[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

It shows one person greening an average pension is 57 times more effective in dealing with the climate crisis than having a vegan diet and 20 times better than driving an electric car.

I heard a similar news report on PBS a couple weeks ago. Aside from the obvious, and already mentioned, don't have kids. Both for the environment, and to not put your kids through the coming bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I didn't want kids. Shit happened. It took about 18 months for me to feel anything for my kid. Those 18 months were a war against sleep deprivation and time deprivation. The wife left a year or two later. Left my kid with me. Single dad shit for the next, well, going on 25 years now. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I'm still sick with guilt bringing a kid into this fucked up world, but I love my kid.

This doesn't help you, but I also got a vasectomy about 6 months after he was born. I should have done it earlier. My advice to anyone is, don't have fucking kids. Get a vasectomy ASAP and live your life. Unless you come from big time old money, or get incredibly lucky, kids just add incredible stress and money drain for a minimum of a couple of decades.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I've got good news and bad. The good news is you're the first black woman to serve on The Supreme Court. The bad news is that same court is pretty much a rubber-stamping kangaroo court, stacked against you with a bunch of lying, partisan hacks who don't care about The Constitution, so...uh...have to it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

I guess I'm going to live forever.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Nah, I have no wish to join a militia.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago

“We are the violent punks, because sometimes you gotta get your message across with violence because that is the only language some people speak, unfortunately.” ~~- Hamas, IDF~~ - Bobby Vylan

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

...but Texas was a confederacy state.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

There is nothing inherently wrong about what you've done from a statistical standpoint. It's just "art" is so subjective and when you have many sources you end up with a rather bland list. It's similar to big budget movies being done by committee and ending up OK, but not having the edge of a strong independent film. Not wrong, just not really interesting for someone like me. That's what I meant by my "too many cooks" comment.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Such a stark example of "too many cooks". Give me a list by an individual, or at least a much smaller sample size, and I'm sure the list would be way more interesting.

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Just thought I'd throw these out there, somebody might like them. There are a lot of different ways of getting the same result.

Screenshot (I shortcut it to F6):

maim --select | xclip -selection primary -t image/png

One key and then I just select the screen shot and middle-click to paste the image where I want it.

OCR a screenshot (I shortcut it to ctrl-F6)

TMPFILE=$(mktemp);maim --select $TMPFILE.png ; tesseract $TMPFILE.png $TMPFILE ; xclip -sel primary $TMPFILE.txt

This may be a little messy as a forced one-liner. This way I can select text from an image on screen, and have the OCR'd text available with, again, my middle click.

Should go without saying it uses maim and tesseract, both should be available with your package manager of choice, and there are alternatives to both of those utilities.

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Tax the freaking wealth (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Six years old, but more pertinent than ever. I don't think the ghouls at Davos liked the message.

[-] [email protected] 241 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When I was a union rep there would be people that would bitch about the $70 bucks a month or whatever the dues were. I would explain that without the union their pay would be far, far less (not even bringing up the benefits of work hours, vacation days and whatnot). Like the "all taxes are theft" morons, the words often fell on deaf and willfully ignorant ears.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

<span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com/' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div>

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:

alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"

example:

$  whatterm
alacritty

and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.

#!/bin/sh

echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
# based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)"
cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null)
rows=$(( cols / 2 ))
awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{
    s="  ";
        m=cols+rows;
        for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) {
          for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) {
                    i = row+col;
                    r = 255-(i*255/m);
                    g = (i*510/m);
                    b = (i*255/m);
                    if (g>255) g = 510-g;
                                printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
                                          printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
                                          printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,(col+row)%2+1,1);
                                                }
                                                    printf "\n";
                                                        }
                                                          printf "\n\n";
}'

echo "# text decorations"
echo '\e[1mbold\e[22m'
echo '\e[2mdim\e[22m'
echo '\e[3mitalic\e[23m'
echo '\e[4munderline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:1mthis is also underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[21mdouble underline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:2mthis is also double underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[4:3mcurly underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[58;5;10;4mcolored underline\e[59;4:0m'
echo '\e[5mblink\e[25m'
echo '\e[7mreverse\e[27m'
echo '\e[8minvisible\e[28m <- invisible (but copy-pasteable)'
echo '\e[9mstrikethrough\e[29m'
echo '\e[53moverline\e[55m'
echo

echo "# magic string (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Web)"
echo "é Δ Й ק م ๗ あ 叶 葉 말"
echo

