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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to increase r... on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:59AM (#35066066)

French people doing what French people do best.....

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:21AM (#33716921)

my original statement is 'its public knowledge that the US government is funding the Ukrainian government with its day to day expenses'. I think I've shown that. as for your douche comment, it's rather pathetic that when you get called out, you resort to calling me a douche and a 'crazy internet person'. The projection is strong I guess.

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:27AM (#33704195)

https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jun-30...

https://ua.usembassy.gov/the-united-states-contributes-4-5-b...

here you go smoothbrains, probably could find more if I googled for another minute, but this is so benign that I've already wasted enough time.

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:23AM (#33704173)

of course it means military support, you are trying to stop a government from collapsing, part of that is paying the bills (which include salaries). I don't understand why you are taking issue with that? - doesn't the US government (federal) "shutdown" when debt extensions can't be agreed upon?

https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jun-30...

https://ua.usembassy.gov/the-united-states-contributes-4-5-b...

"continuing to pay the salaries of civil servants, healthcare workers and teachers"

You really need to step out of whatever echo chamber you live in.

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:47PM (#33698474)

my comment was made dead for backing up the claim that US funding to the Ukrainian government pays for Ukrainian government salaries. Hardly conspiriatorial and completely what you'd expect the money to be doing if you are trying to help a country not collapse. Nonetheless, I get downvoted and flagged because I didn't google it for people. Maybe they think that all the money sent goes to buying Eee PC's so the children of Ukraine can learn to read and write good.

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:42PM (#33698387)

you guys are pathetic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/white-house-requests-37point...

'direct funding for government' - what do you think that covers? salaries for one.

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:41PM (#33698375)

you guys are truly pathetic

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/white-house-requests-37point...

'direct funding for the government' - paying for salaries comes under this.

Re:White House announces $13B to modernize the US power grid on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:19PM (#33665596)

it's public knowledge that the US is financing Ukraine's government for it's day to day. Numerous news articles from outfits like Reuters, A&P. Even Zelensky publically asks for money to help cover the day to day (on top of everything else he asks for).

Re:Chime, a Go Editor for macOS – v2.0 Now Available on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:48PM (#33426491)

honestly even having a progress bar on the bottom right of the status bar would help - then at least people know it's doing something

Re:Chime, a Go Editor for macOS – v2.0 Now Available on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:52PM (#33412907)

I just downloaded this to give it a trial and so far my exprience has been infuriating. I go to quick open a file - it takes 5 seconds to provide me a suggestion, I select my suggestion and hit enter, nothing, I double click, nothing, I hit the space bar, nothing.... Okay, let me maximise the window, I double click the window title, nothing, hmm, let me double click where the window controls are, nothing. It hardly feels 'Mac native'.

edit: after typing this out and letting it rest in the background, the quick open now actually opens a file.

Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women wit... on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:01PM (#33145311)

if only we could all be as enlightened as you are, you are obviously not of this earth :pray:

Re:Brazilian vote counting (real time) on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:54PM (#33062134)

Bolsonaro, because Leonardo di Caprio said so /s.

Re:Brazilian vote counting (real time) on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:25PM (#33061925)

So Lula was still corrupt as all hell, it was just that he was convicted in the wrong court..

Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:09AM (#33005953)

we all know it was the Thalmor, they’ve been plotting against the Nords since before Tamriel merged into a single continent.

Re:GTA VI Leak [video] on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:16PM (#32891090)

If rumors are correct, the leaker has the source code also, but hasn't chosen to release that. I'm pretty sure that releasing the source code would be seen as more of a dick move than just showing a video of some dev tools. I'm pretty sure we've all `stolen` software at some stage in our lives (looking at you Adobe), are we meant to be pearl-clutching over that also?

Re:GTA VI Leak [video] on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:01PM (#32890949)

no and no. I'm getting mighty sick of this attitude 'pls respect artists! they are all crying right now'.

how come game devs / artists are the only ones that should never have their work seen before they deem it to be 'ready', how many devs in other industries have had to push work to the public before they deem it 'ready'. I personally like having the 'curtain pulled back' so to speak, it's interesting to see the amount of work that goes into making a game / movie / whatever.

Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:41PM (#32795466)

the problem being that a large majority of the homeless in SF aren't "your people". They aren't SF locals, they move there for the benefits and the nice weather.

Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:16PM (#32786727)

^ 100% agree, some mentally ill people just need to be in an institution, where they can either get the care and treatment they need - and hopefully be cured and become a functional member of society - or at least where the amount of harm they are able to cause to themselves (and society) can be minimised.

Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:58PM (#32786641)

I think we need to give the homeless more money, that should solve the problem.

Re:Don't Pay UK on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:10AM (#32746566)

It's sad that Europeans have to suffer under stupid leadership choices made by their leaders.

Re:LiveView Native on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:56PM (#32683845)

this is phoenix liveview - it seems to allow you to render native iOS components from a phoenix liveview

Re:An attacker is currently draining 100s of Solana, $SOL, wallets and... on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:36AM (#32327699)

never 'invest' money into crypto that you aren't willing to lose to be honest

Re:Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:11PM (#32113710)

allegedly the ports are all mined with Ukrainian mines, Russia has stated that it will allow grain to leave the Black Sea if Ukraine removes it's mines. Sounds like both parties are being stubborn.

Re: on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:44AM (#32094248)

such a shame to see this view being so prevalent, maybe you'll wake up one day before you end up in a cubicle with a tube of bug paste for food

Re:Programming Fonts on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:34AM (#32032777)

I've been using Berkeley Mono [0] since it got released, it's a paid font which would normally be a no go for me, however the author is super responsive, and the font looks wonderful on my devices, so happy to support it.

Ligature support is coming soon also))

[0] https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono

(in hindsight it may look weird that I'm endorsing this from a throwaway - old habits die hard I guess...)