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baru, to world in Gay adult content creator USSRboy has been arrested in Russia

Ah, so you can exclude gays. And that means:

Republicans don’t by default have anything against gays.

Because hey, every time they do everything against gays there’s an excuse! There’s been loads and loads of excuses over the years, but hey, they really don’t have anything against gays!

Jeez, done critical thinking would be good.

baru, to world in Dutch exit poll suggests neck and neck race between far right and center left in EU election

They say migrants, but mean asylum seekers. While actively encouraging as much as possible foreign workers for e.g. ASML. Asylum seekers only make up a tiny portion of the migrants. Knowledge workers however, …

Far right thrives on stuff like this.

baru, to world in European elections: Centre left struggles to hold back surge from right

Do more for the poor.

It’s really that simple.

Netherlands had a right wing government. They messed up greatly. People voted even more right because “obviously” the previous government was actually left wing.

Perception matters a lot for a large group of people.

And it’s funny because when certain parties make promises there interpretation differs depending if they like the party or not.

E.g. making promises to improve things: who will pay for it? E.g. left wing is spending money they don’t have, or they care too much about lazy people.

If a right wing party makes a promise to improve things and financially it is pretty much certain it’ll not work out: don’t be negative, just saying that because of x/y/z.

It’s too easy to blame left wing parties for what is happening. Pretty sure there’s various causes, and people often aren’t logical or rational.

baru, to politics in Felon Trump Just Escalated His Most Insane Lie About Biden

It would be great if media wasn’t allowed to repeat such obvious lies. Media should be free to say what they want, but there should be consequences. If you spread lies then there should be consequences to it. And it shouldn’t require a hugely expensive court case that’ll get dragged on for at least a decade.

baru, to linux in KDE often not sleeping when idle

I highly recommend list-inhibitors. Not sure if this is the one I mean, the command line seems to match to the one I use: pypi.org/project/list-session-inhibitors/

This command gives a way nicer output.

For me Firefox often prevents the system from going to idle. If some page has a video it often seems to inhibit going to idle. Firefox strangely does that even if the video is paused.

For me and Firefox I’m often intend to do something about it. And then I don’t for various reasons 😂

baru, to world in Germany to miss 2030 climate goal: experts

Not Gen II reactors, which could be [built and running only 4-5 years after the beginning of the construction

Pretty much every nuclear reactor that’s recently been built has been crazily over budget and significantly late. It seems it is usually a decade later than planned.

Anyway, the beginning of construction is a highly misleading timeframe. There’s a long process before construction even starts. Not unique to nuclear reactors.

I dislike nuclear reactor discussions because of similar arguments. E.g. “new technology” fixes some problem, while ignoring the drawbacks. Or when it is pointed out that the approval process can take ages there’s often the “just force it through”. For years I’ve seen people advocate for SMRs. Which turn out to be to have loads of drawbacks, yet again.

If someone says that it’ll take 15 years then the person didn’t solely mean the actual construction. They mean from wanting it to having it working.

If a city decides on a new area for homes the actual construction of those homes is just a tiny part of the whole process. If you buy such a new home there can be a huge difference to when you signed for it and when construction starts. The contract is about start until end of construction, the mortgage around it is not, at least in Netherlands.

baru, to politics in How Trump's deny-everything strategy could hurt him at sentencing

Trumps lawyer was just not good/ rusty.

From what was said on Meidas Touch, a defense lawyer should be fairly independent. They should direct the best strategy. In this case the “strategy” seemed to be directed by Trump. It’s not just the quality of the lawyer, it’s also that the lawyer let the client dictate most of the defense.

baru, to politics in California sheriff quips he’s ‘changing teams,’ urges support for ‘convicted felon’ Trump

Interesting how often you mentioned that this person often actively does not investigate things. This due to their own reasoning being more important than the law.

Then apparently the county is also the highest in meth. I’m guessing that again they’re ignoring things (e.g. reports) because of their own reasons. Which then results in way more meth than it could be.

If true, suggest to wonder why meth reports would be ignored…

baru, to politics in Trump Just Sold His $10M Jet to One of His Megadonors

Gotta pay E. Jean Carroll somehow

Trump isn’t known for paying though.

baru, to linux in Elevate privileges between Python program ( and Inter-process_communication )

Then implement polkit perhaps? polkit.pages.freedesktop.org/…/polkit-apps.html

Basically the root using bit is handled via polkit. Three unprivileged bit calls the privileged bit via polkit.

baru, to politics in Trump Pledges to Free Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht If Re-Elected

There have been multiple articles that you could get a pardon for 2 million USD. That’s the previous time he was president.

baru, to politics in A Global Tax on Billionaires? Janet Yellen Says ‘No’

“both parties are sometimes the same”

The usual claim isn’t that. What people object to is claiming that both parties are the same.

baru, to world in AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers

I also don’t see why any content generated by an LLM could or should be illegal.

Cannot see how it could be illegal? If it does something against a law it’ll be illegal. Just because there’s some technology involved doesn’t absolve that from laws.

I remember a case where someone complained about the incorrect statement an LLM produced about some public figure. The judge ruled it had to be corrected.

baru, to politics in Biden celebrates Black leadership while navigating Gaza crisis tensions at HBCU commencement

no one is voting Biden

Aside from the loads of people voting for him.

Loads of people are repeatedly saying that Biden oud somehow not something to vote for. While Trump would be a good candidate? Your argument just doesn’t make sense. There is a huge difference between these two.

Edit: further reflection, people easily forget history. But Biden won against Trump. Though less relevant now due to right wing media distorting things. People seem to have forgotten what Trump is like as president.

baru, to politics in Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners

Some people go out of their way to not understand or not see something.

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