Thats true, but i think this guy is kinda next level.
I'm not a psychologist but I suspect there's something amiss here.
Like a lot of these people if he steps back from his loyalty to Trump, he's kind of admitting that he's partially responsible for what's happened.
Clinging to this shaky narrative of how this is actually a good thing allows him to offload the guilt.
I think this might be "delusional" in the clinical sense.
Over time the belief becomes more entrenched. Something like muscle memory but a thought pattern. It will then become the basis for even nuttier thoughts.
It's sad for him, it's sadder for her, it's even sadder for their kids who might me next. It's just shit all the way down.
I was gonna say. Things might be different if I was in poverty and in central America, but for the rest of us the US just seems like a real awful place to be.
I disagree.
Perhaps that were true a decade ago.
At this point though I don't think supporting the republicans is really defensible.
As in, anyone who is not racist would not support this.
Sure but... some people's poor mental health or other maladjustments might preclude them from being part of a healthy functional relationship.
That was certainly true of me for my teens and 20s.
You're not a wallet. You're an automaton producing value for capitalists.
They dribble a little money into your wallet each fortnight so you can buy subscriptions and delivered take away.
IKR. Those assholes that want to give everyone free healthcare and free childcare and free food. Fuck those cunts. Let's do whatever we can to piss them off it will be hilarious.
Sorry chief.
You gotta toss this one back - he's no good.
It's not the gaming that's the problem. He just doesn't care that much about anyone else.
it's kind of about his mental health struggles
It's kinda not really. Loads of people manage depression and anxiety, but still care for the needs of the people they love.
Sometimes, or often, love just isn't enough. Certainly "words of affirmation" are not enough.
You deserve to be with someone who takes an interest in you and asks you about your day and finds ways to make you smile. I suspect that you're more of a salve for this guys loneliness than a partner.
Haah.
Everyone with half a brain knew that after Brexit Britain would spend the next 50 years trying to cut down on red tape and trade restrictions, effectively re-joining without re-joining.
I dont think anyone cares about money anymore.
They can see the problems arising from climate change on the horizon and they're creating a ruling class and a subservient class.
If you're part of the ruling class you dont need money.
I dont think that's it.
It's an overwhelming case of "got mine".
Like sanders said, being a GOP member just means staying in line.
There must be (or ought to be) a term for this type of conspiracy that requires practically all experienced professionals in a given field to be complicit.
You could convince me that one or even a group of researchers were acting with nefarious intent, but everyone? It's just an absurdity.
Sure ok but that's pretty meaningless at this juncture.
Rigged machines aren't going to save us
Fuck me.
"drugs" are one possible treatment for ADHD.
Just being aware that ADHD is a thing that you might have would alleviate the great shame of being "a bit weird".
Imagine if you could explain to a child why they're different, how many other people are a lot like them, and some easy ways to smooth over their rough edges.
That's just so awful. Who would want to do that.
Good lord. I'm not having a debate about the adequacy of an analogy. Well done.
Like any analogy, it doesn't perfectly map to the complex issue being analogised (?), but it's not as absurd as you're making out.
The architecture for plugin support is not free. Even if no plugins are active the platform is built to support all the extra nonsense.
lighttpd is the leanest webdav implementation i can think of. Obviously it doesn't have sync and sharing and permissions, but it's an interesting point of reference demonstrating how over engineered nextcloud really is.
If you're a fan, and want all of this stuff bundled together then fine, have at it. As I said up top, I am using it but I dislike it immensely.
Those are add-ons.
Besides which, o365 is not a single self hosted php behemoth.
I'm loathe to extoll the virtues of 365. I don't use it and never will.
Oh please. AWD is not "better" 4WD. 2 different things for completely different purposes.
Sure that's why I drive my 4wd anywhere i want to go - i don't want or need 4wd but I can just not use that functionality.
Sorry what office suite is basic NC functionality that has been there for a long time?
Well if I uninstaller them what would i complain about?
I'm looking for some kind of File Drop / File Upload service.
I'd like to be able to create a folder, and create a share / upload link for that folder that I can give to a customer to use to upload their documents.
I've been using nextcloud but I don't use nextcloud for any other purpose and it's a behemoth so I'd like to transition to something else.
Some of these requirements are essential (!):
- no login for customers uploading (!)
- optional password protection for uploads
- can't see / download files already present in the shared folder
I can't decide the best way to secure our front loading washing machine.
We have twins. They're fascinated by the washing machine. Lights, beeps, action... everything. One twin getting inside and their erstwhile companion starting the cycle is absolutely possible.
