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  • If we convict him just one more time...

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  • Oh, that's a local volunteer militia. Much different than the organizations at play here. They usually don't have much to do with the state, except that the state govt can choose to activate them to assist with emergencies; in which case they'll be compensated by the State for their time.

    They're basically like the Reserves for the state's National Guard. They fill in as requested, but don't have much to do but train. I'm pretty sure Trump can't activate them, as they're strictly a local militia. Federal government has no authority over them.

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  • The National Guard IS the state guard. That's it's official title. Perhaps you're confusing them for the Reserves, which is a federal militia that's only activated as needed.

    But the president can activate the National Guard as a federal entity under his control.

    When they say Trump is calling in the National Guard, he's not deploying troops to the state; they're already there. He's just activating them and "deploying" them wherever he needs them in the state.

    The big problem here is that activating means putting them on active duty (same status as federal military troops) and giving them active duty pay and benefits. But Trump and Pete Hegseth are not currently paying them (claiming the pay will come later) and trying to limit their deployed status so they don't need to pay them full deployment benefits.

    It's like a business ensuring you only work 39 hours a week so they don't have to give you medical benefits or full-time employment status. If they don't fix it soon, the National Guard may just join the protestors.

    Which may be why Trump is sending in the US Marines too; to keep the National Guard in line. Or he's throwing a bunch of conflicting groups together to start a civil war so he can jump-start his dictatorship. This is how it always starts; declare martial law, deploy troops to every major city to seize control, then start making changes to laws and citizen's rights across the books, with no one able to stop him through courts or uprisings.

    Source: I'm a retired US Air Force veteran. Spent 20 years in active duty service, the last few years under Trump's first term. It was an absolute nightmare and we hoped he was gone for good. But here we are again, and he doesn't have a majority Democrat govt to keep him on a leash this time, so we're in for a rough ride.

  • What California governor Newsom said after an Alabama senator called LA ‘a third world country’

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  • Your definition of anarchy is what they try to sell on Fox News. That's not what it actually is. Anarchism is actually a very structured system that opposes a ruling class controlling people and grants more freedom to the individuals to govern.

    Fox News just takes the most extreme way in which anarchism can go wrong and promotes that as the default state.

  • When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?

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  • Are you sure it wasn't "queuing?" As in, "I'm queuing up some food to be cooked for our queue of orders."

  • A man can dream

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  • We've already petitioned Canada about adopting us since Trump was elected, and they responded positively! They consider us their favorite neighbor of all the border states. 🥰

    Granted, it was a joke in response to Trump's tariffs, but still... (Source)

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  • I had this problem learning Norwegian.

    • "And" is "og"
    • "Or" is "eller"

    Everytime I see "og" in a Norwegian sentence, I immediately want to translate as "or." It keeps tripping me up! "Eller" feels like too many letters to be "or," so I keep translating it as "and" instead.

  • Is what I'm doing actually useful?

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  • Reddit wasn't immediately known as the "front page of the Internet." It took time to build up a reputation and tons of content before it started to get noticed and promoted by search engines.

    Lemmy is the same. It's small now, but with enough content, it will eventually become a reference point like Reddit. Every little bit counts.

  • Is there an easy way to remotely monitor another person's pulse?

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  • Thank you. As a former IT guy, I've been trying to keep my family away from Apple products. They're way overpriced for their limited and locked down functionality compared to everything else out there.

    My dad had Parkinson's late in his life and my sister replaced his Android with an iPhone, specifically so she could give him this fitness tracker. He spent the last few years of his life struggling to figure out a new phone, and we could never get the damn app to work anyway. He fell all the time and it never once reported it.

    I spent 20 years in the IT field and getting my computer-illiterate family to consult me before buying computer tech is like pulling teeth. I offer them free consultation and support all the time and they just go out and buy spyware-riddled junk on their own. They only come to me when their stuff is no longer useable.

    My sister finally stopped buying iPads... only for her to go and buy Amazon Fire tablets for her kids. I had to go in and lock them down because they were constantly shoving ads into every function of the tablet. Her kids kept trying to buy games because they were constantly being advertised to them. And guess who left their credit card credentials on the tablet?

    My apologies, /rant.

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  • Always. I spent so much time beating the game, might as well sit through the credits. Sometimes developers hide interesting things in there. It's not like a movie where I can fast-forward to the credits anytime I want, so I might as well check it out while it's there.

    At worst, I'll just let them run while I distract myself with something else. I don't need to be staring at them for the whole run. But I'm nearby and ready in case something interesting shows up.

    The first time I beat Metal Gear Solid 4, it was late at night on a work night. I had stayed up late because I really wanted to finish the game instead of waiting until the next evening. I was so ready for the credits to roll so I could sleep!

    Little did I know, cinematic cutscenes kept popping up throughout the credits, changing the end of the game! If I had just turned it off as soon as credits rolled, I would've missed the true end to the story.

    Also... the credits and cutscenes at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4 are 90 minutes long! I definitely didn't get enough sleep that night. But it was worth it.

  • Who did this 😂😂😂

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  • Oh man! I had no clue what the program was called. We used it way back in my kindergarten/1st grade days, so I'd long forgotten the specifics. Thank you! This is exactly it.

  • Who did this 😂😂😂

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  • What's all this newfangled content being posted as old? My first computer had Windows 3.11 that you booted to from a command prompt. It was an amazing graphical upgrade from the command line computers. Now you could actually see what you were doing on the screen instead of typing commands and hoping a document would print with your data.

    Before that, I used Apple IIe computers at school, with their solidly green command line interface. I remember being taught how to program instructions with those computers. You had a "turtle" (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.

