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[–] Limonene 39 points 1 day ago

As far as I'm aware, Trump plans to remove all immigrants, whether documented or not, and even green card holders. I don't think he will have much luck with it, but maybe I'm wrong.

Start applying for jobs outside the US. Finding a job is usually the longest part of moving.

You may want to try applying for citizenship at the same time, assuming you even want to stay for 2025-2028.

I'm speaking as a US citizen whose life would be improved by your presence in the US.

[–] Limonene 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Sex change surgeries on minors aren't happening. This is a monster under the bed.

Why do conservatives never talk about the large number of gender affirming surgeries that people do on cis minors? Cisgendered kids are getting breast implants, and it's kind of a big problem.

[–] Limonene 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Even if Trump doesn't abuse his power to escape this, he will die of old age before 4 years are up.

[–] Limonene 8 points 4 days ago

The hard work paid off, with Aftershock II returning safely with a trove of valuable flight data. You can dig into it to your heart's content through this white paper.

Link broken, unfortunately.

[–] Limonene 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Electronic women, giant mech women, women reenactments...

Space women?

[–] Limonene 42 points 1 week ago (16 children)

You know damn well this isn't about surgery. It's about hormones, and it says so right there in the summary. You didn't even have to click the link. Nobody is doing breast implants on trans minors (only on cis minors, which is perfectly fine for some reason).

Forcing a trans kid to go through the wrong puberty even though they know they are trans is extremely traumatic. It's life ruining. It alters the voice, the shape of the torso, the shape of the face, and facial and body hair in ways that either can't be fixed at all, or can only be fixed with expensive surgeries later on.

And if you want people to be absolutely sure about their status before going on hormone replacement therapy, then that is exactly what puberty blockers are for. Leuprorelin prevents puberty so that the kid can figure themself out for a year or two, and then make sure they go through the correct puberty. Even if they decide not to be transgender in the end, they can just go off leuprorelin and start puberty.

[–] Limonene 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Consider whether you want just Chinese numerals, or also Arabic (normal) numerals in the corner.

Consider which style of mahjong it will be used for. Depending on the style, there are different numbers of total tiles included in the set.

The feel of the tiles might matter to you, but unfortunately that may be difficult to judge when buying online.

[–] Limonene 215 points 1 week ago (51 children)

I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don't become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.

[–] Limonene 2 points 1 week ago

In my system, the raid arrays seem to do periodic data scrubbing automatically. Maybe it's something that's part of Debian, or maybe it's just a default kernel setting. I don't think it helps much with data integrity -- I think it helps more just by ensuring the continued functionality of the drives.

When it's running, you can type cat /proc/mdstat to see the progress.

That command will also show you if there is a failing drive, so that you can replace it.

[–] Limonene 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just about anything. IRC, XMPP, Discord, whatever you call the chat built into Steam. AIM is discontinued now, but it used to be better than Teams is today.

[–] Limonene 1 points 1 week ago

Yes. As far as I've seen, it never changes what gets sent to the server, which is why I'm able to get away with it.

[–] Limonene 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Violence is the solution to violence.

The threat of defensive violence can act as a useful deterrent to prevent violence.

Nuclear weapons are massively violent. Although they have caused harm in a number of ways (offensive use in WW2, experimental use, indirect harm from the threat of use), I believe they contributed more to peace in the world today.

Open carry in the US has successfully been used to deterr police from harassing innocent people.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239

Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.

The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million.

The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market.

"We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies.

Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

 

All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users -- only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments.

This doesn't seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It's more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion.

Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.

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submitted 11 months ago by Limonene to c/linuxmemes
 

2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

 

Every time I visit that site it always says the same thing. I'm not on a VPN, I'm on a residential Internet connection, connecting directly from my own home.

 

This is a screenshot of https://twitter.com/ . As you can see, you can't even view the home page any more without signing in -- it instantly redirects to a page to sign in. It's the same for viewing tweets. It's been like this for a few days.

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