shreddy_scientist

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Be sure to include Nobara and Bazzite, both of which are gaming focused distros. Both are Fedora based, but Bazzite is known more as a SteamOS 3 clone. There's also another gaming focused distro, it just escapes my mind. But I love Fedora KDE as is and then just installing the required software. So I'd say add Fedora, Nobara, and Bazzite for sure!

 

This immense concentration of wealth inevitably renders any semblance of democracy almost useless, as the main decision makers are those who hold the biggest bag. “Whoever we elect as President is not going to make any difference because they’re managed by capital,” Phillips tells Scheer.

“They’re there to protect global capital. That’s what the American political system is about. That’s what the political systems in the West are about. They see capital as a vital interest of the West, and that’s why we have military bases all over the world to protect capital and to ensure that debts get repaid and that this capital continues to grow and expand.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd say I'm one (1) eldritch scientist + Sat[censored]art

 

Yesterday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pledged another $25 million to the crypto super PAC Fairshake, bringing the company’s total spending in the 2024 election up to more than $76 million. Public Citizen, along with researcher and author Molly White, submitted a complaint to the FEC in August alleging that a large portion of these contributions are illegal because Coinbase is a federal contractor (and federal law bars campaign contributions to political parties, committees, or candidates from federal contractors). The FEC has not yet responded.

Public Citizen research director Rick Claypool released the following statement in response to the news: "Coinbase has spent more than $50 million in what appears to be illegal campaign contributions from a federal contractor to attack candidates who might stand up to Big Crypto; meanwhile, the FEC is snoozing through the election. The time to hold campaign finance violators accountable is now — not after illegal election spending has corrupted our democracy."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

KDE is the way! I've heard KDE called the swiss army knife of DE's, and I couldn't agree more! I'd be curious to see a comparison of Gnome and KDE users previous OS. I'd bet KDE has more windows converts and gnome favors mac, but I really don't hear about many mac folks switching to linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Guess it all comes down to your definition of makeover. In looking up the definition, it's defined as "a radical change in appearance, it may imply a change in clothing, haircut, or cosmetics". This being the case, I'd say the title's spot on. But it all comes down to how you define makeover regarding if the titles misleading. It's a bit ambiguous, so I see what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I feel it, but at the same time, where does the title imply the statues were damaged? It's all about grabbing attention in order to bring focus to the disastrous situation we're in with our environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He got pushback from YouTube about covering studies which demonstrated the COVID vaccine, especially the first couple versions, had substantially more negative side effects than what was disclosed. He also go in trouble for quoting recommendations from studies as well. If he went rogue, it was all based in science. He was initially all in on the vax, then as more and more research came out, he was blown away no mainstream outlets were covering the new information.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, vaccines are very different than antibiotics. While there was the first new antibiotic made in ages earlier this year that's highly selective for specific bacteria, it only works against gram-negative bacterial cells. C. diff is gram-positive and has been an issue for a long time. It's notorious for it's recurrence rate as it's great at surviving conditions which kill most bacteria. It infects 500,000 people each year, with 20%+ of them being a reoccurring infection. Since new antibiotics are very tough to engineer, a vaccine makes way more sense and it will provide treatment for half a million people annually moving forward!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Yep! The mRNA vaccine project started in the 1980's and to provide an elaborate use case, they designed it to be a "blank check". Meaning whatever disease, toxin, allergy, autoimmune disorder, or cancer researchers want to vaccinate against is likely possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

With diffusion being a foundational aspect of solutes mixing in solutions, the water should have an even distribution of the contaminants. However, the tidal force of water associated with a storm surge probably throws a wrench in the plan here. But generally, it's evenly spread throughout and will be found in relatively even amounts everywhere the water settles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ya, the house is in the persons name. But if they struggle to keep up with payments, it can become the banks home.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Same with homes, renting can provide lower monthly payments vs a mortgage. But with a mortgage you own the home and eventually you'll have no monthly payment, whereas renting means you'll always pay and the landlord has the final say in matters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know, it really all comes down to preference, but Gambit and Rouge are a pretty damn solid duo!

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