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  • Stupid fucking chickens...

  • "I need ammunition, not a ride."

  • I bought my Mazda 3 used. The captain's knob will be sorely missed if I ever get a different car.

  • While you're right, I'm not even that pessimistic about community notes. The big issue I see is time. How many impressions is something going to get before the community notes pop up? 10,000? 100,000?

    A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

    Jonathan Swift uh... Mark Train uh... Churchill oh, fuck if I know

  • Spot on. This was essentially exactly the same reasoning that Justice Gorsuch used when writing the opinion (Roberts and the three Democrats joining) in the discrimination case Bostock v. Clayton County

    An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids. Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular result. But the limits of the drafters' imagination supply no reason to ignore the law's demands. Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County#%3A%7E%3Atext=Gorsuch+wrote%3A%2Cexactly+what+Title+VII+forbids.

  • Correct. He listed 14 people, and then:

    grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

    Yes, the president has broad and basically unchallengeable pardon powers, and could do exactly that. The check against it is supposed to be Congress being willing to impeach and remove.

  • Nope. He specifically listed 14 people, but then just broadly pardoned the remaining people.

    grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

    Rumor has it that he got frustrated with going through whatever determination process they were doing and said "fuck it. Release them all"

    https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-pardons-jan6-clemency

  • Not a CD tray?

  • He did?!?

  • Back during trump 1.0, I had an idea for a website where I would take news articles and swap Democrat and Republican words and phrases, like Trump <> Clinton or Obama, Obamacare <> ACA, etc. It was going to be called "45° Angle" (since he was the 45th president) and the tagline was going to be "The Right Perspective" or something like that. My thought was for it to be akin to the Colbert Report, something that passed at first glance but would pretty quickly be recognized for what it was with a bit of critical thinking, all for the purpose of being able to share articles with MAGAts and get them to agree before pulling the rug.

  • In the same vein: Homemade Oreo ice cream pie - crush 1/2 to 3/4 of a pack of Oreos, press it into a pie tin to make a crust, then fill it with ice cream (my preference is strawberry).

  • I really like some of the uses of PVC you've got going, especially the drill holders and the slanted ones under the window.

  • stored in my hosting..

    This, specifically, is the issue people are warning you about. Yes, your hosting account from Bluehost has the ability to handle email, but it's not great. It's really there just so the server can send admin emails and such, not support a full email architecture.

    Simplifying - part of the way spam is detected by the servers that receive an email is to check the IP address from where it came from against a list of IP addresses known to deliver spam. If it's coming from a spam IP, the message is likely spam, so they either put it in the recipient's spam folder or fail to deliver it entirely.

    Now, you may think you don't need to be worried because you're an upstanding web citizen and would never send out spam messages. However, your hosting is on a shared server, with anywhere from a handful to dozens and dozens of not hundreds of other hosting accounts, all sharing the same IP address, and they have this email ability as well. If any one of them, intentionally or unintentionally, sends out a bunch of spam messages and gets your IP address flagged, the entire server loses its reputation for some period of time. Most of the time, this is caused by people not keeping their website security up to date and their site getting infected. The malicious code then goes and sends out as many spam emails as it can before the hosting company shuts things down.

    Unfortunately, you end up having very little control over the situation.

    • You can ask your hosting provider to do something about your malicious/ incompetent neighbor, but they may or may not.

    • You can ask to be moved to a new server, but that's just playing neighbor roulette.

    • If you are able to get your hosting provider to do something about your neighbor, the other email servers in the world are still going to distrust receiving emails from your IP address for some period of time. You can make requests to try and have your IP address unflagged, that they may or may not do.

    • Even if you do all the leg work of getting your server unflagged, one of your stupid neighbors could immediately get the server flagged again.

    So, as others have said - yes, you can use your hosting account as your email server. But considering it's only a few bucks a month to have a dedicated email service handle it, it's generally not worth the hassle and headache.

  • FYI - "the" should not be used when referring to Ukraine.

    “Ukraine is a country,” says William Taylor, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. “The Ukraine is the way the Russians referred to that part of the country during Soviet times … Now that it is a country, a nation, and a recognized state, it is just Ukraine. And it is incorrect to refer to the Ukraine, even though a lot of people do it.”

    https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/

  • Which in itself is dumb because Trump was president that first covid year (2020), which was the worst of it!