as individuals to resist it.
If you could please refrain from spreading misinformation based on unfounded hunches, I would appreciate it.
Campaigners for the nuclear test veterans have pleaded with Sir Keir Starmer's Government to keep the promises Labour made in opposition, with veterans and their families subjected to a lifetime of illnesses linked to radiation exposure.
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Yea, I truly believe that's one of the biggest blockers.
We can fix a lot of things ourselves or just with time like, lack of content, engagement etc. but without a hard-line against the tankies like wide defederation of .ml (or at least just the big ones like .world) fixing the outside reputation is going to be a tall order. Even with PieFed
There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally.
Economies also suffer from the lack of tracking. We extract, process and then landfill and incinerate trillions of dollars of materials per year. Instead, these could be recirculating, creating new jobs and reducing reliance on global trade.
To shift to alternative, circular models, we need better data on local and global waste management.
My research demonstrates that more local waste tracking through digitalization could yield multiple benefits. It could help track hyper-local recycling and reuse, initiatives that are usually considered too small and burdensome to include in national waste tracking efforts.
And compared to national waste tracking, localized waste tracking could also provide more timely and relevant insights on the effectiveness of policies, infrastructure investments and education.
There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally.
Economies also suffer from the lack of tracking. We extract, process and then landfill and incinerate trillions of dollars of materials per year. Instead, these could be recirculating, creating new jobs and reducing reliance on global trade.
To shift to alternative, circular models, we need better data on local and global waste management.
My research demonstrates that more local waste tracking through digitalization could yield multiple benefits. It could help track hyper-local recycling and reuse, initiatives that are usually considered too small and burdensome to include in national waste tracking efforts.
And compared to national waste tracking, localized waste tracking could also provide more timely and relevant insights on the effectiveness of policies, infrastructure investments and education.
Because waste and recycling is a provincial matter (like many things)... saying Canada doesn't have a standardized federal framework is fine, but kind of a shallow take considering this article didn't bring up any provincial examples at all.
BC is on the ball with recycling, reporting and auditing composition.report
Ontario is trying to standardize their system and it puts cost and collection responsibilities on producers supposedly, but it could lead to lower recovery rates.
Alberta or Saskatchewan probably don't care that much, or will support it to the extent it helps oil and resource companies.
In 2024, Recycle BC successfully collected and managed over 208,000 tonnes of residential packaging and paper, resulting in a recovery rate of 83.3%. Over
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It's almost like they tell stories...for money. Stories that they are created to get people to pay for them. It's almost disgusting the way they craft it for profit...so sickening!! The fact that they use heroic characters and procedural development of them to win against tyranny is total proof they are liberals trying to get people to believe in a liberal agenda!!! 🙄
Lovely, always great to read well thought out comments by people who took the time to try and understand what's being said instead of going by the headline and their preconceived notions.
Also love the language, really makes me want to participate more in this community!
Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.
Allows your company to implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases with high requirements of business continuity.Taking an online hot backup of PostgreSQL is now as easy as ordering a good espresso coffee.Version 3.14.
By #MEE staff Published date: 3 July 2025 20:22 BST Last update: 07:00 EDT
"The day before she was released, on Monday, Sakeik was awoken by guards and told that she was going to be removed from the detention facility in Texas, where she was being held. An officer told Sakeik that she was being deported, but then she was not.
Sakeik was first threatened with deportation on 12 June when ICE agents brought her to the tarmac at Fort Worth Alliance Airport and told her they were deporting her to “the border of Israel.”
A US federal judge had previously ordered that Sakeik could not be deported."
'Ward was arrested and almost deported simply because she is Palestinian and ICE thought they could get away with it' - Chris Godshall-Bennett, lawyer representing Sakeik
A Palestinian woman was released from custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the US government tried for the second time to deport her despite a federal court ruling prohibiting her removal.
A bit more precise: “Anaconda will no longer support installing in UEFI mode on MBR-partitioned disks for X886. While the UEFI specification technically permits booting from MBR (msdos) disks, in practice this configuration is unreliable, inconsistently supported by firmware, and not tested in Fedora.” which I think is the proper thing to do.
Thank you for the clarification! I don't super understand your clarified version either but it helps me conclude this seems unlikely to be important to me or affect my use case 😅
It shouldn’t, you probably have a modern setup. Super high level is that: UEFI is like a mini os on the mainboard, replacing the old bios chips that were very limited, including on partitions on disks: max 2 physical (whereby the 2nd was used to embed “soft” partitions), and any boot code was confined to cramped spaces, below certain amounts of blocks and cylinders etc, hence the peculiar /boot partition. UEFI had to support this of course, but it’s at best like wearing clothes that you accidentally washed at the highest temperature: bleak, way too tight in uncomfortable places and prone to tearing.
This year, like every other year, Americans will celebrate Independence Day with flag-waving, and parades, and fireworks. The political system the flag and the parades and fireworks are supposed to represent is in tatters, but everybody likes a party.
For Americans, the madness gripping their country is a catastrophe. For non-Americans, it is an accidental revolution. This Independence Day, the world is declaring its independence from the US.
The lesson the Americans once taught the British, they are teaching the rest of the world: there are no necessary nations. There are no exceptional countries. There are no permanent global orders
I washed mine in a standard washer/dryer for about two years before a pouch tore and it began to leak weighted material. I am still unclear if it was a washer/dryer damage issue or if my new dog with God damn demon nails poked a hole in it. I honestly think it was the dog.
Most should be machine washable in cold water on the gentle/delicate cycle without any addons (no fabric softener, certainly no bleach) before tumble drying on low, which you may need to do twice and could also be where I fucked mine up (I dried it on Hellscape Hawt one time.).
Regarding your mention of an outside or slipcover, mine did not have that. If you do not see an obvious set of snaps or zippers, do not assume that your does either.
I definitely remember getting it inside a slip cover, like I had to intentionally maneuver it into one so i guess its time to get it out haha. See you guys in a few weeks while i attempt THAT haha
Yeah I have the same worry. We have a weighted blanket that we still haven't washed and it bothers me. I don't need to wash it regularly but it would be good to give it an initial wash after purchase, but I'm worried about damaging my front loader 🙁
After the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” passed both the House and Senate, one social media user protested, “17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance.”
Van Orden responded to the post, “YES!”
After he received backlash, the post was quickly deleted, with the congressman claiming he had meant to reply to a different post.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden claimed that a post celebrating that "18 million kids just lost school meals" and 17 million people "lost health care" was made in error.
Last week, just days after Israeli forces killed three men while intervening to protect settlers violently storming the Palestinian village of Kafr Malik in the occupied West Bank, an unusual wave of condemnation swept through Israeli politics and me…
I know this is a bit controversial, I've done a tiny bit of research on it. But honestly, until last night, I didn't realize people used anything but 1:1.
From what I've read, most older recipes are 2:1? And most modern recipes are 1:1? What do you use?
I use 2:1 when I bother to heat it in a pot, but recently I've taken to just filling sugar and boiling water into the intended container and shaking it every couple of minutes, and that method leads to somewhat more watery syrup. Still more sugar than water, though.
If a recipe needs more dilution, you can always add water while mixing the cocktail. I do that pretty often.
A StatCan spokesperson said this is the lowest proportion of exports heading south of the border since the agency started keeping track in 1997, excluding the pandemic years.
PikaOS maybe too "hobby oriented" to expect "sleep stability", but I understand most/all bugs to be debian or kde upstream ones. Is gnome still much better at stability? Is there a distribution that fixed sleep problems for you? open vs closed nvidia drivers?
Are there motherboard manufacturers that suck less at linux?
