The Northern Ireland Assembly website is “temporarily unavailable” which I suppose is appropriate. (If annoying since it means I can’t read it to inspect the Assembly’s processes)
@chiffchaff There's also a lot of tension in US English about this kind of use of "folk" being characteristic of AAE and therefore appropriative if used by non-AAE speakers.
I’m not sure Musk will have any choice in the matter. He can’t afford to reinstate the moderation that would be needed to meet EU law, even if he wanted to.
I want to preface this by saying that I am not, in any way, a furry. I wish those who are all the best with it, but that’s not the angle I’m approaching this from.
That being said, I’m kinda mad that evolution took our tails.
Equal in length to my height, about 2-3cm in diameter, and scaly like a pangolin. Prehensile and strong enough to take my body weight.
Right, not starting anything, but normal countries have a general election should their parliament serially fail to produce a functioning (at least in name) legislature.
So without naming names, if any large federal republics with a 9 digit population in the western hemisphere need an intervention, blink twice.
I'm thinking of a western federal republic with 9-digit population which fits that description but doesn't have that option because that's not how elections work here...er I mean 'there'. (Unfortunately. Maybe. Who knows, in the place I'm thinking of triggered elections would almost certaily result in [even more] chaos.)
It’s weird. I remember in the lead up to the 1997 General Election that Blair and Brown were offering hope. With an election next year it feels like all the parties are now offering is reduced despair.
“Don’t worry, Trump won’t be nominee” “Don’t worry. Trump won’t be president” “Don’t worry, the UK won’t leave the EU” “Don’t worry about LePen” “Don’t worry about AfD” “Don’t worry, we can carry on with business as usual”
SOMEBODY FUCKING DO SOMETHING! START FUCKING WORRYING.
Precisely how I feel. I do not understand how this is happening, and why people enable it. I am happy with my dog, but am rapidly losing interest in humans.
One might think “the cold blooded murder of a million children is a bad thing” is an uncontroversial statement to make on this here federated network thing, but apparently there are more fans of murdering children here than one might imagine.
They are sensitive to the foreign policy of the UK, so writing to your MP or otherwise demonstrating your concern publicly is the most effective action you can take.
Wifi 6 (892.12ax) is interesting because it seems, the more of its useful features you turn on, the more 2.4GHz-only WiFi 4 (892.11n) cheap shit just breaks.
So I’m maintaining a separate 802.11n SSID on the same gear just for said cheap shit.
Cheap shit that breaks on WiFi 6 seems to include:
Princess dehumidifier (cloud only, but it seems they all are, so they’ll likely eventually brick it)
Daikin AC units (local control without cloud, thank fuck)
Legrand Netatmo zigbee hub (again local control, thankfully, but dear god its WiFi support is flakey and power cycling if involves using the fuse box)
iRobot Roomba i3
Seriously, this shit all has the cheapest nastiest buggy cheap junk WiFi implementation and they should be ashamed.
Also, I wish the EU would get round to banning cloud-only appliances. You just know they’re gonna turn the cloud services off years before the useful end of the device, basically bricking it. Local API or GTFO.
local API with no proprietary app (no client certificates to communicate with the appliances). Combined with easy-to-manage (for non-technical people) home gateway firewall, to allow/prevent Internet access.
@4somecurious Yeah. I use cheap TP-Link cameras at home, but have to rely on a firewall rule in my OpenWRT router to stop thew bloody things phoning home with pictures of my tits.
I realise I have fallen out of the habit of hash tagging or cw-ing posts. Given the distressing nature of the news at the moment I will try harder to do so.
this doesn't appear very well on my timeline - I get the CW, but have to visit thegoatery to actually see the post (unlikely a regular CW where one just clicks-through)...
@demoographics I think this is because the post is originally on friendica. I got confused about it a while back. Our comments here *do* end up in friendica, but the original content is a link.
Humanity throughout history is beset by fuckers. Right now, for example, we have overtly homicidal fuckers like Putin and Netanyahu, would be homicidal fuckers like Trump, and common or garden “hoarding all the money like some fucking dragon or something” fuckers like Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc.
