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- Comment on Judge Orders Prosecutors to Testify 1 day ago:
Can anyone explain what this is about?
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 2 days ago:
You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.
Getting retail distribution beyond your locale is difficult, making a profit is very difficult, but publishing in its own right is quite easy ;).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
We can’t find out whether a story is stupid til after it’s written. But wasn’t the Harry Potter series about a wealthy superhero who spent his early childhood in privation as a plot device?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Quit reddit, problem solved.
- Comment on Trouble Dating? Bill Ackman Is Here to Help. 1 week ago:
Uggggghhhh.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Add mustard.
- Comment on House Turns Back Bid to Restrict Trump’s War Powers in Iran 1 week ago:
Along with Mr. Massie, just one Republican, Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, backed taking up the measure. Four Democrats — Representatives Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Juan C. Vargas of California — broke with their party to oppose doing so.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 2 weeks ago:
Supposedly this is what elections are for.
- Comment on For Americans, what do you really think of Latin Americans? 3 weeks ago:
They are smarter than I am. I could never properly conjugate “Romans go home”.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 4 weeks ago:
Rent a storage locker and get everything out of the house quickly. Throw out anything that you both feel ok letting go of, but don’t put much energy into decisions about stuff where you’re not sure. Just chuck it in storage immediately. Now you have an empty house and can move. You also have a monthly storage bill but that’s hopefully a lot less than the rent on the house, and you can take your time getting rid of stuff from storage, or even selling some of it on CL/ebay.
- Comment on New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin 4 weeks ago:
First Helen of Troy, now this. What is the world coming to.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin
Blokhin was selected for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926 and led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s reign, mostly during the Great Purge and Eastern Front of World War II.[1] Blokhin is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war during the Katyn massacre in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner in recorded world history.[1][2][3] Blokhin was forced into retirement in 1953 after the death of Stalin and condemned during de-Stalinization shortly before his death in 1955.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Dunno what happened with your subculture but there is a recurring path that isn’t pretty:
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 month ago:
Hardcore nerds use TeX but if I understand your question, you probably want LibreOffice. I’m unfamiliar with OnlyOffice so ok, maybe that’s good too.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 month ago:
I haven’t had trouble with 3rd party batteries but there’s a combination of FUD and legitimate scare stories about them. For cylindrical cells, the really cheap ones are crap and this can be detect by X-ray:
hackaday.com/…/lumafield-shows-why-your-cheap-186…
IDK if there’s a similar deal with pouch cells.
Generally, replace your battery at below 50%. At 68% I’d keep using it. Maybe add a power bank if you want to keep going for longer. If 68% isn’t enough to get through your day, then 100% is at best sort of marginal.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 month ago:
Laptops nowadays almost always use pouch cells.
- Comment on how to dust properly 1 month ago:
How can I wipe the dust in a way so as to avoid just pushing it around so much?
Vacuum it. My friend has a Roomba that does her whole house automatically. I thought those things were ridiculous until I actually saw it.
Also, as someone said, air filtration should get some of the dust out of the air. That is healthy for breathing. If you don’t mind the noise, you can make a powerful air filter from a box fan and 4 furnace filters: look up “Corsi-Rosenthal box” for how to do that. Otherwise you can get a smaller one.
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 1 month ago:
In military systems it’s done with e.g. frequency hopping with encrypted sequences. That’s also how GPS anti-spoofing works (that’s for the military segment of GPS). The idea is say there are 1000 frequencies and you keep switching between them. Since the jammer doesn’t know which one you’re using at any moment, they have to jam all 1000 of them. So that increases their power requirements by 1000x compared to jamming just one frequency.
It’s not feasible for a mass market consumer product like Starlink. Even if it was, it would be thrown under sanctions or military suppression faster than you can say boo. And it would run at quite low bit rates to again maximize the ability to get through jamming. It would be useless for Netflix or transmitting video.
Maybe an activist cell in a place like Iran could put something together for its own members on the quiet, but it would be low bandwidth and would presumably be very dangerous for the users if they got caught.
I wonder sometimes if people overestimate the usefulness of stuff like this. Suppose Iran’s efforts to jam Starlink had failed, so Starlink still worked there. What would be different for anyone? We’d see more video getting out, but it’s not clear to me that it would have any effect other than to stoke up more internet rage. It’s unclear to me if that’s of any help any more.
Starlink was apparently believed to be unjammable until recently, when we found out that it wasn’t, fwiw.
- Comment on The Resistance Libs Were Right 2 months ago:
Wait, who are or were the resistance libs? I’m confused. The article quotes several writers who I’ve never heard of.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Air filtration? Lookup Corsi-Rosenthal box. It’s an air cleaner you can make from a box fan and 4 furnace filters.
- Comment on Easily available 940 nm transparent films? 2 months ago:
You want it opaque in the visible spectrum but transparent to infrared? Unexposed (but developed) Ektachrome slide film works for that. I had a piece of it around here from some years back but can’t find it now. If it turns up I can send you some. It’s from when I was fooling around with the night vision feature on an old camcorder.
- Comment on Climate change has turned Greenland into a target for Trump 2 months ago:
Wait Trump says there’s no climate change.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 2 months ago:
I’d expect Trump’s 3rd and 4th impeachments to go like the first two, i.e. he stays in office. Also, it would be very hard to find charges against Vance as VP.
If Trump did somehow get removed, Vance would take over as President, and it would take him a while to do enough bad stuff to get impeached and removed. And by then, he would likely have gotten his own VP confirmed, who would then inherit the office from Vance. So all this stuff about removing Trump and making things good again is wishful thinking.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 2 months ago:
It gets easier after the first few times.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 2 months ago:
He’s already been impeached twice and should be used to it by now. What’s the big deal? Wake up, brush teeth, go to Capitol, impeach Trump, go home, watch TV, sleep, repeat.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 2 months ago:
I don’t see a question here.
- Comment on Should I get the Measles and/or Mpox vaccines if I had them as a child? 2 months ago:
I didn’t realize mpox vaccine had been a thing for that long. Regarding measles vaccine, obviously ask your PCP, but I don’t see anything about getting a renewed vax in the wikipedia article (I wouldn’t believe cdc.gov at this point). I did get some kind of repeat vax a few years ago and half remember that it was MMR but I’m not sure of that at all. Depending on your age you might also get the shingles vaccine (two shots a few weeks apart).
There was apparently a period in the mid 1960s when they gave a killed measles vaccine instead of a weakened one, and CDC says if you were born in that period you should get another shot.
- Comment on People who have eaten since December 31st, 2025, why are you trying to start new shit? 2 months ago:
It’s January 1 here now. I’d like a coconut macaroon please.
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 2 months ago:
How long has this been going on? As many others have said, this sounds medical. Tbh I’d try to see an MD first, rather than therapy. They might refer you of course. Have you checked your temperature, blood pressure, hydration and all that kind of stuff? Anyway I have no clue and am just mentioning obvious things. If you had a viral illness recently (flu, covid) that can leave lingering symptoms too.