EFI boot should always be first yes. Here's MS's article on layout: MS reserved may not exist and doesn't really matter. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions

Start of the partition is the left boundary as shown in graphical tools yes. It is the beginning of the partition. End boundary (right side) is irrelevant for booting and most operations and can be changed as desired.

TL;DR: yes it's possible without freaking Windows out. Just don't move the start location/boundary of the main Windows partition or the EFI partition at the start of the disk (end locations are fine to change thus shrinking or growing is fine but moving the whole partition in any direction towards the start or end of disk is dangerous). Be wary that moving the recovery partition typically located after the Windows install partition (often just 100MB but could be twice that and I've heard of it up to 1GB in size though usually it's 400-500MB in size) can break Windows boot recovery but it can be fixed with some commands and breaking boot recovery only becomes a problem when something with Windows seriously breaks though this can happen with something as simple as a failed update on occasion.

Putting Linux after all the Windows partitions should be fine.

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Are you sure F has no use? Usually the Windows OS partition is followed by a recovery partition which includes Windows recovery files as well as on occasion manufacturer specific files and drivers for something like a laptop. This partition normally should be hidden from within windows though can be viewed using disk management tools and diskpart. Admittedly this recovery partition is usually only a few hundred MB. If this partition is removed or simply has its boundaries/start position changed then it can break Windows recovery and result in a demand for an install disk to fix serious errors that prevent boot. For a laptop if you travel with it this could be a minor hassle at some point in future.

Generally you'd want to put Linux after the recovery partition I mention. And if you're moving the recovery partition you /may/ need to run some commands to get Windows to find it again though then again maybe not. It won't imminently break things and truthfully if you want to you can generally move the contents of the recovery partition to a folder within the C:/ drive called recovery and use some commands to set that as a location.

I would run reagentc /disable from an administrator elevated command line before moving the location of the recovery partition (this /should/ exist but may not in all cases especially if the machine is older so if there's no such partition don't worry). You can later run reagentc /enable after you've finished moving it which should restore it to working order.

Windows also has a nasty habit of deleting or overwriting Linux boot-loaders and messing up their start sequence. For this reason it's strongly recommended where possible (I understand it may not be) to install them on two separate disks. Otherwise be prepared for Windows breaking Linux out of the blue one day, making it unbootable, and requiring you to fix the boot process.

As to your time resetting at start that tends to mean your CMOS battery has died. You can buy a replacement if you want though I'd check out what kind you need. Some laptops you can just buy a standard CR2032 cell and slot it in, others it's a pain to access (look up youtube videos for your laptop model with the key words "CMOS battery replacement" to see how hard or easy it is and what it looks like). For some models the battery comes welded to some leads in a plastic wrapper, you can sometimes pry the leads off and just electrical tape them onto a new standard battery (do not attempt to weld or solder, the battery will explode, they use a special process to do it at the factory) but it's usually only a few dollars more to just buy a Chinese model that includes the leads present for a quick and easy swap. Overall I'd expect $2-7 for the cost either way, closer to $2 if it's just the cell.

He's going down. He's going to be convicted. The American legal system serves the bourgeoisie. Impartiality of a jury means not prejudiced against or FOR the perpetrator so they can absolutely get people struck for holding unorthodox opinions and not being totally certain of being able to rule on the facts of the charges without prejudice to any feelings they may have for the victim or defendant and their motives.

At the end you'll probably have some juror anonymously speak to the papers, say they sympathized because they know someone who was fucked over by insurance BUUUT they can't justify murder and they weren't asked to rule on whether the defendant's actions were morally right or wrong but whether they amounted to murder and that they had to find them guilty as a result of the evidence. No one is going to do jury nullification on this, no one but extremely online leftists, judges, and prosecutors know what that even is and most Americans are the most obedient little piggies who will believe the judge when they instruct them they have to rule on the facts of the charges not their opinions. You can bet if someone tries to do jury nullification the judge will grill the fuck out of them, really, really pressure them in a case like this and most people who got that far would crumble and with some grumbling go along with voting guilty at last.

