Curious Canid @ Curious_Canid @lemmy.ca

I am owned by several dogs and cats. I have been playing non-computer rolep

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To quote a popular bumper sticker: Be nice to America or we'll bring democracy to your country.

Actually saying that they want slave labor is considered bad public relations.

The GOP has been trying to destroy public education for almost fifty years. Their policies only benefit a tiny segment of the population (the very wealthy) while seriously hurting everyone else. They could never hold power if voters were well educated, particularly in critical thinking skills.

These apparently stupid side shows may look ridiculous, and they are, but every one of them damages the educational system. That is the point.

Mississippi doesn't have enough character to be the worst. It seems to be bad in every way, but it doesn't have the flair for actively destructive stupidity that make Florida and Texas what they are.

The last word I was trying to pronounce in Welsh till I realized it was an acronym lol.

It makes me feel better that I'm not the only one.

That headline makes it sounds like the Trump administration is somehow suffering from this. They aren't; the public is. And that was pretty clearly the plan. They're going to say, "We didn't cut your benefits, the incompetent Social Security Administration is keeping you from getting them".

This is being replicated across every social program the government operates. Except for the many giveaways that benefit the rich. Those will remain well-funded and well-staffed.

I'd be happy to send help. What does she need?

This does ring true. And the right has been systematically attacking public education for decades, with considerable success. They have created the constituency they knew they would need to do what they actually want to do. The worst of it is that there's nothing we can do about it, in the short term. Education operates on a generational time scale. We desperately need to fix this, but even if we had the political power to do that, which we currently do not, it would be at least twenty years before it could begin to affect things.

I think we are nearing the point where even the far-right base is realizing that what's being done is making things worse for the, not better. We may get a window of opportunity to start fixing things. When and if we do, progressives need to be decisive and daring. Big changes need to be made and made quickly.

The Democratic party, as it currently stands, is not going to do what is needed. It needs to be reformed or replaced if we're going to make this work. The best of the alternatives would be the return of something like the Great Depression.

I don't think the system we have will allow the practical creation of a new party, but I have begun to wonder if we can't get away with bypassing the Democratic "leadership". If we get progressive candidates through the primaries as Democrats, and support them directly with funding and volunteers, we can get them elected.

All of mine are casement windows. The taller ones hinge open to one side and the shorter ones hinge open from the bottom.

Under this administration, an ethics advisor is a clear case of government waste.

All of Trump's appointments and hires have been based on compliance, and nothing else. Well, actually, competence may be a negative and honesty is completely unacceptable.

It's impossible to tell anymore. There was a time when we could have assumed it was a bit. Now we have mentally incompetent people running our government and encouraging their followers to be delusional.

If you show the person at the border your paper, and they still won't let you in, it doesn't matter that you have the paper. It is just that simple. It's illegal, but when the people who are supposed to be enforcing the laws are the ones breaking them, there isn't any real recourse short of a popular uprising.

It will always be safer to store sensitive information in a system that you control than in a system that someone else controls. KeePass is easy to setup, it's easy to use, and it provides excellent protection.

I'm getting a T-Deck, but I don't feel too bad about using Bluetooth on a phone, as long as everything else is disabled. It isn't hard to track, but it will be a distant third after cell and Wifi in terms of what the authorities will be tracking. Not ideal, but an acceptable compromise for now.

That much cuteness certainly deserves treats.

I don't think your keys affect your interactions with the default public channel, although I could be wrong.

What I would do is perform a factory reset on the radio and set it back up from scratch. It doesn't take that long to do and it should eliminate any configuration problems that have crept in from multiple updates.

We got some Meshtastic radios that we use for protests (as well as for protests). They solve most of the problems quite neatly.

It sounds like you may actually have a compromised key. There are going to be a fair number of those around, because of the "bug" (really more of an oversight) in the pre-2.6.11 firmware. I had to get new keys on one of my radios too. Just make sure you're running 2.6.11 or later before you generate new keys.

My microwave can boil a single cup of water faster than my kettle. My kettle can boil four cups of water a lot faster than my microwave. It all depends on the microwave and kettle (and the voltage available).