sin_free_for_00_days

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The dishonesty in the reporting is so much worse than the bias. And the bias is awful.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So stupid, the military control 2 of the fucking Channel Islands. They can live fire all they want out there. So many levels of stupidity. Or, as I like to say during these fucked-up times, pretty par for the course with this dipshit administration.

I thought the ICE agent's name was going to be Rittenhouse.

Yeah, what the hell was that? Don't let the magat fuckheads redefine words anymore than they already have. There is not, nor should there ever be, a stain on being anti-fascist.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait...what? I don't even want to do a quick search to see if that's true. I suppose if true, it can't really be surprising.

I, too, don't know that fern video or what fern is. That said, yeah, I think anyone informed at all realize Murdoch is in the pantheon of comically evil real people who have lived. For those that don't know, now you know.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I saw coverage on several of the networks and PBS. I swear, I start to fall into conspiracy theory thinking when I watch news these days. All the coverage was NYC, Atlanta, Seattle, etc.. Blue cities that have been demonized by the press and magats for years, despite reality. I think it would have been way more helpful to see coverage of protests like where you are. I went to my local one, there were a few thousand people, but honestly, that was expected.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it's only something in movies, it doesn't really exist.

I don't have a Tesla, because fuck fascism, but I have to agree. My EV is charged at home 99.9% of the time. It holds enough to get me through the day and back home. After I'm home, I really could not care how long it takes to charge, as long as it's enough for the next day. And it always has been. Maybe if I was part of an outlier user, driving for a living or something, the charge speed would matter.

Benioff’s pro-Fuckhead remarks also suggested a sharp turn from his previous support of liberal policies. During Fuckhead’s first administration, he was outspoken about wealth inequality, backing a 2018 local ballot measure to tax large corporations in San Francisco to increase funding for homeless services. He called out other billionaires for “hoarding” their wealth in a Guardian interview at the time and criticized opponents of the measure, saying: “You’re either for the homeless or you’re for yourself.”

The CEO mostly lives in Hawaii now, according to the New York Times.

Something about that entire section made me laugh.

10 years ago, I might have argued for 10 year to get to that point. Now? I'm with you. Two decades minimum.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know, man. I know we are speed running history at this point, but I'll be very surprised if ICE isn't still rounding up people illegally in ten years.

 

Saw this video posted over at Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world and thought it should be in this community, just for posterities sake.

 

I was looking for a compendium of Kirk's beliefs and this was the closest I've found. Let me know if you know of a better source.

-Gay people should be stoned to death

-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane

-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband

-No one should be allowed to retire

-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states

-British Colonialism was what “made the world decent"

-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out

-Multiple black politicians “stole white people's spots"

-MLK Jr was “an awful person”

-The Great Replacement Theory is reality

-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID

-Vaccine requirements are “medical apartheid”

-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment

-Women's natural place is under their husband's control

-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control

-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't

-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake”

-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates

-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11

-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization

-Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

 

Buddy of mine sent me what he describes as a disturbing video from his hometown. It's a threads link. I generally use yt-dlp or just straight mpv from the CLI and most things work. I can't see this, on my computer, or my crap phone. Does anyone know a trick or something for accessing this content. No I won't make a threads account. Here's the link, for what it's worth:

https://www.threads.com/@billcampa/post/DOmkRA5gJxn?xmt=AQF05a-9rVm073pIwFedabBAw7fz3fZOCtCTn46Tvl6IAg&slof=1

 

My mom has this plant in her coastal Southern California yard. She cuts it back to just about nothing every year and it grows back super healthy looking.

Here's a picture of its leaves and flower.

 

Just thought I'd throw these out there, somebody might like them. There are a lot of different ways of getting the same result.

Screenshot (I shortcut it to F6):

maim --select | xclip -selection primary -t image/png

One key and then I just select the screen shot and middle-click to paste the image where I want it.

