If we have fair elections. If we have decent candidates running. If we assume Trump is going to go willingly.

That’s a lot of ifs

Democrats would rather lose their power “temporarily” than lose their influence permanently with a progressive.

We need a third party like four months ago. We are running out of time to challenge the standing democrats.

You’re hurting a large number of those taxpayers by doing this.

That’s the point. They want to hurt people.

The problem isn’t litigation. The problem is that we have a fucking monkey at the wheel of the government that doesn’t believe the law applies to them.

I don’t care if every court case against this administration is successful: we need to see enforcement of judgements, by force if necessary.

Jesus fucking Christ …GitHub actions is free for open source.

And they still put their binaries behind a paywall?

I don’t understand how any sane person can trust Trump. Putting his authoritarianism aside, he literally doesn’t pay his lawyers. He goes back and forth on his promises. He literally raped a woman.

How anyone can even enter into a contract with him, especially in fascism times, is beyond me.

Or is it more like a battered wife situation where you pay him because not paying him would be far worse?

Hope you voted to acquit.

Edit: ducking autocorrect.

Back in the old days of Fark, I remember there used to be a flowchart of people’s reactions to mass shootings:

• Mass shooting happens
• initial reaction: guy is a terrorist Muslim and we need to bomb some country in the middle east.
• news shows it’s a white guy
• “Oh my…how sad. He must have been really struggling.”

I feel like the right has replaced the second step with whatever out group they are trying to target.

Because he didn’t hit a Tesla.

When you’re discussing your own OPSEC (Operational Security for those unaware), you have to evaluate and determine your personal threat profile. Generally speaking, you need to determine what risks you’re willing to accept, what risks you’re willing to mitigate, and what risks you will not tolerate. There’s a whole field of IT dedicated to this but the general idea is for you to understand that there is no perfect solution and everything is a trade off.

There is an inherent risk to downloading pirated software, especially software that you use for private activities (e.g. finances, etc.). With today’s landscape of mining crypto, I’d go so far as to say almost any pirated software is at risk of this.

I would agree that generally playing media files is relatively low risk (though there was a vulnerability I read about a few years back of a zip-type attack. The details allude me at the moment).

But for executables, you basically have two options:

• spin up a VM to host your executable, sandboxing it from everything else.
• trust the people who are providing the executable and run it on your computer

Personally, I avoid pirated executables. More often than not I can find a similar open source product that I can download. My risk tolerance is not only low, but I don’t see the benefits of using a particular company’s software especially if an open source is available.

Not forcing the south to pay for reconstruction and not executing traitors was the worst decision we’ve ever made.

This probably the most plausible explanation. We put antibiotics in just about everything. We’re breeding these super bacteria ourselves.

Jesus was arrested by the Romans, at the behest of the Jewish leaders, for preaching that they (the Jewish leaders) were not preaching the Torah properly and being more popular than them.

The crowd was getting more and more angry but Pontius Pilot, the ruler of the precinct they were in, couldn’t find anything wrong with Jesus. He actually believed Jesus when he said that he was the Son of God. (Aside: there is discussion as to whether Pilot was a believer but let’s not dive into that.)

There was a tradition by the Romans to let go of a prisoner, kind of like a pardon. Pilot didn’t want to send Jesus, a peaceful man by his own judgement, to die. So he got Barrabas, a convicted thief, out of jail and presented both of them to the people to “vote” on which he should let go.

The crowd chose Barrabas.

안녕!!

For now.

I hate how “Maybe later” has replaced “No. Don’t ask me again.”

Enshitification at its best.

You KNOW they are going to “tip” you with one of those gospel tracts that look like a folded $100 bill.

I’ve been seriously reconsidering my vacation to Mexico scheduled for the second half of this year. I’m Asian and I have no doubt that I will be “randomly selected” to go through extra screening.

Conservative MAGA Americans

Ease of use shouldn’t be confused with ease of setup.

I use discord every day but I am not a gamer so my use case is different.

Schools had to set up classes quickly and use a platform that provided the least amount of friction for students. They likely figured out most kids were familiar with discord over zoom.

I never heard of schools using Discord but it doesn’t sound like a good idea. And again, I say this as someone who likes Discord. Using an app that’s primarily for gamers and adding school to it sounds like a recipe for disaster.

There are five possibilities:

• Trump was given this as proof that the guy is really a gang member, didn’t ask if it was fake, presented it without vetting it
• Trump ordered someone to find proof that he’s in a gang and someone gave it to him as proof
• Trump ordered someone to create proof that he’s in a gang
• Trump was given this as proof, he asked if it was fake, and was told the truth, and presented it anyway
• Trump was given this as proof, asked if it was fake, was lied to, and presented it

All of these have problems.