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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • I believe this is the song she was playing

    Terrible Google translate of the lyrics:

    I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

    My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:

    Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!

    Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!

    When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.

    I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

    Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!

    Let Grandpa tremble for his “Lake.”

    Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!

    A lot of references to the fall of the USSR


  • Oh don’t worry about that, they already caused their havoc

    Thanks to the FAA’s shoestring budget, they don’t have the funds to just issue an STC to allow existing planes to use it. Each plane owner will have to pay for one to be issued. It costs me $200 to get one issued. It costs that much because the FAA hasn’t had the budget to upgrade their systems, so handling applications takes a lot of labor. They need to manually verify the make and model of aircraft will not be at risk of adverse effects from unleaded gasoline, since safety > all else

    It’s a good thing the FAA verifies this, but it shouldn’t be such an inefficient process. The only reason it’s so inefficient is because conservatives have gutted federal agencies for so many years. MAGA will still point to the inefficient process as an example of why they should keep cutting funding, “see how inefficient the FAA is? They don’t deserve our money!”


  • The FAA finally approved 100UL (unleaded), so the US is on track to stop using 100LL in most cases within the next 20 years

    EPA has tight regulations on washing your plane though, so there’s no problem with lead /s

    Disclaimer: It’s better than nothing that the EPA tried to do something, but the government really should have gotten their shit together and approved 100UL decades ago



  • I would guess they’re just trying really hard to avoid triggering Trump’s wrath. A discrimination lawsuit is comparatively small to the devastation you can get from running afoul of the most powerful dictator in history

    Not only could the school and state potentially lose all federal education funding, but Trump may go after the school administrators personally. He’s been rather successful lately at going after anyone he disagrees with. Political opponents like Comey and Bolton. Judges like the Oregon one that blocked the National Guard deployments, or the immigration judges that refused to simply dismiss asylum cases without hearing them. Even just random individuals that happen to be negatively mentioned on Fox News have been increasingly under extra-judicial attack by the president

    America is now a nation by, and for, Trump




  • The problem is the Trump administration is pushing for this. They’re saying schools can only allow students to play on teams based on their assigned gender at birth. The federal government is using coercion to force states to comply

    There is no specific law to follow, since it’s just based on the whims of the federal government. The punishment is withholding funding. There is to judge, jury, or courts of any kind involved. Simply the federal government refusing to release funding if they dislike what states are doing. The AZ law is comparatively toothless

    The effect of this is the same as it always is with these types of capricious authoritarian governments: A chilling effect. Actors are overly cautious to avoid drawing the wrath of the powerful central government – Trump in this case





  • The broad censorship of government data in the US, combined with the recent political attacks on Wikipedia caused me to download the whole English Wikipedia earlier this year. Guessing OP is similar

    Not sure why they’d download Debian with all packages though

    Edit: I should mention it’s less about a potential loss of Wikipedia as it is a personal source of truth on politically sensitive topics that get censored, or turned to propaganda by bots

    For example the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pete Hegseth has recently been calling it the, “Battle of Wounded Knee”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the current administration went to war with Wikipedia and forced them to 1) Change articles they disagree with, and 2) Hide those changes from history