Also disposal of a lot of untested yet obsolescent surplus war material to make room for new equipment. Idk if ATACAMS ever got fired during the empire’s prior occupations, but firing an SRBM designed for a 1990s European cold war gone hot at Iraqis would probably seem wasteful for even the bloodthirstiest general

Cheers, helpful stuff & thank you for developing Lemmy!

Building on this, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on GrapheneOS as a whole. The OS recently bundled a new app “store”/repository, "Accrescent”, along with the usual basic apps like a calculator & camera. On Accrescent, the hardened fork of Signal, Molly, is offered on there. I’ve alsoheard one of the Graphene devs has voiced some chuddy politics.

I’ve still installed & use Molly to chat with my closest friends who I was able to get off of big tech platforms previously used for our group chats, but I have been aware of the RFA/Signal connection for several years (your blog post really ties it together) & I do try to remind these friends about it. Really we just use Signal to shitpost and organize hangouts, so I’m not yet locking myself in a bunker over using it for those purposes, but all this has got me considering building a server & hosting a different secure chat service on it.

I learned about possible Unit 8200 connections with the Matrix protocol within the past year or two, but don’t recall exactly what that entails. I haven’t heard much about Briar, but it being android only would make it a harder sell for getting people to switch over to it, so I suppose that leaves simpleX to proselytize.

I’m sure the shock of .50AE to the dome would obscure dental records

Lmao this guy shot himself with a desert eagle?

John Halo: “Sir, permission to leave Colorado Springs.”

UNSC Admiral Flynn: “What for?”

John Halo: “To give the deep state their fireworks back”

Dang the boatsman is gonna kill me in this realm, then drown me in the Styx to send me to super-Hades!

Ohshit the submarine president’s nautical revenge on third party voters makes me wish I didn’t live amongst the coastal elite 👀

in your 'rari. 17 margs, no bloody mary!

Similar issue with contacts who don’t have a picture associated with their info card/page/profile. Stock Android (GOS in my case) sometimes displays the contact’s first & last name initials in a circle (i.e. on the favorites page the phone app) in a color that is nearly identical to the circle’s background color.

“Mija, you’re worth it” (:

This is the song that led to me listening to MM’s entire discography & whatever B-sides I could get my hands on. So many moody drives to and from the PNW soundtracked to this 6/8 waltz, often due to kisses on the mouths but still coughing down sleeves

I ask this in completely good faith about the consistency of the system of including content warnings in post titles:: Why is it that pictures of Nick, Stav, and Adam’s faces get a content warning, but there’s no CW:Meat for the burger in RFK Jr.'s hands?

Naturally I would be making a humongous stink if I was not properly warned before having to see Dasha’s face, so thank you for so thoughtfully including that CW.

The one sub I miss. Wish there was a hexbear comm for it, as the lemmy.ml one has like 3 active users before it died over a year ago

They make quality stuff for the prices, an old job got a bioreactor (basically a carboy for homebrewing wired with sensors & computer-controlled pumps) for $25k from a Chinese manufacturer. They later sold it to the Open Insulin project & used the money to buy a textured vegetable protein extruder from China to make vegan deli meats. Both had kinda wonky unintuitive user interfaces, but they were solid pieces of hardware

Reminds me of the funny pharmacology of Navalny’s poisoning, according to the chemist that got crank called by Navalny & Bellingcat in that CNN documentary. The chemist said he smeared 10x the lethal dose in his blue underwear’s waistband yet it took an hour to take effect & he survived throughout the entire duration of the emergency landing at Omsk plus ambulance ride.

Gotcha, I didn’t consider the video call aspect cause my grillings were in front of 10 of my peers where I had to draw out the electron pushing mechanism for how the molecule I was researching produces hydrogen peroxide.

I did get it right after like 20 excruciating minutes standing in front of the whiteboard reasoning out the mechanism, but it was never previously taught to me by my PI.

The livestreamed collapse name is based on some old meme about how the future sucks & the only cool technology we have is some pocket screen to doomscroll the collapse of society & climate with.

I don’t get it?

Is that why the IOF so heavily promotes its vegan war criminals?

I’d like to consider myself a freak with an amazing memory but, yeah, that on the spot pressure/call-outs were especially rough in graduate-level sciences. I get the whole in-situ “determine the limits of your knowledge on the subject” but damn if it didn’t feel like the primary investigator of the lab I was in just saw me as a lab rat to poke and prod for his curiosity when I was presenting research updates.

Also not fun to learn I probably had test anxiety for my entire scholastic career & never had accomodations suggested to me until I was nearly done with my coursework :/