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[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.

Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen... the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).

Which would be a crying shame, of course...

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the info.

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The legend about the origin of the word sabotage is that French workers being put out of a job by bosses installing new machinery would drop their wooden clogs (called "sabots" in French) into the machinery's gears, thus damaging it.

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

For a nanosecond, I somehow understood the headline as "Audio Galaxy Still Accessible". Which really would be impressive.

I only just realized that my search plugin in qBittorrent isn't giving me any results from TGx.

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"The Department of Government Efficiency" is not a department.

"Full self-driving" is not fully self-driving.

I'm detecting a theme here.

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

Reminds me of Farage getting de-banked.

It was later revealed that Farage's account was closed in part as Coutts felt that his beliefs and values did not align with theirs. In an internal dossier, Coutts wrote that he "is at best seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists" and considered a "disingenuous grifter".

 

Using Linux Mint 22.1 Xfce. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40243032

New to Lemmy.

And new to workspaces. I'd get confused at first which workspace I was on.

Different backgrounds helped a bit, but I'm almost always in maximized windows.

I wanted to have different colours for windows, panel etc but couldn't.

So I adjusted panel opacity to 95% on Enter, 75% on Leave. That allows the background colour to bleed through.

A user on the Linux Mint forums suggested adjusting workspace margins to let the background show even when windows are maximized.

So now I have an 8-pixel strip of desktop showing just above the panel. Combined with the lowered panel opacity, I never have to wondr anymore what workspace I'm on.

  • Workspace [1/2/3] with windows minimized.
  • Workspace [1/2/3] with window maximized, panel at "Leave" opacity of 95%.
  • Workspace [1/2/3] with window maximized, panel at "Enter" opacity of 75%.

(I read somewhere that it's better to host images for Lemmy on Pixelfed. So I made my first post there with all the screenshots, and linked to it. Hope that works.)

PS: Anyone have any other ideas to help distinguish workspaces at a glance?

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago
  1. Buy a share in a publicly-traded insurance company.
  2. At a shareholder meeting, ask if the company has factored increased political risk, vandalism, arson, third-party damage from arson, etc into its premium calculations for: Tesla owners; Tesla showrooms; Tesla charging stations; car parks that even have Teslas in them; any other conceivably exposed company or individual.
  3. Repeat with every other insurance company.
  4. Repeat said concerns in every other possible medium (is there a Lemmy community for insurance actuaries?)
  5. Sit back and watch people and businesses scramble to avoid "the Tesla tax" of ever-increasing insurance premiums.
[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

The clue is in the word: drop sabots/clogs into things.

Sabots/clogs are:

  • organic
  • renewable
  • recyclable

And they store, rather than release, carbon. The eco-friendliest sabotage is sabots!

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

Also acceptable: Aloigi, Aloisi, Aloisio, Lodovico, Ludovico, Alvise, Gigi, Gigio, Gigino, Ginetto, Gino, Luigino, Vico

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

So the internet is cats?

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Historically, people didn't have easy access to multiple forms of birth control.

But then they've already started working on that: Dobbs, period policing, "NO CONDOMS FOR GAZA!!!"

[โ€“] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

I noticed a distinct lack of Tragedeigh-style names.

Maybe we need more Paydons and Jaedins in government.

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