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r0ertel

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  • Vote with your dollar/ethical consumerism is not effective at bringing political or economic change

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  • Why doesn't the hypocrisy argument hold water? I do it with some things to be able to look myself in the mirror. For example, I was shopping for a new pillow and was planning to get a My Pillow and then things happened and I can't see myself laying my head on one. There are hundreds of good people who work hard to make it a good pillow, but the top guy put togerher a plan to overthrow the US government. I can't get behind that.

    Conversely, I'm sure that United Way has a pedophile or rapist or other miscreant on the payroll. Giving to them indirectly funds that, but they're not advertising their behavior so i can still feel good to give 'em my donations.

  • What is a product or renovations that actually made your life simpler

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  • I got tired of telling everyone to close the pantry door. It obstructs free movement in the kitchen, bangs against doors, drawers, the oven and fridge. I installed a spring hinge and now it closes itself.

  • Vote with your dollar/ethical consumerism is not effective at bringing political or economic change

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  • I don't really understand the purpose of "unpopular opinion", so if I'm supposed to change your opinion, I won't. However, what would you think about a vegan running around yelling, "meat is murder" and then sitting down to eat a bacon double cheeseburger?

    What if really came to say is that your view has been covered before. Some choice quotes from the article:

    any election that requires you to "vote with your wallet" is always won by the people with the thickest wallets

    Conversely,

    The Montgomery bus boycott was an organized project, put together by a powerful membership organization, the NAACP, that demanded far more of its members than merely shopping very carefully. The boycott was the end stage of an organized resistance, not a substitute for it.

    Go read the article, it'll refine your argument and maybe soften some aspects of it.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • While targeted advertisements may be nice because it's only showing you things that they think that you'll want/need/like, the other side of surveillance based advertising is surveillance pricing.

    Surveillance pricing analyzes massive troves of your personal information to predict the price you would be willing to pay for an item—and charge you accordingly. Retailers can charge a higher price when it thinks you can afford to spend more—on payday, for example. Or when you need something the most, such as in an emergency.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/fight-surveillance-pricing-we-need-privacy-first

  • How do I peel a hard boiled egg?

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  • I'll second the fresh eggs part. We get our family's eggs from a farmer in the next town over. They said that week old eggs will peel much easier.

    FWIW, place week old eggs in a pot, cover with cool water, bring to a rolling boil, cover and remove from heat. Wait 20 minutes exactly, then dunk in cool water.

    As others have suggested, bang top and bottom of the egg, then roll gently on the countertop/table to crush all of the shell without piercing the membrane, then pierce through the membrane on the top of the egg where the air bubble is and peel from there. Most of the time the shell amd membrane comes off in one piece.

  • I am starting to become concerned with my mental state

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  • Clubs are a great suggestion. I'd add that volunteering can also sometimes help. I've heard that meal delivery services to the elderly can help tremendously and most of the time, the recipient just wants someone to talk to. Similarly, retirement homes are always looking for volunteers for events, like game night. Again, most of the people served just want someone to talk to. In some instances, volunteering can qualify you for insurance discounts and even help land scholarships.

  • Sandy has never seen me so bundled up before and wa thoroughly confused.

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  • Thanks for continuing to post pictures of Sandy. They've frequently been a happy escape from all the negativity online and IRL, particularly today. I don't get to be around horses except every 5 years or so and seeing the range of emotions and behaviours you capture in Sandy is fun for me.

  • Do you backup your docker images?

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  • I've been looking to do this, but haven't found a good, easy to use pull thru proxy for docker, ghcr.io and some other registries. Most support docker only.

    This one looks promising but overly complicated to set up.

    A few times now, I've gone to restart a container and the repo's been moved, archived or paywalled. Other times, I'm running a few versions behind and the maintainer decided to not support it, but upgrading would mean a complete overhaul of my Helm values file. Ugh!

    I was considering a docker registry on separate ports for each upstream registry I'd like to proxy/cache.

  • How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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  • I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.

    Edit: I found the article.

  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • Marital law == dictatorship. As far as I have read, that's the plan, then there will be no more elections and he can use the military for anything he can dream up. He's very worried about the midterm elections. Many signs are predicting the end of the republican majority in both sides of congress.

    There is another way that does not involve violence, but it'll require a coalition. Several states will need to band together and withhold funding.

  • Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth?

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  • No, it's not normal. We will reminisce about events during the pregnancy and birth as a way to suggest that our child's personality was present well before birth.

    Maybe go to the thrift store and get an old donated metal from track and field or something and etch something witty on it and maybe that'll make your point for you.

  • The daily saga

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  • It should have said that they went to get a rag to clean up the spilled jug and realized that they had no clean rags because laundry wasn't done so they went to do laundry...

  • You can upset neolibs by changing just one word of their favourite t-shirt.

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  • I think they prefer to be called Native United States of Americans.

    (This is a bad joke, playing on the original topic, don't hate me)

  • YSK Tips for a Winter Storm

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  • Lots of great advice here and in the comments. To add some clarity to driving carefully, imagine that you are driving with an open fish tank on the floor of the passenger side and you don't want to lose any fish.

  • ‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires

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  • In the case of Apple, you'd host your stuff on whatever app store is the most popular in any given country. It's sort of like F-Droid but for the normies.

    What's really interesting is the thought of jailbreaking your own tractor, opening the possibility to local aftermarket parts. Again, this would take the money from John Deere and open up a local market.

    I am consistently disappointed when I hear politicians' only recourse to anything is taxes. Remember how they were going to tax email to fix the spam problem?

  • ‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires

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  • It's a super long read, but filled with nuggets that explain exactly how to hit the rich by taking away their money. The TL;DR is to repeal the country's anti-circumvention law then route the subscription money locally.

    The Post-American Internet (permalink)

    there's a third possible response to tariffs, one that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?

    It's hard to convey how much money is on the table here. Take just one example: Apple's App Store. Apple forces all app vendors into using its payment processor, and charges them a 30 percent commission on every euro spent inside of an app.. .. Apple makes $100 billion per year on it. If the EU repeals Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, some smart geeks in Finland could reverse-engineer Apple's bootloaders and make a hardware dongle that jailbreaks phones so that they can use alternative app stores, and sell the dongle – along with the infrastructure to operate an app store – to anyone in the world who wants to go into business competing with Apple for users and app vendors.

    Those competitors could offer a 90% discount to every crafter on Etsy, every performer on Patreon, every online news outlet, every game dev, every media store. Offer them a 90% discount on payments, and still make $10b/year.

  • I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is not telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?

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  • Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I'm not interested in one person's story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.

    I've been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically "how minds change") podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.

  • Little repost bot

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  • Generally speaking, I've found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.

  • YSK that taking health advice from youtubers, celebrities and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities

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  • I thought that this is how we promote Darwinism.