There are also lots of other variety of fuckers: hatemongering fuckers like Farage, Murdoch or LePen: grifting fuckers swinging a wrecking ball at society because mummy didn’t like them or something.
And it seems to me that the problem is that for every fucker who gets to encounter the “and find out” stage: Hitler, Charles I of England, Louis XVI, etc, there are more for whom the only people finding out are the rest of us who have to live (or die) with their fuckery: Stalin, countless people with that Hapsburg chin, Henry Ford, and so-on.
I honestly think the world would be a much better place if fuckery were inherently a much higher risk strategy, and far less likely to leave all the important fluid pipes running through the neck intact (this i
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Humanity throughout history is beset by fuckers. Right now, for example, we have overtly homicidal fuckers like Putin and Netanyahu, would be homicidal fuckers like Trump, and common or garden “hoarding all the money like some fucking dragon or something” fuckers like Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc.
There are also lots of other variety of fuckers: hatemongering fuckers like Farage, Murdoch or LePen: grifting fuckers swinging a wrecking ball at society because mummy didn’t like them or something.
And it seems to me that the problem is that for every fucker who gets to encounter the “and find out” stage: Hitler, Charles I of England, Louis XVI, etc, there are more for whom the only people finding out are the rest of us who have to live (or die) with their fuckery: Stalin, countless people with that Hapsburg chin, Henry Ford, and so-on.
I honestly think the world would be a much better place if fuckery were inherently a much higher risk strategy, and far less likely to leave all the important fluid pipes running through the neck intact (this is a traditional “and find out” method throughout history, but far from the only one), but alas, the fuckers are the ones who by and large get to structure our society, and they do their best to ensure it’s structured in a way that keeps finding out as far from them as possible.
Just seems to me that the proportion of fuckers is related to the risk inherent in the strategy of fuckery, and that risk is far too low right now, hence the high and frankly unsustainable level of fuckery we encounter in our time.
I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of lower-level fuckers meet with 'misadventure' after causing a sufficient level of desperation in the wrong people. Pissing against the wind and all that. Sadly, that is less likely to happen on the political level.
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There was a time in Palestine pre Oslo where waving the Palestinian flag was against the law and Palestinians were arrested and jailed for doing so. Apparently it became a custom to wave slices of watermelon instead. mastodon.social/@Lazarou/11121…
When one of the West's most ghoulish fascists in government says they have your back perhaps it's time to stop and think? #UKPOL #Tories #SuellaBraverman #FreeSpeech
Incidentally, the ban is still in place in the 80% of the West Bank still under Israeli military law. Military Order 101 says: “It is forbidden to hold, wave, display or affix flags or political symbols, except in accordance with a permit of the military commander”. (Source btselem.org/demonstrations/mil… )
Every appliance in the house beeps. Some loud, some soft, but it's always just "beep" instead of a synthesized voice saying "The refrigerator door has been standing open for five minutes!" which is what I need to know.
personally I feel like I've been getting better results by using a SearXNG instance and just changing the meta search settings to only use engines I've never heard of.
For UK readers desiring a sense of scale, this is the boundary of the Gaza Strip (area 365 km^2, population 2m) rotated so it can be overlaid on the Isle of Wight (area 381 km^2, population 140k).
Amidst the performative cries of “Israel has the right to defend itself”, it seems to be heresy to acknowledge the humanity of the few million people who get to live, in perpetuity, as Israel’s ritual punching bag, and are expected to do nothing in response, nothing in prevention, and accept the blame for others doing literally anything.
And even saying this will just result in tedious wankers going, “oh, you support terrorism then?”
The way the Palestinian people are treated is some serious Omelas shit.
You don't even need to say anything. The Tories are currently on a cancellation rampage trying to find opposing politicians who have yet to spout the performative line.
When the state of Israel was formed there was still a significant Palestinian area. Subsequent invasions and occupations by the state of Israel means there is very little left. Even Gaza, which is tiny compared to Israel is now half the size it was. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fights. They have been invaded, occupied, controlled and had food, power and water controlled by a far more significantly armed nation. And although I can’t condone the murder of innocent civilians BY EITHER SIDE, I can understand the desperation in this action.
