For what it’s worth, my congress cretin is loving polishing trump’s asshole and ceding away congressional oversight to the executive branch. At a town hall lady week, he said that the DOGE department was always DOGE, they just changed the acronym (wat?!) and it was always under the executive branch, not an independent federal agency.

He doesn’t care if Americans get hurt or suffer his batshit policies. His moronic base will support him even if they’re suffering; they’ll blame it on the brown people.

I’ve encountered a few sites that restricted repeating or sequential characters. Of course told after failing the first creation attempt. Makes things like randomly generated passphrases fun to figure out. Particularly when their idea of “sequential” involves both in alpha/numerical order, but also adjacent spacing on the (assumed?) qwerty keyboard!

Pretty soon we’re going to be carrying cubes in our pockets

Hell yeah! Let’s ride!

Kind of a different feel, but: Fight Song - The Stanfields

Also, Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls and Creeping Death

Finally, the entire first Matrix Original Soundtrack

Edit: Gorillaz - Feel Good is tickling my brain, and there’s something about Foster the People’s Pumped Up Kicks but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea. And: Dope - Die Motherfucker Die

Al’s Beef is a national treasure.

One thing to be aware of with Ryan Hall is the /EXTREME/ hype and WORLD SHATTERING YouTube algorithm hyperbole bs that is fed into the regular postings of the long term forecast videos. The NWS & NSSFC say any forecast past 48 hours is only a general trend for a general area and has a remarkable amount of uncertainty which increases the further in the future the forecast goes.

I appreciate the live reporting and doing good works for disaster survivors. But the hyperbole - well, it just isn’t for me I guess. I wish Pecos Hank was still making weather videos regularly. If you want to see stunning weather videography with wit, wisdom, and a pretty good soundtrack, hit up his channel. Admittedly that channel is not so good for live updates, but frankly, NWS alerts are the best source for that as well. And if you’re in the hazard area, you should look up your local Emergency Management Department (usually county or city level). They often have a mass notification system you can sign up for to receive emergency alerts which are immediately fed from NWS.

One last plug - NOAA Weather Radio. If you live in tornado country, get one. Or flash flood country. Or downstream from a dam. Or in a tsunami hazard area… Really, just get one - they’re cheap lifesavers.

The whole album is a treat. It’s best enjoyed knowing the history of frank zappa’s various run-ins with the police due to his music

I’m probably gonna mess this quote up, but I thought it was brilliant:

“Privacy is essential to security, and shitty people feel entitled to take that away from you.”

You can’t be secure in your dealings or operate on equal footing (economically speaking, as others here have pointed out) without a measure of privacy.

Well, not that shocked.

Oh, shit, I’m still here… Can I have my wallet and dog back please?!?

OK, I’ve been dicking around with LibreTube for 4 hours now and I can’t figure out how to, or if I need to, create a login, and where exactly I would do that, given the several sources under “instance”.

For the sake of fuck, why are so many open source projects gut-wrenchingly awful at providing any beginner user info?

Great Scott! I was so busy packing, I forgot about the dog! Quick! What are your rates! Nevermind - here’s my bank info - I won’t need money anymore!!

Oh, shit! Who will water my plants?!

AFAIK, the Samsung BEC-H series commercial monitors don’t have the “smart” features (at least enabled, probably still exist under the hood somewhere).

Have the balls to yank the tax exempt status of that church.

Regarding hydro, the ecological effects upon the area flooded, the impact on migration of species, and risk of poorly designed and maintained dams needs to be considered. Wind? I’m guessing the impact on airborne wildlife - only thing I can think of.

Wouldn’t say I buy cheap shit, not Apple (I’m not Musk or Bezos rich), but flagship Samsung and pro earbuds, Logitech trackball, jbl speakers, and headsets from Bose and Jabra. Now the BT receiver for the stereo, that was cheap Amazon garbage. I’ll give you that one.

I’m talking phones to cars (for hands-free and music), mice to desk and laptop, earbuds and headphones to both, keyboards to anything from computers to fire TVs, BT speakers, adapters for older receivers… They all suck. Multiple phones, devices and cars. (although the 2012 Chrysler was the worst so far, and the 2021 Subaru is better)