FirstCircle @ FirstCircle @lemmy.ml

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Ah, I see, a confessed reader of un-American (and likely banned-) books. You must be very, very depressed. Despondent even. It would be a shame if anything happened to you as a result involving bullets (three max, place your order in advance), high windows, poisons, or a door plug seat on a 737. "Thoughts and prayers" in advance, no extra charge.

Gary Webb

According to the Wikipedia article on the guy, his suiciding required two gunshots to the head.

No maximally-cruel executions for free-thinking (allegedly having or expression thoughts, or doing deeds, contrary to those mandated by some religion). Burning at the stake, totally fake, yeah.

Was not aware of Waydroid, thanks for the link.

While I'd love to add my opinion to the Play Store reviews, there's no way in Hell I'm installing some kind of Christofascist malware on any device that I control.

The fundies are always carrying on about daemons, I hope you set the JWs up with all the "best" ones, and more.

I'd like to put something up that will outrage and provoke them. The CoS has a few items that might do the trick: https://www.churchofsatan.com/sources-artifacts/

Nothing to see here. Move along.

TFA had a pretty long list of shit that's been found on Boeing over the past decade or so. The next time I fly I think I'll be looking closely to ensure that I don't book on a Boeing plane.

Sorry, just ate a grape, I can't think right now.

The YMCA, at least around here, offers an income-based sliding-scale membership fee as well.

There are plenty of great affordable houses in vibrant, economically prosperous, almost-urban communities out there. Like this one https://maps.app.goo.gl/r42MN8wXEYVNwqzVA . So maybe it'll need a fix or two, but you'll own the libs by not having any homeless or drug users around, unless that describes you. You'll enjoy the several functioning roads (in season) and a well-maintained railroad - hopping a freight has never been more convenient. Drop by anytime, but don't delay, this one won't last!

In my Connecticut hometown, the average winter temperature used to be slightly below freezing. Now, it’s slightly above. How many joyful days filled with snowball fights and sledding would I have instead spent suffering in a classroom, gazing out the window at the rain, imagining the world just a little colder?

Ditto for my Vermont hometown. All winter = bitter cold and lots of snow - sometimes feet deep, but definitely enough for sledding and skiing most of the season. Dad was happy to have that snowblower and it got a lot of use. Now all I ever hear about from back east is all the flooding and resulting destruction. This article sheds some light on some of the reasons for all that. Rural VT and NH, easily reached from BOS/NY and southern New England, have economies that are heavily dependent on tourism, and especially winter tourism in the form of skiers. Less and/or crappier (wet) snow is really going to cause pain.

The resort also sells as many preseason passes as it can, which can cushion the financial blow of a ski season without much snow.

Sure you can fool the Flatlanders into taking such gambles, maybe for a season or two, but it won't be long before they're tired of taking the snow risk (quantity, quality) on themselves (rather than the resorts taking it) and choosing to stay entertained in some other way.

It was an adopted home for me, but yeah, I feel your pain.

Burma Shave

I'm pretty sure I read it back in the day but had forgotten all about it. I was at M$ around the time it came out and I vaguely recall employees talking about it in a dismissive but not exactly outraged sort of way. Kind of like you might expect if the author hit pretty close to home re: the culture but without it seeming (to the employees) like an attack piece.

Thanks for mentioning the book, it'll be fun to re-read it after all these years and see how it's held up. Maybe my library can get an inter-library-loan of a special, limited-edition, BG-autographed version, embellished in gold leaf all over.

<checks web>

Ha, wasn't sure if that was sarcasm or just Trollage at first. Well played! Yes, I am a pathetic, talentless loser, otherwise I'd be having drinks with BG on his jet or lounging on Larry's yacht or even fly-fishing with a Supreme at some wilderness resort.

<hangs head>

The "Thoughts and Prayers" for the murder of secular democracy.

M$ under Gates was also hugely about shafting many of the engineering staff working there. These were the Permatemps, people who worked on site alongside ordinary employees, doing the same work, working for the same managers on big products you've heard of. But the Permatemps, and I was one of them, didn't work for M$, we worked for the most part as W2 employees of external staffing companies. OK salaries, basic benefits, but zero equity compensation or job security. Occasionally a permatemp would get hired as a M$ employee and that's probably what a lot of them were hoping for. I got a small pay-out from the Permatemp lawsuit settlement (see link above) while some of the regular employees around me became M$ Millionaires in their 20s, including my tech lead at the time. But at least I was allowed to shop at the Company Store and got a discount on my copy of Vista! Meanwhile Gates conserved huge amounts of equity and had a big staff he could fire at the drop of a hat, because he didn't technically employ us in the first place.

Some might be surprised to learn that this kind of exploitation on tribal lands didn't only happen in the Southwest. For example, there's the Midnite Mine on the Spokane rez in E.WA.

You'd think so, wouldn't you? People have been locked-away for treason after lesser acts than Jan 6. Treason laws in the United States . If the feds won't prosecute, I'd hope the state AGs would start to look into these kind of public displays of insurrection.