what do we do against this?
Once again: I want to be able to turn off people's ability to PM me. Checks for "accepting PMs" doesn't even have to be in the codebase for every type of fediverse server code; but each instance that decided against PMs, they could check incoming messages vs the recipient and, if rejected, simply send back a message saying "This user is not accepting PMs."
The Justice Department told the Supreme Court that ordering officials to return the man is “unprecedented”
Funny that they're fine with the unprecedented deportation of innocent people to life imprisonment in savage foreign prisons without due process ...
Also check out The Big List of Protests - theblop.org
Is the non-tarrif cheating in the room with us? Is it proven by the same people who proved voter fraud?
Does interactive fiction count? Then Advent / Adventure / Colossal Cave. I still have my map of it around somewhere.
And I'll ask here because I haven't turned it up anywhere else: there was another interactive fiction game, probably around the late 80's. It might've been called something like Stranded or Survival? You were in a spaceship that had crashed on the moon and you needed to do various tasks to repair it and take off. At one point, your oxygen runs out; to get more, you had to do the whole "maze of twisty little passages, all alike", which I think led to a vending machine? There were some other repair tasks; I think one of them was replacing the battery. Also, if you took too long in completing the tasks (like you took a wrong turn in the maze and took too long to recover) then, even if you did everything else correctly, the ship blew up!
Anyway, if anyone happens to know the game I'm talking about, I'd love to find it again. And again, this was text-based interactive fiction, not video.
They're deporting non-citizens without due process, which means that anyone can be deported. All they have to do is claim they thought someone wasn't a citizen, at which point there's no due process for you to prove that you are.
Department of Homeland Security
This is something that's always chilled me since they created it. To me, "Homeland" always had that echo of Nazi Germany's "Fatherland".
Someone suggested it was a way to collect data on users. The filenames for the pictures are all different, and the only reason for that is tracking, just like they do with web beacons on web pages or spam email.
You generate a list of users and each one gets a unique filename. When someone contacts the server asking for that file, you can connect that user's anonymous online Identity with real-world data - date and time they were online, what ISP and area you connected from, your browser, operating system, etc. Combine that online fingerprint with that from data brokers, and you can track back to the person's real-world identity.
It depends on when you were vaccinated. If you were born in or before 1957, you're presumed immune. If you were born after 1957 and vaccinated before 1967, they were using a not-quite-as-good version of the vaccine and should get a booster. If you were vaccinated between 1968 and 1989, you probably only got one shot; in 1989, they realized it should be two shots for longer, stronger immunity, and you should get a booster. If you were vaxxed in 1990 or later, you're fine.
People may want to consider getting a DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) booster at the same time. It doesn't hurt to keep your tetanus resistance up to date, but whooping cough (pertussis) is also making a comeback, and that's an absolutely miserable disease as well. [Fortunately, diphtheria remains in check, as that has a 5-10% mortality rate, compared to covid's 1-3% mortality rate.]
It was carrying 8500 gallons of gasoline. The hatch to the tank hadn't been secured properly and the tanker exploded when it crashed. Then the fire burned for over an hour.
I've seen them parking in spots labeled Compacts Only and making it so the person next to them has to get in on the passenger's side.
Ah, that old GOP favorite, the "Schrodinger's Joke" defense against encouraging stochastic terrorism ....