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Yeah, it seems like there’s one party actually holding greater than 60% of their bad actors accountable and another one rewarding bad behavior… But, sure, let’s complain about how 60% is not enough instead of dealing with the reality we find ourselves in.

Just a joke, bro.

We’re not supposed to talk about egg prices.

And who benefits from weakening the US military?

Canada.

No one lines up anyone. Stop spreading agitprop.

I imagine it’ll be a pretty large primary cohort this season. If you want to run, feel free to run, too. There is no cabal.

Yeah, but I’m not rewarding Kentucky just because what I want to drink becomes too expensive.

Maybe this is the year I stop drinking entirely and just switch to fentanyl or something else that this administration isn’t actually doing anything about.

I see Elon brought his body armor.

So, one guy out of two hundred reps and you blame Democrats. But 200 hundred out of 200 hundred aren’t accountable whatsoever?

Bad faith batman right here.

And they’d definitely hurt even more people than are already being harmed. Republicans can play brinkmanship games because they don’t care about people at all. Democrats can’t do the same without becoming Republicans in the process.

It was mostly uneventful, to be honest. I downloaded the two apps (static admin and the php app), tossed them into /opt/www, and set up nginx to serve PHP. The config in the main app had a section for my Postgres settings and the docs gave the instructions on putting the default server configuration into the static site.

The only challenge was actually rather silly: I don’t use PHP so it took me a bit to understand why apt install php installed Apache when I had already installed nginx. Once I found php-fpm it was smooth sailing from there.

This maybe isn’t for everyone but I de-dockerified Shlink pretty quickly. Moving it to two nginx vhosts (server and admin) on a Shlink LXC and a centralized Postgres server made dealing with it a lot easier.

E.g., the initial API key shenanigans were less fiddly after I took more direct control.

That was the “joke” from the first time around. The French version uses brioche which is just even more fancy bread.

Maybe a parallel would be “the peasants have no eggs!” -> “let them eat omelettes!”

Yep. But there’s also a cross section of ages spewing propaganda. I mean, RFK Jr is ancient. He should remember the time of bloodletting yet here we are.

And the misinformation campaign is oppressive. When my first born was at his 6 month (?) pediatrician appointment, the doctor started in on, “I’m required to inform you that vaccination is a personal and religious choice …” I cut him off and said, “I believe in science” and I could see the immediate relief on his face. I don’t know what he didn’t have to say, but it surely wasn’t good.

She’s older than the antivax craze, sadly. So her parents likely screwed us all over by being responsible.

Have you instructed your servant to search more thoroughly?

I believe the traditional response to “the peasants have no eggs” would be, “let them eat cake!”

Since 1994. When Newt Gingrich first slithered onto the scene to start spreading lies and dumb bullshit. Prior to that it was just lies.

After a long career in tech, one of the things I start to push for when I inevitably take over ops at my new job is to eliminate the silly names.

I don’t do it because I hate fun, I do it because when someone yells, “Squirtle has dropped off the network!” I don’t want to have to go consult a lookup table to learn that Squirtle is a staging environment postgres replica and not the primary billing database.

As a result, I apply the same standards to my home network without shame.

Gym wouldn’t recognize free speech even if it raped his high school students.

I think the culture thing is actually also tenuous.

IMHO, what we have is a society that doesn’t actually respect or care for children in any meaningful way. We blame them for being children, fill their heads with increasingly toxic religious nonsense, and now we’re teaching them that lies and hate speech are totally acceptable.

So what if they see a Rambo movie? If anything it probably gave them a 90 minute respite from feeling worthless and abandoned.