Runner, boglehead, musician, escaped techie.
Whoâs up HODLing their bitcoin?
The Democrats' total failure to protect anyone with their funding grandstanding is why I simply do not believe Democrats anymore when they "take a stand"
They aren't just cowards or hypocrites or fools, by the way: they're liars.
They're desperately trying to find a way to both retain ICE's impunity (so they can use it) while at the same time convincing ICE to be a little less flagrant with the whole "unconstitutional" thing, so they can lie to their voters in 6 months
Never Believe Democrats
@inthehands as a veteran, I find the appropriation of military motifs by civil law enforcement extremely offensive, but also incredibly dangerous.
A particularly egregious example, that I wish people would address more often, is the use of the word "civilians" to describe people that are not whatever strain of police is using the term. "Civilians" refers to people within the general civil populace, as opposed to the military. The police (in all their various forms) are members of the civil society, and as such, civilians themselves.
Words have meaning, and those meanings matter. When we allow these subtle shifts in language, we normalize the militarization of police forces nationwide, but more than that, we reinforce the self-image of the police as separate from the rest of civil society. And history shows that when people view themselves as apart from civil society, they often see themselves unbeholden to the norms and ethics that govern civil society.
One can draw a pretty straight line from that to these guys cosplaying soldier, wearing full tactical gear, riding on MRAPs and HMMWVs, assault rifles on their shoulders like the movies, belt-fed automatic weapons mounted on turrets in the background for Kristi Noem's photo-ops. We, collectively, should have never let anyone get away with normalizing this from the second it started. Yet how many articles does one read in the press where no one ever bothers challenging a cop when they refer to the people that they've supposedly sworn to protect and serve as "civilians", as if they, themselves, are not?
Since we here in the USA donât know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend
Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.
I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.
Iâm located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.
Boosts are appreciated. đ
#FediHire #webdev #typescript #backenddevelopment #fullstackdevelopment
Both âTwelve Months (Dresden Files)â by Jim Butcher and âExcessionâ (Culture series no. 4) by Iain M. Banks are released today on Kindle.
It is a very good day.
Broadcast the hypocrisy, far and wide.
#Texas #Florida #Minnesota #ICE #immigration #hypocrisy #DHS
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Crazy People Do Crazy Things
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/crazy_people_do_crazy_things
TL;DR Most EV batteries will last longer than the cars theyâre in. Battery degradation is at better (meaning: lower) rates than expected. Slow charging is better. Drive EV and donât worry about your battery.
âOur 2025 analysis of over 22,700 electric vehicles, covering 21 different vehicle models, confirms that overall, modern EV batteries are robust and built to last beyond a typical vehicleâs service life.â
I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000
Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole
Pimpinâ for CarShield ainât easy but somebody gotta do it.
Hello #FediHire, I am a laid off malware analyst still looking for work. It's hard out there. I can program in various languages (primarily C++, Python and Rust) and can study non-malware code with just as much ease as complex malware. Enterprise application ready!
Accolades here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-m-taylor-security-engineer/
Code here: https://github.com/frank2
Any biters? Please let me know!
@scalzi New ScalziYearâs Day calendared. Will celebrate accordingly.
According to the TV, Taco Bell has $5 - $9 âLuxe cravings boxes.â Thatâs Luxe with an e.
Sure. Why not? Never too late to upscale your brand.
Aight, Spain just said the obvious - this shit is illegal.
We'll see how many other countries that don't want Trump to Tomahawk them the next time he needs something they don't want to surrender, join them.
The realist in me says it won't be many - but I wasn't sure Spain would say anything either. So, let's see how this goes...
Hagerty, who insures classic cars and has extensive info about sales and valuation of same, issues an annual "10 Predictions for Classic Car Values for the Next Year."
For 2026, their #10 takes aim at AI, and site-scraping. Bazinga!
"...the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case."
