They didn’t want to stump up the cash for the fines & other costs.

But there was nothing progressive about the fines the city was racking up: San Francisco’s Supreme Court win negates proposed EPA penalties in the hundreds of millions of dollars and mandatory sewer system upgrades that would cost billions and billions.

And Altria ($1 million): Marlboro, Virginia Slims etc

https://brandsownedby.com/what-companies-does-altria-own/

Thanks for this post. Here’s my contribution:

Search results for Lemmy communities for these distros:

• Linux Mint
• Ubuntu
• EndeavourOS - no results at time of this post
• OpenSUSE
• NixOS
• Arch
• Void
• Debian

Others mentioned in the comments (I can’t vouch for their “Europeanness”):

• Arcolinux (Belgium?) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• CachyOS (Germany?) - home - lemmy search
• Mageia (France?) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• Manjaro - home - lemmy search
• OpenMandriva (France?) - home - lemmy search
• PearOS (Romania?) - home “adblock detected” k bye - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• VanillaOS (Italian-led I believe) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• Zorin (Ireland) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.

Others (I can’t vouch for their “Europeanness”):

• Antix (Greece?) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• MX Linux (Greece?) - home - lemmy search
• Q4OS (Czech Republic) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• Slax (Czech Republic) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
• Solus (Ireland?) - home - lemmy search

At this point I remembered Distrowatch and realized you can search by country of origin. E.g. Distrowatch search for active distros from Austria. And Italy.

Too many European countries and too many distros for me to do them all. If anyone else wants to chip in, e.g. pick a country, feel free.

And if one neighbouring country (Canada) being threatened by that f$#king guy can get an honorary mention here, let’s include another, too: Mexico.

• Nitrux - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.

Mexicans also started the GNOME desktop environment, but I don’t think the upcoming GNOME OS is based in Mexico.

For anyone who wants a system that doesn’t break, look into immutable distros (unchangeable base OS and libraries) with atomic updates (which don’t replace anything until they have been fully installed and confirmed as working).

I don’t know where Vanilla OS is officially headquartered but I do know several of its key figures are Italian.

https://vanillaos.org/

I didn’t realize until this thread because the only instamce I had looked at was https://cryptpad.disroot.org/ , which doesn’t seem to have updated to the OnlyOffice version of CryptPad.

Does it count as European if it was trained on content stolen “fair used” from all around the world?

The article is about a change in Signal’s behaviour.

Before, Signal responded to Ukrainian authorities reaching out to about how the app is being abused by Russians, including for phishing attacks and account takeovers targeting Ukrainian users; now they don’t.

Signal didn’t introduce E2EE just last week.

Every time you load the page, the hosts (“Provided by…”) change. Mostly.

Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield

When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes’s Shaft title track get all the attention, but it’s basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn’t hold up nearly as well.

But Super Fly is a whole album’s worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.

Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!

My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:

1. I was a sucker for 90s action, especially with a hip-hop angle.
2. It’s been three decades since I’ve seen it (but been listening to the soundtrack pretty much ever since).

My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn’t get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!

Admittedly not original compositions, more a “greatest soul hits of the 70s” compilation.

That would explain the strong support among the unvaccinated.

The Nazis literally took Jim Crow as inspiration for the laws they made that eventually took millions down the path to the death camps.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/08/25/long-read-review-hitlers-american-model-the-united-states-and-the-making-of-nazi-race-law-by-james-q-whitman/

The last few years I lived there, my rent went up 20-25%. Every. Damned. Year.

And that was before every last oligarch, monarch, and plutocrat in the world went all in on London property to store their {#$%}-gotten gains.

Hopefully that ↑.

But I suspect most will be like ↓

The future of European procurement?

Because they only lip sync. (You didn’t think they could really sing, did you?)

Why the hell did you have to put that image in my head?!?!

Nobody google biden-choking-chicken.jpg!

Also,

Whoa, whoa, whoa! There’s still plenty of albumen on those eggshells! You take 'em home, throw 'em in a pot, add some broth, a potato…

Also, Fox supports coops.

Note: the “p” is silent.