This is a community of people who slay dragons for fun and oftentimes together. Our hobby teaches us to fight and keep fighting, no matter how many blows we take. If you fail, you press "continue" and try again until you win.

As such GamerGate became one of the biggest black eyes the radical left ever received and they've never forgiven or forgotten how bad gamers made them look...nor how much gamers cost them and continues to cost them. //

I said gamers are costing woke sites like these but it'd probably be more accurate to say that these social justice-obsessed games journos are costing themselves. They told us they hated us so we stopped clicking on their articles and listening to their game reviews. They told us we were sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and more, so we stopped taking them seriously. They're now suffocating under their hubris. Gamers picked up the toys they said we should be embarrassed by and went elsewhere.

These activists posing as journalists thought their audience was much bigger than it actually was. The "modern audience" they surrounded themselves by is very loud but incredibly minuscule. As I've noted in the past, if a modern audience did truly exist in any substantial way then everything from Kotaku to Star Wars would be thriving. //

Sure, they may see a temporary surge of success but sooner or later their radicalism costs them because there is no "modern audience," and the number of people who will bend the knee to prove themselves innocent of accusations of social sins is diminishing by the day. //

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Any space that is predominantly male will be deemed evil, infiltrated and destroyed. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated is the message.

It follows and is the same pattern from the same human nature sinful drives as this. Leftism is toxic femininity, girls gone wild.

1. Identify a respected institution (or a man)
2. kill it (him)
3. gut it (him)
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect (his carcass)
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No wonder they are after pronouns and man/woman. It covers their actual motive: resentment and revenge. //

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Who could have predicted that a group of people who usually can't see each other (and therefore are unable to discriminate based on physical appearance), who often straddle vast distances, timezones, languages and nationalities, who team up to attack borg like hive mind enemies for entertainment, who could have foreseen that these people would resist wokeness?

There's not a single animal in the local zoo that is less self aware than these highly educated morons in game "journalism".

Protecting injured tissues through the use supports and braces is always a consideration, but for many, a more comprehensive approach may be needed.

Cold treatments can certainly be considered to help alleviate short term bouts of inflammation, but what about the beyond those steps?

This is where the intended role of T Shellz Wrap can help: by enhancing circulation to tissues, providing them with the needed nutrients and oxygen they need to help accelerate specific metabolic processes.

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Take it back in 2024, TRUMP and Vote out all Democrats! 🇺🇸

I have sad news for one and all. If anyone is paying attention to the inexplicable "early retirements" of House Republicans, there can only be one reason: the Deep State is forcing a change in the House to the advantage of Democrats BEFORE the November election. Think it through without pretending, without rationalizing, even if it confirms your worst fear.

We are NOT voting ourselves out of this, and PDJT will never see the inside of the White House again.

Despite Willis' tough talk, she has actually been slowed down. It's unlikely the Georgia-based trial will happen before the November election at this point, which leads to a big question: What happens if Trump wins and then this vindictive, political prosecutor still garners a conviction in a county with a heavily left-wing jury pool?

There's no easy answer to that. Whether a president can pardon himself is an open question, though one that would likely be answered in the affirmative. Whether a president can pardon himself from a state-level conviction is another issue and one that has no precedent. On its face, the answer appears to be no.

So what then? Are Fulton County authorities going to head to Washington to battle the Secret Service and take Trump into custody?

It'd be a constitutional crisis to move forward with the prosecution of Trump on these ridiculous charges after the election. That's Willis' plan, though, because she isn't doing this to enforce the law. On the contrary, she's already brutalized it beyond all recognition by twisting RICO statutes, but she wants her name in lights. She wants to be the person in the history books who finally "got Trump," consequences to the nation need not apply.

Here is how parents are winning:

School district attorneys are the biggest obstacle to school districts making change. As my insider said, "The lawyers are a huge, huge problem in every school district." California public records requests in several pending lawsuits show where lawyers have counseled school districts on ways to circumvent the Constitution at the state and federal levels. So, when you get your board members installed, move to fire the district lawyers.

A fish rots from the head. Do like OUSD did: move to get rid of the superintendent and their assistants. "This is the most local control that any municipality has," my insider said.

Parent-first activists, pro-parent boards, and candidates must get their own public relations and social media arms. Every public entity—especially the unions—has a communications apparatus. If money is an issue, someone's savvy teenager can do this for their pro-parent school board and school board candidates. Part of the reason the unions get all the attention is that they have the legacy media in their pockets and they have activists on hand to work social media to their advantage. Pro-parent advocates and school boards need to pay greater attention to getting their message out.

