Speaking of which....

Today is Primary Day in Virginia!

Go out and fucking vote!

It's no longer about seeing the small picture we've seen hundreds of times.

It's about showing their followers and friends on social media that they were physically there to take a picture of a portrait that everyone has seen hundreds of times.

Social media is killing our species.

I'm a JavaScript developer. But it is fully possible to create a site with no frontend JavaScript

Like many things, you should use JavaScript if you need it. If you don't need remote data sources or live refreshes, pure html and css work perfectly fine and, I would go so far as to say, may even be necessary for resistance web pages.

This is especially true if you're using tor. JavaScript can leak your IP address and sites will work more reliability if you have static content that's refreshed on the back end than using a bloated next.js app taking up RAM.

The US military for all their many, many faults, is real good at war, and marching like a toy soldier doesn't help you do war.

The point of a uniformed service is to show your enemy that you have control and command over people who will follow your orders. Demonstrating this lowers your enemy's will to fight back. It gets soldiers on the other side to think "If these guys are so organized that they march in unison, we don't stand a chance."

These military parades are no longer valuable except to authoritarians. Normal functioning democracies don't use national military forces to project power. They do so using diplomacy and other political methods.

But Trump, Kim Jung Un, Modi, and Putin all use it to flex their authority to their base.

It will not surprise me if in the next year, a new division in the army is created for parade duty for the president's birthday where next year their marching will be perfect.

All so that Trump can get his dick hard.

Roads typically go two ways. They may have one side of the road but eventually the billionaires have to come out the other.

We can easily mine the side just past the guards.

A couple of strategies depending on the problem you're dealing with:

• if you don't have time, make simple meals that minimize prep. There are cookbooks dedicated to this concept and highly recommend picking one up. "30 minutes or less" meals were a god send for me in college.
• if you don't like the food you're eating, explore new types of food. This is often a more expensive endeavor as it may require you to buy new spices, cookware, etc. again, cookbooks are a great help here. Most Americans eat a combination of Italian and Mexican food. Try making your own Chinese or Indian food.
• if you are lazy, consider a food prep day. I do food prep on Sundays and makes cooking through the week much faster and easier. Also helps to cook large batches that can refrigerate and reheat in the microwave or toaster oven. Make dishes that taste better with age. Chili, marinated dishes, etc. fall into this category.
• if you're too lazy for that, then eat out and don't cook. If you value not wasting food over your money, then this is the best choice overall. It's the most expensive option but if you'd rather not cook and have the resources to just eat out, then do so.

Lack of motivation (assuming you're not neurodivergent) often is a result of not having a plan or you find the activity tedious. If it's the latter, I'd go the simple route and try to keep your cooking as easy as possible. This is essentially true if you're new to cooking.

If it's the former, consider meal planning. I plan my meals a week in advance, taking into account left overs I already have, left overs I'm planning on making, food I need to buy, and other factors.

If you're neurodivergent, I'm hesitant to provide advice as I am not a doctor but I suggest talking to your therapist about it and seeing if they can help you.

If you're in medical school, you would have been there at least in the beginning of Biden's term. Texas was still a shit hole then.

What made you go to medical school in fucking Texas?

The number of people I know who have voluntarily moved there with absolutely no reason have been shocking. I have a co-worker who moved from NYC to Dallas for no reason outside of "I wanted to move somewhere different."

Not a job relocation. No family there. Just straight up "I'm moving".

Ironic.

I highly encourage you to go. They are counting on people being afraid.

Everyone who attends these protests risk something. For some it's their jobs. Others it could be their lives.

They are out there for you, for me, and countless others.

Joining them shows solidarity. But it also helps you feel less alone.

Practice good OpSec. If you don't go, then find other ways to resist.

Jesus fuck they are still doing emails huh? Despite the fact that email remains the most easiest to forge electronic messages?

Has anyone done any technical research into these emails? Like do they at least carry an SPF, DMARC, or DKIM headers? Ideally there would be a link that you can click that goes to a website where you can confirm that the email was intended for you?

There was a Sbarro's when I worked there.

Is it gone now?

Unless the ones that aren't willing to stand up to those who are, then they are just as culpable.

trying not to poop

Why....were you trying not to poop? Or was this a meme I missed? I remember the beans.

Yeah, Lemmy had absolutely been great over the last year. 6-hour Top sorting is absolutely key here.

Is it a one-for-one replacement? No. There are a lot of communities that haven't been able to come over effectively. But the main core communities have and it's been fantastic.

There is a linear line from incel to alt-right neo-nazis. The ironic thing is that it happened before the rise of Nazi Germany and it's happened again here in the US.

This is, unironically, what conservatives think.

Similar story for me. I quit though because management was getting so toxic we couldn't get anything done.

Learned through the grapevine that the company went bankrupt within a year.

Adding to this, each word and words around it are given a statistical percentage. In other words, what are the odds that word 1 and word 2 follow each other? You scale that out for each word in a sentence and you can see that LLMs are just huge math equations that put words together based on their statistical probability.

This is key because, I can't emphasize this enough, AI does not think. We (humans) anamorphize them, giving them human characteristics when they are little more than number crunchers.

The problem with body cameras or camcorders is that they can be confiscated.

You have to decide before going to the protests if it's more important for you to participate or more important to document. Each has its pros and cons and you might have the chance to do both, but you will need to prioritize one over the other when push literally comes to shove.

Decide your priorities and then adjust your OpSec accordingly.

¿Por que los dos?

It's not about blocking porn.

It's always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.