I have a Gigabyte motherboard, and the only issue I've run into—even with Arch—is this specific B550 board uses some third-party sensors, and the necessary it87 module doesn't load and isn't included by default. This makes it impossible to utilize tools like CoolerControl to manage fan curves.
Thankfully, some kind soul manages a DKMS module via the AUR, in spite of both Gigabyte and the IC manufacturers being less than helpful.
No issues with Debian / Ubuntu on many laptops since early 2010s, mostly with Intel graphics. I had a Vostro 1400 with Nvidia and it also resumed fine, but that was 2009-11 so the experience with the Nvidia driver from that time is likely irrelevant.
System76, Framework, even Dell officially supports Ubuntu in limited cases.
I'd just try a couple different distros and see which one has the fewest issues for you. If you like, you can pay for official support from Dell or Canonical. If you do identify an issue in a supported scenario (Ubuntu version + device model) they will actually help you troubleshoot and resolve the issue. RHEL is the same if you want to pay a bit more.
I'm running CachyOS with Gnome, Gigabyte motherboard, AMD processor, closed Nvidia drivers, and sleep works just fine. I haven't had any issues in that regard.
Could try Fedora based like Bazzite or just regular Fedora. Obviously a sample size of 2 isn't saying much, but Bazzite is less buggy with the hardware on my HP laptop, and my destop with an Nvidia GPU.
Before asking for another distro, you should figure out, what is the root cause of the trouble you observe. Usually sleep/wake up under Linux are highly hardware dependent. Even the SteamDeck, which has payed first level hardware support by Valve, has sometimes trouble waking up properly after sleep, at least in desktop mode. Good luck!
A problem with PikaOS is that the log files seem bad or I couldn't find the right one. Lots of seemingly amateur errors in log (no permission for system to write to system) that don't seem to lead to imminent crash. Log files don't pick up having to hit power switch maybe.
My main question was the easy "did a distro switch solve sleep issues for anyone"? Maybe switch to Mint would at least have more google hits on solving issues? Someone downvoted the "switch to x11 graphics driver before sleep" try, and I'm losing patience on tracking it down as you suggest.
Not sure if it is applicable, but wouldn't it be an option to use the Fedora Workstation Live CD, mount your swap partition into the live system and send it to sleep via SystemD?
This should give you feedback with a fairly recent kernel and Gnome has (at least for me) been the desktop option with the least amount of bugs I encountered.
Waking up from sleep is of course part graphics card/drivers, and BIOS code. My husband had his share with his nvidia card crashing the system when coming up from sleep under Wayland, but I believe these things have been mostly ironed now. However, if you have a buggy BIOS, you're out of luck. I've had such a DELL laptop, latest firmware installed, and no matter which distro I tried, it wouldn't wake up from sleep properly. So, if that's your issue, there's not much you can do, apart from getting compatible hardware. There are hardware lists of compatible hardware in some places, including archlinux's wiki i believe.
It's probably more to do with hardware than distro. That said, using major distros is more likely to win. FWIW I've used fedora and voidlinux on my 3 Dell laptops over the last 12 years with nary a problem. One of them had nvidia but I used nouveau.
I use Fedora with KDE and never have issues. Though I no longer have NVIDIA cards in any of my computers. The drivers suck on Linux in general and were the cause of many of my previous issues with Linux overall.
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform.
I don't embark on such journeys, tbh. I'm more of a day by day/ path of least resistance person. But fucking good on people who do that shit. I'm proud of you. Best I can do is make rash decisions and see them through. Some of them work out really well. Some don't.
Support for UEFI on MBR was originally added in blivet#764 to accommodate cloud image use cases, such as AWS, which at the time did not support UEFI booting on GPT disks. These constraints no longer apply to modern cloud platforms, making MBR-based UEFI setups unnecessary for current Fedora deployments.
Exactly. MBR is pretty much not used at this point except on legacy hardware where EFI is not supported. As mentioned, it's also unreliable in this particular combo.
Removing this does two things:
1) Ensures the most reliable way of installing is enforced by default
2) Removed untested and entangled bits of code that allows this to work (though the volume of code removed won't be huge)
And that is still largely true - I’m still running XFCE with xorg on Debian, and I think the only issue I’ve had was Waydroid.
Will there come a day where what you say is true? Yes.
However, right now, a more apt example to convey your point is systemd; that’s true for most distros with a lot of community support. Even then, its hold isn’t absolute - Alpine seems like the most livable non-systemd distro, though I could be wrong.
As I’ve commented elsewhere on this post and others have said, this is a change that affects pretty much no one. I didn’t even know MBR (legacy BIOS) partition tables on UEFI boot was possible, honestly.
By no longer putting in the effort to maintain this bit that no one uses, work can be put to something someone uses.
Also, with Linux, specific distros can get encrapified (kind of happened to Ubuntu), but as others have said, there’s usually always another distro to jump to at worst.
I was wondering too why anyone would ever want this...but the proposal explains it:
Support for UEFI on MBR was originally added in blivet#764 to accommodate cloud image use cases, such as AWS, which at the time did not support UEFI booting on GPT disks. These constraints no longer apply to modern cloud platforms, making MBR-based UEFI setups unnecessary for current Fedora deployments.
So basically it was some workaround a few years ago. I have a hard time to see any reason speaking against the removal.
For those panicking about it, this is not something you need to worry about. Here’s what this actually does:
Enforce the use of GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations for x86 architecture. This removes support for installing Fedora in UEFI mode on MBR-partitioned disks on x86 systems
You probably have already been using GPT on your UEFI system since you had a UEFI system. Even if you somehow were using MBR, this probably; 1. Won’t break existing installations, as it’s merely support for installs of this type 2. Would not be a problem even if somehow the broke existing installs, as it’s not difficult to convert MBR to GPT.
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Bubble law: In May, city council passed a bylaw allowing schools, places of worship and childcare centres to apply to restrict demonstrations within 50 metres of those venues. The fine for breaking the bylaw is up to $5,000.
I’m really sick of laws that are passed fully knowing they breach the charter - with the proponents able to achieve their time-limited political ends, and the only consequence is spending public money on a few years of pointless legal defence.
I am looking to create similar tool to AlternativeTo. This would list different brands and why you should or should not buy them. Is there some software that would be great starting point for creating this kind of service?
I would guess wiki apps would work for this, but like wikijs, but interested to hear is the something else that could be used for this.
Only thing that happens is that I get a black screen. Not sure what's happening, no error, nothing.
Disabled secure boot and stuff in UEFI.
Any suggestions? I feel stupid.
Edit: I'll leave it here for whomever might come next: use Ventoy to create the USB, not Rufus, and then boot in grub2 option. It's installing now, at least. Let's see...
How did you format the USB drive? I could never get a usb to boot on my Surface Go unless it was made in Rufus using Windows. I believe you need to format the USB (with no iso) as an unbootable disc with fat32 and GPT and THEN put the iso you want on it. (Two separate operations on the same USB stick.)
There's also a custom Linux Kernel just for Surfaces that you can use for better driver compatibility.
Edit: I see you mentioned Ventoy. I got some ISOs to work with it, but most didn't. Then again, I couldn't get some ISOs to work with Rufus either.
"trade tensions"?! The US is quite literally the biggest threat to Canada right now and they're calling it "trade tensions"! Grow some balls and stop playing nice for fuck's sake.
Doch die Verordnung war das einzige Werkzeug, mit dem eine Überdüngung auf die verursachenden Betriebe zurückzuführen war. Nun fürchten Experten, dass die Nitratwerte im Trinkwasser wieder steigen könnten, weil die Verursacher wieder anonym wären. Wenn das passiert, könnte das auch für die Regierung Folgen haben.2018 wurde Deutschland von der EU für die Nichteinhaltung der Nitratgrenzwerte im Trinkwasser verklagt. Eine Klage, die 2023 zurückgezogen wurde, weil die EU-Kommission die von Deutschland ergriffenen Korrekturen als hinreichend ansah. Dazu gehörte auch die 2018 eingeführte Stoffstrombilanzierungsverordnung.
