[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Survivors of the resource wars will send their children to the plastic mines to work for bottle caps

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He’s a vaccine denier. Edit: Trump was awful at handling COVID but he was not antivax.

ap link

TLDR: On the small island of Samoa, poor hospital management caused muscle relaxant to be administered instead of measles vaccinations in some children and there were injuries and deaths. In the wake of this RFK flew there and spread his antivax nonsense (he makes money off books about this). Afterword there’s a measles outbreak and 83 children and infants died.

It’s pretty hard to compare him and Trump because he never had the power Trump did. Anyone who thinks he’s a reasonable alternative is totally misinformed.

I can’t wait for what John Oliver has to say. The man is a train wreck.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I get your point of view but I’m not going to argue with you further. I have lost rights to my own bodily autonomy (I am equipped with a uterus) due to trumps judicial picks. I saw the damage done due to his COVID policies. I live in a red state. You can’t convince me that using my vote for Biden isn’t harm reduction.

When y’all decide to do something more with your time other than argue on the internet with people who mostly agree with you, let me know. I will vote in the most pragmatic way I can until there is a better option.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Someone close to me works for the federal government. He is administrative staff supporting government ecologists, and they’re fearing a Trump presidency. Project 2025 will destroy our national parks and ruin years of ecological research, at minimum.

Both candidates will send money in support of genocide. One candidate will dismantle our federal systems (the good ones people forget about) and kill trans kids.

I can’t in good conscience pretend both old men are equally harmful.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

It’s completely allowed to both think Biden is the best pick while objectively knowing that he is controlled opposition. The system deserves to be mocked, and I’ll do it while voting for Sleepy Joe.

Why do you feel the need to defend this broken system with so much energy?

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Ok I’ll say it.

What’s Figma?

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"An ye harm none, do what ye will"

Wikipedia

Disclaimer: I am not Wiccan, except for the mandatory year every highschool girl experiences.

(This is not meant to be dismissive of the faith, just a joke about shared experiences. I love my pagan sisters and others)

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It takes a long time to deliver these decisions. The majority opinion is written weeks beforehand, with hundreds of man hours put into it by the justices and their clerks. Alito would have already read and approved it (or he would have joined Thomas in dissent). They heard the arguments for the case on another day, this is just the deliverance of the ruling.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's a newer article on the website about this person getting booted(?) off Privex because one of their business partners found Privex's response to this writer objectionable. Here is the other article. From just what this person chose to post, it seems they host loli/shota content (drawings). Uurg.

(I did not do any further research than skim the articles he put on his site).

The research itself is... a nice resource. But... if you thought the image the blog writer chose for his article was a red flag, your instincts were good.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for taking the time to reply, that makes a lot of sense.

I haven't switched to Wayland yet. It makes sense why xscreensaver wouldn't work well with an entirely different window server. I was just surprised it was so difficult (for me at least) to use with modern window managers despite being relevant and mature, haha.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I tried Linux briefly in highschool (around the year 2000) before going back to Windows (I love video games). I switched about 2 years ago back to Linux (Debian). Your comment made me remember xscreensaver and I went and installed it again. The matrix screensaver is a huge throwback, I love it and I missed it.

But it was a pain to do this. I'm using KDE/Plasma on Debian, and I had to follow this process to get it done. My lock buttons built into KDE menus still don't work despite replacing kscreenlocker_greet like the manpage recommends. I'm not sure it's worth my time to try to figure out, since the page warns an update will revert this. I'm not going to remember how to fix it later. I choose to lock my computer with super+L so this isn't a huge issue for me.

The process to use xscreensaver with gnome looks equally bad.

WHY is this so tough, though? Debian "just works" for me, so needing to fumble through this manpage feels pretty lame. The process looks similar on other distros, from a quick google. I'm not an IT person or a programmer, and this doesn't feel very "linux" that it's this way. Why would these window managers replace something that just works?

I suppose it does look a bit dated?

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

How did you get them out of the chimney? I’d be scared, never know what wild animals will do

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