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WashedOver

@ WashedOver @lemmy.ca

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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

-George Bernard Shaw

  • Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin?

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  • I saw there has been a recent update to Decentraleyes. Not sure if this addresses the abandoned issue though. Trying out LOCALCDN instead..

  • 'There will be a civil war': Trump fans rage after Georgia judge orders trial to proceed

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  • One of the saddest parts for his followers is they think they are getting that strong man that's going to clean up all that is wrong in their books and make it like some rose colored memory of how good things use to be before the world become too complicated for them to handle.

    Trump isn't coming in to do that kind of hard work, he's doing it for the title, prestige, and the fact he "deserves" to be president, he should be president because he's special.

    Not to say it's all about his ego which it is, but it's also pretty handy in his mind to help deal with his mounting legal issues while slow to play out but they are piling up like Everest.

    It's unfortunate most won't recognize the need for a leader to do the hard work of a true servant leader. It's been a long time since we've seen one of those. Many will argue we've seen that in Carter and even perhaps despite his advancing years a little in Biden but most people have been turned against such presidents with soft skills willing to do the hardwork.

    They seem to want those with a finger on the button ready to blow up anyone that dares challenge the US. That's another area Trump supporters will be let down in when it comes to Russia...

  • DeSantis signs bill banning homeless encampments, public sleeping in Florida - UPI.com

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  • I wonder if this means political officials can be sued and jailed for allowing homelessness.

    Until they get every homeless person off the streets, they will be fined daily and if after 90 days they will be locked up?

  • British Westland P.12 Wendover, WW2, probably taken between 1941 and 1944

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  • Brb?

  • My city has a rule that forbids feeding birds

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  • Is it because they aren't real and robots don't need food?

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  • Trump's RNC officially kills the GOP's mail-in voter effort

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  • So where is the Tea Party segment of the party sit on these issues? Are they now more center than the Trumpers?

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  • Reminds me a little of that Top Gear episode of when they were driving through the deep south... Shots will be fired...

  • Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets

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  • I'm impressed. It speaks to the strength of the Apple brand. Meta should benefit if this becomes the next thing despite the differences.

  • IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company

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  • Sure seems like a great way to avoid severance in those places it's required.

    Amazing how the companies that "care about employees" don't care so much these days...

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    Man Opens Emergency Exit and Walks onto Plane's Wing

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  • Flying these days sure sounds like a wonderful experience...

  • I know I'm a few days late...

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  • No I think they should have to go back to where they came from like Europe. That's how they thinks it works when they yell that at born and breed Texans of non white backgrounds.

  • I know I'm a few days late...

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  • Is Texas talking about leaving really all that new?

    Several years back I went to Woodlands TX for a business trip. There was a historical map of Texas on the wall of the CEO's office I was visiting. As I was asking questions about the oil rigs depicted, it was mentioned everytime the price of gas goes up, the separation of Texas talk goes up along with it.

    Thankfully last year when I was down there the price of fuel was 2.87/G when it was 5.83/G in California.

    However it seems they have found a new way to rile the population up now.

  • despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.

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  • They missed using Access incorrectly with too many users and too large of a database.

  • Sovereign citizen wants a car paid for by the government they don't recognize.

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  • And the scary thing is many of these flat earthers moved on to the Q world. It was like a gateway entrance to Qanon. Once you're going down the slippery slope territory...

  • Dad had swag

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  • I think this was the stock that the eventual "he ducks" crowd came from

  • Sovereign citizen changed their gas and electricity meters, that didn't go over so well.

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  • I would agree but I have seen in some areas of the US you must be connected to the grid. There is no disconnecting from it as it's illegal.

    Some say this exists to block solar but I think these rules predate solar and are more about the health and safety issues as a home without electricity generally requires a lot more work to upkeep with a lack of hot water and lighting, not to mention cooking.

    As much as many of us like camping, having a camp fire in your front yard to cook from and boil water with daily might ruin the aesthetics of the neighborhood.

  • Sovereign citizen changed their gas and electricity meters, that didn't go over so well.

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  • Canadian too, well at least British Columbia. There was a big drive a few years back to modernize the meters and some of what I suspect are the types that became 5G kills you groups fought long and hard to block these new meters being swapped in.

    Something about radio waves and then not being accurate. I don't think these people in this group were trying to steal hydro but more on some health grounds kick to block these new devices from being deployed. I think individual home owners can refuse the new meters much like people can refuse spraying on their road side properties.

    In the end as a business person I suspect they served a few purposes for real time accuracy of data collection on the status of demand and the health of the grid, and eliminating the need to send out meter readers to manually read a odometer on a old style mechanical meter.

    Unlike others I don't think they were in the Bill Gates lane of trying to microchip you with vaccines to control you and identify a person as well as your cellphone does.

  • GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations

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  • Reminds me of Quebec. They wanted to separate from Canada but wanted to still use Canadian money and still have access to national Canadian programs.

    It's not a pick and choose situation as much as you like it. You're either in the country and a part of it, or you're not.

  • Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over

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  • I recall some pretty bold statements being made that Apple couldn't stop this reverse engineering from working ever in the early days of tech reporting on this.

    Even as a Android user I thought this was pretty bold claims to make as this whole walled garden is a big part of the Apple brand and they will need to protect this as they really don't have leading software inovation and they are no longer ahead on tech advances or specs that made the first couple of iPhones ground breaking.

    Since they are a couple to a few years behind the Android features and specs, they need to protect the special brand identity above all else so I expected them to tweak things to break anything they don't want to have happen to their systems.

    I can't blame them at all from a business prospective. While I don't like or enjoy their products, they had built a great brand that sells itself for those that "want to be different" but actually the same as all of their friends.