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Imperial Boomerang


#USA
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

That reminds me that I eventually sussed out that Adam Curtis’ documentary films are doomer porn. Some things he gets right, some things he gets very wrong, and he never offers solutions in the final analysis.
in reply to davel

It's the same thing with stuff like Don't Look Up. Since any meaningful solution requires dismantling the current capitalist system, it becomes unthinkable.


Switching audio channels crashes GNOME


Hello! I have been using Fedora Silverblue for over a year now with few to no major issues. Today, however, I started experiencing an odd issue. Whenever I connect a set of Bluetooth headphones and switch the audio output channel, GNOME will completely crash. I get logged out, and the crashes repeat every few seconds until I disconnect the headphones or manage to shutdown the device. After logging in, all apps get killed, and even GNOME extensions get disabled (likely as a panic measure). The headphones were working perfectly prior to today.

I manually updated the system and tried cleanly pairing the headphones, but the issue persists. After cleanly pairing, the device immediately crashes without switching audio output channels. I'm not exactly sure how to diagnose the issue since I've never experienced anything like it in my years of Linux. I don't want to rollback, because I don't know if it's an issue with an update or an issue I need to fix on my own. What should I do?

in reply to nymnympseudonym

I have no idea how you managed to track that down, but I am sincerely impressed and grateful. Is it possible to downgrade wireplumber only?
in reply to The 8232 Project

Always check the issue tracker(s) if you start having issues with software, usually it is the case that someone else has had it first and reported it. (If not, report it yourself if you're comfortable with that... it helps the community)
in reply to The 8232 Project

That bug report is from May last year, is it really about the same bug ?

This one is recent forum.manjaro.org/t/bluetooth-… and as a work-around downgrading wireplumber is suggested.



In 2024, 495,000 overseas-educated students returned to China, a 19.1% increase from the previous year.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Thats pretty cool. I wonder if this implies that overseas universities are much better or if students just want to see the rest of the world.
in reply to pineapple

A lot of it stems from the fact that Chinese education system is brutally competitive, and rich parents can't buy their kids way into university. So, instead, they often just send their kids to prestigious western universities.

in reply to reagansrottencorpse

While these policies obviously harm Americans as well, their impact on Canada shouldn't be dismissed. The reality is that the percentage of the US economy that's dependent on trade with Canada is far smaller than the reverse. The harm to Canadian exports would be quite significant. Of course, the only rational thing for Canada to do here is to suck up short term pain and continue diversifying. The fact that we allowed our economy to become so dependent on trade with the US is the reason we're in this mess in the first place.
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in reply to Maeve

Just don't cooperate and they drop the case?
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Richard Wolff: China Won the Economic War & the West Fragments



in reply to Valarie

a true American crisis is when the government treats white people the same way as black and indigenous people
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴

Tldr: used wrong wording would not deny prior or current issues with the usa if anything white people feeling it now is a good thing

I think my point may have been lost a little bit, I have had to explain what is going on to many people who won't accept that the discrimination has been going on for a really long time to at least try and get them to do things now

Yes america has been treating everyone they can poorly for a really long time and I would never deny that

I realized that a bit before this current wave of shit because I realized that I am trans back in like 2020 ish maybe a bit before and found out exactly how discriminatory the area I live was even before we actively had Nazis and clansmen parading around regularly (we did have some but not as many as recently)

The united states does happen to be overstepping its bounds publically slightly more than usual given even the people who wouldn't normally notice are noticing



“We’re Not Afraid”: Voices From Cubans’ March to U.S. Embassy


from Belly of the Beast

Thousands of Cubans marched to the U.S. Embassy in Havana to denounce U.S. imperialism in the wake of the attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro.

People from all walks of life — military officers, retirees, workers, students — took to the streets to show they are willing to defend their country in the face of U.S. aggression.

The “March of the Fighting People” honored the 32 Cubans who were killed in Venezuela during the January 3 U.S. attack. It reaffirmed support for the Cuban revolution despite threats made by the Trump administration and the ongoing economic war the U.S. is waging on the island.

#Cuba


“We’re Not Afraid”: Voices From Cubans’ March to U.S. Embassy




Exclusive: Weapons flow to RSF via Libya continue despite pressure on Haftar


Weapons continue to flow from Libya to Sudan despite Saudi and Egyptian pressure on Khalifa Haftar to stop Emirati military support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Middle East Eye has learned.

