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This man is doing great work. In addition to the bills he signed so recently, I was interested to learn that Illinois bans libraries from banning books! That's awesome! He's making Illinois look more and more attractive to live in!

Hopefully someone else can chime in with the specifics/confirmation because I just think I know broadly, but setting up a pihole (or sim) should let you do what you want. Essentially, most of the time the device itself isn't going to let you block its access, so you go further up the chain to your router, and have all data coming into/going out of your network funneled through a raspberry pi. Installing the right software (which I think is pihole) should let you block unauthorized communications outside your local network. Hopefully this is a pointer in the right direction for you

So I feel like I might have an interesting perspective on this...

All throughout college, I saw graduation similar to how you talk about it. I basically thought I'd show up drunk with my buddies, it would take half the day, and then it'd be over. Maybe I'd actually walk, maybe not.

For context, I graduated in the Spring of 2020, right when COVID first was becoming a thing. My graduation ceremony was cancelled, and replaced by a Facebook Live stream. Same speakers and similar speeches to what had been expected, but really none of the pomp and circumstance.

Now if you would've asked me earlier in my college career how I would've felt about my graduation ceremony being cancelled, I probably would've just shrugged it off. But it actually happened. And I find myself feeling like there is something missing from my time at college. Like there was no real sense of closure for the 4 years I spent there, the countless late nights in the library studying for insanely difficult exams, no real send off for the friends I had in the class outside my close circle.

So I feel differently about graduations now. There's always going to be extremes, people who take them way too far. But I see the ceremonies themselves as the way for people (friends, families, professors, etc) to show how proud they are of the accomplishments of the students. And I feel like there's wisdom in acknowledging that the ceremony is how they are trying to express that sentiment to you, and receiving it as intended.

This stunt actually has nothing to do with "fraud" in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn't do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It's these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.

Except there are actually fewer things it shows. The previous track button is missing, for one

Interesting when you think about the two most popular "American" sports, American Football and Baseball. Both of these games have large amounts of dead time built in that advertisers and broadcasters are used to taking advantage of. You have all the time in the world while teams are setting up for plays, taking the field, coming off the field, etc etc etc. Neither of these sports are constant action the way Soccer is. It'd be interesting to find out the effect the dead time in American Football/Baseball has had on the advertising industry over the years, as well as on the advertising culture in the US in general.

No he'll sell enough to not fall below and leave everyone else's retirement savings holding the bag. Fucking ghoul.

I swapped to Qwant a few weeks ago and I've been happy so far! It's very smooth and was straightforward to set up in Firefox on both mobile and desktop.

I mean, if all the harping about the Davidson Window we've been hearing for the last 5 years has any substance at all, choosing to get into a pointless war and wasting all our munitions needlessly is starting to sound a bit like treason...really does a good job setting us up to not be able to defend Taiwan if/when China invades the nation...

I've got my personal phone and a government-issued iPhone. The iPhone gets turned off as soon as I leave work in the evening and I turn it back on when I get to work. I only give out my work phone number, so I don't get bothered when I'm off the clock. It's pretty convenient tbh.

What are the odds this will still work next week after Google allegedly plans to completely kill the search function and just serve up AI hallucinations whenever you try to look anything up?

The same sort of winning the US is doing in Iran