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I went through my ancestry last week with the hope I'd have something to grant me citizenship elsewhere. My dad's side went back 6 generations and I still didn't find anyone outside the US. My mother's was 5 generations before I hit Austria and Germany.

As far as I'm aware, he's not even allowed to drive. The secret service won't let even a retired president drive on public roads.

I'd think a non-profit could do that pretty well. Set it up to take donations directly and have all donations be tax deductible.

My 401k is down 3 grand, even after I've put in $1000 in just the last month. Fuck everyone who voted for this asshole.

Totally reasonable. I don't shuck anymore, so I don't have the concern of getting the wrong disk.

I've personally never had a problem with their returns before. But I haven't had a doa disk out of their "renewed" internal disks yet.

Specifically the renewed drives sold by Amazon. They are the returned/refurbished drives. I've probably bought 10 or so in the last few years and that's how they've all come. I haven't had a failed drive out of them yet. (Seagate 22tb and WD reds 18tb)

Amazons renewed drives usually come well packaged. Antistatic bag, suspended inside very thick air pocket thing that completely encases the drive, inside a good cardboard box.

This is why scraping LinkedIn works so well. Using the consistent email format gets you to your target easily. I've used it to get the contact info of the CTO of American Airlines before (his auto-reply included his cell number.)

A good 5 years ago or so I was getting a breakfast burrito when an older couple came in asking for directions. They had an old school mapbook. It took a minute to orient myself, but I found they were on the wrong page.

Its one of my bucket list items, but an old school road trip with nothing but a mapbook and a compass. No real destination, no time frame. Just the open road and exploring. And no GPS to make it efficient or optimized where I'll soar right past everything.

The government isn't the place to run "scream tests."

Weird that my mind just read that as MKUltra.

Maybe appropriate for AI.

I would love to see everyone just start ignoring Trump and everything he says and just keeps doing their job.

That was my first thought. I want to find one that is smaller and distributed near me.

I might start with Crown Royal. At least the owning company is British (they also own my favorite American whiskey.)

As an American here, I think I might join them. Start buying more Canadian goods.

AOC for president.

What I wouldn't give to be able to say "Fuck You" to his face.

I think you misunderstood. I don't think shooting up a dealership was useful.

My issue is in the fear of making a martyr has been a big discourse which has lead to inaction. In the hundreds of political discussions I've been a part of leading up to the last election it became a recurring theme that people thought Trump couldn't even be arrested or held accountable for the many crimes he has committed.

Which lead us to a duality where either Trump was a martyr persecuted and having it stimulate his base or we let Trump continue to not experience any consequences and continue to rally his base unimpeded. It became a no-win situation at the outset when we started being afraid of making a martyr.

While we don't want to do anything that will unduly increase support of Trump or Elon. The use of words like martyr doesn't do much to help us. I agree we need to be smart about what we do, but I also think we need to be mindful of the language we use and the connotation that it has.

I hate this fear of making the opposite side a martyr. I've been hearing it for arresting and prosecuting Trump for so long. People making that claim basically let him face no consequences and look where that got us. As opposed to "making him a martyr" and who knows where we'd be. At the very least, they'd have had to regroup and change their game plan.

We can't keep being paralyzed into inaction by the fear of "making a martyr."

I'm saving this for inspiration. I'm seriously impressed and love it.

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett is just so damn good.