Jezebel posted a story about paying an Etsy witch to hex Kirk just 2 days ago

My first thought was that the pacing and humor was perfectly on-point for the Onion so it makes perfect sense that that’s where it came from

I don’t think you’re being creative enough!

I was just in LAX the other day and saw one of these signs in the security line. I can confirm with my own eyes that the sign is real.

Honestly, knowing the administration is hiring ICE agents at 100k+ starting salaries (for context, you generally have to be pretty late in a professional career with a multi-page resume to be approaching such salaries) arresting, detaining and forcibly deporting on chartered deportation flights is a heck of a lot more expensive and takes a lot longer than just handing families a couple grand plus $500 in plane tickets to get out. I suspect they’re quietly doing this to bolster deportation numbers since forcibly deporting takes a ton of manpower and therefore is quite a bottleneck for meeting the deportation targets Trump has stated

That’s the dumbest part of it all is that pirates seriously get the best movie/TV experience of anyone. I mean, maybe if you spend a shitton on DVD and BluRays to rip you can match that experience, but even that can be legally dubious depending on the jurisdiction

I’ll take a pair of rubber feet too!

This is one of those things that will vary wildly by person. Some people are absolutely wicked smart in their 70s having had 7 decades to read, write and digest and reinterpret and reread information and some people are entirely mentally gone by that point.

It’s just like physical health, some people don’t do anything to maintain it and start decaying in their 30s and some people remain in amazing physical health into their 70s and 80s, and some people have something tragic happen that hobbles their health for the rest of their lives. You simply can’t make sweeping generalizations like you have

I mean most of his tweets are deranged rants, its just that it so happens he’s the president of the United fucking States so whatever he says has the weight of the United States and all it implies behind his words now

There’s a super interesting post trending on Mastadon right now regarding BlackSky, which is a project setting up an independent and federated Bluesky service including their own custom relay server. So while yes Bluesky is effectively centralized, it is at least technically possible with enough effort to federate and access it from decentralized servers

https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115125470539240617

Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)

My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it

Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) band Light the Torch?

That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.

They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is

bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet

And for older kids apple made a scratch-like game for teaching their Swift programming language!

Scratch also works entirely in the web browser

I mean it’s all licensed by the frequency and antenna transmit power, so long distance is possible with the right choice of protocol, antenna and frequency you can get a surprisingly long distance with unlicensed spectrum. Ubiquity makes some directional antenna for wirelessly connecting 2 sites that operate in the 2.4 and 5ghz ranges that can connect over distances of multiple kilometers

Flash drives of banned foreign films are the one method of accessing foreign media that north Koreans realistically have. It’s extremely hard to prevent people plugging a flash drive into their computer in their home to view some media

Similar for me. I saw Cumberbatch and a name that seemed to suggest a wild mystery or fantasy and immediately watched it. I was not prepared for the story that unfolded

The drugs for doing so at the time were also horrendous so it was absolutely life ruining

One week is plenty of time to stay up late and crank out a half-assed dissertation that might even pass you.

Alternatively, if there’s more needed than just a good essay and presentation, go talk to a guidance councilor or your prof or something. You’ve got time to save your degree that you’ve been working towards!

Or if you’ve truly used up all of the options at your educational institution you can always aim for a 2/4 year degree and transferring credits. Might have to take a handful of classes that don’t transfer but its still a brilliant option. My 2 year degree would have cost me about 20k without the pell grant, (I ultimately only took 8k in student loans to help cover my lost income from reducing my hours while the pell grant covered all of the tuition and supply expenses) which given it literally got me making that much per year more immediately upon graduation is pretty damn good

Office 365 requires an account to validate the license. Potentially it might work differently for the long term licensed versions (which features released to O365 now wouldn’t reach until the next LTSC release), but I’ve not performed the initial install and licensing of those for clients yet

Or for home users who aren’t already invested in a Microsoft ecosystem your best bet is to just use Libre Office

Edit: I accidentally made Office exclusive to leap years!

My gut feeling is just that discourse shifted rapidly regarding left leaning gun owners over the last year or so, and I can’t help but suspect it’s not partially driven by the gun industry trying to get more people interested in buying guns.

But yeah I’ve known about several left-leaning organizations directly supporting gun ownership for quite a while now