    Whatever content is in this meme, it all released long after I grew up and became an adult. You young whippersnappers.

  • Who'd like to visit Neuschwanstein castle?

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  • Thanks for the info! I was told on a Munich tour once that Hitler gutted the finances and resources of Bavaria for WWII, then after the war ended, what was left went toward reparations. They claimed that Bavaria basically footed the bill for most of Germany, during and after the war, leaving them broke and dependent.

    I guess my tour guide didn't know what he was talking about.

  • Who'd like to visit Neuschwanstein castle?

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  • Yeah, his official physician pronounced him dead from accidental drowning. But it was only a couple feet of standing water, so... 🤷

  • Who'd like to visit Neuschwanstein castle?

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  • I definitely think it's a must-see location. Sure, it's a bit of a tourist trap. But if you spend an afternoon touring the castle and its grounds, then the rest of the day driving around the region, you won't be disappointed. It's such a gorgeous area.

    Füssen itself is a beautiful region. My wife and I usually stay in a small local hotel in town there. We've also stayed in a hostel in Munich while visiting Neuschwanstein Castle. They provided a free walking tour of the capital city in the mornings. We spent about 3 hours just walking around Munich, being shown its grand and tragic history. The historical landmarks around town are extremely subtle. We would've completely missed them without a tour guide.

    We also toured the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site just outside of Munich. Definitely important to check out if you're into history.

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  • I've been there several times! I used to live about a 4-hour drive away from that castle.

    It is absolutely gorgeous! And not just the castle, but the whole region. Bavaria is one of my favorite places in the whole world, and I've traveled all over the globe. If I could pick any place to build my dream home and retire, Bavaria is very high on that list. King Ludwig II picked a perfect spot for his fairytale castle.

    He wasn't smart about how he built it, though. His country was going broke and rather than deal with his subjects, he just fucked off to the corner of Bavaria to make a fantasy castle based on the works of his favorite composer, Richard Wagner.

    He was so hated by his people for funneling all his money into this castle instead of helping them to survive, that one day he "mysteriously" drowned in a tiny little stream out back behind the castle. Construction on the castle stopped immediately and they turned it into a tourist attraction to generate money for the kingdom. The economy rebounded and it's been a tourist attraction ever since, so no one's officially lived there (the royal family had a summer home next door) and it's not 100% complete inside.

    Still, it's a gorgeous castle and I highly recommend checking it out if you're in the area. The famous shot of the castle from the back/side is taken from a suspended foot bridge behind the castle. Definitely make the hike through the woods to see that view! The whole valley below the castle is beautiful to drive through as well.

    Another interesting fact while we're on the subject. All the American stereotypes of Germany (beer, bratwurst, lederhosen, yodeling, etc.) is actually Bavarian culture, not German culture. Germans outside of Bavaria get really insulted if you bring up these stereotypes with them.

    Bavaria has a very rich and interesting culture. They wanted to split off from Germany and become their own country once upon a time, but then Hitler decided to make their capital, Munich, into his headquarters for the Third Reich. Then the whole place was bombed to hell during WWII.

    After the war, when Germany had to pay to rebuild Europe, most of the money came from Bavaria, which was an extremely rich region at the time. So they were bombed back to the stone age AND broke. Bavaria had to settle as a region of Germany instead of becoming their own independently wealthy country.

  • Musk calls Trump budget bill a 'disgusting abomination'

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  • I care, because what he says and does can drastically affect our lives in a bad way. It's important to be aware of what's happening. Ignoring him just gives him free reign to be an awful person without restriction.

    Honestly, it's why most of our government is allowing someone like Trump to do whatever he wants. Because who's gonna stop them? Who's going to enforce the rule of law?

    Most people just prefer to avoid political BS, so they complain about the way things are, then go back to their lives a few days later and no justice is actually performed. No accountability.

    Most of the time, I feel like the #StopMuskSpam campaigns on social media are just teaching us to ignore him so he can get away with more evil acts.

    And the fact that he's supposedly leaving politics feels like he's just tired of being in the spotlight and is trying to move back to the shadows so he can continue harming us without criticism.

    Don't ignore him; stay in touch with everything he's doing so you're informed and can respond appropriately. And that goes for all political figures in control of our lives.

  • I'm something of an expert myself

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  • I spent 20 years as an IT admin. We used cans of compressed air to clean dust out of computers. Light, gentle sprays, preferably cleaned outside so the dust doesn't just fill the room.

    If you hold down the spray button for a few seconds, the can turns ice cold really fast, so be sparing with it. Also, don't tip it upside-down while spraying or it'll spray liquid that can damage computer components.

    In all the years blowing dust out of computers, the only time I actually damaged a computer was when I tried to use a vacuum hose blowing air in reverse. It was too rough and broke some motherboard components.

  • Why did you set an avatar for your profile?

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  • Because I'm not an anonymous person. This is my default username for most of my public stuff, and it's how friends and family find me online. I try to be genuine online; I don't care to hide behind an anonymous profile.

    I firmly believe in being a decent, respectable person toward everyone, even when I'm anonymous and don't need to be. Every time I've created an anonymous account, it's just ended up turning into my regular public profile, so why hide under a different username?

    The profile pic just helps me stand out a bit more for others who know me here, and friends/family trying to find me. I regularly write video game reviews to post to !games@lemmy.world, so it helps me to be more recognized in the wild. My profile pic is my semi-anonymous profile pic that I use on other platforms when I don't want to broadcast my face to everyone.

  • Random Screenshots of my Games #61 - The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

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  • Thank you! 🥳

  • Random Screenshots of my Games #61 - The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

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