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  • I want to push my city council to use libre office

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  • Those are great points, it's almost always better to walk in the light. I think I got too attached to the validity of my idea. I'll reach out to them and see if someone can have that discussion.

  • I want to push my city council to use libre office

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  • Is LibreOffice calc much worse? And, again, I feel that most users of office suite software are fairly basic users. I want to specifically leave MS Office power users alone, let them keep their licenses, but if people are just using the basic features, there's no reason for us to be paying outrageous amounts for MS Office licenses for them. Yeah, I'm aware that this is going to increase the load on the IT dept, but I'm hoping that the targeted user base are basic enough users that they can be onboard with an orientation video for most cases.

  • [AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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  • Hey, guys, I know I'm late to the party, but my city just announced that they spent half a million dollars of Microsoft office licenses last year. I think that's nuts. I want to try to persuade them to switch non-power-users to LibreOffice suite and reduce their office licenses by over 90%. Do you have any advice, examples, or selling points that can help me persuade them to cut Microsoft office licenses instead of literal firefighters? And, seeing as this is late, I'd welcome anybody answering. Thanks!

  • U.S. Govt. Backs Cox in Landmark Supreme Court Battle Over ISP Piracy Liability

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  • At first, I came here to talk shit, but it turns out that the music companies are one of the few sectors more evil than telecoms. I'm pulling for Cox.

  • Trump administration says it will fly migrant back to U.S. after judge rules his deportation "ignored" due process

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  • I'm starting to think that we're bringing knives to a Kaiju fight. Even if we somehow scrape through the next four years and recover the republic (spoiler alert, we've already lost the republic, it's just a question of Trump being bold enough to go far as even as decided to do and look more like), the people who got him this far, wrote project 2025, and financed and boosted his campaign will still be there, learning from the mistakes they made this time and eager to try again. That was the mistake we made last time, thinking that when we beat Trump on '20, he and his movement and wealthy/powerful supporters would simply vanish in a puff of smoke. Now we know better.

    What we'll also still have is a weak-kneed, noodle-spined, and sponge-for-brains democratic party that's eager to virtue signal left talking points but fights actual left policies and politicians harder than it fights the republicans. Even now, as we're trying to recover the republic, the DNC is working full tilt to fight anyone trying to make them into an actual opposition party with actual opposition policies. Never forget that the democrats joined the republicans to censure Al Green, the one man who actually did any kind of protest with a backbone at Trump's not-a-state-of-the-union. We're not going to be able to keep the republic from these monsters with gatekeepers who are too busy with honoring intra-party seniority, rites, and traditions and shooting anyone who actually tries to make any meaningful action to fight the monsters. Being the only alternative can't be good enough anymore, we need more people to do whatever they think is right (get into politics yourself, harass your elected officials, start a new party, I don't give a shit as long as the answer isn't do nothing) to force the democrats to get their shit together or else relegate them to the dustbin of history.

  • My neighbors GMC Denali parked illegally in front of a stop sign and crosswalk, next to my other neighbors Mazda Miata

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  • Holy shit, TIL about Chicanes! I'm definitely going to lobby my city for those!

  • My neighbors GMC Denali parked illegally in front of a stop sign and crosswalk, next to my other neighbors Mazda Miata

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  • I'm old enough to remember when trucks were tools and not fashion statements. It's a completely bewildering experience to go to a modern dealership and see the cheapest truck be a $70,000 luxury minivan in a trenchcoat.

  • mods are banned

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  • They also kinda suspended J1 visas. I've hosted like eight exchange students, and the host agency was SURE that they wouldn't fuck with J1 because it's purely a goodwill thing. Idk why they thought this administration gave two shits about good will.

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • Fair enough

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • I see. Thanks for that, I'll have to re-evaluate.

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • Now hold on, so if someone agrees to the conditions of the loan for the IMF (austerity), that's just business, but it isn't if they agree to the conditions of the loan from China (99-year lease on a port on default)? Those both sound like Caveat Emptor to me, but only one of them is laser targeted on hurting the most disadvantaged in a country.

