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Obviously not as extreme but certainly much more common are those charged with assaulting a police officer who hurts themselves beating the shit out of a cuffed person lying on the ground.

One example is the case of Tyrone Carnegay where an off-duty cop working security though Tyrone stole a tomato, only to beat the shit out of him and finding the receipt. Then he charged him with assaulting a police officer and obstruction. Maybe he sprained his wrist as he hit Tyrone's knees with a baton while yelling get on the ground without giving him a chance to comply. He also lied and said Tyrone went after his weapon which the camera shows that he did not.

As I recall, even though he was charged with assaulting the police officer and obstructing a police, once Tyrone sued them, the police department was like "Whoa, whoa, he wasn't a police officer at the time while wearing his uniform but he was working for Walmart." in a case of being Schrodinger's cop. Some justice was eventually served in this case, though it still falls very short in my opinion, but there are many that never made headlines and had much public support. I'm pretty sure if the camera wasn't there and if he stole the singular tomato, he would have gotten much more than the 5 years former officer King got. I also bet if it wasn't for the DOJ getting involved King would have done probation, if anything.

Essentially they're just told to give it another 5 years and figure out how to make it better before using it again. So harsh.

We're going to see companies not care about until accountability actually happens. It'd be nice to see C-suite executives become accountable for their action/in-actions in running the companies with prison. Maybe there'd be a steep decline companies constantly acting against the public good without fear of meaningful consequences.

Well except in Linux's case when you use zram anyway. It compresses a pool of RAM. I usually compress almost all of my RAM and generally hover around and 2:1 ratio with lz4.

Windows 10+ also compresses a pool of RAM but it is a terrible ratio and seems to hover around 1:1.1. Nothing to write home about.

"We don't want you but we want the other one less. You still suck."

That's American politics in a nutshell, right? I don't see why this is surprising at all.

Just clarification here, a NAT is NOT a firewall. It will drop packets originating from outside the network if the ports aren't forwarded to an IP simply because the NAT has no idea which device on the network to send the packets to. A forwarded port is you telling the NAT to assume packets coming into a specific port should be forwarded to a specific device. It is acting as a security measure simply by coincidence but not by design. Unlike a firewall it will not inspect any packet payload or attempt to make a security decision on outbound packets. It only routes based on the packet headers.

A firewall on the other hand actively will reject or drop packets because it is an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). This is why if your router has a built-in firewall, your NAT will still drop the packets -- because it isn't a firewall nor is it what is being referred to if you disable it.

Port 6667 is a typical IRC port. It is sometimes used by remote access backdoors for command and control via a channel (chat room basically) on an IRC server, however, if that port isn't forward OR you don't have your PC set as the DMZ Host (you should never do this), then you probably have malicious software on your system.

If it isn't forwarded, then your NAT would drop the packets and Malwarebytes would never see it because they wouldn't be there. Malicious software can forward ports via uPNP and you should turn that off on your router or router/modem combo. It can also make it through if the connection is starting from inside of your network for TCP, which is the protocol that would be used for 6667 normally.

Honestly, I wish Congress would draft up a resolution reminding Texas what they'd lose and need to negotiate for if they left the US, including demanding a plan to how they are going to handle the loss of US citizenship for their citizens and to destroy all passports.

They could vote for any of the other DNC candidates.

It'll probably get dismissed. You have a right to a fair and speedy trial (6th Amendment) as long as you don't waive the speedy trial which happens and is why some people spend years in prison without a trial...and probably plea out eventually.

You give a contribution to the Treasury Department under their Gifts to Reduce Debt Held by the Public program. In 2022, this amounted to just $180,310.32.

While you can argue that "that isn't taxes though!", it is essentially accomplishing the same thing but obviously not taxes because a donation isn't a 'tax'. With $180,000 from 2022, it is clear this is more bullshit than meaningful intent.

Republicans: The federal government is too big and acting like a nanny state!

Hillbillies: The Civil War was all about states' rights!!

