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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 minutes ago

ok, well... to take a completely different tack:

She pretty much has no future and has destroyed her life. I let her live rent free as she's pretty much unemployable and has no chance of getting a secondary education unless she moves back to Spain but even then her convection is going to follow her like a shadow.

Your despair is certainly understandable, and while you're getting things off your chest I guess this kind of statement is perfectly reasonable.

However, if I said to my therapist "I have destroyed my life" they would say that's black and white thinking or binary thinking and lead me to identify areas of my life which are not in fact, destroyed.

The point is, to acknowledge that some areas of ones life may be problematic, may be even terrible... but your entire life is not destroyed.

I don't necessarily believe that a conviction needs to preclude any form of "work". Just as one example among many, it's absolutely possible to make money as a graphic designer online without having to pass a background check. There's almost infinite online content regarding how to learn this trade.

In any case, she's lucky she has you in her corner. I'm sorry this happened to her, and to you. Good luck.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Forgive me if this is a little insensitive, but I presume you're not here for a pat on the back...

How is it possible that she was released "last spring", has been living with you, but you still have absolutely no context?

What has happened with counselling? I'm sure it's practically mandated as part of her release. I'm also sure that any counsellor would try at least a few sessions with you and your daughter.

How did she acquire the CSAM? Did she produce it? How did the police become aware of her activities?

Finally, are you sure she was never a victim of abuse?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm not sure this is an accurate summation of the situation.

Recycling pretty much doesn't work practically or economically, never has. It's not possible to collect plastic, and convert it into a product that has value, at a cost of less than that provided value.

If this was possible, companies would do it. (I'll forego a rant about one of the few virtues of capitalism, anyway).

Redcycle collapsed after a fire at a warehouse or something. That's a bit like saying my wife asked for a divorce after I accidentally shit myself.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah this has always been the case but sadly it's just not how things roll in 2025.

I've always said, impose a levy on any product which contains plastic of any kind, and watch how quickly producers transition to something else. Start at 1% and increase by 1% per year. I bet plastic packaging would all but disappear from the super market by 2030.

The single use plastics thing makes me grumpy because it doesn't address the problem, but makes consumers feel like they've shouldered some of the burden so the problem must be fixed now.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

that "please recycle" triangle arrow thing is pretty much a scam.

That triangle arrow logo is a scam at the best of times. It's supposed to contain a number saying what type of plastic it is. In practice type "1", PET, is the only type that is viable for recycle. It may be possible to recycle other numbers but it's preclusively expensive. So while they've chosen a logo that makes plastic generally look like it's recyclable, it's not really the case.

Anyhow, with this particular logo there's no number. They've put it there to make it look like their product is recyclable, but it's just not.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 hours ago

I'm getting weary of this comment appearing in every thread.

You're right - everything is a distraction from the Epstein files.

However, every new thing is another dystopian shit storm.

In this particular case they're prosecuting someone who dared to prosecute the supreme leader.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 8 hours ago

I don't believe for a moment that Greene has suddenly started to ponder the basic principles of governance she's been so happy to disregard.

Usually autocrats ensure their continued power by delivering power and trinkets to their supporters. I can only assume this is why republicans consistently express vapid support for such an obviously inept leader.

It really feels like Greene has been pushed off Trump's teat and she has decided to shit the bed on her way out. This seems a lot more on-brand for her.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 21 hours ago

Predictably, jobs are down and inflation is up. Both about to get a lot worse. Exactly what everyone said would happen.

The tarries impose a heavy tax burden on working America while millionaires are getting tax cuts.

Rise up.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Sorry kid, you just don't get it.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, illiteracy. Hilarious.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Nice guys finish last" tends to be something /r/niceguys like to say.

Think about it my man, by making this statement you're implying that nice guys ought to get the girl, and that's just not how life works, or how girls work.

Don't try to be a nice guy or a bad boy or anyone - just figure out how to be your best self.

If you still think that being your best self is rescuing abused girls then you're still doing it wrong.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is so pathetic.

Great leaders are honored by their people. They don't need to honor themselves with these baubles.

Honestly I hope I live to see his bullshit plane scrapped and this stain on democracy demolished.

 

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.

 

There's a post about it.

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.

 

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.”

 

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.

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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?

 
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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.

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