OCR a screenshot (I shortcut it to ctrl-F6)

TMPFILE=$(mktemp);maim --select $TMPFILE.png ; tesseract $TMPFILE.png $TMPFILE ; xclip -sel primary $TMPFILE.txt

This may be a little messy as a forced one-liner. This way I can select text from an image on screen, and have the OCR'd text available with, again, my middle click.

Should go without saying it uses maim and tesseract, both should be available with your package manager of choice, and there are alternatives to both of those utilities.

 

Six years old, but more pertinent than ever. I don't think the ghouls at Davos liked the message.

 

I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

<span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div>

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

 

I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:

alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"

example:

$  whatterm
alacritty

and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.

#!/bin/sh

echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
# based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)"
cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null)
rows=$(( cols / 2 ))
awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{
    s="  ";
        m=cols+rows;
        for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) {
          for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) {
                    i = row+col;
                    r = 255-(i*255/m);
                    g = (i*510/m);
                    b = (i*255/m);
                    if (g>255) g = 510-g;
                                printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
                                          printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
                                          printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,(col+row)%2+1,1);
                                                }
                                                    printf "\n";
                                                        }
                                                          printf "\n\n";
}'

echo "# text decorations"
echo '\e[1mbold\e[22m'
echo '\e[2mdim\e[22m'
echo '\e[3mitalic\e[23m'
echo '\e[4munderline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:1mthis is also underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[21mdouble underline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:2mthis is also double underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[4:3mcurly underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[58;5;10;4mcolored underline\e[59;4:0m'
echo '\e[5mblink\e[25m'
echo '\e[7mreverse\e[27m'
echo '\e[8minvisible\e[28m <- invisible (but copy-pasteable)'
echo '\e[9mstrikethrough\e[29m'
echo '\e[53moverline\e[55m'
echo

echo "# magic string (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Web)"
echo "é Δ Й ק م ๗ あ 叶 葉 말"
echo

echo "# emojis"
echo "😃😱😵"
echo

echo "# right-to-left ('w' symbol should be at right side)"
echo "שרה"
echo

echo "# sixel graphics"
printf '\eP0;0;0q"1;1;64;64#0;2;0;0;0#1;2;100;100;100#1~{wo_!11?@FN^!34~^NB
                                                    @?_ow{~$#0?BFN^!11~}wo_!34?_o{}~^NFB-#1!5~}{o_!12?BF^!25~^NB@??ow{!6~$#0!5?
                                                  @BN^!12~{w_!25?_o{}~~NFB-#1!10~}w_!12?@BN^!15~^NFB@?_w{}!10~$#0!10?@F^!12~}
                                                  {o_!15?_ow{}~^FB@-#1!14~}{o_!11?@BF^!7~^FB??_ow}!15~$#0!14?@BN^!11~}{w_!7?_
                                                  w{~~^NF@-#1!18~}{wo!11?_r^FB@??ow}!20~$#0!18?@BFN!11~^K_w{}~~NF@-#1!23~M!4?
                                                _oWMF@!6?BN^!21~$#0!23?p!4~^Nfpw}!6~{o_-#1!18~^NB@?_ow{}~wo!12?@BFN!17~$#0!
                                              18?_o{}~^NFB@?FN!12~}{wo-#1!13~^NB@??_w{}!9~}{w_!12?BFN^!12~$#0!13?_o{}~~^F
                                            B@!9?@BF^!12~{wo_-#1!8~^NFB@?_w{}!19~{wo_!11?@BN^!8~$#0!8?_ow{}~^FB@!19?BFN
                                          ^!11~}{o_-#1!4~^NB@?_ow{!28~}{o_!12?BF^!4~$#0!4?_o{}~^NFB!28?@BN^!12~{w_-#1
                                        NB@???GM!38NMG!13?@BN$#0?KMNNNF@!38?@F!13NMK-\e\'

___

 

Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —

  • 26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup

  • 100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--

The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.

 

The only one I've found is this one, but it doesn't work. It only triggers if I open the keyword interface and save it after every page load. I don't know enough to fix it.

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