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Extensions that target older GNOME versions will not work in GNOME 45

So basically it’s just another GNOME release gotcha.

Seriously though, a stable API is not the GTK/GNOME developers’ agenda here. Nobody wanting a stable API should write software with this toolkit. That said, if you’re a true front end aficionado and you’re looking to make your software look awesome every six months, GNOME has got you so covered like the chocolate on a peanut M&M.

For those wanting to write software that won’t magically kerslode without yet another recompile (or heavily relying on your distro to do that dirty work) stick with KDE/Qt group. They tend to be less breaky each release.

I didn’t know Joeffice had a fork. What’s it called?

every time someone says something stupid

Here’s a philosophical topic called emergence. Every “one” thing said by an idiot is one thing, but when pretty much every other comment becomes some asshole saying ignorant things it suddenly is something entirely different.

I saw the very early Internet (mid-80s) and what happened when you gave people benefit of the doubt. There’s been no demonstration that anyone has changed. So fuck those stupid assholes, the Internet is vast they can go carve out their own thing. That’s the nice thing, they have every tool to make their own LOLverse. But they don’t because they don’t want to suck each other’s dick, they want to be an ass to everyone else. Just as it was the case with talk.*

Same as it was, same as it ever will be. I for one am glad this time around people are being proactive. It shows that some have actually learned something.

I was there OP, I was there 3000 years ago before the great renaming, long before the eternal September. Fuck those bitches, defederate and be done with them. Assholes are eternally assholes and giving them an inch is just inviting them to take a mile.

Thought they had accounted for everything by having no windows at the space building.

cars suddenly cost 2x as much

I mean that’s a Thursday pretty much in today’s world. And the whole cost of labor thing, I mean it’s not like we don’t have prisoners who we can force to do labor for people. Or like we don’t have Arkansas that’s making child labor cool again. We don’t really have to worry about insurance or crap like that anymore because we’ve create FSAs so now if you don’t have enough money to cover your heart attack, well that’s your fault. And we’ve got 401(k) so if you can’t retire, that’s also your fault.

And I kid about that. But not really. The only reason the cost would jump up is because the whole shifting production to the US is a great excuse for the CEOs to jack the price up and buy their third yacht. But seriously we can totally move production to the US and it actually cost less, the “Oh it’ll cost more!” is some bullshit that’s pandered around by rich white assholes and some folks buy into it. People like to say we have to pay people $100/hr or whatever BS, but we have to pay them that because we jacked up the price of food and housing. And we jacked those things up because fuckers like to speculate in those things and make massive profit off of the paper at the expense of your average person having to pay more.

Like whatever you’ve got as the justification for why we need to pay more in the US, all of those reasons end with “because some rich asshole wanted to become richer” and if we got rid of the asshole we wouldn’t have nearly the cost we’ve got already.

See that’s just small thinking. DEA gets tons of money to bust folks so that they can be arrested and made to work for free. That’s why there’s so much pumping drugs into communities either via the CIA or the more recent vogue method of making heroin a prescription drug that some family can profit off of.

The entire point of NOT helping drug abusers is so that we can maintain a steady stream of slave labor. Because we still haven’t figured out how to do this whole society thing without a bunch of people in forced labor, or as some lawmakers like to say to make sound nicer, penal labor.

That’s the entire point of the Prison-Industries Act of 1979. It’s explicitly to create a legal slave labor under the 13th amendment so that states can have various industries be mostly worked by slave labor. When you make something that is a chemical addiction illegal, you create assurances for prisoners that will be in your slave labor. When you deny help for that chemical addiction and put the onus onto the users (“Well I guess you shouldn’t have gotten addicted to a drug your doctor prescribed to you!”) you’ve basically created a system that absolutely assures people will be finding their way back under your whip.

I cannot stress this enough, the United States is NOT interested in actually stopping drug abuse because we’ve woven that deeply into our very way of life. There are too many core things of modern society that rely on slave labor in this country. Anyone trying to “fix it” would unravel all of that. I mean SHIT, some rich white guy MIGHT not be able to buy their second yacht! Is this the society we want?

