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Huntington Beach is swinging red hard in recent history. I'd call their current changes 'questionable'.

They ignored COVID19 vaccine and mask mandates, sued California for trying to make them zone their share of more housing due to the lack of affordable housing crisis, dissolved the long-standing human relations committee (created essentially to ensure everyone is treated equal regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities), is trying to make IDs are voter polls mandatory even though it is against California law, have been removing books from the city's libraries involving se LGBTQ+ themes as well as sex education 'to protect the children!!' and of course to withdraw from the Orange County Power Authority -- a renewable-energy focused provider for some reason.

Moser (D), a council member, asked Van Der Mark (R), another council member if they were a holocaust denier and if she had any association with the Proud Boys. The Republican side of the council (the majority) censured Moser due to this.

The context of this was due to Van Der Mark's publicly posted playlisted on YouTube titled "Holocaust Hoax?" and 'accidentally' posted it. Van Der Mark claims it was simply for research purposes. Also of note, there is a segment of Proud Boys and others that held a "White Lives Matter" protest in recent years at Huntington Beach and Van Der Mark was in a picture with Kyle Chapman, a leader of the Proud Boys, on a FB post. She also attended an anti-Islam event and was pictured standing just behind Johnn Benitez wearing a Proud Boys uniform and posed for pictures with other Proud Boys.

According to the ADL, she also referred to black people in YouTube comments as "colored people" as well as that they "dutifully did the bidding of Jews" at a white privilege workshop in Santa Minica.

Of note, she has said that she is not a holocaust denier but as far as I know hasn't specifically said that she has no ties to the Proud Boys.

This is already too long but this could also include her predecessor, Tito Ortiz (R). Ortiz named her their successor after quitting due to 'media pressure' due to their support of the Jan 6 Capital Attack, boycott of a burger place that wanted him to wear a mask (and as I recall a really cringy video that he recorded during it) and same again at a library.

That's not directly relevant to the above but just to be clear they are both (Van Der Mark and Ortiz) a shitshow.

Regardless of the issues above, Huntington Beach seems to be signaling that they are essentially a California MAGA stronghold in regards to how the GOP council members campaign and in their political agenda that they've been pushing forward.

Sure. States have authority over their own ballot process. Would it be a civil lawsuit violating a person's Constitutional rights that are Constitutionally valid candidates? Could be.

But Dan Patrick is also "joking" for clout, otherwise, he'd just be disrespecting the US Constitution due to political agenda interference. Then again, the GOP is known to act as mere children in their politics and their followers are known to eat that shit right up to 'own the libs'.

Since he doesn't mention it in his 'fantastic' reporting, OpenSSH 9.6 was released Monday that will patch this attack. Also, since he doesn't mention it, if on the Internet, the MITM would have to be installed at both end points (client side and server side) to be effective without the patch.

In my opinion Dan Goodin always reports as an alarmist and rarely gives mitigation much focus or in one case I recall, he didn't even mention the vulnerable code never made it to the release branch since they found the vulnerability during testing, until the second to last paragraph (and pretended that paragraph didn't exist in the last paragraph). I can't say in that one case, it wasn't strategic but it sure seemed that way.

For example, he failed to note that the openssh 9.6 patch was released Monday to fix this attack. It would have went perfectly in the section called "Risk assessment" or perhaps in "So what now?" mentioned that people should, I don't know, apply the patch that fixes it.

Another example where he tries scare the reading stating that "researchers found that 77 percent of SSH servers exposed to the Internet support at least one of the vulnerable encryption modes, while 57 percent of them list a vulnerable encryption mode as the preferred choice." which is fine to show how prevalent the algorithms are used but does not mention that the attack would have to be complicated and at both end points to be effective on the Internet or that the attack is defeated with a secure tunnel (IPSec or IKE for example) if still supporting the vulnerable key exchange methods.

He also seems to love to bash FOSS anything as hard as possible, in what to me, feels like a quest to prove proprietary software is more secure than FOSS. When I see his name as an author, I immediately take it with a grain of salt and look for another source of the same information.

Doesn't matter. It'll be just like the Panama Papers. There will be no accountability from anyone including the public.

I'm about to start a playthrough for the first time myself. I couldn't believe that it is actually stand-alone. I thought for sure you'd need to have the OG Stalker games but you don't and it warns that you shouldn't install over them if you have them either.
I never could get myself into the originals but I'm looking forward to GAMMA.

It is a (dying) polarizing issue in order to try to maximize as many of the Christian demographic votes as much as possible. After this it is just the LGBQT+ issues and that'll probably be a dead issue in a decade. It isn't their only demographic or their only hot issues but right now the numbers are pretty split. If they lose more of the Christian demographic the numbers will probably start earning them a disadvantage.

You'll know they're very scared when they start pushing to increase voter age because younger voters don't have enough life experience to make wise decisions or some other trash. To have any chance of success they'll have to somehow get moderates behind them with something unpopular with youth, so maybe like a war with Iran (I'm not saying it would be unpopular with young voters but they may not want yet another generation off to war) or something.

Why are some GOP lawmakers supporting a monument built for traitors and racists? If it is about heritage, then why are you proud of a traitorous heritage? If it's simply not to wipe away history then why can't they just follow their plan of putting it in a museum?

Hopefully that museum shows it in a context that does not glorify a bunch of insurrectionist slaver garbage.

