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This one was probably pretty Thor afterwards.

The watermark is part of the work, removing it removes the way for a viewer to find the creator, especially if it’s shared on from here. Putting it in a comment is helpful, as it’s clickable, but it doesn’t mean you can choose to remove it from the image.

I assume he thinks that American companies will get the contracts to rebuild it all, and control the oil afterwards. Specifically, American companies which have shown the appropriate gratitude to him.

Xorg 4 lyfe!

Monarchy for the mind

That’s a good phrase for it.

‘What’s the best thing I can do as an individual?’ He said, ‘Stop being an individual.’

That’s something else authoritarians cannot understand or tolerate. It creates power where there was none before, and that is a danger to those in power.

People helping each other just because they can is an utterly alien concept to many on the right, who mostly seem to see aid or assistance as something transactional, where you only do it if there is a direct benefit to you personally. This makes them deeply suspicious of any group that actually works together.

Do you have any iron nails? Hammer them into your doors and window frames. That might buy you enough time. Carry cold iron with you always, and put out a bowl of milk and sugar each evening from now on. Put it as far from your house as you can whilst still being within your boundary. Greet travellers and others who come to your door hosipitably, but don’t let them in if their eyes are wrong. You’ll know them by their eyes, but don’t stare, that’s rude, and you should never be rude to them.

If you get lost in the woods, and a stranger appears and claims to know the way, thank them kindly but do not follow them. If they offer you food, do not eat it, but do not reject it either, that might be taken as an insult, and you should never insult them. If they ask for your name, do not give it to them, or they will take it. Say “I am sometimes called …”, or “You may call me …”, and give a fake name.

They love riddles; do not challenge them, they will win. If they offer you anything, do not take it unless they say “This is a gift, freely given”, or you have entered a contract, and it will not be easy to escape. Likewise, if you give them something, say “This is a gift, freely given” for they hate being beholden to others, and may pay you back in ways you do not want. Admire the crows, but do not trust that they have your best interests at heart. When you arevout in the woods, do not leave the path, you may not find it again.

Good luck.

Good news: you can read a chart correctly!

Bad news: It seems that there are approximately 120 civilian owned firearms per 100 persons in the USA: 2017 survey. See particularly the “Estimating Global Civilian-held Firearms Numbers” briefing paper and its annex. That seems to be the survey that most reports are based on. I don’t imagine the number has dropped over the interveneing years.

Indeed, and IPv7 is already marked obsolete. So are IPv8 and 9 from what I can see, so we’d probably actually need to jump to IPv10, or maybe IPvA?

Where’s IPv5?

Nah, that’s just what it looks like when it knows you’re looking at it. Don’t turn your back on it.

An airgapped machine is certainly going to be most robust from external attack, but even then you should probably encrypt your files to ensure privacy should you ever discard, or otherwise lose control of, the storage media.

An encrypted partition may be sufficient, but your journal entries will still be “plain text” when it is mounted, and so you will be able to read them without extra effort. If you want to make it so that once an entry is written it is encrypted and can only be read with deliberate effort, you could use GPG encryption.

First generate a key pair with a really strong passphrase, and store it on a USB drive. Then import just the public key onto your journaling machine and store the USB drive somewhere safe. With just the public key on your machine you can encrypt files, but you can’t decrypt them. Ideally you’ll set up your journalling tool to only write via GPG, but if not, you can just encrypt each entry after you write it.

As to what journalling tool to use, I like VIM, although I know not everyone gets on with it. You can have it start up with a template ready to go, not write temporary files, and save via GPG so the plaintext never hits persistent storage.

Actualy, the axe is just a symbol, like a badge of office, and the punishment will actually just consist of the gentleman in the hood coming up with a diss track mocking the prisoner. The basket is there to catch the inevitable tears.

She can throw an axe hard enough to put the handle through a wooden board, I’m not going to be the one to critisise her aim.

Add it to the pile over there… gestures out of the window to a heap that closely resembles mount Everest

• You still have the extra bloat in memory.
• it shows a lack of focus on core issues rather than adding “cool” features.
• Can you actually trust that switching it off will disable it in every place they’ve incorporated it, not just now, but also in future?

There are undoubtedly other issues too.

“glitch”

That’s a very good point. The problem with your average hip flask is that it’s really quite small, which means there is really not much space inside the flask to work with. The mechanism that springs to mind is the same as you find in a twist-up stick deoderant. Namely, you have a twistable knob on the base of the flask, which rotates a screw which runs up the centre of the flask. Mounted on the screw, inside the body of the flask, is a plate which, due to the geometry of the flask, can’t rotate, and will thus be forced to move up and down. Whilst ensuring the reliability of the seals may take some experimental work, this woild allow the user to retrieve the soup simply by twisting the knob, thereby compressing the soup, causing it to exit via the neck of the flask.

Ok, you start by fabricating a funnel that screws to the neck of the flask. It’s a bit of time on the lathe, but you only need to do it once.

Attach the funnel to the flask, and fill it with you soup of choice. Then place the entire contraption in your vacuum chamber and pump it down, slowly, to the lowest pressure it’ll manage. Don’t go quickly, or the soup will bubble out of the funnel, unless you made it particularly deep. Once you’ve evacuated the flask, and let the soup settle back down in the funnel, bring the pressure back up. At that point, the vacuum will suck the soup in to the flask. Once you’re back up to ambient pressure, detach the funnel, give the flask a wipe, close it and go about your day with a loaded soup flask.

Simple really.

From the way you write on thus subject, and the fervour with which you do so, some might suspect you of being an agent of Türkiye, tasked with tempting away a key member of His Majesty’s Government. I’ll be keeping my eye on you…

Larry is a serious civil servant, doing serious civil servant things. You can see him here in a smart, and very patriotic, bowtie, practicing his next address to the cabinet. He has no time for such triffles as waking at 3am just to mess with you, and knows he not only has a nation adores cats on his doorstep, but that he sits at the very epicentre of power of that nation. The mizzle, I grant you, would be less of an issue in Türkiye.

Seriously, I hope he’s having a great feline old age, with plenty of warm places to nap, and treats and fusses on demand. I suspect there will be drama in the papers when he does finally go to join the choir eternal, and the prime minister of the day will need to be quite careful in what they say to avoid stiring up some bad press.