Andrzej

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Ok, I guess this is a matter of opinion, but 'cops going around asking people about some purple rocks' just doesn't pass the sniff test for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Surely the point is that the OP couldn't possibly have known what the authority thought about their painted stones, unless:

  1. they had a personal contact, which is quite the omission

or

  1. the authorities were putting up posters around town, interviewing door-to-door etc
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The thing is when you're the global hegemon there's no such thing as 'far away'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

+1 for borg + hetzner storage box, though externals do give pretty good value for some uses. I have all my movies/tv on a 6tb external and it would have cost so much more to do it any other way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
  1. Be a stranger to the world's ways.

one out of 72 isn't bad

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm trying out Arch on my laptop atm, and tbh the only real advantage (at least for me) is that the packages tend to be a lot fresher than on Debian-based distros. The question is how many of your packages you really need to be that fresh.

I think a lot of Arch users feel like wizards because they connected to the home wifi using the command line, but if you've tinkered with (/broken then had to fix lol) other distros, you will have done all this stuff before

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Jonathan Pryce received a fair bit of criticism in the nineties for his "politically correct" (read, not explicitly antisemitic) portrayal of Fagin in the musical Oliver!. Listening back to the cast recording, it's actually a revelation — Reviewing the Situation, which had always been played for antisemitic laughs, is suddenly revealed as an incredibly powerful song, brimming with pathos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If you can't see the tankie in the room...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So many tankies in this thread smdh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yes I agree 100%. There's no other way to do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For 'pro-business' read 'swingeing privatisation' but yeah the whole thing is a mess, and I'm not sure it's possible to have 'free and fair' (whatever that means) elections under such conditions.

Wrt reasons to doubt the result, electronic vote counting/voting machines are reason enough imho — but that throws a load of other democracies into question 🤷

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