Not a lot of need for the app. But it’s horse crap they’re ALSO removing Bluetooth.

As someone who owns a bunch of their products I’m bummed that it’s another company to not buy from anymore. It’s like every good product gets ruined by a greedy CEO

Wish I could be a fly on the walk when the bad actor realized years of work has just gone down the drain

I’ve made rice wine with the yeast balls a couple times, it was sweet and very cloudy. I should try it again but in a much bigger batch to help get more liquids to separate out. I also experienced the sticky gross mush that wasn’t really pleasant to play with. I wrapped all the rice in cheese cloth in order to be able to squeeze out more liquids from the mush which did help, I always thought a juice press would be really useful at that stage.

In the US “apple cider” differs from hard apple cider (or just hard cider). The hard part of the name means alcoholic. Just plain old apple cider is really just unfiltered apple juice.

Today I Learned

Curious about how the cabal can be a dog whistle. Can you enlighten me? The wiki article didn’t help. Though learning the etymology was cool.

Didn’t recognize that name at all. After reading his wiki I recognized that he was one of the Georgia run-off Senate races. Maybe he’ll do some stuff and gain some popularity in the future. From what I saw in wiki the only thing he has done so far is vote with the party and help get a college re-accredidated. The reason his campaign was somhighly funded was because he was running in one of the most contested races in the country that was flooded with cash from all over.

I’m very glad he won, but also would someone who barely won their district really be a great possible push for a national candidate?

Also, “not a huge supporter” and have now posted him as a name/possibility all over the thread lol… You campaign for him? Are you him?

Honestly? Because most of the country isn’t ready for a true progressive candidate. Run someone middle of the road and the conservatives (or moderate leaning right) who aren’t stupid will possibly go across the party line and vote for them, they run someone too progressive and those folks either don’t show up at all or vote trump because it’s “better than the crazy commie”.

I really disagree with the idea of 2 extreme candidates from either side anyways. Ranked choice is what we need.

The obvious answer is ranked voting. But that’s another discussion

I’m just worried that we’ll have a repeat of voter apathy because the Dems present a really not great candidate again and folks don’t show up and allow the dangerous nut jobs elect in their wannabe dictator.

That said, I 100% agree that folks should be pushing and demanding better from our elected officials so keep voicing and pushing your concerns!

Still rather vote for him than the wanna be dictator. It’s shitty, and who knows maybe the Dems will primary someone decent.

But if the choice is “generally shitty typical politician who isn’t actively telling us how he’s going to destroy our country” vs “I’m going to destroy our country and prosecute my enemies illegally and rip out long term federal employees and replace them with folks loyal to me who will let me be a dictator, and btw I’m saying this out loud all the time”…

It’s still not a hard choice to vote for a fucking wet paper bag over trump , even a wet paper bag who is not doing the best job and is supporting questionable international policies.

Please remember they’re not the same type of bad. One is run of the mill politician bad, one is literally telling us how he plans on ripping our country’s founding principles to shreds.

That’s not true at all. Following an unlawful order is illegal and not a valid excuse.

The officer oath is to support the and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (aka disobeying a direct order) spells out that it only applies to lawful orders.

Anything illegal is non binding, and stating you’re following an order is not an excuse. That’s literally one of the rules of the Geneva convention.

All that to say, not at all true. What I really would expect if Trump tried pulling this off with the military is a huge amount of resistance and pushback and no one in command really following the illegal orders.

There might be some schism group of crazies who try and jump the chain of command because they’re MAGA crazies in the military, but it’s definitely a small minority.

The US Military is a volunteer force, the officer corps has been taught and studied the history of these type of bad orders and crazy situations extensively. The NCO corps and rest of the enlisted are not ignorant bumpkins who are ignorant of their jobs and their duty to the constitution.

Super broad generalization, yes.

That’s one of the biggest things valve has contributed to for the Linux community, unshitifying gaming on Linux. Proton does an amazingly good job at working on most games. And steam does a great job of making it easier to use proton.

Now there are always a few problem games, mainly ones that use some crazy kernel level anti-cheat (that doesn’t work anyways). But if you’re curious look at https://www.protondb.com/

The US Military also uses IRC, is that the future too? I’m sick of the ridiculous Signal hate with basically no good reason. Basically everything is run in AWS, or Azure, or Google cloud. All the governments have contracts with those cloud providers, because almost every organization large enough has things in the cloud.

Obfuscation is not meant to be foolproof. Without something like the Tor network (oh wait, the NSA and other organizations have already taken over that) WHO you talk to is not hard to determine. If someone is monitoring ALL network traffic in the world, they’ll know who is talking to who everywhere. But with good end to end encryption and no server side logging recording who you talk to, that’s definitely a good enough combo for me.

XMPP is certainly not a bad protocol, but I’m not seeing a reason to justify the Signal hate.