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  • I bet the voice vote was more like 5-5, and the Republicans changed when they knew their vote was being recorded.

  • The latter half of point 2 seems like a great idea for all ads. Force Facebook to disclose the whole set of targeting parameters.

  • Suppressors are an important safety device for everyone's hearing. Watching someone fire a 9mm handgun without a suppressor is painful to me, even with double hearing protection (ear plugs and muffs).

  • I don't feel it was wasted, because I wasn't voting to win. I also didn't vote for Stein in 2024, so those numbers don't matter.

    In 2016, I voted for Stein to send a message to Clinton, saying "You could have won if you were a better candidate. Here's a person willing to spend the effort to go to the polling booth, but would rather vote for a candidate with no chance of winning than vote for you."

  • I voted Stein in 2016 and don't regret it. I hope Clinton regrets my vote though.

  • The meme template doesn't fit well, since neither the US nor Canada are EU members. That's not their mom.

  • Unfortunately, I think most platforms for novels allow AI, so they end up full of AI trash.

    Instead of using a platform, try looking up authors you've read before and liked. Then see where they publish. Or try and find a fandom for the genre you like, and ask humans for recommendations

  • You're the first person in this thread to bring up Jewishness.

  • "Digitally signed" in this headline refers to pasting an image into a PDF file, not an actual digital signature.

  • It's hard because it's not a perfect linear relationship between battery voltage and battery percentage. When the battery is 80% full, the voltage hardly changes at all as it drains. But it can change significantly with unrelated factors, like age and temperature. So they have to use the integral of current consumption to calculate the battery level. There are other tricks, too, like using temperature to check battery percentage (when the battery is charging, it heats up if it's nearly full), and some lithium ion batteries have a third wire for measuring the temperature.

  • The problem is that the infographic says "of all the mammals on Earth", which means individuals, not biomass. So the infographic is objectively false.

  • I would rather have my good friend bang my spouse while drunk, than drive drunk.

  • I don't get it either, and what order are you supposed to read it? Does the title come first, or at the end?

  • I've never heard anyone say that Flatpaks could result in losing access to the terminal.

    My only problem with Flatpaks are the lack of digital signature, neither from the repository nor the uploader. Other major package managers do use digital signatures, and Flatpaks should too.

  • OBS worked pretty well for me last time I used it, using the basic package Debian provided.

  • Piper is less than 2MB, and allows reconfiguring Logitech mouse buttons. It's available in Debian and Ubuntu package managers.

    Screenshot:

    I had to use Piper to get exotic features like having mouse 6, 7, 8 buttons function as mouse 6, 7, 8, rather than the default of alt-tab and ctrl-v.

  • They should be more neutral in a non-opinion piece. They quote a lot more people saying pro-genocide things than they quote people saying anti-genocide things. They quoted pro-genocide politicians and pro-genocide BBC staff. They did not give the musicians any opportunity to respond to the article.

    Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has inflamed tensions around the world, triggering pro-Palestinian protests in many capitals and on college campuses. Israel and some supporters have described the protests as antisemitic, while critics say Israel uses such descriptions to silence opponents

    Let's consider the two positions mentioned in this paragraph:

    1. Israel should stop committing genocide
    2. Israel should continue committing genocide, and position 1 is antisemitic

    The first position is described as "pro-Palestinian", as if these protesters support the Palestinian military (Hamas) and want them to win. This is incorrect. These people mostly just want the genocide to end.

    The second position is a shitty opinion, but also contains an overt falsehood. It's an objective fact that it's false, and that fact should be reported in the story, but it isn't.

  • Last company where I faced external suppliers, I had to take a training where they said we couldn't accept any item worth more than like $20, except food or alcohol during a presentation. But we could accept such items on behalf of the company, and they would be raffled off to a random employee. One time a guy in purchasing got a giant brass horse head from a Chinese supplier. I guess nobody signed up for the raffle, so it became a permanent fixture in the cafeteria.

  • Sure, here are instructions for getting Linux Mint running: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

    These instructions are for creating a USB flash drive that functions as both a live environment or an installer. If you don't want to install it yet, this allows you to try it out while booting just from the flash drive, without modifying your hard drive at all.