Used Keeper at my last gig. Was pretty happy with it all in all. Lacking some admin features, rock and roll support. Not too pricey, but it is per-user/per-month. Played nicely with our Google auth.

Got a thrift store keyboard. The pink sticky on the bottom said:

User: admin

Pass: password

I wish I was joking. Someone out there was dumb enough to need a reminder on that one.

I’ll tell you exactly what can be done.

Sullivan described a tense scene in which ICE agents pounced on Martell-Lebron without identifying themselves, put him into a pickup and sped away.

SHOOT. THEM.

I’m not being a keyboard tough guy here. My wife is a legal immigrant, and damningly brown. This is a thing I’ve thought about quite a bit.

Unidentified men try to snatch her or get in my house? They are getting killed, best I can. And yes, I’ll likely die as well. I’m at peace with that, as much as I can be. Terror has a way of flipping the table on even the best laid plans.

I almost always have a pistol, rifle or shotgun within reach, and only those guns that are rock solid and with which I practice, and I practice one to three times a week. I’m also prepared for night fighting, quick. Rarely carry except in the woods or somewhere strange I’m unsure about, but that’s going to change. (And I fucking hate it.)

And it’s not just ICE. Been saying for years that once MAGA truly gets the idea that the law does not apply to them, they’ll be forming posses. Perhaps we will call them Red Shirts.

FFS, it’s like no one really studied WWII in Europe. This is happening now. Trump dying will probably take the air out of the whole thing, I hope. But if he remains in power long enough, his people will have strengthened their situation. You know they’re planning for what to do if he keels over with a blown heart.

(Sorry for the rant. Just got home from work and “relaxing”.)

They didn’t quote the judge but he is fucking torqued off.

Had never heard of this, and my first computer had a tape drive. Went to a tiny computer camp and we had a sweet D&D game, but it took 10-minutes to load, if it didn’t fuck up. Had to start it before our break or we’d only have 5 minutes to play.

Things like this did happen. Read about a spy who was busted eating his pie from the wrong direction. Americans start at the tip, Europeans start at the “back”.

This was WWI or WWII and may be apocryphal.

probably are planning to have sex

LOL, they’re already fucking, bet on it my friend. :)

When my gf and I were 17 we had sex everywhere and as often as possible. Yeah, they’re going to do it in a church parking lot if they can’t do it at home.

Age of consent is the line where 18+ can have sex with you. Not sure it ever applies between people of the same age.

Spot on take BTW!

My kinda dude. Read the article if you haven’t already. He’s going to big events and absolutely cleaning up, literally and figuratively.

I find so much cool shit to upcycle, fix, sell, whatever on the side of the road. Go anywhere humans gather for an event and you can haul home loads of goodies. After the 4th of July fireworks on the river we filled the car with brand new chairs, toys, floaties, all sorts of things.

If I were motivated enough, I could make a living picking trash. Had a friend making $400-$600 a week fixing up trashed washers and dryers after work. Another couple made $400 every other weekend at their garage sale. “We steal our neighbor’s trash and sell it back to them.” LOL, they would roll out at 6AM, twice a week on trash day, fill the truck and give away whatever didn’t sell by 2PM. My wife is clocking $200-$300 for a few hours at the flea market, and we haven’t even got serious yet.

I grab shit on the side of the road. Got two nice ceiling fans for free last week. (Lights stops working because the US required voltage limiter burns. Cut it out, free fan.) I’ve replaced nearly every shitty plumbing and electrical device in the house for free. (OK, the sweet new hall light was $1.) Got two bikes for my kids that will take $100 each in new parts and will end up mostly new. Found two nice carpet cleaners that were used once and tossed, need to clean them and sell. Same place chunked a brand new, white, glass-sided mid-tower with factory and upgraded fans. I can go on forever with these tales. And this is all in my spare time.

I’ve got a truck bed and more worth of cans out back. Maybe worked 4 hours over two years? Almost all of the effort was crushing them by hand since I kept breaking the shitty crushers and been too lazy to make one. And that’s not counting the cans I pick out of the woods, usually toss them with the other garbage I get.

You don’t have milk cartons in your country? Come to think of it, I’m not sure the US does any longer. OJ and other drinks can still be had in cartons.

Even better to my mind. I so love shit that turns back into dirt, like literal shit.

Jesus! I could stuff a hog’s carcass in my overflowing can and they would just dump it and go. They mainly seem to care about car batteries and tires, everything else, fuck it, send it.

We have two competing garbage companies, and they do indeed compete. Score one for capitalism working as intended. OTOH, that’s a lot of wasted gas running by my house several times a week.

I’m with the “cool” company. The CEO shoots straight when he emails us. “Those other assholes are cheating! Here’s what went down at the city council meeting (with proof). Can you believe this shit?!”

“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

attributed Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, 1933; possibly apocryphal

A call from the state labor board is every US employer’s fucking nightmare. If these guys were really doing this, the board would hit them like god’s own hammer. And in Florida at least, the board goes with what the employee says and the employer has to prove otherwise.

Funny thing about rights, you have to know what they are and stand up for them.

Saw dad lose a cannonball of a beer belly. He had run into an old friend and was embarrassed by how fat he had become in comparison. Asking his friend how he lost it, John replied:

“Easy Bob, I just brainwashed myself into thinking being hungry was a good thing.”

Worked for me as well.

You’re not telling yourself food is bad, that way lies eating disorders. You’re simply telling yourself that being low-key hungry is a normal state of affairs for a homo sapien. Because it is a normal state of affairs. Stop horking down pork rinds every time a little hunger pings you. Fucking ignore it, go on. That behavior can become a habit.

People see my skinny ass eat like a hog and marvel at my “metabolism”. No, hard no. I only put calories in my face two, maybe three times a day. Zero snacks, zero soft drinks. (OK, time to fess up. Many calories from beer. There, I said it.)

Other sites give late 60s. That car screams 50s to me, which was like the Cambrian period for trying stupid shit with cars.

Have you watched the investigative documentary? Or do you just “know” from what you gleaned on social media? I have a feeling your opinion was formed by the later. If so, give the linked show a watch, gave me a much deeper insight into how it all played out. As I said, clusterfuck, but I was surprised at what I learned.

Unless you feel PBS is fascist propaganda? Or perhaps are afraid you might see something that changes your opinion? Again, betting on the later case.

Every single cop on the Uvalde police force deserved prison time

I seem to have my answer as to where you get your information. How very conservative of you. Seething outrage at a thing you haven’t actually taken an hour or two to learn about.

Here’s the part where I have to make a “lemmy caveat” and state that I fucking loathe the police, ACAB, all that, for fear of being excoriated. All that is true, but I don’t have to say it.

English face:

“I’m supposed to convince people this is a good idea?”