I usually use TSC wood pellets as cat litter since they're cheap and just break down into sawdust with use. There's other brands I can shift to, but I'll pay a bit of a premium for it

The "under god" portion was added in the 50s or 60s, same with adding "in god we trust" to all currency

When I was in school the pledge was always preceded by the statement "we live in a nation of freedom, participation in the pledge of voluntary. Those who wish to participate please stand, other may remain seated and quiet"

I remember when it first dawned on me how creepy the pledge is I began to sit and one teacher was like "what are you doing? You have to stand up!" so I explained that it seems creepy, and quoted the statement they always precede the pledge by and the teacher replied "oh I never thought about that" and left me alone from then on on the subject

I feel like a browser API that just gives info to the site when request of either "is under age, is of age to create an account, is adult" might be an easy way to establish something like this too

This way the site can voluntarily check if they're illegally collecting data on minors, if they're showing adult content to adults, and automatically display age appropriate content of applicable

Maybe an NSFW flag as well that sites can check to automatically show/hide NSFW content, for example on work machines or shared computers, but that's probably getting a little too finegrained

The real question is how is the age flag determined? Is it determined by the browser? The OS? Browser seems the safest bet, since Google can base it off of the Google Account, Microsoft can base it off the Microsoft account and Mozilla can shove it in the settings and potentially base it on the Mozilla account

My current work acquired a company with a very poorly provisioned IT department. Their networks all happen to be in the low 192.168.0.0/16 so users VPNing in often end up with wonky IP conflicts. I've heard warnings about similar when selecting subnet ranges, so I just stick with low 192.168.0.0/16 ranges for home networks from which I might potentially VPN into a network I don't control, and I use 172.16.0.0/12 or 10.0.0.0/8 at work as needed and as aligns with our wider topology.

I will also add that I encountered some fun challenges at a small bank I worked at where they clearly under-planned their network and carried a bunch of wonky configs as vestigial networking adaptations as they grew. They did do a cool thing where they made each branch its own /24 subnet so you could tell at a glance exactly what branch someone was connecting from, plus branches could theoretically limp along with an ISP outage, but they didn't the extra steps of setting up edge servers so the end result was a full branch outage during an ISP outage

Personally I do a Tailscale tunnel to my home network, if nothing else but so that services don't log a hotel IP

sets subnet to 10.0.0.0/16 so I don’t have to type a yee yee ass class B/C address everytime I wanna do something with an address

Personally I find 172.16.0.0/12 addresses are easier for me to quickly type accurately than any other private range. 192.168.0.0/16 is just too many similar-but-different digits, and 10.0.0.0/8 is too many similar/the same digits before I get to the digits I actually care about, so both are more error prone for me

172.31.254.0/24 range is for manual assignments and 172.31.255.0/24 range is given out by DHCP. I do not need that many IPs, it’s just for convenience.

I do similar for my home network, mostly for a combination of future proofing and ease of use.

Realistically it would probably make more sense to segment it with more networks, but I'm only going to go so far with complexity for my home production

Saddest part of sovcitizenry is it usually starts when someone is in a legal and/or financial bind and meet a grifter who tells them there's a secret second system that will make their problems go away if they just say the right magic words (which is partially true. In most legal and financial challenges you have routes you can take to get out of them with the least amount of pain, and both mean sending the right paperwork to the right person at the right time, and usually including the right payments as well) but these grifters cause the poor souls to dig themselves in deeper so that they end up in a mountain of increasingly difficult to manage trouble whereas they previously just had a molehill that they needed someone to help them find the right solution to manage

I got to a similar point when I gave up

Getting decent output from AI is an art in ofitself. A lot of tinkering with parameters, getting close then trying again. Taking a good output, pulling it into an image editor to fix the broken bits, sometimes repeating that process multiple times until you get what you're looking for.

I think in the long run it'll be a tool that artists use, much like many digital artists today use tools that once were considered to be antithetical and unreconcilable with art

My point was that the average American is simply too disconnected from politics to see this. The average voter is terrifyingly uninformed