echo "# emojis"
echo "😃😱😵"
echo

echo "# right-to-left ('w' symbol should be at right side)"
echo "שרה"
echo

echo "# sixel graphics"
printf '\eP0;0;0q"1;1;64;64#0;2;0;0;0#1;2;100;100;100#1~{wo_!11?@FN^!34~^NB
                                                    @?_ow{~$#0?BFN^!11~}wo_!34?_o{}~^NFB-#1!5~}{o_!12?BF^!25~^NB@??ow{!6~$#0!5?
                                                  @BN^!12~{w_!25?_o{}~~NFB-#1!10~}w_!12?@BN^!15~^NFB@?_w{}!10~$#0!10?@F^!12~}
                                                  {o_!15?_ow{}~^FB@-#1!14~}{o_!11?@BF^!7~^FB??_ow}!15~$#0!14?@BN^!11~}{w_!7?_
                                                  w{~~^NF@-#1!18~}{wo!11?_r^FB@??ow}!20~$#0!18?@BFN!11~^K_w{}~~NF@-#1!23~M!4?
                                                _oWMF@!6?BN^!21~$#0!23?p!4~^Nfpw}!6~{o_-#1!18~^NB@?_ow{}~wo!12?@BFN!17~$#0!
                                              18?_o{}~^NFB@?FN!12~}{wo-#1!13~^NB@??_w{}!9~}{w_!12?BFN^!12~$#0!13?_o{}~~^F
                                            B@!9?@BF^!12~{wo_-#1!8~^NFB@?_w{}!19~{wo_!11?@BN^!8~$#0!8?_ow{}~^FB@!19?BFN
                                          ^!11~}{o_-#1!4~^NB@?_ow{!28~}{o_!12?BF^!4~$#0!4?_o{}~^NFB!28?@BN^!12~{w_-#1
                                        NB@???GM!38NMG!13?@BN$#0?KMNNNF@!38?@F!13NMK-\e\'

___

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —

  • 26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup

  • 100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--

The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The only one I've found is this one, but it doesn't work. It only triggers if I open the keyword interface and save it after every page load. I don't know enough to fix it.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Any advice for a regular smart 27 year old youngster, who has chronically underachieved and is motivated to turn their life around. They have a couple years of JC completed, and has no idea what path to take, or really what paths exist.

EDIT: OK, I see I gave slim pickins here. It's not me, it's my neighbor's kid. I've known his parents since before he was born. He's a super smart kid, but like a lot of smart kids, he got kind of jaded about...well, everything. I was visiting the other day and he asked me for advice, and my retired ass has nothing. Any relevant personal experience I may have, became dated years ago.

He's good at just about all subjects. His longest lifelong hobby has been video games. He took a few programming classes and liked it, but the thought of doing it full time as a career would quickly become torture.

He's kind of half-assed things and just realized he needs to get his shit straight. He was thinking something like finance, just numbers. Something solid that's just a career direction. He is going back to school, well most likely he is, but he needs an idea of what path to take. Most of his friends are unemployed/underemployed with computer degrees.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Nobody seems to be talking about the continuing genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar nor India's heartless and illegal current actions.

“Refoulement is against international human rights law, regardless of if you’ve signed the refugee convention" - John Quinley III, director of international rights group

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My ISP seems to be throttling my VPN connection. Just started a week or so ago. Anyone have any tips for correcting this shit?

Edit: Sorry, I didn't leave much info. I guess I was thinking in more general terms. I use PIA, have for years. I've tried to change protocols and ports, my VPN speed still sits around 10K. Just ridiculous. Speed test without VPN:

SOLVED!! OK, I'm an absolute idiot. The tl;dr I had accidentally toggled the Toggle Alt. Rate Limits setting. Thank you everyone for attempting to help that which couldn't be helped!

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I read Kim's Mars trilogy years ago and liked it. I decided to pick up The Ministry of the Future a couple days ago. It's very different, and without any spoilers, I have to say it's made me hate humanity even more than I already did. If you haven't read it, it's a near-future climate disaster book. Well written, interesting structure, and just pissing me off. I'm about halfway through it, so maybe it'll swing the other way in the second half.

[-] [email protected] 221 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Biden literally just cancelled oil and gas leases less than a week ago. I agree he hasn't done enough, but there is some validity to the old statement that perfection is often the enemy of good.

[-] [email protected] 187 points 2 years ago

Same, it's so weird seeing normal TV or using the internet without blockers. Feels like living in Idiocracy.

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