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1 month ago“because Obama is Superior”
I love that idea. This phrase makes it super-easy to remember the name change and what went before.
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Time is a flat circle
That’s it! (Ig)Nobel prize for you in cosmology. Or was it cosmetology? Or whatever, it’ll look nice on your desk.
FYI, here are the PrivacyGuides recommendations:
GrapheneOS is in this week
I really, really want to get there, just need to get with the program and find a good, late-model Pixel on the used market.
https://ente.com/ doesn’t require self-hosting (or Linux-fu) but you can self-host if you want to. The company is a darling company among tech nerds for that fact plus the focus on security+privacy plus being open-source and having a generous free tier plan. The company has channeled its success into a few different directions, such as a 2FA authenticator app and also into something that looks like a secure/encrypted Google Drive, which sounds interesting but I haven’t tried it yet since I don’t do a lot of cloud-storing of files.
Have a look at Ente. I’ve completely moved over to it from GPhotos. I did so originally for privacy reasons (end-to-end encryption &etc) but the 10G of free storage is plenty for me and their web/phone apps are good.
I wonder if there are any Canadian organizations, non-profits, that would like a complete copy of the Epstein Files, unredacted, to analyze? I’ve read that Drumpf is in the Epstein Files, and surely an independent Epstein Files analyst with unredacted Epstein Files documents in hand could locate a Trump within them easily. Make that the Trump-Epstein files, since we’re renaming things.
“operation”. Everything has to be an “operation” now, even if you’re just doing something routine and boring … has to be an “operation” because that sounds like some sort of glorious large-scale military thing … World War Two-ey even, and yes, yes, a glorious victory is in store, a victory not seen since, well, WW2! I think I’ll go food shopping today, let’s see, “Operation Rotten Banana”. Houseclean a little… “Operation Airtight Vacuum”. Probably take a shit later - “Operation Excreta President”. All will succeed, fabulous successes like nobody has ever seen, not since Patton probably, yeah, nobody can stop these operations, they’re yuge, especially that last one.
It’s right there, did you Nazi it?
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Oh, they’re still dead? Just pray harder.
I went to the WA SOS site and it appears that you’re correct. I had never thought of the VBM term as encompassing the distribution of ballots. In my mind “voting” is the act of filling in the little circles, popping the ballot into the envelope(s), and returning the ballot somehow. So yes, if Republicans can successfully prevent the distribution of ballots, that’s going to be a huge problem in WA state and other states that use primarily VBM. As for “absentee” ballots, I’d heard the term but not in a long time, and mentally associated it with voting systems back east where I’m from and where VBM did not exist when I lived there. An “absentee” ballot was something you requested if you were going to be unable to physically get to the polling location for some reason.
Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his father has been arrested
Another one of Orange Diaper Baby’s “thank you for your service” moments. The entire crew of the Lincoln must hate him. He’ll say they’ve all turned Communist and will insist the ship stay deployed forever.
The ballots here arrive in the mail. That includes envelopes to enclose them in when you return them, either by mail or by drop-off somewhere. I’ve not yet heard of the distribution of ballets by mail being a target of Republicans, but it could happen. Then we’d be back to the real oldy-time voting methods of having to physically go into a polling center where you only got your ballot on arrival. Republicans would love that, because it both discourages voting and would feel like something from the 40s and 50s, the era when America Was Great. Polling centers would also allow greater control over who got to vote - darker-skinned people or people of non-European heritage or women or the disabled or anyone who looked “weird” could be easily turned away without even having seen a ballot.
No, not only mail-in ballots. Voters may choose to mail-in their ballots or submit them the old-fashioned ways. For some, mailing their ballots is easier than old ways and increases voter participation. Republicans want to discourage voter participation, hence the war on voting by mail.
I’m in WA and I never vote by mail. That’s mainly because there’s a real ballot box not far from me and not much farther from me than the USPS office. But it’s also because it eliminates the opportunity for someone in the mail delivery chain to steal, destroy, or misdirect my ballot.
I’m imagining a Drumpf intervention being something like a Venezuelan one. Helicopters and paratroopers over Wall St (and maybe over other international financial centers at the same time), soldiers rounding up traders, flying them off to concentration camps (losing a few out the door on the way, just for show) where they’d loosen their ties and drink WormyWater while their wounds festered.
Orangeboi would then demand a 10% cut of all portfolios as reparations, paid to his shell companies and friends and family. The traders would be replaced with puppets, no longer concerned with profits, but instead with maximizing the ego-yield for Diaper-baby. Demands would be made nightly on Truth Trading with the expectation of fulfillment the following morning.
Rinse & repeat with equity markets.
Weed for some people is anxiety train to nightmareville
Yeah, for me, high doses of THC, like through edibles, induces panic attacks, which are double-plus unfun. Lower doses, like through smoking, mainly make me “feel dumb” rather than feel relaxed. It would be interesting to have the sensation of “chilling out” that other users seem to get from weed, but I’ve never experienced it. Alcohol, on the other hand, makes me feel great and very chill and relaxed up to a point. I would still use it (bitter IPAs are the best but brewers are cranking up alcohol content way too high these days) if it weren’t for bad interactions w/chronic illnesses and with other prescription Rxs.
That’s odd. I don’t remember what word I used there but whatever it was I’d be surprised if it was censorship-worthy. b.i.t.c.h.i.n.g maybe?
As of 13:00 on 9/1 the MapQuest desktop site viewed from the US is still showing Lake Ontario.