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[–] SexualPolytope -1 points 11 hours ago

I honestly don't have a good answer to that. But I think someone like Tim Walz, who has some progressive ideas, but still fits the image of a president for most Americans, is the better choice for the next term.

[–] SexualPolytope 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I don't make the rules. US is deeply racist and sexist. There isn't much we can do to change it overnight. Trying to push an ultra progressive candidate will simply mean losing the election. I'll love to see Bernie or AOC as the president, but most Americans think that they're Communist, and that's somehow a deal breaker to them.

[–] SexualPolytope 0 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I'm literally a fucking socialist. I'm just being pragmatic here.

[–] SexualPolytope 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (6 children)

There may be other reasons, but US has never had a woman president. Ever. I don't think this is the time to risk it again. Maybe if the dems win once and do well, they can try pushing for AOC next.

[–] SexualPolytope 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It's very hard to find non-electric trains in India. In my >23 years spent there, the only time I encountered those were in the hill regions. And this map does align with that i.e. places with high altitude railway tracks seem to have a lower percentage of electrification in general.

[–] SexualPolytope 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It's actually a pretty rare sight. The pictures you see online are mostly historical, and sometimes Bangladeshi. (I have nothing against them. In fact, I speak Bangla as my first language and can relate to them more than I do to north and south Indians. But they do still have that issue to some degree.)

[–] SexualPolytope 9 points 23 hours ago (22 children)

Even though AOC is one of the rare American politicians that I like, it's probably not the best idea to make her the presidential candidate. Simply due to the fact that she's a woman. The last few dem losses make it clear that America is still very sexist.

[–] SexualPolytope 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's probably Putin or Mohammed bin Salman, if we're talking about how much money they can personally move around. Or maybe even Trump, since there seems to be no one in the US to stop him from doing whatever the fuck he wants.

[–] SexualPolytope 2 points 4 days ago

I usually shut off the mains.

[–] SexualPolytope 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Okay, so this was interesting to me, since Bara Dada isn't really a name. It literally means elder brother in Bengali. (Although most speakers will shorten it to Borda in everyday conversation.) I did a bit of searching, and the quote seems to come from Dwijendranath Tagore, the eldest brother of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath did refer to Dwijendranath as Bara Dada (Boro Dada would be the better pronunciation) in his writings, and Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet so it makes sense. The original quote seems to be, "Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians -- you are not like him." which is found in the book The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones.

[–] SexualPolytope 5 points 5 days ago

Best political, probably Kolkata 71. Parasite is also very good. Best apolitical, I have to go with Panther Panchali. It's so hard to just choose one movie, my answer will probably change if you ask me again in a few days. A list of 20 might do it a bit more justice lol.

[–] SexualPolytope 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm doing a PhD right now. I understand.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SexualPolytope to c/coffee@lemmy.world
 

I'm trying to pull manual shots from my Breville Bambino, and it simply isn't working. I'm following the steps in the manual. (Press and hold the double-shot button for pre-infusion, then release it for the extraction to start, and then press again to stop.) The issue is, the machine stops midway, before I press the button. Seems like it's doing the pre-programmed double shot volume, and stopping after that. Does anyone has experience pulling manual shots from this machine? Should I contact Breville for a repair?

Edit: It fixed itself after performing a factory reset.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SexualPolytope to c/zfs@lemmy.world
 

I currently have a zfs pool with mirrored vdevs, and it's working well. It only has HDDs. I was planning to add an SSD I have lying around as a Metadata Special Device, since I've read that it can improve performance by quite a bit. I've also read that if I do that, and if the special device dies, I lose my pool.

Now, I don't want to buy new SSD pairs for mirroring this one, so is there a way to ensure that the metadata is also stored on the HDD as usual, along with the SSD? I guess I want it to work like a cache for the metadata, and not the only place for it.

 
 
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

I accidentally had my forgejo instance open for registration. When I noticed it, there were tons of fake accounts open, with empty repos opened for each account. All of them had emails associated with them. They might've just been trying to annoy me, or maybe there was some plan to be executed later, since they'd have access to basically free storage, without any tracking.

In any case, I have cleaned all of it, and now have a list of 19311 usernames and emails. Maybe I can submit these somewhere for a spam filter? Idk, just curious if there's any point in keeping this list.

Here's the list.

 
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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