You are trying to make out like the US is benevolent and are concerned about Ukrainians.
You’re moving the goal posts. The world isn’t black or white. Disliking the US doesn’t mean that Russia is right. Russia went to war with Ukraine. The whataboutism on the US is not relevant. Say the US did something bad, is that really why Russia invading Ukraine can be excused?
Sending people to Rwanda is part of blaming a certain group for everything that is going wrong. Housing crisis? Caused by this group, then take some terrible action against them. Meaning, they’ll keep sending them to Rwanda.
Systemd isn’t just an init system. It is a project with low level building blocks for a distribution. Most of the complaints are that it isn’t just an init system, while it’s not meant to be just an init system.
Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were shit.
With a different feature set per script as well. The systemd service files have often been pushed upstream.
Pretty sure people liking those scripts never really tried dealing with them across distributions. Though this just rehashes things that were said when distributions decided if to switch to systemd. Still the same strange claim that those scripts are somehow easier. It wasn’t, it is also way easier to package a systemd file from upstream than to maintain that stuff within a distribution.
There’s various nuclear reactors that have been built in Europe in the last 10-20 years. They’ve all gone crazily over budget. Yet every time the answer is that it was the wrong technology and other excuses. Nuclear is NOT cheap.
Your argument is a bit weird. People are suggesting for more diversity. Then you seem to say that’s bad because they should wait until an opportunity that people fight for more diversity? I’m not following.
where the committee perform worse because the “forced” member
Ah, the common strawman. A committee where everyone thinks pretty much the same is somehow better than one where a few have a different opinion?
Such discussions took place decades ago when pretty much every manager was only male. And they often honestly thought they did the right thing. When there were more women forced to be managers the group as a whole got better insights into different opinions. Which helped to see that certain things could be done a different way.
That to me is history, plus rather logical.
Having a few people with different opinions is further usually good for a committee. Though some like every single person to think the same, more efficient or something. If most think the same it’s way easier to overlook something.
While this is true to an extent, from experience this line of thinking has its limits and is very easy to misapply.
If the majority of contributions come from one person, then yeah, maybe that person should dictate everything. Else you’d miss out on all of those contributions, no?
I use Home Assistant. If reported a few bugs. Every single time I get a really friendly response. Often things are fixed quickly. Things are discussed, different opinions seem to be appreciated and considered. This doesn’t mean that they’ll do whatever someone suggests.
What I find funny about the one contributor who does the majority of the work situation is that it can also be seen in a different way.
Home Assistant as a project has grown like crazy. I’m unable to say exactly why that it, I must see it a great accomplishment.
At one point Home Assistant was just one person doing the majority of the work. Nowadays it is far from that. Pointing towards just one person doing most of the work ignores how it maybe could be. Meaning, maybe with “magic” the project would be crazily bigger. With a crazy amount of contributors. With maybe people paid for by companies to contribute.
That’s what I find lacking in the logic as said by some comments (not by you). It’s a comparison of the current status, not of different outcomes. And those outcomes could be worse, or better.
Are you reading what you wrote? It’s full of contradictions.
It seems you think that people should be free from consequences until a certain level is surpassed? That’s rather arbitrary.
What I saw is that an active developer got actually banned just for arguing against an affirmative action.
It’s often not as simple as how you summarize this. Above is awfully similar to the incorrect claim of “cancel culture”. While often that meant that people think someone should be able to do as they please without any consequences. Except for things they dislike, then there should be consequences.
Speculation has risen as to why Donald Trump has not risked violating his gag order to attack former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker following his damning testimony in the hush money trial....
I saw a video where they described what was said in the trial. Apparently they sometimes buy stories just to have something to use as pressure on people. I’m pretty sure that you’re right, Trump is quiet because he is forced to.
Donald Trump’s appearance in criminal court on Monday has raised many questions, constitutional and otherwise, but on the evidence of the first day I find myself most curious about the former president’s McDonald’s order. During jury selection last week, the Daily Mail reported on a $700 (£560) McDonald’s order put in...
Businesses have described Britain’s Brexit border plans as being in “complete disarray” after it emerged the introduction of some checks on EU imports will be delayed....
Last time I checked this there are different standards for stuff that’s only meant for export from the EU vs stuff that’s for EU consumption. It’ll still likely be fine, but cannot assume it’ll be the same standard.
Agreed, Russia has been building defensive structures since years. Ukraine way less so unfortunately.
Ukraine is on the backfoot and being beaten back even worse after the ammo shortage
Thanks to Republicans. Who one year ago said they’d fully support Ukraine. Then they got new orders. I’ve saw loads of Republican voters say that the party is fully behind Ukraine. They now argue differently.
They already had a problem because if you look by age group and sex they would have issues in future. They’re now creating and even bigger problem. An entire age group where there are hardly any men. Just check their population pyramid. Lack of young people. They’ll now have way less.
It’s interesting that you read something different in that. Trump says that they need to hurry up and finish what they started. That’s not a good thing.
It’s also funny that a tax meant to increase gas prices and make it easier for alternatives to be cost effective is used in an argument to not do anything and just rely on Russian gas.
Though it would be good/required if that tax directly goes to the country paying it and to efforts to switch from gas. That’s sort of how the Netherlands subsidises the efforts, they made electricity and gas more expensive and used part of that to subsidize solar panels, various business projects, etc.
It’s just that the courts aren’t as enthusiastic about dispensing justice
In Netherlands there was a system which was supposed to indicate if you maybe committed fraud regarding taxes and benefits. That system was completely buggy, plus highly biased. People went to the highest courts to prove their innocence and the courts rather trusted the tax authority, which trusted the system.
