It’s a lot harder to do in some other democratic structures. 100 % for sure we have not yet reached end-game governance styles, no one and nothing is immune to sustained malice, but (for example) multi-party cabinets are a lot harder to ‘flip’ then just stealing one election and press the fascist button, which is what this ( States of Murica politics ) kind of feels like from a distance.

Why did they wait? Because if all this support started on day 1, a lot of folks would have feared nuclear retaliation and there is no way back from that.

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is too complex to use your oversimplified perspective, and thus only useful to throw oil on the fire. There are serious nuclear threats, Putin’s unpredictable actions, it also involves many (very different) countries standing up against tyranny. The bureaucracy may be slow in its responses, but efforts are being made to ensure careful moves that prevent escalation. Labeling European leadership as bloodthirsty is misleading in my eyes; they are actively working to protect democracy.

Why would you think European leadership aiming for more dead Ukrainians? Why would they still provide financial and humanitarian support? And increase it now?

Some NL based medical companies also have stored extremely sensitive data overseas. The rule is: comply (and don’t use foreign cloud solutions) or explain. I’ve read the explanations of a couple. They perfectly explain: we wanted this, it’s cheaper in the short run, clouds are just so convenient, it’s such a big company we don’t really need an exit strategy. Wow great explanation y’all 😅! I guess all of the transfolk have totally nothing to worry about, cool!

I shared a story of some international gay adventures I had in darkrooms to a Dutch governmental health organization so my STD check would be free (I believe all STD checks should be free forever and everywhere, so embellished every and all details so I would be marked as high risk). Let’s see how long it takes for that to finds its way back to me through DOGE or some other murican garbage institute :).

Lol ok. I paid money to ableton when I could have just donated instead. Thank you so much for the follow-up!

Latest release is 2020 it says on the GitHub page, is that incorrect information? I started using LMMS in 2022 but I recall ditching it because I thought it was a dead project…

Tasty cold beverage after long physical activity (day hiking or biking)

They told me every 10m/1bar is about one beer when learning to scuba. Cheers

Ask an LLM for recommendations based on what I liked to read.

That’s pretty unfortunate 😔. Thanks for sharing, what’s next for you?

True :)

Piracy is a service problem. If Videogames solved this problem, so can books. If changing these laws closes down libraries further, all of our EU representatives that worked on this legislation failed us immensely, libraries are already nothing but a faint whimper of the idea that started them off, and could fulfill an important cultural role for so much more folks. If only they were allowed.

But no. We have to think about those multibillion businesses who might miss a couple bucks left and right. Don’t know if anyone used that adobe DRM in the last 5 years but it’s basically a way to bully paying customers into an ecosystem, and you’re telling me they’re making it worse? Lol.

It’s a library manager, like iTunes for music, or Plex for movies, Google Photos/Picasa for photos/images . You pick a spot for you library locally, and then your local lib is a jump off point to load in on to any reader device you want. It will understand what device you are pushing it to, and automagically convert it (like Amazon’s proprietary format to mobi or epub 😜 !) to supported file-types. If you are into that kind of stuff, you could run it as a service on your network, and have all that fancy BYO cloud ebook solution.

The big difference with just copy-pasting is that you have a full library somewhere locally, and you can pick and choose what you load up on your reader. For me and maybe you, those lists are pretty close to identical, but what if you have a very large collection? And what if i just had to RMA my Libra? One click and a couple minutes after i receive my replacement, all of my books and reading progress will be synced back. If you had put your lib on the device itself, you would have had to rebuild it from scratch.

TLDR: Collection Management/Self Host and auto-convert are the big plusses.

FTL? Into the Breach? Diablo II, Cities Skylines, SimCity 3000, The Sims.

60 minutes of N64 chill tracks on yt

Honorable mention: Soma.fm

soma.fm not game music but the amount of vibes they offer means that one of those vibes will likely fit your study music needs :) and commercial free.

The pallets did nothing wrong!!

Even if he was floating up in the sky in the most comfortable high tech invisible fluff pillow levitator, just being 3f/1m higher then everyone else will already feel quite a bit warmer. Maybe this is that one guy in your group that never wears socks and is always hot.

My last LAN Partay was in 2016, that one weekend where Overwatch wat F2P, and we wanted to play Dota but had a party of 6. It was fantastic

This is ofc a legit thing, could you call it a culture clash? But anyway, there are ways to approach that with more tact than the daughter in the screenshot :)

We have it half way in between in NL: If you don’t opt out of organ donation, they will register: “Did not object to donation”. Without a definite yes, close family could still opt you out (after you lose the ability to share your thoughts) if they feel strongly against donating. With a definite yes, that option is also no longer available.

I think the full “opt-out” way should be fine too, if you really feel strongly against sharing working organs, you have the option to not do it, so no one is forced to do anything, and with opt-out the amount of organs available will be much larger, saving lives.

No. Are we gonna have to defend encryption against overreaching EU GO’s every month now? We should make it an offense to bring it up for the next 5-10 years, and then they can try again, pffff

The problem with the house analogy, is that now EVERYONE can just walk through your front door. People also don’t accept that, but that part of the reality she is demanding is omitted.

Maybe it could be a sub-part of the Friendica idea? That way, you don’t have the problem that once the user is done with the service, they leave. Some profile info might already be there, maybe get a list check-boxes as to which info you want facing the date-service side and off you go?