Nor are their politics!

Generally friends that keep calling especially when times are hard are good friends. You can try masking less around them and they will either not care because they are your friend or will be driven away (which while unfriendly, is the thing you seem to want to happen anyway).

You have a global day and you have local euphemisms. “Evening” just becomes “the dark after lunch” instead of “the dark after noon.” That’s a trivial linguistic adjustment to make to ensure that the thing we actually care about syncing up for convenience is synched up for convenience.

Edit: we already have such euphemisms and ambiguities in English:

• tomorrow: the day I wake up next
• night: the dark before I sleep (saving “morning” generally for after you wake and not a strict time like 00:00)
• next (as in “weekend”): 2 weekends from now
• biweekly/bimonthly: once every other OR twice every

Honestly we should just move to a timezoneless universal time. Places in one part of the world could open at 8:00 and close at 18:00 and somewhere on the other side of the world would open from 20:00 to 6:00. No zone change in travel or scheduling meetings would simplify communications and logistics, and you can also ditch this asinine “saving” concept as you’ll have decoupled when the sun rises from an arbitrary number.

No it didn’t.

Cause nothing says “protect the children” with as much sincerity as they would have us believe like delaying the thing they want us to believe will protect the children.

And people will believe them.

Nothing screams readiness like depleting your own reserves faster!

The original was the word “airpods,” then the Marlboro one, then the following version:

Then someone posted just the Marlboro edit and another person in the know of the camel joke repeated the punchline in the comments.

And the “information” is the same shit Trump says every week–we’re close to a deal with Iran.

“In June 2026, Politico cited a ‘senior administration official … granted anonymity’ said the odds of a preliminary deal to end the conflict with Iran were between 80 and 85 percent,” the letter said.

That’s it, the whole “threat” thing is predicated on that quote. It’s a claim Trump makes every fucking week, but somehow when his own VP claims it it’s a national security threat. Deeply unserious.

Tbh, he’s just correct.

As a progressive American, do you think he’s wrong?

Al-Qaeda has killed around 3000 people from '93 to 2010 with the majority of those from 9/11.

In the subsequent “war on terror” alone the US killed 2 orders of magnitude more people.

Kinda seems he’s 100% right in saying “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes. … We have caused tremendous terror all around the world.”

But then we don’t have bananas worth $2,000,000,000 at point of export to grow into an even greater amount of money flow and income within our own country.

They don’t forbid hiring from either side of the occurrence!

Postmaster General David Steiner … has expressed frustration over a lack of help from the White House and Congress in addressing the mail service’s long-running financial woes

Yeah, Dude, that’s by design. They want to show that the public sector doesn’t work so they can license the constitutionally mandated service (which isn’t supposed to make a profit) to their for-profit, private sector buddies. Your whole job was to enable that shit.

I did not realize that nextcloud had a talk product. That actually looks really promising. I’ll have to see if I can setup a passwordless login through authentik or something to allow accessing the general channel.

Thanks for the rec.

Yeah, Element on Matrix was the most promising thing I’d seen so far, but the ease of use and the community edition being capped at 100 peeps were the most concerning aspects for me. I might dig into it some more and see what a couple other volunteers think of it.

For all it’s faults, this is the primary reason SCOTUS justices were given lifetime appointments.