I’m attending the second funeral in as many weeks this weekend for very close childhood friends, and the thing that’s getting me is the grief of losing not just those friends, but loss and realization that I’m not even who I was when I knew them anymore

Like I’m kind of choking up now just thinking about it.

It’s been a rough month.

Wasn’t it Obama that normalized the indiscriminate use of drone strikes in civilian areas without congressional approval?

Democrats are just more competent about their use of military action.

The longer I’m on lemmy, the more I realize just how dumb reddit user controls are

When I was on reddit, it seemed to matter so much how old your account was on any given subreddit, but now i realize it’s extraordinarily bad opsec to have a single account.

All this to say: there being a single point of authority that can issue IP bans and shadowblocks and generally have control over user identity information is just so needlessly stupid.

Liberals and progressives staying home wouldn’t matter if the democratic party appealed to the working class as a whole instead.

Just for the record, this is what democrats always do, and it’s why they keep fucking losing.

Democrats would rather have trump than have a social-democratic platform, and it shows every time they have the opportunity to fight him and chose to capitulate instead. The democrats aren’t a left-wing party, certainly not now, and arguably not since FDR.

Second cousin, once removed, apparently

By the way, Sen. Charles Schumer, the Senate minority leader, is the first cousin of Amy Schumer’s father Gordon. The senator and the comedian have worked together to promote gun control.

“Vibe Coding” is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.

Defeated Democratic candidate: accepts responsibility in the lightest possible way

Liberal fanboy: Noooo, it’s not your fault, it’s the children who were wrong!

I have an anarchist child and they kill me in a rebellion.

I’d be so proud.

There are not enough smart-vacuum owners in the world that would make it more profitable to just make the hardware without hoovering up the data that comes with its use.

Better to put my efforts toward automating the flipping of light switches and the raising/lowering of window shades

And some brands of 3D printers have started placing those functionalities behind remote servers and paywalls

cough cough Bambu Labs cough cough

There are a million third party vendors that sell replacements on amazon, just take a look. Though - and I don’t know for sure having not actually read the article - it seems as though you may also need to change out the firmware so you can keep operating it if iRobot’s servers go down, since all the roombas i’m aware of need internet connectivity to operate.

If you’re at the point where you need to start replacing parts, it might be worth starting to look into other brands

Elon to Trump: “I can’t fund 2026 midterm candidates if Tesla goes broke”

Trump:

Definitely illegal, and definitely a test balloon for what types of executive authority they can get away with.

They chose Khalil specifically because of the subject of his protesting - they might get a handful of judges that allow this abuse because of the near-universal bipartisan support for Israel.

Whether or not this sticks will be an indicator on how far the US slips into fascism, and I’m certainly hopeful this gets reversed quickly.

Idk if using a homophonic slur (even as an lgbt individual) will fly here either, honestly.

Just a heads-up

They want Europe to feel threatened so that we come to them for help where they can put on the mask of protector when in reality they want to turn the entire world in the dystopian shitshow they have

Couldnt this just as easily be about the US?

Welp, I guess that pen plotter I built last year is going to be my full time printer

For anyone still curious, the ban was lifted already

If he was less supportive of Israel and law enforcement I’d be more excited about this.

Honestly there isn’t anyone left in the party that I’m happy with - even AOC started transitioning into radlib territory.