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Found the funniest quote today.
China promising to eventually achieve communism is "just trickle down but for leftists". "Trust me bro just a few more decades of police state bro." 😂
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Ah, right, I'm getting it now! 😍
So I tried heading to https://fediversity.site/channel/streams , hitting join and entering DarkOptimism@mstdn.social as my home instance.
I unfortunately then hit a "The page you are looking for isn't here".
Is this interaction between mstdn.social and the streams repository not functional, or am I doing something wrong?
Forgive my ignorance, coming in late, but you say "we provide a way to extract yourself and all your content from this situation".
So is nomadic identity as you define it available now..? Sounds good!
Imagine you live in burning hell and the only possibility to evade the horror for a few minutes left is swimming in the sea or just dipping your toes in the fresh water of the Mediterranean.
Imagine the warden of your torture chamber kills even this little glimmer of hope, of believing that not everything is lost and wasted, by threatening to kill you if you don't follow his orders not to take a bath in the summer heat.
That's about what I can imagine to put into words the sadistic lust which seems to drive the occupiers of Gaza to take from their victims whatever is left to make their life a little less desperate and miserable.
"There are protests, your majesty."
"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"
"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"
"What would you call a society with no protests?"
"Happy, your majesty."
"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."
"I am actually a princess," the frog said.
"Oh no!" said the prince.
"My curse can only be lifted by a prince listening to me."
"Of course," said the prince, and bent down with puckered lips.
"What are you doing?!"
"Kissing you, like you asked!"
"No!"
The frog hopped away, muttering.
Now 61% funded with just two weeks to go.
Our crucial final chance to force sellers to let us know when we're buying genetically-modified food. I'm very grateful to #BeyondGM for organising it.
So much so I just made a SECOND donation to try to help ensure they can carry it forward!
https://stophiddengmos.uk/
I'm so glad people are doing these kinds of things to keep public telephony alive.
Looks like these are being setup in libraries/stores/etc where cell service is bad, so I dont think hes using a cell modem.
I'm betting hes connecting to the local buildings wifi and routing calls that way via VOIP, voice over IP. So these look like a simultaneous donation, his payphone/tech/effort and the locations power/internet.
@Sempf @chartier he may use an Arduino to control the power/signalling to the payphones and other linked equipment.
He appears to be using as much of the original tech as possible - payphones need various extra signalling on top of standard analogue lines - and maybe some other type of ATA (analogue telephone adapter) for the VOIP end (a commercial off the shelf one would be easiest way of dealing with things like battery and ringing voltage, and I believe some of the Grandstream ones even handle loop disconnect (pulse/rotary) dialling).
So great, and I'm not the least little bit surprised. This is so on-brand for VT right now. People here working outside the capitalist economy to support those around them and provide necessary goods and services.
@meganL @Sempf
I was using my grandmother's trusty model 500 rotary up until 2008.
My favourite thing in the world was answering a call by snapping the bottom of my fist down against the cable end of the handset, popping it into the air then catching it and bringing it to my ear in one smooth motion.
I recently emailed him about the payphone here in #ThisOldClownHouse!
Nice guy, directed me to a more geographically local project for help. :)
Payphones "were the only things that were built to last for decades and be out in the elements," says electrical engineer Patrick Schlott. He should know; as a hobby, he buys secondhand payphones, rewires them, then asks local businesses in rural Vermont if they'd let him install them. His goal
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