new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs), which was created earlier this year. The Bureau defines “Nihilistic Violent Extremism” as “criminal conduct… in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos.”

This does sound like a very appropriate category, but not for trans people.

But it’s also government officials not understanding what tools to use to ensure secure government communication. See also the journalist that git invited to a top secret Signal group.

This kind of communication shouldn’t happen on such public platforms. Too much can go wrong.

Yeah, there is no difference. This is the most blatant government censorship. FCC threatens to revoke ABS’s license while ABC wants approval for some merger, so they sacrifice the guy who upsets Trump.

Fox News says far what rse things on a daily basis. Republican politicians say worse things on a daily basis.

Not just Trump; the Dutch parliament has just accepted a motion to also declare Antifa a terrorist organization.

This is a country that was occupied by Nazis 80 years ago. People who fought in the resistance have always been considered heroes. And now they’re declared criminals. These parties are openly siding with the Nazis.

Mind you, we also had the AFA, Anti-Fascist Action 40 years ago, when they attacked a racist fringe political party with smoke bombs that ended up burning down a hotel, so declaring them terrorist would have made some sort of sense at the time, but they haven’t been heard of for the past 39 years.

It’s pure political posturing to side with Trump or create an excuse to arrest protesters who disagree with them.

Nah, let them die, if they’re so eager to kill their shows.

That’s also all I can find. I don’t see why they’d fire him for that; MAGA people have said far worse things, both in response to this shooting and on a general basis. Like the Fox guy who wanted to kill homeless people (and apparently people have already acted on that).

I think the countries that refuse to compete in the genocide song festival should just get together and organise their own genocide-free song festival.

Disgusting that so many countries haven’t protested yet, and even more disgusted at Germany for insisting that Israel should be part of it, but good on the slowly increasing number of countries that are finally taking a stand.

Well, according to the horseshoe theory that (right of) centrists love so much, yes.

I’m totally fine with her tagging along with him. It’s better than what Schumer and Jeffries are doing: undermining their own party and siding with Trump against the people.

I’m not Catholic, but the confession is one of those things that, if done right, might actually be very valuable. The ability to talk to someone about the bad stuff you did, get it off your chest, get some sort of closure so you can let it go, without any risk of getting ratted out to the authorities, could be very good for your mental health, I imagine.

And if everybody does it, there’s no stigma attached to it. So if you go and have nothing to say, you go to cover for the people who do have something.

Though modern therapy can serve the same role, of course.

“More functional than the USA” is a low bar, though. And rapidly getting lower.

See, America? That’s how you do it. Learn from Brazil.

They want to go back to the 1950s, don’t they? Pretty soon it will be black and white.

That’s not what I picked up from it. The biggest idea that it presents very early in the book is that of a shared subjective truth: most of the things that make up our society, like countries, laws, corporations, etc. do not exist objectively; they only exist because we all believe in them. Objectively, these things don’t exist, but our society is built upon everybody agreeing that these imaginary orders exist, and we’re constantly inventing new imaginary structures on top of that.

That’s indeed a bad development I wasn’t aware of. Even more so if they base their own software on others, and then block others from their platform.

I’ve got a Bambu A1 mini that I’m quite happy with. Bambu studio works perfectly fine on Linux, and I can import lots of different kinds of designs from anywhere, but I think you do really need Bambu Studio to prepare the print for this specific printer. I have no idea if there’s any way around that, but is that necessary?

The a1 mini is very good at small details. The main downside is of course that it’s not very big, so not suitable for large prints. It calibrates automatically and is very low maintenance.

recent work with the Gorillaz

Now I’m interested.

I don’t know either of these people.

I came here to say this. The only reason Republicans say that Trump has been played by Putin, is because they don’t want to admit they have been played by Trump.

I switched newspapers when I noticed that every time my newspaper write about something I actually knew about, they wrote garbage.

Sapiens does present some really powerful ideas, though. I enjoyed it a lot, but the book clearly glosses over a lot of details. Then again, it tries to tackle a ridiculously big scope, so I can see how it can’t get into all of the details. I still consider it a worthy read despite its shortcomings. But read it more for the ideas than for the facts.