It’s a big deal because it’s a bunch of white people who died.

More Lao kids will die this year from unexploded ordinance left over from an undeclared war where the US dropped a planeload of bombs on the country every eight minutes around the clock, every single day, for nine years.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186949348/us-cluster-munitions-civilian-casualties-laos

Oh look the loser Biden administration is in Laos right now and refusing to even mention it because “muh China.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/us-secret-war-remembered-as-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-austin-visits-laos

There are other search engines. Maybe Firefox can partner with them.

Cool, an Oxford study that isn’t insulting.

Mr. Biden signed a proclamation declaring every Nov. 17 to be International Conservation Day and vowed that the United States would spend millions of dollars across the Amazon on restoring land, planting native tree species, supporting biodiversity efforts and increasing fertilizer efficiency programs. It was the first time a sitting American president had visited the Amazon.

This reminds me of when President Obama went to Laos with a couple weeks left in his Presidency, and vowed to clean up the US bombs that still explode and maim children every year. It was the most heavily bombed nation in history by the US, and they didn’t even declare war. Then Trump came in and threw it all away.

The United States eventually dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

Of course.

The United States chose: a world of conspiracy theory and hearsay as fact; pseudoscience and speaking in tongues over reason; rule of man over rule of law; whiteness over everybody else; and the promise of crypto wealth over women’s health.

The kids who, without a glimmer of intelligence in their eyes, told you it’s a fact that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own dick, are now grown up and running the country.

Ghosting is a normal part of life. It happens, and 95% of the time it’s inadvertent and not a slight. People come in and leave your life. That’s just how it works.

If someone isn’t worth the hassle, move on. It doesn’t even deserve an explanation or second thought.

Only you get to determine how your time is spent. Nobody deserves a monopoly over your emotions or effort, and anybody who demands an explanation is just manipulating you because they don’t respect your agency as a person as much as they value their own pride. Don’t fall for the toxicity.

There are eight billion people out there. It would take 250 years to high-five them all. Lots of noise, very little signal.

Dalí was a huge Alice Cooper fan

US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.

But Rogan chose revenge, not unity in giving Trump a platform and endorsing him.

+1 Singapore. Good food, I don’t stand out in a crowd, future city.

I guess the world burning was worth sticking it to Kamala for Gaza.

The media normalized him. Just like they did to Hitler.

SiS 6326 with 8MB.

It was 1999 but I had a very limited budget, around $400, for the entire system. This was my first AGP card.

The Wikipedia article says that this was not supported well by Linux but that’s just not the case. It was the first card for Linux and FreeBSD that I had which let me view more than 256 colors. I ran KDE 1.x and then XFce.

Something happened between then and 2001 where I got a GeForce 2 MX 400 which ran fine with FreeBSD for many years.

This has been the story of Linux since the 1990s.

BSD does the same thing. They famously stuck at the gcc 4.2 series about a decade too long because of licenses.

Nothing new under the sun.

It’s an incredibly fun and popular sport and the World Series just ended.

Articles like this are good at highlighting that nothing sacred is safe from climate change.

If a couple dozen people read the article from a baseball fan’s perspective and suddenly it clicks for them, it’s a win.

No. Space Force chief wants more money, of course there’s another disaster coming.

If they were serious about space tech, the first step would be to end all contracts with compromised Elon Musk.

Also, ArsTechnica is kind of a dumpster fire on reporting anything PRC and allowing ethnic slurs in the comment section so take it with a grain of salt.

Fun interview, I didn’t realize he was educated as an actual medical doctor.

Zen browser does that.

Yeah, it’s just pandering to the crowd at this point. They can bring these people up and have him say vile things and pretend it’s not what they really believe because, “comedian.” It’s not even a dogwhistle anymore. They are saying these things in the open.

And still about 50% of Latino men will still vote for Trump because they aspire to be white and want to prove that they are “not like the other Hispanics.” They want to be “one of the good ones.”

(The lasting legacy of Catholicism/colonialism is white worship. The same applies to Vietnamese-Americans and Filipinos as well)

Don’t act surprised if this guy gets elected and all of the stuff they’ve been saying out loud (but saying it’s a joke because its an election and they need useful idiots to vote for them) becomes reality.

No, you aren’t “one of the good ones.” You are brown. You aren’t one of them. You never will be.

This is what they think of us.

Sisko was killed in TNG’s universe. Sisko survived in DS9’s universe due to the prophets saving him. The Trek universe diverged at Wolf 359.

The Dominion War has drastically different outcomes. Existential crisis in one universe where Sisko does a lot of meddling; barely mentioned in the other.

The biggest change to the cast is that Worf marries Jadzia Dax and becomes Ambassador to the Klingon Empire in one universe; in the other universe, he does a brief inconsequential stint at DS9 (without Sisko), never marries, then returns to the Enterprise E as pretty much the same character from TNG, and at some later point, he gets the Enterprise E destroyed.

The Picard timeline is set in the universe where Sisko died at Wolf 359.