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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A constitution should have an expiry date, when redraft, amendment or ratification of articles should occur with a mandatory new congress.

Senators should not exist. Or should be two senators per state and a Congress proportional to population distribution

Parliamentary instead of a presidential federal union.

All congressional decisions should operate on the basis of consensus minus one instead of first past the post. Or at least 2/3rds minimum rule. Force the suckers to actually deliberate.

A shutdown congress is a dissolved congress, go back to voting if a functioning government can't be made.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My rule was, if I am attending an event rarely in my life, then rental is more appropriate. But semi frequent, like one event a year, buy a black suit. It doesn't hurt to have, and also a blue navy blazer for semi formal events were you have dress up but it is not tux formal. A black suit can be made very formal with white shirt, tie and loafers. Or more informal with fun shirts and more fashion shoes for other big events. A well tailored suit is a powerful item in the wordrobe.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

OneUI has nothing to do with battery life. That's Android side impact. After updates there are some necessary background processes that sometimes eat up some battery faster than usual for a little while. But the UI is just the pretty buttons and pictures. Updating changes the efficiency of battery use of the UI itself, but the overall management of power is handled by the system and that hat a greater impact on battery life.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Neat project, shame on the basic premise. Just remember to delete your second brain once in a while, for the health of your first one, and actually use it for something creative once in a while.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Except, it is made up. All terms are made up. It still means something different to different groups of people.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

That would be super rad. But it is also the kind of things that only a tiny group of people like us enjoy tinkering with. The average computer user has no interest whatsoever on being a sysadmin. If the service is offered and neatly package, they will use and enjoy it. But Nix manages to be even more user hostile than old package manamegement style.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I was mostly joking, of course. I appreciate the use case. It's just that 99% of people are spinning new machines once every decade. Having a reproducible setup is something of interest for a very narrow band of system managers.

I truly believe that for those who are spinning new hardware every day and need an ideal setup every time, a system image is far more practical. With much more robust tooling available. I've read other replies and for them all, I notice that using Universal Blue to package and deploy a system image would take a tiny fraction of the time it takes just learning Nix basic syntax. It's so niche it seems almost not worth any of the effort to learn.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

TIS-100 Sits unfinished in my library as one of the most esoteric and difficult puzzle games I've ever played. It breaks my mind thinking about it.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (12 children)

And your extraordinary result after all that is… exactly what you would've gotten in a few minutes downloading another distro.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course, the orphan crushing machine needs more children to keep working.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, so. Here's the thing. I lived through a social security collapse in a country (not the US, obvs) with a youth boom. Trust me, having lots of bodies around did not help when the oligarchs horded all the wealth to escape hyperinflation and there was no work to go around.

It is of no use to have over half of the population in productive ages (19 - 45) if more than half of them are unemployed. And guess what, it didn't help the elder either as they were the first casualties of a collapsed healthcare system. We had an abandoned elders crisis, along with several other crises, admittedly.

But I guess my point is, not even at a macroeconomic scale is having children any form of insurance. I know myself, as the cousin who have had to provide end of life care for more than one elder relative. Whom, I should point out, had way more children than my mom and dad, yet I was the only one with enough compassion left to care for distant relatives when their own children wouldn't even shell out spare change to pay for food.

 

The company changed names and was sold in a stock restructuring. They took the money from community backers, refuse to deliver the books to them. Now they claim they have no responsibility to pay author's royalties for books already sold, they also don't have money to deliver or ship books. Half the people who work there quit. It's 238 authors who are collectively owed more than £650,000.

Link is one YouTuber's account of the situation from the POV of an author.

