Ah. So you are just a chud ranting about how it is woke that people took mental health days.

I apologize for thinking you had a genuine question and please go fuck yourself.

Back in university, we would be given the day off to actually vote.

Back in grade school, we would sometimes be given the day off… because the polling places were in our gymnasiums and they didn’t want a bunch of random adults walking around children to go poke some chads.

Keepassxc is great if you don’t need to synchronize passwords across too many locations and do not require anything where state matters (mostly related to stuff like yubikeys). It DOES have the vulnerability in that a bad actor has infinite time to crack it should they get a hold of the file whereas bitwarden still lives on a server.

But they are very different products with very different capabilities. Whether someone needs bitwarden over keepass is going to be a question of use cases.

Which gets back to volunteers going through and moderating it. And the ethical and moral question of whether people who upload it are reported.

And… honestly? if there is even a 20% chance that running a file sharing node (because I just love to give away both bandwidth and storage…) is being used to store CSAM? I ain’t doing that shit and most people will similarly run screaming and call the cops.

Nothing solves the problem of CSAM quite like… making everyone partially culpable in the storage and distribution of CSAM.

You can’t prove I was hosting child porn. Statistically, we all only had a 70% probability of having it on our computers

And moderation of this kind of content almost always sounds like torture when you hear about what facebook and the like are outsourcing.

Theoretically, this is a good problem for computer vision/machine learning. But there are a LOT of false positives (I think it was Aftermath who did an article on a study of when a nipple becomes female?). And… what ethical responsibility do you have to report on the fiftieth time that SheIsReallyAnEightThousandYearOldDragon_6969 uploaded CSAM? And how quick do you think people are going to lose faith in you and start wondering if you’ll also report on the rampant piracy?

And… there are also false negatives. At which point you find out you have been hosting something truly heinous for the past few months… possibly when local law enforcement tells you.

Like a lot of things: it sounds great. But nobody in their right mind is going to host this for free. And once you start accepting money you start opening yourself up to a LOT of regulations.

We totally need sustainable file hosting. Freedom!

Wait… the fuck did you just upload? Oh god. Oh god no. Do I have to call the cops on you? Oh no. Wait, does this count as possession? FUCK!!!

We need someone else to handle the totally sustainable file hosting. Freedom!

Yeah. This isn’t the first time the news app and the core nextcloud updates have fought each other in weird and mysterious ways (for me or others). I forget how I solved it last time (I think it was a similar case of needing to manually update to bleeding edge and then tweak things) but… I just don’t care anymore.

I don’t know who is right or wrong in how nextcloud is maintained (my instinct is the nextcloud devs because… have you seen nextcloud? but also, most apps don’t have this recurring problem). But at this point, the benefits I get out of it are largely gone. And when so many issues boil down to “We need more people and resources to maintain this”, it kind of feels like getting off the train BEFORE it crashes rather than after.

I’m on the alpha and it still won’t update any of my feeds. And going through the github issues it is basically summed up as “We will do another stable release once we have a frontend developer” which is basically never. So, at best, it will work until it doesn’t and then I have to fix it myself yet again and… yeah.

And if my choice is to run an older version of nextcloud to support one app? Hell no.

Legal Eagle (and many others) did a great video on this.

In a nutshell? They did this last time. They make baseless accusations so that, later, they can reference those accusations as “evidence” of fraud.

Rich white people have a long history of “giving away” their daughters. Let alone the insanity of debutante balls and the like. And just look at what they think medieval times was (there is a reason anyone with a basic understanding of history rolls their eyes at all the rape fantasies of shit like GoT/ASOIAF).

They view their daughters as property, plain and simple. And many take it even farther and consider them property to be “used”.

To be fair, that is true of all miniatures and model kits. It is generally less noticeable if you are dealing with injection molded sprues as a good pair of nippers can get you most of the way. But it is still good to have some sandpaper to touch things up.

Hell, I use an old pair of nippers to remove supports and overhangs from a lot of my “normal” prints.

… and now I am really curious what a 3d printed runner would be. Might do a proof of concept/experiment in onshape.

Yeah. Although I guess now I don’t really know how resin would handle those kinds of support either.

And yeah, it is pretty funny that a resin printer and curer and ventillation setup comes out cheaper than most 40k armies. But the answer probably is to scale up models (there is an artist on mastodon I keep meaning to throw money at).

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He doesn’t give a shit about justice.

It is just a matter of waiting until the epstein stuff dies down and hitting right before trump can potentially have the government stop it.

There was definitely physical intimidation at play in 2020.

But it was also following the summer of 2020 where the chuds realized they were scared little chickenshits. I still have a lot of family in Philly and got to watch some great videos of the locals standing up and scaring off the chuds.

And the other aspect is vote by mail and early voting. The demographics who were queuing on election day tended to be the ones they didn’t want to suppress.

The meme sub. Where people intentionally try to make jokes and antagonize each other?

There are many shades of tankies.

The hardcore Hasan fans (and, probably Hasan himself) are generally good folk with strong leftist ideals who drink a bit too much of the kool-aid and have a tendency to be useful idiots who spew blatant pro-russian propaganda (remember the first few days of the war in Ukraine? I sure do). But when someone they know/“know” cares about them is saying something? They listen.

Hexbear and lemmygrad are full of the kind of tankies who manipulate THOSE tankies. The ones who are gleeful to spew pro-russian propaganda because it proves they are REALLY leftist… or because they are literally paid to do so.

I am an AAPI. I already know no candidate gives a shit about me. Hell, it says something when frigging Yang seemed palatable for like… five minutes. And with the way geopolitics is shaking up? If you thought the anti-asian hate was bad during the lockdown parts of COVID, just wait until we are in a cold war gone lukewarm against china like we are with russia.

And that is why a lot of AAPI folk kind of go right wing. They, like their parents, decide it is easier to try to ingratiate themselves wit hteh white supremacists than to show solidarity. But the rest of us? We rapidly learn that there IS no solidarity with us because we are “model minorities” and get told to shut the fuck up when more important minorities are being discriminated against.

But also? That isn’t the only issue. There are AAPI women and AAPI lgbtq+ folk and so forth. And thus, you actually look at the issues and vote in your interests even if neither party really gives a shit. Because you have more than one issue (and, even that, one party is still a lot less shitty)

So if “Well… neither is great but one is a whole lot worse in these very concrete ways” isn’t working?

You get a celebrity influencer to say it. Like Sanders.

Generally speaking, people AREN’T saying “vote with us or else you’re a piece of shit” to anyone who is (good faith) complaining about Biden’s horrendous record on genocide and Kamala being unlikely to be much better. We almost always point out "Yeah… it sucks. But do you think trump will be any better? and get responses along the lines of “WELL I WON’T VOTE FOR GENOCIDE!! THAT IS MY LINE!!!”

It has nothing to do with the way the message was said and pretending otherwise is an active insult to everyone who gives a shit.

The only reason this MIGHT make a dent is because it is Bernie Sanders. The guy who opened a lot of people’s minds to the reality that there is something better than late stage capitalism and beltway liberals.

People have been doing exactly that since back when we were trying to somehow get Biden to win.

The message isn’t the thing. It is the speaker. Because even the tankiest of tankies are going to be wary of insulting Sanders in front of their audience. And this is why celebrity endorsements matter.