Obviously we keep the laundry door closed but in a way you just build up the appeal. One of them has figured out how to open doors by standing on his trike.
I could put some kind of stick-on toddler lock on the door but I worry it would be tough to establish the habit of closing the door and putting that lock on. Besides which surely it's nice to leave the door open to dry out between loads anyway?
The washing machine does have a toddler lock but that's only to prevent someone changing the settings during a cycle, it doesn't prevent starting a cycle.
My best idea thus far is a timer on the power outlet. So you turn on the power and set the timer to turn it off after however long the load takes.
The problem with this is that I haven't been able to find a count-down style timer that allows you to set periods longer than 2 hours. Most power outlet timer thingies do schedules, not count-down.
I know this maybe sounds like an easily solvable problem - just turn the power off when it's done - but that's just not how things roll in our house.
Most small rural towns in Western Australia have a Co-op store.
I'm a bit sketchy on the details but my understanding is that they're not-for-profit's, they charge a mark up on the things they sell, but really just enough to pay wages for employees. Any left over money is distributed to the people who buy things.
Why do these only exist in small towns and why aren't they a thing in larger towns and cities?
It would be amazing to only pay cost plus wages for your groceries.
Since the recent election there's a lot of commentary saying the Liberal party needs to reconsider its policies and re-align with its core values which, when enumerated sound very centrist.
I just watched ABC's q&a, there was a few interesting points. There was a strong consensus that Trump style culture wars are toxic in Australian politics, and that it's unlikely future candidates would take that route.
I don't want to gloat infront of the seppos, but I think what's happening during this aftermath is very salient for all of those "both sides are bad" Americans.
In October last year there seemed to be a lot of users saying that they didn't want to reward the dems with their vote, and that the only way to communicate with the party was to withhold their vote.
I think what's happening right now in Australia demonstrates the importance of voting.
Labor might not be left enough for you personally, but each time the libs are defeated they need to move to the left to be viable, and Labor will have to move further left to differentiate themselves. That is to say, the spectrum of acceptable opinions is moving to the left in an observable manner, right now.
That post explicitly says it's not a place for debate or participation from users of other instances.
I'd like to respect that but I think events like this need debate and discussion because it helps to develop and evolve the culture of lemmy and the fediverse in general.
The post says:
> This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.
> I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.
> I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.
> At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.
> I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.
Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media
The wife of a wrongly deported Salvadoran father living in Maryland was moved to a safe house after Donald Trump’s administration posted a court document that included her address on social media.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she began fearing for her safety and the safety of her three children after the Department of Homeland Security shared a protective order from 2021 that prominently featured her address to the department’s 2.4 million followers on X.
“I don’t feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral and people have all sorts of opinions,” she told The Washington Post. “So, this is definitely a bit terrifying. I’m scared for my kids.”
Both major parties have pitched housing sector reform but experts say the lack of housing supply in Australia is not being adequately addressed.
Labor announced it would allow first home buyers to purchase homes with a 5 per cent deposit. It also pledged $10 billion to go towards building 100,000 new homes over eight years — exclusively available to first-time buyers — by way of grants to states and territories, and zero-interest loans or equity investments.
The Coalition's policy would see interest payments on mortgages taken out by first-time buyers on newly built homes be tax deductible for five years.
Economists have been quick to give scathing assessments of some of the latest policies, which they argue will drive up demand, and in turn, housing prices. Chris Richardson labelled the major parties' platforms a "dumpster fire of dumb stuff", while Saul Eslake called the Coalition's planned tax deduction "candidate for dumbest policy decision of the 21st century".
But housing experts say the policies are missing the crucial issue driving the housing shortage.
As an 80s kid, I remember saying this word... a lot.
While other colloquialisms seem to have hung around this one seems to have vanished from common vernacular.
I have some questions ...
Did everyone say this, or only my siblings and I? Is it Western Australian? Australian? or Global?
Where did it come from? Does it mean or refer to anything or is it just random syllables?
Where did it go? Why did this word fall out of favor while others are still in popular use?
Edit: nevermind. Turns out my email host is already running spamassassin and I can configure it how I wish.
My email is hosted at mxroute. I'm happy with their pricing and service and don't want to selfhost my email. However, their spam management isn't great.
I just realised that it might be possible to run spamassassin myself, which will set spam headers on the emails which my email client (thunderbird) can then use to decide what to do.
There seems to be a bunch of poorly maintained / abandoned ways in which to do this. I thought I'd ask here just in case any one else is doing this and can help me skip to the end.
I was hoping for a docker container (or compose stack) that provides an IMAP proxy and runs spamassassin.
Any ideas and insights welcome. My email juggling could use some improvement.