While this is good advice, best practice is to always get your yubikey in pairs and keep them synchronized. One should remain in your home, in a safe place (as you described) while the other should remain on your person or outside the home (e.g. in a safe deposit box)
It’s more of a pain in the ass for sure, but handles the theft scenario more effectively
😍🤩 Contextually relevant Depeche Mode 🤩😍
I was wondering wtf you were talking about until I remembered I have the entire tankiesphere blocked. Oh the blissful, golden silence 😁
Did I fall asleep?
If you think even 50% of her campaign decision making reflected her personal politics you are mistaken about how the DNC operates.
As I said, on paper she was a fine candidate to start a campaign with. She could have easily converted a win if the party as a whole hadn’t totally rejected anything progressive long before she took to the campaign trail.
People forget that after you get elected you still have to collaborate with Congress. Presidential candidates are absolutely beholden to the will of the DNC, and their party platform. They will not hesitate to torpedo a presidency as retaliation for failing to toe the company line
That was 4 years before she, you know, was vice president for 4 years. That tends to provide valuable experience.
I’m not gonna pretend I liked her but she wasn’t a bad candidate to begin a campaign with. But then she ran to the right in an insane way
I grew up in Ohio, lived in NYC, and now live in the PNW.
Ohio is bad, as a whole, about bigotry. Very bad.
Urban areas will always be more tolerant, on average, than their rural neighbors.
But a semi-rural area in a blue state might be more tolerant, on average, than an urban area in a red state.
Columbus is one of the most tolerant areas in Ohio, because of The Ohio State University and the educated, young community it fosters.
But things get bad pretty quickly as you move further away from the college areas.
My recommendation: you are more likely to find your people - the family you choose to have, whoever they are - in your new area. However, there are still significant risks to being completely open, including things getting back to your family.
Find the people who correct bigotry or misgendering, etc, and learn how to be yourself around them. When you are ready, you can either confront your family and become an outspoken lgbtqa+ ally, or peace the fuck out to somewhere better :)
Atta girl, Patty! This is what we sent you for.
Not gonna pretend she’s not part of the establishment, but her and Maria Cantwell have been our picks for the Senate for several elections now and with good reason when you look at the alternatives.
PSA: While chewing plastic is usually benign, silly cat behavior it can sometimes indicate something is off/wrong
Pulled from Purina’s info page on plastic-chewing:
Although unusual, diseases like hyperthyroidism in cats, feline diabetes, anemia or dental issues might cause a cat to chew on plastic.
Stress or anxiety can cause cats to show changes in their behavior and chewing plastic can be one of many signs that your cat is feeling anxious
It is natural for cats to eat things that they can gnaw and chew. If they do not have this in their diet or provided in appropriate enrichment opportunities, they might be feeling the need to exercise their teeth and jaws on inappropriate items.
Many unusual behaviors are driven by pain – and chewing, gnawing, and eating often inappropriate things can be one of them
Cats can show compulsive cat behavior patterns, similar to OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) in humans.
Your cat might be telling you that they’re lacking some nutrients by biting plastic. If they feel like they’re missing out on something, they could resort to biting and chewing on other things
Learned this lesson the hard way once, so spreading the knowledge just in case :)
Called this a while ago https://urusai.social/@neatchee/112255667073894754
It shouldn’t be that confusing, considering this is literally the challenge lawmakers (honest ones, as rare as they are) face.
There’s a great blog post by Neil Gaiman (despite recent revelations about his misconduct) that talks about “why we must defend icky speech”.
Long story short, the law is a blunt instrument. If you cannot clearly and accurately define the terms being used in the language of the law then you wind up with a law that can be applied beyond the intended scope. Like when you write laws about freedom of religion and then wind up with The Satanic Temple erecting statues of Baphomet in court houses. Or banning the Bible from library because it contains depictions of violence and sexual deviancy or promiscuity
These issues aren’t just academic. They have real-world consequences. Like, there have literally been legal rulings made based on the presence or absence of an Oxford comma
Is that kind of pedantry useful to the average conversation? No, of course not. But there are people trying to make laws that target women, or trans women, and if they can’t accurately define what a woman is then the law can be used to target people they didn’t want targeted.
Which is one of many reasons why trying to target trans folks with legal authority is a fool’s errand
Another non-blahaj here to say FUCK YEAH, Ada.
Deplatforming works. Demanding civility from people under attack by disingenuous, insincere “intellectuals” is so much more than just tone policing; it’s direct enablement of disenfranchisement and allowing the spread of harm.
It’s easy to be bad. It’s hard to be good. When bad people are allowed to express their evil ideologies, it is much easier for people to pick up the evil than for the righteous to defend the good.
We cannot be tolerant of intolerance.
So, again, FUCK YEAH, Ada. You rock for protecting your users AND the rest of the world by contributing to the deplatforming of bigots.
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And anything else on my Japanese music playlist :D
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1qp2kWRqMd77nsVXr2jG5um4DpMWNn5Y
This is a great start but I think the most important of the many nuances is that lawful doesn’t mean governmental, and chaotic doesn’t mean anarchic.
A king who acts purely on whim with no consistency to the rule of law, even if there are supposed to be rules to follow, is chaotic
A paladin who follows an ancient code passed down through a single master/apprentice relationship for generations is Lawful
I’ve always seen it as: lawful = there is a higher authority to which the character is committed, even if they’re the only one committed to it. Chaotic =acting only/mostly with your own purpose at heart, even if that is wrapped up in a lawful-looking package.
tl;dr: chaotic characters can use legal systems, and powerful characters can be fiercely independent
I’m speaking to alignment of a character, not a specific action. In your example, regardless of the action itself, the character is not being Lawful Good. They are not interested in the creed itself for its own sake. They are interested in what they get from following the creed. That’s not Lawful Good, no matter how you slice it IMO
… That’s either neutral or chaotic. Maybe even true neutral? They don’t respect the law. They get something from the law. That is not lawful good, IMO
Chaotic motivation and lawful action are not mutually exclusive, in my experience. Lawful good is believing that there is a right code to live by - “the law” - be that an actual legal system, or a creed.
Chaotic good, on the other hand, is still good, but it’s a very personal, sometimes selfish good. They do not have a book or spoken history to point to and say “this is what’s right.” But they know it when they see it.
That’s how I’ve always explained it to people, after having it explained to me as that 🤷
Chaotic isn’t just quirky. This is clearly lawful good, given the fact that she’s inducing people to, you know, follow the law.
Chaotic good would be if she only did it to cars worth more than $20,000 because “the threat of a ticket puts too much stress on people with so little money that a speeding ticket might mean they can’t make rent.”
Fun fact: the infamous “cripple fight” from South Park is a shot-for-shot remake of the fight scene from They Live