I keep a homeserver for long term bulk data storage, emphasizing things that benefit my extended circle of friends and family and that would be impossible to acquire physically. Film editions out of circulation or only at a premium, quality cookbooks, reputable guides to household repair and craft, niche trade and hobbyist materials, rips of CDs from indie scene shows, political theory texts that would be difficult or someday potentially dangerous to get through the public library (hello, marxist internet archive, and thank you). A number of older games and software titles, too. It is increasingly difficult and costly to get permanent access to essential practical and cultural works, and while keeping up a dependable archive is sometimes a chore, I anticipate the work will prove worthwhile in the not so distant future.
YYYY/MM/DD is best because then you can follow it with HH:MM:SS and everything is in order.
me, who has spent the last two months reading the collected works of Tolkien:
For washing clothes, remarkably little soap is needed to clean ordinary soiling. Washing machines are very efficient. Using too much, besides simply being a waste, can accelerate the degradation of some fabrics, shortening the life of your clothes, and on the extreme end it results in overproduction of suds. Most washing machines from the last 30ish years will detect this and stop their cycle until the suds have died down, so it also wastes time.
For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one’s sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex- or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words, “eradicate” and “erase” this form of health care.
Language in House Republicans’ most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that — ban money from any federal program to entities that do “social transitioning” or drugs and surgery for “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he’d ask Congress “to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures.” (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.)
Bans like these can lead to the private sector discontinuing behaviors altogether — and once they are in place, they are hard to get rid of: The Hyde Amendment, enacted in the 1970s, led to most abortions no longer being performed in hospitals, and is continually renewed each year.
Medical groups and civil rights advocates in D.C. tell Rolling Stone they believe that if a Hyde-level ban on federal funding were enacted, many hospitals will simply prioritize federal dollars over continuing this highly specialized form of medical care. So much medicine is performed through hospital systems and universities that this could mean ending access for many.
Given the Democratic Party leapt at the chance to scapegoat transgender people for all their own failures in the election, I think it would take a miracle to prevent this from going into law. It will immediately put large health institutions in certain states between a rock and hard place, as local legislation requires them to offer these services, which will likely lead to appeals, but as it stands I doubt they will make even a token effort to get this language out of the bill, and it will make HRT completely legally inaccessible for anyone who can't afford private practice virtually overnight. This article's author, Jael Holzman, is the guest on this week's Chapo, you can hear the story in her own words there.
Would you believe he got kicked out of school and had to leave the country to avoid being investigated after this?
A backpack resembling the one worn by the suspect has been recovered near a playground in Central Park, according to media reports. MSNBC said on Saturday that police examining the bag and its contents found a jacket and Monopoly money, but no firearm.
The CIA Stare.
You don't have to "go way back", native americans still exist, and to wave away the colonial nature of the US displays a dangerous ignorance of the subject on which you speak.
The consent machine is pulling triple shifts to convince people this is dangerous, and some people even on this site have so thoroughly doomer-pilled themselves that they can't see the positives. I've been on there a lot this week and there is a real cultural exchange taking place, a lot of people asking questions about what it's really like to live in each country. Just in my little slice I've seen dozens of comments from USians expressing that they are surprised to learn the reality of life in China and that they feel they have been deliberately mislead.