The pro-parent agenda is winning in the courts.

For you Millenials, Gen Zs, and whatever, I'd recommend putting aside your anime for a couple of hours and watching a real movie.
While the breakout from Stalag Luft III is the most famous prison break, it was nowhere near the biggest or most successful. It occurred at Stalag 315 in Epinal, France, on May 11, 1944. Stalag 315 housed over 3,000 Indian, Sikh, and Gurkha soldiers, mostly captured in Dunkirk and North Africa. On May 11, the Eighth Air Force carried out a 67 bomber raid on Epinal, and some of the collateral damage was the prison. About 70 prisoners were killed, but over 1,000 prisoners made a break for it, and about 500 made it to Switzerland. Unfortunately, their story hasn't received the attention of the Stalag Luft III escape. As with the Great Escape, some of the prisoners were summarily executed upon recapture.

Here are some of the other major prison breaks.

The device that makes it possible is required in all American big rigs, and has poor security //

Vulnerabilities in common Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) required in US commercial trucks could be present in over 14 million medium- and heavy-duty rigs, according to boffins at Colorado State University.

Humanity is literally in the midst of teaching itself that there is no good or evil through the stories we tell and this is wildly dangerous for our species. We are not animals. We are higher beings that understand what is and isn't evil and what is and isn't good. We base our entire society and civilization around this concept.

Humanity wages wars based on this concept.

Yet, here we are. It's pretty clear that good and evil are being confused. You can see it from the confusion about whether or not criminals should be punished for their crimes because of their identity to literal confusion about whether or not Hamas are terrorists or freedom fighters.

(READ: We've Forgotten What Evil Is)

I'll be the first to stand up and say that there are plenty of gray areas in our society about wrong and right. Nuance is always present in nearly every debate.

But at the end of the day, evil is evil and we need to be okay with calling it out and talking about it. Sometimes, it needs to be highlighted so that the person being tempted and courted by it will not fall into a destructive lifestyle, a backward ideology, or a coffin.

The standard size for a wallet-sized photo is 2.3 x 3.5 inches (6 x 9 cm), which is the 2R size.

recently I stumbled across the fact that, indeed, there is still such a thing as government cheese. In fact, there's a whopping huge amount of it, hidden away in caves in Missouri, and what's more, according to this March 2023 article in the Science Times, the story behind government cheese is a brilliant example of how screwed up things get when the government fiddles with markets.

Missouri cheese caves are deep within the Ozark Mountains' heart under Springfield. Made of converted limestone mines, the caves are perfectly kept at 36 degrees Fahrenheit to give an ideal environment for storing stockpiles of government-owned cheese.

It all started in the 1970s when the U.S. suffered from a national dairy shortage which was made worse by 30% inflation on dairy products. In response to the economic crisis, then-President Jimmy Carter decided to spend money on the dairy industry to encourage dairy production.

The government set A [sic] new policy where a two-billion-dollar budget was allotted to subsidize dairy products over the next four years. This plan was favorable to farmers but also led them to overproduce dairy products. The farmers became motivated to produce as much dairy as they could because they knew that whatever was not sold on the market would be bought by the government. //

Most dairy products were converted to cheese because they have a longer shelf life. By the early 1980s, the government-owned more than 500 million pounds of cheese. Because of this, the next U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, had to pass a law in 1981 enacting the public distribution of government-owned cheese. //

In the years that followed, the demand for cheese declined, but the production rate remained the same as the government continued to support dairy producers. As of 2019, the collection comprises almost 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese in the U.S.

So, the federal government, with your tax dollars, has produced 1.4 billion pounds of cheese and has it stored in caves in Missouri. //

All the cheese is still there, presumably awaiting another Ronald Reagan, who will crack open the cheese vaults and give back to the American people the cheese that they have, after all, already paid for. The problem is, that dumping a billion-and-a-half pounds of cheese on the market will have a brutal effect on cheese prices and American dairy farmers. It's difficult to see a good way out of this mess now. Once again the federal government has tossed a bunch of taxpayer money after a problem that would have resolved itself if just left alone. Forty years later, we are still paying for it. //

I'll keep saying it until I turn blue: Markets aren't perfect, but they generally get things right if they are left alone. The problem is that the government just can't leave them alone. And this is what happens.