Earlier this week, MEE reported that the eastern Libya commander is coming under growing pressure from Cairo and Riyadh, which have warned that continued assistance could trigger a serious shift in Egypt’s relationship with him.

Saddam Haftar, Khalifa’s son and deputy commander of his self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), was “summoned” to Cairo earlier this month for a dressing-down, during which he was told to immediately end support for RSF, according to Egyptian sources.



Michael Parenti passed away, RIP.


Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92

He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family

“Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2015101898878021873

in reply to Clot

He truly was one of the greats. Parenti managed to explain Marxism in a very accessible way, and he delivered a impassioned critique of capitalism and imperialism. It’s impossible to listen to his lectures and not be moved by them. You will be missed comrade.


What XMPP clients do you like and why?


I'm wondering what XMPP clients people use and what they like about each particular one.

Not that I am looking for one, really just wondering what people like to use. :D

EDIT: Also, more and more people around me are starting to use XMPP, so it is good to learn what to recommend for various use-cases.

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in reply to erebion

Dino and Conversations. They work well and have a nice UI.


in reply to culprit

Use 2nd amendment. It was created to overthrow tyrannical governments let's do that.

in reply to RedCat

That one hits hard, especially after Chomsky was shown in the Epstein files. I listen to Parenti most nights before bed. Love his perspective on things. Rest in power, fuck capitalism and fuck imperialism, and fuck ice.

in reply to DozensOfDonner

For Project Zomboid that take is obviously stupid. But any builder where you’d share a bank account or otherwise a shared bank of resources gets a hard No from me, too. You’re always waiting for the bank account to fill up for the thing you want to build while the other person is throwing money away. Best-case scenario is you’re taking turns, with one person not doing much while the other builds.

If you want to play a game with friends, choose a game that you can actually play with friends, not one where you take turns playing a single-player game.

My opinion. Feel free to disagree.

in reply to bleistift2

I've found it's helpful to actually talk to your friends, discuss what you want to do, and agree at least a rough plan if who does what. If you are actually friends, or even just a bunch of reasonable aquaintances, you're going to be able to come up with something that is satisfactory everyone, then, when that's done, come up with a new plan, thus time prioritising those who got less of what they want lst time.
in reply to notabot

Speaking of, satisfactory is an amazing game with coop building. Similarly, terraria, just building houses, buildings, towns. Awesome with multiple people, but yeah you need a plan.

The currency is a good point tho. But if that's balanced enough, it can be fun.

in reply to notabot

You missed the point of my comment: There is always someone waiting. This isn’t cooperative. It’s a waiting game with turns.
in reply to bleistift2

Maybe we're talking across each other, I haven't played Project Zomboid, so I can't comment on that, but I was replying to the rest of your comment.

It could be down to different play styles; I can certainly see it being very frustrating if you're all doing different things and someone is hogging the resources, but if you're working together on a shared plan there's no waiting around. Maybe some people are collecting resources, some are processing them and some are building for instance. You're not waiting for your turn to build, because you, colkectively, have a plan and everyone is working together to achieve it.

in reply to notabot

If there’s a whole process about gathering resources, then I agree with you. I was talking about games like Tycoon, where the only resource is money and the only way to get it is to wait for it to accumulate.
in reply to bleistift2

I think they're talking about Planet Zoo, not Project Zomboid. After all, they're talking about "expanding the zoo" and comparing it to Planet Coaster.
in reply to DozensOfDonner

People like me who are as old as dirt have a tiny chance of remembering that Sesame Street started the cooperative multiplayer genre

youtube.com/watch?v=wn_klWEdJm…



FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm


in reply to wisdomchicken

It is somewhat unclear how the presence of a fascist police force that is actively working to instigate civil war aligns with the principles of safety and respect that Bluesky supposedly champions.
in reply to not_woody_shaw

This demonstrates why monolithic platforms, and Bluesky in particular, are not the answer to X. Yet people keep running from one silo to the next, like sheep following the herd. Once the herd has finally decided that it's time to be a 'rebel' and leave whatever 'big bad' platform they're on. Yeah, yeah, I know, Bluesky is 'decentralised' and 'federated'. Except that it isn't really, now is it? Let's see what new silo they can run to in, say 15 years or so, when they finally realise that Bluesky is indeed the new Twitter/X, just not in the way they thought it was…



in reply to Muad'Dibber

we've beeb saying europe, japan, sk and others were colonies for years. i hope the western people start coming to terms with reality now that their lords are accepting it