Same with Vivaldi.

Boy do I have some bad news for you.

Congress rescinds $9 billion meant for foreign aid, NPR and PBS

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trump

Honestly, they’ve been busy generating evil, shitty headlines today, and I haven’t even caught up on all the news yet.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42318708

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42388992

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42386503

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42366394

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42397273

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42397698

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42363177

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42370776

Is it a level playing field? In China workers rights are pretty non-existent and there’s no OSHA equivalent, at least not to the degree we have in the US. Then add in government subsidies, lower worker pay, reduced R&D costs because they pilfered the engineering from a US company, and you end up with a very lopsided market.

To be clear, I am in no way defending the US auto industry. They have little customer loyalty for a reason – low quality, overpriced, subscription dependent vehicles with terrible warranties, expensive service requirements, and invasive telemetry. They need more competition to force them to make more consumer-friendly decisions, but China is hardly a fair competitor.

One Christian criticizing another is just typical inter-sect conflict found in most religions. People who are fundamentally kind or fundamentally cruel will both find and interpret passages to support their views. But because it’s “god’s word” they will always refuse to waiver in the face of logic or common sense.

The problem is that all religion provides fertile ground for both extremists and con artists to grow – in this case both.

it’s people manipulated to go crazy, whether it’s someone murdering, suicides, or pressure that makes someone commit crimes

Stochastic Terrorism

Oof … I’m very much for women making the final decision, yet the idea of no cutoff date (assuming a perfectly healthy mother and fetus) makes me uncomfortable. I’m imagining someone just changing their mind at 30 weeks. But of course that’s a highly unlikely scenario. More likely is a relationship ending and the mother realizing she won’t have the support she had anticipated. Or an abusive partner prevented her from getting the abortion sooner. I suppose there could also be financial reasons they couldn’t do it sooner.

Ya, it just makes me uncomfortable after the point of viability, but it’s not my life or my child or my choice, so I don’t disagree with you.

This entire exchange is refreshingly wholesome.

Widows clearly don’t respect the sanctity of marriage. /s

plane.so is great. Just be aware that self-hosted is not the same as free. It’s still $6/user.

My problem is that the file I download is not in the right format, doesn’t have any metadata embedded, doesn’t have subs embedded, and doesn’t match my file naming convention. In fact the way media is packaged, I don’t know how anyone that cares about these things is able to seed.

It costs me $1.50 per year to fund PBS and NPR combined. I can’t wait to see the extra refund on my taxes.

You’re not wrong, but that’s a terribly sad thing to be grateful for.

Do tell. How would you have prevented all this from happening?

Uh, we’ve all known for years. We’ve been plenty awake and suffering for it the whole time. Unfortunately people (Democrats) who tend to act in good faith don’t know how to deal with people who don’t. While we were fighting for votes, they were fighting to make sure those votes didn’t count while we stood by and let them.

MILLIONS of voters were purged from the voter rolls and bomb threats were called into polling places in critical precincts on election day. The impact was more than enough to swing the election. Here’s the numbers. The elected democrats didn’t do enough to stop it and now we’re stuck fighting an uphill battle that we all must fight. It’s going to get ugly – for us and the rest of the world.

Precisely because others don’t.