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docutils documentation [ - ] 

I like that docutils will produce a complete html file from reStructuredText input.

I like that the default html template can be overridden or extended & that basic examples are given.

But who thought it a good idea to a) not *document* the template format(s), & b) use a default template that doesn't even match the basic examples' formatting language?

US pol 

Ok, so radicals are right in most or all of their critiques of voting. But! Imagine the US is a fossil-fuel car. We really need to replace it with a train running on sustainable energy. Voting for a new driver won't do any of that.
However! That car is currently speeding down a steep hill towards a bunch of school kids who are all holding puppies and kittens while meeting Tony the Tiger. The driver is hitting the gas.
Changing the driver actually is a really good thing to do right now.

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It's Friday, and no one can stop me from snacking on Count Chocula at my desk.

Pictured: The last computer display on which it was appropriate to put avatars and user-interface elements in circles.

copyright law, drm (+) 

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/art

This victory only serves to highlight how evil DRM is and how terrible a law the DMCA actually is.

uspol, trans rights 

I mean, good on her for finally figuring out the Republicans lied (Trump most bald-faced of all), but everyone and her mother tried to tell her this two years ago.

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uspol, trans rights 

What WaPo wrote: "'I was wrong' to back Trump, Caitlyn Jenner writes for The Post. 'He has ignored our humanity' and used transgender people as pawns."

What I read: "Woman who endorsed, backed, & voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party cries, 'I never thought they would eat *our* faces!'"
washingtonpost.com/opinions/ca

roses are red
violets are blue
use python 3
not python 2

# pkg install hs-pandoc

Number of packages to be installed: 151

The process will require 4 GiB more space.
762 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]:

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uspol, current events, violence 

Reminder: More terrorism attacks in the US have been carried out by home-grown right-wing extremists than by Islamic terrorists & actual left-wing extremists combined. huffingtonpost.com/entry/domes

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uspol, current events, violence 

RT @DeoTasDevil@twitter.com: So someone mailed bombs to George Soros, the Obama family, the Clintons, and a CNN offices in NYC (addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan, an MSNBC contributor).

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Wanna tell me again that we should fear "the violent Left" and ignore the abundant right wing violence?

copyright law (+) 

GA sued a guy for publishing & distributing copies of the state's law code, crying copyright infringement. The US Court of Appeals just told GA that it can't copyright the law. eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appe

tip: If you need to re-read the message a package dumped when it was installed or upgraded, run:

pkg info -D <package-name>

or:

pkg info --pkg-message <package-name>

I'm not too worried, but I put updating off because of my previous bad experience with VirtualBox's kernel modules. (I headed that off by uninstalling them.)

I want to read the upgrade instructions on a separate tablet, but the only one I have atm runs Windows 10. I haven't turned it on in three days, which means it's critically out of date & would tie up the 'Net for two hours downloading & installing updates.

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