Trump was impeached twice.
Thing is, the bar for impeachment is a majority vote in the House. That's just the formal accusation of wrongdoing. It doesn't do anything to the President on its own.
Then you move on to decide whether to convict. That's a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate, and we've never met that bar.
Ancient Greek used all capitals, rather than the parent's comment all lowercase. That's more obnoxious to recognize letters in.
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EDIT: Oh, and the order of the text was reversed right-to-left in alternating lines:
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I use Anysoft Keyboard on Android, and it has a toggle for that behavior, which I have off. I don't know which software keyboard you're using, but you might check whether it has such a toggle.
and my keyboard unironically took my double-tap on space to add periods for me!
Markdown also permits a trailing backslash to be a linebreak, as an alternative to the two trailing spaces.
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I’ve noticed that if I send more than a few paragraphs, the recipient won’t actually read any of it.
I was reading an article about how some people were using LLMs to generate longer emails with more fluff to make it look like they were putting more work into their emails, and how other people were having LLMs summarize emails that had been sent to them to cut out excessive fluff because it was wasting their time.
One can but imagine what the end game of all this is.
"Ah, an em-dash. You must be an AI."
I’ve been using the internet since the mid 90s.
It did not used to be like this.
A high proportion of people on the Internet in the mid-90s were associated with tech or universities and were comparatively well-educated. It was not a representative slice of society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.[1][2] Before this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.
The flood of new and generally inexperienced Internet users directed to Usenet by commercial ISPs in 1993 and subsequent years swamped the existing culture of those forums and their ability to self-moderate and enforce existing norms. AOL began their Usenet gateway service in March 1994, leading to a constant stream of new users.[3] Hence, from the early Usenet community point of view, the influx of new users that began in September 1993 appeared to be endless.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Usenet and the Internet were generally the domain of dedicated computer professionals and hobbyists; new users joined slowly, in small numbers, and learned to observe the social conventions of online interaction without having much of an impact on the experienced users.
The only exception to this was September of every year, when large numbers of first-year university students gained access to the Internet and Usenet through their university campuses. These large groups of new users who had not yet learned online etiquette created a nuisance for the experienced users, who came to dread September every year.
And that's just college freshmen.
Internet access today is more universally-available. I'd say that it's just a product of seeing society as a whole writing.
A lot of what people read in, say, the 1980s was from mass media. That generally had a journalist
a professional dedicated to writing
and an editor checking their work. Those people probably had gone to college specifically to pick up writing skills, and likely spent a large portion of their professional lives writing. They had a high level of expertise relative to the population as a whole in that field. Now what you're reading is often without that filter. It's not that people in society changed. It's that you'd never seen society's writing; you'd just been reading what experts put out.
It'd be like most of what you'd seen your whole life was furniture created by professional carpenters, and then suddenly every Tom, Dick, and Harry was creating their own furniture.
I remember staring at YouTube comments when YouTube first came out and thinking "good God, these are terrible". Randall Munroe, who clearly had the same reaction, did a whole cartoon about it:
https://lemmy.today/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimgs.xkcd.com%2Fcomics%2Fyoutube.png
The answer, of course, isn't that YouTube users are unusual. It's that the people who watch videos are more-representative of society than those who are writing and reading long-form text on Usenet or whatnot. That comes as a sudden and abrupt shock if you're used to reading that Usenet stuff. That is, you'd been in a bubble, and that bubble went away.
Randall worked at NASA. If you work at NASA and are accustomed to conversation among a bubble of what people who work at NASA say about space and then abruptly get thrown into an environment where people who don't work at NASA are talking about space, I expect that it's pretty shocking.
I remember also reading about what happened when email entered into businesses. It kind of mirrored this. For a long time, it was kind of expected that executives would have a secretary, because doing things like typing wasn't as widespread a skill and correcting errors on a typewriter was more time-consuming than it is today on a computer. A manager would likely at least get access to some sort of shared secretary, even if they didn't merit a personal one. That secretary likely spent a lot of their professional life writing, and got to be pretty good at it. That secretary was probably a lot better at writing than the typical person out there. Then businesses generally decided that with email, a lot of this dedicated-secretary overhead wasn't necessary, and arranged to have people just write their own memos. They promptly discovered that a lot of people high up in their org charts had very little ability to write understandably (probably in part because they'd been relying on secretaries to clean everything up for years), and for some years after email showing up in businesses, having training to remediate this was apparently something of a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarial_pool
A secretarial pool or typing pool is a group of secretaries working at a company available to assist any executive without a permanently assigned secretary. These groups have been reduced or eliminated where executives have been assigned responsibility for writing their own letters and other secretarial work.
After the widespread adoption of the typewriter but before the photocopier and personal computer, pools of typists were needed by large companies to produce documents from handwritten manuscripts, re-type documents that had been edited, type documents from audio recordings, or to type copies of documents.
Is all this a bad thing?
Well...the Internet has democratized communication. It means that everyone has a voice. It's got pros and cons. It's changed how politicians communicate (Trump being a good example). It means that it's easier to get material out there, but that the material doesn't have a filter on it that might have been useful.
I think that it might well be the case that the average person today probably writes a lot more than they did in the past, because electronic communication enables written text to be so-readily and quickly transmitted. I'd wager that the average level of writing experience is higher today than in 1995. It's just that you're seeing a higher proportion of Average Joe's writing than Jane the Journalist's writing than you might have in 1995.
Ah, thanks. Looks like they enabled zram in Fedora 33:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM#Why_not_zswap?
I mean, I don't see the point. You could keep people in there, but the GOP intended to kill off the enhanced subsidies. They aren't likely to go reverse themselves. It's not like spending more time in some conference room is going to suddenly change things.
And I would expect that the Democrats don't have any expectation to get sufficient support to change the situation in 2026, but by having an explicit vote on it, they get to bludgeon the Republicans with having explicitly killed it ("see, they don't get to claim that they voted against it for other bundled policy reasons. They really do want to take your health care subsidies away"). That might be advantageous to the Democrats in the midterms, since they have a nice, clear example of the Republicans doing something unpopular that'll be hard to wiggle away from.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mH2r6Zct0s&list=PLeivzRdz7xcm2NargAnk6PJ3G5Ten4RYU
I recommend the Vagrant Song, the deep south version
Specifically this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTGRMpVg_-s&list=PLeivzRdz7xcm2NargAnk6PJ3G5Ten4RYU&index=3
I don't use Kali Linux, but it sounds like it's based on Debian's testing release. Debian hasn't packaged Blackwell drivers yet, so I wouldn't be surprised if Kali doesn't have them packaged either. You can download Blackwell drivers from Nvidia, but the Debian guys won't have made sure that things don't break with them.
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/259042/
I don't know why you wouldn't be able to install the driver with the graphics card inserted.
The initrd contains drivers that aren't directly built into the kernel.
Typically, the way this works on Debian with third-party drivers is that you have the proper linux-headers package matching your current kernel installed. Then a third-party package registers a DKMS module with the driver source, and when you install a new kernel, the driver gets recompiled for that kernel. That driver gets dropped into the initrd, the ramdisk with the out-of-kernel stuff required to boot.
I don't use Nvidia hardware, so I can't tell you if that's what's supposed to happen, but I would guess so.
If you're not booting with it, my guess is that something isn't working as part of that process. Either the Nvidia script didn't register the module or it didn't get rebuilt or the installed driver has some issue and isn't working when you try to load it.
You can probably run
sudo dkms statusand it'll show DKMS modules and their current status. That might be a starting point.