Hillbillies/Republicans/Same thing: How can a state do this?? Hurry federal government and overturn the state's ruling!!

Don't forget that the vaccine was going to kill everyone that had taken it in two years.

When I was a young parent to my first child, I made $3,000/year over the WIC help that I tried to get and severely needed. My apartment building was about to raise rent to another $100/year just like last year and the year before last plus they installed water meters on groups of complexes so water would no longer be included and the bill would be added on top. The meter would be shared by at least 4 apartments which would include the family with 5 kids that lived above me.

I found a house I could rent for about $100/mo cheaper and blah but barely. I moved to this shithole of a meth nest. I really couldn't afford it but you get super creative when you are having problems making ends meet.

Now I'm in a much better place for sure. I say all of this because I'd rather the money be put into services providing for children.

For example: Money put into schools earmarked to offer more after school programs as well as breakfast and dinner along with lunch. This way kids could always get 3 meals during the school year and parents could have some flexibility on child care and perhaps more align with working hours. During the summer break, if applicable, schools offer 3 meals per day and you could pick up the meals in one trip as "to-go" for say 2 or 3 days at a time per child. Some funding should be earmarked specifically to provide basic school supplies to teachers for their students -- paper, pencils/pens, notebooks, binders, etc. as well as textbooks. Excluding textbooks, many teachers use their own money to make up for it and ask parents to volunteer extra supplies (we always provided as much as we could, eventually tripling them per child). When I grew up in a poorly funded schools our text books were very out of date and generally in poor condition. Sometimes we'd have to 'partner up' to share text books and you can imagine how difficult that was for studying and homework...so I didn't do a lot of either. Of course, I'd also like to see textbooks have to be given in ebook format that has zero content in the hardcopy locked behind accounts and a paywall as well.

The US Government could do a much better job to support impoverished children and in general providing funding for education. It is also important that the money for education from federal taxes are mandatory for specific things because schools have shown that they'll redirect funds meant for something to something else if they can. It'd be terrible if a school used money for student meals for a new parking lot for example. As a real world example, my high school got a $1mil grant from Microsoft to use for new technology. They built a brand new lobby that nobody wanted with that money. I assume, officially, they used the MS money for all the technology related budgets but then budgeted little or nothing from the school's funds to same things and then used that surplus for the lobby.

The free solution I was referring to was my comment about using ControlD, which certainly offers a free service....which is the comment that the other person was responding to.

I run pihole and my wireguard VPN server locks all queries through it, which in turn uses unbound and queries via different providers like Cisco's OpenDNS, Cloudflare and Quad9. However, I wanted to present a similar offering that also has a free-tier without a query cap for people interested.

NextDNS caps your queries per month on the free account. ControlD doesn't and you can pick a various mix of their public DNS resolvers. You don't necessarily get the granular control with doing it this way for free that you can get with NextDNS though.

If you do check out these, make sure you click the Secure Resolvers if you'd prefer for DLS/DOQ/DNS over HTTPS instead of Legacy.

I wash my hands all the time. I'm not voluntarily gross. The tests will find trace amounts but if you don't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, you are a gross person passing on loads of bacteria that is exponentially more than the testing will find.

I appreciate the distinction though. There are definitely people that live like that. There used to be a guy at a place I used to work who used to dig in those big trail mix jars people put out sometimes instead of dumping them into something or even dumping them into their hands. Once I was in the bathroom (washing my hands) and saw him leave the stall and just walk straight out. Now I can't see those without thinking about that. I'll never touch those things again.

Good call. Here's a snapshot of scroogled.com in 2013 from the wayback machine.

Google goes through every Gmail that's sent or received, looking for keywords so they can target Gmail users with paid ads. And there's no way to opt out of this invasion of your privacy. Outlook.com is different—we don't go through your email to sell ads.

Cheaper to execute him than to pay him out for all of his years being unjustly imprisoned.

Cheaper to execute him than to pay him out for all of his years being unjustly imprisoned.