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@w7voa Did anybody else initially read this as lamenting that *both* the #NewYorkTimes *and* #VOA were “flickering out”?

I wondered why by #Washington Post wasn’t included, but thought maybe Steve Herman was implying that flame of #liberty had already been extinguished.

On second reading, I understood and boosted the toot, since it was a gift article.

But sadly, my first take is what it seems like. 😞

I’m mostly a EL-flavored Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac guy so I don’t know much about #Flatpak but everything I've heard has been negative and this thread just seals the coffin.

Edit: If I wanted to try it I already would have. I have 30 years of experience working with packaging systems for Unix-like systems. *Nothing* I know about it makes Flatpak attractive to me. Refreshing my recollections about it have only solidified that.

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Hachyderm.ioCassandrich (@dalias@hachyderm.io)Lazyweb, how do you get the actual honest *download link* for something on Flathub? I do not want to add a remote and have the flatpak command dynamically download it. I want a file I actually permanently own and can copy to any non-networked machine that will never be auto updated or anything.

As much as one of my cats dislikes fireworks, drones are not a suitable substitution for fireworks (of the professional/controlled kind). #changeMyMind ;-) -- Fireworks are out, drones are in? Why a July 4th tradition is slowly evolving nationalgeographic.com/science

www.nationalgeographic.com · Fireworks are out, drones are in? Why a July 4th tradition is slowly evolvingBy Erin Blakemore
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@SrRochardBunson I basically agree about #segregation in #education exaggerating #political partisanship in the #UnitedStates.

But the solution is not to force students to go through the #PublicEducation system - as it in the form it has been for a few generations.

That’s because teaching has become a #union *job*, and not the *profession* that it was once was here, and still is in other countries where private education is a rarity and receives zero public funds. #ChangeMyMind 🤔