His copper is garbage, his servant is the best thing going for him yet he treats him so poorly, and Ea Nasir should just eat the tariffs because of it!

We are clearly in the appeasement phase, I think that has been apparent for a while now

“People were sleeping in the middle of the night when the flood came,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary. “That was an act of God; it’s not the administration’s fault the floods hit when it did.”

Damn, why would God do this, Karoline?

Last I checked, the total number of dead and missing was 130. I hope the final number of deaths ends up being less than 130.

Proxmox on a Lenovo micro form factor is probably a good cost effective option. Get a business class ThinkCentre, like an M720 or something similar that’s 3-5 years old that a corpo has just upgraded away from, i5 or Ryzen 5 with however much storage and RAM you want. Spin up a container specifically and only for PiHole+Unbound (and consider adding a pi or some other dedicated hardware for DNS later on for redundancy in case your main goes down), and then the rest is however you want to build your environment.

For me, I’ve got a Pi dedicated to 3 key tasks: PiHole, Unbound, and PiVPN (edit: and Nginx Proxy Manager. It’s dedicated to 4 key tasks…). It’s basically my filtering interface between the home network the rest of the internet immediately after my router handles the frontline defenses, and then I’ve got a Proxmox cluster to run most of the rest of my internal services.

At least 43 fatalities have been reported so far, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference Saturday evening. The dead include 28 adults and 15 children. Twelve of the adults and five children are unidentified, Leitha said. At least 27 campers were missing, Dalton Rice, Kerryville city manager, said.

This is such a tragedy, so many of the dead and missing are kids.

I had not seen this before, thank you for sharing

That last part is where we disagree. You are underestimating the wealth extraction that has taken place during the post-WWII boom. I’m not going to argue further because I’m going to bed, but I’ll suffice to agree to disagree.

I feel like your entire post is ignoring the hoarding of wealth at the top while focusing on the financial impacts that would happen to the people at the bottom due to the aforementioned greed at the top. Those people “who have no idea how much their food would cost if they were paying the workers a fair wage” have also never been paid a fair wage.

I think we all want to be paid a fair wage for our labor AND and fair price for food, with reasonable expectations of safety on both sides. 50+ years of wage stagnation and the expectation from major corpos that they can keep extracting more profits are two factors working against us, though. The problem isn’t about what consumers are willing to pay for food.

We, the People, aren’t going to be able to fix this if we don’t start electing leaders that can resist big-dollar donors and lobbyists, because we need regulations around major markets that will be met with insane amounts of resistance by money-backed interest groups. We need labor reforms, we need housing reforms, we need finance sector reforms, and none of those are favorable for a Fortune 500 company’s “Line go up” policy when implemented. But far too much money has flowed out of the hands of the poor and middle class while the ultra-wealthy are buying islands and yachts (and bugout bunkers in case of an uprising or whatever), and fixing that issue in both an acute and a systemic way is necessary and needs to happen before we get better.

It was bound to happen, but I’m still sad it did

Oh dang, I must have missed it. Is there a reader’s digest version I can check out regarding the drama?

Edit: I think I found it - https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Is there a compelling reason one might consider switching away from Organic Maps and move to CoMaps?

I’m a descendant of immigrants. And I bet you are, too, fellow American citizen reading this comment. I wonder where they draw the purity line tomorrow?

I still hope for midterm that can steer us away from the cliff. As an American, I need that hope. We are, historically, a hopeful people (albeit one with many atrocities along the way).

An unimaginable amount of damage is being done right now by the current administration. There are people who have died and who will die because of the cuts made in the last 6 months, and the people whose lives have and will be snuffed out early are unrecoverable entirely. Imagine Socrates, DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, Hawkins… not allowed the chance to live and gift all of humanity with their insights. We have no idea what we lost nor what we will lose, and no way of knowing.

The hope I hold onto is that we can stop the bleeding and begin to heal. Midterms are our best opportunity at that before things have a chance to really accelerate into even more fascistic behavior.

MAGA country is going to feel the pain of their tiny penis deal when the rulers pass it, and they are already seeing pain from ICE raids on farms and factories. When the slackjaws catch on to the fact that they’re being fleeced, the charade should end pretty quick and the number of people actively opposing the administration will increase accordingly.

I hope.

And it expires in 2028

They’re making the kayfabe for the people who live there

I somehow want to both upvote and downvote this comment at the same time. You’re right that it was the candidates’ jobs to earn votes. It was the voters’ jobs to properly assess the real risks and benefits of each of the two candidates that, between them, were guaranteed to take home a win for one and only one of them. (Edit: there was a time for protest/passion votes too, don’t get me wrong, that was the primaries though, not the general)

The candidate failed. The voters failed. But importantly, and I think by design, the collective ability of our youth to be able to critically evaluate their options also failed, which seems indicative that our education system failed to provide the foundational skills required for a functioning democracy. And that last thing, well… that thing has been a key part of conservative politics in the US since before I was born in the Geriatric Millennial Days last century.

Erosion of education has been something I’ve been watching happen my entire life, and I was on the bleeding edge of the WWW. I thought the internet would help make humanity more connected, united, and educated. Somewhere things went off the rails enough that we hit an event horizon moving into something resembling a shitty Continuum reimagining, so my Utopian expectation was clearly misplaced. My disappointment is immeasurable and my sadness comparable.

There’s a near-endless supply of great mythology and legend to read and explore from all sorts of cultures dating back as far as the dawn of writing. I’ve had a lot of fun reading and comparing tales from various times and places, taking time to also note where in history the stories were being written down and what else was happening. Strong recommendation for anyone wanting a unique view on the history of societies and the stories they held (or still hold) dear.

A lone wolf looking for a pack is not a lone wolf, but a lost one.

To be clear, I’m only talking about wolves here.