You’ll get your wish starting late Jan 2027

When Vance becomes eligible for 2 year plus 2 full terms

Genuinely funny

Nice.

Honestly, looks better than I’d expect.

Figured it would be a literal urinal. Is it just like this for special occasions? Or is it guarded otherwise year roun

yes

FFS you are an insufferable prick.

Regardless of your politics.

Yea it it’s really too bad this guy wants to eat

Seventy comments and not one soul has defended Perl…

Does an invasion/attack by one NATO member trigger an Article 5 response against that country by the remainder of NATO?

I am sure that this scenario has been imagined before (ahem Greece v. Turkey)

“the likes of which”

Old televisions used vacuum tubes in their circuitry in a similar role to transistors in (more) modern electronics.

These were literally little glass bulbs with bits inside that heated up, glowed and did magical things with electrons. They had some number of pins on the bottom and plugged into the television board similar to CPU sockets (but with only 5ish pins in a circle)

These tubes were not particularly long-lived and were fragile physical devices. When they were “on the fritz” it was literally often possible to smack them back into place/alignment/operation. Hence the trope of a TV with a bad picture, slapping it around and voila it works again. This was a literal thing that really happened and works, at least until the internals of whatever tube were too far out of alignment.

At this point, rather than call an expensive repairman (always a man in those days), you could take your suspected bad tube to the grocery store, where there might be a machine that resembles a 1980s arcade cabinet, which has a bunch of various common vacuum-tube sockets on it. Dad will plug the ‘bad’ tube into the (in)correct socket and the machine will pronounce that tube to be GOOD or BAD with some version of accuracy.

With that information, dad can select a new identical or similar tube from the rack that’s under the testing board, inside the cabinet.

Maybe it will work, maybe not.

Lots of specific tubes were replaceable with more generic versions that “will work” and there was a lot of effort to consolidate the vast number of tube variants, so another important tool was the equivalency chart-- look up your old tube in a book of tiny print/tables and see what generic part number might work to ‘fix’ the TV

Without having to call the repairman to your house, which was also very much a real thing.

Because she hates you (us) even more?

This is obviously true, but also obviously rational and is exactly what you would have done in that situation.

For real, she’s a shite person but this is the least of her sins

All of these wonderfully nerdy, techy and complicated answers

I just use Whatsapp on the phone, and Whatsapp Web in a browser tab.

Send files, text or images/screenshots

It would probably work as well work signal, but the folks I need to communicate with are all in Whatsapp so…

Alder executed someone alright.

Yes absolutely Alder (the “security volunteer”) was wrong and wholly responsible for his actions.

He fired his weapon and killed a person. He is responsible for that action.

Hey benign and honorable govt!

Please tell the website “kill-your-govt .net” that I am old enough to join the revolution!!!

Kthxbai

edit: if this was pasted in both directions AND we trust that there is no identifying information in either ‘secret’ message, might work. Normies will not like the ctrl-c/ctrl-v workflow though.

Yea it’s bullshit. They want to build the whole thing as 'voluntary" which will last only until it’s in place and then some manufactured satanic-panik will make it “mandatory”

This is a ploy to build the system now and flip the switch later.

I grew up on TOS reruns, and TNG as a teen — but had gone off to foreign lands without television by the time DS9 was in full swing.

TBH I didn’t like it at all through the first season, and my millennial partner had told me that Quark was her favorite character and I just couldn’t square that with what I knew about ferengi.

BUT I was so, so wrong. DS9 is fantastic and the problematic merchant goblins are great characters.

Been doing bedtime DS9 lately, having already gone through TOS and TNG.

Amazingly, for a kid who watched TOS reruns in the 70s, there were some episodes that I had never seen. Also, some real stinkers – it was a slog at times

Anyhow, just now in DS9 S7 so soon it will be Voyager

Not being familiar with the controveries referenced in this thread…

All of this reminds me very much of OpenBSD and Theo de Radt (?) back in the 98-02 era.

OpenBSD is certainly not the most popular *nix today, but it’s probably the most secure.