While the flexible security model employed by Windows NT-based systems allows full control over security and file permissions, managing permissions so that users have appropriate access to files, directories and Registry keys can be difficult. There's no built-in way to quickly view user accesses to a tree of directories or keys. AccessEnum gives you a full view of your file system and Registry security settings in seconds, making it the ideal tool for helping you find security holes and lock down permissions where necessary.

Schools would benefit from an injection of morality and responsibility. Christianity and guns can teach those two things. Let people have these clubs.

What isn't important here is that any of what Putin says is plausible, but, rather, that he says it. In the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.” //

A Ukrainian attack on a soft target like a concert, while not on the scale of the Russian attack on a theater in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 16, 2022, that killed up to 600 civilians, could possibly create the national outrage needed to support increased mobilization.

Given the laser-like focus of the Russian government on blaming Ukraine, you can't help but recall the apartment block bombings in 1999 in Russia that killed over 300 and injured nearly 1,000. Those attacks were immediately blamed on Chechen guerillas, but it became clear that the FSB had carried out the bombings to create casus belli for the Second Chechen War.

To the extent this propaganda campaign is intended for the West, it will be used to justify increased attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine.

Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost.

In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.

We survey existing approaches to data storage and sharing, ranging from email attachments to web apps to Firebase-backed mobile apps, and we examine the trade-offs of each. We look at Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): data structures that are multi-user from the ground up while also being fundamentally local and private. CRDTs have the potential to be a foundational technology for realizing local-first software.

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Serves files from Syncthing peers that hold encrypted files using untrusted device encryption. This is useful when syncing files to an (untrusted) cloud server, but you still want to be able to hand out 'sharing links' that allow incidental access to specific files. A sharing link only contains the per-file encryption key, so only the requested file can be decrypted by anyone who is able to observe the request.

This is a virtual learning experience for rural water professionals and partners to analyze rural water services, evaluate the opportunities and risks and promote solar-powered water systems (SPWS) to improve water sustainability and equity supply programs. The guide has been delivered in English, French, and Spanish to participants in over 60 countries.

One year prior to Anthony's excavation, Adam Banks wrote for Ars about the benefits of adopting cloud-based tools for enterprise resource planning (ERP). You adopt a cloud-based business management software to go "Beyond Excel." "If PowerPoint is the universal language businesses use to talk to one another, their internal monologue is Excel," Banks wrote. The issue is that all the systems and processes a business touches are complex and generate all kinds of data, but Excel is totally cool with taking in all of it. Or at least 1,048,576 rows of it.

Banks cited Tim Worstall's 2013 contention that Excel could be "the most dangerous software on the planet." Back then, international investment bankers were found manually copying and pasting Excel between Excel sheets to do their work, and it raised alarm.

But spreadsheets continue to show up where they ought not. Spreadsheet errors in recent years have led to police doxxing, false trainee test failures, an accidental $10 million crypto transfer, and bank shares sold at sorely undervalued prices. Spreadsheets are sometimes called the "dark matter" of large organizations, being ever-present and far too relied upon despite 90 percent of larger sheets being likely to have a major error.

So, Excel sheets catch a lot of blame, even if they're just a symptom of a larger issue. Still, it's good to see one no longer connected to the safety of a human heading into a turn at more than 200 miles per hour.

With student test scores plummeting further every year, is cursive writing really that important? Absolutely!

Irrespective of how it comes down in this case, the federal government’s position combined with the clear-cut support from the court’s three left-most judges speaks to the extent to which free speech is in deep trouble in this country.

What follows are some of the most critical, and often disturbing, takeaways from oral arguments.

1. Feds Are Appalled at the Probing of Their Speech Policing

2. Feds Believe Their Censorship Is Legitimate So Long as it Doesn’t Strong-Arm Anyone

3. Feds Framed Their Censorship as a Right to Speak

4. The Feds Want SCOTUS to Bless Their Speech Policing During the Election

5. Public Health Emergencies Justify Censorship, Feds Argue

6. Justice Jackson Revealed Her Radical Anti-Speech Position

7. Justice Kavanaugh Seems Likely to Cave

8. The Plaintiffs Backed Down Under Duress, and That’s Concerning for All of Us

If this view prevails, we will face an extinction-level event for the First Amendment, or at least what’s left of it.