The government shutdown is only partial. Although most employees are furloughed and many departments aren't operating, certain essential government offices, like the military, social security, medicare, the national weather service, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Amazon, etc. are still open.

Oh my dear God this fucking take is horrid

I mean you can trace the toxic black and white angry culture, indirectly, to three main sources imo:

1) people imitating orgs like the Black Panthers, but not really having any direction, because they're milquetoast militants

2) offshoots of American Communist culture, a long-known toxic hellhole riddled with FBI moles deliberately causing schisms to destroy it

3) influential cause trolls, who found an angry disenfranchised population of angery adolescents

Problematic masto instance: *people block unceremoniously*

Problematic Pleroma instance: *instead of block, let's complain about Pleroma*

Y'all are fucking children when you act like this, just so you know

tfw you try to sympathise with the ACAB people and you really just can't because you would be dead without cops even though you know they're awful

Admin PSA: please ensure your IPv6 outbound and inbound work on your instance. With Mastodon 2.2.0 or so (which a lot of instances still run) people can't federate with you because it will try IPv6 first and then give up. Disabling AAAA records isn't good enough if you run 2.2.0 because it won't retry outgoing either.

You'll wind up with assloads of missing posts.

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"if you travel here you will die"

This also means Mastodon uses now three databases to run (Redis, PostgreSQL, and ElasticSearch), and I don't understand why people don't think this is a problem. I suspect they are conditioned to just agree with Gargron. ElasticSearch being optional does nothing to change anything, because you will lose a piece of functionality that most people find useful if you don't use it.

A piece of functionality, may I add, gargron wasn't originally going to implement!

@CobaltVelvet no I want this with COM RAD

https://mst3k.interlinked.me/media/88rpbVcjasM0W5R-b_g

Reading up on Rapa Nui's story is like a story of resilience in the face of collapse and I'm surprised there are descendants of the original islanders.

Japanese Wikipedia is strange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Wikipedia#Characteristics

@alpacaherder good point

other hoses would go in places like Lawton and East St. Louis

If you had to give America an enema, the hose would go in Little Rock

FUN FACT:

Due to an old US law STILL on the books that's over 150 years old, if you're a citizen you can claim on behalf of the US any "unclaimed" island (historically the "unclaimed" part was ignored in most cases) with a guano deposit.

The president is authorised to send in the military to back any claims.

No one even has to mine the guano.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

Someone trained a neural net to make candy hearts

it didn't go as planned

https://aku-no-homu.tumblr.com/post/170884840014/more-candy-hearts-by-neural-network

I PROPOSE INSTEAD:

Apache's default page, and all other web servers, should serve "IT'S FUCKED!" as the default

It will signal the HTTP daemon is working if you have first installed it, and if the website doesn't work properly, it makes it very clear.

imo thinking about a new economic system requires rethinking about how goods are produced, the management of the way things are produced, how demand and supply mesh, the management of inherently scarce resources like radio spectrum and land, resolutions to scarcity when possible, how it interlocks with politics, prioritisation, etc. Communism and Capitalism present their own answers to each of these and the space in between but I think there can be other ways.

Sex diplomacy

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no.

If you didn't hear, Hawaii had a false alarm ballistic missile warning.