But seriously for a second, the US has a very messed up take on how to handle those who need help for drug addiction. And it is in ways that if we all had a better perspective on it, we’d be ashamed that we’re still living like we’re in the 1700s. The whole Sackler family, they didn’t get away with it for so long just because the Government was sleeping at the wheel. They got away with it for so long because it was beneficial for a lot of people, one of them the prison industry. This country will look the other way on some serious shady shit as long as it drives a profit. The Housing market crash, opioid epidemic, climate change, and so on. Anyone want to count on one hand how many people have faced prison for those things? Our country is way more fucked up than just some law enforcement budget, but yeah, 100% and more what you said.

Literal IRL version of this meme:

Planet with global warming: “I didn’t hear no bell!”

“I lived bitch!”

Protecting minors must come with it protections for fundamental rights. This is what these legislators consistently forget.

It’s not enough in law to just say “you cannot do something vulgar in front of kids.” Law requires more explicit language. I get a “particular group” tends to dislike 100 page bills, but that is what is required.

Broad language allows interpretation in ways that actually violate free speech. And when one attempts to promote protection at the expense of freedom courts see that as a pretextual basis for just robbing people of their rights.

The conservative groups that so want to “protect children” if they actually sought that as a goal, then their proposals for that protection would actually contain language that took effort to write. Instead they weakly pitch these two or three page laws that are easily dismissed as gross violations of basic rights.

And ultimately that’s how you can see that those who are truly conservative and those who represent them are vastly different. The ones getting elected don’t even try to make comprehensive law, they put out a paltry effort, collect their check, and complain about judges. These representatives are pathetic at doing the job they indicate they so passionately advocate.

That said, plenty wrong with conservatism in general but that’s been covered to death by others before me. But if I was a conservative I would be pissed at SB12’s weak language and that this outcome from the courts was a forgone conclusion for such a shoddy piece of legislation.

Same for Rust programmers.

both weighed in on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) latest freezing incident on Wednesday and suggested what the underlying health issue could be.

In my non-medical opinion, I would say that it looks like he suffers from "Should of fucking retired ten years ago"itis.

This country has got to do better than keep electing these old ass dementia fuckers.

This entire Fukushima waste water thing is just the modern plastic straw. Dumping it isn’t great, but fuck, there’s like three billion other things we should be really worried about more when it comes to the environment.

The media’s priorities on particular issues is fucked sometimes.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

This is one of those in general vs in particular things.

In general, yes coal is way more expensive versus renewable energy. In this particular instance, they’re just expanding the site, all of the really expensive stuff like logistics and transportation are already paid.

This is the same reason just keeping old nuclear plants running is cheaper than building a new one. Each industry has expensive parts and cheap parts. If you’re doing something that only expands the cheap parts then you’ll be able to beat out competitors.

What’s this works coming to? Before you know it some priest will get arrested for inappropriate things with a little boy.

Right?! I’m like, if the workers actually get fair pay at the end of the day, then it’s easily worth 1000x more damage to the economy.

I’m tired of this fucking thing we’ve all collectively worked on to build called the US economy only producing a handful of billionaires and shitting on everyone else. It’s high time the bottom rung on these ladders gets something other than the nonexistent trickle down.

Tainted kernels are not supported. Kernel devs aren’t spending time to fix bugs that come from a taint (uses blobs of code that are not open sourced) driver. Because the closed drivers can wreck all kinds of havoc and the kernel devs are helpless to fix the actual “source” of the problem.

There’s been all kinds of ways for the kernel to detect tainted binaries. nVidia is notorious for trying to circumvent that detection so that engineers can sit there and blame the kernel for failures.

nVidia has been a massively shit company to the open source community. If I had a list of most anti FOSS companies to ever exist, nVidia would be right behind SCO, with like TiVo behind nVidia. I know it’s hard but people who enjoy open source projects shouldn’t do business with the company. But if you got to have a nVidia card so be it, but I cannot NOT recommend nVidia enough.

