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Don't forget the 34 felonies he was convicted of!

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts

Yes. For instance https://www.brennancenter.org/ recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) https://youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw

You might also be interested in Prodigy's Dirtchamber Sessions which features the song https://youtu.be/7a1rkOsYn2A?t=230

I was thinking of this too, specifically the word detox. Detox means to flush something that is toxic. Lots of things are fine in moderate amounts but become toxic when we consume too much. That's how I feel about news and elections lately. I too am planning to detox for a while.

If you do end up eating one, tell us how many bytes it took.

This is a slick 3D map of Tokyo weather and trains where you can view a variety of webcams. https://minitokyo3d.com/

Tehachapi Loop is another cool train cam with a train ascending in a loop to gain elevation in a short distance. https://www.youtube.com/live/OqCFMmob8Q8

These are the people that fear unisex bathrooms and ban books.

Don't worry about it. I think I first had sex at 30, mostly due to a religious upbringing that I was in the middle of finding my way out of.

If you want to live a sexy life, go do it, but if you like your current life and just haven't found the one, that's something that takes patience and persistence.

One thing you can do is take steps to make sex-positive friends. You can start down that path by talking more openly and frankly about sex, and destigmatize it.

One of the big turning points for Facebook for them to increase the difficulty of switching was cutting off RSS as a way to syndicate content into Facebook. After that, content had to be manually created in Facebook, instead of automatically imported from a third party source based on standard protocols. This forced people away from their chosen content authoring system into Facebook's opinionated, inflexible, ad infested walled garden.

But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.