Oh, poor baby, did Daddy Putin pull your chain?

The program’s stated purpose is to identify people who may have already committed crimes, according to 404 Media. But the outlet reported finding no instances of that happening. Instead, it reported that the program appears to generate pretexts for police to stop and search people, raising questions about whether the stops meet the legal standard of probable cause. […] “genuine probable cause cannot be synthetically generated,” adding that Border Patrol appeared to be using “parallel construction” to conceal the real reason for its stops.

It’s worse having to dig through a bunch of garbage to find the cable you want

Eh. I coil them up in type-sorted ziplocs with labels, and put them in function-sorted drawers (audio, tv/media, PC interior, phone, etc). Doesn’t take long to find anything.

it seems pretty difficult to find ways to bracket dates on search engines

Are you searching on your phone? I haven’t used Google in a while, but it used to be that you could enter specific dates for custom search ranges on news articles - but only in desktop mode. If you’re searching on your phone, try switching to desktop mode, then entering your custom dates.

I also rush to take a label for me that I am this, this and this, and get myself limited to that specific identity.

It sounds like you know what the basic problem is: you find something, and take it as a part of your actual identity, letting it define you.

Instead of focusing on just one thing and labeling yourself with it, do many things - and have them be things that you do.

And sit down and think about what you’re finding so attractive about these things, then work against that attraction. Is it because these groups offer a community? Then don’t link yourself to just one community. Is it because it gives you a pre-set list of approved behaviors and opinions? Explore beyond the approved. Is it because you’re not sure who you are and this makes you easier with yourself (something we all go through)? Go out and do a variety of things - do things by yourself, do them with others, go places and do things that you wouldn’t normally.

Don’t focus exclusively on one group or type of groups, look for a range of groups and activities. And if there’s something interesting that you can’t find a group for, go do it anyway, just because it interests you.

Good luck!

This is possibly a temporary solution, but if they’re restructuring, ask them if there’s a place in the new structure that you could fit into, even if it’s for a lower amount of pay. If applicable, emphasize your knowledge of the organization, procedures, processes, etc - all the nuanced institutional knowledge that you have. Even if the new job isn’t directly in your skill set, even if it’s a pay cut or part-time/less hours, it can buy you time to look for a new job.

Well, that’s an incredibly disappointing store … :(

The Cartographers for Social Equality will be pleased!

One of the funniest things to me is all the boomers I know who were staunchly anti-weed while raising their kids, are more using weed to help with their various aches and pains.

Food processor. I have issues with my hands and the ability to slice, chop, and blend items with minimal hand use is just fantastic.

Israel has plans ready to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them.

Uh, no.

When I left reddit, I asked for accounts on both tildes and kbin. Except tildes was onboarding people in batches, so I’d been active on kbin for like a week before I could create my tildes account, and I just never got momentum over there because of it

“Dinner for four for $28. […] These super inexpensive dinners…” Lmao. Dinner for four for $28 isn’t that hard; the blogger in the video did dinner for four for $10, which is cool.

Well, you seem like a remarkably ignorant person. Welcome to my block list.

Thanks! And here --🥤🥤🥤🥤

Mind if I sit here? And would you mind sharing some of that?

Somehow, my reporting both Musk and Melania never resulted in them getting taken in by ICE - this is discrimination!!!

Manosphere dudebros.

Lmao, isn’t that Zuckerberg’s motto - Move fast, break things.

I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I’m disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.