The leak is great, but I can’t understand how we don’t already have democratic state legislatures passing laws requiring all ICE and other LEO to show their faces and identify themselves.

If they are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide, right? But Noem, Trump, Miller know that the inverse is true in this case: They hide, so they can do wrong. But no, the people with the state-sponsored monopoly on violence get to hide behind masks, while the law-abiding citizens and residents have to show their ID or get arrested.

I think legally requiring them, under threat of criminal charges, to show their face will reduce their aggressiveness substantially - when there are no other checks on their power, why is this easiest one not top of the list?

This might be the most thoughtful and kindest reply I’ve received online. Thank you, I’ll definitely look into her.

I’d recommend to dystopia a bit harder - if this type of CaaS happens, I expect you won’t get to lay a finger on any real local computing hardware. I think you’d have a computing equivalent of a Raspberry Pi which is DRM-locked to a specific service provider’s cloud computing services, and a remote desktop or streaming GPU service.

It’s thinking through and planning random things for the most part. It could be a work-related issue, or a random thing I just realized I had an idea about how to do better than I had planned, or a specifically-worded challenging google search I need to do to troubleshoot something.

The thoughts themselves aren’t usually high-stress, but my brain starts working on them regardless. Strategies to take my attention off of them might work for a time (counting, imagining a journey, etc), but even if I fall asleep I wake right back up soon enough. I suspect right now the main mental issue is symptoms of burnout, but I have physical eye dryness issues layered on it (all being separately worked on with different specialists - tried all the drops, treatments, strategies…).

I could go on and on, but thanks, exhausting myself during the day is not a bad idea all things considered. At least it may reduce my physical capacity to wake up.

Morning for me, because actually exercise for me compensates for the lack of sleep, “wakes” me up. But thanks, I’ll try anything at this point.

Thank you, sorry for you as well. I have no trouble getting to sleep, it’s staying asleep that’s the issue. Seems to ultimately stump everyone.

Above 40 and get roughly 3-4 hours after being in bed 9. Exercise daily (and have been since age 20), am at a healthy weight, eat (relatively) right. Been seeing specialists and trying a dizzying array of things for 9 years, but I’m pretty sure this is just me now. Sometimes you just get dealt a bad hand.

Well, good to know I can blacklist Hilton from any future travel plans.

On Android, you can get ZXTune, an app that directly browses and plays online demo scene chiptune databases like scene.org. It’s really great.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.zxtune

It was always about a tyrannical government with the unspoken “that I don’t agree with.”

These people cannot morally reason at a high enough level to understand the hypocrisy.

Thanks, must be a mobile client issue. Got it from the Mastodon link.

Was the video removed? Getting a source error.

Thank you, that’s exactly what I was looking for. More than *10K entries, by the look of it…

FYI, the most relevant information to avoiding your phone showing up in ICE’s rented databases is how they are getting the location data:

The material does not say how Penlink obtains the smartphone location data in the first place. But surveillance companies and data brokers broadly gather it in two different ways. The first is from small bundles of code included in ordinary apps called software development kits, or SDKs. SDK owners then pay the app developers, who might make things like weather or prayer apps, for their users’ location data. The second is through real-time bidding, or RTB. This is where companies in the online advertising industry place near instantaneous bids to get their advert in front of a certain demographic. A side effect is that companies can obtain data about peoples’ individual devices, including their GPS coordinates. Spy firms have sourced this sort of RTB information from hugely popular smartphone apps.

This includes a link to a prior 404 story that may have a list of apps, but it’s paywalled and none of the archive sites seem to have it indexed: https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/

[15 Tech CEOs standing on the spent bodies of millions of workers, the CEOs’ heads just reaching above the clouds of dystopian grime and smog to see the shining sun on the horizon]: I don’t know what you’re talking about, the future is beautiful!

Sounds like… You gave up on you? It’s really not important information, but I tried.

When you pinch the ends. You’re effectively bending the two-dimensional space of the paper towel into three dimensional space encompassing the bug.

Put a paper towel flat on a table (long side left to right, if you have a half size towel). Take your pointer finger and thumb on each hand, and touch the left thumb to the bottom left corner of the towel, left pointer to the top left, and mirror on the right hand. Keeping the left-right length of towel taut, slowly pinch both hands. From the side view, the towel’s center will rise on the left-right axis (the U-shape). Finish pinching to complete the motion.

The bug’s center of gravity is above the feet, so it turns out that as long as you keep the paper towel taut, the body is lifted and it quickly attaches its feet to the towel.

For anyone wondering:

Take a paper towel, grip both ends, gently place paper towel over the stinkbug and close both ends keeping the length taut (not putting any pressure or touching where the stinkbug is, just letting the U-shaped fold in the center where you are not touching enclose the stinkbug). Gently twist to seal exits while not squeezing the stinkbug.

You are now holding a paper towel with a non-activated stinkbug. Do what you will with that stinkbug.

That’s actually really heartwarming.