Terrorism charge is just kind of make an example out of him type of thing, good chance they can't make that stick if he has a good legal team but they want to send a message that the state will hit anyone with the full book who dares to do something like this and not everyone will have the types of lawyers to beat such charges.

Oh really? Their borders have shifted throughout history and things happening around them may reshape them again? Wow. Um where was this kind of understanding line when Russia's borders changed around the Ukraine because of certain color revolution things happening?

Not like one of these is a colonizer state foisted upon the region by European colonial powers as payment for their own crimes against European minorities and before that hadn't existed in any form for a continuous period of centuries while the other is a case of the USSR doing some things they thought were good but caused problems and the whole thing really only existed for less than one century and the problematic results' borders have only existed for just over 30 years and are now only changing because it can't agree to not be hostile to a large power next to it that has for 500 years suffered invasions from the west and just wanted some neutrality and peace.

But sure, the zionist one is justified and okay while the Russian moves are pure unbridled aggression by illogical hoodlums who we must dehumanize.

They will almost certainly ask them questions about biases regarding health insurance during jury selection and somehow manage to find 12 law-loving, boot-licking people who've never been screwed over by insurance, don't have any negative feelings towards insurance companies because of someone they know being screwed over. I mean it would really be as simple as finding a dozen retired boomers who held union jobs with good benefits all their lives, are retired on cushy amounts of retirement funds, and are absolutely law and order freaks.

but most states have long-forgotten requests on the books that could be enough to trigger a new constitutional convention, some scholars and politicians believe.

Yet somehow the ERA hasn't been declared as passed? Of course if they did this I guess they could just scrap the ERA and everything else right after if they have enough votes. Certainly they'd have to votes to carve some much bigger holes in the first amendment, outlaw encryption and privacy, outlaw disloyalty, and outlaw communists.

So weird to hear the shooter is a girl. In my mind these things are tied to men but it looks like her brain was really poisoned by reactionary ideology. According to a twitter source looks like she was bullied, had a bad family life, and became a reactionary. Supposedly had a long-distance boyfriend too they're claiming who had no idea.

https://xcancel.com/Slatzism/status/1868795614491800032

Maybe I'm putting my own bias in this but I really don't think her mental health was helped by being put in a Christian school. Those kids can be vicious towards anyone who stands out even a little as "other", more-so than public school kids by far. Add on top of it the viewpoint they push, this kind of black and white, good and evil world and all the other baggage attendant to Christianity, especially emphasized in Evangelical forms of which this school almost has to be part of (if it was Catholic it'd have the name of a saint usually). Probably brought up in a lot of hate, steeped in it, isolated, got ostracized further by those Christian kids for not being the perfect image of a 'good Christian girl'(tm).

I was brought up in an Evangelical household. School shootings were seen as happening because they took god out of public schools. That and the trans panic hate they're stoking are why those people are clinging to transphobia and other excuses and distractions (shooter doesn't seem to have been trans and makes no mention of anything like that in their manifesto).

The consequences of allowing Discovery Communications and Zaslav to acquire Warner-HBO has been just one unmitigated disaster and pox upon the landscape of television and entertainment after another, one of the most destructive mergers in history. On the other hand maybe this might hurt US cultural hegemony a bit and in that respect be a good thing if the rest of the world bothers to capitalize on it. But it is so unfortunate for those living in the core. First world problems I guess.

You have to wonder if part of the rationale or hope in using extremist Al Qaeda proxies and ISIS in Syria was to create a situation that would give the zionist entity a veneer of an excuse to go in for their own security once it fell.

I have no doubt this wasn't the main reason, facts being they just prefer and have had past great success using Islamist extremist proxies but you have to wonder if they took measures to ensure that say the SDF wouldn't come out on top in Syria which were that to happen the zionists wouldn't have an excuse to do land-grabs under the guise of security. Which only furthers my opinion that really the SDF, Rojava, etc were puppets who were disposable from the beginning, the US was going to use them and throw them away in favor of their more preferred Islamist toys who actually destabilize regions and give them an excuse to operate their military there. In other words it's a bitter pill as those people may have to reckon with the fact that they joined up with the US, helped them steal oil and destabilize Syria under the idea that they had to defend themselves against ISIS which was IMO another US creation and proxy. The US is a real puppet-master here pulling a lot of strings.

