Increasingly obvious post but on the off chance it saves someone- look up right now, to the extent that you can, where military bases near you are and if one is remotely close, ask friends and family, right now, if you can stay with them. You’d have to feel out how safe/unsafe travel currently is.

Stay safe comrades

No because then the odds of getting more subnautica-like games in the future goes down

The combination of NBA and NHL playoffs is my favorite sports time od the year. So many entertaining games to watch right now

The United States is incapable of doing anything as it relates to infrastructure.

There are 10 different grifts of contractors required for any given job, they source all their shit from China, and they subcontract the labor out later.

The US has hit a critical mass of public-private “partnership” devolution

This is why China seemingly has the most practical approach to all of this.

Bring religion under the eye of the state so that it’s incapable of manifesting its most destructive tendencies into reality and use that surveillance to quickly identify it and deradicalize if it happens.

Address the needs of community, mutual aid, and more broadly hope that religion satisfies at its best and work to provide that through the state. Allow the religiously-inclined to still practice while preventing opportunists who seek to use it against the broader interests of the people.

Anecdotally I’ve never had libs in my life be more receptive to positive Chinese news coverage and getting them to check out RedNote specifically has shattered their previous thoughts about China.

I cannot overstate how important getting libs into non-hostile media spheres is to breaking US propaganda.

It’s difficult to get them to this point, but highlighting that Ukraine cannot win this war because the US and Europe will never supply the support needed for them to win because they’re more interested in making the conflict a drawn out resource drain on Russia than actually enabling Ukraine to mount a successful resistance has at least gotten libs in my life to move to the “the war should end” state

Hoping this happens again because I think there’s a non-zero chance he paints a red mural on his ceiling due to being bullied in a videogame

If this isn’t top level post apologies, but what is the chance that the entire purpose of this stunt was to do a massive wealth transfer of non-Trump aligned capital without insider knowledge to directly Trump-aligned capital with insider knowledge of tariff implementation and pause timing?

It’s impossible for me to figure out the balance between the stupidity and corruption of this US administration.

I cannot fathom the amount of money inside traders made today.

Fine I’ll put Red Sun in the Sky on repeat again today

Burn the shithole down Don. Take the treats

I will never stop self hosting. I have converted some of my friends to self hosting their own stuff. We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data.

I will continue to spread this and no one can stop me.

You will learn docker (from compose files, including minimum shared networking), you will learn the *arr stack, you will use Audiobookshelf, you will learn about and deploy a reverse proxy, rclone usage is not optional, and I’ll eventually turn you into a hobbyist programmer.

I just pray their children can stand on my shoulders and convert it all to kubernetes some day because I refuse to learn enough to make arguably employable as a Jr. devops engineer.

Here is a comment of mine from two days ago:

"We’re not doing anything.

The US has simply decided to destroy itself because the idiot failsons/daughters of smarter imperialists took the reins as true believers of the past’s bullshit and took power.

Now it just burns because it burns"

We’re in lockstep in our thinking about this

Because it’s so absurd- yes, these are the people dismantling the US administrative state

We’re not doing anything.

The US has simply decided to destroy itself because the idiot failsons/daughters of smarter imperialists took the reins as true believers of the past’s bullshit and took power.

Now it just burns because it burns

It’s too funny. Someone add a “Death to the empire” category on speedrun.com

The amount of damage America has inflicted on itself 7 days into the Trump presidency is hilarious. I’m hoping by this time next month it’s full blown riots

No. It’s laying the categorical framework to create the 2025 version of the house of un-american activities committee

The collapse rhetoric isn’t because if the 54->51% R support in isolation, it’s more so that D support in the suburban whites group went from 38->47% as well over the course of 4 years.

Broader point understood though. In a uniparty bourgeois democracy like the US with such an intentionally stunted electoral system the boundaries of electorally viable candidates are defined by the capitalists way, way before any candidate thinks about running for a primary ticket.

It’s why when you see actual on-the-issues polling you get results like you’d expect in the or 60s-40s splits for issues but once capitalists create the electoral abstractions around elected government you see election-gridlock in favor of non-populist-action which results in the coinflippery you call out and downstream austerity measures and further privatization of services.