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Aaron Reitz vows to “destroy the left” if elected Texas attorney general

Translation: I will be a partisan enforcer/thug. The American experiment has gone wildly off the rails, and a plurality of voters are here for it.

sociopaths hijack the empathy of others for their own purposes

If the citizen placed his hand on a gun during the interaction the LEO would have immediately started fEaRing fur muh life!!! and started blasting.

Rules for thee but not for me.

ICE goons can walk into the house without a warrant.

Americans will be on the path to reclaiming their country when the goons start to fear doing so.

throw them at ICE vehicles

I suspect that would give ICE another excuse to “f33r for muh life!!!” and start blasting.

Aren’t LAPD the same folks that unleashed the whole SWAT idea?

My Mom recently left MAGA. Rest her soul.

Same with both my parents.

While I was helping with my father’s home hospice care he told me that he likes watching Newsmax because “it’s pretty much in the middle”. FFS. He was about 5% conspiracy kook already but really took the bait once he started listening to Rush Limbaugh. Then it was anti-Clinton bumperstickers everywhere, and stuffing crank political into every conversation he could. Went downhill from there.

People fight back against the leopards who ate their faces

1. you’re on a plane, minding your own business
2. a group of radicalized hijackers take over the plane and are determined to crash it
3. some hijackers get queasy about it and either stop participating in the highjack or even start to fight against it
4. [do what with them?]
5. once you land add all the hijackers to the no fly list, prosecute, etc

We are at step 4.

There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.

Agreed, the SSA itself is not making claims that mislead the public.

Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve”

I agree that’s a problem.

a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.

I don’t want to beat the dead horse, but IMO the public language/guidance/media discourse regarding the SSA is as misleading as “to protect and to serve”.

If I were pushed I might say that the security part of social security is an implied guarantee that it will provide security of some kind. It does bolster financial security for many at the moment, but there is no guarantee it will do in the future.

Yet they demand our obedience and cooperation.

And people willingly bootlick these brave heroes who “f34r for muh life!!!” and start blasting when an acorn falls. Or when they step in front of a moving vehicle.

Police are not required to help you under any circumstances.

When I want to see heads explode I mention

• Warren v District of Columbia (the basis for the situation you mention); and
• that Social Security doesn’t work the way people think
  • there is no personal account that holds your contributions
  • you have no right to get any of your contributions back in your old age – the benefit is defined by Congress and they could make it whatever they want (including nothing)

In both cases one are required by law to pay but the recipient is not required to perform. As they say, “it’s good to the the king”.

No matter what plugin you find that supposedly will do the job, in my experience it is always a PITA that ends up involving a lot of programming.

I had a good experience with jekyll’s wordpress->jekyll import tool. But see below.

I would go for a database-less static site generator like Hugo

Graybeard here, so it’s probably just braindamage specific to me, but I’ve found ruby dependency setup and troubleshooting to be extremely frustrating. Hard for me to wrap my head around.

When jekyll is actually dead (right now it is “only mostly dead”) I’ll change to something that does not require ruby (eleventy?) or just go back to the nineties and do something barebones with gtml or whatever. Already playing with the latter.

said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name

a couple thoughts

• The FCC ham license database is publicly available already, including name and location of the “station”.
• one can munge, obscure, or simply not share location with mesh nodes.

I’m curious if they’re then required to use their meshtastics in HAM mode

No, but they can if they want to use the freqs and power.

I run normal nodes but might set up a MT ham node under my callsign just to see if anything pops up.

You’re going to get this treatment or and I’m going to hurt you!

it helped them see god

/insert glassblower joke here

without kegels there’d be no squeezing

this might be a route to secure communication after they ban VPNs

might also be an excellent time to familiarize oneself with ssh tunneling

I’d say Lawrence Of Arabia, if one has several hours to spare.

offered to empty one of the sharps containers for staff. When an officer brought the sharps container back to the police department and tested the needles inside

yet another example of cops are not your friends