Trebach

Here it’s “barking up the wrong tree”

it means you are blaming the wrong thing/person for an issue.

He was a jazz singer before ever became the Scatman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MUhl26mAZM

Richmond had Dirtwoman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Corker) until he passed away in 2017.

For posterity and nuance, here’s the answer from their site: Which devices are supported? but you’re right for the most part.

Yiffy McYiffface

I see it following the same trend as other social media IPOs. Line goes up for a bit and then down way below the initial IPO price after a few weeks.

Their legal page mentions the Netherlands, Finland, and Germany. I don’t know which of the latter two they’re hosted in but their hosting company is German, and Germany are a bunch of assholes when it comes to copyright.

Per https://lemmy.world/post/13320356, they got a takedown notice and started going through everything with a fine toothed comb.

(Yes, the van Gogh was protected by glass iirc, but most other paintings aren’t)

The van Gogh was chosen specifically because it was protected by glass.

This is the original: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210

It’s also to do with how likely they’d be to escape and the potential damage if they were to escape that determines what kind of prison they’re placed in.

If they think she might try to escape, she’ll be placed in a prison with higher security if convicted.

He already took a plea agreement for 15-20 years in prison from the announcement linked in the article:

Sentencing is scheduled for November 28. Under the plea agreement, Cox faces at least 15 years and up to 20 years in prison, up to five years of supervised release and registration as a sex offender under the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. In August 2021, Cox pleaded guilty in Portsmouth Circuit Court to charges of carnal knowledge and abduction and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, 10 years of which was later suspended by the court.

The best analogy I can think of is a swimming pool.

It used to have people to treat the pool, skim it, add new water to replace the water lost from evaporation, regulate the chemicals, and try to keep people from pissing in the pool. It was cheap and half decent so people still wanted to visit.

Since Elon bought it, he’s sacked everyone who performed any upkeep to the pool and he’s removed the filters. Now the pool smells terrible, the water has changed color, the water level has dropped substantially, animals are living in it, and the pumps that recirculate water are close to failing entirely. He’s also built a tall fence around it and raised the price of admission.

It’s a total hellhole to the point that the government is close to taking it away and filling it with soil because it’s a health hazard.

Why don’t we let the people affected by this define the verbiage used to refer to them?

Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel wrote the song “Spasticus Autisticus” back in 1981 about Ian’s experiences as a person who was disabled due to polio as a child. He also viewed 1982 being deemed the International Year of Disabled Persons as being patronizing. The BBC and many other UK radio stations banned it from being broadcast.

In 2012, it was broadcast to a worldwide audience as part of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

“Wait, we’re actually trying to go to Texas?! Fuck this noise, I’m heading back.”

When targeted advertising was banned in the Netherlands, NPO (Netherlands Public Omroep) had their various sites switch to advertising based on the contents of the page than the preferences of the user.

It turned out to be more effective to target the content than the user.

The writer reminds me of Terry Davis, except not as bright.

I bought my own router and modem because of that. Cox started locking router features away inside their app and wanted $10/month to change settings on a modem/router combo I was already paying $8/month to rent!

Now the Pi-Hole is my DHCP server.

“John Larkin” by John Larkin only has two copies in existence, one by his widow and the other by an unknown person. If that name seems unfamiliar, it’s because he later became more famous as Scatman John.

It was recorded in 1986 but due to current US copyright law, it won’t enter public domain until December 3, 2069.

There’s a few copies floating around on YouTube and a FLAC version as a torrent. Pirates are keeping his legacy as a jazz performer alive.