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CosmicTurtle ,

Fwiw, the cheap olive oil is really good for mayo you make yourself. EVOO should be used for things like salads and bread, where the taste makes the difference.

If you want oil in a pan, cheap stuff works just fine…only you have to be careful because olive oil in the states isn’t always olive oil.

CosmicTurtle ,

There was a Republican politician that said something along the lines that God was punishing states because they allowed gays. And then his state got hammered in the ass by another storm.

He didn’t walk back his statement.

These people just want to blame everything bad on their enemies.

CosmicTurtle , (edited )

When a democrat does it, it’s literally terrorism.

But when a Republican does it, it’s just a small, isolated incident and barely warrants a charge.

Just a lone wolf.

One time thing.

Never will happen again.

One bad apple.

How could we have known?

Massive Thank You

I’ve been at this self hosting stuff since Christmas and at every step of the way, I’ve come asking for help and advice from this community (and the related ones) and everyone has been super generous with their knowledge and guidance. I am extremely humbled by the kindness you have all given me. Shit, I’m even grateful for...

CosmicTurtle ,

Shit, I’m even grateful for when you all tell me off.

Oh fuck off!

Just kidding! I haven’t seen any of your posts here (mostly because I sort by all) but yeah the people in this sub are top tier.

A few weeks ago I came here to ask about building my own computer and which parts to get because it had been years since I’ve done so and everyone was nice about it.

José Andrés Says Israel Targeted World Central Kitchen Workers 'Systematically' (www.rollingstone.com)

World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that the seven World Central Kitchen workers who were killed by an Israeli strike while delivering aid Gaza earlier this week were targeted “systematically, car by car.”...

CosmicTurtle ,

I wish there was the ability to recall federal representatives.

CosmicTurtle ,

The guy represents himself and still managed to get just 7 years.

Idk…seems like he did alright.

CosmicTurtle , (edited )

It obviously does not give anyone the right to assault the police. Nor was the January 6 riot an act of civil disobedience, because it was violent, not peaceful; opportunistic, not principled; coercive, not persuasive; and selfish, not patriotic.

Damn…no notes.

CosmicTurtle ,

Fwiw, egg prices did come down after the last shortage… But not back down to pre-shortage levels.

It looks like egg sellers took a page out of airline companies. Jack up the price. There is outrage. Lower prices a few weeks apart until it’s at a point that is larger than when you started but people seem to be okay with.

CosmicTurtle ,

Except me. Right? He totally promised to make me president of Puerto Rico.

Because I’m one of the good ones.

I’m the exception.

Right?

CosmicTurtle ,

It was in reference to the fact that Trump, while president, says he "met with the “President of the Virgin Islands”

Which, despite his press room’s spin, we all know he completely didn’t know that he was the president of the Virgin Islands.

CosmicTurtle ,

I’ll believe corporations are people when they kill one via lethal injection.

CosmicTurtle ,

Look into the benefits offered by your other credit cards. My identity was stolen a few years ago and I learned like a few months ago that one of my credit cards offers free identity protection services if/when your identity gets stolen.

They handle all of the annoying shit like contacting the bank, getting the debt off of your credit card, etc.

If not, and you were part of the Equifax (or any) hack, you likely have this same service available to you for free.

CosmicTurtle ,

Is there cumin in that barbeque sauce?

CosmicTurtle ,

There is rarely a situation where you should allow your employer to match the offer you have in hand.

They had the opportunity to do so and then failed to properly retain you. If they realize how much losing you will cost them in productivity, that’s on them, not you.

It’s not personal. It’s literally business.

CosmicTurtle ,

Best Buy is great when you need something right now. Like when a hard drive in your RAID dies and you need a hard drive right fucking now.

Buy yeah. I’ve only gone maybe once in the last five years.

CosmicTurtle ,

Why do you have so many porn tabs open?

California set to hike wages for fast-food workers to industry-leading $20 per hour (www.cbsnews.com)

Starting Monday, most California fast-food workers will earn at least $20 an hour — the highest minimum wage across the U.S. restaurant industry. Yet the pay hike is sparking furious debate, with some restaurant owners warning of job losses and higher prices for customers, while labor advocates tout the benefits of higher...

CosmicTurtle ,

My assumption is that it’s only $0.20 because the assumption is that the C-suite of whoever is selling the strawberries is expected to lower their profit margins.

And we know that’s never going to happen.

CosmicTurtle ,

But they can’t just “restore” the property, it was full of mature native trees/plants and for bulldozed.

Oh God…tree law…I never realized how much I missed this.

CosmicTurtle ,

There was an encryption system a few years ago that offered this out of the box.

I can’t remember the name of it but there was a huge vulnerability and basically made the software unusable.

Crypt box or something like that.

CosmicTurtle ,

Hot damn good for you!

Keep us updated! I don’t think lemmy has a remindme bot but I’m saving this comment.

CosmicTurtle ,

This! Some discomfort is to be expected but it shouldn’t hurt. It should be a good “pain” like it feels good afterwards not a “I really regret all the things” pain.

CosmicTurtle ,

I always liked Barney Stimson’s advice on running a marathon.

Step 1: start running

Step 2: there is no step two

CosmicTurtle ,

Michael Scott once quoted some guy that said “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

You shot your shot. That’s the important thing.

Good for you!

CosmicTurtle ,

As much as I’d like to believe that SCOTUS will honor separation between state and federal, I simply do not trust our current justices. I fully expect them to say, “Nah…it’s totes cool for Trump, and only Trump, to commit crimes.”

Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales (apnews.com)

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail salesof marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase....

CosmicTurtle ,

Except he can’t run for re-election. Virginia governors only get one term.

