All I wanted was to stop having to worry about what was happening in government. I wanted it to go back to boring bureaucracy. I wanted the news to stop being about whatever bullshit came out of Trumps mouth. Or Elon's.
I just wanted it to go back to normal when it was rare to actually hear what the president said. That their speeches were a special event.
When I hear about his executive orders, I can't help but picture him dressed as Dolores Umbridge hanging her rules on Hogwarts walls.
If I had any semblance of graphics skills, I'd make a meme out of it.
I am already unable to buy things 6 out of 7 days of the week. Sure. Why not make this one of those days
Seconded. The US can no longer be trusted. God speed, and I wish you the best.
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Dolly Parton is urging Republican Gov. Mike Braun of Indiana to reconsider getting rid of her popular “Imagination Library” program, which provides free books to children ages 5 and under.
“We are hopeful that Governor Braun and the Indiana Legislature will continue this vital investment by restoring the state’s funding match for local Imagination Library programs. The beauty of the Imagination Library is that it unites us all—regardless of politics—because every child deserves the chance to dream big and succeed,” her representative said in a statement.
Indiana Republicans have cut the statewide program’s required matching funds from the new budget despite it being “hailed as helping to raise Indiana’s child literacy ranking from 19th to 6th place nationwide” and only costing the state $4.1 million over the last two years.
“It was a disservice to remove it,” says Democratic Indiana Rep. Maureen Bauer.
Most telling is that the state’s Republicans, who included school vouchers for wealthy families in the budget, didn’t bother to look elsewhere for savings.
According to Rose Meissner, president of the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, the matching funds needed equate to just $1 per month for every child in Indiana.
Parton has run into this kind of ghoulish right-wing behavior before.
In 2022, a Kentucky Republican state senator tried to censor Parton’s library as a part of the fascistic right-wing move to censor children’s education. But after getting an earful from a few million Parton fans, they quickly backtracked.
The Imagination Library, founded by Parton in 1995, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and sends out more than 1,000,000 books every month to 21 states and 5 countries. To date, the program has given more than 270,000,000 free books to children around the world.
The idea that the GOP would take away children’s books is unconscionable—but not surprising.
Even if it was political, which it wasn't.
What was the political reason? Huh? What benefit did stranding them up there give Biden?
It's been a long while since I looked, but I remember it being a thing in tails to specifically not resize your browser window or only have it full screen to match a ton of other fingerprints.
Plus since it was a live distro that reset on every reboot it would only have the same fonts and other data as other people using tails. Honestly, I hate that all that info is even available to browsers and web sites at all.
A lot of smart devices are just an esp that basically does that. The zigbee and z-wave stuff isn't even internet connected. A usb dongle connected to a PC running smart home software locally controls it.
It's weird that so much has sprung up around personal homes when businesses had bacnet for years and years. Most of that stuff is wired up with basic analog inputs and outputs.
Personally, I like hardwired everything and would like to see more PoE stuff come out rather than wireless. I hate dealing with batteries because some people can't deal with running low voltage wires.
Same. My iot vlan can't talk to my main network. If it weren't for firmware updates, I'd probably null route that whole network when it tries to go out to the internet.
I will drink so much champagne on that day.
I personally find my ADHD meds exhausting. Like, yes I need them. But when the week is up I feel a little exhausted with everything I've had to keep up with. I don't see them as fun, but I know other people do. They just make me function and I really try to take as little as I can get away with and still be a functional person.
And being 4 times the distance from Washington DC as London is from Berlin.
If I were to protest at my governors office, he'd just be agreeing with me in my blue state.