I’d say anyone not planning to get screwed by this administration is doing their people a disservice.

I am happy to see the Scouts give some push back. It frankly seems more than some leaders/countries are willing to do.

From reading other articles and pieces from people associated with Scouts, while they don’t get any money from the government, that isn’t to say they don’t get perks.

$1/yr leases for public land, access to property/equipment, logistical support/medical staffing for the Jamboree, jet flyovers, etc that help them stretch their funds or provide things they would t be able to access without the government’s support.

The Jamboree is a 10 day event this July, so all that staffing provided by the gov is probably a huge expense, and if Hegseth pulled all that now or in the future, they’d be screwed. So essentially, this is coercion to get what they want.

You are quite correct, I should have said the book highlighted those issues, not that it was about them. As Sinclair said, “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

While socialism never took off to the extent Sinclair hoped, we did get the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act, though those are feeling more like suggestions rather than standards with things like these policy changes and how cleanliness and food safety were treated through the COVID epidemic.

Last year I was feeling really down on people and how the world was going. I signed up for a volunteer gig to get outside and be a little productive.

I mainly expected the work to be satisfying, which it was, but my biggest surprise was how great being around like-minded people that also wanted to make our community better felt.

It feels more like hanging out with friends, even though we’re busy as hell, and not like a job because we’re all there by choice, and we get to see on a daily basis how our efforts are helping. It may only be a drop in the bucket, but it’s not as though we’re the only group working for our cause.

It’s one of the most satisfying choices I’ve ever made in my life, and if you can find time (my commitment is 4 hours a week for half the year) it may improve your outlook on things if you’re feeling like everything around you is bad.

Taken together, the draft rules are a “very telling sign of this administration and how they view blue-collar workers…they have decided that they no longer have to care about workers at all.”

If only it was new or just this administration. Thirty years ago in high school we read a book about this same exact garbage from 1906, and it wasn’t exactly news then either.

Just one of the reasons I’m glad we have you here!

Keep hanging in there! I’m still wishing the best for you every day.

It looks like that’s what I’ve been using. No wonder I find it so pleasing to read even without my glasses.

Summit

Google Play and Obtanium/GitHub links on there.

It is open source, but dev has had issues with F-droid’s approval process last I checked. Not a deal breaker for me.

Summit is heads above the other clients for me. Dev has added a bunch of feature requests from me, so that certainly helps. Steady development of the app and they respond to everyone quickly on here with questions/comments.

I’ve had luck with Piefed on it when .world was having uptime issues.

I’ve seen at least one.

Nah, my gram was my favorite person ever, and she lived the life she wanted to live and she chose to leave when she did. She was one of a kind and it would be a cheap, heart-wrenching impersonation to have someone try to bring her back as an algorithm. I think I would be very upset if anyone tried that.

It would not be a ghost of her any more than a biography is a ghost of someone. It could look and sound similar, it could have a lot of her memories or speech patterns, but that’s all an interpretation of memories of her, but nothing of the lady herself.

Make sure you see today’s Pygmy Owl with eyes in the back of its head!

I also recommend this particular community! 😇

Lol, you are correct, I just rewatched it. He was debating with Jerry at the dinner about turning it into a “real charity” which quickly devolved into people showering him with praise in order show worthiness of his “generosity” (jeez, this is sounding like how I imagine the Board of Peace will operate…). When Kruger calls him in, he still chickens out and gives the money back unprompted and plays the victim of religious persecution for his father’s celebrating of Festivus instead of Christmas.

I don’t know if George would have went through with it, because his cowardice, paranoia, and desire to not actually do anything likely would have won out, so I still think he’s less evil as he at least somewhat confesses to being a fraud and he returns the money without a fuss, which doesn’t seem like the behavior of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

At least The Human Fund didn’t actually have George stealing from anyone, it was just him being a jerk. When Mr. Kruger gave him that big check he at least somewhat came clean it was fake. The president taking tax money for his League of Villians is just outright theft like if George would have cashed the check and called the accountant a liar.

Yes, but it has been accepted as your contribution to the Board of Peace. Thank you for your donation.

I’m typically searching from within the app, and it’s mainly when I’m looking for more generic content like histories of civilizations or unusual astronomy facts, and what was the Triassic like. That probably makes it easier to generate videos since they’re broader in scope. When I search more specific things, I will typically get better results.

But I search the more generic stuff when I want to relax for a bit or go to sleep, so it also feels more obnoxious to get made up stuff because then I have to keep clicking on new videos to get something actually made by a person because I’m trying to relax, not work.

It’s really getting on my last nerve as well. I get excited to see new content only to hear the robot voice that lets me know I can’t trust anything in the video.

I need to look into Nebula or something else. There’s still as many great channels as ever on YT, but they just get so hard to find with all the endless BS now.

I scrolled your posts/comments quick, and you seem a pretty lively and engaging person. I think you will do fine, it’s just important to keep in mind things can grow really slowly here since it’s a much smaller user base than a lot of platforms we’re used to anymore. Best of luck!