“Oh tasha”

Easier and more painless to just pay another company to do that and not have to worry about server security, spam, the endless SSH requests for ‘admin’, etc etc

Definitely. I do it for fun though. I’m kind of a masochist 😂

Le terme n’a aucune définition. Pour l’extrême droite, “woke” est juste quelque chose qu’ils n’aiment pas. Aux États-unis, “woke” signifiait ”social justice," mais maintenant, ça n’a plus de sens sauf ”mauvais" pour l’extrême droits.

Rolling your own email is a pain. That said, I use a VPS and host my own server with domain name and site for $5/month. Setting it up was a pain, but once you get all the records right so you’re not considered spam, it works really well. That said, I haven’t done anything with webmail; I strictly use IMAP and SMTP.

I’m an American. Germans, please don’t do to yourselves what we did. Keep AfD as far from power as possible.

I love my governor! I was really skeptical of him at first (being a billionaire and all)*, but he has really pleasantly surprised me. It looks like he’s starting the soft campaign for president with this, and all I can say is that I am sad that if he gets elected, the loss of Illinois’ best governor of my lifetime will be the entire country’s gain.

*I wanted to add that his wealth still bothers me, but he’s proven that he’s the exception that proves the rule that billionaires are bad. He’s really put his money to work for people and “can’t be bought.” With the amount of good he’s done, it makes one wonder why the others haven’t done anything similar.

Someone at ICE is a white supremacist?! Color me shocked. /s (though I’d hope that’s obvious)

Even a flat tax is progressive. If I make 10 times as much money as you, I pay 10 times as much in tax.

…He clearly doesn’t understand what “progressive” and “regressive” taxation means. To break it down Barney-style, if you’re poor and make $1000/month, and I’m better off and make $10,000/month with a flat tax of 10%, then you end up with $900, and I end up with $9000. With $900 you might be able to get food and gas for a month. With $9000, I can pay a mortgage, save a bit, and get gas and groceries. This isn’t even taking into account that most of the obscenely wealthy take a tiny income and rather live off of investments, which are taxed differently and lower.

tl;dr: Whoever wrote this is clearly too stupid to be taken as a serious person.

It’s a start. Just boycotting for a week, while a small drop, serves two purposes. First (assuming it registers), it’s a warning shot to the powers that be saying, “We are asking politely that you pick our side. We will get less polite.” Second, it gets people who would otherwise not resist more comfortable with it. Just as with evil, if one can go from A to B then B to C because C is not much more than B, the same incremental approach can be used for pro-social behaviors, too. In other words, not buying from Amazon for a week makes it easier to talk to friends about resisting, which makes it easier to go to a march, which makes it easier to…so on and so forth.

That said, I doubt that this will have much of an effect on Amazon or the other powers that be. If it registers, it will be a small blip. With continued action, that blip will grow.

You do not want a coup. This needs to be the people dethroning Trump and Elon. Individual people in the military can help by not executing illegal or immoral orders, but the military should be not be the one to end this nightmare. It’s on us.

It’s definitely a risk, but I think that it’s manageable. It’s perfectly legal to print and post things. Even if the authorities start looking for people, tying the tracking dots to an individual becomes harder if the printer is older (records get lost or just superseded), bought via cash, or bought second hand. The bigger risk, I think, is being caught in the act and chased off or having the posters ripped down or otherwise destroyed.

Plus, risk is part of the game.

So you, yes that bag of flesh reading my comment, you’re only worth $50 to the richest fuckwad on the planet.

Hey, your math is a bit off. He’s a racist apartheid apologist, so there’s definitely a race coefficient in there somewhere.

If Bezos doesn’t want to get paid to run it, let’s run it ourselves and post it all over. Even better if it gets posted all over federal buildings.

Damn, don’t go giving them ideas!

A general strike would be amazing, but it’s not realistic. Even just having say 25% of workers out for a few days puts strain on the system. Same with limiting spending. If even 25% of the country spends only on essentials, then that’ll translate to a couple percentage points of loss to major corporations (not all of course, but some major ones).

It’s not about a silver bullet, it’s about inflicting enough paper cuts that it starts to hurt. No one thing will be 100% effective.

But there are different types of temporary. Temporary because the code got updated/upgraded or new and better software got implemented feels fine. It feels like your work was part of the never ending march of technical progress. Temporary because it gets ripped out if favor of a different, inferior suite hits hard.

If my code gets superseded by someone else’s complete rewrite that is better, then I’m all for it. If my code gets thrown out because we’re switching to a different, inferior system that is completely incompatible with my work, then that just hits like a ton of bricks.

Sorry for the necrobump, but here is a finalized version of a poster. Please do with it as you will!

After working with @Nougat@fedia.io on the logo in the center, I’m really happy with it. Please feel free to use it for anything you create, also!

I’m going to create a few more, so I would like to gauge interest on getting some server space as a central repository for designs the community creates.

Alternatively, the easier sign (since a good chunk of the courts are complicit) is when we started being ruled by decree. The second easiest is when language is getting policed.

After checking my notes, that started January 20, 2025, when sweeping Executive Orders were decreed that are being treated as the force of law when they most certainly are not. The removal of “T” from LGBTQ, and enforcement of the stupid, unilateral renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is the other.

Congratulations, we live in a dictatorship.

Yes, he’s democratically elected. He also is violating the Constitution of the United States in multiple ways. Even if he were elected with a legitimate 99% of the popular vote, he should still be protested, impeached, and removed from office.

Prices/inflation are a convenient excuse for voting for Trump. It’s the reason polite people use to justify their vote knowing everything they do so they can continue going through polite society.

In reality, they’re just bigots, christofascists, etc. (source: my family)