Really Syria has unfolded ideally for the US, it's textbook what they want to do to Russia and China. That is fragmentation/balkanization via sectarian violence with them arming, creating, helping all the sides against the central government and playing them off each other and ensuring a vacuum of power that is rife for strife, struggle, and extremism for decades to come once they succeed. All while pretending to be only helping the public relations acceptable good guy side.

Not a surprise, if anything it's a surprising it didn't succeed and you have to wonder why.

Also I have to laugh at the fact they sent their elite special forces unit whose job was to assassinate the DPRK leadership to Seoul in DPRK uniforms and the plan was if they couldn't kill the opposition puppet Korean leadership, they were to be killed by other forces as enemy troops and the opposition killed in the cross-fire to that. Imagine being part of this elite group of boot-lickers and learning your leadership planned to have you killed if your plan didn't quite go right, you might not even get a proper burial under your real name if the need for maintaining the illusion persisted, your loved ones left wondering about what truly happened. Pathetic.

Yeah I think a prequel was probably the way to go. The world of the Witcher had a lot of interesting history that wasn't fully fleshed out. A prequel set in that where you can choose what school you're from (or just set at school of the cat) and can choose your character's gender and such would have been really interesting and could have given them a chance to explore more of the world and expand on it beyond the northern realms.

I think given Ciri's incredible elder blood powers just doing "Witcher 3 but with Ciri and different story" would be a mistake from a mechanics point of view and a story point of view. Any game centering her should have the ability for her to teleport places, make some use at least of her uniquely powerful magic beyond the normal witcher signs. I half think they should change the tone too given how over-powered she would be. Most of all though and maybe I'm weird, I hope they preserve a sense of a large, huge even living world to explore, lots of side quests, not some rush to the finish. Given the lack of customization compared to say Bioware RPGS and the lack of branching paths to account for this is really a must. I would honestly be interested in a side-campaign (not part of the regular one) that would allow players to experience Ciri's flight before/during Witcher 3 through the different worlds, wouldn't be that long or intense but I think it would be interesting and they could re-use some cyberpunk assets for at least one of the places she visits.

As I see it Witcher 3 has a kind of Tolkien-ish vibe in that the old world is dying, the witchers are dying out, a new one is taking its place, a less magical one, it's the last gasp of another time and place and this old guard and the events of it so trying to build off that is kind of tough and I hope if they do anything more than this that it's a prequel.

Strategy of tension type operations IMO. They want western audiences panicked like they were when sputnik was new. They want them to feel they NEED to do the new world war so there isn't that much resistance if they decide to pull the trigger on fighting Russia and certainly for their planned upcoming fight against China. This may be a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing sure but it's not Iranians, it's not China, it's probably not Russia, and it's not extraterrestrial life. US just claims to have succeeded in their joint Navy-Army hypersonic weapons platform finally working so there's that too, once that's operational and they have them built up in some numbers it's go time versus China.

In all fairness that only works until it doesn't. Get arrested at such a rally? Fired for cause, violation of your pledge and barred from future employment with the state. Someone, a co-worker, a member of the public, one of the many zionist doxxing orgs screenshots your social media criticism of zionists and support for Palestine and sends it in? Believe it or not absolutely fired and barred from future employment.

The military would and has taken seriously a lost weather balloon in order to hype a threat and justify more funding as well as keep the tension up. They'd absolutely invent UFOs and freak out about them even though they know they're just their own experimental aircraft in order to obfuscate the existence of such craft, get more money, keep the populace in a state of tension, etc.

Just incredible. Pull something like this off and then do amateur-hour shit like keeping evidence like that on you and the gun allegedly. If you're intent on being caught at least do something cool like filming yourself and posting your manifesto read by yourself online to immortalize yourself a bit. Just waiting for the cops with the all they need on you is silly.

