> The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
My ISP seems to dislike the traffic level. I've noticed at least two confirmed 'connection pauses' since I started and I suspect there were at least three more.
I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.
I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.
But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are
Tariffs for non-economic purposes is madness. And Trump risks causing national depressions in Canada and Mexico and even risks a global depression with these tariffs. So I agree that they need to retaliate firmly.
I admit that I don't know much about fentanyl (just what's in the occasional news article I see about it). I'm not going to do a search and have DEA agents breaking down the door at 3AM either.
Yeah, even field IT was training to use Azure cloud at $FORMER_EMPLOYER. I recall seeing that one of the penetrations against Microsoft potentially exposed credentials that would have allowed them to issue admin credentials against any domain (not sure whether it was regular Active Directory or Azure Active Directory) in the world.
The right response would have been to burn down their existing networks ... and all other Microsoft networks worldwide ... to start over from scratch. But since there was no known misuse, it was assumed that this was unnecessary.
Claim: School choice ==> Koch brothers and Christian book publishers trying to starve public schools to death.
Reality: Bullying, gangs in public schools ==> parents tired of trying to get school district to intervene ==> students move to publicly funded charter schools
Did I mention that Bluesky is full of weird exteme-left politics and not much else?
@sun@why@Gnomeshatecheese If you're doing the equivalent of pushing them across the line into Tijuana, then no it won't help much. But if you drop them off in the Yucatan ... or equivalent ... it can make a difference.
@sun There's no first amendment ("free speech") issue and no constitutional right to use TikTok as the medium for spreading one's message. Where there's a constitutional issue is the equal protection clause, because they didn't ban spying (not even spying for China), they banned one particular implementation, while ignoring all the others doing similar things. That's the reason why RedNote wasn't in the same crosshairs despite likely doing the same things that TikTok does.
I'm not a fan of the effort to remove them simply because they didn't target the action instead of the actor. (Because after all, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc would all likely be caught by the same rules. And so would auto makers and auto insurance companies -- Allstate is being sued by Texas over using people's cars' data feed to set rates -- and many more.)
I see everyone on Bluesky whining about free speech, as though that was the relevant issue. But not a one of them grumbled about government sponsored efforts to suppress Gab or the little Gablets (Truth Social, Parler, Minds, etc), which actually were free speech related. They wouldn't know free speech if an unapproved viewpoint reached out and slapped them in the foreheads.
And still calling Windows 11 "Vista 11", as though most people even remember how horrid the Vista user experience was.
Come on, Roy. If you want people to pay any attention to what you have to say, you need to stop using this outdated terminology.
And stop defending SFLC. They went rogue and should no longer be defended or supported (including financially) by the FOSS community. First they apparently strayed from their original mission, then they attacked other FOSS organizations.
After all, they helped form Conservancy, served as its attorneys, and helped it file its trademark registration. At any point, SFLC could have said it objected to Conservancy's name. But they didn't for almost five years after the trademark was granted.
Now, I don't know about you, but when I see someone do this kind of shit, I avoid them like the plague, because I know that once they reveal that side, they will do it again to someone else.
I know you write so many articles each day that you can't have time to do adequate research (and each one has multiple links to earlier Techrights articles, so you're already tied up), but even you have to have noticed that SFLC's recent behavior is not aligned with its earlier behavior. And that your articles about "Vista 10" and "Vista 11" are failing to get as much readership or attention as they once did.
@tk Maybe they'll give to his Patreon, so Dansup will be able to go full time with #PixelFed and #Loops. I know he's got to be frustrated that every time he pre-announces something, his work schedule makes late.
Eucalypts grow in cultivated areas like parks and greenspaces around public buildings. They aren't spreading wildly in the forests of SoCal. These are mostly native plants burning, except for whatever is planted in people's yards and along the streets. Intense drought + plants not watered + high winds = rapid spread when there's a fire. Eucalyptus not required.
You should probably subscribe / follow my other account: https://pleroma.soykaf.com/lnxw37a2 instead ... this one is more private. If I don't already know you, your request will not be accepted.