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nulluser ,

Why are you still on twatter?

nulluser ,

At this point (earlier, actually), anybody still using that platform is guilty of condoning his behavior. They should all be ashamed of themselves.

nulluser ,

May you never grow tired of hearing the truth.

nulluser ,

This is what I was thinking at first. This just looks like classic chain letter.

But on rereading, it appears that the person at the top is controlling who’s sending books to who, and might even be dictating where you buy the book from, which is definitely a scam.

My guess on how this works. Upon DMing the person in control, you’re instructed to buy a book from a specific website (that they control) and have the book shipped directly from there to the “stranger.”. However, “stranger” doesn’t actually exist, no books are ever sent, and the person running this whole scam is just pocketing the money rubes spend on “books”.

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As a veteran, I can’t help but imagine that a lot of the people I see wearing military paraphernalia were never in the military. I’ll only believe that you were/are in the military if you’re in full uniform with everything in the right place/position as only someone that is/was in the military would know how to do.

nulluser ,

Thank You RBG, for clinging to power right to the bitter end.

nulluser ,

And now Biden is doing it, too. These fucks just don’t seem to know when it’s time to take up pickleball and let someone else have a turn with the torch.

nulluser ,

So, is nobody going to mention the picture of two smiling kayakers chosen to accompany this article?

nulluser ,

Who says it was accidental?

nulluser ,

I would agree, with maybe two narrow exceptions. 1) Participation in a coup or insurrection against the federal or any state government, and 2) any action with intent to fraudulently deny any other person’s right to vote or have their vote counted.

Would usually be hard to prove intent on the second one, but just the threat of it would probably stop a good bit of this nonsense. If you’re trying to block others from having their fair say in our democracy, then you shouldn’t have a say yourself, anymore.

nulluser ,

One should be able to deduce that the headline would be different if he had. Therefore, one shouldn’t even need to read the article to realize that one already has all of the information one needs to know the answer to this question without asking it.

nulluser ,

Pro tip: Tar knows what to do if you try to untar a tar.gz file. It Just Works™.

nulluser ,

Looks like that’s a different guy, but thanks for the reminder that they’re all pieces of shit.

nulluser ,

Why don’t they just ask god what to do?

nulluser ,

My pihole prevents me from knowing what you’re talking about.

Publisher Wants $2,500 To Allow Academics To Post Their Own Manuscript To Their Own Repository (www.techdirt.com)

As a Walled Culture explained back in 2021, open access (OA) to published academic research comes in two main varieties. “Gold” open access papers are freely available to the public because the researchers’ institutions pay “article-processing charges” to a publisher. “Green” OA papers are available because the...

nulluser ,

It selects people who don’t want to change a failing system because they are great at gaming that system.

Reminds me of the current American political system and the politicians it selects for us.

nulluser ,

I think it should get paid out of the police union pension fund. Start doing that and we’ll start to see the alleged good cops getting a lot more aggressive about pushing the “few bad apples” off the force before they do something stupid pretty damn quick.

nulluser ,

Repoter: So, the police arrested a gunman moments away from shooting up your dealership. What are your thoughts?

Dealer: It was wild. Absolutely crazy… Almost as crazy as ThEse CraZy deAls We’vE GoT RigHt nOW. JUst cHeCk Out ThE PriCe oN ThiS '88 MaliBu. It’S CrAaaaZy!

nulluser ,

I don’t understand why so many people can’t just go get their own damn food. Uber eats hasn’t been around long enough for you all to have forgotten what you did before, has it? How did you survive back then?

nulluser ,

Enshitification

nulluser ,

I’m sure a couple of intrepid Ukrainian farmers with tractors could get the job done before sunset.

nulluser ,

I vow from this point forward to always pronounce it, BEE-ka-chefs.

nulluser ,

Theoretically, they’ll test and notice that doesn’t work and fix their code before they deploy it to production.

nulluser ,

WTF are you talking about? All I’m saying is that if you write code (that in the context of this discussion passes arguments to a method you didn’t write, that may not be the type the author of the method expected someone to pass, but really, that’s completely beside the point), you should, oh, I don’t know, maybe test that it actually works, and maybe even (gasp) write some automated tests so that if anything changes that breaks the expected behavior, the team immediately knows about it and can make appropriate changes to fix it. You don’t need a strongly typed language to do any of that. You just need to do your job.

nulluser ,

Don’t get too excited.

