a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school in Shelbyville, Tennessee, that offers classes to students as young as three years old.

This is just dumb. A 3-year old isn’t going to learn anything useful at a BJJ school. I hope that it’s really just daycare and parents aren’t being overcharged thinking their toddlers are learning self-defence.

“What makes them unique is the ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ approach, which aims at fooling law enforcement into believing Active Clubs are just about sports,”

Sure, it’s “law enforcement” who they’re fooling, because otherwise “law enforcement”, especially “law enforcement” in rural Tennessee would step in to protect the population from the racists. Right?

Also, shouldn’t these racists be focusing on HEMA, not a Brazilian version of a Japanese martial art?

This would never happen in Springfield.

Insert angry goose meme: “States’ rights to do what?”

Want to look like a bad-ass tough guy [please don’t look into this], without having to actually do anything other than buy merch and possibly buy an overpriced motorcycle? Just buy Harley Davison gear, and we promise people won’t actually be laughing at you.

The lawnmower also serves a useful function.

Yeah, I was on the fence about that. If someone has just a motorcycle and none of the gear, I might give them a pass, based on which motorcycle and how they have it set up.

If someone carries a gun and they have a normal low-threat job and live in a normal low-threat suburb: wow, that person lives in a fantasy world, and is just looking for an excuse to hurt someone. What an absolute loser.

If someone has a good quality bicycle that they actually use: you got your shit together!

Someone normal looking wearing clothing that references a nerdy hobby/interest: this person is self-confident enough to not be afraid to admit to having a nerdy side.

If someone seems extremely socially awkward and is wearing that kind of clothing it’s different. But if it’s someone who looks like a soccer mom but she’s wearing a Critical Role tee shirt, she’s cool. Or if it’s a guy who looks like a construction worker with an Anime character: nice one, dude.

Harley Davidson clothing: they’re very insecure.

The last major American privacy law, the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act was passed in 1988 by Reagan. The only reason it happened is that politicians realized that their privacy was affected. Robert Bork was going through his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and someone got a hold of the tapes he had rented and published them.

Politicians were worried about their own personal privacy, so they passed a new law to protect the privacy of people’s video tape rentals.

Maybe the fact that the targets here were politicians will mean that something will happen with data privacy, for once.

You’re the only person who mentioned the window.

An efficient way to drain dishware is great, but looking out the window when you’re in the kitchen brings much joy.

That’s true, but it’s very hard to come up with a system that can’t be gamed. The fact that you’re not aware of Australia’s system works means it’s probably even more vulnerable to exploitation because nobody in Australia is paying attention.

Really, all political systems are based to some extent on people acting honourably and acting in the best interest of the country rather than themselves or their political party. Eventually that always breaks down.

I imagine that they could find that leeching is illegal if you upload anything to any other torrent clients. I think Meta was claiming they were literally in the clear because they were being assholes and configuring their clients not to share at all.

But yeah, keep your ratio above 1, or you’re a jerk.

e-note be like telegram memorandum memo but not on paper, on computer magic blinky box.

Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet

Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point

Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.

When you’re on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.

AFAIK it was more about getting away from Thomas Edison’s patents.

AFAIK, you don’t actually need actually need an LLM to do it, as long as you do what Meta did and not upload anything at all. The one who did the copyright infringement is the one who supplied the data to you.

I can’t help but feel that sane countries have an officer’s badge number visible at all times and that it’s a fireable offence to hide it in any way.

This isn’t something that someone should have to ask for, because there’s always a chance the officer might not comply. The officers you most need to get a badge number for are the ones who are going to try to hide it.

I can understand in 2025 that telling someone your name is dangerous. That’s as true for cops as it would be for a barista, a bouncer or a librarian. People are psychos and doxxing is too easy. But, there’s no reason that the public shouldn’t know a permanent ID for a cop that could be used in lawsuits or criminal proceedings.