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That would explain the Saudi money, and why every hostile nation states seems to have a bot army of blue checkmarks trolling any political entity that’s against Dictators or fascist, authoritarian states.

Only thing shocking about this is that it took this long. Any drone capable of carrying a weapon was going to get one. I mean, look at Ukraine right now. Consumer drones with soda bottle improvised explosives and cardboard drones. I can see a future where most warfare is drone vs drone, to see who can hit the other’s supply lines / storage first.

The way Russia’s turtling with illegal mines, drones are basically one of the only ways to attack without taking massive losses while also moving slowly and being sitting ducks for artillery.

Sad that the US can’t get this yet, but in the meantime, Nokia’s partnered up with Ifixit to make stuff like the G310 available. There’s also the G22 and G42 in Europe. Apparently the G310 and the G42 have the same battery, according to iFixit’s website. I’ll probably get the G310 myself, if the reviews aren’t terrible.

If it’s too hard, then just stop charging them. Then they have to list NOTHING. So simple. At the very least, it’ll just whittle down the fees they have to list to government mandated ones, which’ll be a lot simpler.

Same. I stay away from #Explore and just keep to my feed of people I actually follow. And I make sure to unfollow those who are too stressful to hear from constantly.

I agree with almost all the of all politics all the time people who constantly post negative things, but it’s too tiring to read them, especially since knowing about it does me no good and I can’t do anything about it anyway. I already vote and donate as much as I can, and I live in a Blue state so anything outside of my area’s just not possible for me to influence.

I’ve found it’s better just to ignore it and focus on positive things that make my life better.

This is also why I stopped going to Mastodon. In addition to negative ragebait politics being almost the only thing that’s trending (and I have too much of that in my life already) there’s no real nuance or tolerance for anything outside the echo chamber.

You DO get called a racist nazi transphobe for stepping outside the box or trying to support people, ideas or places that might not be 100% perfect or pass the strictest ideological purity test. I thought Liberal Twitter was pretty exclusionary and echo-chamber-y, but Mastodon’s a lot worse.

Kind of, but more “slightly amusing” than funny.

Always, but things like unfettered worldwide capitalism and the concentration of wealth and power just makes it easier to do and cover up.

Inequality and lack of competition (not just economic competition, but also things like political party alternatives) lead to concentration of power, which leads to corruption.

Diversifying power and providing people with alternatives, checks and balances, and separation of powers leads to reduced corruption that groups of average people can fight back against.

Hence things like the 2nd Amendment and the Founding Fathers believing that Citizens should be armed to resist even tyrannical overreach from corrupt elements of their own government for instance.

No I’m not a Republican by the way, I just find it ironic that the people that started the USA actually had some good ideas that their successors have unfortunately just thrown out the window.

This crap has sent me back to physical stores. If they have it in stock, I don’t have to wait for it to ship, I just drive there and pick it up. Same with returns too, and exchanges. Same day.

Plus, I can trust that the company itself has probably looked at and tested the products, and has a real product and not a fake. I doubt I’m the only one going back to brick and mortar as well.

To be fair, it’s one of the old school Republicans that would cross the aisle and vote for something Democrats made that are now Extinct in modern Politics. They died with John McCain, honestly. Better Manchin than Sinema or an actual modern Republican.

If I had to vote in 5-10 more Joe Manchin style “Democrats” to kick the same number of Republicans out of office in Red States, I would. Especially if it gave us 60 Democrats and the ability to have a filibuster-proof majority. Even if they were like “Immigrants are bad” or “All guns are good” or “We have to stop being woke about gays and trans and pronouns.” or whatever, as long as they weren’t all of that at once (and preferably only ONE of those at once) I’d vote them in, so long as they voted to do something about climate change, and also hopefully to reform the economy so all the money and power’s not in the hands of the big megacorps and billionaires.