Seit ihrer Einführung ist die Menge an Stickstoff, die von landwirtschaftlichen Flächen in die Umwelt gelangt, um fast ein Drittel gefallen. Dr. Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, PIK
Trotzdem hat das Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat (BMLEH) die Stoffstrombilanzverordnung abgeschafft. Bundesminister Rainer sagt, er löse ein Wahlversprechen zum Bürokratieabbau ein: "Damit befreien wir unsere Höfe von jährlich 18 Millionen Euro Bürokratieballast."
Dazu als Einordnung: 304 Milliarden Euro Umsatz im "agribusiness" I'm Jahr 2023 laut Agrarheute
Die Aufhebung der Stoffstrombilanzierung kommt faktisch einem Rückfall in die Gesetzlosigkeit im Bereich der Düngung gleich. Prof. Klaus Dittert, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Bestraft würden nun nämlich wieder die Landwirte, die sich an Regelungen gehalten und verantwortungsvoll gedüngt hätten. Umweltsünder, die überdüngen, hätten wieder freie Fahrt, so Dittert.
[...] das mit der EU vereinbarte Wirkungsmonitoring, welches Bestandteil der Nitrat-Richtlinie ist, wird nun nicht mehr durchgeführt. Das könnte die EU-Kommission dazu veranlassen, das Vertragsverletzungsverfahren von 2018 wieder aufzunehmen. Es drohen Milliardenstrafen, die schlussendlich Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher schultern - ebenso wie höhere Preise für Trinkwasser. Denn das Herausfiltern von Nitrat ist teuer.
Klassiker in D: Grenzwert wird überschritten -> es wird im Bestfall reguliert -> Grenzwert wird unterschritten -> "das braucht sich kein Mensch; Bürokratie yay"
Ich bin so frustriert und Müde von der bekloppten CSU es ist doch nicht zu fassen. Für 18 Mio, so ein schmarrn.
Wie viel Dünger verlässt den Hof? Mit der Stoffstrombilanz konnte das genau zugeordnet werden. Jetzt wurde sie abgeschafft. Nehmen die Schadstoffe in Boden und Wasser wieder zu?
Zählt das eigentlich schon als Landesverrat, wenn man komplett ohne Not die Lebensgrundlage des Landes zerstört? Wenn man das Grundwasser erstmal komplett verseucht hat, werden Wasseraufbereitung und -lieferung deutlich mehr kosten als 18 Millionen im Jahr.
Niedrigere Limits führen bei gleicher Geschwindigkeit zu härteren Strafen. Leute, die versuchen mit >130 durch 90er-Zonen-Kurven zu ballern fahren nicht nur in Kurven zu schnell.
Man bekommt diese Strafen auch, wenn man auf gerader Strecke so schnell fährt (je nachdem wo die Blitzer stehen, aber soweit ich weiß sind die eher auf gerader Strecke) - ist auch gefährlich, führt aber nicht in jedem Fall zu schweren Unfällen. Das hat bei manchen einen Lerneffekt.
Mit dem Auto im Wasser gelandet: Bleibt genug Zeit zur Flucht - und warum kann ein Nothammer Leben retten? Ein ADAC-Test überrascht mit Details, die jeder Autofahrer kennen sollte.
Man beachte bei der Folge, dass ab Minute 33 auch das mit dem Fenster aufmachen getestet wird, unter anderem werden im Trockenen Eisengewichte auf eine Autotür gestapelt, um den Unterwasserdruck zu simulieren, wenn man im gesunkenen Auto das Fenster per normalem Fensterheber öffnen will. Im Endeffekt gilt, sobald das Wasser ein Fenster auch nur teilweise bedeckt, hilft in der Tat nur noch der Nothammer.
Finde aber schon cool, dass der ADAC das hier praktisch ausprobiert bzw. demonstriert hat.
Jamie and Adam test the stuff of nightmares and mysteries of Hollywood's favourite `Underwater Car'...Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects expe...
An der Spitze fast nur Männer. Das ist in vielen Unternehmen immer noch so. Der Kanzler sieht Handlungsbedarf - und gibt Frauen Ratschläge. Luft nach oben ist aber auch in Regierung und Kanzleramt.
„Ich kenne das natürlich aus meiner Welt. Wir Männer haben eine bessere Begabung und Befähigung, Netzwerke zu bilden und uns gegenseitig auch zu unterstützen“
Endlich mal einer der den Frauen die Welt erklärt! /s
Um als Mann für die Frauen mal eine Lanze zu brechen:
Es gibt einen wesentlichen Unterschied, der von allen Forschern, die sich mit der geschlechtsspezifischen Wirksamkeit von Frauen- und Männernetzwerken auseinandergesetzt haben, beschrieben wird: Frauenbünden fehlt häufig eine relevante Anzahl an Alpha-Mitgliedern – also Entscheiderinnen, die bereits in Machtpositionen sind und insofern die anderen Netzwerkmitglieder mit nach oben ziehen können oder durch ihre Multiplikatorinnenfunktion einen messbaren Benefit für die anderen Frauen im Netzwerk erzielen können. Das ist insbesondere bei den sogenannten Old Boys Networks (als Beispiel etwa der Andenpakt der CDU) anders. Wobei gerade dieses Beispiel zeigt, dass ein Männernetzwerk mit wichtigen Entscheidern allein noch nicht wirksam ist – und von einer einzelnen Frau durchaus "besiegt" werden kann. Generell haben Frauen schlechtere Chancen, Mitglied in einem Old Boys Network zu werden. Man muss hierzu mit den zumeist älteren und männlichen Entscheidern befreundet und bekannt sein – und diesen Entscheidern sympathisch sein. In der Regel basieren die stark wirksamen Männernetzwerke auf informellen Seilschaften, die ohne Rahmen und nur auf Sympathie und Ähnlichkeit beruhen.
Networking haftet immer noch ein eher schlechtes Image an. Besonders Frauen halten sich zurück. Dabei sind Netzwerker besonders erfolgreich im Job. Was machen die anders?
Michaels haben definitiv zu wenig Risikobewusstsein, wenn es um die AfD geht. Wenn die mal irgendwann an die Regierung kommen, werden sehr viele AfD-Wähler "Leoparden aßen mein Gesicht!"-Momente haben.
Nach dem was man so aus den USA liest, ist das vielen rechten Wählern gar nicht so egal, wenn ihnen die Bezüge weggekürzt werden oder sie gleich ganz aus dem Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld, Krankenversicherung usw. rausfliegen oder sogar sie oder ihre Angehörigen, Nachbarn usw. ins Gulag gesteckt werden.
Selbst rechte Wähler stecken nicht alle so tief in der alternativen Realität, dass sie sogar das noch wegrationalisieren.
Poland’s main opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has proposed an entry ban for people from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa. It says this would help stop Germany’s practice of sending migrants who have illegally crossed the border back to Poland.
The proposal comes amid renewed debate over how to tackle migration, with the Polish government on Tuesday announcing the reintroduction of controls on Poland’s borders with Germany and Lithuania in an effort to prevent the “uncontrolled flow of migrants”.
After Prime Minister Donald Tusk had announced the border controls, the head of PiS’s parliamentary caucus, Mariusz Błaszczak, said that the government’s actions were “too little, too late”.
“This crisis has been going on for months,” he continued. “This issue requires far-reaching action.”
Błaszczak said that PiS would submit a bill to parliament introducing a temporary ban on entry to Poland for third-country nationals from “specific countries outside Europe…whose citizens illegally cross borders”.
