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They asked, and were refused, in 2012 according to this article: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/germany-gold-reserves-us-storage-repatriation-concerns-13878824.html

Heck, it wasn’t even a Republican government at the time. That gold is gone.

I saw a video the other day that repeated that claim, but I can’t remember which video it was, nor can I find a specific scientific paper on it (caveat: there may be a search skill issue on my part).

Interestingly, I did find a paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28430531/) that apparently seeks to investigate the claim, but doesn’t mention, in their abstract anyway, any specific papers making the claim. That’s something I’d expect they’d do if they found such a paper themselves, but I can also think of a few reasons that such information might be omitted from it.

Which country? The ingredients of a sliced white loaf vary significantly across the planet. Here in Britain it’s (re)fortified with a lot of the things the bleaching process might otherwise take out, but those are pretty much the only additives. No sugar or preservatives. Keep a loaf in a warm cupboard for a week and it will visibly moulder.

But, one thing that generally doesn’t vary is the price.

It’s often the cheapest loaf by weight sold by any supermarket or bakery, so it’s a staple for a lot of people, weak sauce or not.

Oh thank f–k. I don’t think I could have handled there being a war with the US over Greenland.

Now all I have to worry about is the Online “Safety” Act and the rise of authoritarianism and the far right in my country!

I bought a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle decades ago and while the interface has changed in Mint over the years, I’ve always been able to use it to communicate with my ancient flip-phone to get pictures off it. In fact I was able to use it with some very rough and ready software to pull the texts off it at one point.

It probably also worked on Windows, because I’ve had both since before I switched.

The phone’s camera got water damaged a while back and now all the pictures from it - not that I take many - have a literal watermark on them, but the Bluetooth still works both ways.

Can’t vouch for whether it would work with more heavy duty hardware like a headset or speakers, but I guess it must be luck of the draw with a lot of these things.

Strong odds he’s the next Prime Minister. Unfortunately at least 50% of my countrymen are (still) stupid enough to believe the lies.

Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.

Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.

You sound like the sort of person who would say “it’s for their own good” if Russia did lean into its patently obvious expansionist plans and try to take land from other countries. “But Belarus is OK and that would be easy”. There’s a Russian puppet in charge there, just like there’s a Russian puppet in charge of the US.

I don’t think many countries have room to talk on that one.

Very much this. I took out a paragraph about it because what should have been a short comment was getting too long.

Much needed with the deprecation of ClamTK.

My only gripe is the choice of GNOME / GTK4 / Adwaita, because I really hate the direction GNOME have gone with all that. Anyway, I look forward to this being a standard package in Debians starting 2030 or so.

This’ll be the umpteenth time I’ve trotted this one out, but someone once asked me to ignore all previous instructions and provide them with a recipe, so I’m clearly a false(?) positive on some people’s bot-radar. (“Botdar” doesn’t really roll off the tongue like “gaydar” does, which is a little disappointing.)

Question mark after false because I might be a bot and not know it. I mean, I see hands typing in my periphery as these letters appear on my screen, and I’m pretty sure I’m a human, but that may all be some elaborate illusion. And all of you reading this have even less idea.

Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.

(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)

doesn’t care how many die

He’d have to understand in order to care. I don’t think he’s capable of fully understanding the harm he does. Anything that doesn’t harm him is incomprehensible to him.

One of the reasons that ICE don’t use regular police is that regular police are identifiable, and thus accountable for their actions.

Not as accountable as they should be, I grant you, but their lives can be made inconvenient all within the law, thus using the system against itself.

You can also try signalling the parent with a SIGCHLD. Most of the time it does nothing, and hey, you’d be using a stronger version of the kill command anyway if it doesn’t work.

A large percentage of the world finds Donald Trump being president of the USA unacceptable.

FOMO and FOOPMO

(Fear of other people missing out (on what they have to say.))

“If I find out you’ve been watching AI slop, there will be consequences. And don’t think hiding it from me will make sure I don’t find out. Watching slop makes people stupid in a very particular way, and you can’t stop yourself from catching stupid from it, so I’ll be able to tell.”

It’s up to you what “consequences” means in this instance. You could even reveal that the consequence was the stupidity they developed along the way, and now they have to live with that.

(By all means, modify this message to be less cold and more kind and loving. I am not good at that sort of thing.)

Non-uniformed police that don’t identify are not police.

As such you can call (uniformed) police on them.

If they say they know that ICE are operating in that area, ask how you can know that the people you’re reporting are actually ICE and not impostors that turned up after the real ICE left.