Here's a news article about the situation: “If I wasn’t so f*cking angry, I’d laugh”: Boundless delays author payments

And another: After Unbound’s Collapse, Boundless Faces Uphill Battle to Rebuild Trust

 

“Johanne Sacreblu”, Mexican artists react to Emilia Pérez with a parody criticizing the film's misrepresentation of Mexican, and Queer culture. It raised 43,000 Mexican pesos ($2,100 USD) on GoFundMe. It is now fully available for free on YouTube.

https://www.tomatazos.com/sin-categoria/johanne-sacreblu-la-parodia-mexicana-que-responde-a-emilia-perez-expone-con-humor-los-cliches-franceses/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18188737

Venezuelans are ready to throw off the dictatorship. Will the international community support us?

By Maria Corina Machado

I am writing this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom, and that of my fellow countrymen from the dictatorship led by Nicolás Maduro.

Mr. Maduro didn’t win the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday. He lost in a landslide to Edmundo González, 67% to 30%. I know this to be true because I can prove it. I have receipts obtained directly from more than 80% of the nation’s polling stations.

We knew that Mr. Maduro’s government was going to cheat. We have known for years what tricks the regime uses, and we are well aware that the National Electoral Council is entirely under its control. It was unthinkable that Mr. Maduro would concede defeat.

We Venezuelans have done our duty. We have voted out Mr. Maduro. Now it is up to the international community to decide whether to tolerate a demonstrably illegitimate government. The repression must stop immediately, so that an urgent agreement can take place to facilitate the transition to democracy. I call on those who reject authoritarianism and support democracy to join the Venezuelan people in our noble cause. We won’t rest until we are free.

 

Venezuelans are ready to throw off the dictatorship. Will the international community support us?

By Maria Corina Machado

 
 

La doctora en filosofía e historia y docente Corina Yoris será la candidata sustituta de la Plataforma Unitaria Democrática de cara a las elecciones presidenciales de 2024, anunció María Corina Machado desde una conferencia de prensa realizada este viernes 22 de marzo en Caracas.

¿Quién es Corina Yoris, la candidata sustituta de María Corina Machado?

Crónica Uno

Caraota Digital

 

El comandante estratégico operacional de la FANB, Domingo Hernández Lárez, detalló que de esta zona protegida se han desalojado 301 mujeres; 839 hombres; 49 adolescentes y 82 niños.

TalCual

ElUniversal

 

La Sala de Apelaciones de la Corte Penal Internacional acordó rechazar este viernes el recurso presentado por el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro el año pasado ante la Sala y que buscaba parar la investigación por la presunta comisión de crímenes de lesa humanidad en Venezuela.

NTN24

Reuters

ElSiglo

 

Courtesy of @RaoulDook.

 

El gobierno de Nicolás Maduro anunció la suspensión de las actividades de la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de la ONU en Venezuela y les dio plazo de 72 horas a sus funcionarios para abandonar el país, bajo el argumento de que “se inmiscuyeron en asuntos internos”.

Caraota Digital

Crónica Uno

Globovisión

 

Este viernes 16 de febrero se cumple una semana de la detención de la activista de derechos humanos y presidenta de la ONG Control Ciudadano, Rocío San Miguel, a quien apresaron agentes de seguridad cuando se disponía a salir de Venezuela, junto con su hija, desde el aeropuerto de Maiquetía el pasado 9 de febrero.

Caraota Digital

Crónica Uno

Reuters

 

La candidata María Corina Machado, de Vente Venezuela, obtenía 552.430 votos que representaba el 93, 13% del total con el 26,06% de las actas escrutadas que la dan como ganadora de la consulta interna de la plataforma unitaria demócratica, anunció la madrugada de este 23 de octubre el presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Primaria, Jesús María Casal, al dar a conocer el primer boletín del proceso.

Después de denunciar un bloqueo en sus servidores, que impidieron transmitir los primeros resultados, la favorita del proceso sumaba 552.430 votos, de 601.010 mil de los que se habían totalizado hasta el momento.

En segundo lugar estaba Carlos Prosperi, candidato de Acción Democrática, quien durante la tarde del domingo dijo en un video que no iba a reconocer los resultados al sostener que hubo irregularidades durante la jornada.

Fuentes alternativas:

United Press International

El País

CNN en español: En Vivo

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