Children were taken away from families, people lost their jobs, etc. This for around 100.000 people/families.
The government knew and ignored that things were going wrong. A cabinet fell, people voted for the same people, pretty much the same cabinet was installed again.
It went on for ages. People are still heavily affected. Most haven’t been helped. It is one of the many scandals as a result from a majority voting for the same right wing party. People were sold that all these problems were due to left wing parties, now there’s an even more extreme right wing parties trying to form a cabinet. Because obviously it wasn’t right wing enough. Urgh.
An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland’s failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe....
The bad thing isn’t caused by the one doing bad things, it’s by others not doing enough to stop them. Interesting way to argue and to ignore responsibility.
Registered Republicans still significantly outnumber registered Democrats
Aren’t there loads of cases of removing voters from being able to vote? Further, dividing areas of voters in such a way that it isn’t about getting the majority of the votes.
This hinges on New York’s laws regarding surety bonds
But that’s exactly the issue. The bond company is pretending that they don’t have to follow any law/regulation because they’re out of state. While AG is objecting based upon the NY law regarding the bond.
Meaning, need to show financials. Need to have enough assets. The AG said that their assets are lower than the bond amount. While the bond should be 10% of the assets at most.
The bond company added the financials of another company that’s not involved with the bond. Pretty shady behaviour.
As said elsewhere, the bond company needs to share their financials. So not the Trump financials. This to ensure that the bond company has enough money for the bond.
Then the fuhrer will owe his friend a favor for the help.
Because Trump always pays people back.
It’s so strange how many people (even lawyers) do various things including crime for Trump, then expect some gratitude from him. Despite him regularly throwing people under the bus.
Trade Policy is an exclusive competence of the European Union. The legal basis for Ireland’s and the EU’s trade relations with Israel is the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which entered into force in June 2000.
You famously never know what you’re going to get when you open a box of chocolates. But for Belgium, a state that’s synonymous with the high-end confectionery, soaring cocoa prices are making life for the nation’s chocolate aficionados even more uncertain than usual....
The article doesn’t say that the prices went up because they paid people more though. There’s also quite a bit of difference in what the producers are paid and what cocoa is sold at.
Cocoa is often transported in bulk, then there’s loads of trade going on where they try to influence the price as much as possible. Meaning, as high as possible.
That the price of cocoa goes up in the past was often caused by artificially reducing supply. Just to make more money.
Anyway, cocoa prices are not set the cost of buying and then a certain margin on top. Meaning, that farmers weren’t being paid enough was on purpose and to make even more money.
Traders have been influencing the supply of cocoa for decades to get as much profit as possible. It’s best not to listen to those in the cocoa trade. They’re ruthless.
What 10 Years of U.S. Meddling in Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) (www.realclearinvestigations.com)
Trump Hints Another January 6 Could Happen If He Loses the Election (newrepublic.com)
The former president made multiple chilling warnings during an interview with Time magazine....
Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show...
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back (arstechnica.com)
Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso (==Goodbye NixOS) (xeiaso.net)
discourse.nixos.org/t/…/44236...
Donald Trump refusing to go after David Pecker raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Speculation has risen as to why Donald Trump has not risked violating his gag order to attack former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker following his damning testimony in the hush money trial....
Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump’s appearance in criminal court on Monday has raised many questions, constitutional and otherwise, but on the evidence of the first day I find myself most curious about the former president’s McDonald’s order. During jury selection last week, the Daily Mail reported on a $700 (£560) McDonald’s order put in...
Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Kernel 6.8, Gnome 46 & KDE 6 (9to5linux.com)
Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn’t make it to the party, in case you were wondering.
Notifications in 46 and beyond – GNOME Shell & Mutter (blogs.gnome.org)
Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants (apnews.com)
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem says no exceptions for rape or incest in abortion ban (www.independent.co.uk)
Post Roe v Wade abortion law in South Dakota only allows for exceptions to save life of mother...
Brexit plans in ‘complete disarray’ as EU import checks delayed, say businesses (www.theguardian.com)
Businesses have described Britain’s Brexit border plans as being in “complete disarray” after it emerged the introduction of some checks on EU imports will be delayed....
DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)
Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead (www.bbc.com)
Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark - the BBC can confirm....
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Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump (www.usatoday.com)
While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say....
Less than a day before first criminal trial begins, Trump attacks judge—again (www.motherjones.com)
Stay on Fedora or Switch to Void?
I’ll try keep this short and concise....
If convicted this year, Trump could lose the right to vote for himself (www.npr.org)
EU gears up to sue Germany if it doesn’t change divisive gas tax (www.politico.eu)
Germany’s neighbors say the measure is harming EU unity and hindering their efforts to ditch Russian energy....
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Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia’s army has grown bigger despite sustaining losses when it invaded Ukraine, says a US general....
International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in landmark climate case brought by 2,000 women (www.cnn.com)
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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Trump’s $175M Bond Rejected, Filled With Filing Errors (politizoom.com)
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Trump secures $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case (abcnews.go.com)
Israel warns Ireland over calls to break trade links (www.rte.ie)
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Belgium’s renowned chocolatiers grapple with soaring cocoa prices (www.politico.eu)
You famously never know what you’re going to get when you open a box of chocolates. But for Belgium, a state that’s synonymous with the high-end confectionery, soaring cocoa prices are making life for the nation’s chocolate aficionados even more uncertain than usual....