@DemocracyMattersALot "Conservatives" are very depressing people (mainly in the fact that they exist).
@blogdiva Oh hey, you're a year younger than me ^.^
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it’s finally my bornday and i have, finally, beat an actuarial statistic and lived to being 60.
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LOVE is my renewable energy source, and on my birthday, CAKE!
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Once again, I give a firm side-eye to the fact that Caja defaults to describing public-key files as "Microsoft Publisher Document".
@artemis Note the overlap here with the right-wing tendency to view politics as a game, with teams and outcomes that don't really matter beyond their entertainment value.
@artemis Side note: It seems to me that vaguely-remembered information from grade school is the source of an awful lot of "everyone knows" misinformation.
Certain ideas about the biology of gender come springing to mind, for example.
Basing anything on US policy generally is questionable; basing it on US policy right now is bananabonkers.
If it had said "UN sanctioned" or "EU sanctioned", that would be another matter entirely.
@Serena I've often thought the Pledge needed some rewording, even after taking out that "under God" nonsense introduced in the 1950s. I believe my first edit would be something like "...allegiance to the ideals of the...", but then we need a document setting forth those ideals.
It was probably a mistake not to have done that from the beginning.
@artemis I am repeatedly grateful to the universe that, despite being raised male, I somehow never got infected by the meme of "a woman's job is to support her man" -- even though years later I realized that my mom was (and continues to be, in her 80s now) very tightly wrapped in it.
I keep coming back to the idea that I had my own, very clear concept of what "femininity" meant to me, and... it wasn't that. It was (is) much more about being free and smart and creative.
(Yeah, I don't know where I got that from. Is it possible to reincarnate from the future, maybe? :blobcatthinkingportal: )
@ProPublica “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” [writer embellishment begins] "We're just getting started. I can see a day, not too long from now, when we'll be putting hundreds or even thousands of kids in the hospital. Maybe some of 'em won't even make it! Think of the media attention, and the new customers it'll bring in! Honestly, I'm excited."
I was able to get around the problem by using an older version of Vivaldi.
I also found they have a diagnostic page where you can test the challenge and submit technical details to Cloudflare; it said all the tests had been passed but it still "couldn't complete", which is "unusual and may be an edge-case".
I've left the diagnostic page open and will come back to it later, in case it's some transient thing on their end.
So... what do you do when you're trying to log in somewhere, and you get one of those Cloudflare "Verify you are human" thingies that you just have to click once the spinny stops going, and you click it, and it spins a little more and then says "verification failed"?
@riley Ahh yea, the beginning of the shift from the vengeful and victimized G'Kar to the philosopher and spiritual leader G'Kar.