@Sarah Brown The main thing I remember from visiting Gaza was how full it was, and how closed in it felt. Border fences on three sides, sea on the fourth (but restricted). Even in the heady days of 1994 just post Oslo it felt like a cage. Sometimes the electricity would go off. You had to queue in the heat to get in or out, divided families shouted news to each other across the barbed wire fence. That was probably the high point of freedom. The thirty years since have raised a generation whose hopes for the future keep getting blown up and locked down at the jailers’ whim.
Yet another lightning connector dies from Electrolysis. Been cold plugging this one; it’s a lightning to USB C adaptor, and I’m working on the basis that cold plugging will extend the life.
But it still has a life expectancy of only a few months. My phone charges inductively but the iPad needs this fucking cursed connector.
I hate it with a passion. Useless piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddam thing it’s fucking supposed to.
Not just you: I’ve tried that same brand (and a few others); the premium-priced ones do seem to last a tad longer than the dirt-cheap ilk, but they all ‘fizzle out’ within weeks/months.
Never considered ‘cold plugging’ to rule out arcing/pitting but thanks to you I can see that’s extra effort that changes nothing.
Edited to include picture of my gently used adapter which isn’t working.
@So‑Called Vaughn The most premium one I ever bought lasted eight hours, because I used it to keep my phone charged when hiking in the damp,
Eight hours.
Came to the conclusion that spending extra money was a fool’s errand. Just buy what’s cheap and replace them when they die. Double the money does not get you double the life.
@rachel_norfolk Could it be climate related? Any other connectors do the same? Only lightning issues I’ve had are bends that crack the cable (which means it’s my wife’s cable. No shade or hate, I’m just unusually careful with stuff). Which is a pretty generic cable issue.
Must be horribly frustrating to have to switch out cables that often:(
Do you have the same experience with Apple branded cables? In my case the external white insulator starts breaking apart after some time (many months, more than a year, not sure exactly) but I haven’t seen the connectors themselves fail even once.
@Miguel Arroz Yes to Apple branded cables. They all do it. Without exception. Every lightning connector that provides power to the phone (peripherals last longer).
The connectors undergo corrosion/electrolysis and die. Doesn’t matter who makes them.
I’ve pretty much never had one where the connector failed structurally. They simply never last that long.
Interesting. The ones I use most frequently have the typical burnt pin, but they all work fine. I only replace them when the cable itself is falling apart. Wondering if the difference in weather between here and there has anything to do with it.
No other connector does this to me. It’s just lightning cables that provide power, and only lightning. USB C doesn’t do it. The old iPod dock cables didn’t do it. It’s just lightning, and they will always do it.
Bit pissed off with the EU for the “solidarity with Israel” posts. Solidarity with the Israeli citizens maybe, but with the state? Nopenopenope. Bet they don’t express solidarity with Palestine when Israel piles in and levels half the city again.
Apparently, 1,2-propanediol is one of the main carriers in vapes. Though I'm not sure vape manufacturers care enough about their customers for that to put it in one class or the other.
Just had some random pop up on Reddit, necroposting to reply to something I posted in 2022 saying, “you will never be a woman”
And, ok, whatever, but I replied asking if they’re able to explain what it is that doing this is doing for them.
And I hope they reply because I’m actually fascinated.
I get that they’re trying to offend me, but on the one hand, poor target selection because I’m years past that, and on the other, why not something contemporary? I mean, if they’re picking year old posts to reply to, their target might never even see it.
I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
> I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
It's the inner goblin tendency. You attack something small with the idea that the damage is so inconsequential that a retaliation would be too much work. But there will have been damage and they'll skulk away smirking and rubbing their hands at a job well done.
Who cares enough to reply to post from a year ago? That's crazy. I'd do this to someone if I wanted to get back at them, but just a little. A tiny peck.
I shouldn’t watch 16th century period dramas. It just makes me sad that the wrong side won the Wars of the Roses and begat a dynasty of ghastly homocidal despots.
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