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I haven't read these yet, but I will soon. This is in response to the United States using drones to enact ethnic cleansing. This was a breakneck search, but if anyone has a good in-depth article for countering drone warfare, please let me know.

NATO.int | Countering Drones: Looking for the Silver Bullet

NDUPress.ndu.edu | Breaking the Shield: Countering Drone Defenses

Claws.in | Drone and Counter-Drone Warfare at a Tactical Level

A good idea would be for drone hobbyists to outfit theirs with weapons. It's incredibly important, too, to target factories, and develop chemicals, EMPs, and other technologies that can disrupt drone functioning (drones are quite fragile). Hopefully China, or otherwise industralized states, developing drones en masse can send some to resistance groups.

Saw this meme floating around and have no idea if the comparison is accurate or just a joke.

This past Friday my best friend Kai took his life at Lahilahi. I'm not trying to dump this on any one but its been the hardest thing I've had to go through since my own suicide attempt almost 20 years ago. I made this video to share with our community and to cherish his memory, but I also consider you, lemmy, a part of my community. So I'm sharing this with you because you are all part of my ohana. But if you have someone in your life that you are worried about please cherish them. Its so easy to get wrapped up in our own struggles and miss those who are falling behind around us.

I'm posting it here because there is no place I could find more appropriate.

broke my ankle. feel stupid.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24177573

I said when Trump won the election that we were leaving to the UK. I am a dual national with the UK and the US, but I never actually bothered doing anything about it before. But my daughter is queer and she is just not safe in the U.S. in our view*, so we are taking the opportunity to get out. I think some people here didn't believe it, but we have our plane tickets and we will be there on January 21st.

We are leaving on the 20th because we are thinking that if Trump starts rounding up immigrants right a way, a lot of people who are in the U.S. legally will freak the fuck out anyway and who knows when we'll be able to get tickets. So we're just leaving. I'll have time to see what happens when the fascist rapist felon get sworn in and then we'll be out of here.

I was originally going to wait until I got a job to go because it will be easier to get a family visa once I get a job and, of course, I'll be eating through what money we can scrounge together from things like selling my car, but I have already had two interviews cancelled because I'm not in the country and I'm sure having a U.S. phone number doesn't help (I realize I could have spoofed that with a UK number, but it literally didn't occur to me until today). Even with the interviews I have scheduled next week, the chance of me getting hired before Trump gets into office are pretty low.

We will be staying with an old high school friend of mine for a few days until I find a place to rent by the week as I look for work. We have absolutely no plans about where to live. I will go wherever the work takes us as long as we're there.

My wife is going to stay behind and take care of affairs like selling the house. My daughter is in online school, so she can stay in that until we get the family visa and can enrol her in a UK school. Because she's my daughter, once she has a family visa, she can immediately apply for permanent residency status. My wife will also be able to much more easily get a job on a family visa.

The nicest part is that we can bring the dogs over without having to put them in quarantine. That won't happen until I get a job either, but I am glad we will be reunited soon.

So we will be off in a week. Will I still post a lot on Lemmy once we get there? That remains to be seen.

Goodbye, America. I don't know if I'll ever come back, but I hope I can at least return to visit.

*I know some of you are going to say she won't be safe in the UK either. They are banning conversion therapy there and schools have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to bullying queer kids. Plus, the education system there is not going to turn to dogshit to the point the U.S. already has and it's only going to get worse. It's all around better for her there.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23995408

Today, January 6th, is the 12th day of Christmas. You know, the one from the song. It is called Epiphany and in many countries it is celebrated as Three Kings Day.

If your family celebrates it, I hope you got a nice present!

FUCK YOU!!!

That shit is OVER! Take down your decorations. You're past the socially accepted limit.

Unless your name is Mick Foley. He's allowed to be as crazy as he wants. When YOU fall 18 feet to your death, twice in 30 minutes, and still get up breathing......yeah, nobody gonna mess with the hardcore legend.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23873991

I like this video because of how little assumptions it seems to make about my values. That's why I think it's something for everyone.

