we do not feel it would be fair to our supporters who have already purchased tickets & made plans to attend these shows

Because real Punk fans wouldn’t be able to accept that a show had been cancelled in protest. Although, at this point are any real punk fans going to be at this show?

And odds are all those people are republicans.

I passed a police car on the interstate a few weeks ago in Kentucky that had its windshield smashed out by snow/ice flying off the top of a semi. The amount of damage was impressive and scary.

My mom is what’s known as an ‘unreliable medical historian’… she very often hears something completely different from what her doctor tells her. I don’t want to say that she lies, because I think a ‘lie’ is a conscious choice that people make… but I also don’t think she’s incapable of understanding what her doctor tells her. I think she just has an idea of what the doctor is going to say, and when it is different she has a hard time letting go of her expectation and replacing it with reality.

I have no idea if this relates to your mother or situation in any way… but if I took everything my mom said her doctor told her then she is the most unique medical specimen ever. Her diabetes is unlike anyone else’s because she can still eat whatever she wants, when she wants… her doctor said that it’s not a problem. And her diabetes has changed from type 2 to type 1. As she was preparing for spine surgery she was convinced that she’d be back home, on her own in 2 weeks (it was closer to 9 months). She swears that the only surgeon that her primary care doctor wants her to see is 2 states over, 6 hours from any of her family (I’ve looked him up, he’s decent, but by no means a unique surgeon). And lots of other strange stuff over the years, including when I was a child.

The only thing the FDA needs to hear is that this will make a lot of money for the shareholders.

It’s pretty great, and goes right up to the start of Rogue One.

It makes the already sad Rogue One even more heartbreaking.

That said, it is a slow moving show… my wife couldn’t stick with it.

It’s actually even better than that because I have free charging at work, so I often get home with 2/3rds of my battery capacity left.

Shit… and here I’ve just been blaming tariffs and inflation for my money disappearing!

Damn those manufacturers.

I got a Chevy Volt last year and I went from spending $350 per month on gas to spending around $20 per month (up to almost $30 when it was so cold last month).

I’m just sad that the bill isn’t written specifically to be able to block trump’s pardons.

I’m sorry, but have you met people?

I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood and even then my neighbors are too close. Kids across the street out playing basketball at 11:30 at night. Neighbor behind my house burns their yard trash on any day that’s halfway decent to be outside, meaning my wife can’t be out there due to her asthma. A family on the next street over have parties several times a year where music is blasting so loud I can hear it in my bedroom until 2am. Even with these annoyances it is still a much more peaceful place to live than when I was living in apartments in the city.

Yeah, some communities on Lemmy don’t like it when you have a nuanced take on something so I’m pleasantly surprised by the upvotes I’ve gotten.

I’m running a Framework Desktop with a Strix Halo and 128GB RAM and up until Qwen3 Next I was having a hard time running a useful local LLM, but this model is very fast, smart and capable. I’m currently building a frontend for it to give it some structure and make it a bit autonomous so it can monitor my systems and network and help keep everything healthy. I’ve also integrated it into my Home Assistant and it does great there as well.

Yeah, I was told that I have no idea what living paycheck to paycheck actually is like because I have a 401k.

I agree with you that it needs to be local and self-hosted… I currently have an incredible AI assistant running locally using Qwen3-Coder-Next. It is fast, smart and very capable. However, I could not have gotten it setup as well as I have without the help of Claude Code… and even now, as great as my local model is, it still isn’t to the point that it can handle modifying its own code as well as Claude. The future is local, but to help us get there a powerful cloud-based AI adds a lot of value.

“The violent left!”

And the drawback to a laser is that they can be very easy to see where it’s coming from.

Caltrops are ridiculously easy to make from a box of nails, a torch and a welder.

What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel? I’d much rather go look at dinosaurs, or visit the construction of the pyramids, or go listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.

I would counter that if you have a time machine then you literally have all the time in the world and you can do all of those things, and more.

I know that the Black Panthers have a history of protecting polls while armed, but perhaps it’s time we allow people of all colors to be armed and protecting the polls.

There’s a lot more of us than there are of ICE.

Horrible for all involved.

I’ve been the boss in this situation, and it sucks.

And a year later I was there with HR and my boss.

And a year later my boss was there with HR and his boss.

Fuck HR.