"destroyed" might be a strong word there. That thing looked more like it was plopped in a park as a history piece (like we do with old WW2 tanks at AmVets lodges) than an active piece of hardware. Still, good to see the facade cracking.
If you don't want a part of your body to get sore, then that part shouldn't be pushing against something that doesn't move along with it. That's the thinking behind the vabsRider bicycle saddle, the two sides of which pivot in time with your pedaling.
Even in Iraq and Afghanistan it was commonplace to have the m1's equipped with the anti-rpg cages. Can't imagine why they would take them off. I'd think they would offer some protection and a good frame for a closer knit if needed.
He shits himself regularly. The press in the D.C. (?) courtroom were complaining about the putrid stench. The news of that getting out sparked this particular branch of insanity.
From what I recall, he's been doing it since at least "The Apprentice", where he'd shit himself on set and wouldn't do anything about it. It was alongside news about office cabinets and desk drawers crammed with boxes upon boxes of... Sudafed(?) but I don't know the pharmacology of that (shrug)
Don't forget about school shootings - all those rural Texas LARPers need their tacti-cool trucks to sit on while elementary school kids are murdered too!
I'm only watching on my phone, and my eyesight isn't as good as it was so I may not be able to see everything here, but I only saw one that was really messed up, and even he was moving. Any way of knowing if any of these were playing opossum? I want Ukraine to prevail, but some of those guys didn't look "all the way dead",or even injured.
I’m thinking along the lines of older spouse dies, younger spouse marries someone younger and becomes the older spouse. Then older spouse dies again and repeat. Has anything like this happened in a long enough chain to be significant? Is it so mundane no one cares?
So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and...
OP, thank you for asking this question. I'm in a remarkably similar boat; my SO had an absent father and I want to be the best dad to my new little girl (just a bit over 3 weeks) that I can be. Like you, I want to make sure my daughter has the opportunity to grow up strong, confident, kind, compassionate, and independent. I look forward to reading all the replies. :)
I'm going to reply to OP directly, but your point on really listening is huge. My SO shared an article that, while I don't have access to share it, I'm gonna copypaste it to OP because I think every parent needs to read it. Thank you for bringing it up!
So I tried to share the contents of a The Atlantic article that's incredibly relevant, and as someone who has spent 30 years working for a center for neglected children, it hit real close to home. Unfortunately, the article was too long to post, and I don't know how to bypass the paywall. Maybe someone here can?
The bottom line is that we need to be present for our kids. If we're staring at our black mirrors and not emotionally engaging with them they're going to feel devalued.
I think our lizard brain jumps to the fore and want to be like: "unga-bunga - problem! Me can fix with solution! It make tears stop!" when in reality, like you said, kids want someone they trust to give them permission to do the thing they know they need to do. They need to know they can come to you and be open and safe and loved.
Not to be all: "well ackshually", but actually, my dad is the definition of a baby boom kid - born shortly after WW2, (the baby boom) and served in the navy during Vietnam.
It might be more fair to say: "They don't know how to win a war"
WOW is there a lot of mental health issues in that mtnweekly link... I wouldn't visit that without putting on a double-layer of tin foil, and maybe some lead underwear, just to be safe.
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
My understanding is that all they have to do is lay down arms and raise their hands. The drone will lead them to a location to be taken into custody.
From this brief snippet, this dude looked pretty isolated and significantly lacking in kit (which is saying something) - he didn't even have his rifle. Kinda seems like a slam dunk "maybe I should try to surrender" moment.
Which is a special kind of ironic since China withdrew all their pandas from American zoos due to trade 'wars' (i.e. Tariffs in some goods) including the fantastic program at the San Diego zoo.
So we were told: "it may be covered by this recall, if it's the parts that are covered by the recall that are the cause of the loss of A/C. If those parts aren't the reason, it won't be covered, and the diagnostic to determine that would then be $1,000$."
So we have to take a $1,000 gamble to see if our 2018 car is covered under a fucking recall. Fuck Honda in the ass with a rusty anchor.
