Buelldozer

He just wrote what we were all thinking.

Without being a dick I’d like to submit that if you’re thinking about politics in relation to the FDA banning a food substance then it may be time to back off just a bit.

Gallows humour is…

It’s not “Gallows humour”, its just posting more American Political hypeshit where it doesn’t need to be.

Wait until you learn about “libraries.”

I still remember the smell of Card Catalogs; a nice mix of old paper and even older wood. Video instructions are often faster and easier to understand. They’re also more accessible.

Everyone can live their lives without TikTok, YouTube…

I was an adult before YT and I don’t want to go back to a time before it existed. It’s just too damn useful as a self education tool. Need to learn how to DIY a plumbing problem? Youtube. Need to learn how to subnet a network? Youtube. Interested in the History of Moldova? Youtube.

I finished my basement by watching youtube videos and learning how to do everything from framing to electrical to drywall to finishing work. There isn’t anywhere else you can freely get the same breadth of knowledge on-demand.

If the ban was effective immediately a bunch of things would have to be pulled from shelves and that would impact everything from Acetaminophen to Maraschino cherries to some vegetarian faux-meats. There’s over 9,000 (lol) products across a wide number of industries that use Red 3.

Anyone want to take bets on how long…

Longer than it took for someone to jump in here and make an off topic politically based comment.

Good luck to convince the U.S. government to do that about anything.

The Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund program went live almost two years ago and will provide solar panels and battery storage systems to low-income households in Puerto Rico with zero upfront costs.

The citizens of PR seemingly have better access to Solar and Battery subsidies than most people living in an actual State.

Just subsidize…

Federal subsidies are already there.

There’s also Investment Tax Credits, Property Tax Credits, and Net Metering.

The gummit also doesn’t track mass shootings either

Yeah they do, The DoJ / FBI puts out official statistics every year.

no CDC invovled even.

Most of the time no, but the NIH and the NIJ are.

The President has too much fscking power and civil liberty people have been shouting about it for more than 20 years now.

We should make it easy to be documented and provide benefits for being documented.

The 2nd half of that is already true as there are definitely benefits for being documented, one which is protection from being deported.

The first part is trickier since there seems to be some confusion on what “undocumented” means. For instance if you’re already working with ICE then you are documented until the Immigration System makes its decision about you.

“Undocumented” really means that someone is here without the knowledge of the authorities at all. Ideally the US Government would simply put a stake in the ground and grant amnesty for anyone already here and then tighten things up in the future. Unfortunately we already did that back in 1986 and while the “Amnesty” part got done the other part didn’t.

Our immigration system is a dumpster fire of hodge-podged laws, executive actions, court decisions, and federal agency policies. Frankly we should scrap the whole thing and return to 'Ellis Island Style" until we can re-work it from the ground up to make it function correctly.

Ellis is how my Grandparents got here and as a system it mostly worked.

Which specific routers that TP-Link makes are the issue?

They are presumably talking about CovertNetwork-1658 and the reason there’s no list of routers is because no one has publicly described the vulnerability that is being leveraged.

My guess is that the vulnerability is present on most of their routers. I’m basing that opinion on the fact that previous CVEs issues against TP-LINK have impacted their most popular product lines like Archer and Deco.

It’s possible that this is related to CVE-2024-21833 which was open in January of 2024, update in July of 2024, then updated again in late November of 2024.

They can’t sell it, the CCP won’t let them.

How do you have a SmartGrid if the nodes aren’t able to communicate with each other or log data?

Protip: It’s called Gray Man and there’s more to it so get educated and practice.🙂

It’s all that’s needed. Social Media lives and dies by the network effect so as popular creators get forced off or choose to leave the platform the content consumers will also leave.

Beyond that very few users of any service or platform will expend the time and effort trying to install an app from alternate sources so as devices die or get reset those users will disappear. As an example back in 2013 Flappy Bird was stupid popular but once you couldn’t install it directly from a regular app store anymore it died off.

TT is 12 months from death in the United States. I hope Bluesky is ready for them.

YouTube…that reminds of a conversation I had here on Lemmy a while back. The subject of right wing political content on YouTube came up and I had the same “I don’t encounter that” comment that I just made in regards to Mastadon.

After a bit of back and forth I realized that I don’t engage with political content of any type on YT so the algorithm doesn’t push it at me. It seems that YT doesn’t do a good job of classifying political content as to its lean. So once you start engaging with political content the algorithm starts suggesting all kinds of it.

It’s the same with social justice and racial issues. I don’t engage with that kind of content on YT or Mastadon, don’t see it my feeds, and it’s not being pushed at me by the algorithm.

I don’t know if that explains it completely but there has to be some reason(s) why some of us don’t see this stuff while other people see it all the time.

I apologize for misreading your post.

Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon. I’ve been on there for months and never seen it. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist but I’m confused as to how it is “full of racists/white supremacists” but I never bump into them or see it.

I don’t want to doubt anyone’s experience but I’m at a loss to explain why my feed is so different from other peoples.

2)…wanna bet the cop was driving at a high rate of speed, in a vehicle without lights and sirens?

I wouldn’t bet against it but I’ve had the same thing happen. Buddy was driving and it was a bright sunny summer afternoon. We were doing all of 30MPH and an old lady pulled out onto the road maybe 20’ in front of us. The Samurai we were in was totaled and so was her Buick. She didn’t die but she did spend a couple of days in hospital. I bounced my head off the windshield so hard I was knocked out and I bent the passenger door out a good 4" with my right arm / elbow. My buddy was also knocked out from banging his head off the windshield even with his seatbelt on. That can happen when your vehicle is suddenly gets 18" shorter.

I’m not defending the cop but sometimes drivers just do dumb shit, especially older ones.