An important distinction nevertheless. There are a lot of calls to abolish ICE, not so many to abolish the US Border Patrol.

If I were American I’d at least like to keep track of who is executing my fellow citizens in the streets. But maybe I’m just a pedant.

US Border Patrol, not ICE.

It’s probably important to remember that ICE is not the only fascist paramilitary that needs to be abolished.

Not ICE this time around, but the fascist pricks in the federal border patrol.

Go back to the original European name - Vinland/Vineland/Wineland. Though that might have been in Canada, technically.

Better yet, find some pre-Columbian name for the land that was used by the actual locals. I’m sure there’s plenty of alternatives, and some of the most beautiful state names in the US came about that way. Maybe some Native American name for the Mississippi river could be a good starting point.

A piece of American optimism:

America has been awful since the start, in one way or another. It was never going to change because the majority population was either comfortable enough, or scared enough of the minorities that they would accept a certain discomfort as long as their fellow man had it somehow worse.

Right now nobody is having a good time over there. We’re approaching a breaking point. And that’s scary, but it’s also an opportunity to build a better world on the ashes of the old. We are on the verge of huge changes.

Change is no guarantee for improvement. Americans should not only protest the regime, but start preparing to rebuild. Get smart. Read your own history, especially the parts you’re not proud of. If you don’t know or fully understand those parts you will never manage to build wide alliances. Read postwar history, read about the French revolution and it’s messy aftermath. Read Arendt, read Rawls, read Steinbeck and Locke. Prepare yourself to grasp this historic moment. You have an opportunity unlike anything since the 18th century to change America for the better. Don’t waste it doomscrolling. Don’t think you know enough already. Prepare yourself to be the kind of person who is needed once the regime falls.

You’re not powerless—on the contrary, it’s an historic opportunity. And in power there is hope.

European optimism:

After the events of the last few weeks I think a lot more people are fed up with this fascist bullshit, and it seems even Eurosceptics now believe we need to stand together in solidarity across the continent. It’s a new European moment, and the American hegemony has been broken. I’m feeling genuinely optimistic.

The protests in Minnesota also fill me with joy. I sincerely believe things are beginning to crack. Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu are all in extremely fragile positions, and dictators have famously poor life expectancy. Change is gradual, then sudden, and the destinies of these despots are intertwined. The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Right! Man, I’m slow today. But that makes sense, sometimes to operate some old expensive piece of equipment you’ll need both the software and the driver. Thanks for spoon feeding me haha.

True, there’s a lot of good research being produced as well. There’s just an insane amount of academic work being produced in general, both good and bad.

The same is predictably true in research, meaning a lot of academic research being produced at the moment is complete crap. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825

It’s not really suitable for production use yet. I ran it in a VM a few days ago, got a BSoD within a few minutes just from doing completely normal things.

Woha, careful there, we’re on a forum full of Linux nerds and the joke writes itself.

But yeah, I guess that takes me back to my inital confusion - one would think a minimalistic Linux install with Wine would always perform better, if nothing else because there are a lot of people actively using and contributing to that software stack. But maybe sometimes there are advantages of having the software integrated directly in the system that Wine as a non-emulator on Linux cannot deliver.

That makes a lot of sense! I have heard Windows XP is still being run in hospitals and stuff out of necessity due to compatibility issues with expensive equipment, ReactOS might be a great solution for making that a little less sketchy while keeping it simple.

Does anyone here actually use it? Are there any obvious benefits in practice to ReactOS over Linux with Wine?

It’s a fun project, but I struggle to wrap my head around any real world usefulness.

There’s not one mastodon instance for EU stuff, but rather they divide it alongside the division of powers. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/ is only for the European Commission and its related initiatives and officials, while https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/ is for the Court of Justice of the EU.

To my knowledge there’s no official instance for the European Parliament or its members.

Personally I really hope the X exodus will not be caused by new venture capitalist platform taking over, even though it might seem increasingly inevitable at this point.

I have extremely little faith in W social—they didn’t even manage to set up their temporary landing page properly, indicating strongly that this is run by capitalists rather than talented and ideologically motivated people. Apparently it’s a Bluesky fork, so I guess it will have a perceived success by running on ATProto no matter how it goes down.

Yet 58% of MEPs are still on X.

https://leavex.eu/ is a useful resource for those who want to call them out on it - find the representatives from your country and parties you care for still on X, let them know what exactly they are supporting by staying there, and maybe nudge them towards something like https://eupolicy.social/ as a more reasonable alternative.

Remember to be polite - many of them/(the ones we care to convince) are good people who are just doing what they have been told they need to do in order to communicate with their base. They just need to realize the world has changed.

Oh yes, nothing indicating america is worse than anywhere else!!! Stop pointing fingers!!

Get your shit in order. Some of us are at least trying to provide free education and healthcare.

A broken watch is right twice a day. I think by now it’s fair to say that much more than just 51% of Americans are utterly stupid.

Yup. His names returns a lot of fun propaganda about how he’s anti-imperialistic and whatnot, but the fact is that he was sanctioned because he is a Russian asset, and it had nothing to do with Palestine.

I follow several good journalists covering the Gaza genocide, and I have never heard of any one of them or their colleagues “being sanctioned for criticizing israel”. Being a Russian asset will, however, do that to you.

Jeg tror bare der er mange Tesla-ejere der er glade for det vilde optræk og ikke tænker over hvilke kræfter der kommer i spil når 2.000kg accelererer 0-100 på 4sek.

Veldig godt poeng. Jeg tror ikke jeg kjenner til en eneste Tesla-eier som ikke elsker å vise frem hvor høy belastning de kan utsette bilen sin for.

I find I mildly interesting that X is still launching new features that are technically unrelated to declaring itself to be mechahitler and generating non-consensual pornography of unknowing women and children.

The hitlerjugend fetish starter pack is gonna be a hit. Those guys must be in disbelief of how lucky they have gotten with recent social media developments.