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • That doesn't seem uniquely terrible to me, as an American. That's just kind of what empires do, and I doubt I'd have to go very far to find a dozen examples of the US doing something quite similar. And it's not a few years of austerity, the austerity causes long-term disturbances in the well being of the population, and is sometimes never undone. The IMF are some of the biggest bastards on the planet, you'd almost be better off dealing with the devil.

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • I would like to suggest that you read the Jakarta Method. The CIA is directly responsible for multiple reactionary movements around the world, and those efforts very reliably led to mass murder, in some cases at the direct request of the CIA. The OSS, the precursor to the CIA, overthrew Guatemala's government because they had the gall to pay United Fruit what they said their farms were worth in tax filings when they nationalized the farms, and they went ahead and re-instated chattel slavery there, as a treat. Dulles apparently did a jig in his socks he was so happy about it.

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • So, that would be working towards the eradication of a people. There's various ways to get there, forced sterilization (which we did with native Americans), outright slaughter or famine (which we did with native Americans), forced removal campaigns (spoiler alert), and, of course, the eradication of cultural identity (like the boarding schools for native Americans).

    AFAICT, the evidence for what's happening in Xinjiang is mostly around re-education camps, which could arguably qualify on the fourth criterion, but we don't really have any reliable details on it because authoritarian governments generally don't share their secret squirrel bullshit publicly. Also, people get sent to prison hella easy and locals generally aren't free to walk around unaccompanied. That's all batshit insane police state shit that Trump would implement today if he thought he could get away with it, but it's not Genocide. To my understanding, there is no evidence to support the idea that Uyghurs are being slaughtered in masse or that there is any kind of effort to depopulate them. And there's certainly nothing like we're seeing in Gaza, I seriously doubt even China could hide something like that.

  • GOP declares war on GAO

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  • Just... I can never ever ever take another conservative seriously for the rest of my life. All their "worries" about big, unaccountable government, waste, fraud, and abuse, following the constitution, and fiscal responsibility were all just a load of bullshit. I mean, I always knew they were hypocrites, but congratulations, you blew up everything you claimed to believe in so that you could make a handful of already breathtakingly rich and powerful people even more rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else. But you managed to feed a few brown people into the shredder in the process, I guess, so I hope you're fucking satisfied.

    It's wild that they've dropped all pretense of believing in any of this stuff, and it makes me hopeful that, in the future, if some new left movement arises, when the cons inevitably screech "but the constitution! But the budget!" we can just answer "lol. Lmao." And move on with life.

  • The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that’s sacred to Apaches

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  • God, I remember when this happened. McCain slid a land swap into a defense funding bill as a giveaway for this mining company. The tribe wasn't consulted, ofc, McCain decided unilaterally that the tribe should just have this land over here instead of that land because my rich friends really want that land. In a just world, it would have been the scandal of scandals, and it would have immediately been struck down. But here we are, everything's a fucking scam, you've got rights as long as they don't get in the way of someone's profit.

  • Unfortunately, this is science too.

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  • I remember listening to an episode of TWiV where they bemoaned that more negative results weren't published. They're useful, too, just not nearly as cool and flashy as positive results.

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  • I've done monk/druid before. The mechanics are bad for it, but I love the story flavor of the two most likely to be utterly unarmed classes joining together to make someone whose body IS the weapon, in all of its forms.

  • Poorest 75 nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025, study warns

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  • They certainly do. China is straight up a police state, and what they're doing to the Uyghurs is ghastly and draconian. I hate it and I think it's really backwards, but there's little evidence I've seen that actually meets the qualifications for genocide. Unlike what our best buddies in the whole wide world are doing in Gaza and the West Bank. What's more is that it turns out we're also a police state, and that the IMF promotes instability and oppression via austerity measures. So, pick your poison, I guess.