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  • Because there’s an entire alternate reality built by right wing news sources that exist specifically to create confusion and spread misinformation.

    It used to be a joke that Fox News was so unaligned with reality. It’s less funny now that there is an entire media ecosystem that supports this alternate reality.

    This is why you see people thinking that Trump is a great businessman. Because according to everything that they see and hear, he is. They were never equipped with the media literacy to counteract the weaponized psychology that’s used to target them with political lies and spin.

    By the time any individual encounters reality in a way that is undeniable (like the ex-IRS employee) it’s too late.

    They’re just a tiny voice in an ocean of lies. If they try to talk about their experiences on right-wing social media they’ll be labeled as a left-wing plant or banned outright. The right-wing media won’t cover their story or repeat their concerns. It’ll continue repeating the lies and spin like it always has and that person will finally understand Martin Niemöller’s poem.


  • Your blame is misplaced. You appear think this is the fault of random people who wear different color hats instead of the result of decades of effort by some of the richest people in our society to fundamentally weaken democracy and to create uneducated people that can be manipulated.

    You’re blaming the other members of your class that are the victims of decades of educational failure and indoctrination instead of the people who knowingly implemented those policies looking for this specific result.

    It’s a narrow minded and short-sighted way of looking at things; and, in addition, your tribalistic rhetoric only serves to increase the division among the working class further aiding the people who seek to profit from this division.

    It’s one thing to be frustrated, but ignorance is how we got here and we downvote you because we don’t need more ignorance even if it’s coming from someone wearing a blue hat instead of a red one.


  • They spend a lot to decommission the ships and make them safe. It’s just cheaper to buy an old ship and clean it up than to buy a similar amount of other artificial reef materials.

    Also, being ships in shallow water, it drives scuba diving tourists as well as creating new locations for recreational fishing.

    They’re pretty big boons for the local towns.


  • They’re usually sank in areas that are otherwise uninhabited by corals due to the depth of the water. The wrecks provide surfaces in the light zone which allows corals to grow.

    It’s entirely new habitat and it provides more breeding sites in the area. Even if it takes wildlife from other areas, the decrease in population in those results in higher breeding rates in those locations due to decreased competition for food and breeding sites. More breeding sites = more breeding and a higher overall population of wildlife over time.

    Ecology aside, these sites draw a lot of tourism. They’re “shipwrecks” that are in shallow water, often shallow enough that you can experience them while scuba diving, without needing decompression stops. This means that scuba divers can experience wreck diving without the extra complexity of decompression.

    There are many of these artificial reefs around Florida and they’re very popular dive sites in areas that otherwise would have no similar attractions.

    Source: Dated a woman who worked at fish and wildlife, department of marine fisheries and attended the sinking of the Oriskany ( https://www.padi.com/dive-site/united-states-of-america-usa/uss-oriskany/#overview )







  • By allowing our politicians a seat at the table you’re opening yourself up to more harm.

    Isolate us, make the voting public feel the consequences of their actions. Respond to tariffs with tariffs on red states. Sanction administration official of the inevitable human rights abuses that are coming. Call out the lies of our Government openly and with evidence.

    This isn’t going to change if there are never any consequences for the people who’re doing this as well as their supporters. Revoke the visas of our oligarchs, limit their travel, stop doing business with their companies. Create incentives for educated Americans to immigrate to healthier democracies and ban our social media companies before they finish poisoning your country as well.


  • Dude, the number of times I’ve resorted to a reinstall are innumerable. You know a bit more than you did yesterday and that isn’t nothing.

    If you want to try a new project that’ll need tinkering with (but won’t break your existing install) look at gamescope.

    Currently it’s the only way to get HDR and variable refresh rate to work. It’s what Valve made to get those features into the Steamdeck.

    You just run it with

    gamescope -- %command%
    

    In your steam launch options. You’ll need to look up the options (otherwise it defaults to 720p@60hz). Ex:

    gamescope -w 2160 -- %command%
    

    For 4k. There’s a switch for HDR too but I don’t remember it without looking it up. You can use gamescope to enable FSR in any game, it can apply reshade shaders (so, things like anti aliasing in games that don’t have it natively).

    Other than that, any issues you have with a particular game can usually be solved by looking at protondb.com

    Keep using the GE-Proton builds of proton for best results.

    Have fun 🤓


  • Yeah, you have Vulkan and Mesa and the GPU drivers are in the kernel. That’s the whole stack (along with Proton).

    Before reinstalling completely, run a full system upgrade, I took this from system76s support page:

    sudo apt update
    # configure any packages partially setup 
    sudo dpkg --configure -a 
    # fix any missing package dependency 
    sudo apt install -f 
    # upgrade all packages and dependencies to newest in release 
    sudo apt full-upgrade 
    # make sure the `pop-desktop` meta package is installed 
    sudo apt install pop-desktop
    

    You’re also likely using some flatpak applications, so:

    flatpak update
    

    Then reboot.

    They want you to reinstall because walking you through a fresh install is just more time efficient for their support staff than trying to troubleshoot system configuration problems (imagine the possible things a random user could change x.x).




  • I just noticed my reply from my phone didn’t go through x.x

    This seems a lot like you’re missing some 32bit libraries. There isn’t a /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i386.json listed in the vulkan logs.

    I have no idea how they’d be named in PopOS, but I’d look into vulkan first. You may have the vulkan-radeon 64bit drivers , but not the 32bit. Wine needs the 32bit libraries for the time being.

    Check

    dpkg -l | grep vulkan
    

    (or post all of dkpg -l if it isn’t too long)

    to see if you have the i386 version of the vulkan radeon drivers (for reference, in arch this is lib32-vulkan-radeon, possibly the same in PopOS)

    If not install them (apt search vulkan and look for something with vulkan, radeon and i386 in the file name)