I have an energy-limiting chronic illness and am looking for online places to chat to people when Iβm too tired to leave the house and am feeling lonely.
A friend has recommended Discord, but I donβt really know where to start. Any tips for there or other online spaces?
The La Quinta Inn has been added to our list of overflow hotels, so if you missed out on the Hyatt, now is your chance to book a room for #HouseOfPounce! megaplexcon.org/join/hotel#oveβ¦
5 employees of a security firm, LEAR Asset Management in Northern #Idaho have been charged with assault and false imprisonment while conducting their βjobβ at a #TownHall meeting.
Their names are Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg, Jesse Jones and Alex Trouette IV. A sixth thug, Michael Keller, was βvolunteeringβ and was also arrested. #FAFOhuffpost.com/entry/ap-us-idahoβ¦
"Now up to over 1,700 students who've had visas revoked for nonsense reasons, including things like a citation for catching too much fish, or speeding tickets.
This is the kind of thing that will damage US higher ed for generations.π¨ Who wants to come here and risk this?" -A Reichlin-Melnick
Trump is destroying everything in is zest for #retribution.
Nice that Spain is honoring Trump at their annual βBurning of the Judasβ festival! All Republicans should be so honored! thelondoneconomic.com/politicsβ¦
First they came for the eggs, and I did not speak out... Because I was not at IHop. Then they came for the milk, and I did not speak out... Because I was neither Ben nor Jerry. Then they came for the food coloring, and I did not speak out... Because I don't eat cereal. Then they came for me... but I was already dead from starvation.
βThe #BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporationβs concerns that discussing the technology risks βtreading on areas of public controversyββ
Controversial to #FossilFuel industry and #Reform voters who are trying to kneecap anything that will help us avert #ClimateBreakdown.
βGlobally, 177 million #HeatPumps have been installed. China (33%) had the most installations, followed by North America (23%) and Europe (25%). β
βRegarding regional market share, Asia Pacific dominated the heat pump market, accounting for 53.1% in 2022. This dominance is attributed to the availability of sizeable skilled labour at low costβ
UK is so far behind because of our rabid rightwing media.
βAn energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking #HeatPumps, DeSmog has learned.
Over the past two years, the Energy and Utilities Association (EUA) has paid a public affairs firm to generate hundreds of articles and interviews to lobby the UK government on energy policy.β
An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned.
What a load of crypto-fascist political bullshit. It's just people talking about a useful technology. The #BBC is supposed to be informative/educational. There's little enough decent science and tech programming on the BBC these days without good stuff being deliberately blocked!! Bring back Tomorrow's World and Horizon! #science #tech #education
There is no culture war. There is a resource war disguised as a vibe war to keep the internet busy while the extractive class finishes loading the truck.
Busiest day of the week at work, nothing special there, except that I twisted my ankle yesterday. Real fun to hear/feel your ankle go pop, and came down hard enough to scrape a few of my knuckles as well. Good news is that my ankle seems to be mostly fine, no significant pain, carries weight fine, although it hurts on uneven ground. Was rather swollen last night, but I've been icing it since I got home yesterday. Big test will be how it holds up to the work load #today
Interesting, not entirely happy with this as I like my Discover card as it is, but this could get interesting, as Mastercard and Visa have a near monopoly control over credit card transactions.
Right now, if'n you buy something, it doesn't matter the bank on the card, nor the payment gateway the store uses, if'n it's a Mastercard or Visa, the transaction goes through their network, which is why they can force websites to restrict content. Capital One is one of the biggest credit card banks out there, so them switching networks is going to have a notable impact on MC and Visa, after all, those companies make money by charging a fee on every transaction, so C1 switching to Discover is going to take a lot of money away, and save C1 money as they won't have to pay for processing. Also since they collect interest on each account, they have a motivation to allow you to buy what you want to buy, so this might break MC and Visa's censorship.
Yeaaa it is a bolted 12900H. It is for a really great price. It's just that the stability is really concerning to me.
I plan to use it to run TrueNAS Scale. It does have an 8x PCIe 4.0 slot, but I plan to put an A380 only anyways. Then the iGPU should be decent on paper. So it ticks all the boxes, if it runs stable.
