Today's poignant Pratchett quote.
"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." ~ Terry Pratchett
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I am not hopeful. I am quite sad.
Elon Musk essentially bought the election when he bought Twitter.
Journalists could have left Twitter, and had it go the way of MySpace. Instead, they continued to legitimize it, thereby giving it life.
For the next four years, decentralized social media will be needed – if only as an alternative to the faux-progressive media that seek to control the public square.
The world is becoming more and more authoritarian, and we need an antidote.
Want to leave the US?
Here's how you can move to germany, even if you have no official credentials (like a university degree) or job that can get you a sponsored visa.
Germany is not perfect. We have our own fascism issues, but we didn't just elect someone who openly paraphrases hitler as supreme leader.
Step 1: Start studying for german B1 language level. Duolingo can get you there, I also heard good things about babbel and other apps.
Step 2: Find an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships in Germany are weird compared to the rest of the world. It's a mostly full time job with a bad wage that is supposed to train you how to do a job. Finding one, if you have B1 language skills, entitles you to a work permit for the duration of it, completing one entitles you to a settlement permit.
I did an apprenticeship in IT, but there's many options. Healthcare is one of the options with the best chances of getting hired and it pays pretty well compared to others. If you don't mind waking up early, bakeries often receive not a single application for their apprenticeship postings.
I would recommend you to not go into the major cities, as their immigration offices are overworked and rent is too high to pay from an apprentice wage.
Step 3: Finish the apprenticeship and apply for a settlement permit
Step 4: Congrats, you can now live in germany as long as you want and work in any industry
Step 5: After 3-5 years (depending on how well you do at work or how good your language skills are) you can apply for citizenship. If you get that, you can live and work in any EU country.
Working, studying, living in Germany
Make it in Germany is the portal of the Federal Government for skilled workers from abroad. Find information on jobs, visa & living in Germany!Working, studying, living in Germany
Vyzera to tak, ze p. Sutaj aj Estok odbavil kritiku PS klasickym "ad hominem".
Nuz, co asi tak mozno cakat od cloveka, ktory ma najvacsiu prax ako "falosny diskuter" na internetovych forach a soc. sietach.
(A ako som uz pisal nedavno ale aj davnejsie: k lepsim zajtrajskom sa nedopracujeme ani klamstvami ani podvodmi.)
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Minister vnútra Matúš Šutaj Eštok chce cez kamerový systém na školách ukladať biometrické údaje milióna ľudí, tvrdí PS. https://dennikn.sk/4287780/stat-na-kamerovy-system-na-skolach-suhlas-rodicov-nepotrebuje-hovori-odbornik/Zprávobot.news
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying.ssd.eff.org
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@berniethewordsmith in US and around the world.
In @donestech we recommend some apps in @fdroid
drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. What makes drip special: Your data, your choice. Everything stays on your device.
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drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Open-source, non-commercial and leaves your data on your phone.f-droid.org
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Bluemoon Open source, privacy friendly menstruation tracking app. Your period, your data!
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Periodical Menstrual/period calendar. This application calculates the days of fertility according to Knaus-Ogino. The data can be backed up on a memory card, if present.
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Let me introduce you to my new friend #curl 8.11.0
One vulnerability fixed, five changes, 266 bugfixes.
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curl 8.11.0
curl 8.11.0 is released, featuring one security fix, five changes and 265 bugfixes.daniel.haxx.se
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RFK Jr will be the boss of healthcare and ban vaccines, thousands of kids will die of measles and other easily preventable diseases.Vivaldi Social
Os leo a algunas a tope con Europa y, bueno, si hablamos como Unión Europea justo ahora más que nunca están con unas políticas migratorias de mierda, por ejemplo. Por no hablar de la vergüenza que han dado con el tema de Israel.
Que sí, que comparado con USA vamos a ser un bastión de lo que sea, pero...
En fin, dejo de desahogarme, perdonad 😒
Kompilator 097 - 28 år av curl med Daniel Stenberg
@bagder var en av Kompilators första gäster och gör ett återbesök för att berätta vad som har hänt under de 5 år som har hunnit förflyta.
Bartek berättar om hur han reclaimade curl.se-domänen från domain squatters.
Dessutom: lyssnarfrågor!
Kompilator | 097 - 28 år av curl med Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg var en av Kompilators första gäster och gör ett återbesök för att berätta vad som har hänt under de 5 år som har hunnit förflyta. Bartek berättar om hur han reclaimade curl.se-domän...Kompilator
Apropos of nothing at all, did you know that it is relatively easy for Americans to move to the Netherlands under the DAFT (Dutch American Friendship Treaty)? Check out my immigration lawyer's website:
franssenadvocaten.nl/english/a…
Jeremy Bierbach - Franssen Advocaten | Amsterdam
Jeremy Bierbach is an attorney in Amsterdam specialized in non-asylum immigration to the Netherlands, EU law, and the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty.Franssen Advocaten
the android toolchain is something alright.
I love (/s) constantly having to ask google to fix nondeterministic output produced by their toolchain (or building workarounds in cases that's possible) to make reproducible builds for android work.
half the time it's bugs deep in some compiler code I have no idea how to even find, the other half is me having to explain to them what their own code is doing so they can apply my proposed fix.
honestly this. I know I probably will never truly understand how you or others are feeling, but I still look at this and I'm a mess myself even though I personally for my own health have not much to worry about yet.
And I know it's not true in the long term, but yeah....
I wished people weren't like this and sadly I have to say "us people", because white folks are constantly messing this up and making it an issue for everybody else.
It will do you no good to pay close attention to the vote count tonight (or tomorrow).
It *will* do a lot of harm to publicly voice despair and expectation of an Orange Shitbag win.
Read a book. Watch a movie. Go to sleep. Read the news 2 days from now. And in the meantime, keep your negativity to yourself.
People have enough to worry about as it is, without being taken on a pointless roller coaster ride of premature election results coverage and ill-informed speculation.
BTW if you are a U.S. voter, and you try to vote today, and you are denied because of problems with your registration, be aware you may cast a provisional ballot. They put it in an envelope and count it later.
- HOW DO I DO THIS?
Ask the poll workers.
- WHAT IF THEY WON'T HELP?
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I'M ELIGIBLE?
- HOW DO I FOLLOW UP AFTERWARD?
I made an effort to research this and the only answer I can find is "call the Democrats". The Democratic Party runs a national hotline at 833-336-8683.
Matt May (@mattmay@mstdn.social)
Elon's get-out-the-vote operation lead: our people have knocked on 200,000 doors so far today Home Depot manager: I'm going to have to ask you all to leaveMastodon 🐘
Cnn reporting that younger voters don't know how to sign their name...
That's quite a failing of the school system...
wtf.
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so I was talking to my boyfriend and I have a habit of transcribin what I'm saying to help those who cannot hear. I do this in meetings, a lot.
Well I almost typed "I love you" in a server when asking a question. I think a bit of me right now wants to die.
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i don't want this to seem as a "i have it worse than you" post. i wouldn't even go to america if it meant leaving this place once and for all. but all i wanna say, people have survived this. i am surviving this. we can get through this. but we won't if we lose will to fight.
so give yourself some grace, go sleep, relax, just to shake off the panic. it's never good. and then come together with friends and fam, and organize. don't give yourself up without a fight.