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Cake day: June 28th, 2021
  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work forceEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

    NOFX wrote about the rise of ignorance in America and the song “The Idiots Are Taking Over” is more appropriate now than ever before.

    full lyrics below. link to song for anyone not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNWDfryyMk

    It's not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
Mensa membership conceding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the *removed* on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture
The idiots are taking over
  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Harris raised $200 million in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers
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    12 days ago

    That is what you’re supporting in Kamala Harris. Conservativism dressed up in a politically-correct, acceptable package. Her administration will make you poorer, will make your lives harder, and ultimately, you’ll be left thinking the way I do about Obama.

    Context is key. There are many political topics and policies that cannot even be discussed without a democratic majority in the house and senate. “Obamacare” was a republican compromise because anything more left or “liberal” would have been shot down immediately. Americans suffer because conservative republicans continue to hold back the country and slide the Overton window far too much to the right.

    Democrats are unfortunately held back by conservative republicans and no no real progress can be made until the country shows significant support for more left-leaning candidates.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.English
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    12 days ago

    Call me when there’s a serious OneNote…

    OneNote works on the web, but there’s also Notenook if someone is looking for similar features with an app for offline access + End-to-end encryption and open source alternative. I’ve got it syncing to my Android, Windows, Linux and Mac clients without issue.

    …or even more importantly, Excel competitor.

    There’s OnlyOffice which has a spreadsheet. Yeah it’s not Excel which has existed for a million years, but it should work for the vast majority of users’ basic needs. It may not work for your specific use case, but it is a viable alternative that exists today. If you want more online collaborative features (like the o365 version has) you can use CryptPad, which provides an end-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite, including the web version of OnlyOffice Spreadsheets.

    Or even a standard shell on Linux…

    What does this even mean? Nearly every major Linux distro sets bash as the default shell, and if not the default, is probably already installed and called if needed. Not sure I understand the problem here.

    …or the same set of tools built in

    Stick to a single OS and you get the same set of tools built in? This is a strange statement to be making against a system that not only thrives on diversity but has lots of niche systems that require a myriad of default tools.

    I do completely agree about not using any browser’s built-in password manager.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoNews@lemmy.world•Donald Trump speech shooting: Gunshots heard at president’s rally – latest newsEnglish
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    21 days ago

    You’re objectively evil.

    Typical Trump apologist mentality, projecting their own views and not backing up their claims.

    Not reading past your first paragraph as it already makes every source after that irrelevant.

    Cheers! 🍻 Stay ignorant.

    You feel really smart adding references and sources to your deathwish right? I hope you realize how ironic that looks.

    Just trying to help others educate themselves on the facts, but there’s only so much you can do when people are willing to stay ignorant 🤓

    EDIT: I should add - please, at the very least, read up on the paradox of tolerance. Your ignorance only helps the enemy.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoJellyfin: The Free Software Media System@lemmy.ml•Jellyfin AndroidTV 0.16.11 can't reproduce any videoEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I’m having a similar issue lately with an AndroidTV beta (Nvidia Shield) and a Chromecast device. I wonder if its related? I unfortunately haven’t had time to look into it and just use VLC as an external player. I’ve noticed that some videos will play back with the built-in player but others will not.

    EDIT: I noticed “Cinema mode” was enabled which is supposed to “Play available intros and previews before starting a movie”, but I don’t have any intros or previews. I disabled the setting and my videos are working again! Not sure why it got enabled. But if you have this on, maybe try toggling it.

    EDIT2: Just saw you fixed your issue below - I’ll leave mine up in case anyone else runs into a similar problem.