Previously, on Monday, PiS party leader Jarosław Kaczyński had called for an “immediate ban on entry to the territory of Poland for people from the Middle East and North Africa”.
PiS has not yet specified which Middle Eastern and African countries would be included in its proposed ban. It says they would be selected based on analysis of data showing which nationalities most often cross borders illegally or are transferred to Poland from Germany.
A government information campaign discouraging people from trying to illegally enter Poland was recently launched in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt, countries from which Poland has identified the largest numbers of people crossing the border from Belarus.
Since 2021, tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers – mainly from Asia and Africa – have tried to enter Poland from Belarus, with the encouragement and assistance of the Belarusian authorities.
In response, Poland has heavily fortified its eastern border with physical barriers and electronic monitoring. The government also recently banned asylum claims by people crossing from Belarus. Those measures have led to a dramatic decline in the numbers entering via that route.
In his remarks on Tuesday, Błaszczak made clear, however, that PiS’s proposed entry ban was designed to address the issue that has recently caused most controversy, which is Germany’s policy of sending back to Poland thousands of migrants who crossed the Polish-German border illegally.
Many of those sent back are Ukrainians. Others are non-Europeans, often from Asia and Africa, who have either claimed asylum in Poland – and therefore must remain there while their applications are processed – or have simply passed through it after entering the EU irregularly.
“After the introduction of this [proposed] law, Polish border guards will be able to prevent citizens of these countries from entering our territory,” said Błaszczak. “So those who are today being transferred from Germany by the German authorities, or who are trying to cross from Germany to the Polish side, will not be able to do so.”
The migrant returns carried out by Germany take place under a combination of EU regulations, bilateral agreements with Poland, and the border controls that Berlin reintroduced in 2023. Earlier this year, Tusk declared that Poland may stop adhering to such agreements.
However, some Poles have sought to take matters into their own hands, organising self-declared “citizen patrols” – some of them hundreds strong – at the German border to monitor and prevent migrant returns.
Błaszczak said that PiS politicians will be visiting the German border to make clear that “we support the border defence movement”, which he described as “Polish patriots who took matters into their own hands when Donald Tusk’s state abdicated [its responsibilities]”.
He also pledged that the party “will provide support to those who are persecuted by the current authorities of our country” for undertaking such actions, reports the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
Earlier this week, Tusk and interior minister Tomasz Siemoniak criticised the actions of the citizen patrols, saying that they are disrupting the work of border officers and spreading false claims about the number and types of migrants being transferred by Germany.
I’d previously played the Commodore 64 version—a predictable top-down shooter with decent graphics for the old brown breadbox, but nothing remarkable.
The DOS version, released in 1989, really stands out. It supports VGA graphics and AdLib sound, delivering crisp colors and catchy music that were impressive for the time.
What blew me away, though, was the control options. Not only does it support keyboard and joystick, but you can also move and shoot using the mouse—a rarity for the platform back then. Even better, it actually works pretty well by the standards of the day.
Rambo III came out in many versions: arcade, Master System, Genesis. The computer versions are mostly similar, each carrying quirks unique to their platforms—you could find it on Atari ST, Amiga, MSX, C64, Amstrad CPC, and even ZX Spectrum.
The DOS release covers CGA, EGA, and VGA graphics modes plus a variety of sound options, offering a surprisingly eclectic experience. While critics favored the Genesis version, I think the DOS port holds its own. It’s more than playable and can deliver some solid fun.
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"keep things tidy in the fediverse" BSky is APproto & Fediverse is ActivityPub Only because they can be bridged does not mean that BSky is actually part of the fediverse
Edit: just noticed this is the wrong community also: "repossts" 😛
“There’s always a risk when corporate interests are negotiating agreements with governments in back rooms,” he said. “They [the Ford government] often point to external pressures — energy demand, housing need, trade tariffs — as reasons to act quickly. But it’s really about removing democratic guardrails and making it easier to cut backroom deals with powerful corporations.”
The Ford government is pushing ahead with legislation that would give it sweeping new powers to decide which companies — particularly data centres — can connect to Ontario’s electricity grid.
“Otherwise, we are opening ourselves up to cronyism, corruption and economic inefficiency,” Hsu said. “We've seen them time and time again not being able to resist the urge of helping insiders, so I am wary to trust the government if, and when, they say that no influence will occur.”
This is incredibly rich coming from the Ford Government.
That quote didn't come from the Ford government. This is the paragraph before that:
Ontario Liberal energy critic Ted Hsu said prioritizing grid access for major economic projects makes sense — but only if done transparently and free of partisan influence.
The head of an organization representing automakers said he's "cautiously optimistic" after meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney to urge him to repeal the electric vehicle sales mandate.
We have independant parts manufacturing, Autosystems had 3 plants in belleville and prolly lots more around the coutry, we have the skilled labour in that sector, so if someone with enough money wants to, they def can start up car manufacturing fairly easily for the circumstances
I mean, maybe? But it'll cost a lot compared to places like China and India, so it'll be luxury cars only. And the market will basically be just Canada.
Jeff Bezos will eat their lunch with the Slate truck.
God forbid we stop subsidizing the rich buying EV and start subsidizing mass transit. Given we are the only country in the G7 without high speed rail, much of our main arteries are unchanged from the 1960s, and we keep doing mass immigration.
Honestly, I'd favour dropping any incentives for EVs, so long as Canada were to then redirect its efforts into transit and active transport. You just can't replace every combustion car on the road with an EV, but you can narrow roads, reduce lanes, and add trains, trams, and cycle paths.
The 15 ministers said that Israel's "strategic partnership, backing, and support of the U.S. and President Donald Trump" make this a "propitious time" to formally steal most of Palestine.
No one knows, many humans and other species are already dying from climate change today. Get used to hearing the phrase "It is happening much faster than expected." from now on.
People are doing that. Fertility rates are way below replacement rates. Now billionaires are freaking out that their customer base and work force is shrinking.
I'm curious if we will hit a correctional point when most of life dies off and civilization can restart. I'm picturing some fallout/metro kind of shit where people need to love underground for centuries.
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"Collapse is a process, not an event." It's very likely we'll be extinct by the end of the century. There will be all manner of hell from now until then. Our population of over 8 billion is only possible because of a highly complex global web of systems. Complex systems are fragile. Once dominos start falling, people will start starving very quickly.
Its entirely possible that 99% of humanity dies but I don't really buy into us going extinct. People have an inate drive to survive and even if things are genuinely horrible I don't see them just giving up. Unless there is literally no food/potable water I think the planet is stuck with some form of humanity until the planet is uninhabitable. Remember there are still dinosaurs around today, they just look different.
The typical Lemming will be poorer but fine, unless it triggers other human disasters like a nuclear exchange. The lower classes of Bangladesh, less so, and 95%+ of coral reefs are fucked.
I would say under ten years if we are talking about staying in "life as we know it." Global food supplies are at risk. We are going to see mass die offs in large portions of the ocean. AMOC and the Jet stream will continue to wobble around causing mayhem. Coastale areas will become eroded and huge portions of the infrastructure will become unfixable as the disasters come too frequently for any real, long term repairs to remain.
Think about that term, tipping piont. Tipping does not imply a gentle decent.
that's a loaded and optimistic question. With the way the world is going currently being taken out by climate change and only climate change is awfully optimistic. I think that would be the best case scenario at this point.
I gave up a long time ago. The last time we really did anything about an issue like this was lead in gasoline. 50+ years of knowing we had to change. I wonder if maybe the wealthy elites know whats coming. I wonder if this new rise in facism is partially an answer to the fact that there won't be enough of anything to go around. That is why they want us having babies. for soliders. I hope they have some spark of humanity and let people self terminate but I bet you would need money for it.
