valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

"About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers." - Calvin Coolidge

I had to do a captcha earlier where I was asked to select all pictures with cars. One of the pictures was of a train. Do train cars count as cars?

@joey_zozo @velartrill So the Articles of Confederation then?

@joey_zozo @mathlover I didn't know that

@mathlover How many 65+ high school teachers are there? Perhaps they could get an early pension or something. Getting sick is probably better in the long run than missing a year of school

@mathlover that almost no one below the age of 65 is in danger from covid

@alex this is the most austin thing ive seen this month

@g This sounds like monopolistic behaviour. The kind of thing the Sherman Anti-Trust act was intended for.

@alex so is soapbox just a different frontend for pleroma? What makes it special? What does it do?

@alex the US is so rich that street beggers turn down food they dont like

I'm a big fan of the return of the bearded politician. Ted Cruz and Justin Trudeau show that this is a non-partisan, non-ideological issue that we can all get behind. Now I'm looking forward to the modern day Rutherford B Hayes.

Trump's press conference cut into Jeopardy. He's officially gone too far

@alex We should both stop eating junk food

@alex @kino Challenged where?

@shebang yeah thats pretty terrible. They should get a lawer. But Im not in kentucky. The strictest texas has gotten is businesses must require masks

@alex They're being arrested. For crimes. Often violent crimes.

Have any of you hosted your own git server as an alternative to github? What recommendations / tips do you have?