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Top Muslim-voter organization endorses Harris as Middle East conflict escalates (apnews.com)

Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, marking a significant boost to her campaign since many Muslim and Arab American organizations have opted to support third-party candidates or not endorse....

zabadoh ,

Don’t laugh.

In an election where the polls are statistically tied in the battleground states, a handful of voters could make a difference.

One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric (apnews.com)

As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso....

zabadoh ,

The disinformation campaign on Facebook targeting migrants has subsided for now, until somebody needs another immigration crisis.

Migrants are overwhelmingly dependent on Facebook for information, and the sources that they follow are riddled with disinformation. techtransparencyproject.org/…/inside-world-misinf…

zabadoh ,

Trump: Loyalty for me, but not for thee.

zabadoh ,

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Like @TheTechnician27 said, this is closing a loophole that was in the original grocery bag reduction law.

zabadoh ,

That depends on how Canada implemented their plastic bag ban.

California’s ban allowed “reusable” bags, which the plastics industry interpreted to produce bags that looked a lot like the thin single use bags, but of thicker plastic, and consumer habits weren’t changed by much.

Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident (www.theguardian.com)

The last time I met Evgenia Kara-Murza, it was a grim day in early March. The timing couldn’t have been worse. As we spoke, Alexei Navalny’s coffin was being lowered into the frozen ground in a Moscow cemetery. Meanwhile Evgenia’s husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was still incarcerated in a Siberian prison cell almost...

zabadoh ,

Okay, but will it be replaced by something better, or just the most ruthless, violent and opportunistic who can rush in (heh) and fill the power vacuum first?

zabadoh ,

They still have to form a coalition with other parties to get over 50% to form a ruling coalition.

If they don’t ally with either of the Russian-backed anti-Ukraine parties AFD (right) and BSW (left), it’ll take just about everyone else to get over 50%

zabadoh ,

He sounds very Trump-like to me!

Made in his own image…

zabadoh ,

That was an easy mistake to make.

It’s well past time to militarily overthrow the evil repressive religious zealot regime in Alaska.

/s sort of

zabadoh ,

Trump: I’m waiting on the final word from the Russian FSB.

zabadoh ,

NRA: The only way to stop a bad golfer with a gun is a good golfer with a gun.

zabadoh , (edited )

googles for “how to migrate to Sweden”

zabadoh ,

He should have incorporated himself. That way no Texas court would ever convict him of anything.

zabadoh ,

Language is much more than words in a dictionary.

Each language carries its original cultural concepts and ways of thinking.

zabadoh , (edited )

Weird. Her face looks quite ethnic to me.

Repressed self hatred much?

zabadoh ,

The first couple of weeks on a private tracker are always pretty rough, until you can build up your ul/dl ratio high enough to get some breathing room.

Some sites make things easier on newbs than others.

If possible, look for recent freeleech torrents, especially popular ones, download them even if you aren’t really interested in the content, and seed them 24/7 to build your ul stats…

zabadoh ,

Spot the difference…

zabadoh ,

You have at least 10 years from when your tapes were written.

Hope the device you have to read them still works …

zabadoh ,

My scribblings will still be illegible after I’m dead. HA!

zabadoh ,

WTF is newsfromthestates.com?

The site itself seems pretty neutral, or “left leaning” as some news bias bot would put it.

Oddly, the site takes pains to hide who is writing it.

Indirectly, it says that it’s written by “statesnewsroom.com” which actually does say that it’s published and written by these people Chris Fitzsimon and Andrea Verykoukis whose google searches appear to have bona fide histories as progressive journalists.

At first glance, I kind of like it, actually.

There is a deficit in state-level local news, but I’m not sure how many people would actually take the time to read all of it.

zabadoh ,

“A slight edge” isn’t enough.

Harris needs at least a 4 point lead to overcome the built-in Republican advantage in the Electoral College (fuck the EC).

zabadoh , (edited )

Yes, that’s pretty much it.

Sparsely populated states like the Dakotas have more votes than their population proportionally should have.

Take North Dakota vs California, for example:

North Dakota has 3 electoral votes, California has 54

North Dakota’s population is about 784K, and California 39 million, or about 50 times North Dakota’s population

If California had proportional electoral representation to ND’s based on their population, it would have 150 electoral votes to ND’s 3.

Also Southern/conservative states mostly take away the right to vote from felons for life, and therefore a large chunk of the African American vote is ineligible because of disproportionate policing of those communities. Among other problems with AAs’ access to their voting rights, like gerrymandering, fewer polling stations, etc.

zabadoh ,

They’re all pretty much the same people.

zabadoh ,

Then private industry will claim it was all their hard work and boostrap pulling that made development into space possible, so they deserve all the profits instead of their workers.

zabadoh , (edited )

I’m space radio, the real space radio

All the other space radios are imitating

So won’t the real space radio, please stand up

Please stand up, please stand up

zabadoh ,

This was by design to kickstart the private industry for space development.

NASA could have just kept building and flying space shuttles, but since the retirement of the space shuttle program in 2011, they were renting payload space on Russian rockets to get stuff into orbit.