I'm pretty sure that's what the grab for Ukraine and Trump's stated intent to annex Greenland is about. Both of those have the potential to become food security sources after significant global heating. I'm also pretty sure that's why authoritarians are seizing control of govt (and by extension that govts security services) because there won't be enough to go around and they're going to need soldiers to keep the hungry people away from their billionaire breadbaskets.
Let's be clear about something; climate scientists almost universally agree that there is no such thing as "winning" or "losing" the fight against climate change (Suzuki, for the record, is a zoologist, not a climate scientist). This isn't a game, there's no referee, and no one gets a trophy at the end.
The battle against climate change is about mitigating harm. The worse we do, the more harm there will be. But there is never a point where it is "too late". The car is going to crash, but the sooner you hit the brakes, the less damaging the impact will be. Everything we do to push the needle will save lives. There is never a point where we get to throw up our hands and succumb to the comforting fantasy that it's "too late" to change anything.
I have a lot of respect for Suzuki, and I don't blame him for feeling defeated with everything that's happening, but spreading this kind of message is, dangerous, damaging, and flies entirely in the face of the science.
Back before George W Bush directed NASA to call it climate change, it was called global warming, and you can definitely win against that - by stopping the earth from warming. That's unwinnable due to feedback loops that have now begun.
Does not remotely address my point. We can always - always - work to reduce the harm caused by climate change.
The point where the harm could be reduced to "none" is decades past us. If that's the point where you give up then fuck off. Climate change is actively causing harm as we speak, and it is still worth fighting. We can still make life better for ourselves and future generations.
The notion that climate change is some kind of runaway engine that will continue amok without any further human input is nonsense. Yes, I'm aware of ideas like "Permafrost methane bombs" and I've also done enough research to be aware that only a small fringe of climate scientists actually support those ideas. They're flashy and exciting and get big press, but they are not widely accepted climate science.
What climate science shows is that the climate actually responds faster to reductions in CO2 than our older models predicted. That means that debacarbonization can have real and meaningful positive impacts beyond what we previously thought possible.
There is real damage already done, and there is damage that we cannot undo, but there is never a point where the problem goes beyond our input. The climate fight is always worth fighting.
Sort of? I don't think he mentioned tipping points anywhere in there, it was pretty non-specific and ranty, but if we've passed a tipping point it becomes less a matter of applying a brake and more of actively causing massive climate change in the other direction. Failing that, the warming trend and other shifts will stop when the Earth reaches a new balance and no sooner.
Nobody really knows where those tipping points are. The Paris thresholds were our expert's best guesses for a ""safe"" amount of warming.
Even if we do pass some kind of "tipping point" (and you need to understand that every tipping point is just an arbitrary line that climate scientists draw to try to draw people's attention to the problem), we can still mitigate the damage. There is never a point where fighting climate change becomes worthless. The less we do now, the greater the damage will be in the future. That's all there is to it. Tipping points are just a way of illustrating that.
every tipping point is just an arbitrary line that climate scientists draw to try to draw people’s attention to the problem
That is completely, utterly wrong. Climate scientists are talking about the physical concept of the tipping point, which is observed in nature and also comes out of their models. In climate, it's the point at which reversing a change that originally happened over decades would take thousands of years. For example, this has been the huge concern with the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which plays a large role in the climate of western Europe: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic…
My point is, tipping points are absolutely not an arbitrary thing. They are very solid predictions based on the physics of the climate. We don't necessarily understand exactly how close we are, even though we're observing some effects of being close to them, but the impacts of crossing them will make climate change even worse and hence the alarm.
Edit: If anyone reads these links and their eyes glaze over and you don't understand of word of what's written, then you need the humility to listen and accept what climate scientists have been trying to tell you. Some of the smartest people on the planet have been working on this for decades.
One of the most important large-scale ocean current systems for Earth's climate is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Here we review its stability properties and present new model simulations to study the AMOC's hysteresis ...
If that's what we're meaning when we talk about "tipping points", yes, they exist. But as you yourself said, "We don’t necessarily understand exactly how close we are." The idea that passing some arbitrary line like "1.5 degrees" is a point of no return is unscientific nonsense, and that's what the vast majority of people mean when they say "tipping points."
And the point is, none of that changes the need to keep working towards improvement. Every fraction of a degree less the planet heats will make a difference. Even as monumental climate changes occur, those changes can be lessened, their impact reduced, by any amount that we decarbonise the atmosphere.
If you're under the impression that I'm arguing against climate change being real in any way shape or form, or that I'm arguing against it being utterly catastrophic, you've missed my point so badly that you might as well be reading it in a different language. My point is very, very simple; there is never a point where we get to give up.
No matter what happens, every effort to reduce the damage to our climate will save lives. Things can always be worse, and because things can always be worse it ontologically follows that things can always be better, even when the definition of "better' is "fewer people die."
The fight isn't lost or won. Get those concepts out of your mind. Suzuki - as brilliant as he may be - is an idiot for invoking them like this. He's speaking about a very limited, very specific piece of the fight, but he should have understood that the public would take his words entirely out of context. The people who want to poison and destroy our planet for profit are, right now, actively pushing the propaganda that the battle against climate change is over. They are wrong, and they are lying. The battle against climate change is a battle to reduce harm, and you can always reduce harm, now matter how great the scale of the eventual harm may be.
I think it helps to look at other problems caused by fossil fuel use. Higher CO2 concentrations make breathing air worse. Ocean acidification kills fish etc.
I think the bigger impact is thinking about changing weather patterns long term leading to new and larger deserts in the centres of continents and regular, massive storms on the coasts. That’s a changing climate beyond “everybody is a few degrees hotter” that is implied by global warming. CO2 isn’t going to effect breathing, but does cause acidification.
(and you need to understand that every tipping point is just an arbitrary line that climate scientists draw to try to draw people’s attention to the problem)
every tipping point is just an arbitrary line that climate scientists draw to try to draw people’s attention to the problem
The +1.5C threshold is a somewhat arbitrary line designed around tipping points. The tipping points themselves are not imaginary/arbitrary. Forest fire spread increase. Methane defrosting. Polar melting path certainty. All of these increase GHGs and warming. Hurricane intensity+drought+intense rainfall events destroying property values is somewhat of an economic tipping point starting to affect some right now.
In your car crash analogy, we are now past the point where hitting the brakes will help. The car will be irrepairably destroyed and all passengers will be killed.
This is flat out wrong. In fact, the more co2 is emitted, the more extreme the consequences are. The change from 0->1 degree of global warming barely registers. The change from 3->4 degrees is catastrophical, for example.
Thus, the warmer it gets, the more worth it is to fight against it, as each small win contributes more to the bottom line than in the beginning.
The comforting fantasy is the idea that we can throw up our hands and say "We lost."
Losing is easy. It demands nothing from us. Losing has no call to action. If we've lost, then there's no fight left to be fought.
The reality is that the fight is always worth fighting. And that sucks, because it means we never get to give up. We never get to say "It's over", and stop caring. Caring is a lot harder.
In not an appropriate analogy. We are not just the people in the car, we are the whole neighborhood.
Even if the people in the car cannot prevent a crash by braking, they can still prevent further damage to people and property by braking as much as possible while within their means.
Yeah, it's more about the people in the car taking their foot off the gas so they don't get going fast enough to crash through multiple houses and burn the whole neighborhood down. Still worth doing even if we're well past the point of hitting the brakes preventing any damage.
I think we're past the point of the car hitting the wall even if we brake, and the damage ruining your day. We're not past the point that braking will save lives or even make the car unrepairable.
Suzuki is and always was just a mouthpiece for corporate masters. Controlled opposition to steer public opinion. He is not and never will be a climatologist. His message is one of defeat because his backers want us to give up.
