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.

1080p less than content?

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.

Even Muad'Dib started out small.

The detail on that is wonderful. Just noticed the green trails of slime sticking to the snail...

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.

It's a toss-up between Elon Musk and people saying "WHAT?!" when I tell them I'm hearing impaired.

Damnmit. I asked that kid to clean off this coffee table and now there's a pepper grinder, a bag of terrible candy, three remote controls, and some crushed fortune cookies, all under my back.

Of course you're an engineer. I could tell you didn't have to take gen ed courses from the punctuation mistake.

As someone who speaks Spanish

culoclean

choking on my White Russian

Your wife sounds like mine. I value transparency and openness fundamentally, but after a decade of "no" to almost everything, I've learned that if I just do stuff without asking, she frequently says, "Oh, that's a nice idea." If I ask, however, it's "not a good idea," "not now," "we don't need that," etc.

Not that strange, but certainly fucking annoying: at universities it's becoming more common to have "closed searches" for upper administrators like presidents, provosts, deans, etc. This is very much a labor/management thing, and historically (in the US) public universities have had open searches, where faculty and staff get to meet candidates, ask them questions, etc. Upper admins have taken over all decision making power in recent decades, but in the past few years they've even started preventing faculty/staff from even knowing who is applying to be their new uni president. Under pressure to do something about "the consent of the governed," admins have "allowed" some faculty and staff to view interviews and things, but are forced to sign NDAs to do so.

At public universities, using taxpayer money, promising large amounts of taxpayer money to some person. It's stupid and annoying.

Those three people already know each other, so...

No, Yemen declared war on Israel. It's war, so it's cool.

Ah, yes, the guy famous for never being wrong in predicting big things.

Professor here: do this all you want. It's not a page requirement, it's a word requirement. And it's a maximum, not a minimum. You have some tasks to accomplish in 1,000 words or less. Anything more than 1,000 words gets deleted or (if in hardcopy) crossed out/torn off and thrown away. I grade what's left.

met a guy online who has [opinions]

see the guy

I'm not racist or anything but he's clearly [race] so his [opinions] are hypocritical

You're doing the dangerous thing: identifying fascism where Americans have been taught it's clearly not possible because it's "our team."

You're right, of course.

I would watch the shit out of this YouTube channel.

I had to go back and see context to remember what this was in response to. Then I snorted pretty hard.

Privacy mushroom?

This is a standard flip-flop. Conservatives swear we're not a democracy, we're a republic, we need Wise Old People as representatives, not mob action, etc. Until it's convenient to swear that the founding fathers wanted grassroots action at every turn, that people getting directly involved is the best kind of democracy, that insurrections by--

I'll stop there. Anyway, it's a phrase they trot out when things didn't go their way.

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Works in XFCE, too (well, Thunar/XFCE, anyway)

You win the "most mind-numbingly predictable reply all day" award. Congrats.