Ohy god it took me a full minute to realize that I wasn't looking at three stylized vaginas.
To be fair, I have seen several neolithic Venus figurines lately.
Yeah, that's a possibility. However, as some Mastodon folks said recently, no platform is forever. Signal's prospects seem reasonable to me, right now. If they co corporate and enshittify next week, I won't feel my time and investment with them was a waste, nor my financial support (which hasn't been much, tbh).
ha. That site is fun. I'm also clueless about some of it. Do you know what the "Come and find it" shirt references? I have a couple of guesses, but I really don't know.
This is some good info about Matrix, thanks. I've been considering it as a Discord alternative.
This comment right here is going to make somebody $50. From me.
The lack of a Scottish American heritage month is a serious injustice.
The tories can go cry in a corner, though. Fucking white house burners.
(OK, mostly being a dick for lols, but honestly don't feel bad that the former colonial power we rebelled against to even have a nation doesn't have a special holiday)
Purely informational question: to me this seems to say "she started using!" Later the title clarifies that she's using a FOSS tool of some kind. Is there a word missing? Or is "!" (just an exclamation point) a FOSS app? I get the overall gist of the message, but I'm confused about a detail.
Holy shit. How does that have a positive value? Still, Pittsburgh... hm...
Has that "absentee owner" law (or whatever the name is) taken effect yet? Do you think it will help?
Well, there goes my dream retirement plan.
Definitely under 50K (USD), but that's because I live in the sticks.
At this point nobody can convince me she wasn't murdered by a Ryan Walters, the guy running the OK Dept of Education.
With that argument, any employer can pay any employee less than minimum wage by arguing that they don't do "minimum wage work." The point of minimum wage is that subminimum-wage jobs should not exist at all.
Because human rights don't stop being important when you cross a border.
Yeah I think some people seem to mishear a certain key phrase as "seize the means of oppression".
This isn't a fair comparison.
That said, it's been horrifying to realize that the current leadership of Israel appears to have learned only one lesson from the Holocaust: This time, we get to be the Nazis.
IDF member
As someone who's been hearing impaired my whole life, yes. The urge to punch the person in the face right at that moment sometimes seems irresistible.
This drives me nuts when I see it done wrong, but it's actually kind of complicated because English is orthographically deranged.
Lead (/liːd/) [verb, present tense]: to guide, etc. I asked them to lead us in a rousing revolutionary anthem.
Led (/led/) [verb, past tense]: as above, but past tense. Later, we were led to a blank concrete wall.
Lead (/led/) [noun]: A soft, poisonous metal. Bullets are most often made of lead.
Just to make it confusing...
Lead (/liːd/) [noun]: kind of like "leader". Officer Johnson was our lead on this operation. (Note: it also means "leash"; e.g., I clipped the lead to Bowser's collar.)
Lede (/liːd/) [noun]: The first bit of a news story, often the first sentence. I didn't read the full article, but the lede suggested the protesters were decimated by police.
Leeds [proper noun]: A Town in England. Leeds is the worst place to stage peaceful protests.
And finally...
LED (ell ee dee) [noun, abbr.]: Abbreviation for light-emitting diode. For the love of any gods you might believe in, fucking capitalize it. Electronics hobbyists I'm looking in your direction.
More Examples
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Wrong: I was lead into the woods by a stranger.
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Right: I was led into the woods by a stranger.
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Wrong: The lead in an ad about cheap bulk led lead me to lede my leed dog to Leides on her led lede.
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Right: The lede in an ad about cheap bulk lead led me to lead my lead dog to Leeds on her LED lead.
(The last example is stupidly confusing, but it was fun to write.)