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Scirocco

@ Scirocco @lemmy.world

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  • had my 1st ever 3some last night & woke up feeling reborn. it was amazing😩

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  • I have found the large 4-cup moka pot to be very efficient for camping coffee, particularly if you also have a kettle on the griddle with hot/near-boilng water for refills. Or in the campfire. I use an aluminum calphalon non-whistle teapot for that.

    With a good single-burner (butane/propane or white gas) it becomes reasonable to crank out good coffee for 2-3 people at a time (1.5 to 2 cup) on a ~6 minute cycle.

    Uhh maybe my use case is atypical, but still. Moka-pot is good for camping cuz it's fast, easy-clean and can produce great results.

  • Kash Patel Got Arrested for Public Urination After a Night of Drinking

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  • All y'all saying the right things

    This is old. Who hasn't peed in a bush once, or thrice, etc

    But most of us aren't foolish enough to do so in a visible/observable way, and most of us aren't currently part of the Drunkard's Parade that's fuckin up the country with great enthusiasm and effect.

  • First per-image PCA decomposition of Kodak suite reveals deliberate curation

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  • This seems very cool but....

    I've read it and still have no idea what it means

  • Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated

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  • To be clear, I'm pretty sure you and many other folks on Lemmy might characterize me as a "shitlib" overall, and I'm not familiar with language like "tone police" but from context I understand that you feel like I criticized you for being "strident" which I guess is true, and I apologize for that.

    It is probably my "liberal" background that makes me think that strident presentation weakens argument, and I thought your point would have been clearer/better/more persuasive without that overriding passion. Anyhow that's all just style.

    Is it not pretty well documented that Netanyahu and company did, in fact, enable/approve a bunch of Qatari money to be funneled to Hamas? And that he's stated openly that the reason is to keep the PA and Hamas separate and not working together?

    I wasn't aware of the Israel-Created-Hamas drama, but that article you linked certainly paints a pretty clear picture of a lot of early Israeli influence/meddling, despite the aim of the article to say nuh-uh.

    "Created" is too strong a term for sure, but it seems pretty obvious that Israel's policies of ever-increasing oppression/colonization/genocide make a pretty fertile environment for a popular resistance group with an armed/violent component to form.

    Did the US "create" ISIS? Not exactly, but they (we) sure did set the stage super-effectively.

    Russia did not create the NRA but they absolutely did co-opt and use it to their great benefit to funnel money around to influence US internal politics. NRA today is, very rightly, a discredited and declining organization.

    Big-mad defensiveness from criticisms of Hamas over Israeli influence (open, discrete or clandestine) are counterproductive to Hamas' interest in my opinion. They would be better to take the time to reflect, analyze and ensure that their current decisions aren't being influenced by Israel.

    Unfortunately for Palestinians, I don't think the Hamas organization is very good at this, but it's not a huge surprise --- Israel is extremely effective with these kinds of operations, and not only in regards to Hamas. USA is their most important target.

    "Liberal Optics Framing" is another new phrase, but it's not as clear to me as tone police.

    When I said (without a lot of thought) Hamas has "represented poorly" I was assuming that Hamas has been supported/funded/enabled by Netanyahu et al because the policies/actions they expect Hamas to take will be a better outcome for Israel than the policies/actions of the PA had they won the election.

    I'm pretty sure you understood that. And I'm pretty sure the assumption is reasonable.

    Is your objection of/to liberal optics framing because the implication is that Hamas is more violent than the PA, and it's very clear that Israel WANTS more Palestinian violence to continue to justify their own violence?

    The violent terrorism we have seen from Hamas hasn't exactly turned out to be "effective resistance" at all.

    TBH I don't know what would even count as effective resistance at this point.

    Maybe the most effective thing they could/can do is continue the social media appeals / influence campaigns which do generate discussions like this one, but does that even count as "resistance"

    Anyhow this is already too long and rambling, and I do thank you for taking the time to engage. I read stuff around here because I want to understand the left (left-er?) better.

  • Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated

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  • Yea exactly. Pretty annoying.

    Seems like it would be pretty simple for the Lemmy or piefed or whatever instance software to just returned the text of the post on that URL

    IDK/not qualified to say if there's a good reason it doesn't, but I think it would be convenient for a lot of folks if it did.

  • We are where we are because Democrats fumbled an eminently winnable election, twice

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  • I would still vote for Bernie

    The only thing against his is his age. The negative about age is it's effect on cognitive function. Bernie, so far as I know, isn't showing any real signs of cognitive dysfunction.

    If there's ANY person who could grasp the reigns of the "unitary executive theory" of the Presidency, use that authority with great authoritarian zeal to IMPROVE the system and to REMOVE the vastly expanded Executive power that has gradually crept to levels unimaginable to past generations, and then DROP the reigns of power....

