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wolframhydroxide

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  • Trump takes no chances in armored golf buggy as protesters storm streets across Scotland

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  • Many of us are none of these things.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • Yeah, in the most pedantic sense, the correct answer is "a", for "Louisiana"

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Nice

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Well, let me know if you've got any trouble. Oh, and do you have an HP? Those things SUCK at installing Linux. One of those things you have to find out from trying to install it on three separate HP devices.

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  • I recently switched, and would be happy to give whatever rudimentary pointers I can. I've found that Linux mint is the best option for me. You can also easily flash it onto a USB and try it out to confirm compatibility.

    The biggest things are these:

    1. you have to make sure to backup anything you want, because the installation wipes the hard drive.
    2. you must (usually) completely erase the windows partition, since the windows updater will usually bork the Linux install the moment you try to boot windows.
    3. you should turn off SecureBoot and bitlocker before you attempt an installation.
    4. rather than dual-booting windows with Linux, it is comparatively simple to set up a Virtual Machine running windows inside Linux.
    5. if you're getting really serious about privacy, you're going to have a TON of services that you may be unable to access, because they are full of trackers and spyware. Baby steps are recommended before trying to make a clean break from all telemetry, tracking and spyware.if you use an android, try installing TrackerControl from f-droid (or, for one that doesn't break as much stuff, Duckduckgo's app tracking protection) and enable it. You'll begin to see just how many calls to add, data brokers, telemetry, and other shit gets caught, and DDG doesn't even touch all the google spyware.

  • Trump puts up AI video of Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office

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  • Indeed

  • Since we're doing magic eyes now...

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  • I think I'd take bizarro world where chirality is wrong over the timeline I'm in, where the president of the united states is a rotting fascist mango and the world has at most 100 years before human civilaization can no longer exist.

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  • That's fair. I feel like you might benefit from reading Cloud Atlas. It's... apropos. That, and A Canticle for Leibowitz have basically formed my worldview since reading them.

    I think that the philosophy can basically be summed up with the quote "You have to do whatever you can't not do." For us, that's raging against the dying of the light. We can't not. But for some, it's hard enough just trying to survive and be decent to those around us, and that life is not without virtue. By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

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  • Basically just using a different analogy to say that you are spot on. Carry on.

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  • I believe that what they're trying to say is this: keeping a government running requires more than just voting for whoever you think will do a decent job every year or two, because it, ultimately, doesn't matter what Hamilton, Locke, Madison, De Tocqueville and other influential philosophers of politics might have intended, because any system that is only checked once a year is a fragile system, prone to corruption. It requires constant maintenance, bug fixes, security updates, and independent reviews. It requires not only that every part of it has the light of day cast upon it, but that the people at every level actually look and act on what the light of day reveals.

    Whether you or the framers like it or not, the united states is no longer a representative republic. The people being elected are not representing the people. They are representing corporations, private interests and foreign oligarchs who pay them to give them the sweet meats of the treasury and leaving the ovens untended, but continuing to shovel the coals of our taxes into the ovens, because then they can make their own pies. The US government as it stands is committed to deregulation, to abandonment of all duty, and that laissez-faire attitude is by design, not of the framers or the people, but by the design of the corpocratic interests that have captured the government, media, and every other facet of our lives, including even our private actions and thoughts through a paucity of data privacy.

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  • Thank you for your posts in this thread. Your work correcting these people is not unnoticed. They've got 300-year-old raw sewage in their basement, see their neighbour's house has a black mold problem, and then when they find specks of mold in their kitchen, they scream that the neighbours have brought the plague. If they fail to clean their kitchen for one week, the rot will seep in to a degree that their neighbour's house could never achieve, and it is only by the cleaning habits of a small minority of their household that the house remains livable, but the person screaming is too preoccupied with the spectacle next door to actually clean house. What, do they think that the person next door isn't trying to clean? Next door is a much bigger house, and the sewage has started leaking through the now-septic foundations from the burst pipe in the screamer's basement.

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  • Bold to claim we had to export it. This is like someone saying "yeah, we've got black mold, but it obviously came from our neighbours, and has nothing to do with the raw sewage we've left in the basement for the last eighty years!"

    Literally none of those things first gained traction in the Americas. As a US citizen, I think we need to be doing a general strike with riots in the streets and shutting down interstate trade with our bodies marching on the highways.

    But you need to see to your own houses, because while the mold is running wild over here, it didn't start with us.

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  • Might not be criminal liability, and I don't know enough about civil liability as regards presidential immunity, but I'd think a different standard of immunity would apply for civil liability.

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  • If you haven't read Neal Stephenson's 'Fall', you should (though reading 'Reamde' for context on some of the characters may be useful).

    'Fall' is about half Paradise Lost for the digital afterlife (less-realistic), but the other half is a fairly believable take on the outlook in a 'post-truth' world of deep fakes and AI slop.

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  • Some of those who teach do so because they actually enjoy it, find meaning in it. Wretched though we may be, some of us believe that knowledge has inherent value without application. A pity you're so closed-minded that you reject the very idea of it. I have met more compassionate and caring people in the teaching profession (before I ever chose that as a field) than in any other part of life. It's pitifully ironic to come into a community of science and disparage education. How sad.

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  • If you're really looking to spit in the eyes of Death:

    Mince some destroying angel and deadly webcap and cook into a nice mushroom ranch, sliver some bitter almonds and untreated cashew nuts over a nice hemlock cress with some of the shaved hemlock roots mixed in. Mix in thinly sliced manchineel apple and add belladonna berries on the top for additional sweetness. From what I understand, all of those actually taste pretty decent, so without the deadly poisons this'd be a bomb salad.

  • When You Wish for World Peace

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  • Someone needs to read Pandora's jar.

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  • My hypothesis would be that, in order to keep that membrane taut, the internal salinity would have to be fairly close to the exterior salinity, otherwise it would shrink due to hypertonicity. That cytoplasm will probably just taste like slimy seawater

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  • I'm, unfortunately, likely in the same boat, as far as expertise is concerned. I have a degree in geochemistry, and I agree with your analysis of the assumptions made to produce this model, but all of the projections I've seen until this one suggested the closing of the pacific basin.

    Consider that much of the pacific mid-ocean ridge (the only thing preventing the closure of the pacific basin) is already being actively subducted under the eastern pacific boundary. Think about that: the spreading boundary itself is being subducted. This makes one wonder how it would be conceivable that the pacific basin widens in the future, despite the vast majority of the world's active subduction boundaries being along the pacific rim.