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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Every day the gymnastics needed for a Trump supporter gets more and more convoluted. First, he was speaking up in favor of H1B workers (so much for support of American workers), then his “no new wars” turned into broad support of Israel and military actions taken, now his “drain the swamp” has turned into “it’s not permitted to even talk about Epstein”.

    More proof that he is a shameless huckster with no honor in him at all. Sadly, much of his base is quite used to making excuses on his behalf and I’d imagine they can keep this up for quite a while. What a scumbag. I won’t be upset when he leaves the White House, whether that’s due to health problems, impeachment or running out the clock.



  • I don’t care which one you use, just don’t change it once it’s established. So many legacy Yocto projects got broken cause open source libraries changed their branch names.

    This was one of the arguments when the renaming was first proposed. “Just rename it, it won’t break anything! It’s only racists that want to keep the name!”

    Sure, except for all the CI/CD scripts, release scripts, etc that all have “master” there and are now broken.

    I know of a company that their entire CI pipeline was broken overnight because some “helpful” person renamed the branch to master but didn’t bother checking out their pipelines…




  • Detained in Auschwitz, Jewish inmate still has faith in Hitler’s Final Solution www.bbc.com

    Speaking from Block 10 of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Jewish detainee says she believes “the undesirables will be eliminated.” If Rachel Stein could vote, she would have cast her ballot for Adolf Hitler. She’s a devout supporter of the Führer even now that she’s locked up as an “undesirable” in the concentration camp. “Hitler is doing the right thing because lots of these people don’t deserve to be here,” Rachel told the BBC over the phone from Auschwitz’s infamous labor camp. “I will support him until the day I die. He’s purifying the Aryan race.”

    In 1938, she was labeled a “non-Aryan” and stripped of her citizenship. An SS judge revoked her “Jewish status,” which is a common practice. But because she was a devout Christian (and occasionally lied about her ancestry), the judge allowed her to remain in the camp instead of being sent to the gas chambers.

    “Better living conditions in the labor camps,” Rachel said, “and shared suffering with fellow prisoners. It’s like a family!”





  • I don’t see this happening, but let’s say he reverses course and renounces all his past decisions, steps down and the USA enters a new golden age. Should we be totally against that too? For any given position, I try to keep in mind what would have to happen to make me reverse that decision. If the answer is “nothing”, then I may be missing something, or maybe I am letting my personal prejudices get in the way of what could be a good outcome.

    It’s often confusing when someone we really dislike does something we agree with, but it is a thing that can and will happen from time to time.

    I look at this similarly to how I view my atheism. If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism. I don’t think that’s likely to happen, but if it did, I do have a condition where I would reverse my belief.

    Same thing with being anti-Trump. I am for now, but there are certain unlikely conditions that would make me reconsider that, should they occur.




  • Don’t fall for the fallacy of binary thinking. A good way to oversimplify your opponents/enemies is to put them totally in another category from yourself. Life is rarely this simple. There’s a huge continuum of beliefs and behaviors that fall between these two belief systems.

    I recall my acquaintance being surprised that I wasn’t for “open borders” even though I voted for Biden. The idea that one could have a belief that is independent of Trump and Biden had not occurred to him.


  • I will start this out with a disclaimer that I do not follow Christianity at all…

    If you are a bible-follower and friendly towards homosexuals, then I guess you’re skipping over that part where it says “homosexuality is an abomination”.

    That’s one of the many reasons I can’t look to the Bible for guidance. I have some gay friends and they deserve all the love and consideration everyone should get.

    To those that say the Bible deserves to be followed, but exclude the parts where it says homosexuality is an abomination, I wonder what other parts you ignore? AFAIK, one isn’t supposed to flip through the Bible and pick and choose which sections should be followed.

    This is one of the many reasons why I consider the Bible immoral, and following it either immoral or morally and logically inconsistent.