One of our local public transit advocates did nothing more than present at city council meetings. They ordered the security team to follow him everywhere in the building, to the bathroom, and his car.

Even basic challenges to the people in your government is all too often met with straight up oppression tactics. He got them to stop by going to the press with it. Nothing else worked except more public pressure.

Hey look! Yet another conservative policy that abuses women. I’m sure if they keep voting for the big ® it’ll get better any day now. Oh wait, taking away the vote from anyone not white and land owning is a conservative policy plank.

Elbows up, Canada. I’m so happy to see the Neighbors to the North take little shit from the Bully Cowards to the South.

The rate of empires destroyed by fighting two front wars while overextending the military to hold other territories is nearly 100%. It’s the best indicator of an empire collapse coming up.

So, operating in a sport using gentleman’s rules is great. It’s wonderful when people are honest and courteous on the pitch/ice/field. The problem is that it works both ways.

Canada’s player did break the rules. I don’t know enough about Curling to say if it was a game changing infraction, but he did it at least once. Why he can’t say “I messed up in the moment, I’m sorry, I won’t do it again”. Apparently attacking the other players, the officials, and the public is the better response.

Why hasn’t his own coach suspended him? If this is a game of courtesy and trust then wouldn’t the team take care of it internally? It’s not the important, I guess.

To sum up: we end up with cameras, judges and replays when we can’t trust the players to be honest. So far the Canadian team and the single finger infraction aren’t demonstrating the kind of gentleman’s honor needed to preserve the type of environment they begrudge losing.

Given this press release by Google, I presume they’ll also be stopping the use of Open Source code within their company? The should immediately remove all of those Linux installs and put in a commercial product because it would be “better for the economy”. Get working, Google. Once you finish that up, come back and we’ll still ignore you, but at least you’ll be on better moral ground when you show up.

It’s the old adage about Conservatives: They don’t care what you do unless it’s a boy or a dead girl.

And then when the wheels come off you just need to sit through a bunch of boring congressional hearings before they cut you a really big cheque.

Bingo. You’ve nailed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

The EU at least tries to deal with these criminals. The US is just a “fuck the peasants” kind of place.

Really‽ That sounds bannanas!

WTF even is a Microsoft SlopC? Something that has hardware to speed up their AI deleting important files and sending your private data to hackers? I don’t think we need that fast-tracked, Windows 11 already does it well enough.

I don’t know every detail of your use cases, but my offline go to is xournal++ (xournalpp).

I use it for many of those actions. We moved to Germany and having a GUI pdf editor for signing, highlighting, redacting, pulling pages, etc has been invaluable.

My wife also uses it for her class lectures. She does math, so she uses a tablet to write on her slides (pdfs) live in class to talk through the material. Then, she saves the lecture PDF to give to students with the notes.

lOl

Rep. Don Bacon is a wanker. Shit or get off the pot. This wannabe dictator is threatening to shut down elections and post soldiers to US cities that aren’t actually in need of it. Do your job and stop flapping your mouth, wanker.

“Congratulations to Drugs for winning the War on Drugs”

It turns out the problem isn’t the drugs. It’s mostly people in bad situations needing tools to cope or escape for a while. What works more then laws and cops is more equitable wealth distributions, healthcare, reasonable living costs, cities with 3rd place communities, and education.

Highlight->Middle paste has been my friend for decades now. Using it from SunOS in the 90-s to now has been a great feature. It’s the quickest way to copy and paste while I’m working fast with text or data entry.

I love having both clipboards be functional. The latest rounds of tools that have stopped being as compatible with it has been no end of problems in my workflow. I’ll copy with the keyboard, highlight some text and then paste both clipboards somewhere else.

No, using the keyboard here isn’t as fast, don’t bother making that argument, especially since ctrl-c means different things in different places on Unix style systems. Left hand stays home row while the right is forced to leave for the mouse since it’s a GUI.

I’ve had to deal with many tools that don’t respect keyboard cut/paste as well. Add in that some tools like putty or git bash on windows have ctrl-ins for paste?

Panning in CAD/design is usually click and hold middle or even a two button system (freecad), so trying to take a middle click for that isn’t buying uniformity.

The copy/paste world is already fractured enough. Keep the highlight/middle click working so we can go fast. I might be a dinosaur, but I’m a fast dinosaur.

What? No way. I despise their captive scrolling stuff. Every time I get forced onto a windows system I forget that middle mouse is a weird scrolling mode and end up wandering randomly up and down pages until I realize what happened.

Just to put you all on notice: I started my kids on Linux from day 1 of their computing lives. I’m playing the long game here. In another 80 years they’re going to be in the longest living users category.

They mostly use Linux as their daily drivers. Any time they have to use windows for school work they also rage at the terrible UI and lack of ease of use. <Insert evil laughter here>