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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I believe this is the same one we have. App is kinda slow but works, and for most stuff we’ll just put the sd card in the computer at home.

    Front and back cams have been very clear during day and night. Watched a lot of comparison videos beforehand, and viofo was better than most expensive ones and reviews were all mainly positive. We’ve had it for over 2 years now.


  • Altman noted Monday that SSA “has data on everyone who has a Social Security number, which is virtually all Americans, everyone who has Medicare, and every low-income American who has applied for” SSI.

    “SSA has comprehensive medical records of people who have applied for disability benefits. It has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more,” said Altman. “Older people are disproportionately susceptible to scams. The data at SSA leaking would make the number of scams skyrocket. And, if there is an intent to punish perceived enemies, someone could erase your earnings record, making it impossible to collect the Social Security and Medicare benefits you have earned.”

    I had to go to a meeting with my SO to apply for SSI/SSDI and they take a craaaazy amount of info including retirement accounts, your car and its value, who you live with, and a bunch of other stuff along with private medical info. This is an insane and irresponsible amount of info to have in private hands.


  • Republican judges have shut down Trump before and will hopefully continue to do so at least some of the time.

    Republicans have a slim Senate majority, and if any Rs decide to become their party’s Manchin or Sinema, things can still be blocked. There’s also bound to be infighting among Rs after conflicting things.

    The ACLU and other groups are filing lawsuits. If they win or not will be seen, but they will keep trying.

    One thing I feel I don’t see talked about enough on here though, is what we can do as individuals. Are you getting involved anywhere? If not, why?

    Every community has groups looking out for the poor/homeless, discriminated groups, the environment, immigrants, labor unions, etc. If you don’t trust your leaders to solve things, that leaves us all to step up to fill those holes.

    I’ve already applied for one volunteer service, and am looking into others depending how the first one goes. We can’t just sit and wait to see what happens. We need to get involved and take personal responsibility.





  • I seriously worry about coming off creepy or insincere, or else I would shower you with praise more constantly! Your app has made my experience here so much better, and I’m grateful for the things you’ve added to it, sometimes I’m sure, just for me.

    You’ve always been really friendly and helpful and lightning fast fixing any issues, and you obviously put a lot of time and work into developing and maintaining the app, and you don’t ask for money or have ads or anything.

    None of the other apps are bad or anything, but I still think yours offers the most and the best for me, and how I don’t see Summit near the top of every best Lemmy app posts is crazy to me.


  • You’re always in the fray, because you want to be seen to be in the fray, because you cannot comprehend yourself to be not in the fray.

    This does feel accurate. I wouldn’t know how else to explain it at least.

    I don’t really know much about Libya, as that took place a little before I started to get actively interested in politics. Looking it up now seems there is much more to the situation than I could pick up in 5 minutes and understand anything. I couldn’t tell you why we went there, or to Somolia, or most of the places we go. Most of the things America gets involved in, I don’t see what the benefit is to the actual American people. I’d much rather we go around giving aid instead of swinging a sword if we want to show others how “great” we are.

    I also don’t understand the idea that anyone would want to “take over” Russia as it seems their defense for most of their actions seems to be. Does anyone actually want to do that? I feel the world just wants to see them stop having crappy leaders and that’s the extent of it. As deep as the US/Russia feud is, I’ve never heard talk of actually trying to get rid of Russia as a country in any realistic manner.


  • not wanting to stoke the Russia/US rivalry bee’s nest

    This has been one of the strangest things to me as an American looking at this conflict. I’m not particularly anti-American, but I don’t look at us as anything special either. I attribute much of our success as a nation to being industrially ready for WW2 while not really taking any direct attacks from the war. We profited and were able to pocket all that money while almost everyone else had to spend money rebuilding is my simplified understanding.

    We seem to have no real skin in the game other than this was a chance to help someone else beat up a rival for us while keeping our hands clean. Why the US seemed to be calling so many of the shots seemed absolutely ridiculous other than we like throwing weaponry wherever we can get away with it. I can understand us not putting troops in Ukraine, but why it felt we limited what anyone else could do when we would be the least directly affected by the outcome was very confusing.

    It seems impossible other European countries would not get involved if we walked away, but it did seem like the option that would limit the overall violence the most with us just helping Ukraine. I don’t want to see more countries get pulled in, especially since America is usually all about inserting our military in places. Trump bumping off Putin seems more on brand for what his fans usually go for anyway. They already sound in a bad position, and giving them the final nudge off the edge seems like an easy way to look like a real world hero. I dont’t know what would come with the collapse of Putin’s control, but at least initially I think most people would be in favor of that. Pulling out and leaving it to everyone else or doing things to help Russia now just seems a negative to us and most of you with no benefit to all but probably a single digit number of people.

