A Biden aide said that it was “not an ideal start” for the president at the beginning of the debate, but that there was “no mass panic” at the campaign headquarters in Delaware.

I use the one that’s built in to the Fastmail service. I have a custom domain just for aliases. The Fastmail alias-creation API is integrated with the Bitwarden app (which I use) so that makes creating new accounts (that use email addresses as usernames) on websites really easy. I also use Spamgourmet which is free, convenient, and has been around a very long time. No custom domains there, but they let you use a variety of their domains and they have some short ones which is nice, but I do find that they’re blocked pretty often, mostly by major mailing list services.

Makes me think: this could be turned into a profitable new “sport”. I’m imaging something like a boxing ring, where a Boeing whistleblower and a Boeing MBA fight it out in public. Could be pitched as quasi-legit, like boxing, or maybe something along the lines of “professional” wrestling. Tag teams, outrageous costumes, stories of insult (“the MBA shot my teamie in his pickup truck!”, “this 'blower reduced dividends by $0.50/share!”) and revenge. I don’t follow fighting sports so maybe you guys could figure out something that would sell well in 2024+. You’d want betting of course, not sure if you could legally do that in IL or WA, might need to move Boeing HQ to Las Vegas. All profits would go to buying Boeing a new management and towards class-action lawsuit costs.

My guess would be that the Idaho statesman web server doesn’t like your IP address. Are you using a VPN or Tor? I can still access the article.

While I’d love to add my opinion to the Play Store reviews, there’s no way in Hell I’m installing some kind of Christofascist malware on any device that I control.

There are plenty of great affordable houses in vibrant, economically prosperous, almost-urban communities out there. Like this one https://maps.app.goo.gl/r42MN8wXEYVNwqzVA . So maybe it’ll need a fix or two, but you’ll own the libs by not having any homeless or drug users around, unless that describes you. You’ll enjoy the several functioning roads (in season) and a well-maintained railroad - hopping a freight has never been more convenient. Drop by anytime, but don’t delay, this one won’t last!

In my Connecticut hometown, the average winter temperature used to be slightly below freezing. Now, it’s slightly above. How many joyful days filled with snowball fights and sledding would I have instead spent suffering in a classroom, gazing out the window at the rain, imagining the world just a little colder?

Ditto for my Vermont hometown. All winter = bitter cold and lots of snow - sometimes feet deep, but definitely enough for sledding and skiing most of the season. Dad was happy to have that snowblower and it got a lot of use. Now all I ever hear about from back east is all the flooding and resulting destruction. This article sheds some light on some of the reasons for all that. Rural VT and NH, easily reached from BOS/NY and southern New England, have economies that are heavily dependent on tourism, and especially winter tourism in the form of skiers. Less and/or crappier (wet) snow is really going to cause pain.

The resort also sells as many preseason passes as it can, which can cushion the financial blow of a ski season without much snow.

Sure you can fool the Flatlanders into taking such gambles, maybe for a season or two, but it won’t be long before they’re tired of taking the snow risk (quantity, quality) on themselves (rather than the resorts taking it) and choosing to stay entertained in some other way.

It was an adopted home for me, but yeah, I feel your pain.

Burma Shave

I’m pretty sure I read it back in the day but had forgotten all about it. I was at M$ around the time it came out and I vaguely recall employees talking about it in a dismissive but not exactly outraged sort of way. Kind of like you might expect if the author hit pretty close to home re: the culture but without it seeming (to the employees) like an attack piece.

Thanks for mentioning the book, it’ll be fun to re-read it after all these years and see how it’s held up. Maybe my library can get an inter-library-loan of a special, limited-edition, BG-autographed version, embellished in gold leaf all over. <checks web> Hmm, Medina doesn’t appear to have a public library, how could that be?

Ha, wasn’t sure if that was sarcasm or just Trollage at first. Well played! Yes, I am a pathetic, talentless loser, otherwise I’d be having drinks with BG on his jet or lounging on Larry’s yacht or even fly-fishing with a Supreme at some wilderness resort. <hangs head>

The “Thoughts and Prayers” for the murder of secular democracy.

M$ under Gates was also hugely about shafting many of the engineering staff working there. These were the Permatemps, people who worked on site alongside ordinary employees, doing the same work, working for the same managers on big products you’ve heard of. But the Permatemps, and I was one of them, didn’t work for M$, we worked for the most part as W2 employees of external staffing companies. OK salaries, basic benefits, but zero equity compensation or job security. Occasionally a permatemp would get hired as a M$ employee and that’s probably what a lot of them were hoping for. I got a small pay-out from the Permatemp lawsuit settlement (see link above) while some of the regular employees around me became M$ Millionaires in their 20s, including my tech lead at the time. But at least I was allowed to shop at the Company Store and got a discount on my copy of Vista! Meanwhile Gates conserved huge amounts of equity and had a big staff he could fire at the drop of a hat, because he didn’t technically employ us in the first place.

Some might be surprised to learn that this kind of exploitation on tribal lands didn’t only happen in the Southwest. For example, there’s the Midnite Mine on the Spokane rez in E.WA.

There were always religious nutters (Xians naturally) on AM, as long as I can remember, but they used to be a minority. AM was mostly pop music and C&W and talk shows. One thing I now look back on nostalgically was Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM show that aired really late at night. I used to listen to it on my long drive home from work and he’d have all kinds of crazy conspiracy theorists (UFOs, aliens, Area51 activities) and paranormal “researchers” &etc &etc on the show. Great fun, and despite the conspiracy stuff, largely non-political. Everyone understood it was “entertainment”. You can probably find recorded episodes online. Satan knows what kind of horrible garbage is on AM these days, but I’m not about to go find out either.

Huh, odd, I can see the entire content at the linked (substack) page w/o being logged in. The harpers.org version has an annoying pop-over but you can read it all there too for $0. I actually DO have a paid sub to the print+online mag so maybe they’ve set some magic cookie in my browser? BTW Harper’s Index != Harper’s Review & I think the former is paywalled from the unwashed masses but you might be able to read archived versions of it if you’re so inclined and suitably unwashed.

Ha ha, it’s from the Harper’s Weekly Review newsletter.

Launched in 2000, this free, weekly email collates and reflows news from the past seven days into a satirical chronicle. It’s like the Harper’s Index or Findings, but takes aim at the relentless absurdity of the 24-hour news cycle.

Fun stuff. The Harper’s Index is great too but I think (not 100% sure) that it’s subscriber-only content.

Interesting. I don’t know if this is a Lemmy problem or a Harper’s problem, or both?

It’s not a flap (back of the wing), it’s a slat (front of the wing), says so right in TFA.

Yeah, and I’ve gotta wonder if the women this pathetic loser was preying on got any say on the deal and on the faux-punishment that was handed out? If I was a victim and the AG came to me and said “hey we can skip the trial, the dirtbag will get a slap on the wrist, but he’ll never work as a cop around here again, whatddya say?” I imagine I’d say “duck no, I want to see this bastard do time and pay six-figure restitution, preferably to us victims”.