Putin has been slowly taking lands of strategic importance for over a decade. Taking Ukraine would give Russia total control of the Black sea and a significant geographic advatage in the region. NATO was formed specifically to prevent Russia from expanding and it is very much in US’s interest that Russia doesnt decide to take over Europe.

Funny hearing your concern about money laundering as Putin and his cronies famously steal from state budgets and launder that money through various shell companies and even US real estate.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

Very good points.

I will maintain the the big broadcasters and newspapers have always been slanted, but you are right…

Many, if not most journalists themselves have integrity and should be honored and funded.

Many publications do too.

He’s not right though…

News hardly gets any funding by anyone wothout a goal of people telling others how to think.

The only reason this guy would think the news was ever good is because he used to not know any better.

Everyone’s heard of the “Hello world” being people’s first program, but just as popular among teenaged boys is their second, more advanced program: Boobs! :)

Which norms and why?

Breaking free from societal norms because they are norms will not get you anywhere.

Wearing a shirt that says Fuck you and being a glum dick about everything wont win you friends or convert anyone to your cause.

Being approachable and listening to others in order to connect with them as a human… Then when they ask if you want to hail satan as is the norm and you say no, my friend, for I only praise the Sun. They may be more inclined to see some sun followers as not total assholes as they pray to our dark lord

Itf youre in a situation for it, it can be fun to move to a placewhenre others choose a different societal norm more in line with your own ideals. Like Florida, where some child labor laws were repealed… Take that societal norm

Did he talk to any other countries about how their loans have worked out?

Or is this why he was running. Economic assassin style

I’m going to replace could with will in my head so I can sleep really well tonght

Shits hard, so don’t blame yourself. You aren’t defective.

Suicide is also a bad idea and you are going to regret it if you find you’ve put yourself in an unstoppable position. This is evidenced by people who miraculously survive their attempts.

Be brave and seek help. There is zero shame in this, regardless of what the media or social conditioning might say.

There are groups of people that meet regularly for all sorts of reasons. Attend the meeting you can find that most closely relates to your problem. If you don’t know what or where that is, I recommend starting with Alcoholics Anonymous. Even if Alchohol is not your problem, they will not turn you away, are likely to listen to anything you have to say and will help you find the group that is right for you.

If the AA group you’ve found is full of unhelpful weirdos (some are) find another one.

Late stage capitalism is very unhealthy for a lot of reasons and suicide is on the rise.

It may look like it from where you are, but you are not alone.

Word! Thanks for the info

I didnt realize. Do you have more info on this?

I love this so much

Any reason why?

I use Raspian on my pi and Ubuntu on my workstation and I maintain a debian server at work.

I love 'em all. Ubuntu Snaps arent my fav. but other than that they’ve been great

Bad ass! Thank you for this wisdom

I would love to see a solumn marching band performing the opening ceremony for the olympic-style ball events. The drums burst in with a rousing couple of bars to clear then the big brass chimes in with a commanding rendition of “Do your balls hang low” to a teary-eyed geriatric crowd.

I really hope our guy wins the swingin 'em over your shoulder event this year

I would love to see a solumn marching band performing the opening ceremony for the olympic-style ball events. The drums burst in with a rousing couple of bars to clear then the big brass chimes in with a commanding rendition of “Do your balls hang low” to a teary-eyed geriatric crowd.

I really hope our guy wins the swingin 'em over your shoulder event this year

Thanks for sharing this. I’d never heard of this program. Good counterbalance to Behind the Bastards

Oh word! I forgot about Signal. I use the snap for that. It works well. I think copy/paste works with it.

I used apt for Firefox, Krita, ffmpeg, Blender and Ksnips

I think the big commercial programs I use were installed with vendor scripts

I’m daily driving Ubuntu and my experience aligns with this.

My only gripe is snaps can break copy/paste and prevent me from saving files where I want. This might make Ubuntu unusable for people using Linux for the first time and makes no sense if you dont understand how snaps are sandboxed and how permissions work. The solution is install with apt.

The installer, system configuration programs and UI experience is really good. I argue it is a much superior experience to Windows and arguably better than OS/X. A lot less garbage being shoved down customers throats.

But lightning is this huge deathray from the gods. The fish are just very tingly and ouchy and makes you twitch.

Very good points.

In my case I just need to for a couple users with maybe a few dozen transactions a day; it’s far from being a bottleneck and there’s little point in optimizing it further.

Containerizing it also has the benefit of boiling all installation and configuration into one very convenient dockercompose file… Actually two. I use one with all the config stuff that’s published to gitea and one that has sensitive data.