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The outage is/was ____________.

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One Step is a Step Too Far
A Single Step: The WEAPON They Use to Destroy Liberty

The Founders warned us over and over - a single step beyond the limits of the Constitution is a step too far. George Washington even referred to such usurpation as the "customary weapon" by which freedom is destroyed.
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1661819206552784897
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絵チャでにゃんぷっぷー描いてもらいました!やった〜!かわいいね…

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The push for a carbon tax has regained popularity as the fiscal storm in 2025 and climate change debates intensify. #environment #economy
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/the-economic-folly-of-a-carbon-tax.html
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The pandemic response kicked off the most incredible federal government spending binge since World War II. No one likes to talk about this either, though in the annals of fiscal policy, it goes down in history.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/the-pandemic-response-was-the-turning-point.html
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The Powers That Should Not Be always attack the pillars of individual liberty, because that works to increase their power, authority, control and wealth.
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An overnight ferment in the icebox can add more flavor, but you have to wait for it to come back to room temp before working it. Also remember to seal it air tight, but with a valve or loose seal so it can vent as it will build up a lot of gas. :3

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>When you promote the Unlicense you should be aware that it's reception in legal circles is not great.

Legal circles can go and fuck themselves.

Also, about 70% of Linux Foundation sponsors break GPL and nobody gives a damn, because they pay money. The last time someone attempted to enforce GPL in court[1], it took almost two decades and several hundred thousand Euro in legal costs. All this licence stuff is delusional wishful thinking at best, a cargo cult at worst.

This is why WTFPL is the best licence. At the very least, it is fun.

[1]: https://www.dlapiper.com/en-gb/insights/publications/2024/03/wakeup-call-for-open-source-users-french-court-awards-damages-for-gpl-violations
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There's a lot that goes into making pizza. Congrats on your first step. Fermentation time and temp are something to experiment with after you get your ratios down. Also make sure you can pass the window test after kneading.

Attempt #1 at creating a restaurant quality pizza at home:

So with my new pizza stone, I decided to first try to make a New York-style pizza with it, according to this video:

youchu.be/watch?v=OuwSQWwjDp0

It didn't turn out the way I expected, but it was much better than most homemade pizzas I've tried. The dough was just like ordinary, homemade pizza dough however because a family member insisted that they made the dough (they probably took pride in their own pizza and hated that I was trying to make something more "professional"). The dough I used didn't have high-gluten bread flour and instead used regular flour only. I also underestimated how much the dough was going to rise.

I think what truly changed the game was the cheese. Everyone assumes that since pizza is Italian, you are supposed to use Italian cheese, but it's actually a mix between Mozzarella, Parmesan, and Romano that you should use. You should also sprinkle a little bit of oregano on it. I think I overdid the oregano.

Best pizza I could compare it to is Sbarro's pizza because they also overuse oregano (at least from my experience). Sauce and cheese were fine, but the dough still gave it the "homemade" vibe. I expected the stone to make it crispy, but I guess it really needed that bread flour.

Maybe I should try a New Jersey-style bar pizza next time.

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Solution: Transition to open-source software. You'll never be beholden to the cloud, exorbitant fees or the woke initiatives of big tech, let alone single-point failures like what we just saw.

FLOSS is the backbone of the parallel ecosystem.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/20/microsofts-meltdown-a-wake-up-call-for-woke-tech-giants/
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@xianc78@gameliberty.club that's ultimately the problem. If you try to run something that's unmoderated, or lightly moderated, you end up with whatever culture is banned from everywhere else

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@crunklord420 @miah more people use xmpp over irc even (it also does e2ee), and you can self host both matrix and xmpp

Irc is literally stuck in the past and every foss advocate I know uses matrix or xmpp these days, shit on the fedi many use xmpp.
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2. Neocon, Q-tard, and MAGA-tard echo chambers that are most likely just honeypots for tech-illiterate boomers and use APIs from Big-Tech, despite allegedly being meant to break free from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, and Google

You have no idea

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6. discord, generally aggressively-moderated secret clubs with a specific focus
7. poorly-moderated game chat that's not even intended to support a community
8. #7 with a lone moderator on a powertrip

Modern online communities can be either one of these five cultures and it sucks:

1. Big-Tech walled gardens for "normies" where algorithms and bots influence how everyone is supposed to think
2. Neocon, Q-tard, and MAGA-tard echo chambers that are most likely just honeypots for tech-illiterate boomers and use APIs from Big-Tech, despite allegedly being meant to break free from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, and Google
3. Tech-bro lolbert echo-chambers where people talk about how Web 3, blockchain, and <insert integrated cryptocurrency that probably isn't private here> is going to save the world for real this time
4. Extreme far-left, anti-capitalist SJW communities that consider words like "crazy", "lame", and "dumb" as "ableist slurs", and end up cancelling each other.
5. Anime avatar shitposters who post anime lewds, wojaks, and variants of copypastas from /pol/

If you don't feel like you belong in any of these cultures then there isn't a place on the Internet for you, I guess.

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