May I suggest a surefire way of avoiding jackbooted agents trawling for reasons to disappear you to El Salvador? Don't go to USA. Period.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-from-phone-searches-at-the-us-border/
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Keyboard warrior against certain social injustices. I have neither time, nor energy, nor inclination to fight them all, sorry.
Easily distracted by cats and dogs. Especially cats.
I see if you post stuff rather than mostly boost before following back.
A long time ago I enjoyed breathing the atmosphere at around 320 ppm CO2.
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Solar energy, amateur radio (EA5HQ), metalwork, 3D printing, bass guitar
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Brexit, technology, climate change
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@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz I've used the type on the right (Japanese Kei Car compliant?) for hauling motorbikes around in the eighties. They are *great* with many options for the load area at the back - open, closed, passenger, campervan,… Several manufacturers like Daihatsu, Subaru, Suzuki, Isuzu,
Electric versions would be even better.
My ARRL membership runs out today. I'm not renewing it in the next four years.
Trump is looking at Crimea the same way as he's looking at Gaza, for sure. Tacky Trump resorts with tacky golf and tacky hotels. All expensive designed for those with much more money than taste.
When Zelensky reiterates that Crimea is still part of Ukraine, Trump gets pissed.
Pete Hegseth has made a statement regarding his crass handling of state secrets:
"I was on my way home from the bar when a charming man with an Eastern European accent approached me and asked if I could provide me any juicy details about US military operations. I hesitated at first but I saw he was offering me a swig of something quite delicious and so I immediately added him to our Very Secret WhatsApp group. Cheers!"
Tesla has a LONG way to fall. #SpaceKaren is still way, way richer today than he was this time last year.
This is so patently absurd. It's going to cost way more than $400M to strip it down to its last screw (essential for security reasons) , design and retrofit with top secret communications systems, electromagnetic pulse hardening, in-flight refuelling and defence systems. To do that is going to take more than four years when A he might be dead anyway B it goes to 'his library' C he shouldn't (!) be president any more.
Looks like Starmer kissed the ring and got very, very little.
Boy, this local Tesla owner is pretty conflicted.
In 2022, Muskrat started supporting Republicans.
Just after that, this person registered their #Tesla (who knows, they might even have bought it second hand).
Now they put a "No Elon" sticker on their #swasticar. I presume the owner did it because the sticker has been on the car quite some time.
Perhaps they're getting tired of people like me giving them Elon salutes when I see them driving their fascist status symbol.
What's happened to BBC's English today?
Even AI would have written this better.
@Moaske@social.vivaldi.net When that happens because of my home AdGuard / PiHole there are some cases where I have to switch on a VPN if I really, really, really want to access that site. In most cases I just hit the back button and carry on surfing to other sites not run by asshats.
I'm delighted that Elon will still be screwing up USA for two days a week. That's quite enough for everybody to stay motivated and focused in sending Tesla the same way as Enron and Theranos.
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@janrosenow@mastodon.energy I get the feeling that #bigoil sees Africa as the next generation market to sell their crap to. It's great to see that there's hope for the electricity generation side. What concerns me is the push to sell Africa on personal mobility with Internal Combustion Engine vehicles which have engines with emissions standards from the 1990's.
Sandy Munro. Yoda of automotive. No BS. Another nail in the coffin of burning stuff for fuel.
Public Service Announcement: If you use #paypal you may want to review the automatic payments that you've authorised. Because, damn 😬, I just removed about a dozen things that I'd forgotten I'd authorised. Quite a few companies / organisations are darned sneaky in that the ONLY way you can make a payment via PayPal is to authorise a recurring payment 😡.
I'm an atheist, but good choice on the new pope 👍👍👍.
Excellent that he's from US of A because that's a fantastic plus to disarm the nazis in the White House.
Good jo-o-o-b!!!
I think he's just making sure he'll burn in hell.
Is there any head of state LESS suitable for their position?
I can't wait for the press conference where the evil Karoline "daddy-issues" Leavitt defends this outrage whilst sporting that ostentatious cross necklace that she loves so much.
Here's a funny story that is probably of niche hilarity to me seeing as this stuff has been my job for 30 years:
I used the voice recognition in my car to navigate me to the nearest Lidl.
It offered me a route to Liechtenstein.
It really did. I nearly pissed myself laughing. But then, I would.
The satnav in Hyundai is shit, really shit. In my professional opinion.
Rowley Birkin QC has offered to help Pete Hegseth defend against accusations of mismanagement of state secrets.
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@rejzor@mastodon.world @janrosenow@mastodon.energy They *are* cheap in China, including whatever the local Chinese dealership adds for markup. To get the same car in UK or EU you need to pay a shit ton of taxes and greedy markups by dealerships and so the price pretty much doubles.