Although the UK government has said that it now won’t force unproven technology on tech companies, and that it essentially won’t use the powers under the bill, the controversial clauses remain within the legislation, which is still likely to pass into law. “It’s not gone away, but it’s a step in the right direction,” Woodward says.

James Baker, campaign manager for the Open Rights Group, a nonprofit that has campaigned against the law’s passage, says that the continued existence of the powers within the law means encryption-breaking surveillance could still be introduced in the future. “It would be better if these powers were completely removed from the bill,” he adds.

But some are less positive about the apparent volte-face. “Nothing has changed,” says Matthew Hodgson, CEO of UK-based Element, which supplies end-to-end encrypted messaging to militaries and governments. “It’s only what’s actually written in the bill that matters. Scanning is fundamentally incompatible with end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. Scanning bypasses the encryption in order to scan, exposing your messages to attackers. So all ‘until it’s technically feasible’ means is opening the door to scanning in future rather than scanning today. It’s not a change, it’s kicking the can down the road.”

nulluser ,

I remember a very specific commercial where they were listing stuff that was “on” AOL, most or all of which was just on the broader actual Internet , and then closed with some pitch like, “AOL has things you can’t get anywhere else,” clearly implying everything they just listed was exclusive to AOL. I couldn’t understand why every other ISP wasn’t suing them into oblivion for that crap.

The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i... (www.wired.com)

The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i…::Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of...

nulluser ,

From my experience (been to BM a few times, not recently though), most Burners are left of center and would likely accept anthropogenic climate change as real. Likely for political reasons rather than scientific reasons, though, as many of those same Burners would also happily accept that crystals/magnets/heavily diluted water can cure disease and that the positions of nearby planets relative to distant stars from the perspective of Earth combined with how many times the moon had orbited Earth since January 1st on your birthday can vaguely predict what’s going to happen to you in the next week or so.

nulluser ,

“We’re going to make examples of traitors to our country,” Stark wrote.

Yes, yes we are, including you.

nulluser ,

Good bot

UK says a supersonic Russian bomber likely to have been destroyed in drone attack (www.reuters.com)

Aug 22 (Reuters) - British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber....

nulluser ,

That’s awful for those people. Sadly, many Christians in the US use stories like this to boost their own persecution complex so that they can justify (to themselves) their own persecution of other people.

nulluser ,

Pretty sure you can’t short a private company. It has to be traded on a public exchange to short sell it.

nulluser ,

That was my first thought. “Are those numbers adjusted for inflation?” Glad you did the math so that I didn’t have to.

nulluser ,

Just buying the mp3s and having them forever.

nulluser ,

Not unless you’re “buying” it from some service that doesn’t let you download the file. Definitely don’t do that.

  • Buy the mp3s.
  • Download them (& backup to a separate location)
  • Listen to them on whatever mp3 player you want.
  • Gradually accumulate an enormous music collection that you can listen to for free forever.

A California Wine Company Had to Destroy 2,000 Bottles of Wine After Illegally Aging Them at the Bottom of the Ocean (www.foodandwine.com)

The problem — and this is a significant one — was that the company’s owners never received the proper permits from the California Coastal Commission or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which turned that “perfect environment” into an illegal one....

nulluser OP ,

The byline on the article reads…

Officials call the wine “not fit for human consumption.”

Considering all of the other shenanigans the company was up to, I certainly wouldn’t trust them enough to put anything they made in my mouth.

nulluser ,

*synchronize

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*than

Pope Francis restates Catholic Church is for everyone, including LGBTQ+ people (abcnews.go.com)

In one of the most iconic moments coming out of World Youth Day, Pope Francis called on the hundreds of thousands gathered before him to yell back at him that the Catholic Church is for “todos, todos, todos” – everyone, everyone, everyone.

nulluser ,

How self loathing can a person be?

“I need to pick a religion, but I can’t decide which… oh, yes, Catholicism looks good.”

You 👏 don’t 👏 need 👏 religion. Just live your life. Make genuine connections with friends. Be good to everyone. Try to leave the world better than it would have been without you. No magic required.

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Sad trombone

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