Very good thoughts!
Tomorrow I'll check on my seacrete experiment if the weather improves
Those monopolies leak like sieves.
I'm more concerned about the limited number of TPU manufacturers, but at least China and Russia will continue to sell hosted access...
(Until they abruptly buddy up with Washington again.)
(Hugs)
/Pauses/ at midnight. Hopefully for more than a few minutes, but based on past form...
(Fingers crossed)
A father and brothers say goodbye to a dead toddler.
"Israel has the right to commit genocide"
- Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden
https://video.nostr.build/90b1c28b83381c36f57e5b30fb5ef4378d785b10dfac86c38f0caac39632f227.mp4
100% this!
I've been using only F-droid and the odd side-loaded apk on my primary phone for about five years now.
(I do have another phone for government apps that require Google, but I don't carry it around).
Is there a Zeus-compatible custodial option, for small change you don't care about, and/or people who have no hope of setting up a server?
I love them, if they can survive a trip through the dishwasher. My youngest was on a strictly-plastic-crockery plan for years :-p
Unfortunately, guests expect fragile ceramics, and are horrified if they see careless little mister eating off plastic. :-D
A Public Defenders Union Debated A Pro-Palestinian Resolution. Then Came The Backlash.
Threats, and lawsuits, to prevent a vote from being held on the motion.
Michael Letwin, a retiree member of the union who had been its president for 13 years, until 2002, worked for decades as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and identifies as an anti-Zionist Jew. Heâs part of a coalition within the union, ALAA Labor for Palestine, that supports the resolution, which Letwin described as a response to a call for solidarity from Palestinian trade unionists.
âThe idea that we would, or should, sell our conscience because of threats to funding is really abhorrent,â he told HuffPost. âThereâs a genocide going on, and weâre not going to just ignore that, anymore than we would ignore what was happening in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. We will not be silent, and we will not be silenced.â
Greed.
Not for wealth or the symbols of wealth, so much as for (e)books, knowledge and skills. And also tools, but on that part I can fight what I can see :-p
"If you can't locate and retrieve it within a minute, you might as well not have it"
Yeah, about that. Three minutes for some physical things, much longer on some digital content if I can't recall the exact subfolder...
Not your build?
Not your binary
One of my favorite examples of historical necessary evils at play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_attack_at_T%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te
Vlad was going to defend his tiny realm against the Ottomans, no matter what it took. He scorched the earth, poisoned the wells, sent diseased people to greet the invading army, and created a forest out of the impaled bodies of over 20,000 Turks.
"Even though the morale of the sultan and his army was low, Mehmed decided to besiege the capital, but instead found it deserted with its gates wide open. The Turkish army entered the capital and for half an hour, the army marched on the road that was bordered by some 20,000 impaled Ottomans.[31] There, they found the rotten corpse of Hamza Pasha impaled on the highest stake, to symbolize his 'high ranking'"
"Mehmed ordered for a deep trench to be dug out around the Turkish encampment in order to prevent enemy penetration and the following day (22 June), the Turks retreated"
An Ottoman army outnumbering his own by 10 to 1 according to some accounts, turned around. Was Vlad evil? Absolutely. He was willing to burn in hell to save his land.
I think people forget that not too long ago, life was incomparably more brutal. Rivers of blood got us here.
Vlad was the sort of guy every Heavy Metal album cover wants to be.
He came up against a situation where there was no good option. He made a choice, he owned it, and he followed it through to the end.
Somewhere, a thousand narratives cried out in terror, and were silenced.
What can you tell us about him?
According to the MSM, he's opposed to:
- the EU
- immigration
- Islam
- arming the Nazis in Ukraine
And in favour of:
- cats
- Hungarians in general, and Orban in particular
What did they leave out?
"Israel has the right to commit genocide"
- Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden
Walked it back though...
English has a lot of loanwords from Norwegian, and even more from Old Norse.
So many that the language wouldn't be intelligible to someone who somehow didn't know them.
You can tell your counsellor its really "International Norwegian" :-p
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Scandinavian_origin
The fedsâ vehicle âKill Switchâ mandate is a gross (and dangerous) violation of privacy
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That is rather horrifying.
It will also be illegal to remove :-/
Anything fact checkers declare fake these days is likely true
The middle is not unoccupied. But the middle is not clickbait...
LOL. Wow. Never been, but I hear good things about Thailand. My wife is rather fond of Thai culture.
To me the most concerning part of the article is this:
"Many Western travel agents in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe will refuse to make bookings or include the city on tour schedules for even long-standing customers because of its reputation as a sex-for-sale mecca."
How is it any of the travel agents' business?
Why do wannabe Fra Savonarolas get away with bringing their neuroses into their employer's business?
Quite.
I prefer them unfixed rather than that!