My primary content on Feceboot was 1) opposing child rapists and 2) opposing white supremacists. They kicked me off without explanation. I choose to take this to mean that they kicked me off because they support 1) child rape and 2) white supremacy.

It might be wrong, but it matches my experience, and they will never disagree... exactly like how Trump never sues anyone who points out that he raped kids.

Yes, if you equate all Jews with Zionists, you're either a Nazi or something else equally stupid and shit.

Several studies showed that right wing speech was amplified and left wing speech was muted on old twitter, so any time you see someone claiming that the opposite was true you know you're seeing some bullshit from an ignorant chucklefuck.

It isn't domain squatting because he abandoned the trademark. He could have kept it around and done ANYTHING with it and kept it, but he didn't do that. Changing the branding was a primary concern, so there's no leg to stand on that it wasn't done intentionally. Sure he will sue, and he will lose.

Bluesky doesn't have discussion groups. It just has posts and replies.

It also has a lot of ongoing discussion. I just got shared in a distribution list and picked up about 100 more followers, whee. (I am up to 1600, NBD.) The same kind of pedo-opposing content that literally got me kicked off of Feceboot (they wouldn't tell me why they removed me, so I assume it was because I opposed child rape publicly) is making me minorly popular on Bsky.

I googled playdate panic and got your mom's number.

The company making that charger has a real name, usually IME beginning with "Shenzen" since they all seem to be there. Then the same product has twenty different Scrabble tile names attached to it and it's sold under all of them. I'm not sure if this is mostly done by one company using a bunch of names, or separate companies, but they all use the same font for branding (Impact) so they all LOOK the same. But SOME listings will give you the manufacturer's info as well as the brand.

Oh look, it moves the goalposts again

Facebook was founded to gather information about women to make it easier to trick them into having sex. So, yeah, kinda? The mission is abuse, but that tracks.

Because people come here from all over the state specifically because we have better social services. Actually, people literally come to the county I live in because we have better social services. I know this is true because some of them have told me personally.

The official estimate is that somewhere around 20% of California's homeless came here after becoming homeless. But there's also a grey area where people moved here for work which didn't pan out and then became homeless as a result. They moved here because conditions in their state wouldn't support them just the same as the people who were already homeless. Then they can get stuck here and we have to support them (it is after all the only human thing to do) even though they never made any significant contribution to the state. It costs us so much to support people that we actually have a thing called TAP (Transportation Assistance Program) which gives people cash money to use to go somewhere else where someone says they will take them in. It's mostly bus tickets but there are other solutions available as well.

The important thing to remember is that we don't get to decide how the tax money is spent until we get it back from the feds, and these programs are not designed to provide sufficient care (The S in SNAP stands for supplemental) so they don't actually pay for anything like the full impact of caring for people. Then the state has to pick up the slack, and when you're having to do that for the whole country it can get expensive fast.

The same keyboard never produces these results on my Linux systems, so no.

There's more realistic ways to solve the problem, like rotating staff.

With dirigibles you could add more shielding, but then you also wouldn't have this problem.

They're cutting the spines off. You think they will re-bind them for resale?

You forgot that we're discussing books out of copyright. You have to read all the comments in the thread before replying or you'll make stupid mistakes like this.

Joe and Harris supporting genocide didn't fill anyone with hope either. But make sure to blame everyone else instead of the voters who didn't care about those issues and are happy to see genocide as long as gas prices stay low, and the inhuman politicians who are the best the DNC can come up with, and of yeah the DNC that made sure to destroy Sanders' campaign so that we came to this pass in the first fuck place.

The Democrats' actions are indistinguishable from throwing elections. At what point do we stop listening to their excuses when they repeatedly do exactly what you would do if you were trying to lose?

Water systems haven't changed all that much since before the internet existed, let alone became popular. They still have broadly the same stages and generally the same things occur in them. There is literally no need for automation because it doesn't take many people to run a water system and they need surprisingly little training. It's a community college course! We implemented automation to reduce headcount, but if the automation systems are attacked and need work then that's actually increasing labor costs. Now you need to hire an engineer to fix what you should have done right the first time.

On the other hand, automation isn't even the problem, I only mention it to point out that these problems don't have to exist at all. You could solve the problem by not having remote control, or by not using the internet for that (there are other options) and by using one-way links for monitoring. Then you can still do your monitoring through the cheap and ubiquitous internet, and only have to use other resources for control.

Putting control of these systems on the internet gets you almost nothing and exposes you to risks which are completely unnecessary and doing so hardly saves you any money as you could use another option for your control links and it doesn't need to be high speed.