Yea it it’s really too bad this guy wants to eat

Does an invasion/attack by one NATO member trigger an Article 5 response against that country by the remainder of NATO?

I am sure that this scenario has been imagined before (ahem Greece v. Turkey)

“the likes of which”

Old televisions used vacuum tubes in their circuitry in a similar role to transistors in (more) modern electronics.

These were literally little glass bulbs with bits inside that heated up, glowed and did magical things with electrons. They had some number of pins on the bottom and plugged into the television board similar to CPU sockets (but with only 5ish pins in a circle)

These tubes were not particularly long-lived and were fragile physical devices. When they were “on the fritz” it was literally often possible to smack them back into place/alignment/operation. Hence the trope of a TV with a bad picture, slapping it around and voila it works again. This was a literal thing that really happened and works, at least until the internals of whatever tube were too far out of alignment.

At this point, rather than call an expensive repairman (always a man in those days), you could take your suspected bad tube to the grocery store, where there might be a machine that resembles a 1980s arcade cabinet, which has a bunch of various common vacuum-tube sockets on it. Dad will plug the ‘bad’ tube into the (in)correct socket and the machine will pronounce that tube to be GOOD or BAD with some version of accuracy.

With that information, dad can select a new identical or similar tube from the rack that’s under the testing board, inside the cabinet.

Maybe it will work, maybe not.

Lots of specific tubes were replaceable with more generic versions that “will work” and there was a lot of effort to consolidate the vast number of tube variants, so another important tool was the equivalency chart-- look up your old tube in a book of tiny print/tables and see what generic part number might work to ‘fix’ the TV

Without having to call the repairman to your house, which was also very much a real thing.

Hey benign and honorable govt!

Please tell the website “kill-your-govt .net” that I am old enough to join the revolution!!!

Kthxbai

edit: if this was pasted in both directions AND we trust that there is no identifying information in either ‘secret’ message, might work. Normies will not like the ctrl-c/ctrl-v workflow though.

Hoppe’s #9

Falling for what?

Voting for the most progressive/left/whatever-label candidate that has any reasonable chance in the election? Is that falling for something?

Obviously the elections are over, with excellent results (nationwide), so all of this bleating is moot

But

Does anyone here sincerely believe that Cuomo would be a better Mayor? How many folks really wished Eric Adams the 2nd?

For sure, if Mamdani falls down and knocks his head and gets Fettermanized, that’s not gonna be cool.

But to criticize him for doing his best to become a good and capable leader for ALL OF NYC is silly. He’s not suddenly become Bibi’s best friend and I doubt seriously that he’s secretly wearing IDF panties to bed.

He IS however going to have to work with all of the constituencies in NYC which includes like a literal million Jews. That demographic isn’t going to be uniform in its outlook on the Palestinian genocide, and maybe 10% of them are going to be Hasidic or similar. There is really no benefit to gratuitously pissing any of them off before he even gets started.

This is just more purity test bullshit

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Who even is this guy.

Is he of any consequence. Sincerely I have no idea because I don’t consume any form of ‘talking head’ media.

I realize that my refusal to participate in ‘podcast’ or whatever doesn’t mean they are irrelevant. But this guy seems like he should be wholly irrelevant, after listening for ~90 seconds

Changing the law to require Digital ID is as as simple as changing the word “never” to “will”

Many men would LOVE a reliable, non-condom, male-controlled birth control method

Currently for men there are two options — condoms, which are problematic and difficult in several ways, or vasectomy, which is essentially permanent or at least difficult and uncertain to be reversed.

The third method is to take WAY too many TOO HOT baths, but that also has uncertainty and is a real hassle.

As it stands, really for men they either need to use a condom, or trust that your female partner is reliable.

Are you required (currently) to use that digital ID to access some types of websites?

Can you browse porn without submitting a selfie? Or your digital ID?

The general concern is that once online digital ID is required, people will be forced to use if for ALL internet activity.

To be fair I don’t know the exact situation in various places, but it looks like UK is heading that way rapidly. China is already there for some time now (?)

Eventually, it will be required to log into any form of social media and “Droggelbecher” could (will) be associated with your real name.

Thank you for linking this.

Hahah you mean like Lemmy itself?

• replace ‘fascist’ with ‘tankie’

Yea it’s pretty clear.

Capitalism and religion, with maybe a little bit of ‘public health’ thrown in

There’s strong bias against contraception in general from some religious groups, and it is strongest against the “easier” forms. For example, among Catholics technically ALL contraception is forbidden, but condoms are more acceptable than an IUD, both of which are considered by some sects to be ‘abortifacient’ — on the theory that it merely prevents a fertilized egg from implanting on the uterine wall.

So condoms are ‘better’ because it is a barrier method.

The only Catholic-approved BC is abstinence of course.

Public Health also has a strong bias towards condoms, because of their protection against STIs. Of course, actual proper condom use is… inconsistent at best for most people.

Anyhow, the easiest and least intrusive methods of BC are usually viewed with the most suspicion and disapproval from all sides, and Vasagel/RISUG is like… the most extreme example of that.

It is:

• relatively inexpensive
• extremely effective
• one-time clinic visit
• fully reversible, with no recovery period
• impossible to forget or accidentally nullify

Unfortunately none of these factors endear it to the capitalists, the puritans, or the public-health hand-wringers*

*To be clear, i support public health goals, but the AIDS crisis has put a strong and lasting emphasis/insistence that condoms are the only way

Well, I’ve not had it since it isn’t available yet.

But I get what you mean about the needles in the dong.

But most likely, the needle is through the side of the scrote, which might not be much better.

Probably best to just not watch.

It is less invasive than a vasectomy, since it’s a needle and not a scalpel, but ofc it’s not as simple as a pill

On the other hand, it’s one-and-done and nevermore worried about unwanted paternity claims.

The best option all around that I’ve seen is Vasagel, which is the western development based on RISUG which was a successful Indian trial

https://www.planaformen.com/vasalgel

The major complication for it has been that no pharma wants to invest in it, likely because if doesn’t have good profit potential.

It is a one-time ‘shot’ of a physical gel that blocks the vas deferens (sperm channel) and is fully reversible simply by being flushed out again.

However, since it is not an ongoing monthly profit ahem, prescription, there is not a lot of money to be made.

No hormones, no pills, fully reversible, simply blocks the sperm exactly like a vasectomy, just very easily reversed. It can all be done in clinic with a syringe (perhaps tho the syringe will be a blocker for some men)

Get fucked.

You’ve been in here whining your whiny bitchass in this thread for hours(?) now, demanding that other people spoon-feed you sources that you can find yourself with like NO effort

I don’t think you’re a bot, but in this thread at least, you have the stench of an actual Nazi troll

You are not, and apparently don’t know, a tattoo artist who’s client/market includes drunk Marines on shore leave.

It’s entirely plausible that a group of drunk lower-enlisted Marine reta… errr “Riflemen” went into a shop and all got a tattoo by pointing at something they thought was ‘cool’ posted on the wall.

It’s ironic (?) they they did this in Split, Croatia which is a country that had a rather strong actual-Nazi sentiment during and after WW2. Look up the Ustatce if you’re interested

ANYHOW it is undeniable that he got the ink, but completely plausible that he had zero idea what it was about, except that it looked like a fat pirate symbol

Interesting. Apparently the Geddit app has been abandoned/unmaintained since 2 years … Huh