Do they even really like him? I thought pretty much any Republican support for Elon came from his support/association with Trump

More like a plague, on humanity

Hopefully he also makes more friends and helps gain momentum to get the rest of the goons out in other jurisdictions

They said much the same about Putin and - regardless him being in better initial shape than Trump - he’s still around.

Being old and unfit means less event you’ve got money for top-notch healthcare and people willing to ignore (or take advantage of) your physical and mental decline

I don’t think we should have the situations and lack of regulation that leads to billionaires, especially as it will likely continue to drain/erode the quality-of-life for everyone else to eventually lead to trillionaires…

I’d say it’s less that “things will get better on their own” and more “somebody else will take the steps/sacrifice to fix it”

If you’re not sarcastic then I’m generally sorry to hear you’re stuck in that shitty situation.

You’re also welcome at my BBQ if you’re ever up here in Canada

I realize this is sarcasm but honestly: all of you/us are greater than all of them, if enough of us can actually unite on what we want and how to get it.

Unfortunately it’s also why there’s been a huge effort on dividing people by race/gender/religion/etc that might otherwise have been united in socio-economic struggles.

It also means that the people who need to give something to push for change are (deliberately) kept in situations where they have the least to do.

• Less time to organise because of working multiple jobs with little to no free time.
• Less money or resources to fight in courts.
• Less knowledge due to underfunded education.
• Less physical ability due to lack of healthcare or nutritional diet
• Less access to childcare or ability to afford such
• Etc

Which is why supporting community/network is important.

Having a politician that isn’t an evil fuck is good, but that politician isn’t going to watch your kids while you’re at a protest or in the hospital. They’re not going to help you get to work when your car breaks down, or help you fix it.

They might stand beside you at a protest or union meeting, but one or a handful of politicians says less than community of hundreds or thousands.

We need to rebuild communities and support networks. Yes we need the help of politicians - or at least less actively fighting against us - but we also need to rally with each other. The attacks on this guy reflect much of the same as those on our communities.

If somebody is a “gay Muslim trans-woman Iranian refugee amputee” who is willing to stand by me in times of need, I’m willing to stand by them and they’re welcome at my BBQ.

I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).

A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.

Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)

Vaultwarden is Excellent.

Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles

Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.

HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.

If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part

I’ve been migrating to Soverin and like it thus far. I’ve only done email and my calendaring though.

https://soverin.com/

It’s not free but it’s also not overly costly.

You can also use a router that can run wireguard/openvpn and have that run the tunnel back to home for you. I’ve got a portable GL-Inet router with OpenWRT that I use for this when I’m on the road

Matters little if that “very small group” has power and is getting away with it

Needs to be on state charges though or he’ll just issue a federal pardon

“maybe my military parade sucked because I haven’t actually started a war yet”

How about we just tell him it’s happened, hasten him to a bunker, and then let him take to some guy via radio that lets him think he’s one of the few survivors.

Hell, that’d be a good use for AI. Let it listen to his rambling and simulate a human response so nobody else needs to bother

They probably just walk around downtown and recruit from whomever has a cut-off shirt and a swastika tattoo

Yeah, everyone should remember that the Supreme Court fucked you all by paving the way for this, and the rest of the Legislative branch as well by either ignoring their duty or actively supporting a massive overreach in power and outright ignoring existing limits.

If that’s the case, I’m still hoping for clear skies with a well-placed lightning bolt

Watching their recent coverage of LA and NY I was kinda astounded by the slant on it.