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That’s a term? What’s it mean, besides identifying someone as black and Irish? O.o

We don’t use fax machines any more grandad! It’s all twoggles now! Twoggle me a nurp!

Are these not still in use?

I’ve not built a tower in a few years granted, but the last one I built had PS2 ports. Heck it even had VGA for the onboard graphics.

Ah, this isn’t talking about the big war on adult content in the UK right now that’s across all the headlines. Just for those who wanted to see more on that. This is foreign stuff.

Aahhhh, that makes more sense. I wondered how such a seemingly respectable, proper journalistic platform could be owned by that tosser, haha.

Well, small victories I suppose! Thank you for clarifying that.

It’s a shame, I had no idea he owned Sky News. I usually found them to be an excellent professional news source when one doesn’t want the Governmental bias of the BBC.

I wouldn’t trust Comedy Central though, joke or not, they’re American, and the Americans can’t be trusted these days either.

I suppose the lesson here, sadly, is that we can’t believe anything from any source at all. Assume everything is half-truths, half-reported, and what we’re being shown is the distraction from the thing they don’t want us to look at.

I wish I knew how to find the hidden “real news”, but the sorts of people that purport to provide it are loonies in their basements in tinfoil hats, alas. Though, perhaps that’s just the image of them that the media wants us to see…

:-(

Yeah, I’m not even in that country, I’m not sure how it’s relevant to us all.

Many countries have corrupt governments sadly, it sucks, and I wish them the best in however they fight their internal societal enemies.

Really? A greater effect than not having children, or tireless activism against one billionaire until they realise the error of their ways and turn to the light side?

Patriotism can be cool, there are (I hope) many things about your nation, it’s achievements and communities that you might be proud of.

Nationalism however, not so much. They’re closely related (and bad people will try to sneak Nationalism under the radar as Patriotism) but are very different things.

You know its reflective surface? Well, uh…

I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys…

…What worries me is that it’s reflecting everything but us.

My TV doesn’t have a Jellyfin app, only a Plex app. I’m not buying a new TV just to use my preferred media server, sadly :-(

Okay, going off the title to start with you’re building a WiFi network, that’s very cool (I’m guessing it’s a mesh network), but will you connect it to the Internet too?

That’d be more of a headline if so, then just building a WiFi network.

oi turn that tap off

When was it banned?

When I lived in the European Union we had surveillance cameras and microphones in all of our office spaces in the company I worked at.

That road is huuuge!

With lanes that wide it’s amazing cars ever hit each other haha.

Hmm, can real users be tagged as bots? Surely they’d complain and have it fixed quite quickly?

I saw this bot reply and just instinctively downvoted and blocked it, can’t stand Reddit/Lemmy bots that don’t serve a useful purpose (like unit conversion or haiku’s) haha.

Yeah it’s normal, it’s one of the first things I ask or get asked when I meet new people online.

It’s cool to meet new people from all around the world, so knowing where someone’s from is really interesting and gives people stuff to talk about too!

Plus, it’s very helpful, because once you know where someone’s from you know their timezone, what sort of weather they deal with, you might have some insight into their culture etc to better ensure you don’t offend them, or maybe you’ve visited or love something about their country so again you now have new things to talk about :-D

Anyway yeah, similarly with wanting to know someone’s age, location is often one of the first questions we as strangers ask each other in online conversation.

Age is also super useful to know, are we talking to a 12 year old? A 20 year old? A 60 year old? Knowing their age will better inform us of how to have a positive and respectful conversation, it’ll inform us of what part of their life there in and thus we can take guesses to their generational cultural norms and interests, if they’re likely to have a career, or be married, or if they’re likely still in education studying for their masters, etc etc.

You don’t need to know an EXACT age, just as you don’t need to know an EXACT location, but “I’m in my 20s from England” is a more than appropriate response :-)

Bottom line: Always trust your gut if someone seems weird online (especially if they’re pushy for info you’re unwilling to share), but don’t assume they’re weird just because they want to know some basic details like A/S/L 👍

Nano nano!

drinks water with finger

Okay but how do u center a div in 2025

To answer your question:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qwez9zz7jo

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to use active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties inside the US.

Once invoked, troops could be tasked with a range of duties, from quelling civil unrest and enforcing court orders to arresting and detaining migrants.

Because the Insurrection Act was written in broad terms, with little specific guidance on how and when the powers can be used, it gives presidents wide latitude in deciding when to mobilise military personnel for domestic operations.

Time to bring in the army to oppress the citizenry. Hoo rah!