At my last job, a bunch of the older folks did not realize they had a "two spaces" habit.

It's a clear tell.

Saw this meme and thought I'd point that out.

I work in an ER and brother, it's a shitshow tonight. How's everyone's shifts going? Quiet?

Flounder in 1989

Flounder in 2023

Many countries celebrate Christmas through January 6th (epiphany/Three Kings), the 12th day of Christmas, but not the US. That's fine. But why sing about it if you don't celebrate it?

So I'm sitting here, eating a chicken breast, with a side of ramen noodles, and I think to myself "This needs something". In my brain I KNOW the ramen needs some chipotle sauce, and the chicken needs some bbq sauce.

But I'm just not in the mood for spicy right now. And one of the biggest problems is the fact that I'm eating this with water. Again. Water every day. Water water water. Gotta drink water! WATER IS GOOD FOR YOUUUUU!!!!!

Now two years ago I found out I had cancer. Guys, don't get cancer. Do not reccomend. Not a good time.

I had to give up a LOT of shit. The doctors basically said in a nicer way that I was putting so much shit in my body, that my body just took a shit on me. Garbage in, garbage out. They said it in a nicer way, but, that's the jist of it.

I gave up drinking. Which was.....aggrivating at first, but mostly because it meant that all the sudden all my friends vanished out of my life. I'd go to hang out with them, and be like "Hey, you wanna go.....somewhere?" and they'd essentially say "Ah, nah.....I'm gonna stay in....."

Then I'd find out days later that everybody went without me, and they looked drunk as hell doing it. That's when I pieced it together. They don't want to hang out with someone who can't/won't drink.

Another thing, that was FAR harder for me to give up, is beef. I've been sad that I'm not out drinking with my friends, but I miss my friends more than the drinking. I've never had just a craving for 20 beers before. I did it because I hung out with alcoholics, which by definition made ME an alcoholic.....but in a weird not really kinda way. I never had physical cravings for alcohol. I stopped cold, and felt more lonely than withdrawly.

Not so with beef. I absolutely DO crave a big ol double bacon cheeseburger. Fuck it, make it a triple, with 3 kinds of cheeses. Drench the damn thing in queso, and then deep fry it, because......fuck it, why not, ya know?

Well......like I said. Garbage in, garbage out.

So now I'm sitting here, eating a chicken breast. No more fast food. Made it myself. Air frier mode on my convection oven. It's not bad.....but again, it's missing something. And that something is something to wash it down with.

Also gave up soda, and I think that's truely what this dish needs. Like a good cherry coke, or a dr pepper. One of the dark colas for sure. I will slap you in your face if you ask if pepsi is ok. Pepsi is never ok. Pepsi is the saddened cry of a man who's given up in life, and I did not go through cancer treatment to give up. You bring the fight, or what's even the point? Ya know?

But......gotta give up soda......already gave up beer.......a jack and coke is purely out of the question.

I bought some lemonaide.......I like lemonaide......but winter lemonaide is just not doing it for me. I was ADDICTED to the lemonaide when I was going through cancer treatment, and going down to the baseball stadium every day in the summer. They had free refills on fountain drinks. If you could OD on lemonaide, I'd have died in the stadium. Which, I mean......there's worse places to die. The stadium is my happy place.

Not the point. The point is, I am eating this juicy chicken breast, which I am amazing myself that I'M the one who made it......and these ramen noodles which I found a great replacement for the seasoning pack. It's actually a chicken seasoning. So way less sodium, and tastes way better.

But then you go to drink something.....and it's fucking WATER.....AGAIN.

Water every day.....driving me NUTS!!! Gotta find something healthy, that's also cheap, and tasty. Preferably non-carbonated, as I assume the carbination is part of what's pissing off my insides. All the gas.

TV: Right now animal habitats are threatened with extinction. Please give money.

Me: Bitch please! We're ALL facing extinction! That's called climate change, and giving you money won't fix it!