    “and then butter became even more expensive, among other things which got worse”.

    This made me laugh. I love how some people cope with things.


  • I have met so few actually interested in our own politics, let alone what is going on half a world away. It is very disappointing.

    I’m not one to promote fighting, but Russia coming into Ukraine and being 100% in the wrong was a chance for us to do right and actually support the right side of a conflict and really strengthen relations with our allies and deal a blow to a long-time antagonist. It seemed like a thing we could do with no way of coming out of it badly. I wasn’t keen on sending things like cluster munitions that have bad downstream effects, but otherwise it seemed we were sending you things we had but no longer needed, but you all were in crucial need of. The media framed it in dollar figures of aid being sent, which I feel did a disservice with people’s lack of understanding here. It was money that had been spent decades ago, but people felt like it was coming out of their pockets now instead of it being bad economic policy in the present.

    Now though, we seem to be taking shots at our allies and preparing to buddy up to our longtime rival so the president can finally get his Moscow apartments built and twist resources out of a beaten up ally for what his fans we feel that you guys “owe” for us helping you out and ignoring you to make peace with your invader. I don’t think we could have made a better new friend than a restored Ukraine, and it would have put us in a good light with the rest of Europe, as if Ukraine compromises in this whole affair, I think that extends more danger to most of Europe, especially other former Soviet states.

    If we end up screwing you guys over, I think this will go down as a huge blunder in history, and I don’t think it will take long for the US to feel repercussions, as I don’t see us getting much useful from an unofficial alliance with Russia, and it will ruin our trust with every nation, especially throughout Europe, unless they keep going hard to the right as well, in which case, I don’t look forward to those alliances either. This all seems negative for us now here, and I feel terrible that your country is being treated like this by our government. I felt our nations were really on a great path until the election.

    I and everyone I associate with still want you all to succeed. I think what is going on between you and Russia is going to have a huge influence on the whole world in the near future, and I’d rather you get back what was taken from you and end this war successfully than for my country to reap any benefit from the aid we lent you. It should have all been to do the right thing for our friends. If it wasn’t, we deserve the treatment we get from the rest of the world. It will be bad for us, but there has to be a price for stranding an ally.



  • Fair enough reasons. If you’re doing custom ublock filters and such, you’re likely able to tweak a lot to how you want it without any outside help from an app.

    I see in you rother comment to someone you haven’t tried Voyager in a year. I haven’t tried that one recently, but I will say even over the last 6-8 months, so many of these apps have really matured from where they were a year or so ago. Very significantly so IMO. I think Summit is really the sleeper champ of the apps for my use case, and the dev is super helpful and responsive.

    To each their own though. I love we have such great variety in UI here. At this point, there should be a couple viable options for near anyone.



  • While the US could easily veto them joining NATO, there’s nothing making Ukraine accept any deal struck between Russia and the US, who, last I checked, was not an active participant in this war. I don’t know why Ukrainians would just throw in the towel after losing so much. I don’t know if Europe can sustain things at the level of support Ukraine has been getting with US aid, but all the talk I hear makes it sound like the EU will do what it can.

    Especially if Trump expects mineral rights or whatever he is going on about. I don’t know why Ukraine would give up such tremendous value to a party that just volunteers them to surrender. Losing more territory to Russia is a possibility if they can’t maintain troop/supply levels, but it hardly seems worth it for them to give up at this moment. It’s been my understanding keeping the pressure on Russia constantly and not letting them recover has been crucial to Ukraine’s success.

    It just feels like Trump trying to put himself at the center of attention when he really has nothing to do with this anymore if he’s choosing to stop US aid to Ukraine.



  • Lol so much polite sass! Good ad transition as well. Bravo.

    I do a lot of things in an introverted way, but I learned I do way better learning with another human being. Not that I disagree with anything in his video. I’ve tried his method for learning music, but I’ve had so much better luck with in person lessons just because I can interrupt right away when I don’t get something and have them explain it in different words until it gets through. They can also observe me, and catch me before I get something wrong ingrained in my brain or push me to work on weak areas of my studies.

    I still do a lot of musical and other learning how the video talks about though. Good stuff for anyone interested.



  • Well, both actually. Maybe.

    It seems they had him get killed by a cyber truck. 😐

    The app icon is currently a Duo with X eyes and they showed his casket.

    Feels very Mr Peanut in 2020, which I see they brought him back after just a year.

    I don’t know what exactly they’re doing, but they seem to have been going through branding struggles the last year or so.