Don’t make me tell Spudgun where you live!

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Of course he will. This is just a the lithmus test to see how far he can push the envelope and seeing what new laws need to be instituted or changed to get his desired outcome. If he doesn’t get much push back from DC, he’ll move on to a larger city, new state. Not New York or California, too big, too soon. But maybe something smaller like New Mexico, where you can add on the border as an issue. I’m not familiar with New Mexico any of their cities having immigration problems? You’re hardly ever hear anything about New Mexico, they must be pretty chill down there.

    And I understand a DC provides certain specific powers that he doesn’t have in other states.They’ve already overturned a few of his decisions, but it doesn’t seem to slow him I’m down much anyway. So I got a feeling they’re only going to keep escalating.


  • Me and my friends started pirating in 1994 when nntp was all the rage. It’s gone through many interations, from bulletin boards, to news groups, to torrenting and now I find that I mostly use a debrid client with Kodi. Of all the time that’s gone past the streaming services have still not gotten rid of geo locking, it’s like they never seem to learn. Everything turns into profit over everything else. They keep screwing themselves. Convenience will always trump even piracy, but they can never understand that they could have had the greatest business model on earth and one of the largest audiences, but profit takes precedence and they dilute the product, in this case streaming, to the point where it becomes no longer feasible for the common people to use it.

    Streaming services now cost the same thing as cable bundles cost me 20 years ago, and in a lot of places you’re still required a Cable bundle on top of this. Just imagine if Netflix still had every show that was on every other streaming platform, even if you paid $75 a month for it it would still be worth it. But they all want the whole pie, not a piece. So they cannibalize what was a great step forward and then wonder why their subscriber numbers dwindle every quarter. And now they’ll make new draconian laws to force people to use their shitty substandard products and scratch their heads wondering where everything went wrong.


  • Somewhere a level of c-suite executives will spend 8 months analyzing how things went wrong at the cost of probably 20 million dollars. And what it will boil down to is in order to keep profits for investors growing the workforce has been cut back to almost skeleton crews. All safety regulations have been removed because it’s “stifling industry”. And regular training and pay raises to keep worker morale high have been discontinued. But this can all be fixed by bringing in cheap overseas labor at 1/6th cost.


  • So many people are taking this as a joke. It’s parallels to 1930s Germany is so scary. I always used to think that the German people only became Nazis because they feared for their own lives. Now I’m starting to think from the way I see people reacting online that most people are born Nazis and I was the one who misjudged everything. Until the day I die I will never understand people’s hatred against one another. We are all born naked, and we will all die alone. Most of us have around 60 years in between and some people choose to fill their days by making it worse for others. We will wipe out our own race through fear and ignorance.






  • The closer you get to death, the more fascinated by you become. My grandparents died in the 80s. Last ten years before they died, my grandfather and his friends went to every funeral no matter who it was or if they knew them. You might think ha ha they went for the food, but they never went to the receptions/wakes. I think they basically just did it as a high five, I’m alive you’re dead type of thing. They did this until every one of them was dead. None of them were overly religious.



  • It’s still amazes me how little polish there is to the official Reddit app compared to other third party apps. I used Firefox browser until I adopted RIF. I tried to use the official app after the deadline came and the amount of ads that I was bombarded with just became unbearable. I understand they need to make money. I understand they do this by advertising. But when they start using deceptive practices like blending the ads into genuine post they cross the line. I was a heavy user I would say greater than 2 hours a day spent on Reddit. I didn’t go cold turkey but I’m down to checking top and top last hour once or twice a day now. I deleted my main account which made it very easy to stay away.



  • Leviticus 20:13-15:

    13 If a man lies with another man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood guilt shall be upon them. 14 If a man lies with a woman and also her mother, it is wickedness. Both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there is no wickedness among you. 15 If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

    There is NO GOOD RELIGION. Every religion that was ever created was intended to control the masses. The world would be so much better if we got together and had a religious purge. Think for yourself and don’t let a imaginary sky god control your thoughts and lives.

    edit: And before you chime in and say, “but thats the old testament!”

    Jesus believed that the Old Testament was divinely inspired, the veritable Word of God. He said, ‘The Scripture cannot be broken’ (John 10:35). He referred to Scripture as ‘the commandment of God’ (Matthew 15:3) and as the ‘Word of God’ (Mark 7:13). He also indicated that it was indestructible: ‘Until Heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the law, until all is accomplished’ (Matthew 5:18).




  • I’m not sure if I’m understanding this one. But assuming that you’re hosting your own server and you work away from home and want to connect in on the weekends. If you have https forced and it’s also on in the app you’re using to connect, any traffic between your end and the server is automatically encrypted. The only thing your ISP is going to see are data packets going from you to your server back and forth. Same if you’re hosting for 10 users. All of VPN does is give you another point hop between the server and your client. Vpns are useful if you’re trying to to block your ISP from seeing that you connect to a certain site on the internet. But just logging in remotely to your server it’s absolutely useless.


  • I 100% agree that it’s the owners choice if he decides to block content. But as far as I know if a instance is defederated and the instance owner doesn’t publish a block list, users on the server would have no idea it existed in the first place.

    There are already a couple of search engines that show instances. Maybe if some of the developers could add categories so people could find things they are interested in. This could be a useful tool for building communities. As long as it’s an uncensored database of indexes I think this would be great. If you know one that is indexing instances by category please post it.

    I’m sure instances will post guidelines and rules once they get everything straightened out. I’m just a strong advocate for personal choice. Once again I understand why some people want moderation and I understand eventually it may well be needed for some communities. As long as the owners are open about this that’s fine, but not all operators are going to be transparent with these policies.




  • If it’s in a stud then yes. Most people just knock them in then fill them in with a little bit of plaster compound. Let it dry and sand with a high grit sandpaper. Then paint over. I can’t really tell if that’s paint texture on your ceiling where it’s close up or if it’s stucco. If it’s light stucco it’s going to be harder to patch without being noticed though.