I’d argue that you already DO have bigger problems, you just haven’t come to terms with it yet.

Doesn’t really matter what it would take. His plan is (and always has been) that if anything doesn’t go his way, he takes it to the supreme court who he handpicked and has in his pocket. So either:

• a) He manages to stop the midterms, or
• b) He doesn’t, but Republicans already have them rigged so as to not matter, or
• c) They lose the midterms, Trump takes it to the supreme court, who hand the republicans the win based on “hand waved evidence of voter fraud by democrats and ‘illegals’”…

Trump just gets bolder every time people say “oh we’ll get out of this at the midterms.” He’s laughing at America.

It’s psychologically important to me and many others that he fucking die.

Cool. Thanks for the info. I must have been on the Flatpak for so long that I just never noticed.

we can put through a regime change in this year’s midterm elections

It’s incredible how many people still think that this will be a thing.

Which version of the plugin did you install. There’s a whole bunch of them when you type flatpak install gimp. The resynthesizer version that works with gimp3 flatpak is number 20 in my screenshot. The one that has the 3

I don’t disagree. Just saying that the price for that sacrifice was to make themselves politically irrelevant. at least in the short term.

Not sure. I’d assume its the same as the flatpak with a bit more work involved in deconstructing the apk file, adding the plugin to the proper folder and then recompiling.

Unless this has been fixed in newer versions, it should be pointed out that ReSynthesizer relies on an older version of Python that most distrobutions don’t have anymore, so unless your using the flatpak, which has all of those dependencies still built in, it won’t work.

I agree. I’m disappointed in the fact that we ended up just voting in a Red Conservative. However, the alternative wasn’t a Blue Conservative…it was MAGA. And quite honestly if the choice were to be made again, even KNOWING FULL WELL that Carney is more Conservative than he let on, I’d do it again to prevent Poppingfresh from turning the country into MapleMAGA land.

Is anyone paying attention?

Lol…no.

As a party you willingly sold yourselves down the river to prevent a Pollievre disaster. While many believed it was necessary (myself included), the consequence of that is that the NDP aren’t even an official party anymore.

We are now effectively a two-party country, and people give the NDP leadership race as much attention as the Green Party.

Can someone please just kill this man already?

Or at least say “Hey…dumbshit…Russia is ALREADY your neighbour. It’s called Alaska fuckhead.”

I don’t like smart TV apps, but I have to live with those

Disconnect the TV from the internet and use those services from a spare laptop computer which you can control. My TV hasn’t been connected to the net in years. It’s more than doable.

I use Linux exclusively at home. I keep my last three generations of smartphone’s working and up to-date by running one form of de-googled fork of android or another, mostly based out of Europe. I don’t use cloud storage, preferring to use Syncthing to keep certain folders synced between devices without uploading to a cloud server.

I keep a gmail because I’ve simply had it for so long, that by the time I degoogled, most financial things were using it/have it. But I switched to a couple of others as my primary and am slowly getting things transitioned over.

Both my Mastadon and my Lemmy are official .ca servers hosted in Canada (I think both from the same person/group) and they do an amazing job. So I’m not worried about losing access to that and any non-US instance that they federate with.

Does that mean that there isn’t the possibility that my replacement services (mostly french and German) won’t enshittify eventually too? No. Of course not. But they’re open source, so it’s (to me) a higher ethical standard right out of the gate because if you really wanted to be shady, you wouldn’t allow thousands of people to peek into your source code, so these replacement services get the benefit of the doubt…for now.

Is THAT what you’re having a hard-time grasping?!!

You do know that people put things for sale BEFORE the buying happens, right? It’s called THE MARKET.

If you’re selling a house, you put it ON THE MARKET and wait for someone to make you an offer.

Now let’s say you have a house on the market and you want 400,000 for it. But in your city, a lot of people are moving out and there are far more houses on the market than there are buyers. So you have to lower your asking price in order to entice a buyer to take yours instead of someone elses. You DEVALUE your house to make the sale; take less money than you originally wanted. Doing so devalues the other houses for sale since they have to do the same, and the entire market for “Houses in city X” drops.

If, alternatively, you’re the only house that’s for sale in your city and there are 10 families looking to buy it, your house’s value RISES. Rarity equals Value.

The same rule applies to stocks and BONDS. The US takes loans from other countries by selling them bonds. Those bond’s value is based on a few different criteria (stability of the country’s currency, etc…) But the important one here for your understanding is that the value is partially based on it’s rarity. If all of the US Treasury bonds get dumped into the market simultaeneously, they’re not rare anymore, and thus the value drops. If the value of the US Bond drops, it ripples through the economy.

It’s supply and demand. The more there is of a certain thing ON THE MARKET, the less valuable it becomes. That’s the rule for everything, from stocks and bonds and real estate, to beanie babies and pokemon cards.

Care to provide a contradictory source? Or are you just going to say that anything that doesn’t agree with you is “bullshit” without backing it up with actual economic sources?

Also, just to add another source that MAGA would find “legitimate”, this is from Fox Business.

China holds $761 billion in U.S. debt, making it the second-largest foreign holder after Japan. A mass sell-off could drive down the value of U.S. bonds and cause yields to spike, sharply increasing borrowing costs for the federal government. It could also weaken the U.S. dollar and send shock waves through global financial markets.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chinas-trade-war-weapons-rare-earth-ban-us-debt-dump-could-cripple-american-economy-defense

But hey…I’m going to wait for your sources beyond “trust me, bro”.

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but is anyone else thinking that the entire end-goal of this is to have the Venuzuela money handled directly by his administration so that he can keep his shit going when Congress finally (hopefully) cuts his purse strings?

The one thing that the government hasn’t been able to change is the fact that Congress controls the money, not him. Seems to me that Venuzuela Oil is his play at getting a private fund without them.

I’ll trust the economists on this one. Honestly should have just done this from the beginning rather than trying to explain things.

When foreign countries start selling off U.S. debt, the immediate impact is on bond prices. A surge in selling increases the supply of bonds on the market. Just like any other asset, when supply rises dramatically without a corresponding rise in demand, prices fall. And when bond prices fall, yields—another way of saying interest rates—go up.

source - https://www.investingdaily.com/137830/what-it-means-when-the-world-dumps-u-s-debt/

That’s not how markets work.

But you’re clearly a troll just being intentionally obtuse for shits and giggles. It’s on me for not having realised it earlier.

Have a good day.

Dumping their bonds into the market isn’t cancelling their debt. Its making all that debt available for OTHERS to buy. Supply goes up, value goes down.

In other words, if all of the US debt was out up for sale at the same time, is value of the US dollar would crater.

I don’t think you understand how inflation works…