People won’t stop being stupid and bigoted, so we have to take the wins we can. Everyone complains that Republicans keep trotting out “God, Guns, and Gays” every time they campaign, but what they’re not addressing is that Republicans keep WINNING with the 3 G’s and also immigration. They hold the house and have enough of the senate to filibuster everything. They’ve also used their control of the house and senate (and Presidency, when they have it) to pack the Supreme Court too.

I honestly want Democrats and liberal ideological purists to start being realistic now that the world is burning down around us and see that we’ve run out of time and need to start winning now, or else we won’t have a future. The fact that young Republicans believe in and want to do something about climate change is also a good thing. Reality is about power and consensus, it’s not about ideals.

Makes me think of the Privateer / Elite style X spaceship games, but that’s probably because of my personal bias towards games like that.

Everyone else would probably think Porn or the X-games first.

I don’t know about this case and this school, but in stricter Christian private schools, the men get kicked out too. One of my high school teachers was a principal at a Christian private school, and he got kicked out because his wife cheated on him.

He didn’t cheat on her or get anyone pregnant, she did while he was overworked at that school, but that was somehow a scandal / shame that reflected poorly on him and the school, so he was fired. Most “Christian” institutions are hypocritical pieces of shit that don’t follow their own rules or apply them selectively, but others follow their laws to the letter.

Not that those places are good either, they just enforce their standards. To be fair, those places tend to note be affiliated with Republicans, which kill everything they touch and is the major reason I left the church.

I’ll probably transition my AMD 8350 build over to Linux when Win10 stops being supported. As opposed to my mom’s FX-8370 build, which I’ll probably just have to replace with a new Windows 11 system, as there’s no way I’m expecting her (an elderly woman) to learn anything other than Windows. Especially since she’s reliant on Windows-only apps.

The actual hardware she’s using will probably be converted to a Linux Desktop, but I’ll have to migrate her data to a new mini Windows 11 PC or something.

The big companies and official government accounts refuse to move, and the only real alternative is Facebook, which comes with its own set of issues. Plus, users in foreign countries like Asia aren’t involved in US politics and debate and haven’t noticed any real changes except that big, stupid X.

It’s mostly political content that’s filled with right wing trolls and paid nation state bot runners. If you’re in more obscure communities that Russia / China / Right wing corpos aren’t interested in, it’s just business as usual.

The Galaxy S5 was water resistant and had a headphone jack and microSD card too. It set a new standard that unfortunately no one followed up on.

To this day I wish they’d open-source that design so at the very least, small hobbyists and open source fanatics could try making updates to that design using the same basic frame. I think there’s a large portion of the population that wouldn’t mind having some variation of the Galaxy S5 forever as long as the internals and camera were upgraded every so often.

The funny thing is that the stress from jumping all these hoops might actually age him faster. I think I read that lowered stress leads to slower aging. Then there’s just basic stuff like eating better and exercising more, but not exercising too much.

I read an article by a tai chi teacher who’s in his 70’s and he doesn’t have health problems and said it was due to him doing Tai Chi almost daily, while eating a whole food plant based diet that’s low on meat and dairy.

On a similar note, my 12 year old dog overcame a bout of severe pancreatitis and had to be put on a prescription diet, but lost 3 pounds (a little over 10% of her body weight) and is getting walked more often and it feels like she’s a much younger dog now. She walks quickly now and with more agility. She can jump better and has tons of energy, and she’s more alert and noticeably thinner and healthier looking.

Given how obese and sedentary many Americans (and citizens of similar western nations) are a lot can be done with lifespan and healthspan just by making a few simple changes. Like eating / activity level and also lowered stress and more sleep and hydration.

Of course the REAL root of a lot of our problems is poor work/life balance due to increasing oligarchy, but there are still things we can do, like trying to do a little bit better than we did yesterday, and also fighting the oligarchy.

I’d read that. Because the honest title, and I’d be curious as to why they’re doing it, and if there might be a niche way to actually make it worth it one day.

@readbeanicecream Are big box stores better? Like Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, etc.

I think it’s a smart move. I like my G502, but have learned that ambidextrous mice are more for me. I get soreness if I only use my right hand for mousing all the time.

I expected animals, but human kids are cute too.