Getting off of dependence on Russian rockets turned out to be tremendous foresight.

James Hoffman's AeroPress recipe is not that great

I’ve been using James Hoffman’s recipe since I bought AeroPress, and I was pretty satisfied. While being simple, it produced rich, balanced cups of coffee for both light and medium roasts. I was happy with it. But then I started noticing that some light-roasted coffee was too bitter. It rarely happened, but when it did, it...

zabadoh ,

Light and medium roasts are finicky and vary by the bag.

The lighter the roast, the easier it is to brew too long, resulting in astringency.

If a brew is astringent, keep reducing brew time until the astringency goes away.

zabadoh ,

What kind of system that depends on centralized servers can ever be secure from government snooping?

That kind of architecture is completely hopeless in that regard.

Is a encrypted, distributed, P2P architecture realistic though?

zabadoh ,

I just signed up for Matrix because you mentioned it.

I installed the Element front end, because that seems to be the most popular.

It looks like IRC, which is fine if that’s all you need.

It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked, which is understandable, given that the amount of data transmitted for redundancy between home servers is exponential with the number of home servers.

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime but Matrix has :matrix.org

So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to ?

zabadoh ,

There’s a Trump undercount in polling: Trump voters don’t trust “MSM” and therefore don’t answer calls from pollsters, or are embarrassed to admit they will vote for him.

Same goes for asking random people on the street.

zabadoh ,

Or Electoral College even.

I would like to see what an Electoral Collage looks like.

zabadoh ,

Mom went authoritarian on me when I cut up her Electoral magazines.

zabadoh ,

Trump deemed too evil for conservative Darth Vader to support him, or even to just stay quiet.

zabadoh , (edited )

How to cut off PS online verification: reddit.com/…/how_to_fix_photoshop_we_cant_verify_…

But the tool they recommend using, GenP, does trigger Windows Defender warnings because it modifies binaries, so read the installation instructions carefully.

Or migrate to FOSS software, or pay Adobe to use their product.

zabadoh ,

What is the meaning behind “Ope”?

Is that a local expression?

zabadoh , (edited )

Wow, thanks! I wouldn’t have guessed some of those uses.

I’m guessing that it’s short for (I h)ope (you don’t mind, but…)

zabadoh OP ,

I’m sure the SCOTUS conservative supermajority will find that the founding fathers intended that Russian propaganda should be allowed to elect insurrectionists and criminals.

A Christian school appeals its ban on competing after it objected to a transgender player (apnews.com)

A Vermont Christian school that is barred from participating in the state sports league after it withdrew its high school girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student was playing on the opposing team has taken its case to a federal appeals court....

zabadoh ,

But the Christian school can say “The trans girl deprived you of your playoff! He is evil, see?” to their team.

Complete bullshit, but some of them might swallow it, and become conservatives or TERFs or other anti-trans.

zabadoh ,

Giving new meaning to the proverbial “Murder, Inc.”

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending (www.theverge.com)

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and...

zabadoh ,

So long gone publishers works will never be archived for public use.

Idiotic…

zabadoh ,

I imagine something similar to Columbine: Unchecked bullying culture in the student body.

zabadoh ,

I was bullied as a kid, and if it had been that easy for me to get guns back then I would have seriously looked into it.

Yeah, it is that simple.

The relatively recent accessibility of guns everywhere in some parts of the country makes gun tragedies a lot more likely.

Whether it’s bullying at school, domestic partner violence, or cops having to shoot first because a perp on the street is much more likely to have a gun than other countries.

zabadoh ,

In the long history of schools around the United States, of course school shootings had to start some time.

The problem is that they’re growing exponentially in number, especially in the last decade or so:

…aap.org/…/School-Shootings-in-the-United-States-…

  • 15 in school year 2009-2010
  • 18 in 2010-2011
  • 16 in 2011-2012
  • 26 in 2012-2013
  • 46 in 2013-2014
  • 43 in 2014-2015
  • 38 in 2015-2016
  • 48 in 2016-2017
  • 89 in 2017-2018
  • 115 in 2018-2019
  • 116 in 2019-2020
  • 146 in 2020-2021
  • 328 in 2021-2022

Absolutely fucking horrific.

What are the advantages of using a private tracker?

I’ve been using public trackers for the past 20 years, and never had a problem with them. I never got any virus or malware, and almost always found what I was looking for. What I couldn’t find through public trackers, I’d find it with soulseek. So I’m wondering what are the actual advantages of using private trackers?

zabadoh ,

There are some specialty content, such as British TV and Asian TV and movies, or complete archives of porn sites, that don’t appear regularly on public torrent sites, or streaming sites for that matter.

If you never watch that kind of thing, then you don’t need to sign up for a private tracker.

zabadoh ,

Nobody had the heart to tell him… www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ

zabadoh ,

Didn’t you watch Doogie Howser?

zabadoh ,

That interesting bit about the M-38 highway being within Ukrainian FPV drone range.

And unsaid but that must include the rail line that runs alongside the highway.

Although that is likely from special ops teams for them to get that far.

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