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  • The Muslims basically let the Christians and Jews carry on with their lives, albeit extracting taxes.

    Historically, in countries and regions following Islamic law, the religious communities that Muslims recognized as People of the Book were subject to a legal status known as dhimmi, meaning that they had the option to pay a special head tax called jizya in exchange for being granted the privilege to practice their faith and govern their community according to the rules and norms of their own religion. (Wikipedia).




  • I did a tour as a conscript. I hated “losing” over a year of my life when I was drafted.

    Looking back, I actually had fun, learned a lot about society, as we were from all walks of life and I came from a priviledged environment. Made great friends.

    Got to play with a bunch of things that go bang and brrrrrr. (The MG is awesome!).

    Learned to kill in a bunch of ways, being in a Scout unit. Thankfully I never deployed, so it all stayed theory.

    Learned a lot about patience, discipline, survival within a dystopian bureaucracy, repressing the urge to frag, teamwork, esprit de corps, and much more.

    I really think that despite all the shit that being in the military entails, it was definitely a net positive for me, especially because I never deployed.


  • But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.

    That’s called testing, and the companies behind these LLMs should, before launch, put a very important amount of their resources into testing.

    “Product testing is a crucial process in product development where a product’s functionality, performance, safety, and user experience are evaluated to identify potential issues and ensure it meets quality standards before release” (Gemini)

    We are literally using alpha/beta software to deal with life altering issues, and these companies are, for some reason, being able to test their products on the public, without consequences.


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    A bit reckless giving advice, aren’t we?

    We don’t know if OP has personal data in the windows drive, or copies thereof, and yet, you write:

    If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.

    Also:

    If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.

    Would you please enlighten me about why you shouldn’t dual boot on a single drive? I, and millions of others have been happily doing it for decades. As a matter of fact I’m willing to bet some money that that’s precisely the most common desktop setup in the world for Linux. The major caveat is that sometimes Windows upgrades/updates won’t respect your dual boot setup, which is usually trivial to fix.




  • I imagine you have searched for data, and have looked up Almería (city) not the province. The city is on the shore. Almeria province is hilly. As soon as you go some few hundred meters up climate becomes way more extreme.

    temps are consistently above 95° (35°C) blow Almeria and everywhere in Europe out of the water. Hate to tell you, but in Madrid (and it’s not the hottest) it’s been between 34 and 40ºC since June. Albox, in the province of Almeria for example had a max in 2021 of 45º C.

    For most vegetables, passive methods, such as greenhouses, with shade systems and ventilation, these extremes can be reduced.




  • 80% is not SOME, iT’s almost everybody, FFs sake!

    75M Americans voted for a fascist piece of shit in their last election. Would it be weird if I held a grudge against white Christians in Norway because of that fact?

    1st. Only some Christian denominations are fanatically pro Trump. 2nd. They are faithful, of many ethnicities. Jews are an ethnoreligious group, and in fact, while most faiths welcome converts, Judaism makes you jump through loops. Jews don’t like to welcome the non ethnically pure. This if you look at the many branches, especially the Yiddish, with their predominance of fair skin, light eyes, blonde or redhead, is very ironic, as the amount of Yiddish women who have jumped beds through history to turn Levantine populations into almost nordic, is staggering, and thus highly hypocritical.