LOL. The entire reason this business exists is because the governments do not respect property rights. Anyone who is a property owner that rents and has tried to evict someone knows it's a joke.
Pretty creative use of the rights to use weapons in your home to defend against intrududers. That so called expert they have in the report could have mentioned that if a home owner has an intruder and uses force they could be sued or face criminal charges as well. Not just in this case.
I guess we should just wait on the government police to clean up the crime scene there as well.
I have my beefs with Trump but he sends a good Christmas letter.
"For Christmas I'm gonna mammogram the kids sweatshirts"
Thing I heard while shopping today.
2. No doubt.
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Its an emotional experience. Its not rational.
As incredible as it sounds I think most people talking politics do not have the knowledge required to understand the current political landscape. I think it as simple as a lack of curiosity and humility
Someone said of Candace Owens something I wished I had thought of. " You can turn the sound off of tell she's running a grift".
Man, nailed the feeling I have had about her for years. Like most scammers she's not all lies. She makes some good points at times. But on the whole she's got some scam going.
There are many ops going on now. I have no idea how coordinated it actually is but it feels like there and many bad actors outside of traditional media. Of course the tradition media is controlled but many alt media is as well.
Think critically
Neither actually defend individual freedom. They defend a subset of things they approve of. Which is really not freedom. Everyone wants to do what they want.
One of the central problems with both dominant political movements in the US is that they both lack a soul. A guiding principle. Both seem to live off of stopping the other.
Honestly that's just freedom.
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Everyone is for THIER speech. That's not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is supporting the freedom of speech you don't approve of.
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Link: https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311
It sure is. Google Cloud is why.
Even if you like Trump and this policy you have to know the other side will be enbolded to other things. This is how we lose the freedoms we have.
Its absurd that so called freedom loving people support this nonsense.
Political parties and really democracy incentivizes hypocrisy.
If a Democrat was doing this MAGA would be furious.
You really can just zap things.
While I'm at it you can do so without custodial lightning. People keep telling me it's hard or I can't but I have been for a long time.
I wouldn't say it's easy to run a lightning node but you can. It's not THAT hard.
Stacker. News is great. Love the site and community there but it's not my house. Some of the issues with social media are around expectations. This idea that its a public square are part of the problem. They are all owned by people. But the expectations are that they are public squares and some try to be. In the end the tradeoffs and expectations lead to conflicts.
If you want to make the rules you do have to have skin in the game. Nostr is a really good balace of the two. You can run a relay or use others relays. You have the ability to do things you just can't do on most networks. Nostr has so much up side.
The house and the town square
https://dri.es/the-house-and-the-town-square
From Dries Buytaert (Creator of Drupal)
He quotes this from Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of the now defunct Gawker.
> I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.
Dries adds with his own thoughts.
> In the early days of blogging, responding to someone's post took real work. You had to write something on your own site and hope they noticed. As Spiers puts it, if someone wanted to engage with you, they had to come to your house and be civil before you'd let them in. If a troll wanted to attack you, they had to do it on their own site and hope you took the bait. Otherwise, no one would see it.
> It's a reminder that friction can be a feature, not a bug. Having to write on your own blog filtered out low-effort and low-quality responses. Social media removed that friction. That has real benefits: more voices, faster conversations, lower barriers to entry. But it also means the town square gets crowded fast, and some people come just to shout.
He concludes with this
> What I like the most about Spiers' blog post is that the early web didn't just enable better conversation. It required it. You had to say something interesting enough that someone would bookmark your URL and come back. Maybe that is the thing worth protecting: not the lack of a comments section, but the kind of friction that rewards effort.
> In that spirit, I'm going to make an effort to link to more blog posts worth visiting. Consider this me knocking on Spiers' door.
I always find it interesting to read how people come to see problems which arise from the lack of a clear understanding of property rights. Property rights are not mentioned at all directly in these posts but this is actually the root of the problem being described.
