I can’t support someone who keeps supporting Israel
Then anyone Republicans put up for election is off your list. That’s been the deal for the last several decades, evangelicals support Republicans because Republicans support Israel. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” and all that shit.
Even Trump took a fairly resolved situation, which was that the capital of Israel was in Tel Aviv (separating the government and the state of Israel from the hotly debated religious claims to ownership of Jerusalem and various sites there) and decided it was too much peace for him. So out of the blue in 2017 he said the US will now recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Cue completely foreseen and avoidable anger and unrest on multiple sides.
There are a lot of people in this thread saying the president doesn’t have much power, but there’s a good example: with the stroke (or spasm) of a pen the orange antichrist effectively moved the capital of a sovereign nation. No Congress, no Senate, no judiciary needed. And in doing so he set back peace in that region to 1947 levels. We’re at the six year mark of that act now: tell me, how is that working out for Israel and Gaza?
But if Republicans are elected, expect more of the same, because the evangelicals are not only convinced their salvation is dependent on their support of Israel, and that “god” will turn a blind eye to their MANY sins if they do this consistently, they are ALSO trying very hard to get Jesus to come back on the return leg of his promised round trip, so they will do everything in their power to destabilize the Middle East because they think that by doing so they can force the divine hand. Or, to use the parlance of that group, they believe war in Israel means they will be taken up in the Rapture. To Glory. While the rest of us bake in the detritus they have left behind.
I believe a USB WiFi dongle will be a better idea than modifying live images of various distros
Yeah, you and me both. But I’d be willing to do it for one or two, just to be able to prove that THIS laptop can and will run Linux with its current hardware, should he choose install it.
Also, the only thing lost by modifying LiveUSB trials is my time. If I corrupt the image, or it doesn’t work, or I make it crap out somehow – all of which is likely, lol – I still have done no harm at all. It’s just a USB stick. And I will also have learned a few things along the way, like how Linux distros install and use drivers.
you would be installing the firmware on the Linux system, not onto the WiFi module.
Then technically (not that I personally have the chops to do it) this “firmware” could also be something plugged into the distro on the LiveUSB stick along with the wl driver. That distro is getting its current drivers from somewhere on that USB already, so I’m not reinventing the wheel, just adding to what is already there.
I guess I just have to read up more. Thanks for letting me know the difference.
God yes. Librarians are fierce. I’m not even kidding. They are all soft and cuddly until you’re flatly wrong, and then they assault you with unrelenting presentations of correct knowledge until you either tap out or die.
These librarians will NOT give up, they will NOT stop. And I pity the defendants in these lawsuits, because these plaintiffs are like law clerks but mutant: one of their many superpowers is reading the minutiae, and that is what winning cases are made of.
None of this is a joke. I volunteered at a library for a while, and got to see how the sauce is made. Librarians are a special type of being who have found their tribe at work, and quietly hone their superpowers of observation and data collection while the rest of us mortals just browse. They can navigate any type of knowledge, and learn whatever they want, because they already know where to find out what they don’t know. And I guarantee these librarians have already read the entire statute and relevant cases, probably before they even approached an attorney. It’s what they do.
As an aside, have you ever seen two librarians square off on opposite sides of an issue? I have. It is . . . formidable. If the judge they get is even remotely interested in the due application of law (read: non-partisan) then these defendants are SO fucked, lol.
McMurdo Station will not be going entirely dry, the National Science Foundation confirmed. Researchers and support staff will still be able to buy a weekly ration of alcohol from the station store. But the policy shift could prove significant because the bars have been central to social life in the isolated environment.
I’m taking her story way too personally to be anything close to neutral. I thought that was clear, but okay.
Your reaction was my first reaction as well, but slightly different because to me it was as though the pic was taken by an abusive adult about to swing down on a young child.
That’s not in the pic either, but I take my baggage with me wherever I go, lol.
No harm done either way. In my opinion what we’re seeing in pictures like these is exactly what we need to see in order to heal ourselves, little reminders of work yet to be done and memories still in need of attention. And you’re already self-aware enough to know that you’re not approaching it neutrally, so you’ve already started the work. You’re golden.
