“Elon Musk sure seems… Dumb…”

This feels like it attacks the problem at the margins. How is this approach more effective than direct dilution of power and flattening of hierarchies?

It’s almost as if fascism and unbridled capitalism have some kind of a mutually beneficial relationship.

Weird.

I feel like everyone forgot what happened last time.

People in unmarked vans with no identifying patches or badges, just fatigues, grabbing people off the streets at night in the northwest.

Even worse than the official fascists, the unofficial ones who were emboldened to act with impunity, riding into cities and inciting violence. Attempting to run Kamala’s bus off the road in 2020 in Texas.

Dems run like they want to lose. Always conceding the arguments of the fascists. Touting the endorsement of monsters like Dick Cheney. The kinds of monsters who made the Republican party what it is today.

If “senior democrats” actually gave a shit about avoiding conflict in the US, they’d actually be fighting for universal voting rights and eliminating FPTP voting.

I have seen exactly one yard sign for him.

Ha! That’s wild. You can literally just buy it at the farm store in town here.

I’m sure it’s far cheaper there too.

That’s certainly… An opinion.

Not to downplay your point at all, but didn’t John Edwards do exactly that with a staffer when his wife was dying?

She should lean harder into supporting the genocide. That’ll help.

Is it not safe to expose externally with ssl yet?

Hey now, he’s just an excitable boy.

If you’re not afraid of picking up a wrench yourself:

I just switched to an OPNSense router on protectli hardware.

You don’t have to use something like that to use OPNSense though, you can just put it on nearly any old machine with a couple of nics. The out of the box config isn’t terrible and you can find a ton of guides on how to set yourself up securely.

So how long till the Supremes rule that CBP is not only allowed to search your phone but also to perform colonoscopies at checkpoints 100 miles inland and sell the resulting videos to extremely wealthy perverts?

Beyond any issues with the owner of the company, these cars have multiple dangerous issues.

You cannot treat a company that makes physical stuff that can endanger lives the same way you treat a software company that makes a leisure activity platform.

Iterative design for a purely software environment is way more forgiving than iterative design for physical hardware or even software that interacts with physical hardware. You can profoundly fuck up the backend for a website and take the whole thing down until you could roll back to last known good production, you won’t kill anyone, but you’ll make the line go down temporarily.

If you profoundly fuck up an iteration on an embedded vehicle system and don’t catch it because you don’t respect safety regulation or existing engineering norms you can and will kill people.

Analogue doesn’t have firmware that can reject a device based on id.

So you can reverse engineer a replacement part if you absolutely have to.

“Lo, should thine enemies strike thine cheek, thou shalt goatse.”

I talk to my stepmom more than I talk to my bio mom these days. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

Nobody hates the poor like the newly wealthy.

Oh was that with the rail workers Union?

I forgot, how did he treat them?

That’ll work out well for them. Fascists are famously tolerant of people who are slightly different.