I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”

And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.

https://signmyrocket.com/

Originally, fire departments only dealt with fires. In the 1960’s and 1970’s it became clear that a rapid response health service would be beneficial. Rather than create a whole new system from scratch, that function was tacked onto the existing fire service by having EMTs and paramedics on staff. And the initial focus was primarily on providing rapid transit: delivering the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Response time was the dominant metric used to grade emergency medical providers. It took more decades to fully appreciate that treatments applied at the accident scene or in transit could be as important as, or more important than, response time.

There’s an argument to be made that fire departments are somewhat obsolete. They spend most of their time dealing with medical and mental health issues, not fighting fires. We would probably benefit as a society by replacing a lot of firefighters with house call nurses to help manage people’s long-term health issues before they become emergencies.

I have a Rayhunter but have never sent a data capture to EFF. I believe you are supposed to download it to your PC then send the file to their Signal account.

https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/faq.html

This is a great time for people to start building and operating Rayhunters, and to share the results with the EFF to improve the tool.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

I am 100% in favor of the message behind this flag, but holy crap it’s a real eyesore. Same with the Progress Pride flag and some of the other LGBTQ flags. I keep hoping some skilled graphic designers out there will come up with cleaner designs.

“…_forever…”

“No way, man. We’re going to keep on rocking forever!”

One of the main Lemmy devs is working on a federated wiki project called ibis:

https://ibis.wiki/article/Main_Page

I only know that it exists. I have not used it so I can’t give any opinion of its maturity or usefulness.

This is a crime.

Unpaid. And, at least in my experience, you have to use up your paid leave before you can start drawing from that unpaid time. That is worlds different from the typical paid time off in Europe.

Edit: I totally missed the satirical tone of your comment the first time I read it.

You came in with the breeze on Sunday morning…

V-TECH toys. Noisy, annoying garbage that people love to gift to infants and toddlers.

After that it’s a toss up between a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.

They really want you to know that they went to the beach once, and they might do it again.

I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel

A winter's day  
In a deep and dark December

I am alone  
Gazing from my window to the streets below  
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock I am an island

I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock I am an island

Don't talk of love
Well I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock I am an island

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock I am an island

And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries

“I think so, but can the Gummi Worms really live in peace with the Marshmallow Chicks?”

Nyquil comes in two colors: red and green. And it’s the only thing on the planet that tastes like red and green.

— Lewis Black

Yep, Alaska.

I have encountered a few all-gender bathrooms in the wild, and they have all been really nice. I hope they stop being a political football someday so we can get more of them.