I’m under the impression there are more votes to lose by not appearing to stick with Israel than there are votes to lose by not attempting to intervene. At least, that’s what the party appears to have assessed.

Fuck is wrong with you?

Yeah, good point, but that article isn’t talking about what’s in this picture.

Store-bought sandwich bread usually can be kept in the fridge without much change in texture. That’s because it often contains additives and preservatives that keep it fresh longer.

That’s a big motivation for me, too, but I’d say it’s about equally that I want archival of the best stuff for when rights holders pull their catalogs from the services I stream. I used to think that was mainly for the more obscure stuff, like local bands’ early albums that I can barely find anymore, but recently I’ve noticed albums missing from main services (Tidal and Spotify, in my case) for bigger acts, too.

I thought, “What’s wrong with ‘fascist’ in a politics forum?”

Data can be beautiful. I just found a similar but maybe clearer example from 2016 with a nice write-up about it.

Teaser from that article:

I think the common term for these is “cartogram”.

For me, it’s helpful to remember what the underlying reality is.

Skewed for population and colored on a red-blue scale to reflect vote mix.

When those votes are counted, the resulting electoral votes align to those votes, which results in maps like what you showed. When strategists tune their messages to target demographics they can divide (e.g., rural vs. urban), they’re playing a game of inches and shades on this map of purple goo, and that’s still the reality behind the ultimate electoral vote, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

Keep voting, everyone!

edits: So much autocorrect.

Keep in mind, though, so far, we only know it to be a user experience issue.

“Incomplete paper and online applications will not be accepted,” Evans said in the statement. (Parker’s cancellation request would have lacked a driver’s license number.) The Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to individual questions about what testing the portal underwent before launch, the system’s security procedures, what happened to Parker’s cancellation request…

It doesn’t matter what the browser says if the end user tampered with the running page to make it say something. It matters if the application might have been processed. They’re claiming it wouldn’t have been processed since it was incomplete (lacking ID number). We’d need to know how this was handled on the back end to know how risky it really was. It could still have been bad, but this isn’t, in itself, proof of an actual problem.

edit: Just to be clear, I’m not saying it shouldn’t be investigated. It really should be, as the article claims, an all-hands-on-deck moment. I’m just saying that the article makes the case that it should be investigated to ascertain what would have happened to the incomplete application submission to assess the exposure, not that it definitely was a vulnerability at all.

¿Porqué no los dos?

Thanks for staying vigilant about propaganda sources on here. The fediverse is a better place thanks to SatansMaggotyCumFart. (No /s, I’m serious.)

Sounds like no, she wasn’t.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/07/05/hawk-tuan-girl-hailey-welch-interview/74311380007/

Haliey Welch used to wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to go to work at a spring factory in Belfast, Tennessee.

…

Now, Welch is sleeping in.

…

She may be small town, but she’s savvy. Welch is taking what started as embarrassment and is turning it into a career. She’s assembled a team consisting of an attorney, a management company and a PR firm. That team is entertaining appearances with price tags north of $25,000 each, according to her manager, Jonnie Forster, owner of Los Angeles-based management firm The Penthouse.

“Right now, she can make more money holding up a can for five minutes than she made all last year,” Forster said.

…

Once she saw the merchandise being made and sold online by other people, she thought, “If everyone else is making money off of it, I might as well, too.”

She quit her job at the spring factory on June 27.

I feel like I’ve gone through some similar experiences and observations as you, as the church I grew up in was nothing like these politically indoctrination camps masquerading as churches. We didn’t talk politics; we talked about using the guidance in that collection of texts to help each other in life’s struggles and to avoid hurting each other. I think you did an excellent write-up about what that looks like, for outsiders who only see the made for TV “churches” and might think that’s what it all is. I’m glad you took the time to share all that for the people who will read it.

There were definitely plenty of people, even in our quaint little congregation, who took it all literally, though. I’ve reflected on what I got out of that chapter in my life, and while I think it probably influenced me for the better, I still have some regrets sometimes and still feel like the people that stayed behind in that world are stuck in an echo chamber where they’ll probably blissfully never think past whatever cherry-picked interpretation of it suits their world view. Sometimes I’m inclined to defend the actual message of Christianity from the political indoctrination camps, but my ambivalence usually makes me just leave it alone.

Also, I’m told this wasn’t a school shooting.

I feel so sorry for the kids that get abused by dumbass families with this. They’re truly stuck with morons who should be extinct.

“My grand daughter does not get to spend very much time online so we have paid over 300$ for a little history pamphlet,” a woman named “Renee Y” wrote in January on the Better Business Bureau website.

“Our terms and conditions clearly state that the customer would continue to receive shipments monthly that would be charged to the credit or debit card that we have on file,” eSpired responded, before agreeing to process “a refund for charges in the last 90 days.”

I could’ve sworn Lemmy added a “upvote multiple times” feature, but I can’t find it.

Oh, that Fremont. Like, troll bridge Fremont, not old Vegas Fremont.

I think you’re going to lose a few people with that first number being off by a decimal place, but the substance of what you said is still relevant and gives insight about the Lemmy experience right now.

Could have little tiny proto shrew cheese curds.

I hope this doesn’t just dissolve into hand-waving and general dismissal based on “he said / she said”. Someone call the bluff and let’s see the cards face-up.

Part of it, too, is selective breeding (aka genetic modification, but that’s a dirty word).

https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/

Edit: I may be misinformed. I thought selective breeding was technically considered GM, but it sounds like only editing outside of breeding might be what qualifies. Didn’t mean to make this post about technicalities, just meant to point out that genetics has also played a part in arguably more palatable plants.