FUBAR: Covid-19

"American cities, blinded by the lack of testing data, did little as crucial days went by. On March 7, as the severity of the local outbreak was becoming known, huge events were allowed to go on. More than 30,000 people attended a Seattle Sounders game that night. No one wanted to say what has now become clear: February was our chance to get this right. We lost that entire month. And we now live in a new era of work stoppages, overwhelmed hospitals, dead elders, and a wrecked economy." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/

The most Idaho news article I have seen this week: https://idahonews.com/news/coronavirus/idahos-koenig-distillery-is-using-potato-vodka-to-produce-hand-sanitizer

Trump Corruption

"Bureaucrats never received such public praise as they did during the weeks of the impeachment inquiry. But the hearings left a misleading impression. The Ukraine story, like the Russia story before it, did not represent a morality tale in which truth and honor stood up to calumny and corruption and prevailed. Yovanovitch is gone, and so is her replacement, William Taylor Jr., and so are McKinley and others—Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was marched out of the White House in early February—while Pompeo is still there and, above him, so is the president. Trump is winning."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/how-to-destroy-a-government/606793/

Public Domain Day

It is public domain day: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/

Comments about Trump

From Wil Wheaton: http://wilwheaton.net/2019/12/at-last-accountability/

"Now, a new trial will begin. It is, in many ways, more consequential and more urgent than the trial of Donald Trump. This will be the trial of the Republican Party, and the result of this trial is as important, if not more important, than the trial of Donald Trump."
From Mark Galli: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html

"But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral."

Republican's foresight

I just want to thank the Republican's for their foresight in strengthening committee chairpeople's subpoena power: GOP set to strengthen committee chairmen's subpoena power (in 2015)

Always show scrollbars with gtk3

Create a file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, (probably: $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini )
In it put:
[Settings]
gtk-overlay-scrolling=0

And scrollbars will now always show in gtk-3.0 applications.