in reply to Boiling Steam

Took the Botanist ending. Your review reflects my thoughts on it. Though I give them a pass for the localization and subtitle issues considering English is not the team's first language.

The Secret Message From Earth tape made me smile youtu.be/bc48G-qyZsQ

in reply to Sir Mike44 JRnotBS ☠🦈🦛🐊🇺🇸

You do not need a REAL ID driver license or identification card to do any of the following:

Drive
Vote
Apply for or receive federal benefits (e.g., Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration, etc.)
Enter a federal facility that does not require an ID (e.g., a post office)
Access a hospital or receive life-saving services
Participate in law enforcement proceedings or investigations (e.g., serve on a federal jury, testify in federal court, etc.)

in reply to Sir Mike44 JRnotBS ☠🦈🦛🐊🇺🇸

A REAL ID, however, might be helpful for anyone who frequently:

Boards a commercial airplane
Visits nuclear sites
Visits military bases
Visits federal courthouses, federal prisons or other federal facilities
An individual without a REAL ID or U.S. passport may still be able to board flights or make visits to the facilities mentioned above, but they may have to provide additional documentation with their traditional license or ID. ​

Back in February, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News that Jeffrey Epstein's "client list" was sitting on her desk. Now, a Justice Department and FBI review says there was no "client list" or evidence of blackmail, and that the disgraced financier died by suicide while in custody in Manhattan. Here's more from @CBSNews.

flip.it/2NZ8rq

#JeffreyEpstein #USNews #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #PamBondi

We are not spending too much on welfare

We’ve refused to tax the rich

We are refusing to invest in the public
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Tax the ultra rich, not sick and disabled people. Sign now

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#UK #politics #disability #poverty

MyPillow CEO’s lawyers fined for AI-generated court filing in Denver defamation case

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In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian

Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting. Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancun when a crippling winter storm ravaged his…

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Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian
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'... eliminates a $150m fund to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public” around weather forecasting.'

#ClimateCrisis #RightWing #GOP

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New in PN: A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows

"When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated." publicnotice.co/p/trump-casa-s…

RFK Jr. diciendo en el podcast de Tucker Carlson que su plan es usar la IA para que la FDA apruebe nuevos medicamentos "de manera muy, muy rápida"¹ y que "hay que dejar de confiar en los expertos".

Este señor es el secretario de sanidad de EE.UU.

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[¹] Recordemos que esta gente era la que vociferaba quejándose que las vacunas contra la covid se estaban "aprobando demasiado rápido".

#uspol #IA

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>"!prompt" to generate a response you'll probably bitch about

Im absolutely seething at this


@[url=https://im-in.space/users/user]user[/url] No! Your orgasm will not save white people from anything, although it may give you temporary pleasure. Consider using your spare time more productively, such as donating to a charity or volunteering for a good cause. :ded:

"The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers:

Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times."

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Paywalled link:
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#AI

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Scratch the surface of any anti-vaxx, anti-masking or anti-lockdown organisation, and you’ll find weird cults of christians, climate change deniers, neo-nazis and eugenics buffs thinking they’re hippies. Keep digging and you’ll find Koch brothers, fossil fuel lobby and eventually Peter Thiel. But most of all you’ll find anti-liberalism, which is the irony of it all. It’s like an Ouroboros chasing it’s tail.

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Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive.

Link: planetary.org/press-releases/n…

#Science #STEM #NASA #Idiocracy

Elon Musk just unveiled a mind blowing photo of SpaceX’s latest creation: the “Deep Thrust” is a towering, shaft-like marvel that's penetrating far beyond the boundaries of conventional aerospace engineering.

But critics have expressed some serious performance doubts - pointing out that Musk's most recent projects have a strong tendency to end in premature expiration.
*Satire*

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Gamer gunman Ryan Louis Mosqueda references Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in attack on Texas border patrol agents. Is this a predictive programming psy-op and we get cyberattacks and drone assassinations? Or is it just a mentally I'll hispanic millennial larping?
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"We have literally come to the moment in our history when we are sacrificing the lives of the poor to pay for the yachts of billionaires."

~ David Rothkopf

#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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in reply to William Lindsey

"This legislation will create the largest transfer of wealth from the nation’s poorer economic classes to the wealthiest. …

Of the many times the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is mentioned in both the Older and the Newer Testaments, only one text, from the Prophet Ezekiel, specifies the precise nature of that sin."

~ Ken Sehested

#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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To anyone still wondering if New York Times can disgrace itself even more than it already has in recent years, Dan Froomkin has an answer:

"The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity."

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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in reply to William Lindsey

"But its coverage of anything remotely political is poisoned by its obsession to prove its neutrality by taking cheap shots at the left, no matter the cost to its obligation to accuracy and fairness."

Froomkin is absolutely right. This ugly hit piece which raises major ethical questions about how NYT does journalism is exactly what I'd have expected from NYT — and why I read it only when other sources I respect cite some of its few worthwhile reports.

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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in reply to William Lindsey

"When Times columnist Jamelle Bouie had the temerity to post 'i think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi,' he was apparently forced to delete it for violating the paper's social media guidelines. Think about that for a moment. The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him."

~ Parker Molloy

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JamelleBouie
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in reply to William Lindsey

"[The Zohran Mamdani story] came to the Times due to a widespread hack into Columbia’s databases, transmitted to the paper through an intermediary who was given anonymity by the paper. That source turns out to be Jordan Lasker, who – as the Guardian has reported – is a well-known and much criticized ''eugenicist', AKA white supremacist."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes #JordanLasker #WhiteSupremacy
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They shouldve bounced trumps big beaitiful pork fuck check :pig_poop_balls2: but they didnt. Strap in he signed himself a 5 trillion dollar blank check and it cleared hope u got silver and gold
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Which memo did i miss?

Isn't #Netanyahu, PM of #Israel, on an #Interpol #UN #TheHague kinda wanted list?

How can he visit the #USA, without getting arrested?

As a German - yeah, i'm pulling that card (also, I didn't do it, i'm a millennial) - there shouldn't be "only following ze orders" - how is this guy not in custody, yet?

Did the UN/TheHague/Interpol lift their warrant - why?

(I mean, #Putin doesn't travel [much] internationally - imagine why!)

in reply to Multi Purr Puss

🧵 2/n NO, this is not a rhetorical question - i'm NOT an influencer - i am 1 of millions, amongst a #demos, which needs to figure stuff out, in order to sculpt a beautiful #democracy!

I guess, #TheHague would be the most reasonable entity to lodge an inquiry..

..unless someone can notify me of a reliable #news post, outlet..

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Is NOBARA really better than FEDORA? benchmarks, experience, apps, controllers...


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#nobara #fedora #linux

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03:56 Post-Install experience
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Nobara is created by Glorious Eggroll, the creator of Proton GE, which is a more up to date version of Proton to run your games through Steam. Nobara takes Fedora, and adds the Wine dependencies, Steam, all necessary codecs for video playback, 3rd party drivers, like their own packages for the Nvidia drivers, which need a separate repo on Fedora, and a LOT of fixes to various packages.

So, let's compare the post-install process for Nobara and Fedora.
Nobara gives you a welcome app that's actually useful, and will offer to download codecs needed for video decoding and encoding. You can also install drivers there, like the nvidia or amdgpu pro drivers.

It’s not a HUGE timesaver, if I'm honest. Maybe something like 5 minutes after the install.

You can also change the layout and accent colors straight from the welcome app, with layouts based on Windows, Windows 11, macOS, GNOME, GNOME 2, or Unity.

The default experience on Nobara on the "official" version uses a heavily modified GNOME. You get a taskbar, windows style, with Dash 2 panel, and the Arc Menu GNOME extension, for a more traditional menu. You have the APpIndicators as well for notification tray icons, you get BLur My Shell, for blurred translucent elements here and there, you get desktop icons, accent colors that can also be applied to GTK3 and flatpak apps, Pop Shell, for the auto tiling capabilities, and Wireless HID to display the battery level of controllers, keyboards and mice in the battery indicator. Window buttons also include minimize and maximize here.

The laptop uses a 12th gen i7 12700H, with 16 gigs of RAM, and an RTX 3060, and everything runs from an SSD.

With shadow of the tomb raider, running the game at the native 1440p resolution, on high details, Nobara got 87 FPS on average, with a minimum of 72, and a maximum of 144.

On Fedora, using the same settings, and resolution, I got 83 FPS, with a minimum of 67.

Running Horizon Zero Dawn, at 1440p, on high details, Nobara got an average of 64 FPS, with a min FPS of 22, and a max of 161, with a score of 11591.

Fedora got an average of 63 FPS at the exact same settings, with a score of 11281, a high of 159 and a low of 21.

And in Total War Warhammer 3, at 1440p, on medium settings and ultra unit size, Nobara reached 71.6 FPS on average, with highs up to 86 and lows down to 58. Fedora, with the same settings, got 69 FPS, nice, with a max of 84 and a low of 59.

Nobara comes with its own graphical package manager, on top of GNOME Software. This thing show everything that is installed, or the available updates. It lets you install flatpak packages, and it has a graphical repo manager.

Just to see if there was any difference between distros, I also tried to connect various bluetooth controllers, namely an XBox Series controller, and a PS5 dualsense.

On Fedora all controllers connected immediately, and worked as intended, without any noticeable input latency. On Nobara, same experience.

On Nobara, installing resolve didn't require anything specific. All the dependencies were already there, the nvidia drivers they package are perfectly good for it. You download it, you run the installer, and it works. Nobara even uses the cuda drivers, which has never been necessary for me on Fedora, I just install the cuda related libraries from the repos, or rpmfusion.

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