How to say Marx was right without saying "Marx was right".
Hard disagree, this is a liberal doing the usual thing. As John Bellamy Foster elaborates on in his articles and books, the fight against climate change isn't lost, it's been abandoned by the ruling class of imperial core countries. Look up some of his stuff on Monthly Review the ecological rift is a very important concept that never appears in the kind of discourse you're posting
the focus on politics, economics, and law are all destined to fail because they are based around humans. They’re designed to guide humans, but we’ve left out the foundation of our existence, which is nature, clean air, pure water, rich soil, food, and sunlight. That’s the foundation of the way we live and, when we construct legal, economic and political systems, they have to be built around protecting those very things, but they’re not.
Canada (and the world) will burn. You think migrants are a problem now? Wait until millions of people have no choice but to go north and the water wars start.
O damn, almost forgot about the water wars. Those were brutal. Before those people genuinely believed there was nothing bigger than a World War. The fools. Like if you're still here in 2125.
Pakistan and India, Egypt and Ethiopia. Various states in the southwest are looking to pop off when the civil war starts up. Water wars are starting NOW.
I try to stay postive but we're slowly burning and yet politics has never been so aggressively stupid about this. And the warlords dictating or culture too. I don't want this.
Barely anything had been done these past decades and the result is that boat loads of people now believe conspiracy crap over the actual truth that climate change will milk us all
I fully expect that even less will be done in the next years so yeah, were screwed
I suggest actually doing something about it then. Direct your frustration towards something productive. Take the risk because if we don't then no one will.
Here's why your comment is horseshit:
The cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology dropped by 81% since 2009, and wind and battery costs have also plummeted. By 2017, most new power-generating capacity added worldwide came from renewables, not fossil fuels.
A comprehensive review of 1,500 climate policy measures across 41 countries found 63 cases of successful policies, each leading to an average emission reduction of 19%. The most effective policies combined tax and price incentives with regulations and subsidies.
Although global greenhouse gas emissions reached record highs in the 2010s, the rate of growth has slowed, in part due to climate policies and the adoption of cleaner technologies.
The Montreal Protocol (1987) successfully phased out ozone-depleting substances, demonstrating that coordinated global action can work. This agreement also had climate benefits, as many of the banned substances were potent greenhouse gases.
Fight for climate change is not lost, it's still actively being fought by scientists, entrepreneurs, content creators, journalists and activists all over the planet.
Oil companies like this narrative of lost. It was always, don't worry we still have time until now when it's leaning towards "whoopsie too late". It's not too late, we are not all going to die because of climate change.
Right now climate change is on track to be horrible for large parts of the world but there's plenty more we can fuck up beyond that.
There is also the potential for climate solutions. We have been driving things in one direction by pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. There are ways to do the opposite rapidly, just not as easy. Solar/Wind/Nuclear powered carbon sequestration and ocean fertilization are possible if all else is lost.
Happy to discuss realistic impactful solutions rather than just cycling doomerism with anyone interested.
I mean, that's the thing. We all know there are solutions. But governments and billionaires at this point have to make the solutions happen, and they have no interest in many places. Hell, they're actively working on behalf of climate change and environmental destruction in the US just to own the Libs and to the cheers of the rabid troglodyte portion of its populace. You don't just have to contend with getting the facts to people, you have to contend with being but one voice amid all the antifacts that everyone is bombarded daily on every topic.
I know I'm a doomer, but sans an effective virus that takes out 80% of the population and mostly targets anyone right of center and all of the billionaires, I don't think we have this one in us.
I think he's right, but he's also a real asshole and lives in a mansion in Vancouver and likely creates more environmental damage than the average human
Fuck that. It's never lost, it's just that we are constantly heading towards worse outcomes.
If we as humanity start taking it seriously tomorrow, it would still be a victory over only starting in a decade.
It's not lost, it's just getting worse, and that should make people want to fight.
saying that the fight is lost is just creating more disengagement and hopelessness.
I like the saying "The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the second best is today." Because it is almost universally true about any long term goal.
We have started to reduce how much worse we make it, and a fair bit of progress has been made there in some countries, UK carbon emissions are less than half what they were per capita several decades ago.
When I was young we had a fireplace and would often burn coal in winter. Now I have a heat pump to warm my entire house by extracting thermal energy from the atmosphere.
You are using the broadest possible definition of "lost."
Lost as in no more human civilization. It doesn't matter when you start doing stuff, that future is coming. We could maybe slow it at this point, but not much else and even that is up for debate with all the tipping points being reached. They will have a far greater effect on the climate than anything that we do now.
Human civilization is bound to die at some point. If we give up now it will just happen faster and with more suffering. If we fight we will still improve things, maybe not everything will be okay, but when has it ever been?
We kill 80 billion land animals per year for factory farming and we’ve caused almost 2 species of animal per year, every year, to go completely extinct over the last 500 years.
We are going to destroy almost all life on this planet.
Even if we intentionally released as much co2 as we could all life on earth is not at risk. Remember that there's a fair amount of life that is virtually unchanged since the paleozoic period when all that co2 was in the air. Beyond that there's stuff that hangs out in volcanic vents, rapidly evolving life that can adapt even to rapid change, bacteria, molds, mosses and algae. And who knows maybe there's even a small adaptable mammal or 2 that gets out and evolves enough for a second attempt at sapience.
Don't get me wrong the climate disaster is truly a unique and devastating extinction event, but humans are not so powerful as to leave the earth a completely lifeless rock.
I suppose it wasn't clear in my comment but I'm not advocating for doing nothing. Just to have realistic expectations about what is possible. If you sell everyone on reversing everything, and then fail, it will breed discontent further than being honest. That's all.
The problem is humanity is taking most of the other species in the world with it. Just the methane/permafrost feedback loop out of dozens of feedback loops will usher in the level of warming and ensuing extinctions experienced during the Permian/Triassic die off.
The ruling elite are incinerating all of us for profit, and they don't give a shit.
It'll just be another chapter in Earth's history. We're not the first life form to have caused an extinction event due to radically changing Earth's atmosphere.
What it would prove to us, however, is that; despite our massive ego, we (humanity) are no better than, or more above the laws of nature than, those first single-celled organisms that radically changed Earth's atmosphere to one of oxygen. Yet monumentally less significant in our footprint.
I’m sick of this WE, im not a billionaire pumping more Co2 per day with my yacht fleet than a town of people do in their life. I’m sick of being blamed for this shit, when all my conservation is undone in a minute by a corporation. I refuse to take equal blame any longer
This simply isn’t correct. While the billionaires yacht fleet and jet setting make them have insane carbon footprints individually, it is their business practices that actually register in terms of contributing significant chunks of the carbon budget for humanity. Bezo’s jets and yachts pale in comparison to Amazons delivery fleet and manufacturing all that junk. It’s counterproductive to focus on their personal emissions, when it’s the interaction of their businesses, government, and consumers that are burning the earth. We have 2 levers on that problem.
You're right. I was thinking more about the individuals responsible capture and refining of fossil fuels.
But the pretty ubiquitous use of Amazon delivery does greatly contribute a lot. Didn't really think about it in that aspect. Thanks for pointing that out.
Well, one way in which we can help fight against climate change is by not eating meat or dairy products.
For anyone curious about the subject, there's some good science backing that up, though the links I'm providing are lazy DDG searches, so if anyone wants to do it, they can probably find better sources out there with more information.
Going vegan, or at least mostly vegan, is the way to go. Can start with going vegetarian and at least swapping out meat sources. Alternative vegan protein sources
With that being said, I do not practice what I preach. I should, though.
