“defense capabilities” what in the world? The best defense is a good offense I guess…

Yogthos please look up the origin of the word “glowie” and then please stop using it

“13 US service members”

What, because Don posthumously fired all the others?

Another victory for the US “education” system.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

the part of the “conspiracy theory” about CIA funding is completely true: signal proudly say they get funding from the OTF, which at the time signal started was a subsidiary of Radio Free Asia, which started out as an open CIA project (before being relaunched as clearly still a CIA project but without the official acknowledgement).

I’m 50:50 on whether signal is a literal honeypot, but even if not it seems pretty likely that the US government wouldn’t have funded an app that could be used by people breaking its laws - let alone people actively organizing against it (foreign spies, domestic revolutionaries and insurrectionists) unless they were getting something pretty big in return.

Stallman could take 5 minutes to walk back his disgusting positions on sexual assault and pedophilia, every day he makes a conscious choice not to. Why do you support that decision?

Push the overton window to the left by dismantling a century of highly-effective anti-left propaganda. Educate yourself, then other people, on:

1. what “socialism”, “communism”, and “capitalism” truly mean
2. how many labor rights were won by unions (basically of them) vs kindly handed out by cApTaInS oF iNdUsTrY (basically none of them)
3. the US founders’ views on democracy, slavery, and Native Americans

developing basic literacy, media literacy, and critical thinking is also not a bad idea (I don’t mean this as a personal insult; we’re talking about a country where over half the adults are functionally illiterate, 20-30% of voters supported bombing a fictional country, and 42% of voters think the Russian government is communist)

there are many many practical steps to take as well, but it’s hard for me to see any of these leading to lasting change without fixing the (deliberately constructed) mis- and under-education in the USA.

Do you think there might be a reason people convinced you that the Cold War is still going on, decades after it ended?

“regular being 10 minutes” only if something is wrong, mammals pretty much universally poop in 12 seconds https://www.science.org/content/article/most-mammals-need-only-12-seconds-poop

.local is usually avahi / bonjour - could be some machines are running it, others aren’t

Domesday

EXCUSE YOU it’s fish oil not snake oil

Hetzner requires ID these days, not sure if it’s for all new accounts or based on some sketchy algorithm but it’s happened to more than one person I know.

the top of your wrist or the bottom of your wrist 😉

Some libs were just mad as hell they were still using software written by eViL tAnKiEs I guess

Comments are very normal as usual:

I posted a cool clip from the UFC and got banned even though the content had a warning. It wasnt even that violent just a clean headkick ko.

If I started an instance it would get defederated because people would take one look and assume its toxic. But its not, Im not, I’ve spend years in the leftie techie activist spaces and cause no issues.

There’s a Firefox extension which makes a full-text index of every page you visit - it seems to work, but I found the search a bit unreliable so I stopped using it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/full-text-tabs-forever/

Does archive warrior have a way of downloading pages as you visit them in a browser? I read the link but I only saw references to following Archive Team’s tasks.

Don’t worry, the checkpoint outside your house is just to make sure you don’t have any nefarious intentions

https://archive.ph/ozMZP