When you do not control the site you are at the mercy of the one that does. They may just allow things you do not want, or deny things that you do. Back in mid 2000s and 2010s I had come to this conclusion myself. I was managing all the web sites for a private university and I kept getting request to enable comments on the blogs and article features of the sites. As I had been managing web sites and using them for some time at that point I advised against it.
When you open your doors to anyone you are taking on a new responsibility. The house analogy is one I used as well. If you are gonna just let anyone in, you better be prepared to handle whatever comes along. Otherwise you will be at the mercy of those that comment on your site.
There are no free lunches. Even Stacker.news is at the mercy of those with the keys to the kingdom. Making social networking sites or even sites like SN that may not be social media, but are open to anyone isn't that hard. What is hard is managing it and encouraging good behaviors and discouraging bad ones.
The woke right term has to be one of the worst I've heard in years. Makes no sense to me. The irony to me is that those that say it will call you names like the woke left if you disagree with them.
They call anyone that doesn't whole heartedly and blindly support the government of Israel anti-semitic.
What makes it work though seems to be OPS like Nick F. This is a classic pattern of amplifying an extremely bad representative of something to broadly discredit large swaths of legitimate people and their views.
Its what happens when a political figure is gunned down. JFK, MLK, and Lincoln. All complex figures with mixed virtues and vices but lionized due to their deaths. Not saying that their impact didn't warrant their legendary status but the assination amplifies it.
Important to remember this and not be hyper focused on working in vs outside of the home. This is not grounds for divorce.
Leadership requires submission but ideally you marry someone that isn't surprised by your desire and vision for marrage.
We make a promise before God. A vow to one another. Its not taken seriously in our culture and this issue is at the root of many other issues.
No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/06/no-more-loud-commercials-governor-newsom-signs-sb-576/
Its about time these politicians do something about the real problems in society. Thanks Gavin!
Jonathan Pageau: YOUNG People REJECTING the Left, TERRIFYING the Establishment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjX6KMDx4As
I have not watched this whole interview and I'd never heard of this guy Winston Marshall. There are so many people doing shows now... But I really like Pageau and how he talked about the shifting in culture away from the post war conciseness. He really mirrors a lot of the thoughts from "Return of the Strong Gods".
His comments on those opposing Christian Nationalism are especially thoughtful. They mirror my thinking. I have Christian friends that have so many concerns about it. And yet, they have no alternatives other than the status quo. That's a losing position to me.
Watch it, its short. What do you think? I'm gonna listen to the whole interview later.
Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/hosting-a-website-on-a-disposable-vape/
Thought this was funny.
Maybe its just vaporware though...
How many of us American Christians can name more church fathers than founding fathers? Other than my Orthodox brothers and sisters. My guess is most of us need to get our priorities in order. Starting with me. Just a thought I had while listening to my pastor's sermon this morning.
Of course we could say the same of the Scriptures vs movies and sports stats. Talk is cheap.
I should add, that this is the poison of politics and the desire to control that Satan tempted Christ with at the heart. There are many good people that have no clue how foreign what this man is teaching is from traditional Christianity. There is a spirit at work but those people he is talking about are not demons. Nor is he or his followers. But the spiritual realm is at work stoking hatred and division. Democrats are not my enemy. Nor are Republicans. They are both wrong an a follower of Jesus really can't co-sign 100% of either movement. The level of ignorance in the US about the history of the church and political movements is appalling.
The answer isn't in politics. Its in Jesus. But, most people I encounter online are so distracted by the next thing they aren't even having internal dialogs about these things. They are NPCs. And I can see how people on both sides of the political divide could think of them as demons. But God loves them and they are created in His image.
DHH on WordPress and Matt Mullenweg drama
Yeah, most people do focus on the President. I wish him well with it. Gridlock is better that dominance. But really, stay humble. Stack sats.
Thanks for the answer. I'm not Catholic but I think I'll attend a TLM and experience it for myself.
Some thoughts on switching to KeePass
What he is describing is what an individual with something to gain would do. Government officials selling something for the government don't get rewarded for getting another 100k in fiat by timing the market. They had a task and did it. Follow the incentives.