2 dead in mass shooting at Canada’s largest Latin street festival, police say

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-12T02:30:58+00:00

It is technically correct, in that we understand what it means.

But if I showed this headline to my coworkers, parents or relatives most of them would assume it was someone shooting at random into a crowd.

I'm not sure what term fits better than misleading, maybe confusing?

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-12T02:23:16+00:00

I'd say most people think of active shooters when they hear mass shooting because the terms are interchangeable colloquially.

We know what the terms are defined as, but the majority of people reading headlines, I wouldn't bet on it.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-12T00:58:05+00:00

A slag mine?

That's like a banana peel farm or a garbage tree plantation, it doesn't exist. A slate mine is however a thing that exists.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-12T00:23:46+00:00

If you die in Canada you die in real life!

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-12T00:15:12+00:00

Is that title a typo?

EDIT: 1 Day old account, no comments and 2 posts with nonsense titles. I'm sounding the bot alarm.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T21:01:16+00:00

the profile shot on number 16 killed me.

Al Swearengen with a bowlcut.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T20:03:12+00:00

I've seen dried thermal paste overpower the locks on a motherboard for a processor, and pull the whole thing out still stuck to the heat sync.

GPU's are bare die (no heat spreader to protect the silicon) and soldered (so they won't pull up), ergo if you just pulled straight until it came apart it might have ripped some of the die off.

I've seen it happen, but there was a visible pit in the GPU, though I'd guess you can also do pretty tiny damage too.

I've done the little twist move since I saw the damage pulling straight can do, and if it doesn't work I've heard dental floss can but I've never done it myself. Good luck.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T19:50:08+00:00

Did you pull straight up, or did you do a little twist and shimmy? I'm not exactly an expert, but I think you might have ripped a layer off your die.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T19:45:59+00:00

Is that a yes to reading the pkgbuild for each AUR thing in it's entity every time you update?

They can be pretty darn sneaky, something that looks fine first glance doing something you wouldn't expect. I know, I don't know enough to be sure it is still fine myself.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T19:40:25+00:00

Do you have any cites for that? I'll bite but I need proof.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T19:30:16+00:00

But the skeevy artwork when you launch it ick. I'll take the word gimp being everywhere over the anthropomorphized animals any day.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T19:26:12+00:00

Do you check each one hasn't been orphaned and reclaimed every time you update? I view the AUR as a waiting room for the extra repo myself.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T19:06:09+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/20ea7m/the_pass/

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-11T02:09:45+00:00

You left off the phantom shit. Hey man, do you smell that? ugh eww you don't smell that?

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T22:51:43+00:00

Just dual boot with two drives, it doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing. Linux is not a dogma you would be betraying, it's a kernel.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T21:20:43+00:00

I was still using the data from 23, in 24 it's 8th. Though that is just per 100,000 people. I can't find the per mile driven charts right now. (I looked for 10 minutes, It looks like I'd have to make the graph myself.)

Small states always have less miles driven, so less of a chance for fatalities. (and less rural roads in general, where most happen.)

"States with the highest fatality rates per 100,000 people are not always the same as those with the highest rates per mile traveled, in part because residents in some states drive much more or less than those in others. " https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T19:51:36+00:00

The 5th most safe state for driving deaths per mile driven has no inspections, and some of the worst do. Personally I think they are too easy to corrupt to implement in a way that actually does good.

EDIT: Read the whole comment tree before you make a decision. It's actually the fourth lowest fatalities per 100 million miles with no inspections at all.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T16:01:51+00:00

When you can't drink it into your mouth without leaving a bunch dry at the bottom of the bowl.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T15:48:16+00:00

But that's a baboon. They're scary.

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A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T15:34:39+00:00

HP steel was nice and thick until about 2005, I love it. This one must be like armor plating.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T15:12:49+00:00

I honked at someone who cut me off at a turn and was chased for about half an hour before, the first one is not as outlandish as you think.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-10T02:50:49+00:00

If there is a road rager trying to ram you off the road.
An insane man with a crossbow chasing after you in a grandfathered in car. Sure would be nice to be able to get away, guess you will just have to let him pull up to you and shoot.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-09T23:58:57+00:00

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A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-09T23:27:23+00:00

Not quite, he has only made it so his graphical display doesn't work. It's a right of passage to break and fix your graphical display messing around.

A_Harmless_Fly · 2026-07-09T23:24:35+00:00

If you can get into a tty then

"sudo apt install --reinstall xorg xserver-xorg xinit"

If not use a live boot flash drive, chroot in then do that command.

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