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  • Honestly though, most actual non-techie users just need a web browser and the odd desktop office application.

    For people who have never used a command line interface, and who would have no idea what to do with one anyway, you really can't much more straightforward than something like Bazzite or Bluefin.

  • Meanwhile, the US market keeps pumping out oversized, overpriced EVs all while the manufacturers complain about lukewarm consumer demand.

  • Mine's the 2020 AMD model, does everything I need it to do and it's still going strong. Build quality is great and I love the high quality 2160 x 1440 display. Overall, it's been a far better experience that the Dell XPS I had previously, which started giving me issues after just a couple of years.

    I bought it when I was living in Asia, though. Now I'm in the US, I honestly don't know what replacement I'd pick up if it died tomorrow.

  • I've been running various distros off my Huawei Matebook 14 in the US for years with zero issues. They make really good laptops, TBH.

  • It's the wrong way around for that, sadly.

  • Yes, and it's a stupid meme anyway. France is one of the most successful military powers in Europe, historically, plus their capitulation to the Nazis was understandable given how badly the country had been decimated by World War I.

  • Shooter appears to be a white male, aged 20s or early 30s by the look of it. The t-shirt he was wearing is allegedly marked with branding for a firearms-related YouTube channel.

    https://x.com/Shadi_Alkasim/status/1812315218258833590

    Edit: Possible suspects are either Maxwell Yearick, previously arrested while demonstrating against Trump in Pittsburgh on a previous occasion, or a Thomas Matthew Crooks, according to the NY Post.

    Hasn't been officially ID'd yet though, so still speculation.

  • Hi, thanks for the response.

    Similar to posts, when selecting the options for an individual comment in the official lemmy-ui, as a moderator you can 1) check the modlog history of that user, 2) remove the comment, 3) ban the author of the the comment from the community, and 4) appoint the author as a new moderator of that community.

    It would be great to see all of these features added to Thunder, but as a priority I would say that removing the comment and banning the author are the top two most important for moderators.

  • And every time, the taxpayer foots the bill. Until the funds start coming from police pensions, nothing is going to change.

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  • Sorry, as per the rules of this community you're not allowed to see them as human.

    *Sympathy for enemy combatants in any form is prohibited.

  • Lol you're right about this giving native English speakers a headache. I'm not sure the subjunctive is the correct explanation here, though.

    The subjunctive mood in English primarily uses the past tense form of verbs ("were," "were to," etc.) to convey wishes or counterfactuality. E.g. 'I wish you wouldn't drink so much coffee', or 'If I were you, I wouldn't..."

    However, 'would you like a coffee?' is a direct question of preference, which means it technically is using the indicative mood rather than the subjunctive. Here, 'would' functions as a model verb to soften the request and make it more polite.

  • That's what fascism is, yes. The point being made, I think, is that Democrats are claiming to be anti-fascist while also supporting a fascist government in Israel.

  • Ah yeah, I see what you mean. Fair point.

  • On what basis doesn't it work, though? I'm still not sure I understand what the problem is with your example.

    You would be hand picking less qualified men to compete with the women just to fill it up.

    Another way of looking at it is that we would in fact be widening the criteria of who would be considered "qualified".

  • I would say the opposite, in fact.

    Eugenics is the belief and practices that aim to "improve" the genetic quality of a human population to meet an idealized optimal standard. Under my proposed system, you could argue it would allow for a greater diversity of individuals that would be able to compete, and therefore would lower the necessity of having the optimal physical traits required in order to take part in each sport.

  • But like I said, that's fine. The point is that we would then be categorizing people not according to their gender but by factors that directly affect their athletic performance.

    Another benefit would also be that it would allow a wider range of people to participate at the national and international level, seeing as it would not remove all but those women and men who possess the optimal physical traits required for that particular sport.

  • That's why they would need to take more into account than simply weight. Surely multiple physical and hormonal factors could also be measured and an aggregate total value be applied to each athlete.

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