I'd totally believe the whole cops planted it on them thing if it wasn't for the amateur-hour acts of them getting his DNA and him taking off his mask to smile at the camera just because the hostel desk person asked him to with a rib about having a nice smile. DNA isn't so easy to fake in a court case with defense lawyers and attention like this. Like if it wasn't him and the cops were trying to just plant this stuff I'd expect they'd have killed him instead to wrap up the lose ends and never made the DNA claim or walk it back.

Not only that. He got talked into taking off his mask by the hostel girl with a cheap "oh haha your smile is so pretty, please take it off, definitely not for the camera behind me because we want to use this stuff to catch you if you're here to commit a crime" and giving her a smile. If this is indeed him. It would have been so easy too. He could have just changed his look a little before the hit, not taken off the mask, used gloves, disposed of his gun and made sure he had nothing incriminating on him.

Honestly not surprised.

So many people were (and will now act like they never did this btw) talking shit for days about how clever the adjuster was, how he had them all fooled, how perfect the crime was, how the cops were just making up random things like finding food he ate which they got DNA off (pro-tip: never let them get a sure match on your DNA, if they can't put a name to you but have enough evidence that a name is all they need to find to convict, you're going to be fucked for a crime like this because eventually a relative will use a DNA testing company that will sell to the cops who will be checking shit like this against it annually for the next 25 years to catch you for killing most important bourgeoisie and then it's just a matter of narrowing down your family tree, following people, and getting your DNA sample surreptitiously and you're fucked unless you're out of the country and out of extradition range by then). All that talk about you know first 48 and I was just shaking my head. Of course I hoped along with everyone else he did get away and disappear but the cops were saying too many things and the reward numbers were not going up like you'd expect for a crime with no real leads or evidence.

They need to make him into a communist even if he wasn't. Too many reactionaries agree with this and it's making the bourgeoisie uncomfortable.

So he gets assigned that even if he wasn't. They use it to crack down on the left which is what they want and to make him out to be the right kind of public enemy though still a muddled one with a muddled definition of communist in the loose "Democrats are communists" kind of way that still gives enough cover to justify moving resources away from the right-wing extremists to surveilling the left instead and to pushing that narrative along with a bill through congress or executive order. If he was a raging swastika wearing Hitlerite and openly so online through weeks before the shooting they wouldn't be able to do this but would instead just bury it and call it a random act of violence without ideology but if it's at all muddled and there's even a chance of pushing this angle because of incoherence they were always going to and at the very least say he was poisoned by communist ideology into doing the deed.

Conspiracy-brain time: The west told Russia they'd literally end the world with a direct war against them in Ukraine BUT offered if they let them win in Syria and throw Assad to the wolves they'd let Russia win in Ukraine without getting directly involved by pouring troops over. Russia took this, Syrian military found out or was told, said fuck that. Iranians found out too little too late, tried to put on a brave face and dissuade the extremists with that but couldn't move near quickly enough and as a result their army vanished over the border into Iraq and Assad dipped. Of course Putin would be a fool to take such a deal if it existed given the west's constant back-stabbing even written and signed agreements but he kind of seems like he might be exactly that kind of Charlie Brown fool to the west's Lucy.

Pretty sure they censor that stuff in prison. Like they'd just get photos with black marker over the usual places or nothing at all. All part of the Christian morals of the USian prison-industrial complex. Can't have those horrible depraved sinners being incensed by nudity when they should be reading the bible and being exploited as slave labor. But maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.

Say Mr. Lame Duck maybe you should protect vulnerable groups like trans people or undocumented persons with maximum executive action in your final months before Trump gets into office?

What's that? What you really care about aren't those vulnerable people and just want to do some reactionary shit instead to already sanctioned countries that have been under illegal oppression and embargo for half a century which Trump would agree with and could have done anyways? Oh cool. Nice to see the mask continues to slip.

Please slap liberals who claim to care about vulnerable groups with actions like these, his pardon for his son which is suspiciously all encompasses and reminiscent of the Nixon pardon and get that doubt going on whether actually maybe Democrats aren't harm reduction and won't actually fight for them.