aleph

joined 1 year ago
[–] aleph@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Nice. This soundtrack was my introduction to techno and electronica, back in the day.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ok, thanks for the heads-up. I'm running it in a local VM and for some reason my host Arch system is significantly faster at downloading and installing packages than the blendOS guest. Not sure why, but just thought I'd mention it.

Edit: never mind, I messed up the first installation so had to do-over, and the slow download speed seems to have recovered this time.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Follow-up question: I'm in the US and the initial installation is taking forever. Pacman seems to be running at just 60-80 KiB/s when I normally get 5MiB/s. IS there a way to have the installer choose a local mirror before downloading all the packages?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Cool. Will definitely be giving blendOS a spin in a VM.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Very intriguing. Is there a wiki or support forum in the works, too?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 219 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Archuleta himself, though, has a history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. He previously blamed LGBTQ+ individuals for the Club Q shooting and said that queer people are “groomers” – or child sex abusers – a negative stereotype that has been used to justify hatred and discrimination.

Bruh.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's not exactly the same complaint at all. You got a single comment removed from a single thread by a single moderator.

The equivalent would be if the admin of lemmy.world stepped in and not only banned you from World News but also every single other LW community you posted in, out of spite.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think you have a very different definition of "perfectly reasonable" than most people.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 155 points 5 months ago (43 children)

I've defended lemmy.ml in the past when people have blamed the entire instance for the actions of a solitary, overzealous moderator, but this genuinely concerns me:

This must have been action taken at the instance admin level, considering all those communities have different moderators.

Is there any way to probe the modlog to see which account it was?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't think this analysis is correct. This unwavering support is true of Trump supporters today, but back in the run up to the 2016 there were definitely people who voted for Trump who would have changed their mind had the "grab them by the pussy" tape been immediately followed up by a media storm surrounding more awkward sexual allegations coming from from a porn star.

The Trump team clearly thought so - presidential campaigns are nothing if not obsessive about how optics can affect their candidates in key states, and by how much. The fact that they went to such lengths to cover it up was indicative of how impactful they feared it would be among swing voters.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not defending Biden, but the view that Trump would be any less prepared to keep sending Israel weapons is utterly baseless. He wouldn't even pretend to care about the Palestinians, for one thing.

view more: ‹ prev next ›