NRA: The only way to stop a bad golfer with a gun is a good golfer with a gun.

Trump: I’m waiting on the final word from the Russian FSB.

He should have incorporated himself. That way no Texas court would ever convict him of anything.

googles for “how to migrate to Sweden”

Weird. Her face looks quite ethnic to me.

Repressed self hatred much?

Language is much more than words in a dictionary.

Each language carries its original cultural concepts and ways of thinking.

The first couple of weeks on a private tracker are always pretty rough, until you can build up your ul/dl ratio high enough to get some breathing room.

Some sites make things easier on newbs than others.

If possible, look for recent freeleech torrents, especially popular ones, download them even if you aren’t really interested in the content, and seed them 24/7 to build your ul stats…

This was by design to kickstart the private industry for space development.

NASA could have just kept building and flying space shuttles, but since the retirement of the space shuttle program in 2011, they were renting payload space on Russian rockets to get stuff into orbit.

Getting off of dependence on Russian rockets turned out to be tremendous foresight.

You have at least 10 years from when your tapes were written.

Hope the device you have to read them still works …

Spot the difference…

They’re all pretty much the same people.

Yes, that’s pretty much it.

Sparsely populated states like the Dakotas have more votes than their population proportionally should have.

Take North Dakota vs California, for example:

North Dakota has 3 electoral votes, California has 54

North Dakota’s population is about 784K, and California 39 million, or about 50 times North Dakota’s population

If California had proportional electoral representation to ND’s based on their population, it would have 150 electoral votes to ND’s 3.

Also Southern/conservative states mostly take away the right to vote from felons for life, and therefore a large chunk of the African American vote is ineligible because of disproportionate policing of those communities. Among other problems with AAs’ access to their voting rights, like gerrymandering, fewer polling stations, etc.

“A slight edge” isn’t enough.

Harris needs at least a 4 point lead to overcome the built-in Republican advantage in the Electoral College (fuck the EC).

I’m space radio, the real space radio

All the other space radios are imitating

So won’t the real space radio, please stand up

Please stand up, please stand up

Then private industry will claim it was all their hard work and boostrap pulling that made development into space possible, so they deserve all the profits instead of their workers.

WTF is newsfromthestates.com?

The site itself seems pretty neutral, or “left leaning” as some news bias bot would put it.

Oddly, the site takes pains to hide who is writing it.

Indirectly, it says that it’s written by “statesnewsroom.com” which actually does say that it’s published and written by these people Chris Fitzsimon and Andrea Verykoukis whose google searches appear to have bona fide histories as progressive journalists.

At first glance, I kind of like it, actually.

There is a deficit in state-level local news, but I’m not sure how many people would actually take the time to read all of it.

My scribblings will still be illegible after I’m dead. HA!

I just signed up for Matrix because you mentioned it.

I installed the Element front end, because that seems to be the most popular.

It looks like IRC, which is fine if that’s all you need.

It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked, which is understandable, given that the amount of data transmitted for redundancy between home servers is exponential with the number of home servers.

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org

So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?

What kind of system that depends on centralized servers can ever be secure from government snooping?

That kind of architecture is completely hopeless in that regard.

Is a encrypted, distributed, P2P architecture realistic though?

Mom went authoritarian on me when I cut up her Electoral magazines.