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Again though, I do all these things and it doesn’t matter cause my entire life’s output of CO2 is being put out by one guy in an hour. I’m turning off lights and corporate buildings are running all the lights and AC 24/7
If the majority of people did, it actually would make a massive difference. This whole "but billionaires" and "but corporations" is just being used as an excuse to do absolutely nothing by far too many people.
All of those people doing nothing are why we are in this mess.
The actual problem is democratic oligarchism/zionism/neocon warmongering/US colonialism. Protecting establishment is easily supported when higher priorities than human sustainability can be manufactured. The more miserable you are made, the less you care about "higher level Maslow hierarchy needs" at political level.
The best way to reduce all the excess manufacturing for livestock is by not buying it their products. If it's all about ROI for them, give them a reason to reduce their manufacturing with your purchasing power.
A lot of people in western countries are living unsustainable lifestyles. Yes we need to target the billionaires too, but that alone won't solve it. Also stop buying their shit. Actually, just stop buying shit in the first place as that is a large part of the problem.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
~Utah Phillips
Inb4 some pedant quibbles that "the planet itself is not dying." Yeah, but we and our fellow creatures are. It should be understood that is what Mr. Phillips meant.
Thanks to big corporations effectively owning governments and big politicians the world over, things aren't bound to get better anytime soon, because "the economy". Fuck that shit
1950's oil execs funded studies that show how they will kill the planet if they don't stop, transition to something else, hell they had enough fore warning they could have R&D'd solar and monopolize the tech, but NO! They needed to make faster money faster and stopping yourself from killing the human race isn't THAT important, and they knew they'd be dead by now.
They might have been able to monopolize SOME of the tech, but they knew they could never own access to the sun. But yeah, they knew that they were incinerating us for decades. Which makes it premeditated murder in my books.
Can't kill earth can only just piss her off, hopefully I'll be useful enough to the overlords of Cascadia Dome #6 to get a really nice condo overlooking a nice park.
The other state contractors include Deployed Resources LLC, the port-a-potty company Doodie Calls, GardaWorld, Garner Environmental Services, Gothams LLC, Granny’s Alliance, Longview International Technological Solutions and SLS-WSP JV.
GardaWorld Cash, one of several companies affiliated with GardaWorld — one of the world’s largest security services companies, according to its website — gave $5,000 to DeSantis’ Empower Parents political action committee in 2018. The political organization, which went by Friends of Ron DeSantis at the time, was created to support DeSantis’ first bid for governor.
GardaWorld has also been eyed for Florida’s immigration agenda before — it was one of the vendors picked by the state to fly migrants out of Florida. A representative from GardaWorld did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday evening.
It wasn't clear to me where Canada comes in or what the ownership is, but clicking over to About GardaWorld it is clarified.
After identifying an opportunity to consolidate the fragmented private security industry, Stephan Crétier founded GardaWorld (then Trans-Quebec Security Inc.) in 1995 with a $25,000 investment derived from a second mortgage on his home. Only a few years later, the company was making $40 million annually in revenue. Over the past 30 years, he has built one of the world’s largest security services companies organically and through strategic M&A.
Mr. Crétier remains a highly-driven and engaged entrepreneur leading a strong bench of exceptionally talented and empowered managers. GardaWorld differentiates itself through a unique performance-based culture with strict accountability for operational performance. The company adheres to a deep ownership mentality with Mr. Crétier and management holding a majority equity ownership stake in the business, which is now valued at C$14 billion.
Scroll down to read their "timeline". Each item has the feeling of being immense crimes.
IKR God forbid he has staff that could ... checks notes ... keep him up to date on major international political actions that might impact his country. That would be so absurd, wouldn't it.
It's ok. Live in your weirdly specific 90's movie trope where you are mad as hell at your BF but they have no clue because literally nobody will communicate and everyone assumes someone else told them.
Or... Hear me out. Wait literally 1 business day. Then if he hasn't said anything, be the change you want to see in the world and send this article and anything else you can find to him.
Then by all means, bitch and moan if it helps you cope with this dystopia. We are all trying to get through. I just personally only have so much energy, I'd rather spend it on actual shit choices that have been made and not on something he has almost no control over and probably doesn't know about yet.
Very interesting, when the ROM found out about Christopher W. Jamroz on the ROM board that was owner of the planes that shipped to El Salvador, he was gone within 24 hours. Lets see how fast our government acts.
I think this might be a little different. It's a private company, and I'm not familiar with the Rom situation. I truly don't know the laws or rules that would govern this sort of thing. We shall see.
In late 2024, with the support of a group of sophisticated investors, he led the largest private buyout in Canadian history, and one of the biggest private equity deals globally, valuing GardaWorld at $14 billion with Stephan Crétier now owning 70% of the company alongside selected management.
obviously they got this job because it's the kind of thing they do, which has been public information for a long time, they even post it to their website.
think of the range of what "private CIA empire" describes
I don't mean to be obtuse, I just really am not sure what you are telling me. Are you saying the Prime Minister (Carney, Trudeau, Harper, earlier?) should have already shut them down?
I scrolled all the way up 10 levels of comments, where admittedly people are kind of riffing. You should do the same. The top comment is this:
Another beautiful canadian value that carney is talking about
And I don't see anyone saying anything subsequent about shutting down of anything.
What I am saying is that this company is facially evil. They are not even putting on much of a show otherwise. They are likely violating all kinds of laws at different levels.
Any government can place laws, regulation and boundaries on the actions of companies which are housed within it. If you scroll up I linked to a federal department which does just that. Theymake decisions about enforcement. I think it would have been possible at any time over the history of this company for the federal government to make use of the tools at its disposal to prevent some horrors from taking place. Not doing so was and is a choice. This is a giant company and even if you or I just learns of it this week, the federal government has been aware of it for the whole time.
The other person was making a joke about Carney's euphemisms. I think the government as a whole institution is to blame and PM is a component of it.
Thank you for taking the time. I think I was just pigeon-holeing myself in regards to this exact situation and how silly I found it that people were happy to blame Carney specifically within hours of a story (about a private company doing evil) getting published, literally less than a few weeks totally of them specifically doing this particular evil.
I agree with "the government as a whole institution is to blame." For having this type of private business at all.
Let me know if Carney ever does anything about this after any amount of time... Other than offer them a contract, give them a business grant, or adopt some international policies that assist them in their evil deeds. Somehow I don't think time is the limiting factor.
PS I did a websearch to check it hasn't happened yet lest I be forced to immediately eat my hat. top hit is some job posting ala "GardaWorld From $18.50 per hour Carney, 08069, United States Full time" lol
I really hope GardaWorld has all GoC and other levels of government contracts cancelled and they get blacklisted. But that would be the right thing to do so I doubt it will happen.
That timeline is horrifying, as is their LinkedIn feed. They seem to position themselves as a private militia for corporate interests. If the Canadian government had any spine whatsoever they would seize all of their assets immediately.
It appears that they are operating in the open without any effort to obscure. I don't know this world enough to make any specific allegations, but the amount of death and suffering summarized there must be massive. You and I are just learning of it now but it is surely known to those in power. This website isn't even putting any kind of "human rights" gloss on it.
Seem like corporate espionage, mercenaries, money laundering and similar. I also saw Crétier described as a "philanthropist" so likely influence peddling as well. One thing he does is BOLO a free-of-charge service to raise awareness about a dozen or 2 criminal nationwide like putting their faces on a track.
If you have the stomach you could try listening to this Business Council of Canada Podcast interview with Stephan Crétier. From the bad quality transcript I guess it's mostly about the fluffy end of things: pervasive mass surveillance and gangstalking.
