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@wy7usa Long enough range to strike "deep" inside Russia from West Ukraine.

An incrementally more vigorous "poke" of the bear, trying to get some monkey making action for the Military Industrial Complex.

@leo This was the motivation behind the law of the Medes (and Chaldees and Persians and Greeks until Antiochus Epiphanes) - the king cannot revoke his own decrees. Even if it was a grave error (see Daniel 6 and Esther 3).

@freemo @Ponygirl @ryan

Agnostics can be further divided into at least:

1) soft agnostic - I don't personally know if there is a God or not, but I'm not ruling out the possibility of knowing.

2) hard agnostic - it is impossible in principle to know if there is a God or not. Those who think they do are wrong.

@freemo What I kept hearing with your original joke were the countless Batman sitcom episodes I watched as a child, and Robin would exclaim: "Holy ____ Batman!" Fill in the blank with some especially ludicrous aspect of the story.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/spenceralthouse/the-definitive-ranking-of-robins-exclamations-from-batma

@freemo "holy" means "set apart". So unless you have set a particular moley apart for religious purposes - it is an ordinary moley. A moley becomes sacrilegious when a holy (set apart) moley is desecrated, or an ordinary moley is used to mock holy moleys.

@Conan_Kudo @fedora Do these go in an Intel case, say ATX? Power supply leads, screws to fasten to case, front panel lights and switches, would have to be compatible.

@OldAndCranky RFK is pro-vaccine. The issue is that Big Pharma is *replacing* real vaccines with mRNA shots. These have saved 0 lives so far, and killed between 5 and 6 million worldwide. Already, the flu shot this year is no longer an actual vaccine - but a combo of mRNA for old COVID spike protein and a new untested mRNA for a flu spike protein.

My fear is that when my tetanus booster is due - it too will no longer be available.

In a real practical sense, RFK is trying to prevent the removal of vaccines from the market by Big Pharma.

@freemo In the G. K. Chesterton novel "The Napoleon of Notting Hill", the king of England in the future is chosen by random selection from a pool of all eligible citizens.

@zio I said, "no thanks, I'm an abolitionist." Then ensued a respectful conversation about the fate of 100s of 1000s of illegal immigrants. Either picked up directly by cartels near the border, or "auctioned" at Federal markets to completely unvetted "sponsors". In either case, doomed to prison factories and brothels (or human sacrifice at occult Deep State ceremonies - but only eyewitnesses, no hard evidence).

@fuknukl Racoons, on the other hand ...

@freemo I have limbo proximaly everything.

@jonathanspw @rockylinux Responding on the wrong thread did make it seem like a troll. But it should have been resolved by your explanation of what you were responding to - but then that seemed like hijacking the thread.

So banning you was over top, but I can see their side.

Why do businesses pay Big $$ for RedHat? Because they offer something Rocky/Alma/etal don't: certification for particular purposes. The certification process is expensive - and geared toward Big Business and Government purposes (e.g. certified to run Oracle - this is why Oracle offering their own certified distro was a business threat). Certification also means that clients can sue RedHat for perceived breach of contract - and lawyers (and keeping logs and documentation that they might need) are also expensive.

If you don't need certification, don't plan to sue anyone when software no workie - then "whitebox" versions like Rocky/CentOS/Alma might be the better choice.

I used to have to patch binaries for SysV unix. Patching sources and recompiling is far superior.

The most stellar commercial support for unix was from Motorola - sadly they closed that division. RedHat is pretty good for what you can get today.

@gpfjeff You need a friend to relay mail. I do that for customers that get on ban lists for similar reasons. (And silly reasons, like forwarding all their mail to gmail for "spam checking", flagging spam on gmail and wondering why gmail then bans their MX...)

I'm sure you already have friends that run an MX. But if not, you can relay through mine. I haven't met you personally, but read your comic.

@gpfjeff The Nostr system uses a single browser extension to hold your key pair (plus additional pairs for multiple identities) for all platforms. So once you install the extension, there is no effort. But yeah, "normies" find it mind blowing.

@gpfjeff By "site", you mean the comment system?

Have you looked at pubkey based comment systems? Spam drives account based interaction toward centralization - via the mechanism you are experiencing.

Here is a comment system based on the Nostr protocol (low barrier to entry for newbies):
https://github.com/carlitoplatanito/disgus