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TIL In 1980 the Supreme Court awarded the Sioux nations $122 million for the Black Hills, a settlement the tribes have refused on the grounds that acceptance would extinguish their claim to the land, leaving the award to accrue interest in a federal account now worth over $1 billion.

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/85255-tick-tick-tick

Only about 53% of U.S. adults own homes, far below the commonly cited 65% homeownership rate, according to new Federal Reserve research that paints a starker picture of access to homeownership.

(PSA: Never trust the state's statistics.)

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49957726

A massive majority of Spaniards believe corruption in the country has skyrocketed under the government of Pedro Sanchez.

The findings come from a new report published by the European Commission, which notes that this perception has especially worsened in the last five years – affecting not just the average citizen but companies and the judicial system.

The Special Eurobarometer survey found that Spain scores highly on the perceived corruption indexes compared to its European counterparts.

It comes after a turbulent week in which Sanchez’ family has been under fire for various corruption scandals.

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Spain scored just 55 out of 100 in the Corruption Perception Index 2025, placing it seventeenth in the European Union and 49th worldwide.

According to the new survey, 92% of Spanish citizens consider that corruption is widespread, far above the European average of 71%. Moreover, 53% say they feel personally affected by corruption, in comparison to the 30% of the European average.

The document released this Friday comes on the back of a period of chaos.

Last Thursday, a court ruled that Begona Gomez, Pedro Sanchez’s wife, will stand trial for charges of influence peddling and embezzlement.

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The ruling came just two days after a ruling against David Sanchez, the prime minister’s brother, who is now barred from public office for nine years.

He had been working a role that was specifically created for him.

Meanwhile, former transport minister Jose Luis Abalos was convicted last month over illegal pandemic mask contracts.

In response to the recent rulings, several Sanchez allies have attacked the decisions, calling them ‘a judicial conspiracy’ and ‘politically motivated cases’ which amount to ‘lawfare’.

Judges and legal professionals continue to show concern. The Constitutional Court warns that statements against judges contribute to eroding public trust in the justice system.

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The EU Commission has warned Sanchez’ government that: “All powers of the state – executive, legislative and judicial – must act with mutual respect to guarantee proper functioning.”

This is not the first time Sanchez’ government is being put on the spot by the EU Commission. Last year former attorney general Alvaro Garcia Ortiz was found guilty in a controversial case over the leaking of confidential information.

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TIL the 500-year-old tradition of Turkish coffee reading (kahve falı) started in the Ottoman harem not just as magic, but as a clever social loophole. Women used the "fortunes" in the cups as a safe excuse to gossip, vent, and talk about taboo subjects without getting in trouble.

With the midterms fast approaching, three things are happening all at once. Donald Trump is escalating his war in Iran, the ICE killings have started up, and Trump just unleashed a huge wave of new global tariffs. All this comes amid another unappreciated dynamic. Due to Trump, the GOP has squandered its traditional advantages on three fronts: national security, immigration, and the economy. And everything Trump is doing right now seems likely to only exacerbate that.

Overwhelmingly, the swing voters who chose Republicans in 2024 did so because they were promised inflation would go down, and because they were promised this chaos and violence in the world would also be reduced. It’s not that these people were signing a contract that they were going to worship the MyPillow guy or anything like that. It’s that they had practical needs.

And when you see a president do things like prioritize a ballroom one day and then the next day actively raise your prices, you want to see your member of Congress stand up against it. And too many of these Republicans are in a cowed place where they aren’t doing it. But a lot of them are really going to wish that they had.

It was a 250 foot fall tower, opened in 1939 for the World's Fair, and operated through 1964. Riders would be raised to the top and then descend on parachutes in a canvas seat, which took about 10-20 seconds. Quite a ride for 1939! There were shock absorbers at the bottom to ease the landing.

The structure hung around long after it stopped operation. Here it is in 2010,

In more recent times, money was spent to stop the structure from collapsing, since it was rusting from sea air exposure, and in the early 2000's it was illuminated at night,

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(…) Apple Intelligence was both the worst and best thing to happen to Apple as far as the AI bubble goes.

It was a mass-radicalization of its users against AI – an attempt to cram a barely-functional series of add-ons that nobody asked for in the most-obtrusive way possible, with summaries that were almost immediately turned into memes and a new Siri that was, somehow, even worse than the old Siri.

And I think that told Apple to pump the brakes. It's barely spent anything on capex. It's barely done anything with AI. Despite headline after headline claiming it's "falling behind," nobody can really explain what it is it's falling behind on or why it matters. People hate Apple Intelligence, and I think Apple knows that, and so they're going to jingle the keys for the markets by putting "AI" on stuff without ever really putting their back into it.

Mine looked like shit inside, and I bet yours do to.

I had some TPU85 tangled up in the gears, requiring a disassembly, so I figured I'd give it a proper clean while I already had it taken apart.

Watching Death Note with my partner and they asked "How do you know which Death Note is yours?" And the obvious answer seemed potentially fatal.

For about the last fourteen years or so, ever since I had played through Final Fantasy XIII-2 (which is still, even now, my favorite title) I always had this ideal image of a massive sort of metropolis in the distant future, somewhat similar to the representation of Academia in that game: hundreds of floors up, a bright but overcast day, happiness and laughter, the A-note of cars flying above and below the plaza level, holograms on the walls in such a number that Kabuki-cho looks like a quaint residential neighborhood.

It'll always just be an ideal, though, because of all the reality problems raising their heads: what about the people on the 100th floor, do they ever see sunlight? How did society build this dense? Such like that. But it's still an aesthetic ideal to chase and one I really enjoy.

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Alright I'm at the end of the rope with my Linux knowledge. So I need your help.
I'm on EndeavourOS and just recently upgraded to Linux 7.1.5, all upgrades thus far have been without issue. I am dual-booting but have Linux on its own SSD, and grub handles booting into Linux or Windows.
Now, after booting into Windows and back into Linux, Linux won't start.
The error:
A start job is running for /dev/disks/by-uuid/

Let me tell you what I've already done:

• Regenerate mkinitrd with dracut
• Regenerate grub.cfg and verified via diff it is identical to the current one
• On a live usb verified that the UUIDs in the grub and fstab files are correct using the KDE partition manager (they are)
• Verify on a live usb the SSD still works (data and everything is still there)
• Changed the grub boot option on boot to check that the UUID is not hardcoded somewhere and can be changed (this is true, inputting a garbage UUID changes the boot error to A start job is running for /dev/disks/by-uuid/garbage-uuid

One last idea I had was to drop myself into the dracut emergency shell and actually check what's actually under /dev/disks/by-uuid and lo and behold: it's actually missing the drive.

Here's whats nuts tho: grub loads the drive by UUID as well, loads the initrd, and all that works. When I regenerated the initrd with dracut I could also tell that grub was now loading the newer initrd.

WHAT THE FUCK???

Help?

At this point I REALLY don't know wtf to do. Why doesnt the initramfs detect the drive? The only useful info I can add here is that all drives listed under /dev/disks/by-uuid had that shorter UUID with no dashes like ABCD1234, whereas the UUID for the correct drive/partition is the longer type UUID like abc1234-1234-0000-defg

For more information, either visit the article directly or view the post with quotes in crimes_of_ice:

https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4491513