Still forgot to make up for the lost day yesterday, so I’ll have to do that today. I’m so sorry for anyone who’s missed their fix of these awful, awful posts.

I once again forgot yesterday just from being too busy, so I’ll be doing another one later.

I wish they would put the official app on F-Droid. I use PixelDroid, but it’d still be nice to try.

before I ever install their unnecessary and untrustworthy data-miner

You’re about [current year minus year you installed Win10] years too late for that. That said, if you intend to come over to Linux, it’s probably best to set time-bounded goals for yourself instead of vaguely putting it off until MS does something that crosses some poorly defined line, else you risk having to chaotically abandon ship at the last minute and making the transition much harder.

Last I checked, 45 is less than 1460. I hope this helps.

This is a State Department affair; none of what you listed that he was busy doing has to do with the State Department. He could’ve literally told them “Hey, I want Cuba off the list”, they could’ve given him a report to sign off on, and boom. Done. I hope you understand that while the POTUS has final say over their Cabinet, they have a Cabinet so that they can, like, delegate things to them. So that, like, they don’t have to be laser-focused on one or two issues for their entire term. The US’ sanctions on Cuba have unjustly crippled the nation for decades, but he waits 99.9% of his presidency to actually effect change on the issue, which, again, amounts to telling some people in the State Department to make a report and then signing off on it. What Biden’s done here is fucking meaningless, and it’s surely only so late in his term out of sheer cowardice that he thought it’d hurt his/Kamala’s election chances in Florida. Fuck him.

What the fuck are you talking about? The state sponsors of terrorism list is under the sole purview of the State Department and can be modified at literally any time under literally any justification without the approval of Congress, the courts, or any other body. It literally is Joe Biden saying “Make it so!” in this case. He just chose to do so when it has zero meaningful consequence.

He could’ve ended these wildly unjust sanctions at any time and only chose to do so six days before they’ll be reinstated.

And yet Amaze on F-Droid is probably a better product.

“Another day has passed and I still haven’t used the notion that the height of something on a slope is equal to the horizontal distance from the start of the slope times the steepness of the slope plus the initial height of the slope off the ground.” I swear people treat math as something you explicitly need to sit down and write the equations for to get any use out of instead of just, like, them being useful to make you a more logical, well-rounded thinker. It’s like thinking the sole point of reading Of Mice and Men in 8th grade is so that you can randomly recite quotes from it years later.

The next commenter stated: “The ruling class don’t waste their time distancing themselves from qanon, they focus on furthering their class interests and emiserating the poor.” Distancing themselves includes calling them out. So it sounds to me like they’re saying we need to be pragmatic like the ruling class and not distance ourselves from tankies, which is absolutely not something I’m ever going to do for those slimeballs. Actively doing it like some sort of performance apropos of nothing? Sure, maybe not. But if a tankie ever tries to associate with us, they need to be given the boot over their disgusting ideals.

I’m not taking cues from the far-right in not denouncing our worst aspects when I see them and letting them take up shop in our spaces. I don’t see the need to whataboutism to them either and will call that out, but I don’t want them in spaces I’m in either.

You had me until “tankies”. Tankies are scum and don’t need defending.

Someone somewhere would because UBI is the capitalist techbro idea of a social safety net; it’s a band-aid that doesn’t address the underlying problems in a similar way to how the ACA helps but in reality is a very center-right idea that doesn’t address the underlying hypercapitalist healthcare system.

Teletubbies is an eldritch horror story for 3-year-olds; CMV.

Repost from Instagram, cool.

In a time of crisis where 75% of US adults are overweight or obese, it actually is a good thing that we talk to people in our lives about things we’re doing to lose weight, as long as that’s being used as a positive example and not a way to act superior. (Also, if eating salads makes you sad, you’re doing salad wrong; iceberg lettuce with a few croutons and dressing is a salad in the same way that unseasoned broth with noodles and nothing else is soup.)

And more expensive while you’re at it, thanks.

Nah, monopolies like Luxottica can suck shit (although there are plenty of brands not owned by them that you can just as easily buy). Doesn’t change that 3D-printed anything is made of cheap, relatively brittle material compared to easily affordable monel, titanium, and other metal frames. I can’t speak to the durability of plastics manufacturers use versus what you would use DIY, but the metals have to be much more durable, and they consistently look much nicer than the 3D-printed ones I’m seeing online. Also, unless OP’s are somehow way above the ones I’m seeing online in terms of quality, they’re probably more comfortable as well; you can cope all you want that you painstakingly designed it to the contours of your face as much as I can cope that the t-shirt I weaved out of corn husks is better than that mass-produced crap because I tailored it to the contours of my torso.

It’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but this seems like one of the last ways I would try to cut corners financially.

You and OP should keep in mind for all of our sakes that France is a nuclear-armed state.