I'd say a little yes and a little no. I educate every new user that comes into my company on infosec awareness, with a big segment on data footprint and information leakage. I show them where their data is, how easily and with how many 'channel partners' share social, history and other data, and where they've been exposed in real time. I've done this with a few thousand people. The overwhelming majority say: "I've got nothing to hide." Or: "if I get better deals, it's fine." not getting that by being tracked they're probably getting worse deals.
For the "nothing to hide" folks, I ask to see their wallet or purse. They're all scoffs and brave mugs initially as they show how unafraid they are as I start rummaging through at the front of the class. Then I start pulling out cards and ID. And they're still OK as I glance around the room. Then I pull out my phone and tuem my back - then a lot of nervous shifting in seats starts happening as I look over my shoulder while taking pictures of the floor with the shutter sound turned on. That's the point where I ask if they truly have nothing worth protecting.
And at the end of all that - after setting up and teaching them how to use the comped corporate password manager, 80% still make passwords that they've used before. THE SAME DAMN MORNING as these exercises.
I don't think people care. And they certainly don't know. But they don't want to be bothered by the nuance of it all. It's just too much, which is why we need a congress with a goddamned backbone to pass some legislation with teeth to protect customer's data.
Yeah, it was almost a rite of passage in my teen years - getting a decade-old used car and immediately replacing the crap factory system with some overmarketed, overpriced, but really cool kit. Of course nowadays the factory systems are better sounding at least, but you're spot on regarding the out dating of software and protocols.
Coming from someone who sold cars via a dealership (sorry): leasing is a perfect way to get fucked in the ass every day of the year, and twice on renewal day.
Yes, it is a titled asset. Yes, it has a depreciating value. BUT - the only way leasing makes financial sense is: 1) you can expense the lease payment to a self-owned business (and it needs to be a pretty big percentage), or 2) accept that you are paying a gobsmackingly large amount of money to eat the absolute shit out of the depreciation you're seeking to avoid, only to do it again in 3 years, for the ability to drive that new car off the lot on the regular.
Just today I said goodbye to my 2012 chrysler minivan because of the "lifetime sealed transmission." Now Chrysler minivan transaxles have always been garbage, this is known. But mine said in the owner's manual, "lifetime, sealed transaxle" "no fluid fills or dipstick." I worked at a Chrysler shop and asked the service manager - "nope, don't need to do nothin'." OK, all good.
Yeaahhh... That's not entirely true. 160k on the odo and it lost the desire to 'go' in drive (no forward progress in drive despite the little engine trying it's best), a hell of a scream coming from the engine bay and a light show of errors on the dash. Limped it home and the code reader said that gears 1 & 3 had a "ratio mismatch" which should only happen if they lost teeth, and a couple others I don't remember. Figured it was scrap. Had a mechanic friend look at it; he popped off a tube, fingered it a bit, sniffed it and said to try changing out the filter and as much fluid as I could. Did that, dropped about 5qt in (with no goddamned dipstick, how do you tell how much it needs?) and the thing ran great for another 3 months. Until today when it started making the whining noise again. Dropped it off and said goodbye.
Fuck "sealed" transmissions. Sorry, I had to rant. I loved that van - no tracking, had a Sirius radio that has 50 song and 50 artist alerts and 300gb on board mp3 storage, and the 2 screen DVD system (great for parents that don't want their kids on tablets but still want to occupy them on long trips)
I liked my recently departed 2012 chrysler infotainment system quite a bit. The sirius/xm radio kept 50 favorite artist and 50 favorite song alerts, had 300gb of storage for mp3s and the DVD system with headphones for the kiddos while we could listen to something else. No newer car I've driven, borrowed, or owned had the favorite alerts, and I'm going to miss the hell out of that feature.
Oh, it did have an aux jack and USB input as well. It was the cat's ass. For a grocery-go-getter, it rocked
You'll have to pardon my skepticism on that claim of a $90,000 lease for $240/mo, even subsidized to the moon. Combined with the earlier statement that they were all employer-provided.
