Balinares

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[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Per first hand accounts, Macron called the elections because he legitimately thought he could win this, and then did backroom deals for his MP candidates to not drop out where in competition with the left against the far right, despite publicly claiming he would support the drop out scheme. He's a fool and an incompetent that got France in this situation in the first place.

In fact it's not even certain that he won't just try to make a government by allying with the far right. He's really got his head that far up his own ass.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

Durpleton is too pure for this corrupt world.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On évite le pire ce coup-ci. Pour le coup, on a le droit de prendre 5 minutes pour célébrer.

Ensuite il sera temps de se remettre au travail. On a pas le fion sorti de l'ornière, et il y a du chemin à faire.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great article, thanks for posting! Worth noting that swap is also used for tmpfs partitions. Meaning that if you don't have any swap, temporary files in /tmp will use your actual physical RAM. That's probably not what you want.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin has a V3 version, yeah. Been using it for a while, seems to work well. I do miss the ability of adding my own filters, hope they implement that eventually.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

Vast question. Finding out who you are is a lifelong process.

My thought: "male" and "female" are, in fact, abstract ideas, simple labels that each imperfectly, awkwardly covers entire, partially overlapping universes of complexity. And in practical reality, no one is all the way in either universe to the entire exclusion of the other.

So perhaps you are fine in a masculine body enjoying feminine-coded traits and activities. Perhaps the body shape that you would like to see in the mirror fluctuates with time or with your mood. Perhaps you are fine with your genitals but would like to have breasts, or perhaps you are fine with your chest but are thrilled by the idea of a vulva between your legs. Perhaps you would love the way you look and feel in a skirt and high socks. Perhaps you just thrive socializing and belonging in groups of women. Perhaps -- likely -- none of the above, but something else, something lovely I can't even begin to imagine. Only you can find out.

Ultimately all labels are, to some extent, bullshit. Each human is a rich multitude that defies naming and containment. I hope you love whatever it is you end up finding out are.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one can tell for certain, but it does seem like he's been huffing his own farts so hard he figured he could win this.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice socks! Where's a good place to find quality socks of this style?

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

I mean, client-side scanning would do shit all to help anyway because nothing prevents culprits from encrypting the messages in a different app they are using for sending. This is just entirely a net loss -- right as fash are poised to take over too. What a mess.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 35 points 1 year ago

Go fash, lose cash. 👍🏻

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, what a loss. Now it will only be able to suggest glue on burgers. /s

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I and could also see an alliance between Le Pen and whatever UMP (hard right conservatives that used to rule all the time until Sarkozy drove the party into the wall, for non French people) calls itself these days. So, if indeed the snap election is a gamble to keep himself in power, it's a risky gamble.

If it's a gamble to let them rule and fail, as you hypothesize, that's even riskier. Fash have a way of staying in power somewhat longer than their popular support.

Either way it's not going to be fun days in France for a little while, damn.

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