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  • ICE agents pull guns on police officers 'of color' and demand papers: MN chief

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  • That seems like a law enforcement issue, and boy howdy do we have people for that already!

    Like if you're arrested and you are in the country illegally, you could be deported after you've been processed and/or served a sentence. That's already been a thing for a long time. And we could argue in good faith about what the most fair and just policies are surrounding that.

    (aside: populations in the developed world are not growing like they used to, and are shrinking in many places. The US is driving away our most respected minds and our most disrespected laborers RIGHT when other nations are going to start treating them even better than before. So even aside from the "be kind to humans" angle it's pretty strategically stupid.)

    But what the United States is supposed to be about, as in the Constitution and amendments, is that decent people just get to do their thing to just live life and pursue happiness. You don't get searched or evaluated or judged unless you break the laws we collectively built. Therefore, nobody would going door to door checking people's papers.

    The tools that law enforcement would need in order to simply deport all people here illegally are the kinds of things our laws were designed to prevent from ever existing!

    I think I would agree with the "liberty" side of that one. It seems much less bad for my family that some folks in town working tough jobs are "ILLeGaL" versus living in a surveillance-state, police-state, fascist dictatorship.

  • ICE agents pull guns on police officers 'of color' and demand papers: MN chief

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  • Yeah but then that potential wake-up call gets put through the 2026 filter and out the other end comes... "Trump claims Harlem should be carpet bombed and casino parking garage built -- midwest gang violence the last straw even if it was Law Enforcement gangs this one time."

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • We have the original Kinect and an old Xbox 360 permanently stationed in the living room of the house.

    Being able to have Kinect Party or its prequel (Double Fine's Happy Action Theater) on the TV out there is absolute magic when you need to entertain a group of kids.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Holy crap, I think you've cracked it.

    LLM AI is the trillion collar costing, terawatt consuming rubber ducky for the new millennium!

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    Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts

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  • Yeah, there are good places and bad places everywhere. That's why we invented statistics, to figure out the differences (or lack thereof) between big messy groups of data points.

    I live in a very pleasant suburban neighborhood in the US. I don't ever see addicts zoning out like in the OP. But that doesn't mean I should pretend that the problem doesn't exist. That's what my conservative family members like to do.

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • I can only hope that THIS time, with the sheer amount of information available, that future historians will convince society that it's better to run society based on evidence and progress and humanity.

    We have the old boys club running our companies, grifting and building a giant economic bubble to make a quick buck they have no use for, and casually destroying some of the most valuable brands out there.

    They are running many of our governments too, and that's not working great.

  • Conspiracy theorist antivaxxer struggling with comprehension

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  • I think this could also be generalized into something like "Conservative struggles with colors other than black, white"

  • Brand new bag

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  • Where else am I going to keep all my Linux installer USB sticks, the bundle of cables that comes in handy every year or two, or the stuff I printed at work for my family that I need to take home?

  • we're a nation of middlemen

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  • It's never made sense.

    It makes perfect sense for the americans who have been conditioned for literal decades to react certain ways to certain things, while being kept ignorant of nice things that exist in the rest of the world.

    For instance:

    Government-run anything? It is mathematically and physically impossible for it to benefit society. It will, without fail, become a corrupt dumpster fire that furthers evil in our world.

    Market-based solution that leans heavily on "personal responsibility?" Well that's just great I tells ya! It lobs like the best, kindest, and most Christlike solution is to do nothing and let them fend for themselves! They will be stronger for it and will thank us!

  • Trump’s Insane New Threat Leaves No Doubt: It’s Time for the 25th Amendment

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  • If they ever remove this ass from office, it will probably just be the final compromise to somehow still not release the epstein files.

  • unpacking.

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  • omg it's not just a website but it's in the repos?

    Honestly though if i'm doing video stuff and I leave htop and nvtop running on the second screen, that gets you like half way to this.

  • unpacking.

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  • Have you guys seen Jurassic Park? It ran on UNIX!

    kinda /s. I mean, it took somebody young and feminine to fix what the old white guy fucked up right? (I'm an old white guy fwiw, but MY system fuckups are all natural)

  • ‘This time the bullet won’t miss’: Iran issues chilling death threat to Donald Trump during state broadcast

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  • It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying "y'all still got any of that 'regime change' we been handing out?"

  • Jesus H. Christ

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  • The OG conservative undiagnosed-something parent.

  • Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’

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  • Oh don't worry, most of them who voted for him a third time are still cheering on the leopards with glee as all the smart-ass minorities and democrat-run areas get what's coming to 'em!

    I went and looked at the profile of a real life trumper who is no longer a friend, on a social media site that I also mostly avoid, and they are openly supporting ICE.

    Their justification is literally "imagine if you or your loved one was killed by an illegal" after listing a random list of names of people who were supposedly killed by "ILLEGALS." But it's a 3-paragraph post written by somebody who seems to think they are very clever for coming up with a weak metaphor for "imagine if somebody got some shit instead of you" so it's probably just a copypasta from some grifter they follow.

  • It's probably too late to change, lol

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  • I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.

  • Would you do me the honor...

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  • The head-to-head comparison between the update user experience is so incredibly lopsided against Windows, that it kind of seems silly.

    I bet if both have a big yearly update, I could format and install an entire fresh copy of the linux distro before the windows machine would be usable.

  • Getty photographer throwing his camera to another photographer while being tackled at Minneapolis's Whipple Building in Minnesota USA to prevent confiscation.

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  • Accidental Reichissance!

    Good on you guys for leaving this image up. This photo may not be old enough to be history, but it is obviously historic.

  • Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

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  • I didn't say there were no issues.

    My 4-monitor setup at work functions considerably better in both ubuntu and debian based Linux Mints than it does in Windows. Just your standard corporate Dell laptop & docking station.

    No computers have zero weird stuff wrong with them. But over time the design intent has mattered more and more versus just the bugginess of the execution.

    In my experience though, Linux has pulled ahead in both. And by a lot.

  • Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

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  • Yeah, my old machines (and work laptop!) are all nvidia, and it's nice how seamlessly it works.

    With the main version of mint that's based on ubuntu, you get a driver manager so that you can choose between driver versions if needed.

    With Linux Mint Debian Edition, it worked fine for general use out of the box with the open source driver. I went looking for info about the nvidia driver out of curiosity, and after stumbling upon some forum discussion I went ahead and tried "sudo apt install nvidia-driver" and it freaking worked!

    • note I might be slightly off on that command, this is just from memory. And I probably enabled non-free software previously, because I know nvidia's reputation with linux enthusiasts.

    edit to add: it did a LONG setup process to enable the nvidia driver too. I think it compiled some kernel modules and stuff too. But I like reading all that lovely monospaced terminal text scroll by with those details most users can ignore.