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Hello, my name is Cris. :)

I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff

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Thats bit of history is super cool, thanks for sharing! I will remember that

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While it is good to have empathy and understanding for less technical folks, OP may be in a better position to know what is realistic for their family and level of support they can provide

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While that's true I don't think Bernie is trying to say every district, he's disagreeing with the broader notion from entrenched Democrats that these are outliers that can't be replicated and that the Democratic party needs to stay moderate (neoliberal) to win. The article lists a couple more races where we could see this pattern of more progressive candidates winning continue

Other progressive victories victories could be on the horizon in Maine, where Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has had a double-digit lead over Gov. Janet Mills in polls ahead of the June primary and raised three times as much as Mills and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) combined in small donations in the final quarter of 2025; and North Carolina, where Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam is challenging Rep. Valerie Foushee for a second time after losing a close race in 2022.

(Nida Allam is up for vote where I am I believe. While Foushee hasn't been a bad representative I'm excited to do more research on Allam and think I may be voting for her :)

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I mean linux distros are in effect kind of like a bunch of different OSes all based on the linux kernel.

It definitely would have been more helpful for them to describe it as a distro though

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I'm not, but I kind of miss the community connection and discussion of life wisdom that religion serves.

I've thought about trying to go to a universalist Unitarian service sometime, since I've heard they dont really care if you are a more secular person, they're not a Christian church, and welcome folks of all sorts of world views

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Oh eons ago I was raised nondenominationally christian. My missing those things is less a reflection of having had them in the past, and more a reflection of having much less access to community in the present. I dont think I really appreciated those things about church when I was a kid, and while it wasn't a bad experience (except when I joined for adult service, which bored me to tears), I don't really want back the same kind of church experience I has when I was little. It was lots of kids activities that snuck in ideals about how to be a good person and worship practices.

But I have a circadian rhythm disorder that limits my ability to get together with other people cause everyone's asleep for the bulk of time I'm awake, so connection to other people is precious to me. I'd love to find a way to participate in that kind of fellowship and discuss how we strive to be people we can take pride in and build good lives and communities for ourselves

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Are the solve rates for homicide particularly good?

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    I am both horrorfied and delighted by this, thank you

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    Sick!

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    If I understand correctly, this is a post thats just been copied over from reddit

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    This is cool as fuck, thanks for sharing! I neither code nor am learning mandarin, but I hope you get some more folks involved who can contribute too :)

    It might require posting places other than the fediverse though, I'm not sure this is a wide enough net to find folks who can get involved

    Anyone know if there are any good places online to share foss projects you're hoping to build with more people?

    Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal (Japan and Norway got caught selling machining equipment for Soviet Union's submarine propeller blades during the cold war) ( en.wikipedia.org )

    The Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal, referred to in Japan as the Toshiba Machine Cocom violation case, was an international trade incident that unfolded during the final period of the Cold War. It centered on certain Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) member nations who transgressed foreign exchange and ...

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    Interesting little piece of history, thanks for sharing

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    Thats a fucking work of art

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    $20 says they're down bad for potato salad man

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    I'm still trying to figure out how to get more involved myself. I have some connection to local organizing, but am trying to figure out how to get more involved when a sleep disorder has me asleep durring the day- if anyone has thoughts or suggestions for me I'd welcome them :)
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    Something thats been on my mind lately that might be a helpful idea for others is linking up with friends and being poll observers or volunteering as poll workers. There's a lot pointing to the polls potentially being a dangerous place to go this election cycle (the MEGA act, and talk of deploying ice to polling locations), folks being there may be an important way to protect your community

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    50501 is a great way to get connected! They have a discord server for NC (https://discord.gg/62cWYvwgs) with channels where folks will discuss other projects for a local area, it can be a great entry point! For folks seeing this it might be worth seeing if they have a server for your state also!

    Don't compete with other organizations, unite and collaborate.

    Excellent words of wisdom. It will take working together.

    I'm sorry to hear y'all have faced harassment, I imagine it varries by where you are. I'm fortunate enough to live somewhere pretty progressive despite being in a red state. Sending love my friend, thank you for your efforts!

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    🫂

    Brains are kinda dicks

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    they ask their daughters to pretend to pray so that the men in the family, especially the husband or the brothers of that child, won't know that she is of fertile age now. Because as soon as they know that the girl has started menstruating, they're going to pull her out of the school, if she goes there, and they're going to marry her off to a man double or thrice her age. And that is something we have seen so often. It just breaks my heart. Mothers are usually very helpless in these situations. The link to child marriage contributes to the secrecy around periods and makes it an extremely isolating experience.

