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  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Shocks With Earnest Praise of Zohran Mamdani: He’s Going to ‘Surprise’ ConservativesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I hope Mamdani has adequate security because my first reaction to this is that it’s an attempt at plausible deniability for when some “unfortunate accident” befalls him. The emphasis on there not being a difference in parties, and how much they’re all rooting for him, could be parlayed into encouraging everyone to just accept a republican replacement since our goals are totally in alignment, but clearly the democrats just can’t take care of their own people or the citizens they represent.

    Any other president and administration I’d take the comments as either sincere or just friendly empty platitudes, but this group doesn’t do anything seemingly human without ulterior motives.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How A Blast From The PastEnglish
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    1 year ago

    as my system chases it’s tale in a silicon frenzy

    Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.

    I’m just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I’ve certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.

    fdisk, format, reinstall
    doo-dah, doo-dah

    To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtopolitics @lemmy.world•Police report describes Republican Nancy Mace berating airport police and TSA agentsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For everybody’s sake, I hope you’re right.

    I’d think sending tens of billions of dollars to foreign governments - plus spending hundreds of millions on aesthetic remodeling of the white house - while simultaneously threatening and endangering the food security and medical coverage of the entire country would be considered bad politics, too. At this point I honestly wouldn’t even be surprised if they try spinning furloughed workers as attempting an insurrection or something and that the workers actually owe money to the government for their machinations.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtopolitics @lemmy.world•Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying gunsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    carrying makes me extremely polite

    I saved this comment from u/jlbraun about 13 years ago (would link to the source comment but fuck that site):

    As a gun owner, you have to be cool-headed, moreso than the police ever have to be.

    You do not start shit, act aggressively, flip the bird, roll your eyes, talk shit, or even raise your voice. To anyone. Ever.

    A combat instructor (who happened to be Buddhist and a Marine) once said to me: "From now on, if no one’s life is on the line, you will lose every argument. You are always wrong. You are sorry for impinging on their day. You will apologize and apologize again. You will back the fuck down. You will put your tail between your legs. You will let them talk shit about your ladyfriend. You will let them call your mother a bitch and a whore and your dad a bastard. You have no ego. "

    “You do all this because if you are the one to start a fight, by default that fight now has a gun in it, and if you start losing, you’re going to pull it and kill him. And even if you don’t go to jail because you could convince the jury that it was self-defense, you’re going to have to live with the fact that you could have saved someone’s life and yet you let your ego kill someone.”

    “You are not the police, so don’t act like them. Though all of you [civilians] are better shots than the police, you do not have the training, the continuum of force policy, or a union plus free lawyers protecting you if you screw up.”

    ed: He also said: “but after backing down and trying to apologize, if at any time you then feel your life or that of a loved one is in danger, put three rounds into his [cardiothoracic] vault, call the police, give a statement, go home, and sleep like a baby. You did all you could for your attacker, and he was the one that made the final decision to kill himself.”