The actual descendants of the original sculptor even want it gone. Washington Post, Descendants of Rebel sculptor: Remove Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery, 2017

Now a group claiming ancestry from a Confederate veteran named Moses Jacob Ezekiel, who was a renowned sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is asking that one of his most prominent works be taken down.

Twenty-two people in the Ezekiel family — ages 20 to 90 — from across the country signed the letter calling for the Confederate Memorial’s removal from Arlington.

“All of us agree that monuments to the Confederacy are racist justifications of slavery, of owning people,” she said Friday in a telephone interview. “We wanted to say that although Ezekiel is a relative of ours, we still believe it’s a relic of a racist past.”

Let's not forget Trump vetoed the Bill that was overridden by Congress that allowed this to happen.

As an elder millennial that boomers and X'ers always mistake for an X'er, I had never heard of avocado toast before the meme.

I'm glad I tried it though because I really like it but I'd never order it from anywhere though. Seems odd to pay like $6 - $12 for a single toasted slice of small bread with an avocado spread on it.

Those deaths were horrific and it is especially said about the 6 year old girl.

Another interesting fact:

Other contamination was also found in or on:

Three buses
42 houses
fourteen cars
five pigs
50,000 rolls of toilet paper

I'm not sure how true it was but an anecdote my social studies teacher told us was that the dialect was closer to victorian/older (not quite Old English) English and that's how Britain used to speak. However, in my opinion, they probably confused that with Britain specifically changing to non-rhotic English annunciation post the Revolutionary War with the, now US, to further separate culture. I don't study linguistics so maybe she was right and I am wrong though. I've just never happened across anything of repute backing that up.

Mine is Trogdor.

I should make the password consummate v's.

80s and 90s. I was a millennial when we were called Gen Y but like I said, west NC. I think being closer to Appalachia and thus Appalachian probably matters. So sometimes pants or jeans were 'britches', though not used by people my age then, "fixin'" was used a lot ("I'm fixen to come over yonder ('over' being optional here)" or perhaps 'reckon' in "I reckon that's about a mile down that ways" where you 'think' it might be a mile over there. 'Y'all' was outpacing 'you'uns' by then. 'Foot' instead of 'feet' specifically for measurement was still used. Like "That's about 2 foot thick." Holler could be used two ways, one of those being to 'yell' or talk to someone or to describe a small valley. A toboggan was those knitted hats (stocking caps) you'd wear rather than the sled you'd typically be riding on wearing one of these. When you're a young kid they'd sometimes have those stupid puffy balls on top of them. One of my grandmothers would use 'I swunney!' as an exclamation of being appalled or surprised by an outcome. I have no idea where that came from. 'Chaw' was used by older folks to describe a wad of chewing tobacco like "You have some chaw I can get?" A 'bald' was a the top of a mountain without trees and usually mostly rocks like "You can see 3 states from any of them balds over there." Sometimes old people would call a backpack a 'tow sack' or even 'clean' is used kind of odd like "He knocked it clean out of the park!"

We were still taught that slaves had it better off in some plantations and that many came back from the 'silent North' (implying blacks were straight up ignored and at least down South where they'd be beaten, lynched and tortured some thought that this attention was somehow better I guess) and that the Civil War was about States Rights and the issue of slavery wasn't actually important. I'm not sure if it still is but I hope not. I assume it isn't the way my family goes on and on about indoctrination of children outside of homeschooling.

Because it is a very important case and Trump's current defense strategy hangs purely on whether or not he was acting as President when he was giving the Jan 6, 2021 speech or whether he was campaigning as a private citizen. Also as to whether anyone but the President at the time can even answer that question.

At this moment nothing else even matters, so they do not even need to prove whether what he said makes him culpable for his followers' actions that day.

If SCOTUS decides that the DOJ under their current policy can indict a former President for actions as a sitting President, then that goes out the window and severely weakens Trump's case.

This is even more important because the elections are coming up next year and if Trump can keep the case in court and he wins the elections, then he stands a pretty good chance that regardless of what happens, the case is going to die.

Even if it doesn't die, and let's say he goes to prison in August, does he stay on the ballots? What happens to the RNC? What happens when half the people's choice is effectively taken away? What if people write in Trump and/or state's just simply do not remove him and he wins anyway while in prison? What do we do while we figure it all out?

It is very important that this question is answered as quickly as possible.

The Dept. of Justice has a policy against indicting sitting Presidents but not necessarily former Presidents. Trump's lawyers are basically saying that since he was a sitting President during Jan 6, 2021, they shouldn't be able to indict him now that he's not longer a sitting President.

Right now they are spending a lot of time deciding whether Trump, when speaking to the masses was acting as a President or if he was campaigning for his new term as a private citizen, as well as, whether anyone but the actual sitting President at the time can even answer that question.

Trump's lawyers, at this moment, do not necessarily need to prove that the act isn't treason but only that he was the President and was acting as a President with his statements. If that entire line of defense is taken away, it severely weakens Trump's current defense strategy.

Republicans are trying real hard to lose more seats across the country I see.

Growing up in western NC, it was always Coke when I was a kid. But then shopping carts were buggies and toilets were commodes back then too.

Personally, I use Fedora KDE Spin because it's stable, has an aggressive update schedule and if I want something from AUR or something, I'll just use its OCI in distrobox and get it anyway. I also prefer flatpaks over snaps.

I have used this for years now. It's really great. I have it set to skip the first 7 minutes of only certain podcasts because they usually have 7 - 8 minutes of ads. I also have it skip silences, which speeds up listening more than I first thought it would.