There’s always a 10% chance one of the kitties is eating the flowers in the kitchen. The evidence remains after. More rarely, she’ll jump down and run away when caught in the act. She’s even done it in front of us when we were watching TV and she thought we wouldn’t notice.
Someone even completely knocked over a vase and spilled whatever everywhere last month. She swears it wasn’t her. Must have been a burglar.
EFF is the only org where I’d throw away any job to join them.
Ted Cruz can’t because he has only culture war and lies. Ron Wyden has real experience drafting laws and policy (Section 230). Wyden needed a republican turd to join up for a bi-partisan bill. He found a sucker who put his name on it (for all the wrong reasons, but right-wing dipshits don’t look into anything, so it still works). Sometimes, you take what you can get to advance your cause.
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward
Ron Wyden Wants To Know Why The DEA Still Has On-Demand Access To Trillions Of Phone Records
Ted Cruz Proudly Pledges To Kill Last Ditch Funding Effort For Popular Low-Income Broadband Program
Ted Cruz Roasted for Pretending Paris Climate Accord Is Only for Parisians (Mother fucker went to Princeton. I know that doesn’t mean he’s intelligent, you can buy your way in, but he sure as shit understood why this was a lie. It shows his contempt for his supporters (deserved, earned, they are stupid as a rock). Which is why this happened:)
Ted Cruz Responds to Photo of Him Leaving Texas Before Winter Storm
Critics may chastise me for pulling all my pro-Wyden links from a single source (TechDirt). You can find the same info on his policies pretty much anywhere. I just like TechDirt’s tone in calling things what they are. Any other serious (as in, not right-wing propaganda) reporters will agree on the facts of what he’s done, but they are often coy / timid about calling out those acting in bad faith.
You know what you need to get a bill through? Bi-partisanship. We had it for the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Not that it did all that much in the long run, but at least it passed. You think we’re gonna pass laws to (attempt to) hold this admin accountable without a repub putting their name on it? Fat chance. Use one of the dumb idiots to launder your message for their audience. Again, they’re too stupid / thoughtless / disinterested to actually look into anything. It’s a win.
The best part is when they listen to their constituents. Wait… they don’t?! I’m shocked!
Also, as Trump said, nobody cares about the Epstein files. It’s a hoax!
Only because the hype has lasted longer than expected. Now that IPOs have been filed, the AI companies (Anthropic, OpenAI) released statements about slowing down to protect us. They’re setting the stage for lower growth. But I think you should invest every penny you have into “SpaceXMegaTwitterSuperCarAI”.
And I have no problem with that. I sort of found out who they were by accident cause they had a trend of good stories getting posted here and at some point I auditioned their podcast where they mention that.
Ron Wyden co-authored Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in 1996, which protects internet platforms from being held liable for user-generated content. It’s a big reason that the internet exploded in popularity. We may need to revisit and increase regulation since seeing what social media became, but he’s had a pretty great track record.
How do you know they didn’t spin up a factory here and create jobs? /s
I don’t self-host email but I don’t use my own domain to have control over it. Look into FastMail and a custom domain. That’s the happy path.
I can’t imagine a better way to ensure people don’t donate land ever again.
404 Media is journalist-founded and supported by reader subscriptions. They are four high quality investigators doing amazing work (they work with a couple of other people on some stories).
If you can’t afford it, I understand. I share archive links all the time. For anyone with a few extra bucks who cares about quality reporting by people with integrity, this is easily one of the best options around. I’ve been extremely happy knowing they exist. (Gets you extra content from their podcast, too.)
“This is more than shoddy reporting, it’s intellectually dishonest,” Stone continued. “Pure advocacy-driven click bait.”
Maybe don’t be evil pieces of shit for, what, a decade (at least since it’s been widely covered)? That might help generate goodwill.
That’s the electricity in action.
The mean was five episodes per day.
I’m finally above average.
It’s gonna come crashing down pretty soon. It’s gonna hurt all of us. It won’t hurt the people responsible nearly enough.
I thought my mother was a rube when she voted for Trump the first time. I was angry when she voted for his the second time. I decided our relationship was over when she voted for him the third time.
You have to be willfully ignorant or a piece of shit to not know at this point. I hope she’s the former. I’ll keep hoping until the end of my life, because she’s not a part of my world any more.
Good!
Remember how Amazon had cities compete to host data centers pre-pan and they were full of shit because they weren’t the economic uplift they promised? It happened. You can find it if you search. I’m old and it’s getting late for me, so you’ll have to find it.
It’s not a secret. It’s kinda like how that shitty town in Wisconsin (I think?) city council ignored their constituents about a Foxconn factory that doesn’t make the shit they said they’d make. Trump lied about it in his first term. Why bother now, you can just lock up your enemies.
There was a great podcast ep about it from Reply All before they went out of business for some terrible (allegedly) work practices. The townsfolk were pissed off.
At least once more.
I’m gonna tell you about the most successful prank I’ve experienced.
My work had nice stereo speakers setup on space near the ceiling (weird layout). There was a back door to a tiny parking lot that we probably paid more to have (windows and stuff not available to all offices in a shared space).
Fucking leaf blowers show up. They’re out there, we can see them. They just won’t stop! About an hour in, my buddy complains that they’re giving him a headache. Someone agrees they should go away. Another of my friends (to this day, that shithead) starts laughing so hard. “I can’t believe nobody noticed!”
He had set the stereo (hooked to a computer) to a youtube video of leaf blowers. The guys with the leaf blowers had been gone for a long time. None of us figured it out. He’s a good friend and I still hate him for that. I think I’ll slap his baby to get back at him, I’m so mad (still!) (not really, I love him).
I still laugh with anger at how he duped us so hard.
Macs are my daily driver and have been for decades. You’ll have to fight me to take mine.
I use Linux for VMs and NUCs and servers. Less than I did a decade ago, but that’s only because I have less energy to put into random projects as I get older. Gone are the late-night hackathons until 4am. I support mostly Windows at work.