    As a guy I hadn't really made that connection to how menstruation would become so stigmatized. Thats gutwrenching...

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    Yeah, I have a circadian rhythm disorder and my first thought was "oh, somrthing I might actually be able to do!". But then again I also have ADHD and no internal sense of time so it'd be hard to show up at the right time 😅

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    I salvaged a Microsoft Surface Go gen 1 from the scrap pile and installed Linux on it. Most stuff seems to work ok but I can't get screen rotation working in Gnome. I know its not a sensor issue because it works under plasma-mobile, and if I run monitor-sensor I can see its detecting mottion even under Gnome. ...

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    Glad you got it working!

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    If you're knowledgable about CSS you could use the Stylish extension to customize websites, but given frutiger aero's aesthetic, you'd probably have to add a bunch of images for ui elements, so I wouldn't neccisarily expect it to be easy

    Short of customizing stuff yourself, I think thats a really niche styling to be looking for, for already niche platforms. If you wanna check for other people's CSS creations you can go to the userstyles.world site, or the older and I think now defunct userstyles.org, and search for mastodon, or any other sites you wanna check out themes for. There may not be many, customizing your websites with CSS stylesheets isn't exactly a huge hobby, so the most themes are available for sites everyone uses (YouTube, Wikipedia, google, etc.). Any themes there you find could be used with the stylish extension, though it may require some extra work from the older site

    As someone else who enjoys the y2k retro aesthetic, I hope you find something you enjoy :)

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    Thats honestly fascinating, I wonder why that is

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    At least they dont donate to political campaigns. Being anti union sucks though, I wasn't aware of that, and its always good to know those kinds of things, thanks for making me more informed

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    Helpful point about meat, any suggestions on places to check for better deals on meat? Increasingly I'm just reducing the amount of it I eat, but being broke as shit I'm always trying to keep in mind where's a good place to buy what

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    I should really look up if there are local grocers around me other than farmers markets. Thanks for your thoughts!

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    In a hospital, there is always another patient waiting. As soon as one bed empties, another is filled.

    At UnityPoint in Des Moines, nurses were expected to keep that system running no matter the cost to our patients, to our licenses, or to ourselves. By 2024 our hospital systems were routinely over capacity, patient wait times were astronomical, and staffing was dangerously thin. Nurses were expected to do more with less, while executives continued to reward themselves.

    That pressure pushed UnityPoint nurses to do something unprecedented: organize ourselves and become Teamsters.

    Hospital administrators blamed the budget, a nursing shortage, and the state of health care: anything but their own decisions. UnityPoint is a nonprofit hospital that should be reinvesting back in our community, yet executive salaries and yearly bonuses continued to increase.

    In fall of 2024, UnityPoint suddenly took away a shift differential, resulting in nurses losing thousands of dollars per year. Nurses attended meetings with hospital executives who claimed they wanted to “hear” our concerns. But instead of collaborating with nurses directly to improve conditions for patients and staff, they told us to “re-evaluate” if this was a career we wanted.

    The hospital administrators were doing what I call “inactive listening.” They hear our concerns, but rarely is there action or meaningful change that follows. It was demoralizing to see hospital executives take advantage of our compassion while their cost-cutting deepened patient suffering.

    Nurses knew that if we didn’t make serious changes to our workplace, patients and staff were going to continue to suffer the consequences.
    LOOKING FOR UNION HELP

    Over the years some of our co-workers had sent out requests for organizing help, but most nursing unions dismissed us. There was no precedent for nurses self-organizing in Iowa and they didn’t think we were a safe bet. It wasn’t until we contacted Teamsters Local 90 that we encountered people who were enthusiastic about supporting us in making change at our hospital.

    At around 1,100 members, Local 90 is on the small side for a Teamster local. But it's the epitome of the saying, “It’s not about the size of the dog in the fight, it’s about the size of the fight in the dog.”

    The elected leaders—UPS rank and filers—ran against the longtime leadership of the union in 2022. From the beginning they have defied expectations, and as principal officer Alano De La Rosa says, “We bite off more than we can chew and then just keep chewing.”

    UnityPoint is their largest bite ever. The hospital has over 2,000 potentially eligible members, many with no direct experience of unions. Still, when we told Local 90 leaders we wanted to organize, they were all in. We felt support that we’d never felt from our hospital administration.

    I noticed Teamsters call each other brother or sister, and at first I thought this was strange. I quickly realized it's not just words. Teamsters brought us into their family.
    INSPIRING EXAMPLES

    Slowly the small core of organizers brought people in one by one. We saw the success of the 10,000 nurses at Corewell Health East in Detroit who unionized with the Teamsters, and it made us believe that if they could do it, we could do it too.

    We called ourselves “United Nurses of Iowa” and set out to educate our co-workers about what unions are: how people, in our case nurses, could stand together to improve conditions for all. We formed bonds with people of a variety of political backgrounds with the promise of a real voice on the job.

    But as our organizing picked up, so did the repression from UnityPoint. The hospital hired a union-busting firm. They spent an estimated $6 million on negative messaging and tried to convince us the Teamsters were a bunch of dumb and vulgar truck drivers who didn’t understand health care. They tried to paint the union as a nefarious outside force when they were the ones hiring “labor consultants” to spread misinformation among staff.

    We set up tables with educational flyers, Teamster swag, and snacks, and made ourselves available to answer questions from other nurses. When the hospital told us we couldn’t set up tables, we made wearable information tables that looked like we were selling concessions at a baseball game. We hosted fun events, and set up meet-and-greets to continue to connect with our co-workers. At one event an organizer dressed up as the Easter Bunny handed out candy—that is, until our bunny was forced off the premises.

    A union Easter Bunny was hustled off the premises. Photo: UNI

    We went into our community talking to neighbors and asking if they would put up signs in support, and found that Iowans (at churches, in coffee shops) were overwhelmingly positive.

    When it became clear that we were serious about winning our union, the Teamsters sent in support from all over the country. Teamster nurses came from Michigan and California to share their knowledge with our co-workers.
    ELIGIBILITY GAMES

    We pushed for an election that would be accessible to all nurses eligible to be part of our union. When we requested mail-in ballots, UnityPoint rejected the request, insisting on an in-person vote at the end of October. When we raised concerns about a potential government shutdown the first week of October, they dismissed them.

    The government did shut down, halting all National Labor Relations Board elections, and just as UnityPoint had hoped, they had several weeks to hire new nurses and expose them to anti-union rhetoric in their orientations. Union-busters walked the hospital, pulling nurses off the floor for one-on-one discussions.

    UnityPoint accused the union of causing confusion about voter eligibility, but they were the ones who provided the list of eligible voters! They encouraged people to vote knowing they were not on the list they had provided. But anyone not on the list was automatically challenged by the NLRB. It seemed their goal was to rack up challenged ballots, creating confusion and delaying our union certification.

    UnityPoint also petitioned the NLRB to change the date of eligibility. The board denied that request, but UnityPoint continued to tell everyone to go vote. Then UnityPoint tried to spin the narrative that “the union” wanted to exclude nurses.

    But when the votes were finally counted, we won decisively, voting union 871-666. Moving the goalposts hadn’t succeeded. Months of slander hadn’t succeeded. Nurses had come together to build something all our own, and we weren’t going to be intimidated.

    It couldn’t be that simple.

    A few days later our employer filed 12 legal objections, accusing everyone from the nurses to the NLRB to one of its own managers of breaking the rules. It’s a baseless legal tantrum, and its goal of stealing our victory has not been successful. Nurses are not afraid of challenges. We are used to them; we re-focus and we keep pushing forward.

    Before the objection was filed we had already started preparing for the next steps: building a contract action team and a bargaining survey. We reached out to the new friends we had made in Michigan and found that they were happy to help. We had become part of a nationwide movement of worker solidarity. Their knowledge was now our knowledge; their wins were our wins.

    UnityPoint has always hoped that if it could just slow us down, we would lose interest or lose hope. What management has never understood is that we’ve been a union for a long time, ever since we started fighting for each other. And our union family only continues to grow. We stand together, united and ready for whatever comes next.

    Belinda Carpenter is an emergency department and critical care nurse at UnityPoint Hospitals.

    Weirdly I had no issue, but hope this helps :)

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    How dauper, he seems very friendly :)

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    I hope people remember when they downvote you that if we cant critisize the things we love, they can't improve.

    Sincerely, a long time linux user who thinks we shouldn't downvote literally anyone even mildly critical of linux, often doing so in a constructive way

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    Does anyone know I'd proof of stake ended up being better than proof of work? I dont follow crypto but kept hearing that was supposed to improve things

    Crypto is a big deal because it enables grifting and crime, but with how shit payment processors are and their tendency to use their position for censorship, crypto actually would be a potential way of solving that problem IF it werent ludicrously volatile and wasteful. But I have no idea if those problems could really ever be solved, or any progress has been made on those fronts

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    I didn't mean for everything, I meant if crypto could ever fix its shit it could be a useful tool for folks affected by the issues with payment processors

    But it would have to be stable in value, not suck for making transactions, and not be wildly wasteful

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    I'm sure your patients appreciate you, and I appreciate the reminder to be real, as I adjust to a new therapist after a long period of not having one :)

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    I like the threadiverse :)

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    Thanks, appreciate you :)

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    Love seeing this acknowledged. So many of the societal harms we trace back to men and then we fail to engage with why men end up that way.

