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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Can you expand on why they are suffering? What led to this current situation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

OK, then why is the first reflex to suggest that the west "step up"? Is this Schroedinger's intervention, both desirable and not?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

Please step up, Europe.

How is this Europe's fault? The people of Afghanistan soundly rejected western assistance when they kicked us out and reinstalled the Taliban. Afghanistan has a government, the one its people supported and wanted. Let them take care of their own rather than turn to the "imperialists" they were so glad to be rid of.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm reminded of that Talib who was interviewed after the US pulled out; he missed the revolution and his new office job was sucking all the fun out of life. Who'd have thought those guys would make terrible administrators.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This roughly aligns with my xperience, although if they really get to know you some will be more forthright about their politics. Many look longingly to what we have in the west.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not really startling. No big player other than Russia has ever been on China's side RE Taiwan.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I wish Canada were doing more of that. We're in such a natural place to poach the "good ones" but there doesn't seem to be any concerted effort.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Can these samples be transported to another facility in a stable democracy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's true, we really do have them! There was even a gay progressive conservative premier (governor equivalent) in my province.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They do exist, but seemingly not in the US anymore. In Canada we call them Progressive Conservatives (basically "be as gay as you want but don't raise my taxes") and they're becoming a dying breed too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Goatse doesn't look the same as I remembered...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Ah yes, the Volvo S90 and VW Passat, definitely SUVs. Even Google's screenshots show 40% garbage.

 

The CPC's shocking inability to read the room continues. Everyone is trying to distance themselves from the US, and they come up with this?

 

Leopards will enjoy a well-deserved meal. A few choice morsels:

In the 2008 presidential election, more than 75% of Madawaska voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, a Democrat. Last November, Donald Trump received just over 50% of Madawaska’s vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the town in decades.

“My father had 13 kids. We all lived and worked on the farm. We were born and raised Democrats because back then, in the ’40s and ’50s, the Democrats were the working man’s party,” Morneault said. “When I told my dad I’d turned Republican, he called me a turncoat. A traitor.”

Both Morneault and Campagna say their politics are informed by their religion. The bulk of their support for Trump comes from his opposition to abortion, and much of their disdain for Democrats comes from their support for LGBTQ+ rights.

 

In which China tells Cuba that it should stop being so communist if it wants to succeed:

China publicly supports Cuba’s right to choose its own path to economic development “in line with its national conditions”, but privately Chinese officials have long urged the Cuban leadership to shift from its vertically planned economy to something closer to the Chinese model, according to economists and diplomats briefed on the situation.

Chinese officials have been perplexed and frustrated at the Cuban leadership’s unwillingness to decisively implement a market-oriented reform programme despite the glaring dysfunction of the status quo, the people said.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28766034

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

Based on recommendations in that thread, I also checked:

/etc/systemd/system
/etc/default/
vboxautostart.service
KDE "restore session" settings

Any ideas are much appreciated!

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

 

I don't think I've seen anyone else here with an 8:9 monitor, so I'll break the ice! The color theme is Layan Light; everything else is stock KDE.

 

I stumbled upon this community for the first time a few minutes ago. I like gardening and houseplants, but never heard of people recretionally growing mushrooms of the non-magical kind. Is it for food?

 

It seems the bot has stopped reposting content from Reddit?

 

This was recorded in Cleveland for a radio broadcast; the tape became available as a bootleg and is known as one of the most important ones in the band's history.

It's the first-ever recording of "Fly by Night" and only their third performance with Neil. We can hear snippets of what would later become "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" in the Working Man solo.

A quote from Geddy regarding bootlegs:

A lot of people say 'It takes away from record sales' but [...] the fact is that any fan who buys a bootleg is still going to buy your record. So, who is it harming?

 

Good interview with Geddy about his autobiography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkvpWMTuUI

 

Just picked one up. This is the best price I've seen this year. Very strange monitor but awesome for work - it even serves as a USB-C docking station with 90W power delivery.

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