So I’m saying I’m glad you posted, because even though you managed to provoke some downvotes, there is a cosmic fuckton of unaddressed domestic violence and abuse that colors our society and permeates every little corner of daily living that we would all do well to address. This pic is triggering as fuck for people who have had to live under that, whether it be physical abuse, or the unseen but worse emotional/intellectual abuse that this woman say motivated her ex to take and send this picture. It’s all one and the same.
Thus it’s not what’s wrong in you that reacted to this pic the way you did, it’s what’s already RIGHT in you that so forcefully showed you what was skewed in it. You have a conscience and a caring heart and a willingness to pipe up and say this isn’t right. We could all do with more of that. Well done, IMO.
1819 News published the username to Copeland’s Reddit and Instagram accounts, writing that he posed “in various outfits, some more racy than others.” The blog also said that Copeland used the pseudonym “Brittini Blaire Summerlin” and posted pornography and advice on chemically transitioning.
So he wasn’t just cross-dressing, he was actively interested in transitioning, to the point that he was able to advise others. He also apparently did not have overt anti-LGBTQIA+ values, beyond being a member of the GOP.
Honestly, I’m sad for him, and for his family who apparently knew and loved him as he was. In a small town, you often don’t get to choose unless you choice involves moving away, and sometimes you just get trapped. I get the sense he was one of these: a good person, trapped not just in the wrong body but in the wrong town, where you’re either a church-goin’ Trumper or openly hated and ostracized.
I know there will be a lot of cheer about leopard face eating and karmic retribution, but I won’t be joining in this time. If he were full in he’d have made open anti-LGBTQIA+ statements instead of embracing it, albeit anonymously, in his online personas. No leopard here. I feel nothing but sorrow for this man and his family.
But the rest of the small minded fucks in his small minded town who were laughing and pointing? And the asshole who outed him? Now THAT’S a different story, and I hope their laughter becomes a curse to them.
By the way, he said during their separation that he realized it was never a healthy relationship.
Yeah, I think that’s where he left it, and since he was the one living it on the wrong side of the original power imbalance, I’ll absolutely take his word for it.
At 12, you are still developing and cannot give consent to an adult for something like that.
I could not agree with you more.
The fact that he said it was fine as an adult is irrelevant and is why the term grooming exists.
Eh, for myself I absolutely agree, but when you are an older adult and a young person is entering into a relationship where such a serious power imbalance exists, voicing this to them in any way might be the most counterproductive thing you could do. It’s also his relationship, not mine. I didn’t live it, he did. So it’s his thoughts that matter at every step of the journey.
There is an ILLUSION of choice here: adults see the illusion, but the kids only see the choice. Remember that if you’re ever face to face with it.
So much depends on the age of the younger party, the age difference, the gender (to some extent, this particular mess was clearly WRONG from the outset) and what the younger party is saying about how they feel. If I am an outsider to it, the last thing I want to do is make any of that worse by giving the younger person something to rebel against. So I don’t. But never mistake my acceptance for approval.
Mary Kay Letourneau. Dead now, but it was almost as big as the OJ trial back in the 90s. Jesus, that was some head-twisting shit. Still is to me because of all the back-and-forthing between it was consensual/it was not/it was/it was not over the years since then, though I am inclined to go with whatever the young man says he thinks of it, especially now that he’s grown and can see it with adult eyes.
But yeah. Underage, it’s up to the parents to be involved. These days, porn is everywhere, and they’re gonna look. They probably see it long before any parent suspects they do, because it’s a lowest common denominator situation: kids will see porn at school at the age when another kid brings it in and shows it to all their friends, or maybe they will see it at home and be that kid. This teacher being on OnlyFans does not somehow make porn more prevalent, because porn is already everywhere.
So to me, the only hypocrisy involved is with the school board. If they want to have a say in employee moonlighting, they need to pay the wages to support that. Why should this teacher give more of a shit about the tender young souls in her classrooms than the school board and city do? If they cared, they would hire enough teachers, pay them living wages, reinstate extracurriculars and enrichment programs like art and music and classes in adulting (simple finance, home ec, civics, etc), police their administrators, and generally be more concerned with giving kids the best education possible than anything else.
Unfortunately, actual education is often last on their list these days. So shake it if you got it, teachers. No harm, no foul.
