And I can only imagine how they feel when empty.

Always has been.

I was just listening to some interview talking about how, while it was Dems’ efforts that pushed the pandemic stimulus checks through Congress, it was Trump’s signature on the check, and that was believed to have had a big impression on demographics no one would ever expect to go with the party of billionaires.

Edit: I should add that I only expect the votes coming from more diverse sources than what might be intuitive, not that all of those voters would be persuaded to go all-out “proud boys”.

It’ll be just like 2020: react after the damage is done and pretend they weren’t complicit.

This is exactly how I used to see things when I grew up in a conservative echo chamber.

And now that I recognize a person’s right to choose and tend to think capital punishment should probably* not be legal, I’ll add that it’s not that my underlying beliefs changed, just how I now understand things. Some people do deserve capital punishment. And innocent people should be protected. But personhood doesn’t start at conception, a person conceiving has a right to decide what happens to their body, and the state can never be trusted to administer capital punishment.

*I say “probably” because I also think it might be necessary to allow it in extreme cases. My reasoning is that if people don’t believe the justice system will adequately punish, they have incentive and no ultimate detergent for taking justice into their own hands.

Might have just found out about another?

Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/

Nice

Sun Tzu nods, wisely.

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?

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?”

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.

“Incomplete paper and online applications will not be accepted,” Evans said in the statement. (Parker’s [demonstration] 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…

Yeah, that tells us we just don’t know if this was a problem after all. Evans’s statement basically claims it wasn’t a vulnerability. If that’s correct, then the worst thing might be if someone’s browser tripped on the validation JS and allowed them down a blind alley execution path. If the claim is correct and if the page’s JS never shits the bed, then in that case the only negative outcome would be someone dicking with the in-browser source could lead themselves down the blind alley, in which case who cares. The only terrible outcome seems like it would be if the claim is incorrect–i.e. if an incomplete application submission would be processed, thus allowing exploit.

Short of an internal audit, there’s no smoking gun here.

¿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.