sin_free_for_00_days

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China is such a dick. I know, I know, a lot of countries are dicks, I get that. But good Buddha they go out of their way to antagonize. And then they respond super belligerently in an official response to questions about said dickishness.

We've stopped paying and respecting journalists. If you want that position now, you just have to pump out as many stories as you can. It's disgusting.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://elan.school/

I have heard/read a lot about these schools, but the above first person story of what he went through really made it hit home. Crazy shit if you have the time.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you're just supposed to not get hired, not get arrested!

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Or does Clinton get to be both the first LGBTQ+ and first black president?

One of the true Cincinnati Bengals.

Chariot progressive. Listen. Mandelbrot set is in motion. Echo Choir has been breached, we are fielding the ball.

Does weight matter? To some people. Does height matter? To some people. Does financial status matter? To some people. If you click, you click, if you don't, you don't. Don't overthink it.

It's weird to me, with computer stuff, when people have an app or website that does something that they don't like...and they just accept it.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The trio discusses “international jewery” on multiple occasions, perpetuating offensive stereotypes about Jews as well as Italians, Asians and others, along with eyebrow-raising comments about the Holocaust and immigrants from developing countries, especially non-white ones.

I wish the article said what those "eyebrow-raising" comments were. I don't care enough to watch..errr...listen to the shit though.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“White Supremacist” is a funny way of saying modern day Republican/Conservative.

In less than eight weeks, California will compel thousands of companies across the nation to speak on the deeply controversial topic of climate change

Controversial? Only to morons and dipshits. It's like me saying I don't think clouds actually have water in them, and then that opinion is said to be controversial, not factually wrong.

 

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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