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  • The Third Place Index - a project which combines OSM and US Census data to score the availability of "third places" nationwide.

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  • Yes, it is never complete, but you have to compensate for that. Otherwise you kinda end up with a map of openstreetmap coverage quality rather than whatever you were trying to research.

  • The Third Place Index - a project which combines OSM and US Census data to score the availability of "third places" nationwide.

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  • This doesn't compensate at all for mapping coverage, which makes it really bad data.

  • Wealthy Americans top ‘golden visa’ surge in New Zealand and applications from China double

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  • It will bring money to rich assholes running various luxury businesses, and might bring up real estate prices which benefits rich assholes who own a lot of land.

  • Locked

    Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.

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  • There was very very little to complain about with her.

    • Promising full military support to a settler colony currently committing a genocide using US weapons
    • Campaigning with fucking Cheneys and pandering to fascists
    • Not promising any actual support for trans people, stopping at "I will follow the law"
    • Abandoning universal healthcare push
    • Not being actually voted on by anyone, instead just appointed by DNC
    • Most importantly: she's a neolib, and the working class has been suffering materially due to neolib policies for the past 50 years, people want change

    There is a shitton to complain about her. If you are knowingly pushing the idea she was a good candidate you're a genocide enabler.

    I would've voted for her if I was in the US (because the alternative is slightly worse in many ways). But, moral qualms aside, it's crazy to just shove a status-quo establishment neoliberal and expect people who are surviving paycheck-to-paycheck due to that very ideology to be excited about it.

  • JOOC why and when was .librewolf folder moved to .config on Linux Mint?

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  • Apps on a modern Linux system are supposed to follow this spec. Not following it is considered a bug, same as if apps used any other spec-defined filesystem directory incorrectly (e.g. imagine putting config files in /lib or something).

    BTW by default neither of these other people will get notified by your comment.

  • Morge continvoucly

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  • I really hope "morging continvoucly" becomes a meme and is used to mock microsoft forever

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • Even if that happens (which is not an inevitability, since China historically has been doing things quite differently from the US), it is no worse than status quo. Until then, unless you are an active threat to China, and are planning on visiting it, you don't have to worry about it.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • Sooo, same as right now, but with way less possibility to be used against me? Sign me up!

  • Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends

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  • It can provide you some information that looks similar to what you'd want. Whether it is correct is another question.

    RAG can help to a degree but hallucinations still happen quite a bit.

  • Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps.

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  • It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.

    In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.

  • Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps.

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  • They tried (and failed) before the war too. Telegram has no privacy, poor security, but they are really good at evading blocks.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Ok, so this makes the most sense to me. This would indeed need to be handled, I think the best solution is for EU to come up with a set of dispute resolution procedures and pass it as a law for everyone to follow. That way, disputes would be resolved the same way regardless of what network or bank you are using, which sounds the most reasonable to me.

  • Protestation

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  • USSR had a lot of issues, but was a lot better (for the working class) than what was before and what came after. The reason for red scare was to prevent the western working class from overthrowing the oligarchy.

    Right now, China is surpassing western neoliberal nations by carefully mixing socialist and capitalist modes of production, guided by Marxism-Leninism with further theoretical developments.

    You gotta go out and read some books dude.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Aha, interesting. I never had a credit card because it would be too stressful for me to take out micro-loans for stuff. Still weird that it's visa/MC money and not your bank's though.

  • BREAKING: Redacted Epstein Names Revealed on House Floor Just Now

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  • Zurab Mikeladze is a Georgian name/surname, not Russian. Given both are fairly popular names in Georgia, I'm assuming there are way more than one person with such a name combo.

    Here are some more people with the same name:

    If anything, I suspect that "Leonic Leonov" is a typo or misreading of "Leonid Leonov", a common Russian name/surname, but there would also be hundreds/thousands of people with that exact name.

  • It's a new life for me / and I'm feeling good.

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  • What the fuck, how is this the first time I'm hearing about this... I was thinking of deleting my account (with no phone or ID tied to it), I guess I'm keeping it for now.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Does Visa/Mastercard actually offer any protection themselves? When I've had to reverse debit card transactions due to fraud or otherwise, I always just called/reached out to my bank and they did it. I never communicated with Visa/MC. Since this system is pretty much SEPA in a trench coat, I'm pretty sure the same would work here.

  • MEPs approve list of “safe countries” excluded from asylum

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  • in the aftermath of the US the question was how could this happen?

    In the US the pattern is blindingly obvious and has been repeating for more than 50 years. One party makes life worse for the working class while making the rich richer, people get angry and vote for the other party, which then does the same thing but under different guises and with different policies. The exact policies in question (neoliberalism vs. neoconservatism) were not that relevant to these mechanics, except everything kept naturally shifting to the right (which is the ideology most convenient for the billionaires).

    Now neocons are straight up fascists, and it's not clear there will be another election.

    But in real life a huge majority of people are feeling poor and downtrodden.

    So, yeah, there's an obvious solution to this: improve their economic status! There are dozens of "mechanically easy" policies that would lead to this: taxing the rich way more, reindustrializing the country, building and leasing out social housing, implementing strict rent control (or abolishing rent entirely), setting price caps on daily necessities, etc. Immigration is irrelevant to this.

    Shifting your ideology to the right to appease nazis literally never works, it is a death spiral for any political organization, leading either to irrelevance or nazism. Instead you resolve the underlying grievances of the working class. However, most political parties in the west are beholden to billionaires and will not do this without significant organizing and pressure from the workers.

  • MEPs approve list of “safe countries” excluded from asylum

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  • Ignoring the voices in the community comes at a peril.

    So, what you're saying is literally "let's listen to nazis and compromise with them"?

    Setting the moral repercussions aside, this never works out well politically. Nazis will not stop from voting for the nazi party just because you implemented a couple of their policies, and the rest will be disenfranchised because there's less incentive to vote when all parties are doing pretty much the same stuff.

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    Late spring in Georgia

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