NaibofTabr

Heck, there hasn’t been peace in the Middle East since the Bronze Age Collapse.

Fuck no this administration won’t help. The best hope Americans had of lowering prices was Lina Kahn.

the border crisis stuff

What “border crisis stuff”? There are no massive groups of people crossing the border illegally, all of the talk about that is GOP propaganda.

The majority of illegal immigrants in the US enter the country legally and then overstay their visas.

• a few git repos (pushed and backup in the important stuff) with all docker compose, keys and such (the 5%)

Um, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but you’re storing keys in git repositories which are where…?

And remember, if you haven’t tested your backups then you don’t have backups!

It’s just sexism. There’s nothing complicated to understand here about Trump being more appealing to Latino voters because of policy or speeches or whatever. There’s only one reason they voted for Trump over Harris, and everything else is prevarication & rationalization.

Rupert Murdoch and Sinclair Media made this bed.

I don’t know about MAGA, but the Democratic party definitely needs to go hard into the same kind of obstructionism that the Republicans have been doing. No validation of insane policies, no negotiating with terrorists.

And when everyone accuses the Democrats of not cooperating, they need to just stay quiet and stay the course. For the next four years, the legislature is closed.

Deviant Ollam - Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)

Also Dont Talk to the Police

And as always, know what day it is.

This is essentially the crux of the issue. Congress can designate funds in the budget for aid to Israel and they can specify what the funds are for (military equipment, humanitarian aid, loans, etc), but they don’t have the authority to perform the actual transfer of the funds (or material paid for by the funds) to Israel, that falls under the authority of the executive branch. Congress can provide the money but they can’t actually force the spending of the money.

Praise be to the system of checks and balances.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes, I think you’ve got it right.

If Democrats controlled the House the bill would likely not have passed there in the first place.

In any case it doesn’t matter because the Senate will probably never vote on it, and even if they did and it passed Biden would veto it.

It’s also important to understand that this bill would not add any new arms transfers to Israel, but only compel the completion of existing transfers which the executive branch had chosen to withhold.

Ultimately, the point is that Congress does not have the authority to force the transfer of US military equipment to a foreign power. The disposition of military equipment is the purview of the Department of Defense, and trade with other national governments is the purview of the Department of Foreign Affairs, both of which report to the President.

So in May the (majority Republican) House passed H.R.8369 - Israel Security Assistance Support Act:

This bill specifies that no federal funds may be used to withhold, halt, reverse, or cancel the delivery of defense articles or defense services to Israel. Also, no funds may be used to pay the salary of any Department of Defense (DOD) or Department of State employee who acts to limit defense deliveries to Israel.

This bill attempts to force the completion of arms sales to Israel. This basically amounts to the legislative branch meddling directly with how the executive branch conducts foreign policy and defense policy, which the White House objected to (completely correctly). Biden threatened to veto the act if it were sent to him. The bill was placed on the Senate’s legislative calendar on May 21, 2024, and has not been voted on. It will probably not go anywhere at this point.

The executive branch has already been actively delaying some military equipment transfers to Israel, that’s why the House pushed this act.

Because TikTok told her thats what the olds were doing.

Now ya do what they tell ya
now you’re under control
Now ya do what they tell ya
now you’re under control

Heh, I would’ve paid to watch Zuck beat his ass, but he chickened out of that one.

You can make your own firelighters with wood shavings/sawdust and paraffin wax (for candle making). Melt the wax, mix in the sawdust and pour into a muffin pan to cool. Use paper muffin liners and they’ll start really easily. The sawdust will burn hot enough to light small logs without intermediate sized sticks, and the wax is waterproof so they’ll last basically forever.

Obviously don’t use material from any treated or painted lumber, only clean wood.

however, i know nothing about self hosting. My knowledge is absolutely zero […] I dont understand nothing

This is going to be a problem, unfortunately. You’ll need to define your use case first:

• How much music do you want to have access to? Hundreds, thousands, millions of files? How large is your collection?
• Do you have downloaded copies of all the music you want to listen to? Are they all in one place, well organized and tagged? If you just have downloads in the Spotify app, you won’t be able to use those files, you don’t actually own that music. You’ll need DRM-free audio files.
• Where and how do you want to be able to access them? Just from one device like your phone? Many devices? Is having access at home good enough, or do you want to be able to access your collection while you’re away from home?
• Will you be the only user?
• What kind of budget do you have to work with?

An old PC might be enough to act as a server, but there’s more involved and the answer to what you need depends on what exactly you want to do. You will not be able to build a personal version of Spotify with just an old PC, for instance.

pave paradise, and put up a parking lot

very carefully

Every study performed on insect counts has concluded that overall insect populations are declining, though there is not complete global coverage of data. One study in Germany found that the flying insect population had decreased by 75% from 1990 to 2015.

A 2019 survey of 24 entomologists working on six continents found that on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst, all the scientists rated the severity of the insect decline crisis as being between 8–10.

Nothing scares me quite as much as the thought that I might live to see global ecological collapse.

If it’s on a product like a piece of furniture, then it means any part not specifically labeled as “solid wood” is some sort of composite material.

e.g. “solid wood table top!” = legs and frame are made of the cheapest shit we could find