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There is no inherent arbiter of good or truth.

If the trust in expertise is tarnished, reshaping reality is left to the uninformed.

Work first on being a good human.
That will make you a good (and attractive) man or woman.

The archaic concept of masculinity or femininity itself is wretched.

People worry far too much about what others think of them and what mold they should fit into. Be yourself. Be a good, caring, empathetic person with convictions and passions and hobbies. Become proficient in one or more things so others find you interesting. Learn how to do things without the aid of technology. Read books. Travel as far as you can. Give a shit about yourself and your community.

If you’re struggling to fit a mold that society is telling you you should fit into, you’re already lost. That doesn’t mean you can’t find yourself. It means that mold probably isn’t right for you. And there is nothing wrong with that. If others have a problem with you not being what they expect, that’s their issue to resolve. The sooner you’re able to let go of societal concepts, the more free you’ll be to be the best version of you.

Don’t confuse being a good man and being a good person. It’s the same thing. There is nothing you can do to become more of a man that won’t make you more of a person.

How does this cause you harm or prevent you from praising your god?

Perhaps more curious, why the fuck would you become a doctor if you're opposed to science and helping people? Don't doctors have to swear (presumably to god) to do no harm? This guy should have his license revoked.

What I've done for home videos and recorded programming is to use the VHS/DVD combo to transfer the video to DVD then rip the DVD to my computer using Handbrake (MacOS). The quality of the transfer is as good as I can hope for.

It's an easy, almost enjoyable process. I get the option to watch the VHS or I just let it go overnight or while I'm otherwise occupied (doesn't tie up my computer in realtime). I get an additional, smaller, hard copy of the media. Once I get a handful of DVDs, I can let my computer rip them to my NAS to watch using Plex.

Plenty of sub-$100 VHS/DVD combos on eBay.

Caveat: Purchased movies may have copyright protections. I have the original Star Wars VHS tapes but couldn't transfer them.

Back in the early 2000s I used (I think) an El Gato EyeTV Video to Firewire peripheral to rip to my Power Mac G5. I was never super crazy about the quality of the transfer. The video always looked like, "I used my computer to transfer this". I have to assume things are better these days. I feel like this process depends more on your computer and your software where as the VHS > DVD method is a bit more "aligned". I could be wrong. I mean, the adapters are like $10-$20. They seem too cheap to be trust worthy.

I hardly ever get spam calls. Today, I got a call from a government robocaller and a call asking for someone else whom I’m pretty sure had my number over five years before me. I thought these were legit but now, reading the comments, I’m not so sure.

People are way too willing to give out their phone numbers. So many apps and websites require a phone before ever signing in. I will not use any service that requires a phone number.

Because so many things rely on phone numbers now, when I got my new number in 2020 I lost access to a number of things.

2FA SMS verification can be spoofed so it’s not a secure method.

The only spam calls or messages I get are from government reps. Apparently “for government use” is not illegal and it’s practically impossible to get taken off the list. If anyone has a tip for this, please let me know.

Hence, “Trannis” /s

Less Joker. More Riddler.

Wow. Only took 26 years.

We're a relatively poor city with an underfunded transportation system. If the city / state invested more money, there would be fewer system failures, cleaner transportation, on time transportation, safer transportation. But that's not to say it's entirely up to the municipality to improve the system. It's to say that there's a lack of enticement for a lot of people. If more people rode the system, we would see improvements.

There needs to be a huge revamp of the system with the key card being just the start of it. Perhaps the new signage will help too. The larger issue is PR. You're not going to get people from outside the city to ride in (ie: 76ers place) when all the news reports they see are about the bad things that happen on the subway.

SEPTA needs to be branded as the life blood of the city and marketed to everyone regardless of your financial situation. Philly's also a small city so you're more likely than in larger cities to rub elbows with people from a variety of personal situations, for better or worse.

What's frustrating to me is that I have family who live outside the city but close to a rail line (Trenton / East Trenton). They're hesitant to drive into the city because of a lack of parking. I have tried to get them to park at their local station and to ride the train in. I was doing it for a solid four years for family events when I didn't have a car. It's fantastic and I prefer it over driving.

I also have a friend who lives outside the city but near a regional rail station. He and his wife both work in the city just blocks from a subway station. They choose to sit in traffic over sharing public transportation. Part of it is convenience, some of it is the shared company, some of it is the unreliability. It blows my mind that someone would go out of their way and choose to drive the Schuylkill twice a day over having a leisurely pre and post work day experience.

The main thing that prevents me from riding SEPTA more often is the schedule. I work from home so 99% of the time I'm taking the train it's on the weekend. The weekend frequency is prohibitive enough that I bought a car.

Category View introduces a simple way to organize emails by type

It wouldn't be possible for me to overstate how much I dislike this feature. It's one thing I can't stand about Gmail and from what I've observed, iCloud has this now too. I'm wondering if people actually find this more useful than a hindrance. I mean, I have spent days with several email addresses creating my own filters so I get not everyone can do that. But the way this is typically implemented just seems like another spam mailbox that no one's going to check.

I assume they will but if Proton doesn't have a way to disable this, I am out.

Manage newsletter subscriptions

What would actually be cool is a dedicated newsletter app. I use BigNews as an RSS reader and newsletter reader. They give me an email address just for newsletters. It's fantastic.

This Mother Jones article really made things more clear.

Trump, a president who rules like a mob boss while claiming vast new powers, is transforming the government into a tool of reward and punishment.

Excuse me? Are you trying to say that side-loaded apps are more free of ads than those in app stores? What motivates a developer to release an ad-free side loaded app while refusing to submit it to (or failing to get it approved in) an app store?

How is this specifically an iPad issue and not an app developer issue?

I'd like to know, because I don't have a Google device or account, how the Google Play Store is superior to the Apple App Store when it comes to ad or subscription supported software.

I've owned many iPads. To claim you can't use it without a subscription service is ridiculous. Yes, you need an Apple ID to download apps from the App Store but that doesn't cost anything (just like a Google account).

You're comparing two electronic devices that are ten years apart from each other. Of fucking course the new one is going to be better. If you think a Galaxy tablet is great, you should really try a new iPad.

I mean, you're just coming off sounding like an Apple-hater and someone who hasn't ever actually owned an iPad. Maybe even a bot.

I use a combination of flickr, ente.io, glass.photo, portraitmode.io.

As a major shipping artery, Panama makes far more sense than Greenland. What are you talking about?

In a way that he has ulterior motives he's not telling the public, I'd agree with that. It turns out that he's the most politician-y politician.

I don’t know how much weight I put into this piece, given that we’re talking about Trump, but I appreciate the perspective. From my understanding, the US has always had a good relationship with Greenland and could have easily worked with them to increase defenses and security. There could certainly be another objective like mining natural resources or, I dunno, building crypto mining facilities. The whole thing should be offensive to all Americans, especially conservatives.

I was coerced into it because someone thought they were my illegitimate half-sibling. I was extremely hesitant due to privacy concerns but I succumbed to family pressure. Through the test, we discovered she's more likely to be my cousin. Immediately after, I "deleted" all my info. I guess you can only take their word for it.