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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I think I know what the next entry in the playbook is. After a suitable amount of protests they will free Mr. García, but not allow him to come back to the United States. That still ruins his life because his family is in the US, so it’s right up their alley on cruetly.

    This will pacify a percentage of the protestors who will be tired and happy for a small win. It will “pacify” the courts, if they’re not already in on this play. The news will also step back because the see the story as concluded.

    We need to be demanding justice for all 200 deportees. I know they latched on to Mr. García because he’s innocent, but for all we know they are all innocent. We need to stay mad until they’ve all had a day in court.

    Honestly nothing short of an impeachment and conviction of this administration will restore my faith in this countries justice system.







  • I don’t remember any scenes in Mad Max where there was a happy rich person living in their perfectly intact mansion with servants and a well manicured lawn.

    The solution to this problem isn’t to ask a corrupt government to save you. They’ve already proven their word is worth jack by reversing policies of the previous administration. You should instead be trying everything possible to stop climate change. Including throwing money at the problem.

    Whatever’s left of society won’t care that you’re immune to lawsuits. People who have never seen a tomato don’t care if you worked hard to get your fancy stuff. They’re just hungry.





  • Its more than just foreign relations.

    The reason for continuous military, space, energy and other development isn’t just to push the state of the art, and its not just a jobs program. If you stop building things you forget how. You can still build something but it won’t be nearly as good because the people who learned the mistakes the first time around have all retired. Or in this case fired.

    We will have at least a 4 year gap when this is over.

    Switching gears, do you think infrastructure will be funded? Falling 4 more years behind in maintenance isn’t going to do any favors. This includes federally maintained dams and bridges, but also levees for storm protection near the coasts. Trump will throw you some paper towels after the next hurricane, then withdraw funding for FEMA.

    How about the EPA? Are they going to continue to handle superfund sites? No? Well you can expect some real problems from this to bear fruit in a couple of years. Lawsuits against manufacturers doesn’t bring your home value back, or stop the cancers.

    I’m mentioning these things because while people are seeing the damage done by alienating allies, and that is concerning to some, this doesn’t matter to trumps base, who have a particularly America centric viewpoint.

    People need to be aware that the problems he brings aren’t just foreign and that if something doesn’t change soon there will be nothing left of the America they knew.




  • Anyone who works directly for a Musk company should quietly start looking for another job.

    People in unions should strike right now. People who aren’t in unions should also strike, but I don’t expect miracles.

    This is the biggest asshole boss indicator. There should never be a situation where someone in power “jokes” about firing.

    He needs a very quick financial lesson in not fucking with his employees. One week of work stoppage across every company he owns should do it.


  • The esp32 supports efuses that can be used to require a signed binary to boot. So they could lock their hardware to only work with their binary. Source code wouldn’t matter.

    Of course if the source is open you can buy and put together your own hardware and then put their code on it.

    I’m not advocating what they’re doing. Rent seeking is rent seeking even if they need to recoup development costs. I’d rather pay for open hardware and software with no monthly fee.


  • Vote blue and send huge amounts of letters and phone calls to your Congress people telling them to stop supporting this. Run new candidates under the Democratic party that push them further left.

    Sounds impossible? Yes. People were force fed propaganda and gave up this election, because its a hard choice. There is no easy route. Its either revolution or try to change a party to something better. There is no option 3.

    People told the centrists, I told my friends for fucks sake. I know someone who stayed home saying their vote didn’t matter and both sides are evil. I told them that is a vote for Trump.

    They were right. Their vote didn’t matter because trump won by a landslide in our state. But what if they, and thousands of their compatriots, weren’t force fed propaganda on Facebook and TV?

    The republicans won because of coordinated attacks that presented centrists with multiple trolley problems. I held out hope until the end, but I should have known what was going to happen when some reasonably intelligent people fell for it.