I feel like if you get shot on active duty for the US military, it ought to just be an automatic citizenship, or something...
hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/06/24/u…
U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii
Kunia resident Sae Joon Park, a decorated Army veteran, was given three weeks to return to South Korea, after 48 years in the U.S.Annalisa Burgos (Hawaii News Now)
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As the witches were those that were practicing medicine by today's standards. Yes, we should have been very afraid of those that burnt witches, and most average people were. That is how they got away with it. People were to afraid to oppose the church. After all they did kill those that opposed them. It was just not a healthy thing to do.
This one paragraph sums up a decade of MS-DOS use for me:
"The original MS-DOS Editor represented a major step forward for Microsoft's command-line text-editing capabilities at the time of its release. Before 1991, DOS users suffered through EDLIN, a line-based editor so primitive and user-hostile that many people resorted to typing "COPY CON filename.txt" and hoping for the best."
Microsoft's relaunch of EDIT for Linux implies that they're relaunching QBASIC for Linuxarstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Edlin was a MS/DOS compatible version of the Unix ed utility and it was awkward to use. I was very happy to see edit though I was not using it long before I migrated to GNU/Linux and found I preferred vi and later vim which I still use today.
If someone is a basic developer on GNU/Linux I am sure they would find gambas far more useful than qbasic though I do have a soft spot for these nostalgic applications. 😉
So I did build a copy of edit and installed it on my system. 😀
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Not sure how a photo of a page in George Orwell's book 1984 is copyrighted to Dandelion Salad? Here is a free copy distributed under the Fair Use clause of copyrighted material.
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Feeling Overwhelmed
I lost some sleep today. Not because I had to be up though because I could not calm the monkey (monkey brain). My to do list keeps growing because I keep freezing instead of reacting. It is almost funny how different we can be versus how people perceive us. Keep in mind I do not deliberately try to fit in or appease people's expectations. Though that is just a part of my insecurities. Most people that know me believe I am very confident. Not so much. I am actually very insecure and spend a lot of time reading, researching and studying. Just to be sure that what I want to believe is actually something that is real. Insecurity is a huge motivation in my life. I am very concerned about not knowing. Though I do realize I cannot know everything. I like to be informed about those things that do interest me.
It is time to go to work and I will consider this more when I have the opportunity. I am not really trying to get anywhere with this line of thought. I am just trying to clear it from my head. 😀 😉
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not just our socials; all the media everyone pays attention to is owned by oligarchs or oligarch wanna-be aristocrats like the sulzbergers with the times.
Every major "journalism" org in the country. Including the "liberal" ones.
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Orwell was an awesome critical thinker. He understood the ideologies behind linguistics. In forensic linguistics we can tell that a historical society lacked a certain belief or even consideration of that belief due to their having no words in their language to identify or describe that belief. In '1984' he introduced the idea of a culture removing words from their society to force them to think along the terms the ruling factor wanted them to. If you have not read '1984' I highly recommend it.
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In the near future I will be acquiring a VPS with more resources than the one that Rogue Project Friendica is hosted on at this time. I am not certain of exactly when though it will happen on a weekend. The move should be uneventful and transparent (hopefully). Though, when it is time I will be letting everyone know so they can backup their personal data if they feel a need to. The Instance will be down for a brief period of time while I backup and move the database to the new VPS. This should not take too long. I will keep you advised.
note: This means I will have to update my domain information that can take some time to propagate. Though in my experience it usually will not take all that long.
Have a great day!
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That is a whole new level of F'd-UP.
In my opinion anyone who is allowed to serve in The United States military should be made a citizen (nationalized). Whether shot or not they served this country. It should be an automatic. Besides we should not have non-citizens serving in the military, it is a security issue. So when they are vetted and allowed to join it should be an automatic citizenship period.