If you haven’t already, consider rebalancing your retirement accounts to invest in international funds. You may not be able to get international bonds but you can divest in federal bonds and instead support local/state ones. If your 401k doesn’t, consider talking to your HR department to see if you can get funds added.

Exactly. The tax on hashing the password can’t be ignored and if you’re doing this enough times it can kill a system. 24 characters is too low. I’d say 100 characters is enough for most use cases. 1024 if you’re feeling 1337.

UPS has a service called My Choice where you can have the package redirected to a UPS store or you can sign for the package and have it left at your door. Though I think the latter is dependent on the service that the shipper chose.

For a fee you can have it delivered to a different address.

I’ve used it a handful of times.

Under the current regime it will be used to suppress discussion of all things that don’t align with the Ministry of Truth

Ftfy

Super true.

They actually want people to quit. The problem is the wrong people are quitting.

Not paying people a proper wage is such a short sight view but when all you care about is the next quarter, kind of makes sense.

Eh, most people burn their coffee or get shitty coffee. Salt helps enhance the coffee profile and decrease the bitterness that comes out when coffee is over brewed.

The number of people who don’t know how to properly make coffee drives me nuts.

I remember when AT&T had “unlimited” data when the original iPhone came out and severely underestimated how much data people used.

Today, every cell phone provider has an “unlimited” plan and in the fine print says “up to x GB, after which you will be throttled.”

That shit should be illegal.

Signal is a messenger service. You can expire messages after a certain amount of time.

They ask for a phone number to limit bots. I used my Google voice number and it worked fine. I like Telegram which banned me after a day of use for using Google Voice.

Messages are e2e encrypted. Metadata is not encrypted.

Edit: I feel the need to qualify this statement. Metadata about your connection may be encrypted at rest but is decryptable given that signal is released metadata to authorities with a warrant/subpoena.

Yeah so bad news. The government has routinely purchased data like this as an end run around the 4th Amendment. The data is collected by a third party, often with the customers “consent”.

This is why we need stricter privacy controls around our data. The fact that this data was collated in the first place is problematic. The fact that it’s being sold for profit is abhorrent.

Brother used to be the go-to but there was a post a week or so ago showing how they are starting to hold laser toner hostage.

I replaced my HP inkjet with a Brother laser a little over a year ago and seems to be going okay. Though I’m hesitant to let it update firmware.

There is a saying that reality and facts have a liberal bias. When Nixon was in the process of being impeached, conservatives found that if they can control the narrative, the facts, then they can control the conversation. It’s no accident that they went to attack the fairness doctrine and it finally fell under Reagan.

It may have had a right wing bias, but they are the ones that got rid of it because they wanted to protect their echo chamber

Despite what he said, he didn’t vote for Trump for the economy.

He voted for Trump because he was racist. So unless he suddenly became unracist, he will vote Republican again and blame a darker skinned person for the failure of his shoe business.

It’s illegal if the company is coercing you to spend money at their “preferred” stores.

That said, so many states have business friendly laws that it’s likely a civil tort and not a criminal one.

OP, call your attorney general or department of labor (depending on the state). You may want to even call your state’s taxation board and you know for fuck sure they are doing something scammy with their taxes if they are watching you this closely.

You know for fuck sure this guy is going to vote Republican in the midterms and then do another insurrection to make sure Trump is “elected” in 2028.

This is what happens when you remove the fairness doctrine and allow the alt-right propaganda “news” machine go unchecked.

Literally watching this on my sick day. Previous seasons haven’t aged well but season 8…holy fuck

Or those old Packard Bell yellow-white cases…