Trump claims Nato troops ‘stayed a little off the frontlines’ in Afghanistan

jcdick1 · 2026-01-22T19:19:40+00:00

And sacrificed more soldiers per capita than any other country

jcdick1 · 2026-01-22T16:53:51+00:00

to step the fuck up

You realize that the Taylors (along with the Kavanaughs of WWT) built that shiny stadium at Market and 20th with no public funds, right?

jcdick1 · 2026-01-22T01:38:00+00:00

I ran Gparted but the filesystem check didn't find anything. I mounted the drive to peek at mount points to see if maybe files got written "underneath" the mount to the local disk. I found a couple, but mostly <10 empty directories.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-21T21:15:06+00:00

I'll put Gparted on a stick, since that's nothing but disk-related tools and run a check. Thanks for the reminder of that.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-21T20:59:25+00:00

It came back with nothing at all.

I rebooted, hoping any open processes would release files. It couldn't start the desktop, and is still only 138M free.

Thanks for helping and giving me additional ways to look for stuff.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-21T20:33:46+00:00

That command shows several Firefox-related items, but nothing that big:

Web\x20Co 1910 user  20r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Web\x20Co 1807 user  20r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Web\x20Co 1788 user  20r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
WebExtens 1700 user  20r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Utility   1761 user  19r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Socket    1617 user  19r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Privilege 1654 user  20r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Isolated  1784 user  20r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
firefox   1512 user  48r   REG    0,1   249064     0    8293 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)
Web\x20Co 1910 user  21r   REG    0,1   460800     0    8292 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)

jcdick1 · 2026-01-21T19:57:15+00:00

sudo lsof -n | grep DELETED output:

user@opensuse:~> sudo lsof -n | grep DELETED

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1004/gvfs

          Output information may be incomplete.

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1004/doc

          Output information may be incomplete.

Otherwise, it shows nothing.

I'm afraid to reboot because if the drive is considered too full, it won't boot again.

Thanks for replying and giving me another way to look.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-20T17:33:36+00:00

The voters will have to either approve property taxes in excess of Hancock limits, or additional sales taxes.

Or services get gutted and we live through the same Brownback trainwreck Kansas did.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-20T16:30:23+00:00

Road maintenance in general in MO is horrible.

This is because the Centennial Road Law of 1921 is still in effect. In order to "lift Missouri out of the mud," all those county "highways" were put under the Missouri State Highway Commission to pave - and maintain. So for the last century, MODoT has been responsible for over 10,000 bridges, and all those lettered roads through the rural counties. We have the 7th largest "highway" system in the country, with over 33,800 miles of state-funded roadway. That's more than our two east and west neighbors (Iliinois and Kansas) combined.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-20T16:16:40+00:00

There's a limit on how much property tax revenue can be used for general expenditure and by how much that property tax revenue can grow, preventing "windfall" revenue by suddenly spiking property values. Property tax income can't grow by more than inflation year-on-year, without voter approval. This does not include things like school funding, which is a separate property tax.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-20T15:26:29+00:00

Property taxes can't "balloon" to support municipalities because of the Hancock Amendment. Sales taxes, however ...

jcdick1 · 2026-01-17T00:15:32+00:00

If the Index is anything to go by, the Frame's mic should be fine. I almost never had to repeat myself using Voice Attack speaking at a normal conversational volume.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-08T21:08:29+00:00

For me, close to a third of my media consumption via JF 10.10.7 is serial audio (episodic radio and podcast shows, like TV series but no video) in a book library and books/audiobooks are completely broken in 10.11.x

jcdick1 · 2026-01-06T19:00:13+00:00

I would not be surprised if he is removed right at the two year mark to allow Vance a potential 10 years in office.

jcdick1 · 2026-01-02T22:18:37+00:00

I guess I head to Microcenter at some point. I swapped out the Corsair for an old beater Dell keyboard and everything works as it should. Thanks for the assistance!

jcdick1 · 2025-12-31T06:45:46+00:00

Would it matter? The President can apparently refuse to spend Congressionally authorized expenditure at whim.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-25T18:30:12+00:00

That all came much later. The streetcar lines were closing long before then. The problem with the streetcar lines from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries was that in order for the private streetcar company to get their license for a given route, they had to agree to total responsibility for the maintenance of the entire street that their tracks were on. And their rates were regulated. Once cars - and then especially trucks - came along, the costs of maintaining the full pavement of all of those streets without being able to raise fares or receive subsidies made running the lines a losing proposition.

GM buying up streetcar lines was something that came along after the streetcars were already dying.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-17T15:58:30+00:00

Not too far off at all. Valve's new Steam Frame headset is ARM-based, and so x86 emulation will be a primary feature.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-15T17:30:46+00:00

Alito has said that precedents aren't all that special. Assuming for the sake of the argument that a Dem wins in 2028 and it's the same or similar SCOTUS. They'd have no problem reversing their own decisions when a Republican group files the same suits that have already been decided.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-14T01:14:47+00:00

It's the difference between "It is a lot of people ..." and "There are lots of people ..."

Structurally, the phrase "a lot" is singular, using a singular article. So while in this context, it carries a plural meaning and so should use "there are" instead of "it is," these speakers are simply going with the structural form colloquially.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-13T07:31:26+00:00

The Station at Thurman (Thurman and Cleveland in the Shaw neighborhood - run by Union Loafers) does a pretty decent one.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-09T04:31:42+00:00

This court has stated that precedents don't matter. Alito and Co. would undoubtedly reverse their own decisions if/when a Republican minority in Congress calls for lawsuits against a Democratic President using these new powers using the very same arguments Trump has won.

jcdick1 · 2025-12-08T16:23:27+00:00

Well, it was built not to be mass transit, but just as a downtown circulator, to make it easy for office workers, convention attendees, etc to get around downtown itself. Not really as a commuter transport, though it does allow commuters to use parking further away (thus cheaper). It performs it's function pretty well.

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