Convict45

@Convict45@lemmy.world
3 Post – 73 Comments
Joined 1 years ago

Just an old retired guy who's still a leftist.

That war criminal deserves way more than a confrontation.

I’m a very casual Linux user and in my experience, I’ve NEVER had a problem with a documented solution that didn’t require going down a rabbit hole of other references.

Something like this: “To get the trackpad to work with Ubuntu, make sure you’ve installed the hergelbergelXX package.” (No link, find it on your own!)

Visit the HergelBergelXX page. To install Hergelbergel on Ubuntu, you must install the framisPortistan Package Manager. (No link!)

On the FramisPortistan GitHub readme, we discover it requires the JUJU3 database system to be installed. “JUJU3 may cause conflicts with installed USB devices under Ubuntu” JUJU2, which shipped with Ubuntu, is no longer supported. Also we recommend Archie&Jughead Linux over other distributions.

And this essentially never stops.

All of this is comparatively a happy result—I actually DID post a question on linuxnoobs about getting my trackpad to work with Ubuntu… and have not had a single reply. I have no idea how to find out how to make it work.

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They didn’t even stand up.

Last night’s CNN interviews with undecided PA voters made me want to weep for the electorate.

So many of them really were clueless.

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You said Moms 4 liberty but I think you mean #KlannedKarenhood.

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I suppose it's good news that this belief hurts them the most, but it's also a public health problem.

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It’ll go on until some legislation that gives a big break to billionaires needs to move forward in the house, and then all the GOP lickspittles will snap into line faster than they can cash a campaign finance check.

You want to be a poet,

And sought a place to show it.

You picked a strange host

And thread for your post,

This URL would be more fit!

https://lemmy.world/c/poetry

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Seems weird to me they’re de-federating from world but not from the very problematic ml.

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All of them.

Every news org. Every University. Every high school. The SPCA. Doctors Without Borders. Swing Left. Every brand that has a following: iCloud should include one with their services. Every band/performance group—I’m surprised They Might Be Giants hasn’t jumped on this.

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Because easy money from a decade of low interest rates is disappearing.

I think you mean “Hoes for Hitler.”

Moms for Mao?

Stupes for Stalin!

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Why would anyone thing it was a surprise? Cases are surging nationwide.

This attitude mystifies me. When you’re swimming in shark infested waters, do you worry that the only viable boat around isn’t aimed exactly at the vacation destination you dream of?

Or are you unable to tell a rowboat from a man-eating shark?

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Many on the left demand ideological perfection. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

On the right, they only demand power.

She forgot to mention how it was all brought together in the first place by a white male dictator in Russia.

The pie in the sky answer is “get all my friends and relations to use it.”

More realistically: I wish I could follow or friend a person here.

That “uh-oh” suggests we should be sympathetic to Giuliani. I don’t think so.

Bet she also “urges” withdrawing support from Ukraine.

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You have to vote strategically. That is: with an eye to what your vote will actually DO.

Not voting, or voting third party in this election will directly contribute to the installation of a fascist dictator and the destruction of democracy.

Voting is not dating. You're not trying to hook up with The ONE who is "perfect" for you.

Voting is public transport. You grab the one that's going to get you closer to where you want to go.

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I could have gone and made it fit

That woulda been ever so lit.

But the effort was much

And the payoff was such,

I just didn't bother to try it.

I’d love to get an explanation of how you made this work, because when I attempt to even follow my Mastodon account from Lemmy, it does not work.

How can anyone read any of this? The graphic is unreadable to me.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

And the GOP is the sworn enemy of sex positivity.

What is “196”?

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I see. So you can’t tell the difference between a shark and a boat.

It’s mainly about no Nazis.

You’re ridiculously naive. We go to war, or the polls, with what we have. And if you don’t make the best use of the best candidate to get closer to what you’re actually in favor of, you’re a fool.

Hey everybody! Don’t forget to eat the rich!

That’s not bright of you. You going to clutch your pearls as Trump is inaugurated?

How about when he carries you off to a camp?

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It’s pretty weird to insist on a course of action that won’t result in something you want. If you think both parties are the same, you’re wildly misinformed.

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My understanding is the new ruling only allows what the Supreme Court allows.

But any actual result of you voting 3rd party is to end up with a fascist president who has plainly stated his intent is to make sure you will never vote again.

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Yes please! I’m not visually challenged, and I can barely tell the differences.

Peertube doesn’t make a billionaire asshole richer.

I mean, I mostly agree, but damn the ultra-left marginalized white non-binary anti-Harris idiots who don’t care that Trump would be worse for Gaza than literally any other person on the planet are real.

Oh and also the libertarians (always white, middle class ones) who think anyone who insists on strategically voting is a “brainwashed sheep”.

This is mind-bogglingly weird. I’ll never understand it.

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Also it’s spelled “D E M O C R A C Y”.

Idiot.