I’ve been using Backblaze buckets to hold data I serve to friends with GameVault, and a few other things. Sitting at just shy of 1TB if memory serves? I’m paying about 4 bucks a month.
If you serve it through cloudflare, you aren’t charged for bandwidth. Which works out nicely because I use a cloudflare worker to redirect all download requests in GameVault. Super speedy downloads for my users, zero bandwidth coming off my home network.
Pretty sure the point is that congress wouldn’t approve the war. Even those in congress that would likely support this would likely back down, as they usually do when forced to put their name behind actions like this.
An Atlantic journalist dubbed a "top-notch hater" by Rep. Jasmine Crockett's team and thrown out at Crockett's rally in Lubbock, Texas, on Friday, released audio from the moment she was told to leave the lawmaker's campaign event.
Elaine Godfrey, a staff writer covering national politics for the outlet, was wearing her press badge identifying who she was and had "attempted to join a closed-door press scrum with the congresswoman that was open to the other reporters at the rally," but was turned away. Instead, she decided to start interviewing people in the crowd when a security guard walked up to her and told her she needed to leave, escorting her away.
In the unedited transcript Godfrey reveals what happened during the incident.
Woman: Can you get your stuff? (Speaking to someone else.) Her team wants her to leave, and they’re asking her to leave.
Godfrey: Why are you asking me to leave?
Woman: They just said, ‘Elaine from Atlantic, white girl with a hat and notepad. She’s interviewing people in the crowd. She’s a top-notch hater and will spin. She needs to leave.’ (Speaking to someone else.) I just told her to get her bag and go unintelligible] that’s from her team.
Godfrey, who needed to get an Uber from the location, was then told by a security guard to go wait outside the event, along the side of a country road.
She got an Uber and then followed up with Crockett directly on Friday.
"After getting picked up by the Uber, I went straight to Lubbock’s famous Prairie Dog Town, where I received a warmer welcome," Godfrey wrote. "I called Crockett directly today to ask about all of this. When she answered, and I told her who was calling, she said, 'Oh!,' sounding surprised, and hung up. She did not respond to my follow-up texts."
Crockett's team has said there is no evidence that a journalist was booted from the rally.
Godfrey told CNN that plenty of people also witnessed what happened — and that she has the receipts to show for it, including the recording.
You can’t make someone a pedophile any more than you can make someone prefer blondes or grannies. It’s an attraction that can’t be helped or influenced. You don’t just become a pedophile.
“Fake child porn” isn’t even a thing. Child porn is illegal, mainly, because it is inherently abuse. Which is why it has been “rebranded” to child sexual abuse material or “CSAM”. Adults that look young is in no way child porn, and to brand it as such is to stigmatize people for how they look.
My only resistance to leaving discord is that it’s where 99% of my gaming communities are. There’s no way I’m convincing hundreds of people to move off to something I self host, or to self host themselves. It’s just not feasible.
If we wanna be technical, there’s nothing to do. They can saber rattle, but until the executive order is signed, there’s not really much to do. It’s already illegal, so working towards making it illegal is silly.
There’s also the fact that even if he signed it, congress wouldn’t really play a part in what comes next. It would get struck down by the courts, make its way to the Supreme Court, and then who the fuck knows.
Now, do I think the republican majority congress would actually stop it if given the choice? Not likely.
Most kids phones are hand me downs from parents these days. At least they were with my kids other than the first line purchase, and most of their friends. A 6 year old with an iPhone 11 wouldn’t be that weird.
I’ve been using Backblaze buckets to hold data I serve to friends with GameVault, and a few other things. Sitting at just shy of 1TB if memory serves? I’m paying about 4 bucks a month.
If you serve it through cloudflare, you aren’t charged for bandwidth. Which works out nicely because I use a cloudflare worker to redirect all download requests in GameVault. Super speedy downloads for my users, zero bandwidth coming off my home network.