December 7, 1941.

How to tell the techs you’re lying without telling the client

🗄 or 🗃 come to mind.

Aren’t cars notoriously evil in NYC?

It doesn’t matter. Buddha is Buddha.

Authoritarianism is far right along the spectrum, and liberalism is center, center-right or center-left depending on the specific tenets set by the movement. (There are multiple liberalisms out there.)

Neoliberalism as practiced by the US Democratic Party and the UK Labor Party is right wing.

FOSS works on the premise of an angry engineer, that someone finally got pissed off about a problem enough to write a solution.

This so tracks.

All we need is for the communist government to say we like what you’re trying to do. Here’s an allowance for expenses!

Happy birthday,… Mr. President…

To be fair, a woman sleeping with anyone who is not her license-designated lover / owner is interpreted in Hollywood to be an act of rebellion.

Outside the US, in the industrialized world, IRL, it’s just normal.

At the point motorists will speed up to make a point there is a societal attitude problem.

I use my context menu key as the chording key to control any keyboard macro profiles, so that I can terminate, reload, summon for editing or summon a help file as needed.

There are VPNs that operate in stealth mode so they don’t look like VPN traffic as they’re being used.

Still illegal, but not detectable. No riskier than being a political activist antagonistic to the state.

I’d research an internet node that could be raised with a couple of bake sales and deployed anywhere with the objective of providing free high-speed wifi to the populated world.

After a roll-out to get every point on the globe covered (that has people near it), we’d work on an upgrade campaign to make sure it is redundant and robust and never shuts down no matter how angry the local dictators are.

The people have advantage when crowdsourcing repairs and reroutes around censorship and responding to DDOS so this should usher in a wave of democratic (lower case) movements across the world. Movements towards public services and benefits will likely follow, according to CIA analysts who study such things.

Roller skates!

If you tell the truth, I won’t get more angry.

Mostly because I’m at peak rage already.

In the US, internet piracy is not a crime, but a civil infraction. And yes, our media overlords have been trying to make it a crime for decades.

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In the case of dad, he’s very susceptible to loyalty-driven advertising, and is true believers in several sports teams as well.

My dad’s a literal rocket scientist (just recently retired from JPL) and also a devout MAGA disciple and FOX News viewer. Human beings are just not sophisticated enough to deal with a trillion-dollar propaganda machine on their own. I don’t know what the solution is, and we don’t seem to have one so far, except to FO after the viewership FAs and elects autocrats and billionaire bro oligarchies into power.

Some of us are able to acquire electoral savvy and vote defensively, but a lot of us are too preoccupied or too exhausted from work and vote on vibes, to dire consequence.

Well, bad the way Edmund Povensie was bad while under the guile of the White Witch, or the way the Little Mermaid was bad (i.e. poor ) at seeing through the sea hag’s hard sell.

Situational sexuality has assured that every navy has been pretty gay (that is, sexually adaptable) since the inception of maritime travel.