This picture has me in it and I don’t like it.

No, but also consider that these arrests are a VERY deliberate action related to the efforts to distract from the ties between Trump and rape/pedophilia.

Legacy media’s current objective is to inflate EVERY story they can, let the public ruminate on it a bit and use engagement to either push it more or let it die out. The adminstration managed to capture the broad audience with faux mystery about how the liner failed, so everyone knew and was talking about it. Then they made arrests to drag attention to innocent people being scapegoated by a fascist government. So now we’re forced to choose between spending the time correcting the record so innocent people don’t end up in prison and bringing the focus back on Epstein with the understanding that its very likely nothing would come of it anyway. At least one of the 2 options helps free innocent people.

To be clear. I really wish we could force media to talk about both in equal length and with equal vigor, but they’re in on it. I really hate where we are right now and found myself watching the World Cup trophy presentation despite actively disliking both countries in the final just on the non-zero chance I could see the feed interrupted by his assassination.

Its really not that much extra fuss. There is middle ground between purposely brewing a terrible cup of coffee and fussing over the minute details of prepping a shot. It takes me 10 seconds to weigh my beans, 20s to grind, 20s to prep, 40s to brew, and hot water from a kettle. So apart from waiting for a kettle, it takes about a minute and a half.

Fair enough. I’m not arguing. Just genuinely confuses me, but I can’t put myself in that frame of mind so I’ll take your word for it. I can’t say that I’ll self censor in that manner because I think there’s inherant value in not ‘shying away’ from calling it what it is. But I can say at least I learned from the other side of the fence.

I’m confused. Does sensoring the word rape or rapist prevent a triggering event? I seriously doubt that removing a letter makes any measurable difference. If anything, I feel like it would make things harder for rape victims trying to avoid reading about rape in some fashion. If they were to filter content by ‘rape’ or ‘rapist’, rpe and rpist would slip through the filters.

Yeah, buying peace of mind when it comes to self sufficient power generation has no price tag. Decentralization of the grid is a good thing regardless of if you “pay it off” or not.

Not sure what about your article made mods think it was an aggregator even.

I’ve not heard of her I’ll have to read more about her

I hope the same. It actually made me second guess if I should even post the idea. So just in case, the national suicide hotline in the US is 988. The rest can be found HERE.

Ah, not to my knowledge. But for me, considering everything is locally encrypted, thats sufficient. I’d imagine that the prospect of accidentally wiping the contents with an incorrect passcode would delay any attempts to crack it.

Aglio e olio

All you need is pasta, olive oil, garlic, black pepper, and a hard cheese like pecorino, romano, or parmesan. There’s tons you could add to it too. Truffle, nuts, guanciale, etc.

Not sure what you mean, but you can set it to immediately lock when the device is locked. So all it takes is for the screen to sleep or manually lock the phone.

I set mine to immediately lock but there’s options for 5, 10, 30 seconds, etc.

I use SimpleX and one of the features I really like is the self-destruct code. You can have one pin that allows you to open your chats like normal, but if you input a self-destruct code instead the app opens like normal but deletes all information in the background and wipes your profile. All the user sees is an empty profile and empty chat history.

So if you’re at a protest or something and MUST have your phone, you still have a safeguard against communication snooping. Say your phone is confiscated and they obtain your device lock, there’s nothing they can do about the self-destruct code. “I just downloaded the app in case I ever needed to use it for sensitive data with my wife, but we never ended up using it.”

I do wish that they allowed keypad scrambling though. Even stock Android allows lockscreen pinpad scrambling to avoid fingerprint code hinting.

I’m firmly in the camp of '“don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”. I’d be happier if he suffered, but I’m not necessarily wishing it were the case.

Neil has a lot in common with one of my friends back home

I was shocked to learn a couple days ago when I installed Mint on my wife’s Surface laptop that the UI scaling only had 2 options for scaling in the basic settings. 100% and 200%. I had to click advanced settings, enable fractional scaling or something similar, go back and then I had options for 50, 75, 125, 150, etc. i don’t remember if I saw a box for custom values though.

Can you believe that people just 40 years ago were still calling them stickers. Crazy how far we’ve come in just a short amount of time. Now they’re using it in songs on the radio.

probably not very good for humanity in the long run.

Eh. C’est la vie. We had a good run.

I’d agree with you if not for everyone that actually has anything to do with the US soccer federation already saying that they did not plan to appeal unless his suspension was extended beyond the automatic one-game.

That’s like saying you should be disqualified and sent home from a local golf tournament because your boss who has nothing to do with the tournament called the organizers and bribed them to change the score on a hole.

What should have happened is Infantino should be immediately removed from his role, anyone else involved in the matter should also be removed, and Balogun’s ban should be reinstated. If anyone in the US federation was pushing for this, then the US should also be removed from the tournament under article 14(?)…but to my knowledge this came from outside the federation entirely.

Part of the problem no one has mentioned yet is that “America 250” was a planned national slogan and organized effort to celebrate our independence. I don’t know the specifics but dipshit bastardized it and spun off “Freedom 250” which is associated with just his administration and was used to line his pockets with money meant for the celebrations in D.C. Again, I don’t know the specifics, but I’m pretty sure the gist of it is that its a shell company that he controls and put allies on the board for.