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Our schools are looking more and more like prisons.

Sarah Palin and her allies have been wanting a civil war all along. There won’t be one, but her kind of language will give license for extremist militia groups to do acts of terrorist violence.

Fascists always use “protecting children” as the rationale for implementing mechanisms of social control. Their willingness to allow school shootings shows that they really don’t care about protecting children at all.

Do these numbers include kbin?

Ubuntu is massively overrated. It’s a bloated distro owned by a greedy corporation.

That’s alot of effort to go from one horrible programming language to another horrible programming language.

Well, Putin rigging an airplane crash is a bit more creative than the usual “jumped out of a hotel window” scenario…

Well, Putin rigging an airplane crash is a bit more creative than the usual “jumped out of a hotel window” scenario …

DuckDuckGo is not a wrapper for Bing, but is in fact a distinct and independent search engine. DDG does grab some results from bing. but it also grabs from other sources and it’s own crawler.

In today’s skewed political spectrum, “Left” is what would be considered moderate in a reasonable perspective.

I use Debian XFCE, and it is perfect for me.

I never intend to use a flatpak or snap, and avoid them like the plague. The whole concept is incredibly ugly to me, and wasteful of computer resources.

As others have said, most people don’t install operating systems. They just buy a system, likely a laptop and run whatever OS is on it. Hardly any laptops come with Linux preinstalled unless you look pretty hard, or are searching specifically for one.

Missouri is represented twice in the list, with St Louis as the worst, and Kansas city not far behind.

Russia’s lander has experienced an “emergency situation” and aborted it’s landing attempt. Ground crews are evaluating what to do next.

The salient piece of info I got from the article is that players of Women’s soccer currently get 1/4 of the pay that players of men’s soccer get.

From the charts in the article, it looks like levels of infection are up to where they were in May/June 2023. Were you wearing a mask then? It really begs the question: What is the threshold level of infection in which the wearing of masks is critically important?

So let’s say someone is harassing and abusing somebody on the platform. Blocking gives the victim a recourse. Let’s say someone with an extreme ideology, such as a Nazi anti-semite, consistently posts hate at a jewish person. Blocking gives the victim a recourse. Blocking is an essential feature of social media, and Musk is a complete idiot.

Far right media considers “Fact Based” to be a “Liberal Bias”.

Good cops get fired. Do you know what happens when an abusive cop’s partner tries to prevent an instance of brutality or racism?