Say what you want about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler.

It was so obviously stupid back then, that only people too young to remember don’t know this.
Trump had no reason to tear up that agreement, he did it because it was an agreement Obama had made, and Trump was hellbent on reversing everything Obama did out of spite and nothing else.

Yeah it’s far from perfect, but it’s still better than most countries in most ways.
Child protection however is an extremely difficult area, because getting it wrong is horrible, despite they think they are helping the child. In other situations, there really is a need to protect the child.

I don’t know if this woman has gotten her children back

Probably not, the standard mode for social workers/services I’ve seen here in Denmark, is to double down, no matter how wrong their original decision was. It was their decision, and they are right by law, and it basically can’t be questioned.

simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so.

I remember reading about this late last year, and I remember not trusting that social worker or the process one bit.
I once watched a documentary about this kind of “social service” and some of their methods are 100% unscientific, and don’t take personality traits or just moods into account, like whether a person is extro- or introvert. I even posted about it on feddit.dk, but was met with much skepticism. One of the things I saw, was that if a baby doesn’t seek eye contact with a stranger holding it, it should be a sign that the mother doesn’t give the baby enough attention! Yes really it’s that stupid! When obviously it’s more likely the baby doesn’t appreciate a stranger.

I can’t put into words how much I despise that kind of quackery! Because that’s what it is.
But quackery is unfortunately standard procedure in social services. And social services even trump real doctors, meaning quackery trumps real doctors by law!!
Quackery is illegal in Denmark, except in social services where it’s an everyday phenomenon.

Religion is just organized superstition. And all of Christianity is a mental cancer on society.

But we’re pre-dating the common distro hopping discussions

No we aren’t, Linux fora were full of them even before Ubuntu more than 20 years ago. Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mandrake, Mepis, PCLinux.
Distro hopping was always a thing people debated.

The rest of that sentence is a bit confusing, who are we? And how am I supposed to read minds? And going back was kind of where we started, because you claimed it was a new thing for Debian. Debian was definitely recommended to general users, for many good reasons. Stability and huge repository among them, but also user friendly install procedure, and good package manager, that handled dependencies way better than Suse and Fedora.

Debian was never talked about as a serious contender in distro hopping

Back in 2005 when Ubuntu was all the rage, the first alternative to Ubuntu was almost always Debian. Only later when Mint became a thing, that was also an obvious alternative, because it was similarly focused on being easy to use.

Good summary. 👍

Debian. I do see Debian mentioned now a lot more than it has been in years.

I haven’t noticed much difference, Debian has always been the go to distro if you wanted reliability and repositories that cover almost everything. Debian has always been an excellent choice for productivity. It’s not by accident that Debian for more than 20 years has been the distro with by far the most derivatives.

By that standard Arch is the only distro that has achieved something similar, and it may be somewhat telling that SteamOS switched from Debian based to Arch based. Arch is way smaller in scope, and more nimble and easier to maintain. But AFAIK they do not have the democratic process Debian has, so I’m not sure it can really be called community based distro like Debian. Arch has more of a top leadership.
Debian is probably the most true to the Free and Open Source ideals among the big distros.

Or maybe this is Bridge, where you need to have a good partner, but trump is playing alone against 3. 🤣

Trump is not playing cards, he is playing shit on the carpet, and he thinks he is winning, because nobody else is doing it.
But all he is doing is leaving a huge stink in USA, making life worse for Americans, and keeping everybody else away.

Then they could at least state it was an accident. Instead of:

the evidence didn’t meet the threshold for criminal charges

This bill is going nowhere, and Trump just said at the summit that he would honor article 5.
I know Trump often changes his mind, but the summit showed that Trump has definitely changed course for the better regarding NATO.

When the seas are boiling and everything else is hotter than that, I don’t think so.
If that was the case, why isn’t there life on Venus?

The earth core is hot too, if the surface gets hot everything in between gets hot too.

The easy way out.

Yeah the original plan to keep it below 2°C is toast.

If we get runaway climate change it’s the end of ALL life on earth, not just humans. Humans will probably survive the longest, because we can create artificial means to sustain us.
Humans are already surviving from Sahara to beyond the arctic circles, I don’t think other species are capable of that, except maybe bacteria.
Of course the planet doesn’t give a shit, it’s just a big rock. But to say the earth is fine is wrong unless you don’t consider life a factor at all.

The graph shows “only” 0,5° C increase over the past decade, but it feels like way more IMO.
I live in Denmark, and we used to have winters with constant frost for about a month around January/February.
The past few years it’s been very few days with frost, and not even a month of consistent frost during nights!

I absolutely agree with the graph in that it’s become way more noticeable this past decade.

Oh poor man, of course you can have some spare healthcare, you just have to migrate to get it.