Have you seen a car lately? Whist I'm sure it could be taken out (leaving a raggedy, jagged, odd-shaped hole in the dash...) you'd lose half the functionality of the car with it. These aren't the single or even 1.5 DIN chassis of yesteryear, and I doubt Crutchfield has a conversion kit that's going to replace the dash elements, backup camera, steering wheel controls, climate control, vehicle information center, and, for some bizzarro-world reason, the instrument cluster setup options.
I really can't stand the modern "everything's gotta have a big-ass tablet interface with no tactile landmarks. Particularly when I'm hurtling down a narrow corridor in a 1.5 ton metal box and trying to avoid hundreds of other idiots doing the same.
No, you're right, the US sucks in a large way, in many, many areas. What we're all a bit put off by, and maybe it's the time zone difference, or a cultural communication difference, is that we're having g a discussion, receive information that doesn't fit the pattern of our experiences. For example, and I'm not quoting your words, just how I received them: everyone I know leases, oh, and the company pays it, oh, and this is in Germany. This Information wasn't presented initially, and I suppose it is on us and our assumptions, but the reader had to sus it out over several threads and we are lambasted as insipid when we're not in possession of all the relevant data.
As stated, perhaps that is our fault. Maybe when first presented with an outlier claim, we should ask: "oh, wow - that's amazing - what country do you live in?" and that would promote a more upbeat dialog.
Partisans of the Atesh movement destroyed a R-441 "Liv'en" satellite communication station near Moscow. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/ssternenko/29750
Butt-friendly bike seat moves with your legs ( newatlas.com )
If you don't want a part of your body to get sore, then that part shouldn't be pushing against something that doesn't move along with it. That's the thinking behind the vabsRider bicycle saddle, the two sides of which pivot in time with your pedaling.
M1A1SA Abrams tank with a Ukranian-made anti-drone turret cage. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/729874cd-828e-42d6-9407-f023bead9187.webp...
HIMARS strike on a Russian 9T452 ammunition loading vehicle for the BM-27 "Uragan" MLRS ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/Tsaplienko/54158
MAGA Idiots Wearing Diapers For Cheeto Jesus ( youtu.be )
Canadian-made Roshel Senator MRAP that hit an anti-tank mine. All Ukrainian soldiers on board survived without injuries. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://defence-blog.com/senator-mrap-saves-ukrainian-soldiers-from-mine-blast/
18+ Very lucky Russian ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/BUAR110ombr/309...
18+ Group of invaders that tried to storm Ukranian positions in the Kharkiv region. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/gostrikartuzy/273...
What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
I’m thinking along the lines of older spouse dies, younger spouse marries someone younger and becomes the older spouse. Then older spouse dies again and repeat. Has anything like this happened in a long enough chain to be significant? Is it so mundane no one cares?
r/sysadmin and the size of this community
So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and...
Daughters and Fathers
This is a serious question, mostly addressed to the adult women among us but also to anyone else who has a stake in the matter....
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine ( www.whitehouse.gov )
Equipment to integrate Western launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine's systems;...
Ukranian trident ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/combatfootageua/15724
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Conservative author Ann Coulter heaps praise on GOP rising star Vivek Ramaswamy - then tells him she wouldn't vote for him because he's Indian ( www.dailymail.co.uk )
What are your best intrusive ads ideas?
If your job was to come up with greater enshittification for society, what would you do?...
‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms ( www.theguardian.com )
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
18+ FPV drone just wants love. ( streamable.com )
https://streamable.com/i09ypw...
Zoo defends ‘panda’ exhibit after criticism for using dogs dyed black and white ( www.unilad.com )
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/11618175...
18+ The "Wild Division" using "Escadrone" FPV drones funded by the "Sternenko Community" to hunt enemy infantry. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/escadrone/1294...
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )
China to open drone production plant in Russia ( uawire.org )
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