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Arghblarg, 24 days ago

Good.

Arghblarg, 24 days ago

Isn’t the Senate supposed to have a Marshall who has authority to haul people in who ignore subpoenas and the like?

The USA seems to have an awful lot of ‘regulations’ and ‘laws’ that have no real enforcement, it would seem.

Enough of ‘courtesy’ and ‘expectations’ for all governmental things such as this. Anything that isn’t mandatory apparently will be ignored. Close the loopholes. Amend every law and regulation with the full expectation that every person it might be brought to bear to is a slimy grifter wannabe-fascist that will only listen to the very real threat of incarceration and jailtime from this point forward.

Oh, and give the President 2, maybe 3 pardons max and none exercisable in the last year of office. Or something. Geez, anything.

Arghblarg, 25 days ago

I refuse to buy any phone new, I always look for one 2-3 years old with verified stable support for lineageOS.

Also a good way to do a little to reduce e-waste. Many slightly older models have stock remaining new-in-box so it isn’t always an issue of buying ‘used’ hardware.

Arghblarg, 24 days ago

If it’s not new-in-box, yeah, pretty much. I’m happy with my OnePlus-5T.

Arghblarg, 26 days ago

Because the infection of Fascism and White Christian Nationalism has too many others in power who were in a position to soften her judgement; or too many are still in denial and aren’t willing to mete out definitive judgements to stop things before they can go further.

The rot goes deep and is nowhere near to being rooted out, and the US legal system seems to be locked in ‘kid gloves’ mode in dealing with these people.

Arghblarg, 1 month ago

So much for ‘checks and balances’ hmm U.S.? Wow.

Arghblarg, 1 month ago

We have on the west coast a few memorial forests – unsure what the fees are for a plot there, but I think those are a great idea.

Arghblarg, 1 month ago

We should do more than block them, they need to be teergrubed.

Arghblarg, 2 months ago

A noble thing if you could pull it off.

But stay away from windows for the rest of your life and always prepare your own tea.

Arghblarg, 2 months ago

So they should switch to element.io, or host their own forum thingie on a VPS somewhere. Why is Discord essential? (Hint: it’s not)

Arghblarg, 2 months ago

You spread misinformation, gardylou@lemmy.world. Anyone who cares to do so can verify the info I give below.

Snowden stated from the start that he originally intended to go from Hong Kong to Ecuador, who had promised him asylum. He intentionally gave away all copies of his data, destroying his own, to the journalists who had met him in Hong Kong to evaluate his leaks (verify sources before believing those who claim ‘he leaked info to Russia’). He fully intended to be ‘clean’ if he were interdicted on his way out of Hong Kong.

The US illegally (violating international law! It is illegal for a nation to render their own citizen stateless while abroad) revoked his US passport as he flew to Russia, which he meant to be a temporary stop only to obtain passage on a flight to Ecuador as Ecuadorian officials were to be there in order to receive him.

The President of Ecuador’s own Presidential Plane, with the Ecuadorian President onboard was forcibly grounded over EU airspace, by fighter jets, at the USA’s behest, on suspicioun that Snowden might be aboard. Snowden was trapped in a Russian airport, against his will, with no valid passport, essentially rendered Stateless – again, a violation of international law perpetrated by the USA against one of its own citizens.

Imagine the USA’s response if Airforce One were forcibly grounded to a foreign airport, by foreign fighter-jets, at the behest of another country.

Arghblarg, 3 months ago

I have used Krita to edit 1-2 page PDFs, but it’s clunky as each page is its own layer. If you’re looking for something that lets you add notes to an entire book or something… probably not useful.

Arghblarg, 3 months ago

Repressed memories flooding back. Our school gym didn’t always keep them inflated properly, so the strong, taller guys would really launch them and the flaccid rubber things would splat against our young bodies like lead jellyfish.

Holy hell dodgeball was a war crime. But so. much. fun.

The ‘medics’ were not supposed to be targets… hah, hah. ‘Oops, collateral damage!’ :/ :)

Arghblarg, 4 months ago

I feel this, it is my life

Arghblarg, 4 months ago

Depends, what are the samples used? If it’s all sad trombones it might not be so great. Then again …

Arghblarg, 4 months ago

Hmm, if you could find a SCSI3->2 adapter, and then a SCSI->CompactFlash drive, you might be able to cobble a working solution together?

Arghblarg, 4 months ago

Oh, so Trudeau’s interested in electoral reform again is he? Funny how just after he first got elected all those promises and commitees to look at alternatives to FPTP just faded… but now that he might lose it’s suddenly back on the table?

Never forget, the promise was broken.

Arghblarg, 6 months ago

I’m waiting to see Youtube block me using Vivaldi w/uBlock Origin on Linux so far. It hasn’t happened, am I accidentally doing something awesome to evade their traps so far?

Vivaldi’s Chrome-based, so I would presume the same tricks to detect uBlock Origin on Chrome itself would work, or is Vivaldi doing something sneaky?

I have no problem jumping to Firefox the moment they do it – I just haven’t had an issue yet. I should add I’m in Canada, perhaps that is a factor.

Arghblarg, 6 months ago

Oh I hadn’t thought of how I’d installed Vivaldi. I always just choose the basic install – no Vivaldi mail, ad-block, etc. Just their core browser. Then I install uBlock Origin on top of that. And, so far, I’ve never hit the new Youtube adblock-block.

Arghblarg, 8 months ago

Dark room, volume max, Phantom Slayer