The Mandalorian.

Succession.

Chess, mostly

Fun fact: Japan owns an obscene amount of US national debt. Guess what would happen if they decided to sell it off?

Iran tried farm-to-table nukes, but they weren’t very popular.

As a scandinavian who have spent many nights in Texas and a few other GoM states, I don’t think I’ve ever worn anything else than 20 while sleeping there. Too warm, hotel windows don’t open (why??) and the bedding is too layered.

18 or 20.

18 If I was wearing boxers before going to bed.
20 if not. Usually it’s the latter. I paid for comfy high-threadcount linen, I want to feel it too.

EDIT: 16 on rare occasions such as a nap.

Just checked: yup, 1997. I remembered because it was among the first tracks in my mp3 collection started around then.

I learned a new word via NCD a while back because of NK: Bunkergoon.

Isn’t that from 1997?

Jeg jobber med en norsk-amerikaner (tredje-generasjons innvandrer til USA). Han forstår norsk, og kan til nøds også prate det, dog med tung akksent og et par engelske ord innstrødd.

No. It is never morally wrong to ensure your own safety.

“But those who allowed nazis to come to power were doing just that!”

…no. Most of those weren’t ensuring their safety. They were ensuring their own comfort (in the beginning, at least)

If a regime is targeting you or your loved ones: Lay low. If the regime is targeting someone else: Resist, especially if at worst you’re gonna get a slap on the wrist.

Simplified: It’s a crystal ball that allows you to see through space. However, the target can also see you.

Think of it like one of those crying scrying (ducking autocorrect) balls from the Disney movies. Or a two-way-camera setup.

Can’t wait for some terminally online dork with a python script to figure out that the god password for Palantir is “StudMuffin1234” and dump everything online, thus making the two-way aspect a reality…

EDIT: Just for the record, it’s been over 30 years since I read the books. I may remember it incorrectly.

I think the only “required” one on your list is Instance: It’s one out of many servers. Lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.

I find it useful to think of it topologically like an IRC server, if you’re familiar with how those work; many of them connect and share content - You’re on an instance/server, but can interact with users and content from different ones.

The rest are more oriented towards Linux, servers (in general), and aren’t really required for Lemmy use in general.

This is where I started to explain what a codebase fork is, but then I realized that I fucking hate typing on my phone.

If it’s urgent, I go down there. If not, I schedule an appointment (how soon usually depends on the severity. Can be the next day, or the next week).

Example: My oldest kid (12 years old at the time) fractured his arm while in school last spring. I was notified right away, so I picked him up at school and took him to the local clinic (3 minutes away) . The doctor wanted some xrays done, so he referred him to the local hospital and gave him some painkillers for the one hour trip (we live kind of in the middle of nowhere).

We arrived at the ICU (it was after “office hours”), so we had to wait 30 minutes for the x-ray tech to be available. Turned out a titanium rod insert was needed, which requires anesthesia, so they couldn’t do it the same day because of fasting requirements. Operation “scheduled” for the next day. He was given a temporary cast.

Day arrived, and while there was a bit of wait since it was something they’d just have to insert into the schedule for the day whenever possible. Surgery went according to plan, and he was given a sandwich upon waking up, as he hadn’t eaten since the day before. He had a new cast on that he had to keep for a couple of weeks. The local clinic could remove it, but they wanted to do it at the hospital so they could do a follow up xray to see that it was healing properly.

A few weeks later, and things looked good. Cast removed.

A couple of months ago he had the titanium rod removed without much ado.

My only expense was the fuel cost for driving to the hospital.

The only negative feedback I have is that my son didn’t get to keep the titanium rod as a souvenir after they removed it. I guess the doctors have better things to do than washing gore off of scrap metal.

Depends on how you define “opposite”. I’m thinking direct democracy or anarchy.

Some nuance I read recently: The argument from above is basically that they want Ai research to continue as it has national security value. Therefore, any limitations or regulations to AI research should only happen on a federal level.

The idea is that all states should share the same playing field so that any researchers do not have to treat states differently.

Counterpoint: I heard it was Dave

Melania retains full custody

No use for me. DHS and probably every other three letter agency in the US have my prints, name, and picture on file after getting various work visas a while back.