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Europe gave into Trump’s tariff demands last year and now he’s demanding more with the same ploy. Trump will keep using this tactic until we have nothing left. Making concessions with psychopaths is a road to complete slavery.

Protests legitimate the claim. Demand their politicians break diplomatic ties over the issue.

https://archive.ph/8i9C6

Just so you know, you can do this yourself. Take the article link and visit https://archive.is/ and enter it into the bottom box.

But you’re preventing the obligatory comment about paywalls!

I got beat up by a guy twice my size who was just in a pissy mood. “Participated in a fight, in school suspension”

Police have little intelligence of their own

Department of Pedophile Defense

My setup is an old Dell Wyse thin client and 4 external USB drives. The thin client is basically silent. The drives only make sound when they’re active, and spin down when idle. The thin client has an Intel CPU with QuickSync so it can even transcode with Plex. For data redundancy between the hard drives, I use lsyncd to make a poor man’s mirror setup.

Works great. Lives in a cabinet in my living room.

Some press statements and hand wringing, no action.

And in 10 years they’ll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that’s European hosted… In another five years.

Fully work from home. I start late on Mondays and Thursdays because I have Dutch lessons in the morning. I usually work from my small home office, or sometimes sitting on my sofa or rarely at a cafe. I don’t usually have meetings on Mondays or Fridays and log off at around 5:30. On Tuesday through Thursday, I often work until around 7:00 in order to have virtual meetings with coworkers in other timezones. Most days, I skip breakfast or have something light, and opt for an early lunch (sometimes that’s breakfast food).

Outside of meetings, I use an automated time management tool to block off times for certain tasks so that I don’t forget to do them daily. The rest of the time is deep work, hopping from project to project. My work is done in 2 week intervals, and I usually accomplish 15-20 project tasks per interval. During the day, I frequently field random notifications to myself or my team in channels on our comm tool. During deep work time, to keep my brain from falling apart, I tend to put on a comfort show or something not too engaging. A large chunk of my work is also stakeholder management, talking people away from metaphorical cliffs that will hurt the business.

I’m running at 120% at all times. My brain is mush at all times. I’m deeply burned out.

Stocks of these firms have dropped. Trump and friends will now buy up the stocks. Then the statement will be rolled back, the policy will never be implemented, and Trump and friends will sell the climb.

Typical grifting and corruption in America these days.

And AI generation vendors get a free pass for generating child porn

Two things are always true about Rand Paul:

• He clutches his pearls about the unethical behavior of his party and how it has morally lost its way

• He will only actually take measures or vote to oppose its actions when his protest is symbolic and won’t interfere with the party’s agenda

He’s basically the male Susan Collins.

For myself, I make sure I’ve done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.

From his Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/flukejones

I’ve burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It’s exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It’s not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.

Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.

Same on his Patreon

Toyota is behind everyone else on electric vehicles, so any politician that slows or stops EVs is a friend to Toyota.

Also, green policies favor the adoption of mass transit and other viable alternatives to driving, which is again a danger to Toyota’s bottom line.

For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.

What’s wrong with original Syncthing? Why would anyone use a fork?

At the same time, the government here in the Netherlands has ruled that being a trans person in the US is not enough persecution to qualify for asylum or refugee status.

Double whammy.

I’m in the last chapter of Sea of Stars. It’s been decent. I like the pixel art, and the combat loops were challenging enough without being a grind. The plot for the first 2/3 of the game was fairly cutesy but bland. I’m basically grabbing the last few unlockable skills and items before going to the final boss, and I doubt I will try the post-finish addon content.

I think next I’m going to try… The Witcher 3. I’ve tried to start this game multiple times on PC, modding it and everything. I like the books, played the first two games, but these days I have no interest in sitting at my desk (where I work) in my off hours - I like laying on the couch playing my Switch Lite.