I buy coffee from a local charity roaster that imports it from a particular grower’s co-op on the same continent and provides development support. Only middleman capitalists involved are shipping and the retailer. Bonus: it’s fresher roasted than anything else on the shelf, and so tastes better.

Blueberry bushes love it as a mulch.

Watching USians convince each other that just voting represents an adequate level of civic engagement is weird and disturbing.

It’s a bullshit argument from a linguistic standpoint, not just political.

Like imperial/metric and fahrenheit/celsius, we just use the z vs s variably. Some people even switch between spellings for some words. I’m not sure there are even idiomatic or de facto rules about usage, since it seems to be an area of uncertainty for many.

Nah, I stand by that. Watch the video. The hero probably survived by not becoming another shooter, don’t trust cops not to overreact.

Also if he had it would have been a vigilante shooting at that point.

We collectively agree (in principle at least) to give a monopoly on violence to a police force so that assholes don’t run around shooting whoever they think is a bad guy.

Judge Dredd is a fucking dystopia, pay attention.

groak is your password too?

Work on shifting USA culture from alienating individualism, which says “I did a thing, so don’t blame me”, to a collectivist understanding that society requires mutuality of action and responsibilities.

If my co-citizens fail to vote, or actively vote against our interests, then that’s on me, to the extent of my abilities to contribute.

TL;DR: talk to people about civics

Ohh, so that’s why I was unable to watch it, YouTube wanted me to sign in, but fuck that.

Ohhh you definitely want to be running TimeMachine backups in macOS. It’s run from the system settings app, and once you connect a freshly formatted drive it will likely suggest that you use that drive.

It backs up your entire system and data, then makes hourly versions, and keeps long-term weeklies. You can restore individual files or rather easily restore the entire backup.

It’s one of the few things apple does really well.

Yes, go ahead. The parties in question in the article all live under the yoke of the DMCA, with vigorously litigious corporations patrolling the streets.

Sam_Bass’s comments are mainly mildly contemptuous one-liners. Condescending is part of the persona, and when others interpret that manner as right wing, it seems to affirm sam’s misanthropy.

8 years or so and kids will be wearing maga hats for Halloween costumes.

I fully believe that you are antifascist in sentiment. I also see that you are asking people to show some skepticism about media that is obscure in origin and used to evoke strong feelings.

I was a media literacy activist for decades and this was one of the basic points, that framing can reverse the meaning of an image or video or even story. So you are essentially just asking people to show a little media literacy, which is laudable.

Your manner of argument, in a highly charged subject, is tone deaf, which is what seems to have triggered the downvotes. Righteousness is druglike, the veracity of the recorded action is immaterial, and we all need the narrative that punching nazis is normal. Plus, actual nazi propaganda techniques include sowing doubt about their existence, making false equivalencies, minimizing their transgressions, etc., and the tone deaf manner made it look like you were doing that.

You know, the subcontinent has around a billion people on it? Who see it scattered all around, for thousands of years.

Think of it as a gateway drug, lol

Well just add a /s to the post you replied to, and, while it is more bitter and critical than sarcastic, it will make more sense.

Jesusfuckinsaurus, I can hear the whoosh from here.

I know that there are some complicated configurations that you could use to get the audio feed from display port to your receiver, like running it through a splitter that will strip out the audio and send it to your receiver separately. I’m pretty sure there are no mainstream AV receivers that will do what you want because the market is split between home theatre and PC, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and manufacturers need to be convinced there’s a market for it.

In that situation, I would connect the output device, in this case a PC, directly to the TV/monitor with DP, and run optical audio from either the TV or the output device to receiver.

You lose some of the integrated control that HDMI-CEC gives you, so get a good universal remote that can adapt to this set up and get one-button source switching back.

I guess foggy there means it’s “mildly” xenophobic when you don’t bother to get someone’s name right.

A lot of names got changed during immigration due to wilful xenophobia last century, for example. Xenakis to Johnson, etc.

Structural linguistic problems like not having notation for foreign pronunciation isn’t necessarily xenophobic, but failure to address the problem might be.