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[–] fratermus@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the citizen placed his hand on a gun during the interaction the LEO would have immediately started fEaRing fur muh life!!! and started blasting.

Rules for thee but not for me.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

throw them at ICE vehicles

I suspect that would give ICE another excuse to "f33r for muh life!!!!!!!!!" and start blasting.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Aren't LAPD the same folks that unleashed the whole SWAT idea?

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.

Agreed, the SSA itself is not making claims that mislead the public.

Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve”

I agree that's a problem.

a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.

I don't want to beat the dead horse, but IMO the public language/guidance/media discourse regarding the SSA is as misleading as "to protect and to serve".

If I were pushed I might say that the security part of social security is an implied guarantee that it will provide security of some kind. It does bolster financial security for many at the moment, but there is no guarantee it will do in the future.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yet they demand our obedience and cooperation.

And people willingly bootlick these brave heroes who "f34r for muh life!!!" and start blasting when an acorn falls. Or when they step in front of a moving vehicle.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Police are not required to help you under any circumstances.

When I want to see heads explode I mention

  • Warren v District of Columbia (the basis for the situation you mention); and
  • that Social Security doesn't work the way people think
    • there is no personal account that holds your contributions
    • you have no right to get any of your contributions back in your old age -- the benefit is defined by Congress and they could make it whatever they want (including nothing)

In both cases one are required by law to pay but the recipient is not required to perform. As they say, "it's good to the the king".

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

No matter what plugin you find that supposedly will do the job, in my experience it is always a PITA that ends up involving a lot of programming.

I had a good experience with jekyll's wordpress->jekyll import tool. But see below.

I would go for a database-less static site generator like Hugo

Graybeard here, so it's probably just braindamage specific to me, but I've found ruby dependency setup and troubleshooting to be extremely frustrating. Hard for me to wrap my head around.

When jekyll is actually dead (right now it is "only mostly dead") I'll change to something that does not require ruby (eleventy?) or just go back to the nineties and do something barebones with gtml or whatever. Already playing with the latter.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name

a couple thoughts

  • The FCC ham license database is publicly available already, including name and location of the "station".
  • one can munge, obscure, or simply not share location with mesh nodes.
[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I’m curious if they’re then required to use their meshtastics in HAM mode

No, but they can if they want to use the freqs and power.

I run normal nodes but might set up a MT ham node under my callsign just to see if anything pops up.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

You’re going to get this treatment ~~or~~ and I’m going to hurt you!

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

it helped them see god

/insert glassblower joke here

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

without kegels there'd be no squeezing

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