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dryfter

@ dryfter @lemm.ee

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  • Anything demeaning another human in an effort to make them less than everyone else is pure hatred and is hate speech.

  • Trump’s Faith Adviser Says Women Should ‘Submit’ to Men in Bonkers Rant

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  • Wait….so we’re just going to ignore the separation of church and state, never mind spouting off sexist bullshit?

  • I don't care. He was a saint.

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  • Left, right, center, up, down…..I don’t give a shit — we all need more Mr. Rogers and learn how to love and not hate each other and our differences

  • Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.

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  • This whole discussion has been a fascinating read in the comments.

    But does anyone really think we're going to have another election? Much less a non-rigged election?

  • Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs: By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.

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  • In 2023, United States exported a total of $1.86T, making it the number 2 exporter in the world.

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  • Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs: By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.

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  • Yes, I was being genuine with my question (but reading it again I can see how I was a tad snarky). I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this stuff, obviously.

    I also genuinely wonder if other countries couldn't figure out how to source that stuff from countries other than the U.S. if they really wanted to. Again, I am ignorant when it comes to this stuff.

  • Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs: By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.

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  • Does the U.S. make anything of value as an export compared to what we import from other countries? Almost everything today has a microchip inside it (except food.....I hope) and I'm pretty sure we import most of the microchips we use in stuff. I think the trade war is going to make our economy MUCH worse pretty quick because we are in an even more global economy than we were when Hitler was in power.

  • Michigan Rep. Thanedar calls for Trump to be impeached over case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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  • So let's say....somehow....every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?

    Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I'm not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn't a white male.

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • I can guarantee you I would again waste countless hours just spinning stuff around again if I tried using it now 😆

  • No more 'made-in-China' in the U.S.? It's headed that way, Chinese exporters say

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  • Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States' third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.

    I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.

    Everyone hop in, we’re going back to 1950!

  • New Ford F-150s are NOT cute - they are the result of dangerous overbreeding! A healthy Ford F-150 should have a large truck bed and a small cab.

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  • Bring back the old Chevy S-10's and Ford Rangers from the 90's/early 2000's! They handled like shit in the snow even with a bed full of sandbags but they were fun as hell to drive.

  • The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback

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  • While that sounds cool to me, it kind of defeats my main purpose of switching to an e-reader in the first place. I have trouble holding physical books for a long time due to hand pain. I had a similar issue with the e-reader, just not as bad, until I put a PopSocket on the back of it. Now I can hold it with the PopSocket resting in-between 2 fingers and can read significantly longer.

  • The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback

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  • I switched from Kindle Paperwhite 1st Gen to a Kobo Clara Color a month or so ago. It was cheaper than Amazon's color Kindle offering plus Amazon not letting readers download their books pushed me out. I did try the jailbreak for the Kindle and....I gave up on it after numerous issues that I ran into probably relating to the age of my Paperwhite.

    I mostly use Overdrive (Libby) to get books from my library. The Kobo has Overdrive support....mostly due to Kobo store availability and whether or not you have multiple library cards with multiple libraries. I'm in NY state and have a library card with my city library and then one with the NY Public Library. This isn't really a reflection on Kobo, more so Overdrive being shitty and not willing to update their Kobo app to work with how they migrated from the Overdrive app to Libby.

    This is where Calibre comes in handy, I download the book to my phone from Libby, transfer it to my Mac and use Calibre to add it to it to my Kobo. It's not pretty like Overdrive's Kindle integration where you basically press a few buttons in the Libby app and the book is sent to your kindle.

    As far as reading the book in general, I don't really notice that huge of a difference other than better technology. I did have some slight bugginess when I first used it, but after a full charge and a few reboots it seems to be fine now. I don't have a current gen Kindle to compare it to, so someone else can speak to that. I do wish it wasn't such a hassle to get my library books to it, but at least I have access to all my books!

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • Man this is a trip I remember Beryl and when it turned to Compiz. I spent way more time than I care to admit just spinning stuff around and playing with effects than accomplishing anything of meaningful value.

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    Tiktok users found body pile in CECOT El Salvador Megaprison

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  • I don't see it. Yes I am legally blind in one eye but my good eye sees pretty damn well and it just looks like a blurry mess

  • DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants | DOGE is knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

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  • Don't forget the "parasites" too, which I guess would be considered part of the "undesirables" 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • Rochester woman admits to hiding boyfriend’s body, claiming social security benefits

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  • The easiest solution would be to do a UBI tied to a COLA of some sort to fend off inflation and then ditch all the other entitlement programs to simplify things. Anyone making more than UBI would have to pay a tax. I don't even want to go down that rabbit hole of what can fix our busted tax system. Let anyone who has paid into Social Security still be entitled to their benefits and UBI would be added if there is a negative difference with Social Security.

    I dunno, these are just ideas I think of when I'm trying to sleep at night, I have no clue if they're even remotely feasible to do in this country with prices and incomes varying so widely in every part of the country.

    All I know is what I had to go through to get SSDI and I discovered the social safety net is really just you free-falling through hoops on fire hoping you land on the tiny speck of an inflatable bouncy house on the ground that also has a slow leak in it and may or may not stay inflated to brace your fall. And you have to repeat that for each program you need to apply to for benefits. Oh and you get to free fall every year to 5 years depending on the benefit, but instead you're free falling from half the distance with less hoops on fire but the inflatable bouncy house still has a leak. Oh and if you happen to make it through and be protected by the bouncy house, don't even think about saving money for a parachute next time because you could lose some benefits or have them cut.

    Anything is better than the broken system we have now.

  • DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants | DOGE is knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

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  • This definitely is not just for immigration purposes

  • American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately

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  • Great! Show me a country that will willingly take in someone who's disabled, financially support them, and house them and I'll fly there tomorrow -- oh and they'll need to cover the cost of the plane ticket too. I'm terrified of what's coming for me as a "parasite" being on disability, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing but I don't have the finances to move elsewhere.