This “use executive orders to bluff until people treat them like actual laws” strategy is starting to get really annoying.

People argued about Startrek and posted fanfiction back in the days of ARPANET, literally the earliest incarnation of the modern internet predating Bulletin Boards and relatively affordable Microcomputers.

I believe Robespierre had lead a period of time known as the “reign of good times and normal vibes” where they all formed committees to talk out and mediate the the problems of the system they lived under.

You guys are getting helpdesk jobs?

Did they forget that this one was passed as a law?

As in beyond that point it wasn’t “merely an interpretation” that can be overturned like many of the social progress cases the Warren Court had made.

The Lavender Scare overlapped rather heavily with the Second Red Scare.

That’s the same thing they’d say to a cancer patient.

The lengths I go to avoid swimming in public pools are unprecedented.

The difference being that Covid took a scientific breakthrough to make a vaccine for (as various factors about the virus were unprecedented) while flu variants are very much a known thing as far as virology goes.

The feds already have a reserve of human-safe H5N1 vaccines, the only thing preventing them from using that when SHTF is ideology. It will be both completely prepared for and completely preventable.

Finnestride is a gateway drug, it was almost inevitable that I had to move on to something harder.

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I’m a switch.

The whole point is to remove the legal backing of the orders such that anyone who isn’t already not complying out of a sense of morals but is enough of a mook to stop because “it’s law” also stops complying.

The whole game is to bluff people into complying with any shit they want preemptively because there’s no way in hell they’d get such policies through official channels.

Every so often I hold a microsd card and I think about how much storage is on that pinky-nailed sized $20 device. Compared to ancient hard drives it is one of the few things that makes me remember “oh shit I live in the future”.

Call me jaded but I am not predisposed to take the NYPD at their word.

People seem to forget about the innocent until proven guilty part, the raw amount of perjury with the theater surrounding this person is mind-numbing. If he makes it out of this he will be come a billionaire out of defamation alone, almost all mainstream news sources treated his guilt as a foregone conclusion with barely an “allegedly” in sight.

That or we’d overspec into stem education and neglect humanities until we get a whole generation of genius niche engineers who will sit down and gladly explain the most eugenicist viewpoint you’ve ever head from a living human in your entire life the moment you ask them a single question related to social issues…

Oh wait.

Another Bing reskin. Put it with the Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and the others.

If you want something that actually operates on something new under the hood consider https://marginalia-search.com/ which operates out of Sweden (though has a feature set more resembling early to mid 00s google).

Yeah I presumed the thing that wrapped everything in neat boxes was easier than the manual way of doing things (ssh and all that visibly scares average people).

I just run most of the junk bare metal and edit the configs manually because I don’t care to learn much more than that. Ironically the thing that should make things easier to set up sounds like a real pain in the ass to set up.

I wasn’t a fan of lemmy’s UI until I got ahold of the clone of old.reddit version this site hosts.

Beyond that it’s just explaining that new button that differentiates between the fediverse “all” and “local” pages on the particular instance whoever made their account on.

I might be biased because I can “sudo nano (edit the config file)” to do all the things manually like a nerd but I don’t think self-hosting is that kind of impossible. It’s not terrible for a layman to do in practice if you use prewrapped things like docker containers and proxmox. I think the average person can do it if spoonfed with the right documentation.