Doesn’t even matter.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)

Republicans have shot his bills down countless times because he’s mostly a prick to everyone. Nobody likes the guy and he’s hardly useful in any capacity to the GOP outside of a warm body who can physically push a “yea” button when they tell him to push it.

He’s like MTG who is from the close by 14th district except more irritating to listen to and less well put together. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from rural Georgia yet just less pleasant in pretty much every aspect than most Republicans.

Not only that, guy is a well known coward. His usual response to difficult things is to do his best impression of Zoidberging out of the situation. Guy is worthless skin who’d run for cover if someone started popping popcorn.

After reading this article, Kirk has a very clearly superficial understanding of the 14th amendment. Some people here may have heard along the way something along the lines of “we’re a collection of soverign states” or some bullshit like that. And that mostly true pre-14th amendment, the 14th amendment was the thing that changed that.

Remember, we fought a civil war and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment are the ramifications of that war. The 13th answered, finally, the whole 3/5th comprimise thing that the Constitution indicated that Congress was supposed to fix sometime in 1808. Obviously “kicking the can” has been a tradition of Congress for quite some time.

provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article

And the 15th amendment grants Congress the power to slap State laws that try to enforce themselves via racial pretexts. Remember, Congress cannot directly legislate elections with the exceptions that are carved out in the Constitution. State’s like to pass all manner of laws with justifications like “it’s for the children” or whatever and the entire point of Courts looking at things Congress brings to bear is to check for “pretextual” arguments. Pretextual arguments being ones that “we say it’s for this purpose, but in reality it is for this other purpose that we’re not allowed to pass laws on”.

Case in point, Tennessee’s recent “Pride parade ban” law that was supposed to be “for the safety of the children” was tossed out as pretextual and no Federal Judge could find in the text how the law wouldn’t be abused to rob people of their first amendment right and there were lots of “clues” that robbing a particular group of people of their free speech was the actual intent. Remember, we’ve got 200+ years of history of States saying one thing and actually doing the other, it’s not a recent invention and something the Federal Courts have to always be on the look out for.

So that out of the way the 14th amendment changes fundamentally how the actual law is applied to people. Which is interesting that Kirk is all about changing it because it’s literally the 14th Immunities clause that was used in McDonald v. City of Chicago to strengthen the 2nd amendment’s right to gun ownership. So, for all the folks saying we need to review the 2nd if we’re going to review the 14th, no worries, because that would become automatic in a review of the 14th since SCOTUS has now connected the two.

The 14th amendment is so litigated because it fundamentally changes how the US operates. It empowers the Federal government while depowers the States, when you take the context of the Civil War into account, the reason why Congress thought the 14th was a good idea becomes clearer.

So the vast litigation of the 14th is to ask the question, “How much power did the 14th hand over to the Federal government and remove from the States?” And we’re still answering the multitude of questions coming from that. So Kirk wondering why so much gets answered by “the 14th Amendment!” is because he lacks understanding what the 14th does and why it was pitched in the first place.

There’s always going to be a power struggle between Federal and State governments. For the first part of the US, deferrence was given to the States and it resulted in a war. So to fix that issue and hopefully prevent yet another war, that giving the States benefit of the doubt was “slightly” removed and penalities for those trying to “overthrow” the Federal system were explicitly enumerated. Because, those at the time understood, our form of government has this power struggle between Federal and State and that one civil war wouldn’t be the end of that struggle.

Does the 14th answer all the problems with that struggle? No, of course not. But it puts the ball in the Federal government’s hands first to solve it going forward. Because putting it first in the various States to solve…well it just didn’t quite work out the way we had all hoped. And of course, over the course of history we’ve had various flavors of Judges who want to apply that wisdom to various cases to various degrees. The power struggle between Federal and State still exists, the entire point it to have an avenue to resolve it without a need for breaking out the horses and cannons.

Now I say all of this and let’s all take a quick look around to see how well that’s going. Yeap. That’s why Judges matter. But back to the subject at hand, Kirk is trying to read the 14th without any context or understanding of application, which that’s what we would expect from a fifth grader reading it for the first time. So we all should treat Kirk’s opinion as such.