I guess the GOP wants to fuck the teens in more ways than one
Another really simple way to do essentially the same is to set the bios in your machine to support boot from a USB stick (and in some machines, that involves disabling the 'secure boot' setting that prevents any OS but the OEM OS from loading on the machine). Once you've got that, you can run any distro if you've got it on a USB stick by booting your machine from it.
I just got Mint working on one of my machines yesterday, the process was remarkably painless
Have you ever spent any time in or close to a large wind farm? Honestly, it's relaxing if you haven't been told to be mad about them existing- they're quiet, sustainable, and once they're built the cost of each new unit of energy they deliver doesn't come with the unit cost and environmental cost of acquiring and burning yet more fuel-- so in that sense, the marginal cost of each new bit of power from them really does approach zero.
Of course, this (that the resulting energy is so cheap) is why the coal/oil/gas folks are mad- they know they won't be able to compete once a grid with sufficient edge-caching/power storage is built out
LOL are these the same people that have turned their churches into campaign organs for their party?
It's like the VA of grocery stores, or like the Medicare of health insurance, or the public schools of education, or the taxpayer-funded firefighters or judiciary or police or highways or ports or bridges or hydropower dams or the forest service or national parks or public health and science and technology research or NASA
LOL at the idea that we don't do this sort of thing all over the place
Thats not a warning intended to keep the public safe, it's a threat intended to get the public to give up on democracy
It probably is time for that, sad to say
I think he's trying to substitute populism for health science, which is irresponsible and awful and will kill people. That he's using eugenicist language in the process, and eliminating vaccines because 'big pharma corruption' while not meaningfully checking big pharma power or abuses smells like a plan to watch the children of vulnerable populations die. The rest of it- making noise about redesigning the food pyramid- is just smoke. The 'new' recommendations are just a rebranding of previous recommendations to pretend like they're doing something about how our food systems are shitty because mostly FDA spends food money to subsidize the ag industry and processed subsidized product is profitable in ways that healthy food often isn't
On the one hand, I really really want it to be a world-changing breakthrough for real this time. I've been losing my dad to Alzheimer's for several years now and even if it's too late for him I would just hope that nobody else has to go through that in the future. On the other hand, knowing that it's someone's business model to jerk at my hope and heart-strings for ad engagement has me more or less ready to fire futurism into the fucking sun
Because ICE has federal authority, anything local authority does will create a conflict that ICE and Trump will use to justify martial law.
In other words, the states shouldn't exercise their own authority or else the feds will keep escalating the things they're already doing? At this point I don't see any reason to believe that Trump won't declare martial law regardless of what Minnesota does. The question isn't whether or not he will escalate, it's whether or not there will be resistance.
He doesn't have the power to abolish 2a, he just has the ability to tell his DOJ to not investigate matters when his administration's agents violate it. This constitutes a massive abuse of executive power, fostering a culture of impunity and abuse but we all should understand that if and when executive and legislative power fall out of the hands of this admin, these sorts of crime have very long statutes of limitations and accountability (if belated) is entirely in the cards