CosmicTurtle , (edited )

I’ve actually taken seeds from the tomatoes in stores and grown them myself. The flavor of a store bought tomato pales in comparison to a freshly picked tomato.

And I don’t even like tomatoes.

CosmicTurtle ,

Ope. I do have that backwards. Thanks!

CosmicTurtle ,

Yup. Never ever buy lifetime licenses.

Even on software you love. Especially for software you love.

CosmicTurtle ,

If it’s for software you like, yes. Lemmy apps are a great example of this.

A lifetime license isn’t going to sustain the dev long term. If you like the app, buy a monthly subscription that gives them predictable income every month. Do a year if you feel confident about it. But honestly monthly is probably best.

For shitty corporate apps like Adobe, pirate that shit.

Paris Olympics lifts intimacy ban for athletes and is stocking up on 300,000 condoms (www.cbsnews.com)

The intimacy ban that had been in place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been lifted for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the Olympic village, where the athletes stay during the event, will be stocked with 300,000 condoms, Laurent Michaud, director of the village, told Sky News....

CosmicTurtle ,

So these Olympians are in danger?!

CosmicTurtle ,

I’m a Logitech M720 man myself. I’ve bought at least three over the last few years. They seem to stop working within two years.

CosmicTurtle ,

There is a great podcast on the sugar industry that I can’t recommend enough.

CosmicTurtle ,

Who exactly is this 4cat?

CosmicTurtle ,

Mormonism has very strong ties in Hawaii. They sent missionaries there when the state was annexed by the US.

While not as strong as Utah, it very much is there.

CosmicTurtle ,

No GOP wet dream is basically what North Korea does.

You stand in line to vote and are handed a card. There is one box for the “candidate”. You vote by putting your card in the box while everyone watches.

You have the choice to not vote.

Guess how many don’t vote b

Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals (www.npr.org)

In the wake of Louisiana’s abortion ban, pregnant women have been given risky, unnecessary surgeries, denied swift treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, and forced to wait until their life is at risk before getting an abortion, according to a new report first made available to NPR....

CosmicTurtle ,

It’s their fault for being sluts. If they were strong Christian women, God wouldn’t have punished them.

CosmicTurtle ,

Iirc the way that blind works is by verifying you work at a specific company but then that email address cannot be used again.

It’s not associated with your specific account.

Someone who worked at blind explained that but there’s no way to know this for sure.

CosmicTurtle ,

The IT Crowd

CosmicTurtle ,

That’s not how the ADA works. You could say the same for wheelchair ramps, but ultimately it’s on the store owner to reasonably provide accomodations to people who want to use their services. It’s not on the disabled person to pick and select who will accommodate them or not. It’s why businesses are required to reserve a portion of their parking lot to those with handicap placards. It shouldn’t be up to each disabled person to figure out which business they can go to.

What Starbucks is doing would be akin to Walmart charging an extra buck for you to use one of their mobility scooters or an extra $5 if you require the assistance from an employee because you can’t reach something.

CosmicTurtle ,

I wish there was a good way to store a backup of my media. I recently suffered a terrible hard drive issue. I lost a terabyte of media. Fortunately, the pirate ship has saved me and has me rethinking some of my backup methodologies.

Outside of periodically backing up onto an external hard drive, I haven’t been able to find a reasonably priced online backup solution that isn’t going to fuck me when I have to pull data out. Egress fees are killer.

CosmicTurtle ,

This exactly. NAS+RAID gives you a backup of your local media. It can account for one of your three copies and one of your storage mediums. But you still need something off site.

So assuming you had a copy on your computer proper, it could work. Better than no backups.

CosmicTurtle ,

The problem is that they can’t control open source drivers. They could, however, release a printer that ran on proprietary closed source drivers. But they’d have to spend money on developers to maintain that code whereas right now, drivers are more or less stable and developed for free.

What they could do is require the use of HP printer paper, with embedded RFID or watermarks that would be readable by HP printers. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t gone down this road.

CosmicTurtle ,

Privacy: I have blinds on my windows. I control whether they are open or closed, but they aren’t secure. You could break a window and look inside if you really wanted to.

Security: my glass storm door has a lock. But privacy is only there when I close the front door.

There is overlap between these two concepts but one does not imply the other.

Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)

An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

CosmicTurtle ,

At least Amazon is thinking of the shareholders.

IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states (arstechnica.com)

“Direct File provides a free, secure option for taxpayers with simple tax situations in 12 states to file their taxes directly with the IRS,” the Treasury Department said. “Direct File is easy to use, with no hidden junk fees, and works as well on a smartphone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer. Direct...

CosmicTurtle ,

These states:

  • Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Massachusetts
  • New York
  • Washington

Katie Porter's star dims in failed US Senate bid, leaving the Californian facing an uncertain future (apnews.com)

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter became a social media celebrity by brandishing a white board at congressional hearings to dissect CEOs and break down complex figures into assaults on corporate greed, a signature image that propelled the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidacy in California....

CosmicTurtle ,

Katie, I’m going to give you the same advice that Jen Barkley gave to Leslie.

Get a better job! Don’t be the kid that graduates high school and hangs out in the school parking lot. Be the woman who moves away, climbs the ladder, and confidently comes back, and has sex with their hot old English teacher just for kicks.

We need people like you. Do not give up. If you run for President in 2028, I will volunteer!

CosmicTurtle ,

I tried a bunch of questions. It seems okay on giving you instructions on forming a union at Target, Starbucks…but not Amazon.

CosmicTurtle ,

Maybe but it’s almost a $2trillion dollar company. Might be a shell, but it’s popular.

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