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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Thank you for reading the article and using your brain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. If he was hoping for approval from left and center. Big if

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"shifts its approach" sounds so cool and methodical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I don't know anything about this guy, but from your chart the whole libertarian half looks pretty weak. The portrait doesn't need to be in the middle in this meme.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Dude, I thought they meant people who shared the same name and I didn't even think it was too stupid to be true.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

God, that article is just one long list of totally avoidable disasters, for people all over the world and for US future diplomacy. All to save some undetermined fraction of 1% of the budget and stop imaginary condom distribution. The ends are stupid and the means are worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

About the iconography, our flag, etc. I agree with you, but if you use them it is very important to be clear and specific in whatever else the poster says, because vague statements can be very easily misread and those symbols by themselves will likely give comfort/anxiety to the wrong people. You can't just wave an American flag and say "resist fascism" or "preserve women's rights" or "protect children" or something like that, because those phrases mean different things to different people, and the color of the flag has been a useful way to know at a glance what the speaker intends.

From what I can see in conversations with Trump voters, it's the specifics that give them pause -- did I really vote for that? So, pick some particular action to respond to, or several in separate posters. There are so many to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (28 children)

Weird: this is Safeway, Canada

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No, I read it that he is demanding more water for Los Angeles for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“I want to see two things in Los Angeles: Voter ID so that the people have a chance to vote. And I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California ever has ever seen,” he said

California requires state or federal id when registering to vote and when voting for the first time in person. They recently banned cities and districts from making additional requirements.

Los Angeles primarily gets its water from three main sources: the Owens River, Northern California, and the Colorado River, along with local groundwater. Approximately 57% of the region's water supply is imported, while groundwater accounts for about 34% of the total supply.

As a former los angeleno, I have always been proud of the changes they've made to conserve water in homes and business over the last few decades and I don't believe most people living there expect to receive more water from outside the region as the climate worsens. But then, I don't own any golf courses

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Holy shit. Kepler was born in the wrong solar system

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

I don't have any suggestion off-hand, but I understand your request and actually have been reading so much less the past couple years just to avoid the heightened emotional tones that seem so pervasive. I want to read to learn and understand but I don't need calls to action or tugs on my heartstrings or the sort of smug outrage and moralism that is everywhere -- those come from all the rest of life.

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AnswerLeopard-skin Pillbox Hat, Bob Dylan

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TitleAcross the Universe

 

My recent experience is no -- the first backup went just fine, but all subsequent attempts to add to it have failed, giving various errors in the logs, including mounting problems, timeout during the initial write test, bad database, etc. I did rename the drive between backups, maybe that was bad? The log shows Time Machine using the new name and finding the drive just fine.

Googling this I see that people have these same problems with external hard drives, though, so I'm wondering if anyone has been successful using a thumb drive and if there's any trick to it.

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