Monkey With A Shell

Blocked as in sites reject traffic, or blocked as in can’t connect to the VPN?

The former is on the far end and not uncommon. A lot of sites reject connections from known VPN endpoints because the same tunnels that provide privacy to you also provide privacy to attackers quit often. You just need to decide if the site is important enough to use without a cover.

If it’s the latter, that would be a near end issue and would likely be your ISP or someone nearby that is looking to control your traffic.

It’s not '‘Biden signs anti LGBTQ+ bill’ as the spin would have it. The Republican speaker of the house put in a provision saying Tricare can’t cover gender care for the children of service members.

They could either sign this, or have the government shut down and then when Trump takes over in less than a month they put in something far worse.

Chances are something far worse will come to pass at the end of 2025 with the Republicans having controll of all 3 chambers in the next term, but that’ll just be ignored because it’s not a chance to shit on the Democrats.

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Vehicle and property insurances are a public good safety measure. If you go and cause serious injury to someone with your vehicle or in your home they have every right to expect to be made whole again. Without that insurance you would personally be liable for those debts. Unless you’re willing to say that those kind of debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy then insurance to cover them is essential for anyone who doesn’t have a few hundred thousand laying around.

Workers comp is useful much the same way, unless you want that dim employee who cuts their hand off to be the death of your business.

FDIC helps ensure that some fool tanking every asset the bank has won’t leave the depositors holding the bag.

Health insurance is for the vast majority of people required in some form under the rules of the ACA.

Insurance in the most basic sense is a pooling or risk. A universal single payer healthcare system is simply a pool that everyone is a part of by default. There’s a lot to be said for having a single entity to contact for payments, but you can be sure that even if we fully did away with the insurance system as it is today that there’s not going to be a ‘free MRI Wednesday’ in exchange for it. Someone will always be looking to keep a check on who spends howuch on what.

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I mean it’s technically not wrong. I’m 46 was born in 98, also in 88, and 78 as well.

I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.

Busted hip falling on the stairs while on a official trip. OP thinks it’s clever to assume being drunk.

https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/draft-brewer-flex-keg-system

Something like this is available from a lot of places, just gonna cost.

Don’t know about them, I had The Matrix come to mind though.

Pretty sure that’s the type you’re supposed to be able to shape and bend with your mind

Was put to me at a young age that non-profit only means they spend any revenue they get before it gets to the bottom line to show up as a gain or loss. Always good to sort out the shady from the legit.

Hippocampus

There is a convenience vs privacy/security line to things that any given individual needs to decide where that lies for themselves. Plenty of people use Facebook and similar because there are a lot of people using it and there is a low bar to entry. Many of these big tech options will let you authenticate via a single click to share creds from another service, the ‘sign into Reddit with your Google account’ simplicity.

Then there are people like me who self host everything they can. I know exactly where my cloud files are, where my movies are, where my chat messages reside, heck where the Lemmy instance I’m posting this from is, all a few feet away from me. There is a cost to this, not only in actual hardware and electricity but in time and friction in that these systems are not going to have that ease of access that other do.

The bigger challenge is the bleed-over privacy risk. There’s no reasonable way for to ask the rest of the world not to post pictures or similar side channel disclosures. Short of becoming an outright hermit in the woods there’s always going to be some level of privacy leakage, that’s the part harder to manage.

Dutch museum colonialism is a context for an art photo sale?

Other than it costing ~$4,000 for a print of an old photo which is kinda how art tends to work, I’m not seeing the problem here?

The hard part is securing the exported tokens in a way that you could quickly replace them in the event a device was lost/compromised. A good practice would be something like with Aegis you can have it save an encrypted export whenever you make a change and then sync that to an external location where you can re-import it from. Wiping them from the original lost device is another challenge in itself, but as I recall both Android and Apple have mechanisms where you can send a signal to remotely wipe the system.

That’d be the liberal indoctrination machine at work you see. No it has nothing to do with world experience and exposure to ideals outside the conservative bubble. That’s just commie talk.

Eat beaver and thine sin shall be forgiven, pretty sure that’s what she said…