Zoe @ekg@librem.one

I need about $10K USD and so do all of my American friends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT

Note to USA folks, ❗trans folks especially❗.

A passport is:
- Fundamentally useful
- A federal ID
- Recognized in most state/local level contexts
- *You can change your gender marker on it through pure self ID, with nothing medical required*. "X" is an option. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html
- Normally 4-6 weeks to process (faster if u pay extra); that means if you apply for one this week, you easily get it before Jan 20.
- Lasts 10 years

Perhaps apply for one (or renew it, to reset yr 10 years) now.

‼️ AMERICANS ‼️
I hate getting political, but I have a platform on here and despite me being sick of Fedi I will use it nonetheless.

* If you or anyone you know is trans, they're cis now.
* If you or anyone you know is an immigrant, they've been here since they were born.
* If you are asked about politics, you say that you do not discuss politics.

You must protect the vulnerable and yourself.

so you know when you close a piece of editor software that can have multiple files or tabs open, and it asks if you want to save / discard / cancel?

LinqPad has a fourth option: shelve. if you have tabs open with unsaved stuff, it keeps it and just opens it back up next time you open it. nothing lost, but you don't need to go through and save everything to a file.

every bit of editor software (regardless of type) needs this. it's such a useful feature, especially for my ADHD brain.

couldn't resist making a dialoge-free version of today's PA, because it is so relatable

@whitequark the threat of law is often more effective then law itself, their exist no certainty that the sanctions this is referring to will ever be written to law.

@whitequark

"If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read
the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian
state-sponsored spam." - Torvalds

How do you interpret these words?

@mcc @futurebird @elm considering that dog sized ants is pretty much what humans are I would say no, their is not enough energy bio chemically available for dog sized ants on our planet.

Kindness is not "OMG dude, thank you so much for putting a link to a eugenics-pushing muppet's shitty opinions about autism in my replies! Let's discuss Nazi shit as if this is still a debate worth having! I have so much free time for reply guys! Yay!"

Sometimes kindness is "GTFO" and a block.

What the sealion does with that is his business; I will always side with neurodivergent people who aren't fascists.

I love having the world's information organized

@mrsbeanbag you might turn out to be more right then I thought, news recently reached me that the DOJ is opening a probe into Swedens sale of Gripen to Brazil. They already did it once before, otherwise this would be the kind of pressure that I would expect.

Every sale of military equipment is corrupt, but is also covered by national immunity. An investigation can't really do much, other than apply diplomatic pressure.

@mrsbeanbag I may have described NATO HQ as an office building in Belgium, but after recent expansion it's the third largest office building in the world. After the Octogon, where the Egyptian dod is housed, and the Pentagon where the us dod is taking up space.

@ekg God destroys the military headquarters of a vast totalitarian empire. the tabloid press: "God hates it when everyone speaks the same language"

@mrsbeanbag I like the description of the Bible as an tabloid, I think that is an fair assessment of the amount of trust to place in its words.

@ekg new theory about the purpose of the Tower of Babel just dropped

@ekg i just looked it up and i now consider it a crime nobody calls it The Big Zipper

@mrsbeanbag I want to point out that NATO have expanded faster then the newly dubbed The Big Zipper, forcing newer members, including Sweden, to send their delegation to nearby buildings instead. Housing military command is a true challenge, requiring some of the most impressive infrastructure we humans build.