Now I want to make an "Only good nazi is a dead nazi" bumper sticker. (That I'd put on a magnet so I could remove it when necessary because...see "conservatives would send you death threats" above.)
Every post Reagan president, particularly since GWB and the Patriot Act, has chipped away at our access to the courts.
What did we think the next step was going to be once the FBI began to entrap Muslim men on bogus 'terrorist' plots and send them to Guantanamo indefinitely? Or once the US began to use rendition sites all over the world? Or when the US rewrote the rules about the use of torture?
Everything that the US said was ok to use on an 'enemy' was eventually absolutely going to be turned back on us.
How could we *not* think this was going to be next?
I'm attempting to rig up my own hail cover for my car by putting 8 foot 2x4 boards strapped perpendicular to my car across my roof bars, then placing heavy moving blankets on hood, windshield and back hatch. Then I'm going to park on two more boards with eye hooks on the ends and stretch a 12mil tarp over the whole thing and tie it to the boards on the bottom. I need to start rigging it up before knowing if it will potentially work and if I need adjustment.
@Sharonbw Thanks. It's one of those times I regret buying the house with a one car garage and not two.
It will either help deflect serious damage or fail horribly. My total investment at this point is $35 so I'm not out much. Way cheap than my deductible while picking up my car today.
@Rasta We tried it at work with a .5 inch steel ball and a 9mil tarp. It was successful on a fairly hard throw. I'm hopeful at deflecting golf ball size at best.
@Rasta I'm looking into the local code, but I have thought about mounting 12ft 6x6 posts in ground at 4 points around the driveway. There are no trees near by. This other project is more a temporary solution and portable for use at work.
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@moelassus I'm hoping to tent this if possible. I've read through a lot of diy ideas and the professional made ones have mixed reviews. I'll see what I get once I start assembling.
Everone I knew who lived in the Dallas area that I knew told stories of hail damage to a car or home. Iβm wondering by your description how long it will take you to put this together each time there is a hail threat.
Seeing this across all the accounts here, new followers no longer show up in the notifications on my browser. I don't think I've changed any settings, so is this new? Is there somewhere I can look to make sure I didn't accidentally change something either at the user or admin level? I do know that it shows up on #Fedilab on my devices.
This paragraph from the excellent article in the Irish Examiner nails it. #TransRights #SistersNotCISters βItβs too early to know the practical ramifications of Wednesdayβs UK Supreme Court ruling on trans identities, in which the meaning of the Gender Recognition Act was reversed without a single testimony from a trans person being heard, but said ruling has been a source of lip-smacking delight for the fringe group of gender-critical activists who have worked hard to making Britain the Anglosphereβs uncontested capital of galloping, gleeful transphobia. And it is this glee, this sheer horrible joy at everything being done, that can be so hard to swallow, so wearying to comprehend. Itβs not enough that decades of slow, painful advances in human rights and basic decency can be reversed in a matter of weeks, itβs that we must watch the worldβs collective ghouls cackling loudly with ecstasy as it happensβ
UPDATE; I am adding this long and excellent article from The Gist, because itβs a really important one; it clarifies where the UK has gone wrong, and where the EU gives protections for trans people. It also points out at the end that the UK is going to have a little issue with that ruling from the Supreme Courtβ¦. thegist.ie/the-gist-trans-righβ¦
Another important edit. - the science on genetics DNA and the variety of genders. The transphobes, Starmer and the Supreme Court judges really need to read and understand all of this. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/pβ¦
ANOTHER UPDATE [26th April 2025] This is one excellent journalist, who really gets to the heart of the matter. And no, we do not want this very British hate and harassment coming to Ireland at all. #TransRightsAreHumanRights irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-coβ¦
"Rep. Jasmine Crockett pointed to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison" and said: βAs far as Iβm concerned, heβs a lot less criminal than the person thatβs sitting in the White House, because the last time I checked, he doesnβt have any criminal convictionsβ: huffpost.com/entry/jasmine-croβ¦ #Trump #crime #justice #politics
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