This article has some good info, especially in the photos.

Got a face like a deflated waterbed, that one.

Two month old account, all trollish whataboutery, bothsidesing, pro-Russia/anti-Ukraine: what are the chances ol’ index over here is getting paid per post? In rubles?

Blocked, and good riddance.

4 day old account, most of it comments like this, probably getting paid in rubles. Block that shit if you value your reading time.

To everyone in this thread thinking ooh, how horrible for those poor women, where can I get some, may all your deepfake nudes end up looking like Donald Trump mushroom hunting with sixteen misshapen fingers through Jabba the Hutt folds of his own curdled fat.

I have Foxit installed and can usually use that, but am forced to have Adobe Reader installed for other reasons.

Adobe Reader will now never be updated on my machine. It’s a small price to pay. And Foxit is great for most pdf tasks.

Yeah, this is just the opening salvo; the actual hearing is on Monday. But NY state law on both the payment of judgements and what constitutes an actual surety is clear, and Letitia James is just quietly locking every door around this fool with it, whether he knows it or not.

As the representative of the winning party in the original lawsuit, Letitia James already has the right to decline any surety under NY state law. But this filing and others before it demonstrate that she’s going out of her way to create an actual legal basis for the repeated rejection of this non-existent surety, just to ensure Trump’s play is ultimately unwinnable.

He’s already just another defendant who can’t pay and Ms. James is not fooled. She’s keeping her eye on the real ball legally and not getting distracted by his never-ending shouts of “Squirrel!”

The actual hearing is on Monday. Should be interesting.

There was a point not so long ago where Adobe Collaboration Sync got so bad on my Windows 10 box it wouldn’t let me close any pdfs that were open. “File in use” error, even if all Adobe programs were closed except for that pdf. I’d have to go into Task Manager and manually kill it. Between that and Adobe Updater I couldn’t get rid of it by any known means, and it was choking the shit out of my machine.

I’m transitioning to Linux but not there yet, still need the Windows box for now, so I had to do something. But I’m old school, so it was a DOS batch file to the rescue. I call it “kiladobe.bat”:

taskkill /f /im armsvc.exe       
del "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\armsvc.exe"      
taskkill /f /im AdobeCollabSync.exe     
del "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\AdobeCollabSync.exe"      

It’s now a scheduled task in taskschd.msc. I put kiladobe.bat in the main Adobe program folder (heh) and run that task as administrator at startup and every four hours or so, give or take an hour.

No more problems.

Now, all that remains is that every so often I see the command window flash up for a split second because this batch file is killing Adobe shit, and it just makes me smile. (I could probably make it stop flashing up the CLI, but I genuinely enjoy the reminder of how I’m fucking Adobe’s virus-like install and lock endeavors up the ass.)

EDITED TO ADD a simple “@echo off” by itself as the first line would probably turn off any appearance of the CLI, if anyone wants to use this text for their own batch file. If that didn’t work I’d probably throw a space and a “>nul” at the end of each line to grab the output and throw it into neverneverland.

Didn’t he call Biden a “demented tyrant” recently? I don’t have the link handy, but reading that my first thought was NOT that Biden was a deranged tyrant, lol.

This means his staff won’t be able to whisk him out of the public gaze as soon as he starts displaying instances of clear cognitive decline, especially sundowning if the trial days run long.

Add to that the obvious problem of continence and the need to be able to change those products as needed.

This is a lot worse for Trump than missing a kid’s graduation. Speaking of cognitive decline, it was strange Trump spoke of himself in the third person there:

“I was looking forward to that graduation, with his mother and father there, and it looks like the judge does not allow me to escape this scam,” he said.

The kid looks exactly like Donald did back in the 60s; I don’t think there’s any doubt at all as to Barron’s parentage.

But we can all look forward to more verbal slips like this, especially if he starts decompensating again as rapidly as he seemed to toward the end of the E. Jean Carroll trial.

Admin approval with some text that needs a little bit of thought to fill out is surprisingly effective and definitely slows down spammers a lot.

I had to do that on dbzer0 and I think beehaw, they were both a fun exercise and took no time at all. Hell, I ended up submitting a wall of text about Sacco and Vanzetti on dbzer0 if I remember correctly, lol. But if nothing else they knew that it was 1) a human, and 2) I really believe what I was saying.

If the point is to get regular users who are thoughtful participants in online communities, requiring an email address and the typing of a few coherent words on their own behalf is NOT a barrier to entry, or even a much of a bar. After all, these people are applying to join a forum in which they are presumably going to spend unlimited time typing statements of their own creation in the future. Instance owners are just requiring a bit of that up front, and it’s not a huge ask.

