The Mom:

I literally just bought some recently for an old board.

I lived through being at the epicenter of the West Nile outbreak in Louisiana in the early 2000s and all I got was that stupid West Nile virus.

Didn’t this country lose its shit and clutch it’s pearls over public beheadings in other countries?

I wonder how long until it’s public beheadings here.

Like the kind of shit that traumatized us growing up and that youtube would go out of their way to make sure got removed each time it got reposted. Now it’s live streamed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to simply as A Modest Proposal, is a 1729 satirical essay by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. The essay, written from the perspective of a fictional narrator, suggests that the Irish poor could ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to wealthy gentlemen and ladies. In English writing, the phrase “a modest proposal” is now conventionally an allusion to this style of deadpan satire.

Found Jonathan Swift’s Lemmy account.

Matrix is aimed at enterprise sized organizations and it shows.

I am an old fart and still find pretty solid deals on craigslist.

They can still eat shit since they STILL fund anti-lgbtq organizations, to my knowledge.

I got a free year of perplexity.ai which gives me limited access to claude sonnet and yeah, its honestly pretty good.

Actually I think the Bush example is a bad one because I think that aspect of the 2016 election was memory-holed.

Originally the media was pushing Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton, and Clinton herself was so fucksure that was going to be the match up she pushed her media contacts to focus on lunatics like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, trying to show people how crazy they were. She underestimated two things here.

1. People being tired of both the Bushes and the Clintons. Trump came in as an outsider and shook things up, as no one was enthusiastic for Jeb “please clap” Bush. Clinton used the fact that she was essentially funding the entire DNC apparatus to put the finger on the scale because no one was really excited for her either, although she never had an equivalent “please clap” moment.

2. How people saw politicians like Bush and Clinton as maneuvering and calculating and following the winds of popularity rather than facing difficult problems head on. As much as Clinton was right to peg Trump as a lunatic, she underestimated (I did and still do too, I don’t get it) Trump’s charisma. Her self assuredness that it would be her vs. Bush was a total misread of an era where people were sick of current politicians in general and any kind of outsider became appealing (the explosion of interest in Bernie Sanders is snother example in the same period).

Anyway I think the push for Bush . Clinton alienated a lot of voters from both. I remember it was a common complaint I heard at the time from both people on the left and right.

I mean, I feel very called out right now.

Instead of .local my internal network domain is .evil.lair with a landing page saying “fuck off” and nothing else at https://evil.lair/

The description for my local domain is “Volcano Lair on Spider Skull Island.”

Why do people keep helping him???

Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???

It isn’t portable enough and usually you need a reason to be at the hospital, not just hanging out.

Hospitals tend to have uninterrupted power supplies.

…what does this have to do with anything?

I love my local LLM voice recognition on my PC through Speech Note on Linux.

Underrated comment. These things often don’t go as quickly as people think.

Russia has been basically collapsing my whole life after barely scraping itself back up after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. Yet they still persist. The same could well happen to us.

I mean Trump is doing roughly the same just not with words.

But even if the technical side of security is top notch, infiltration would be trivial…

Yeah really bad opsec all around in a LOT of these groups, but I’m not really sure how you organize without a means of communications. I think collective ownership of the means of communication is just as important to laborers as collective ownership of the means of production.

Honestly, I’m really less worried about myself and more worried about people in more dangerous situations where the cost of such a thing dwarfs even the cost to me. There’s tons of people out there who are being actively monitored by their governments and they simply can’t afford it. Like all the dirt poor immigrants being deported to countries they have never been to.