FFS you are an insufferable prick.

Regardless of your politics.

Yea it it’s really too bad this guy wants to eat

Does an invasion/attack by one NATO member trigger an Article 5 response against that country by the remainder of NATO?

I am sure that this scenario has been imagined before (ahem Greece v. Turkey)

“the likes of which”

Old televisions used vacuum tubes in their circuitry in a similar role to transistors in (more) modern electronics.

These were literally little glass bulbs with bits inside that heated up, glowed and did magical things with electrons. They had some number of pins on the bottom and plugged into the television board similar to CPU sockets (but with only 5ish pins in a circle)

These tubes were not particularly long-lived and were fragile physical devices. When they were “on the fritz” it was literally often possible to smack them back into place/alignment/operation. Hence the trope of a TV with a bad picture, slapping it around and voila it works again. This was a literal thing that really happened and works, at least until the internals of whatever tube were too far out of alignment.

At this point, rather than call an expensive repairman (always a man in those days), you could take your suspected bad tube to the grocery store, where there might be a machine that resembles a 1980s arcade cabinet, which has a bunch of various common vacuum-tube sockets on it. Dad will plug the ‘bad’ tube into the (in)correct socket and the machine will pronounce that tube to be GOOD or BAD with some version of accuracy.

With that information, dad can select a new identical or similar tube from the rack that’s under the testing board, inside the cabinet.

Maybe it will work, maybe not.

Lots of specific tubes were replaceable with more generic versions that “will work” and there was a lot of effort to consolidate the vast number of tube variants, so another important tool was the equivalency chart-- look up your old tube in a book of tiny print/tables and see what generic part number might work to ‘fix’ the TV

Without having to call the repairman to your house, which was also very much a real thing.

Because she hates you (us) even more?

This is obviously true, but also obviously rational and is exactly what you would have done in that situation.

For real, she’s a shite person but this is the least of her sins

All of these wonderfully nerdy, techy and complicated answers

I just use Whatsapp on the phone, and Whatsapp Web in a browser tab.

Send files, text or images/screenshots

It would probably work as well work signal, but the folks I need to communicate with are all in Whatsapp so…

Hey benign and honorable govt!

Please tell the website “kill-your-govt .net” that I am old enough to join the revolution!!!

Kthxbai

edit: if this was pasted in both directions AND we trust that there is no identifying information in either ‘secret’ message, might work. Normies will not like the ctrl-c/ctrl-v workflow though.

Not being familiar with the controveries referenced in this thread…

All of this reminds me very much of OpenBSD and Theo de Radt (?) back in the 98-02 era.

OpenBSD is certainly not the most popular *nix today, but it’s probably the most secure.

Can we get a tldr of the “problematic behaviours”?

As a casual who bought a pixel 9 specifically for Graphene, I not too embedded in the culture/dramas, and surely many others reading here are similarly unfamiliar

Wow — first seeing US Airways, and then later in the article Continental mentioned, lets me know that the page linked is wildly out of date.

I wonder if Pan-Am will make an appearance.

Hoppe’s #9

I have similar feelings and experiences as you, but have learnt while doing… uhh internet research, that micropeens do in fact have a pretty extensive and well-developed fanbase.

The acronym ‘sph’ is not very affirming, but there’s a hole other side to the genre that’s really quite supportive.

Some guys have all the luck, it seems.

Indeed, it’s a factoid that I heard/learnt somewhere…

Possibly from one of those “Astonishing Facts You Didn’t Know” toilet-tank books from the 1980s, before we had electronic poopy-time entertainment machines

Or rather, a Democratic majority Congress could USE that power to fix some things, and then shelve it.

Would they actually do that? X•doubt

Mike Johnson won’t call the House in until after the 2 Dec special election in TN-07 Aftyn Behn is running against a maga candidate for a vacant seat

If she loses the election, then this cancels Grijalva’s vote and then it will be ‘safe’ for the Pedo Protection Party to bring the House back.

When she wins… Who knows.

The House will stay out until then, which is a major contributing factor to why the GOP was so desperate to peel off the ten Dork Dems on the Losers List above. They can NOT accept anything that would send the CR back to the House because the House is not available until 3 Dec.

Send Behn some dollars if you can, many small donations can have a great impact. She accepts no corp pac or iapac money

https://www.aftynforcongress.com/

Also, she has a substack for posting about issues

https://aftynbehnfortn.substack.com/

Much later edit: Dunno why I had any faith in Schumer to stay the course. Of course they caved.

Falling for what?

Voting for the most progressive/left/whatever-label candidate that has any reasonable chance in the election? Is that falling for something?

Obviously the elections are over, with excellent results (nationwide), so all of this bleating is moot

But

Does anyone here sincerely believe that Cuomo would be a better Mayor? How many folks really wished Eric Adams the 2nd?

For sure, if Mamdani falls down and knocks his head and gets Fettermanized, that’s not gonna be cool.

But to criticize him for doing his best to become a good and capable leader for ALL OF NYC is silly. He’s not suddenly become Bibi’s best friend and I doubt seriously that he’s secretly wearing IDF panties to bed.

He IS however going to have to work with all of the constituencies in NYC which includes like a literal million Jews. That demographic isn’t going to be uniform in its outlook on the Palestinian genocide, and maybe 10% of them are going to be Hasidic or similar. There is really no benefit to gratuitously pissing any of them off before he even gets started.

This is just more purity test bullshit

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Who even is this guy.

Is he of any consequence. Sincerely I have no idea because I don’t consume any form of ‘talking head’ media.

I realize that my refusal to participate in ‘podcast’ or whatever doesn’t mean they are irrelevant. But this guy seems like he should be wholly irrelevant, after listening for ~90 seconds