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Everyone knows that the real racket is in selling “Open” signs https://youtu.be/unwQ_sLgeE0

Malware or not, remember to update WinRAR

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/high-severity-winrar-0-day-exploited-for-weeks-by-2-groups/

It depends on the state. Many states have no means of direct voter legislation. Some do, but the result is a new law, which can be repealed by the legislature as easily as anything else. Some states treat citizen ballot initiatives as more powerful than basic laws (eg, as an amendment to the state constitution) which are generally way harder for politicians to roll back.

Can we get someone who believes in Jakub elected as county clerk somewhere in the US South? Then they can deny marriage licenses to all the white people for being inhuman.

Bring your own tea into the workplace?

Tea bags are fine, but I recently discovered tea resin. It’s basically a small block of concentrated tea that you dissolve into hot water. Not quite as good as fresh leaves, but more portable (dozens of servings fit in a tin the size of a USB stick) and very resilient against going bad.

I have a small selection of resins on emergency stash in my work bag, in case the coffee machine at the office is broken.

• I like sharing
• I never found any good direct downloads for all the movies and shows I wanted

Rolling blunts. You just have to keep your hands dry

The Lawrence of Arabia toilet challenge is tough, but rewarding. Intermission is welcome because you can get off the toilet and watch a couple of tiktok shorts.

I always thought that wish-granting is instant, even if the effects of that wish are delayed.

So if I wish for something to happen in 5 days, it’s granted in the moment and guaranteed to happen. That raises a question though: Can I wish to cancel a wish I have already made, but whose effect has not yet taken hold? On its face, this should be possible, but if we take it as a given that all valid wishes are always granted at the moment of utterance, then it might be physically/psychologically impossible for me or anyone else to revoke the wish before its IRL effect is complete.

Did something change in the link? I can’t find any reference to mood-aware searches.

The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.

Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?

• Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
• Windows “helpfully” cleaning up your Linux bootloader
• Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a “dirty” state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again

And suddenly, that’s where you’ll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.

You can already stick a beer bottle in the sand. If you’re determined enough, also your ass (Wikipedia, SFW).

I’ve got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are… not so good.

My local martial arts club had a rightwing woman join around spring 2021. Almost immediately she brought kind of chuddy energy to our meetings which really sucked. However, she wasn’t outright violating any of our rules about hate speech or accepting other people.

At first we tried to ignore her, but she didn’t take the hint and kept showing up even when most members stopped speaking to her in complete sentences. Then we passed a rule saying that you couldn’t participate in club events without being vaccinated. She threw a fit and called us all pharma sheep before quitting in a huff, and we got to enjoy our hobby again.

If this happens again, I’m personally going to skip straight to making their membership untenable.

Depends on the search engine you use. I started giving Kagi a try and it has options to increase visibility of fediverse content in your searches.

I’d guess it’s a mix of fediverse being a poor fit for ad-oriented SEO and relatively low adoption.

Everyone out here acting like they don’t use 9001

While I’m sure Holocaust historiography has evolved over the last 50 years since it was published, the latter half of The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy towards German Jews 1933-1939 covers how among other plans to set up Jewish colonies around the world, the Nazis did cultivate relationships with Zionist groups when trying to expel Jews from Germany.

The book makes a case that, to the Nazis, the Holocaust became a “final solution” when all the other “solutions” they tried for expeling the Jews from German public life before WW2 broke out had failed (eg, the aforementioned failed colonial projects).

I’d say that Evrala’s comment has plenty of credible historical support.