I want to try to have a community screening about the history of Venezuela that isn't propaganda slop.

I found this one but I think I may have to email the director to get a copy.

Gimme all the suggestions if you've got em!

Note: this surface does not have a detachable keyboard

So my partner is someone who leaves 100+ Firefox windows open, 5 programs up, and never ever shuts down his laptop. After a year or more of this his laptop would take 30 minutes or more to try to boot up, or wouldn't at all so I suggested that he reinstall Windows 11. After that it seemed like the problem was fixed and it would start up just fine, but after a week or so of use, his keyboard and touch pad stopped working completely. He told me that he tried a bunch of fixes, including installing new drivers, and nothing has worked. No idea if these two things are related but I assume so.

I wasn't around to see exactly what he did, so I was wondering if any of you fine people might be able to help troubleshoot. Really hoping his lappy isn't a lost cause

So I have returned to the gym in the past couple weeks and I hit a pretty good stride, I'm stoked! Please tell me what you like to do so I can switch it up if I get bored

I have a lot of chronic physical pain that starts with my achilles tendon, to my knees, hip soreness, lower back, my right shoulder and my neck. So I'm starting from the foundation, and once I get the bottom half strongk I'm going to move on to upper body. (Still doing 1 upper body day though)

The lower body routine that I just put together is as follows and I would like to hear if you think it's decent or if I could change it:

• Warm up
• Body weight squats
• Single leg calf raises (Weights)
• Hip thrusts (Weights)
• Leg Extension Machine
• Leg Curl Machine
• Hip Abductor/Adductor Machine

Because of my knees and lower back I am pretty reticent towards squats and dead lifts because I have had problems with them before, so if anyone can give tips on form that are helpful for you that would be great. Or if you experience issues with one of the body parts I mentioned I'd love to hear how you rehabbed it!

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Curious what people's thoughts are on this

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Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Jordan manufacturing doesn’t buy foreign steel. But by crippling foreign competition, Trump’s tariffs have allowed domestic US steelmakers to hike prices.

Johnson doesn’t blame them. “There’s no red-blooded capitalist who isn’t going to raise his prices’’ under those circumstances, he said.

People really love capitalism so much that they will willingly sacrifice themselves to the beast. This seems to be where religion can really be used as a tool for subjugation, this man will willingly throw himself on the altar of the dollar and think that it is just the way of things, that the best man won, that he is supposed to have his life ruined in the name of the greater power. Yikes

OREGON, USA — After Washington state's health agency said sensitive personal data was shared with federal immigration authorities without its consent, Oregon could be next.

The federal government has given the state until July 30 to comply by handing over personal information from the Medicaid-funded Oregon Health Plan, according to The Lund Report.

Washington state's health agency, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA), shares Medicaid client data with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as required under federal law — but CMS turned that information over to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without notifying the state.

The ACLU of Washington and Gov. Bob Ferguson condemned the move, with Ferguson stating, in part, "President Trump is targeting vulnerable Washingtonians to continue to sow chaos and fear. We are looking at all available options to protect the people of our state."

The Oregon Health Authority did not respond to a question from The Lund Report on whether or not it intends to comply, only saying it will continue to "evaluate" the request.

This comes on the heels of an internal memo and emails obtained by the Associated Press, showing that top Medicaid officials fought to block the transfer of any of that kind of data to immigration officials, citing legal and ethical concerns, but two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered it to be handed over to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), giving officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services just 54 minutes to comply.

That included information from California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., which all have Democratic leaders.

The idea, according to the Trump administration, is to ensure that undocumented immigrants are not receiving Medicaid benefits that the administration says is only for "law-abiding Americans."

Legally, all states must provide emergency Medicaid services to noncitizens, but seven states, plus D.C., allow noncitizens to enroll in their state's expanded Medicaid program with full benefits. Those states launched the programs during the Biden administration, saying they would not bill the federal government to cover those costs for noncitizens.

But the Trump administration is not buying that, claiming that those programs have "opened the floodgates for illegal immigrants to exploit Medicaid, and forced hardworking Americans to foot the bill."

That's why the administration wants the data — including addresses, names, Social Security numbers and claims information for people enrolled in those programs in each state — according to the Associated Press. The move appears to be part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to provide immigration officials with more data on noncitizens and where they might be.

It also follows a move last month by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to share immigrants' tax data with ICE to help agents locate undocumented immigrants. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by Trump, refused to block the IRS from doing so.

I am FINALLY going to be able to trial Adderall after taking a long break from meds and want to track how I'm doing daily. What do you do so that you can know the meds are having a positive/negative effect? What are the indicators you track?

Worksheets, your own indicators, apps, etc. would by great. I'm leaning towards making my own worksheet but idk what some of the most important things would be to keep track of.

It would appear that the moniker was first unveiled by former Fox News star Tucker Carlson weeks before the presidential election, in an off-the-rails speech at a TPUSA event in October.

“Yeah, that’s right. Dad comes home. And he’s pissed. Dad is pissed,” the far-right podcaster blared at the time. “And when dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.’ And it has to be this way.”

Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite