Notices by John (john@liberdon.com)

@Humpleupagus @Tony @ins0mniak @mitchconner

And I think the precedent is more important than the immediate issue anyhow.

DC: "The National Guard *is* the state militia; you don't need a militia on top of that."
Also DC: "We can use your Guard against you and there's nothing you can do about it."

If the precedent is accepted it could undermine the whole DtG effort.
https://tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com/guard/

@r000t
Sounds exciting. Is there somewhere I can read about it, or is this hush-hush stuff?

@r000t
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FWIW I went ahead and fixed it anyhow (threaded it through the case up and back in through the top). Even if it wasn't dangerous, just for my peace of mind.

Hey, computer people!
Is the position of this motherboard power cord safe?
I'm concerned it's quite close to those heat sinks and with a tiny jostle could come in direct contact with one or the other. This is a 48-core machine so I think they could have quite a bit of heat. Is some part of this cord going to melt or burn or whatever?

@djsumdog

Weird.
What is frame.work ?

@lain
You'd be drawing lines down the middle of beds and through individual's ballots.

@lain
It is an interesting thought, but for what it's worth gerrymandering IRL isn't just about packing, it's about packing the opposing districts and cracking your own. You want each of your districts to be 60% your party (or 54% if your area is sufficiently inelastic like my state), and when you run out of your voters you make remaining districts 100% opposing party.

@lnxw37a2

Not sure if your message was just to invoke it if or if you're asking me to explain, but click on the bot's profile and it will explain.

Or just wait and you'll likely get your repsonse here in a while.

Not sure @FediTree will work for me.

@Infomaniacs @Alexmerced

BlueSky is supposed to be decentralized too, but are there really a lot of different organizations hosting or is it basically just the one server?

Decentralization doesn't really work if you don't get adoption.

@icedquinn
Not even to compile Boost?

@lain
Miss Key
She's unmarried.

@icedquinn

This thing?

https://www.cybersyn.com/

@lain
Seriously, what is that? That outer, light-colored layer (not the crust but the next thing in)... is that bread? It kind of looks like bologna, TBH.

To this day, I've never tried an unfamiliar dish that was supposed to be a German thing and disliked the result. Maybe this one will be the one? TBF... they've always been bread-, meat-, potato-, and/or egg-based, or it's been a dessert. And obviously a national cuisine is going to be broader than that, so I'm obviously missing much.

@anemone @dcc @bot

Wouldn't it be easier to isolate the other way - decaf coffee?

Also, tea? If I was listing "main caffeine delivery methods" I'm not sure tea would make the top 3 (probably top 5). Actually, let's see:

1. Coffee, no doubt
2. Energy drinks
3. Sodas (esp the citrus ones, but also inc. Dr. Pepper)
4. Caffeine pills
5. tea

Yeah I'm not sure about the relative ordering of 3 through 5. Might depend on how serious you are (I use sodas to soften the crash, not to get me going).

@dcc @emma

Coffee is also not good for your body.

But this is all about quantities. A little bit of a recreational stimulant like nicotine can be fine. Moderate amounts are addictive, significantly increase risk of heart disease, etc.. Large amounts are VERY bad.

A little bit of colloidal silver does nothing. Moderate amounts do nothing. Large amounts are bad.

@Jain @icedquinn

I'm definitely aware of very censorious instances. Some of my alts can't talk to each other, and I maintain at least one because I have folks on both sides of the wall I'd like to be able to talk to (or at least historically did).

I just don't get how that's related to what software the instance happens to be using.

@icedquinn @Jain

Well now there's a confusing conflation. This instance I'm using right now runs masto, but is very, very light on the moderation & blocking stuff.

@Jain @kaia @sun

Who is saying this stuff? What is it supposed to mean?