When Donald Trump finally loses his stranglehold on America itβs heartening to know that he, Musk and everyone else involved in the destruction of American institutions can be deported to foreign prisons without due process by using Trumpβs own executive orders.
2 sadistic despots: Bukele has assc himself w the key figures in Trumpβs orbit to solidify his credibility w him. On X, he interacts with & reposts Musk, R-leaning journalists... He's used SM to revel in helping Trump circumvent orders from US courts.
Bukele publicly floated the idea of taking in US-citizen prisoners: SLV "prepared to help the US βoutsource part of its prison system β¦ in exchange for a fee.β
It is appearing very likely that #RationalWiki will be dissolved this year due to lack of legal representation (no pro bono lawyers came forward and we do not have funds to hire a lawyer). Meritless #defamation lawsuits were filed against us by "human biodiversity"/"scientific racism"/pro-eugenics plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are consequently likely to win their cases by default.
Racialism (also known as scientific racism) is a set of far-right pseudoscientific ideas which hold that humanity can at all be meaningfully divided into biological categories ("races") that are both broad (each category should include many humans, sβ¦
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We need green energy jobs, technology, education, research, and infrastructure investment.
We need the opposite of MAGA.
So, just picked me up a new used LG Ultra wide monitor, got it set up and...
1920X1080 maximum available resolution. Yeah, that's a problem, the native resolution is 2560X1080 and that's why I bought it. Sure, size is wrong in the preferences, 34in, but the 29in LG ultra wide has always done that.
So, we go searching for an answer and on one thread, the question of cable quality comes up along with some ways to determine port, mode and things like that. Notably, despite it having an HDMI input, it shows my computer is using Display port. Hmm, that means I'm using one of my old Amazon Basics DP to HDMI cables, I wonder...
The computer has both HDMI and DP output, at one time I'd had two monitors connected, and I guess I just kept using the DP for no particular reason, switch to HDMI, and Bob's your uncle.
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Is anyone else seeing Medicare not pay for prior auth stuff now?
Last year #medicare approved #Botox for #migraines after two hospital admissions where they were billed about $25,000 each.
I guess they figured preventative measures at $5000 a pop would be better than $50,000 in a summer. I had this procedure 20 years ago and after the third round of shots it lasted almost a year and it was amazing.
This time my first round was in December, my second round was in February, I was supposed to get the third set in April but they kept postponing it. I assumed it was a staffing problem. Then I looked at my EOB.
Medicare had paid them NOTHING. I am shocked & I think they are too.
I get financial aid at this hospital so regardless I donβt have to pay, but I also donβt want the Hospital system I appreciate and depend on getting ripped off for $10,000 worth of bills.
I would be freaking out right now if I had this procedure at pain management because that would mean I would be shut off from pain management if I was unable to pay this $10,000.
Maybe itβs just me, but please be warned. It doesnβt seem like having a prior authorization matters much anymore. If you qualify for Hospital financial aid please apply now before they stop giving it out.
I donβt know what to do about this but I canceled my next appointment. They keep moving it anyway I assume they want to make sure theyβre going to get paid before they do it again. I donβt even think itβs helping anyway. These are menstrual related migraines not tension headaches triggering migraines.
I sent them a message and I asked them if I should be appealing this before itβs too late. I think I only get 120 days to appeal. Concord Hospital Nurology is so awful Iβll never go there again but I still donβt want them getting ripped off.
Anyone know how to get a Keyspan USA-28X USB to two port 8-pin serial adapter to work with a Raspberry Pi? It shows up under lsusb but says "no firmware." I'm guessing these needed to have firmware uploaded to them when they were plugged in?
I found an 11 year old Github repo that has Keyspan firmware, but maybe it needs to be compiled in a new kernal?
Anyone done this before?
Update! Simply copy the *.fw files to /lib/firmware/keyspan/
I don't think this needs to be compiled. The Keyspan package seems to be absent from Debian. Here is another repo: github.com/RasppleII/keyspan-f⦠You should be able to either build a dpkg out of this, or just dump the .fw files wherever Debian puts firmware...
On my system the driver modules will automatically get firmware from /lib/firmware. I *think* this is a standard thing, but not sure. I had a keyspan USB-serial adapter which did a firmware load when Linux spotted it but I no longer have it so I can't jog my memory that way. I do have other stuff that needs firmware uploading to it, for instance my wifi adapter, but again, the module just grabs it from a pile of firmware in /lib/firmware
π¬ 1Β Β π 5765Β Β β€οΈ 7663Β Β·Β Elon Musk attacked democracy defender and superstar court lawyer Marc Elias as βundermining civilization,β taunting him by asking if he suffered βgenerational trauma.β
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There's been simular findings for multiple different countries, including here in Britain. Overwhelmingly, people migrate to better themselves and their families, and that means keeping their noses clean and working hard. Immigrants here pay more in taxes and use public services less.
Yet the far-right everywhere portray newcomers as criminals, potential terrorists, and burden on the state.
#Ireland - The rise of repair cafes: βItβs not sustainable to keep buying new stuffβ A resurgent repair culture has a bottom-up energy, but change is also coming from the top, with the EUβs Right to Repair Directive
by Sylvia Thompson Mon Jan 20 2025 - 05:00
"At repair cafes across the island of Ireland, volunteers fix small pieces of furniture, household electrical appliances and clothing at community venues for free. This movement, which started about 10 years ago β but stalled during the Covid-19 pandemic β is gathering pace again as a kickback against the perils of #overconsumption and as a response to #environmental and cost-of-living crises.
"Tomorrow afternoon, in an industrial unit in #Dublin12, a repair cafe will take place, a community event in which a group of volunteer fixers will repair everything from broken toasters, kettles, coffee machines and air fryers to garments needing new zips or buttons.
"The #DublinMakerRepairCafe in Unit 2B, Motor City, Kylemore Road, #Dublin 12, is one of a number of repair cafe gatherings held throughout the island. Volunteer #fixers also show up for repair events organised in "#CommunityCentres, #libraries and third-level colleges.
" 'Iβd do a repair cafe every weekend if I had enough volunteers. I canβt meet the demand from libraries, county councils and community groups,' says Jeffrey Roe, a software and hardware engineer who also runs Tog Hackerspace, which hosts the D12 repair cafes four times a year.
"He says there are three types of people who turn up with broken items to be repaired for free at these community events.
" 'There are the environmentally conscious people who want to get things fixed rather than consume more valuable resources by purchasing new things,' says Roe. 'There are people who want things fixed for sentimental reasons β say a food mixer their mother used or a toy they played with that they want to give to their children. And then, there are the cost-conscious people who find the cost of getting something new too high.' "
ROFL! Nobody is collecting Trump's tariffs at the ports due to technical glitch
Thanks to a technical glitch, Donald Trumpβs tariffs havenβt even been collected at U.S. ports.
On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that an entry code in the U.S. system for American ships to use to have their freight exempted from tariffs isnβt working, and βthe issue is being reviewed.β As a result, no tariffs are being collected by the U.S. government for the time being.
I know I keep banging on about not bringing your phone to protests. Hereβs one reason why: if these devices are 20 years old, imagine the tech they have now.
This grabs your number, IMEI, and likely IDFA / AAID. With that, any agency can go to the phone company and get a dump of the numbers you called and everywhere youβve taken your phone for the past two weeks minimum.
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