The irony here is that, to me at least, someone that is comfortable being themself is generally much more attractive than someone trying to look good for the sake of looking good.

I was able to move to the country my wife grew up in - she, as a citizen, sponsored my visa. We moved from an area with relatively high real estate cost (sold for over $1mil - we had a mortgage, but also significant equity) to an area where it's much, much, cheaper (bought for about $100k currency corrected) so we could retire early - we're both ~60.

and added the government had “rigorously applied international law” in relation to the war in Gaza.

I'm no lawyer, but if the law allows for the continued sale of weapons to a government when there is an active arrest warrant for the leader of said government, for misuse of those weapons - then the law is broken.

And it's not just any arrest warrant - the warrant is issued by the ICC, and the UK is a state party to the Rome Accord, which is the treaty that gives the ICC authority.

I didn't know all that, I went and looked it up for this comment. The Wikipedia page was interesting reading.

It's not about the taffis for me, it's about supporting a fascist oligarchy. When that changes (both the fascist, and the oligarchy), I'll start buying from them again. I'm not young and I don't expect it to happen in my lifetime.

OK, I'll bite. I read the WestJet article. The person won their case because the judge decided WestJet didn't believe they were serious in their religious basis for their exemption request and therefore didn't consider options to give the person work in another role that wouldn't be impacted by their lack of vaccination.

This in no way supports your position that the mandates were somehow illegitimate.

I guess it comes down to your definition of "forced". People were forced to get the vaccine in the same way they are forced to not walk around with a gun indiscriminately firing bullets - you're welcome to do it in the privacy of your own home (as long as your home is big enough that the bullets won't leave it) but if you want to participate in a society then you are forced to follow some rules.

I agree with what you're saying, but I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Mastodon can be accessed by anyone with a browser. If the whole government made their Mastodon instance their official release channel then it would achieve your objective.

I'm so conflicted by this. On the one hand it's incredible that these people are taking a stand and protecting people. On the other hand, the fascist regime is trying to bait people into a violent response so they can start the insurrection act -> martial law -> no more electrons process.

100% agree, which is a shame because having real numbers for the proportion of the population that don't fit into what the bigots think is normal might help to convince some of them that they're not so normal. (I'm not saying this very well, but I think you get what I mean.)

I must be still half asleep because I can't make sense of that.The article says:

Position 1 - Geographic Region:

    1-5: North America
    6-7: Oceania
    8-9: South America
    A-H: Africa
    J-R: Asia
    S-Z: Europe

Position 2 - Country Code: Within North America (1-5):

    1,4,5: United States
    2: Canada
    3: Mexico

How can any VIN then begin with "5Y"? Their dictionary does not assign a value to "Y" in position 2??

This makes me so mad. If we can't do anything to actively help stop the genocide, the very least we can do is not be complicit!

It's a hard choice - I don't like Google, but they're good phones. I really wanted to get something other than a Pixel when I got the battery "recall" for my 4a. Ended up with a used 8 Pro.

So, we're on a boat. It starts leaking with these mysterious finger sized holes. Most people start sticking fingers in holes to stop the water, but there are a bunch of people that are worried their finger might get stuck, or a fish might come and bite it or divine intervention will save the boat - and they decide not to stick their finger in a hole, and just for good measure some of the people that won't stick their finger in a hole go and make a few new holes. You think that's ok? For a bunch of people to, not only not contribute to saving everyone, but actually make the situation worse? And for there to be no consequences??

Third place behind 2023 and 2024.

I prefer the original. The "better" one had a bit of a lag (only a fraction of a second, but in this context that's important) loading and the "best" one has the same lag and unreadable colours.

I've been using various versions of keepass for ever. Until recently I had the database on Google drive. It's now local and sync'd with syncthing. It's a bit "different", but once you get used to it, it works very well.

yep - I was still happy with my 4a until they killed its battery. I bought a used 8 Pro. That was about 3 months ago, and it still feels too big.

Just a few minutes ago I learned about neocities.org. At first glance it looks like it might do what you want.

I know what futo is, but I don't understand what you're asking for here?

migrate your user JSON

Is there howto for that?

Edit - answering my own question. On Lemmy go to user->Settings->Import/Export Settings, on Piefed to Settings -> Import&Export.

The export was almost instantaneous, the import ran for a few minutes and crashed Piefed. I'll try one more time and maybe manually edit the JSON to make it smaller if it crashes again.