[–] 28 points 2 days ago

There was already a Ukrainian neo-nazi attempt on Trump, except the teenager groomed to do it by Ukrainian nazis got caught after murdering his parents. The plan was apparently to use a drone and then blame it on Russia.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 days ago

    If Trump was actually Putin's puppet, he'd pull all material, financial, and intelligence assistance from Ukraine. Nor would he have escalated the situation in his first term by being the first to openly send weapons to Ukraine. I believe it was Javelin AT missiles specifically that he used to brag about.

    You're right though that he doesn't give a fuck about the working class American, he's just trying to forestall the inevitable catastrophic economic crisis until at least after the midterms.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    He's one of the very very few (or only?) of the so-called New Atheist movement in the late 2000s and early 2010s who didn't turn into a weirdo reactionary, and kept his channel name the same from that era. Unfortunately he's still quite libbed up, but he has his moments.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Every time I've been in a hospital the past several years, the emergency room has been packed and emergency beds are overflowing into the hallways. People are putting off healthcare until it becomes a literal emergency. It's grim out there.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yes but they also did things like this to launder their reputation and give themselves just enough credibility as an aid organization to get their foot in the door of other countries to then facilitate the CIA stuff.

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    Actually pretty interesting. I think we're starting to creep up on the actual numbers, as far as you can measure such a thing. I think comphet keeps a lot of people who would otherwise fall somewhere on the bi/pan spectrum from ever experimenting and realizing it about themelves, and I bet that population is actually quite large. As far as transness goes, I would be willing to believe a number within the realm of ~3% to even 5%. I think further complicating this whole thing is that human sexuality and gender identity is a lot more nebulous than the very rigid, medically-originated terminology we use implies. A lot of the identity labels we use (homosexual, transsexual/transgender, etc) were originally medical diagnoses that were later transposed onto cultural identities, which carries a lot of baggage that I think has been left unaddressed, such as the rigidity of their definition, but that's probably for a post for another time. Anyway, just thought it was neat neat, especially the state queerness leaderboards.

     

    Interesting article about Medhurst and his use of GrapheneOS. Apparently he failed to turn off his phone before UK police boarded his plane and seized it from him, but the auto reboot feature protected his data and sources. The article also mentions that he's now in the process of writing a massive guide to security and privacy for journalists.

     

    This is a longshot but maybe someone would be able to help me with this. I have a laptop that only has a single NVMe drive. I booted it up today to find "Checking media presence......." after the splash screen and then it booted into BIOS. The BIOS doesn't see the NVMe device. I don't understand how this could've happened because I didn't update anything or change any setting or physically damage or jostle the laptop between the last successful boot and clean shutdown and now. When I boot into an EndevourOS liveusb, the installer can see my entire drive and its associated partitions. I can't access them though, I think because they're encrypted, but even so I feel like I should be able to see them in the filesystem, as I've rescued files like that before (from non-encypted drives). So I can't really make heads or tails of this. If the liveusb is seeing the drive and the correct partitions, it can't possibly be physical damage to the drive itself, right? Or any of the connections? Yet BIOS can't see it for some reason and won't boot into it. If it's worth anything, the OS on it is Arch with grub as the bootloader. Obviously I've tried to reseat the drive, move it to the other available slot, I've toggled on and off all sorts of settings in the bios, and nothing makes any progress. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. Thanks!

    Editting to add: I'm not entirely sure the BIOS doesn't see the device. The menu is fairly unclear. There's a series of lines starting with "NVMe Device", which the corresponding entry is just blank. Then there's two lines of "NVMe Controller", one of which has an entry that I can't select or see more of that says "SAMSUNG (5...", which makes me wonder because my NVMe drive is 512gb, and I wonder if it's listed there? But I can't see anything beyond the elipses so I can't tell. Then the other controller line just says "Empty". Not sure what to make of that.

    Second edit: There's a section in BIOS for RAID disks, and in it there's a listing for "Non-RAID Physical Disks" in which my NVMe drive is listed correctly. So maybe it's a bootloader thing? I'm so confused.

    Final edit: Thank you so much for the help everyone, even though I'm sure my post was a confused mess. I luckily managed to back up all my files, so it's just a matter of fixing grub or reinstalling at this point. I hate computer :)

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