Moved to a very conservative area in the US relatively recently. Had to go by the police station for some forms new residents need to fill out. Passed about a dozen Trump flags on the way, surprisingly a few Harris signs as well.

Front and center behind the receptionists in the station is a giant thin blue line flag. It’s one thing when some dipshits in the neighborhood have it out, but this is state government property. I hope to never encounter anyone from the station ever again because that was such a disgusting sight after also spending a very stressful 2 hours at the DMV.

I keep getting whiplash between “they’re just humble hard working folks like in King of the Hill” when somebody makes goofy conversations at the grocery store and “I’m surrounded by people who want to murder my friends” when I see their yards.

They gotta recover some mana. It takes a while.

i can do 1) eerectile functionary 2) heat of hte moment love extensions 3) cast away nameless mist (anti virgin spell god) 4) gaydar 5) make you rboyfriend better shoot at boot camp 6) anticonception spell

My time spent sitting in Discord calls or scrolling for hours is significantly lower recently because somewhat ironically, the quality of posts here (outside of bad posting, DOWN with beanis) is higher so it takes less for me to be satisfied and for a while. If not higher quality, less mentally draining or bad vibe generating. Has been good for my mental because I’ve spent more time doing things I actually enjoy.

The Greens haven’t gotten a president but they absolutely do campaign and win at the local level. And PSL isn’t on the ballot everywhere so they’re the next best option. https://www.gpelections.org/greens-in-office/

Bazinga Americans are my favorite candy to get on Halloween

I always wished Emily would spin off a Linux channel. I think she wanted to do it, but it was never allowed because everything Linus does has to maximize returns and it’d have fewer views than their usual content. Not because they have shareholders, but because he is the shareholder, and he needs more gizmos in his house.

People were shit talking Bushnell in the original thread when it happened. But I think it can arguably be more effective than fragging folks in the building or something. Obviously, encouraging suicide isn’t good as a standard. The people in charge won’t care either way. But if voters work mostly on vibes, which they often do, this paints a picture of “peaceful person harmed only themselves to protest the government’s evil actions” instead of letting people handwave them away by focusing on them hurting other people instead.

People don’t generally know what Thích Quảng Đức was protesting, but given images of a burning monk, they assume the people who let that happen and that prompted the action are the villains. Of course, there’s tons of people who handwave away people like in the OP as just those with mental illness already prone to suicide. So it could really go either way.

If OP is another Bushnell, I wish they hadn’t died and had lived to continue fighting alongside other comrades, but I respect they care enough about something to go to these lengths because it often feels like nobody cares at all.

I was looking for a specific ebook the other day. Not on private sites, not on public sites, can’t get it through my libraries. Finally checked out book piracy IRC for the first time. Still not there.

I haven’t seen anyone post any evidence that she’s a ‘Putin lover’ other than the one time she sat down at the same table as Putin like 10 years ago for an event. Which is easily countered by pictures of Obama doing that same thing like the last time someone wandered into Hexbear like a week ago. But literally nothing else. She must be the best spy in the world for there to be such a lack of evidence.

Oh, Graphene is great. It’s just that you can only install it in Pixels. There was a recent info leak showing that Graphene was one of the only operating systems aside from newer iPhones that couldn’t be cracked by the fancy new Israeli hacker software that the US government uses. But they’re focused on security, not privacy. So if you’re not concerned about the govt getting your phone, most of the benefits can be replicated by using open source software, a private DNS, etc. Graphene sand boxing apps by default is sometbing that should definitely be a standard though.

As for Pixels, if you look at benchmarks, they are always significantly behind comparably priced and even cheaper phones in every category. You might say ‘oh well thats just benchmarks and doesn’t carry over to every day use’ but they’re still selling people objectively worse hardware for flagship prices. They also have overheating issues and poor cell signal in addition to the overall subpar performance. They’re better than like prepaid phones, but that’s why I said they’re junk.

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

Yesss, I was searching the thread to see if anyone posted it first. I threw it in the mega last year. It’s my own tradition with my friend group.

Is there a reason for the strong VPN recommendation? I don’t use one anywhere else and if I don’t use it here, I’m not sure I need to use it there.

Thanks for this link. Someone mentioned it when they did the announcement concert and I wasn’t really finding any information on it except a resetera post so it was hard to verify.

Feds would have been doing a public good for once if they kicked in the doors of all their known offices and hauled everyone off to jail/re-education when they literally intimidated the IRS and destroyed mountains of evidence.

I think you may be underestimating the labor required to respond to emails on the part of the business, depending on the task and what information is typically needed. I understand wanting a written record of things, but I get a lot of client emails that turn into ridiculous chains because people can’t follow directions or things are harder to explain in text or a document is missing and it takes another 3 days for them to reply, etc, etc.

I’ve had people schedule meetings with me and those meetings come before I’ve ever even had a chance to see their email because of the volume we get. Then we resolve whatever it is in 5 minutes and don’t have to worry about it anymore. I’ve also had people email me a laundry list of very complex questions that will take much more time to explain in writing and will definitely not be done promptly because I have 5 minutes between other meetings to write out a response to 1 out of 10 questions and it takes me that long to even parse all of what it is they are asking.

There’s definitely situations wheres meetings should have been emails, but at least in my position, there’s equally as many things that should have been a phone call or Zoom meeting or something instead.

EDIT: Ideally, email is for less complex questions or things that can wait a significant length of time (like 1 - 2 weeks in my position), where meetings/phone calls are for more urgent or complex situations. But this definitely isn’t the reality.

@[email protected] sorry friend, but you must now

That’s a bit that I missed. Maybe it is legitimately a bodily purity thing. That’s still funny though because it means they’re seething over my killer mantis arms in Cyberpunk.

My thought was they were mixing up being transgender with being transhuman. Like they were intrinsically linking the two. Which like I can see some takeaways there, but Human Revolution is 100% an obvious racism allegory that gives you cybersunglasses. I don’t personally remember it having much to say about gender.