LesserAbe

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.

If it's not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.

The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don't keep the sort of records that governments ask for.

Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I don't like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren't founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.

Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Is that an upper class student radish hanging out with a subsistence farmer radish?

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Like the European Union?

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Barney is famously purple

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was at my neighbor's house and we were just poking around to see what there was to do online. We found a file (what we would now call a supercut but we didn't have that word then) with a hundred instances of Homer Simpson saying "D'oh".

We downloaded it, which took twenty minutes or something like that, and my recollection is when we went to play it there was no software on the computer that could. That doesn't seem like it could be true, maybe I'm mixing memories up. It wouldn't have been an mp3 file because it was too early for that, and I'd expect windows to at least be able to play .wav. maybe it was some weird format. So we had to do another search and found a freeware program called Goldwave which we downloaded and were able to listen then. I still used Goldwave for years and even paid for it.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I don't think it's supposed to literally be Goku and friends

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Garfield did talk about dieting a lot. Sort of like the trope about quicksand, dieting seemed to occupy a much larger mental space in the Garfiverse than in my own lived experience.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm talking specifically about armed conflict. You're right we absolutely can't go on the way things are. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that we have to have a shooting war.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's sort of like throwing up. You feel sick, you try to do everything you can not to, but at a certain moment you know it's going to happen and there's no avoiding it.

The problem is you don't know ahead of time which times you're going to actually throw up. Sometimes if you lay down or drink some water or whatever you feel better.

 

Particularly this part: "* I don't do shit that's my decision

  • Not doing shit is like my religion
  • Look to the east five times a day
  • And if I'm doing shit then I put it away"

Crudbump - I Don't Do Shit

 

In the little western media I've seen covering Sudan, the general impression I get is that the RSF is worse in terms of human rights abuses, but that initially the army and RSF initiated a coup together.

Is it just two power hungry factions falling out, or are there deeper ideological differences? For example I came across a reddit comment saying RSF are atheist ultra-nationalists, which may be true or false, but I haven't come across much info characterizing the two sides motivations at all. I'm interested to know more, I don't feel like the coverage I've seen has been in depth.

 

I'm interested in ways that people document, prioritize and execute items they need to do. What have you found useful?


For me: I don't particularly care about other Outlook functionality, but flagging emails and managing them in the sidebar has helped me a lot. I have it set to display only items due today, and then sorted into categories like "now," "soon," "pending." If I don't expect to get to an item today I change the due date to tomorrow or next week. Items don't have to be based on an email either, you can just type into the sidebar text field.

When I get emails I either immediately reply, flag it for later action, or ignore, and then I drop all emails into one giant folder. If I need to find something I do it all by search.

I've tried other systems like gmail's to do list, but it feels like way more friction to accomplish the same things, especially wanting to only view tasks due today, and categorizing tasks.

Likewise I've tried to-do-list apps, but not being able to instantly convert an email into a task, and not having documentation easily at hand when I go to perform the task makes them feel more burdensome.

 

Recently replaced the headlight bulbs for my car and saw the box indicated you shouldn't put them in the garbage because they contain mercury. I know that some retailers like home depot have a program to recycle florescent bulbs, but my understanding is that's specifically for residential bulbs (like the kind you might get at home depot). AutoZone will take back some parts but don't appear to have a program for bulbs. What's the easiest, responsible way to dispose of these?

 
 
 

In the US most students recite "the pledge of allegiance" every morning before school, which is kind of crazy. If you were in charge, what if anything would you replace it with?

 

I just saw a discussion among corporate event planners where one person was upset that event organizers don't give proper consideration to scheduling over top of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

I can appreciate the annoyance, when I was still a practicing Christian I would never think to schedule a work thing over Easter or Christmas. We should treat others with consideration, and should be mindful of what others view as important days. But I also don't know what each religion considers to be major, non negotiable holidays. Do you?

Another question, does it matter where the event is? (for example, in the US should less consideration be given to holidays of religions that have fewer adherents?)

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