Well, I think the answer is yes. It’s funny because when cameras started, all the systems of camera, I remember sitting with investors at that time. It was growing. I’ve always been looking for money. That’s for sure. So I’ve always been in front of investors. People are saying, “Your business won’t exist. For three guards, we’ll put a camera and a guard.” The problem is the more you put a camera the more you see things. The more you see things the more you need people to get involved. That’s been the reaction. You look at the growth of the security industry, the people side of the business. Since cameras have been there, it’s unbelievable. The growth is there.
what we’ve done is we worked with a lab in Montreal to develop I would call a kind of technology that is able to amplify events when you’re looking for someone, when they decide to put a focus on someone. We’ve developed a system that puts a lot of pressure on the person using social media. We’ve been very successful. We’ve done on the first year seven cases. We’ve caught one person that was wanted for 15 years. The objective is not necessarily to catch more people, but it’s to get people to realize on the long term that the world might be safe, but if everyone was doing their job of being on the lookout, the world would be a safer place.
What we do The Bolo Program is a breakthrough initiative leveraging social media, technology, and innovative engagement to encourage citizens like you to be on the lookout for Canada’s most wanted.
Me neither with Carney tucking tail and sucking orange rapists dick on the digital tax thing. To me the liberals and conservatives are no different any more. I will never vote for either again) not that I ever voted conservative).
If people paid attention to his history, yeah, they'd see it. What Carney did at the Bank of Canada and his various comments there are pretty telling.
The 2008 financial crisis, we avoided the worst of it because Carney and them were 'slower' to roll out the same dangerous lending practices that we saw down south, but they were still going forward with them -- we just had less exposure at the time the US popped, so they were able to quietly prop up the big banks (and just the big banks, they let the smaller ones figure it out themselves) using the CMHC. Canada's small FIs, Credit Unions and such, got through it without a scratch, because they weren't in to risky convoluted mortgage block trading, and had various safeguards in place already like a shared liquidity pool. Carney's reaction to Canada doing so well in 2008, was to demand that the industry align more with the international standards which had allowed for those issues to occur. Things like the shared liquidity pool were dismantled as a result. Fast forward, and Thiel and his buddies pop SVB -- and suddenly regulators are making noise like "Maybe banks and FIs should have some kind of shared liquidity pool for this sort of issue!". Carney's comments at various events also displayed a blatant lack of understanding for the smaller financial industry players in Canada -- likening Canada's credit unions to spain's private banks (which were run by oligarch-ish families, with zero underwriting due diligence).
The guy trusted the international community hierarchy / structure, more than the Canadian system. He trusted that hierarchy even after it had failed, while the Canadian approach had more success. He forced Canada's FI's to align with worse-practices, just because it aligned to international norms. He is not pro-Canada, nor is he pro-small business.
Huh, so apparently the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) is paying GardaWorld around half a billion dollars per year to do security screenings in over half of our airports.
And guess what, they have a lot of complaints against them from both passengers and their own employees, per this article from Sept 2024:
its also shoddy construction too, its just tents, and temprorary housing. and its conveniently placed in the path of HURRICANES. other people mentioned its also placed where they will be deported eventually as one of the deportation airlines is based in florida.
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See folks, when people talk about rebellion, they dont mean "attack the US military". They mean attack the enablers. These are all just corporate offices.
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That last one always pisses me off. "It just gets out of my way". Who sits there and interrupts their thought process because a window animation they've seen a thousand times before happens again?
Not to mention you can turn them off or set eg KDE to functionally look like Xfce.
But then again - they also mention that 'you can tweak' Xfce as a key plus (after the key plus of it being standardised & not offering surprises). I don't think that a plus relative to other popular DEs.
I'm OK with there being articles, but it seems they def had the idea of the format of the article ("top 5 things") before they had the content/the pros drafted.
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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas on July 3 that the country cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine amid fears the U.S.
Maybe they'll choose a wiser position, next time. Their finding out stage of the Fuck Around, Find Out cycle does not constitute an emergency or any impetus for action on the part of the West
Xbox was the only Microsoft product that I liked, paid for and used. I don't use Windows or Office -except when mandated at work-, but I've had the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series S. I have over 300 owned digital games on Xbox. I decided to move away from Xbox a year ago, I never used Steam before Autumn last year, and now I game on the Steam Deck more than anything else. The writing has been on the wall for a few years now though, so this news isn't surprising. I still wanted to get an Xbox Series X to keep playing the digital games I collected over the years and was waiting for a price cut but they went and raised the prices instead.
.ml is not much different than the rest of the Triad, continued federation with them is continuing to allow them to spread toxic misinformation and behavior across the Threadiverse.
If you're an instance admin, please consider defederation.
Users, consider joining the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance.
Other wonderful content, and this is just from when I looked at the local new feed a bit ago:
Classic RT I'm sure you all know and Pravda.ru "Pravda Report"
Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]
Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!
And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:
Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).
If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.
Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".
So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!
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::: spoiler Evidence of bans, censorship and bias to push their "ideology":
"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342
A .ml admins' (davel) response to a valid report of "NK is actually good" propaganda/misinfo lemmy.world/post/32627834
"The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it's actually a good thing a state has that much power!" ~Tankies of .ml lemmy.world/post/30010789
This irony is pretty thick. OP is crying about propaganda while promoting overt imperial propaganda (radio free europe, etc.). Libs and tankies are the same damn thing with different imperial branding. That's all that this is.
Radio Free [Region] is a perfectly credible news source that does a fair job of minimizing bias
In any case, bias != Mis/Disinformation. They're vastly different beasts. One just tries to subtly write things in a way that makes the reader favor their position the other is just straight lies and made up conspiracy theories to force a certain narrative among the populace
Radio Free [Region] is literally a mouthpiece of blatant western imperialist
Ok prove it then, surely something so widely known and "blatant" to be an outlet for misinformation would have numerous online, credible, sources with their evidence
Radio Liberty was literally initiated by the CIA and has been controlled by the "United States Agency for Global Media" since it was privatised, please look it up...
Even fucking Wikipedia has it listed in the first 3 paragraphs
Additional considerations apply to the use of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). RFE/RL should be used cautiously, if at all, for reporting published from the 1950s to the early 1970s, when RFE/RL had a documented relationship with the CIA.
RFE/RL may be biased in some subject areas (particularly through omission of relevant, countervailing facts), and in those areas, it should be attributed in the article body. There is no consensus as to what subject areas require attribution. The scope of topics requiring attribution of RFE/RL should be decided on a case-by-case basis.
It hasn't been true for some time now and is generally found to be credible and fairly unbiased and RFA is seen in even a more positive light:
Radio Free Asia can be generally considered a reliable source. In particularly geopolitically charged areas, attribution of its point of view and funding by the U.S. government may be appropriate. Per the result of a 2021 RfC, editors have established that there is little reason to think RFA demonstrates some systematic inaccuracy, unreliability, or level of government co-option that precludes its use.
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced.
Alberta once used PR through the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in YYC and YEG, but it was ultimately scrapped. Learn about a forgotten chapter in our voting history.
I've been thinking about this a bit since I read it this morning, and I think the only reason they were able to get rid of STV is because it was only STV for Calgary and Edmonton. With a single party still able to sweep the rural ridings, they were given solid majority governments, which shouldn't be the case with "real" STV.
I have no idea how we'll get either half of the LPC/CPC to enact STV, when FPTP has them oscillating between consecutive usually majority governments, but I expect STV will be hard to get rid of once we've had a single election with it. Not much incentive for minority partners in a coalition government to accept moving back to FPTP, right?
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in reply to cm0002 • • •Im still grateful for the project. It was my gateway to a professional career in embedded linux development.
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in reply to madmo • • •I remember reading about these Openmoko devices before most people (certainly I) owned smartphones.
I thought at the time it was the most awesome idea ever, especially because I wasn't used to mobile Internet or even much computing. Now I am typing this from an Android tablet on a train in a foreign country without WiFi, so the world has definitely changed.