    It would be Bernie Sanders.

    What could an unleashed Bernie accomplish in one term, knowing he was not running for re-election. That administration could come out swinging and never stop.

    I firmly believe that Bernie would have won against Trump all three times.

    And I've got a feeling his VP choice would have been a lot better than Biden's, and a lot more effective at positioning that person to also win.

  • We are where we are because Democrats fumbled an eminently winnable election, twice

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  • Unfortunately I believe this is true.

    That campaign promise, combined with Biden's ego forcing/allowing him to press on beyond his capacity, put the Dems in a very bad position.

    If Joe Biden had been strong enough to commit and stick to a single term, they could have cultivated and promoted a much better ticket.

    It would probably still have resulted in Harris being the nominee, which was the point of that campaign promise.

    But at least it wouldn't have been the shit show we saw. Maybe she could have gathered the courage to have some differing positions from Biden/DNC

  • Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated

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  • Now, I'm an innocent* bystander normie who's just wandered in here.....

    But the way you write is pretty strident(?). I get that this language is developed over time and many interactions that I've not seen, and yadda yadda

    But you are the FIRST person I've seen say "netanyahoo created Hamas"

    Who tf sincerely says/believes/promotes that? The comment you replied to sure didn't. Nowhere in this thread afaik has anyone made a statement even resembling that.

    No shit Sherlock opposing interests will try to manipulate their opponents by doing shit like promoting/helping/enabling the "worst elements" in their opposition. That's not new and occurs everywhere and apparently there is clear and compelling evidence that Netanyahu worked pretty hard to make sure that Palestinians were represented poorly.

    So, I guess.... Thanks for letting us know that someone out there has that ridiculous rhetoric? But it's not relevant to the commenter you were replying to, or anything else afaik.

    • my innocence is debatable and relative

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  • FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

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  • Somewhat like it, but with different operational goals.

    FreeBSD focuses on wide hardware compatibility and very high speed.

    OpenBSD focuses on security, exclusively. It's slower and with a narrower range of supported hardware, but a MUCH higher effort in security, assurance and audit.

    So, the fact that some bugs have been found in FreeBSD is more or less irrelevant to the security of OpenBSD

    You may not be aware, but find it interesting that MacOS is also a BSD variant, and there was a distro called NetBSD which was (is?) focused on what you'd expect from the name of it.

    Another thing you might not know is that the OpenBSD folks also publish OpenSSH which is a very well regarded and widely used package.

    Of course all software is subject to bugs/error/vulnerabilities and OpenSSH as well as OpenBSD are constantly being reviewed, revised and audited for potential security issues.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH

  • D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic

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  • This is an extremely naive take

  • Has anyone ever accepted an offer from one of those "we buy your house, no questions asked" companies? If so, what was your experience? [Answered]

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  • FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

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  • Ahem may introduce you to OpenBSD

  • Scientists discover reversible male birth control that stops sperm production

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  • Vasagel, based on an Indian product called RISUG

    Noone funds it because it's too cheap? No real profit potential?

    Essentially -- it's a gel that's injected into the vas def which doesn't actually block the flow totally (which sometimes causes side effects like granuloma in vasectomy), but rather it disrupts sperm cell membranes, but allowing the remains to pass through.

    It is reversed simply by flushing it out with saline.

    Last time I donated to the project it was at the live rabbit trials stage with Parsemuns Foundation?

    (OH WAIT IT HAS BEEN USED IN HUMANS IN THE USA (see wired link below)

    RISUG was used in humans for like 20 years with good results I believe.

    Really don't understand why this one hasn't gained traction.

    https://www.planaformen.com/vasalgel

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance

    https://www.wired.com/story/male-contraceptive-contraline-vasalgel-hydrogel/

    (Ohh right the rabbit study was for reversibility)

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5381074/

  • Wrong answers only - what is this?

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  • Is it the smallest Hardly Ableson?

    The one that only goes 900 baud?

  • Mike Johnson caves to Democrats' DHS funding bill demands

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  • Well, I guess ya might as well stick ur own dick into the meatgrinder right now then.

    Best to just get it over with early, eh?

  • TNG endorses AI

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  • And then on Voyager, the EMH Mk.1 took several opportunities to rewrite it's own SOUL.md and nearly killed the entire crew.

    And it was co-opted by hostile forces more than once as well

  • What would you change?

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  • I came here to complain about the lack of OpenBSD

    And slackware

  • I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills

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  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Scirocco @lemmy.world

    green ladies only

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.world
    Scirocco @lemmy.world

    does anyone have a link to all of the Luigi court/arrest photos?