Wonder if Biden regrets taking credit for writing the PATRIOT Act, setting the stage for using claims of “domestic terrorism” as an excuse for mass surveillance and treating US citizens like they’re dangerous for existing, much like they did with Aghani and Iraqi citizens.

I wonder if Hillary regrets her “Pied Piper” strategy to elevate Trump during the primaries in 2016 through her media connections yet.

This is a direct result of her own hubris, but I bet she still blames the voters despite directly having a hand in getting to where he is.

Woosh.

Gave up on Windows fully on my desktop/laptop over a year ago after running numerous Linux servers for years (starting with a Raspberry Pi in 2016). I used to dual-boot for several years, and now I have a Windows VM I keep around in case I need it for something… but in practice I don’t actually need it for anything and haven’t spun up the Windows VM six months or more.

It’s already here in all but name, which I think is what this article is also implying.

More than half.

Unraid probably is in the pay resort area as well.

A Trump never pays their debts.

He’s here to do some business with the Big Iron on his hip

I thought drones were just going to be a fad, but they’ve become huge, especially in terms of government and corporate surveillance. I should have realized the way it was going when America started using them militarily. American military inventions almost always end up becoming popular consumer products/applications.

Man I think all of us mistakenly thought this. The early internet had such promise.

Blockchain would be so much more useful if it contained enough data to store photos/audio/video.

Literally the fact that you can’t is the only thing that made the entire NFT craze stupid as hell, because it’s just a link to a file, not the file itself.

It seems so shortsighted, especially in an era of such massive computing power and high internet speeds, to not be developing a chain that can support that kind of data if you really want to make “ownership” of specific data a thing.

And it would help in exactly this scenario because not only you would have the fact that it was added to the chain at the moment it happened, but you would have the original cryptographically signed and able to be proven to be the original every time.

Blockchain really does have so many good uses, and hardly anyone uses them for that, it’s all just conmen and criminals who use it primarily. Like those Judges for the ICC that the US is sanctioning, one aspect of cryptocurrency was originally to help debanked people still partake in public life, and those people could use something like that right now as the US locks them out of all US-based services.

https://mander.xyz/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1

I count 25 serious communities just on the first page of your instance showing all communities from all instances (37 on the second page). This is the primary way to find new communities, and it’s relatively simple to use, imho.

Look, people have explained it to you several times in here and at this point you’re being purposefully obtuse. Go subscribe to non-meme communities, only look at your subscriptions, and maybe stop bothering people demanding they cater to how you want to communicate. Your life and experiences aren’t a universal experience, let other people be.

The only memes I see are from meme communities, and I see a bunch of communities dedicated to thoughtful discussion, because I’m subscribed to them. I never look at the frontpage, I only look at my subscribed communities, and I’m only subbed to a minimal amount of meme communities. If I unsubbed from them, I wouldn’t see memes at all.

Also, the world is fucking dark and shitty. Sometimes people would rather make jokes about it than talk deeply about it because they’re trying to not go crazy and end up suicidal from facing too much darkness. Humor is often used as a release valve for painful subjects. Why not let the people who don’t have it in them to get into lengthy discussions just handle it in whatever way works for them.

It doesn’t even make sense in context at all. It’s so painfully obviously a move intended to harm out of sheer vindictiveness. Food stamps aren’t even connected to the issue they are claiming fraud over. They are raging about people using funds for day cares that don’t serve children… so the response is to take food out of children’s mouths? It’s so fucking stupid and so transparently intentionally evil.

I sincerely hope this raises more money than the white woman on a racist tirade against a black child.

I just want something to show me there’s more good than there is evil in the world.

read this in (human) Bender’s voice.

Just… don’t connect them to the internet? Or if you must connect them for dumb shit like system updates, put them behind some access control where the only access they have is the server they get updates from.

Cry more.