Same with systemd. Flatpak was tolerable until they talked about mandating systemd. I like Compiz though. That cube was awesome, but I haven't used it in yonks since I've been in i3. When I do need to use KDE (like on my home theater box), I always turn on Wobbly Windows in KWin. It's the small things that make me happy.

This is the most insane mental gymnastics I've heard. The machines are useless placebo machines that are about as good as just randomly flagging people. So they basically cause insane amounts of invasive unnecessary pat-downs that should have never been allowed to being with. Everyone normalized it and complied. How many people have actually been arrested for anything dangerous in a TSA check? It's all literally security theater, that violates peoples' rights and provides zero real security.

European airports are considerably better and don't have invasive patdowns. Most don't even require you to take your shoes off. American airports are disgusting.

I'm amazed that the FBI document revelations show a massive pedophile network, potentially involving all our world leaders, that include financial extortion, market manipulation, millions invested into genetics and eugenics, the verification that most of the pizza-gate conspiracy was true .. all of that not to mention the actual child sex trafficking (of which a dozen others have picked up where Epstein left off, including P-diddy and Orange Man's besties the Tate Brothers, et. al.) and yet people still think governments are weak and not all that powerful.

The US NSA made up the Gulf of Tonken, pushing America into a war over a fake incident that ended up getting 50,000 soldiers killed and countless civilians. "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in 2003, which never existed, displaced and killed countless civilians in Iraq.

The government is powerful, dangerous and also incompetent. It's a deadly combination. Most people just ignore reality and pretend these things are not so.

While we're at it, let's look at all the oddities about Lockerbie you probably don't know about:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Pa...

type-o. Should have been "and copper"

This entire thread needs to be burned. TMI people! No one wants to hear about your gooncaves!

UK/EU isn't the standard we should be looking for. UK, the nation with an insane amount of cameras and yet they still can't stop the child rape gang? I'd rather not have easily machine readable number plate, and I like how each State has explicit control over their plates (not to mention a large amount of their laws). We are a nation of States and it's best to remember all the advantages of less centralization. Real ID was fought for years and years before people finally gave in, which is tragic really. I also like that states have custom plates. That's kinda cool.

The problem here is not machine readable plates, it's the warrant-less massive real time information mining of where ever car owner is at any time. That should be a violation of autonomy no one should accept. Flock and Axion street cameras need to go away. The police body cameras are good, but blanket surveillance is bad.

An copper. You really don't need to risk getting caught, just make sure all the local tweekers know there's a ton of copper in those things.

Your city is the frog that got boiled alive. Winona has people who are noticing what was happening and trying to jump out of the pot.

Like how people resisted the body scanners at first. "Oh the millimeter wave machines aren't as bad" and they have a false positive rate so high they're basically worthless. 90% of hijackings, including Lockerbee and 9/11, were government intelligent funded psychological operations. Even the shoebomber was basically put there by the FBI.

Still, I hope this isn't a speed bump. I hope people continue to tear these cameras down without getting caught and the governments reverse the massive surveillance trends.

I agree with you. This wasn't a race thing. She was also low risk of being shot as are most people who aren't idiots.

At the same time, this was a horrible fuckup. An idiot (both white or black) with low self control but no criminal record could have been shot by accident.

Doubtful. Shooting of unarmed people per year is in the single digits. The majority of people don't fight back and survive.

That being said, I hope some lawyer takes her case. The trouble is most people can't afford to go after these departments, and it's not an easy win for anyone who takes it pro bono. Still I say she's entitled to at least a few thousand after legal fees for that kind of fuckup. But I doubt anything will happen sadly.

At the very minimum she needs to walk into a DMV with both police reports and demand a new fucking plate for free. The city could at least do that for her.

300 gallons PER TURBINE! That's a lot.

For a fraction of the amount of concrete, you get a building that can hold a nuclear pressure vessel that lasts DECADES and uses so little fuel most plants still keep all their spent rods on-site.

Your 20~30 year claim seems to be the first result and also in AI-generated answers. It goes against what I've heard from farmers and ranchers. There's a lot of advertisement/propaganda scrubbing going on there. The Lonesome Lands podcast is run by ranchers in Colorado and Iowa and they've covered the real cost of Wind Turbines before.

I'm not for gas or oil turbines, nor am I for solar or wind. Nuclear is really the best option and it's sad all of the plant production was halted decades ago or is being phased out in places like Germany.

Really? Quoting Wikipedia? The literal political propaganda machine?

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

Rand Paul is one of the few non-corrupt ones along with Thomas Massie and he's been forced out of his slot.

If SARS-COV-2 was real, it was likely made in a lab, the same types of bioweapons labs that were in Ukraine before the start of the war:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

I doubt SARS-COV-2 was a real thing (the test assays from 2020 don't exist anymore, so we can't order two thousands and see how many people just test positive for literally nothing. It's amazing that "false positive" somehow turned into "asymptomatic spread" by the power of media propaganda.)

It doesn't really matter if SARS-CoV-2 was a real virus or the whole thing was rebranded flu: we saw the world go insane and give up all of their rights and defer to authoritarianism, as well as turn against those fighting authoritarianism as being the insane ones like with Canada's largest human right's protest in history:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

It's not AI or designer viruses that will destroy humanity, it's people believing the LLMs are more than just weighted random word generators and people who believe everything they see on a major news site.

The whole point of outsourcing solar is letting China and South Pacific countries fuck up their land to mine the materials so we don't have to. I'm fine with that arrangement. Lithium mines in the US are growing, and with that massive amounts of air pollution. Lithium mines are pretty horrible. Let the Chinese Communist Party poison their people. These tariffs, like all of the others imposed by Big Orange (all of which were kept be Joe "Showered naked with Ashley in her drug rehab diary" Biden) are terrible and hurt the American people both in terms of prices and environmentally damaging our own nation.