It is, however, a very frustrating requirement for people who want to open multiple accounts for spamming and trolling purposes, and for that reason alone is a great filter for applicants.

Lol, true enough. I stand corrected.

In NY an appeal bond is subject to approval by the winning party, in this case Letitia James on behalf of the state. All she has to do is turn it down, and Trump is right back where he started. She stated her intention to do so last week, and that will be accompanied by a hearing in front of Judge Engoron.

If he loses the appeal or the appeal is dismissed, he’s on the hook no matter which way you slice this. If Knight Specialty Insurance Company and/or Mr. Hankey will not agree to be bound to repay in the event of Trump’s default, regardless of the means by which they try, then it’s not a valid appeal bond in the state of New York --and Letitia James is anything but stupid. She refused the bond last week; only now are reporters catching up on the specifics of why she did so.

This whole article is a big fat nothing, situation unchanged. Trump just wanted to stop the collection by any means possible, as soon as possible. Wait for the hearing if you want real news.

Whirling, I thought your original strikethrough for the actual text was perfect – seeing as how they’ve pretty much nixed that section from their own Reader’s Digest Condensed versions. I thought you meant to do strikethrough, lol.

Yeah, I specifically avoided all that, seeing as how I now believe the entire religion is false.

But for anyone willing to hold their breath long enough to see these Christofascists stop making it up as they go along and actually give two shits about their own holy book, that’s definitely a point for consideration.

All true. Thank you for taking the time to clarify.

That link you included – HARD disagree.

The belief that Christian nationalism poses a significant threat to democracy ignores reality. America has rapidly secularized, and the Christian identity has been in a state of decline for decades. Likewise, Christian practice in America is highly fragmented, with hundreds of denominations, each with its own doctrines and political preferences. This high variance in religious interpretation undermines the entire concept of Christian nationalism. There is no consensus on Christian identity to form a nationalist movement around.

“Christian nationalism” is a profound danger to democracy right now, because the movement is not coalescing around any known or recognizable form of Christianity but around a demagogue, Trump, backed by foreign funded emotion-twisting propaganda.

Forget the word “Christian” in this context: it has no relationship with the actual Christian religion practiced for two millennia. It’s just a slogan for them to gather under so that they can all feel holier than everyone else. Less filling, tastes great.

The entire linked article fights a non-existent strawman. What is going on today isn’t about secularism vs Christianity. This is about group hate, constantly stoked and re-energized by ongoing propaganda, and to what enemy it is directed at today, and who controls the entire machine to achieve political and social ends.

“His phylactery is broader than mine! Not fair! I want a broad phylactery! MOM!!”

“Son, your tassels are longer. When you get older, you’ll appreciate this more.”

Wonder Bread was in the running, back in the 60s.

This – praying in tongues – is one of the multiple theological reasons why, after 35 years of Christianity were finally over for me, I can never go back. Ever.

To put it briefly, among those Christians that believe in it, praying in tongues is a function of the Holy Spirit, given at the will of that portion of the trinity, not to be mocked or taken lightly any more than the Holy Spirit is to be mocked or taken lightly. I wasn’t into it but it never even occurred to me to mock or denigrate those who were, because it’s a big deal to them, a very serious thing. And I still don’t want to.

But every single time I have ever seen it done publicly, like this (and even in some churches) it has been a circus sideshow and a mess, accompanied by extremes in personal behavior, not undertaken with any kind of seriousness but with arrogance and frivolity, and in such a way as to invite outsiders to make a mockery of it.

It doesn’t track, and it never did. Put it this way. When you personally – yes, you human reading this, whether you are religious or atheist or none of the above – have a sense of something that is truly special to you, truly set apart, you do not parade it around like Eddie Murphy with an ice cream cone, lol. That’s what holiness is: a state of being set apart. That’s what the gift of tongues is supposed to be, according to historical Christianity. But you’d never know it by these public displays of sanctimony.

To put this into historical context, communion is also considered holy – the holiest of the holy – and for centuries was conducted in solemnity behind closed and locked doors, after non-believers were ushered out. There is still a nod to this practice in Eastern Orthodox liturgies even now, two full millennia later, and to this day I have never been in any church anywhere that treated the practice of communion with this level of disrespect.

But these days you get to a function of the “Holy Spirit” itself, the release of this “gift” upon select humans, only to see that apparently the Holy Spirit is now picking the absolute worst of humanity, the most overtly profane people it can find, so that this “gift” – and by extension the Holy Spirit itself – can be made into a political show in places like the floor of the Arizona State Senate for the rest of humanity to look, point, mock, and wonder:

If this is real, why THOSE guys???