    We do men and boys an enormous disservice by essentially raising them to be emotionally stunted and interpersonally dysfunctional. And then they grow up and they subject more boys to the abuse that was normalized to them- because hurt people inflict more hurt on others.

    But if you say the word "patriarchy", men who are deeply hurting under said patriarchy will disengage and treat the idea as a threat to be defeated because they, like everyone else, are a product of their socialization, and their socialization teaches them that of they fail to measure up to the rubric of masculinity, they are a failure, and that masculinity is the ideal. Questioning that is a non-option.

    If you wanna address those societal harms you have to start by raising generations of healthier boys and men, and protecting them from the abuse that is the normal response when those men and boys try to learn how to engage with their emotions.

    Shit makes me sad. And instead of engaging with men's issues in addition to women's, our government decides we should just stop engaging with women's issues, because this admin is patriarchy incarnate. No questioning the status quo.

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    Man this sits at such a messy juncture in my eyes. I'd like folks to be safer. I don't think policing is a great way to protect folks.

    At the same time increasing the dependence on surveillance and tigher integration of surveillance with policing is not a solution without grim risks, that I think ought to be included in that conversation

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    Where I am it was the second down on the right side, but recently the button to mute stopped working around where I live. I have a friend who just sticks his keys through the the speaker grates to kill the speakers lol

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    The likelihood that you get any kind of meaningful arc from puncturing a speaker is almost none, theyre not gonna drive those speakers with high voltage. Especially improbable since you're likely just destroying the speaker diaphragm, so an arc may not even be feasible from the type of damage done.

    When myth busters tested whether cell phones, and then arcing (like from static discharge) would blow you up at the gas station, they had to use a large continuous arc from a neon sign transformer (extremely high voltage) and a sealed box full of the ideal fuel to air ratio of gasoline vapors to get an explosion.

    Puncturing a speaker isnt unlikely to ever have to have either of those things. You're unlikely to get an arc, and there should be like a zero percent chance of a meaningful build up of fuel vapors in an open air setting where the vapors have to make out of the narrow choke of the fuel tank opening, where the nozzle and its rubber splash guard thing are blocking its route, and all the way to where the speaker is

    Do you by any chance have any experience working with electricity to back up your concerns?

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    While I feel theres a slight difference between a lit cigarette while operating a gas pump, and the possible spark from breaking the diaphragm in a low voltage speaker behind grates in the pump body- you know what fair enough. Usually when I see or participate in folks talking about electricity dangers online its folks who have no clue what theyre talking about.

    A couple of months ago I was in an argument with folks on lemmy who thought if you put a nine volt battery against your nipple it'd electrocute you. At one point I went and grabbed a nine volt to take a picture of literally pressed against my skin just to prove my point 😅. A lot of folks seem to mythologize electricity and its dangers, sometimes it even seems to come from folks claiming to have electrical work backgrounds or engineering degrees

    Regardless, hope you have a good day, take care :)

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    Man, thats cool as fuck

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    That looks tasty af!

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    What are cue sheets?

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    Ah, neat that makes sense, thanks for explaining!

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    Holy SHIT Godot is moving fast, the page is like a mile long!?

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    ❤️

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    I dont know much about this situation, do you have source where I could read more about what valve has or hasnt contributed, and them only employing one person to work on proton?

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    My Linux distro tierlist

    I labeled some of the lesser known logos. The criteria are arbitrary and I made this based on how much I liked using it. ...

    Tierlist of Linux distros. S Tier has: Void Linux, Nix OS, Debian and Artix Linux. A Tier has: Arco Linux (RIP) and Arch Linux. B Tier has Linux Mint. C Tier has: Aurora Linux and KDE Neon. D Tier has Fedora Sway Atomic. F Tier is empty. There is an unranked tier at the bottom, with distros unranked due to not enough usage, these are Manjaro Linux, OpenSuse and standard Fedora Linux.
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    What does the install script set up for you? I'd be trying to install gnome and get audio working. Last time I tried I got networking set up even though the ncurses installer couldn't handle setting it up for me, and I got gnome installed, but wasn't able to get audio working when I gave up and installed fedora cause I wanted a working computer (I broke my old laptop and was learning on the replacement, so I kinda just wanted it up and running)