The government is not just politicians though. Actually, elected representatives are the tip of the iceberg and are in general responsible for the public debates around legislative direction , not for running the country. When you apply for a passport, request a permit for building a plant, apply for aid or for a research grant, apply for a visa, fly a plane, develop a military weapon system, market a new drug, a new car, go to a national park, pay or not pay taxes etc., it’s never elected politicians who do the work. There are tens of thousands of competent and dedicated people who spent their lives in the service of the public, despite the common trope that government jobs are cushy places for lazy losers. The “swamp” that MAGA hates so much, because it embodies (or used to embody) America much more than a reality tv star elected for president.

No. What is it?

The problem is, DHS and ICE found a magic trick to just stop using body cameras when they don’t want to. All they have to do is, when asked why there is no footage:

we were going to get body cameras but because of the Democrat Government Shutdown, the rollout was delayed. Can get them any time now. By the end of the month. I mean in 60 days. Or something. We promise!

Of course, and this was also true before LLMs. Don’t want to buy MS Word? Just write a word processor.
The only catch is that it’s likely several orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult to write software for personal use (with or without AI) than to purchase it or to use a free alternative.

Using AI to write scripts and macros to automate tasks that didn’t worth automated previously, is definitely a thing though. Someone link the xckd which explains the function between time spent on automation and time gained on not having to do the task.

Going with a guess here: the green one looks cloudy; maybe colloidal or other material present in the green but not in the black tea helps bring the sugar into solution. But could be simply the vessel shape. It would be neat to repeat the experiment swapping the vessels.

Or the grass is more resilient

Quite the dishonest argument, especially fuck off with the water is processed too line. The problem with processed foods is not that they go through a manufacturing process, but that the end product contains added sugar, salt, saturated fat, or nitrates in amounts not typically found in fresh homemade foods. The rest is semantics.

Sounds like products like huel and soylent are just for you! Would be healthier probably.

Good find, it’s shady as fuck they healthy-wash the processed food. But your post is also interesting for a second reason- you care about eating healthy and do some specific diet, and yet you plan to live on frozen apple pie, whose nutritional value, traditional or not, is practically just sugar with fat? Unexpected choice for a conscious diet.

Wow. I’d assume if I don’t select that payment method, they don’t have access to my data. This is evil and should be illegal and consumer protection agencies should prosecute anyone doing shit like this.

I would be interested in the reverse: a service that regularly scrapes a list of google photos shared albums and saves the new pictures to immich.

Why is it difficult to get it? It’s inconvenient for them. Do you think people need to consult everyone else in the world and make sure that their own personal problem is the worst ever experienced by any human, before being allowed to feel uncomfortable?

Roon on the server and ARC on the phone

Okay, but if it’s fewer than 239, then even with one more it will be fewer than 240.

Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.

There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.

I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.

Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide

I find it very easy to install and use. Drivers work fine out of the box. The window and desktop management is my favorite ever, so it stays on the home desktop. There are a few things like flatpaks from the cosmic store not always working properly, and you need to remove them and install stuff from deb packages instead. And I couldn’t get any clipboard manager app to work, I think that’s related to a more general wayland issue, but nevertheless frustrating.

I just set up I hate money a couple weeks ago. Works fine. Not a perfect drop in for splitwise, but works for us. You log in by entering the project name and password (not separate user accounts), then select who paid and for whom.

Maybe there is a FOSS self hosted solution for mixing good old tv ads into the mix!