This is not the average mountain pic; the unusual lighting and unexpected shadowing give it a sort of drama, like it changed a minute ago and it’s about to change again. Really well done. Thanks for my next desktop wallpaper, OP.
While it is kind of sad you don’t know how to parse anecdotal evidence and it’s probably because you are completely unable to trust your own experiences and instinct to the point you require external validation for everything, I am enough of an asshole to admit that I have greatly enjoyed watching you stomp your feet and cry. And then wake up and stomp and cry some more the next day, lol. I love that we matter that much to you, and that we infuriate you so much you have to throw link after link at us and call us names, like anything you do matters at all.
But now I’m hanging up and leaving it off the hook. I’ll leave it to you to find some links that tell you what that phrase means so that you can validate the experience externally before you accept it. Have a nice day.
You will know if your house has knob and tube: go up to the attic or down into the basement, and look for exposed wiring. Chances are excellent you have a mix of older and newer wiring, if it was not upgraded after the mid-80s or so. I couldn’t tell you exactly when myself, but at some point municipalities started moving away from a “pull it onto the lot, plug it in” housing code toward actually requiring that ANY electrical work not be approved unless the entire house was brought up to code.
But save your heart attack for a good steak, because knob and tube is not inherently dangerous. It’s what people were doing with it that was winning Darwin Awards. (You could probably do a search for “plugging a fuse with a penny” and see what you get.) I was in a 1948 house in 2015 that still had it: the basic wiring was mostly knob and tube, but the breaker box was modern and it was actually up to code.
So really, no worries about sleeping outside tonight, you still have time to look over your house’s paperwork, seen when it was modified (and whether they pulled permits or did it the I-don’t-need-no-permits way) and then get a real electrician to look it over for you. Chances are good that you’re well within code if you’ve had any serious remodeling or repair work done within the last 30 years or so. When you find nothing objectively unsafe, try not to hate me for making you look. Just don’t stick any loose change into the fuse box, lol.
Apologies for the scare. Did not mean to do that.
EDITED TO ADD: Here’s what knob and tube wiring looks like. You may even have newer wiring running right next to older knob and tube, or knob and tube that’s still there but not actually connected to anything because someone didn’t want to spend an extra half day pulling it out. Your mains/breaker/circuit box is a much better indicator of whether you need to be concerned.
Missing it might also be why you actually made it all the way to adulthood, lol. It’s dangerous as hell, but it’s something people used to do on knob and tube wiring in old houses. Codes changed after any number of fires, and they actually made a change to how circuit breakers were built so it wouldn’t work anymore, but essentially a fuse was a round thing that had two (I think?) wires crossing the center; if those overloaded they simply burnt out and that was the mechanism of circuit breaking. The hole in the center was exactly the size of a penny, and copper is an excellent conductor, and people put more and more appliances on house wiring that had not been upgraded since the dawn of electricity so they didn’t have available power, but they usually did have a penny.
If you lived in a new(er) house you probably never saw this, but for those of us in older neighborhoods and post WWII starter houses saw a lot of it. You were supposed to replace it as soon as you could (this was in the days of actually going to the hardware store and buying it in person during business hours) but shit happens, people forget, and houses go boom. So they stopped making it so that anyone could do that at all, which is probably a good thing.
God, yeah, that tv console, lol. That one is solid 70s, with the dark finish and heavy pseudo-Spanish turned posts; I think ours was a good eight or ten years older because it was more mid-century modern, blonde wood with sort of gold/beige fabric screen over the speakers, but yeah. That pic gave me a good chuckle, thanks.
And listening to good music with your head stuck between two physical speakers is almost mystical. They also produced it, specifically, for stereo as well as for listenability on little transistors, so there was a lot of thought given behind the scenes to those notes hopscotching across brain cells from left to right and back again. It’s meditative is what it is: thinking about nothing else, nowhere you had to be, maybe a little bored, and putting your head between the speakers. Pink Floyd was awesome that way, but so was a lot of music: everything from Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra to Kiss to Wild Cherry, whatever you got your groove on. It’s a holy thing.
BTW, I think your detractor is probably too scared to take me on lest they get hit with an avalanche of reminiscences and maybe a game of “what’s this?” with a pic or two of a 45 record adapter or something, lol. As well they should be. Thanks for making me think of these things. Those were good times.