the issue was already personal, pitting service against citizenship

For the record, no, it’s pitting unconstitutional orders against sworn duty.

I don’t want the military to decide any outcomes, but I do think just about time they let everyone involved know that the military’s only loyalty is to the people and the constitution. Yes, they take orders from the president, but we have checks and balances for a reason, and I’d feel better if the military just stated plainly their primary goal is to keep it that way.

But seriously, fuck X.

No, the article is dated March 5th. This is old news.

As long as you’re counting location as a resource. Ex. Cuba was an advantageous location for the Soviet Union during the cold war.

Mk, you’re not interested, that’s what I thought. Cheers.

That is an absolutely wild claim to make.

I need to go to bed, but if you’re actually interested in educating yourself, I recommend looking up our interest payments on national debt over time, when social security began running a deficit, debt-to-gdp over time, and the long term impacts of the 2008 financial crisis bailouts.

But if you’re just here for the circle jerk, then sure, make whatever baseless claims you want. Later.

Edit: this is actually a pretty good summary I watched recently

You would have to be a very skilled economist to destroy an economy this much in such a short time on purpose

This definitely did not happen over the course of 6mo, nor did it take advanced levels of ineptitude. This didn’t even happen over the course of the last 8 years. We’ve been kicking this can down the road since at least 9/11, and the trickle down mentality that started the ball rolling took hold 25 years before that.

Someone willing to grab the helm could have mitigated a lot of the damage by making a lot of unpopular budget cuts, particularly to the military, and hiking up taxes on the wealthy, but that’s not why he’s here.

Now we’re running an experiment to see how high debt-to-gdp can get for the country with the reserve currency. If we were any other country, we would have already imploded.

it featured “some very inappropriate shows,” including a “Marxist anti-police performance”

So maybe he got it?

“We’re there to protect their federal officers, their federal personnel,” Sherman said in the interview. “We’re there to protect them so that they can do their job.”

Negative, commander, you are there to protect the constitutional right of US citizens to safely assemble and express their first amendment right to protest.

Make peaceful revolution possible. That is your duty, son.

That’s funny you say that, because this whole ordeal has made me realize that truth does not matter at all, and it’s a privilege to be able to live as though it does. But in most countries and throughout most of history, what is true doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is what people believe to be true. And only if you work very hard as a society, and get lucky, do those two things coincide.

Case in point: it could have been the case that Obama was a perfect president who made the best possible decisions to most effectively care for all constituents. But that doesn’t matter if right wing media convinces half the country that he’s a radical communist terrorist who is ignoring the constitution to enrich his deep state. Regardless of what Obama did, what happens in response is what people believe he did.

🎶No one else was in the room where it happened🎶

Literally yes. I mean, his goal, is to feel like a big boy who can wield an army to silence dissent. The goal of the wealthy around him is to fully dismantle the country so only they are left to pick up the pieces.

Unfortunately, it just doesn’t matter. The GOP playbook has been: accuse the other side of doing the bad thing, and then do the bad thing, so that when you get accused it sounds like more of the same.

It doesn’t matter if we have 1000 independently verified videos of Elon himself paying vote counters to fake results while holding the newspaper of that day up next to his birth certificate. People against trump will say “yeah, we know”, and people for Trump will say, “he won, get over it”.

It’s the same reason the courts found Trump guilty of falsifying records, and then did nothing: that’s not how this situation resolves itself.

It is very rare for the president to send the National Guard into a state without the governor’s cooperation. The last time was when LBJ used it to protect pro civil rights protestors in Alabama.

Unfortunately, Trump’s goal in LA is not so well-intentioned, it’s to establish authority so ICE can continue disappearing citizens without due process. It is, for all intents and purposes of the word, an invasion. Thing is, if Newsom attempts to intervene, Trump would loooove to arrest him for treason. And if they do nothing, and protestors step aside, ICE will just continue disappearing people, moving state to state, pushing and pushing, further and further, hoping that someone gives him an excuse to escalate.

I feel like we’re all saying the same thing: if you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable. It’s not about what’s right or wrong, or what the public should or should not do; it’s about which of those two options Trump himself has decided we’re doing. And he has chosen…poorly.

Side note: If part of your prep for an OS wipe involves making copies of critical information, I recommend re-evaluating your backup strategy. You should be able to lose any device at any time without warning, and not lose any data.

iirc it was using Method 3 on this guide (but my efi path looks different).

Edit: oh, I also definitely used bcdedit /copy to clone the windows entry, and then edited the clone.

Unfortunately, the windows bootloader issues are also ingrained in UEFI for many motherboards. Every few days I start my PC up and it has decided my grub entry is garbage and does me the favor of removing it and defaulting back to the windows bootloader.

I’ve worked around this by adding a bootcfg entry to the windows bootloader that points at grub. Now any time this happens, I pick the grub entry from the windows bootloader, my PC reboots, and now it’ll keep defaulting to grub again until the next time it decides to wipe it.

It is not standard workflow in git to change the commit history for a branch on the remote. You have to use --force, and the next time someone pulls they also have to --force their any local tracking branch to follow the remote. Every git guide on the internet warns against pushing a rebase for this reason.

Locally you can do whatever. I’m not familiar with Mercurial, but I assume it must work the same as git: I can do whatever I want locally, and only what I push matters. And when I’m doing stupid stuff locally as I organize my changes, rebase is handy.

It is depressing to me how many people are so effectively fooled by what can best be described as a glorified parlor trick. It’s not intelligence, it’s a probable output to a novel input. The hype around LLMs is like watching a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat, and trying to hire him to help you start a rabbit farm. That’s not what’s happening, and you should know better.

LLMs aren’t worthless, they’re great for language manipulation, because that’s what they are. But just because a string of characters makes a valid sentence in a language, that doesn’t mean the sentence is valid in the real world.

I’ve found cage to be really convenient when you want to run a single app from a tty. 5s to start gnome + ff is pretty good, though. Not sure how cage would compare.

https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage