Benefit of pots is it doesn’t go out when the Internet does (unless your provider has a VOIP backend, but usually those would be more robust than your home.)

It also is a second source of electricity coming into the house should there be a power outage.

I kind of wish I could have an old school pots line, even though I run my own VOIP system.

They are hard to put out, but if you want them to burn all you really need is a safe place to do it. So in a big crucible with some type of fume extraction so they aren’t crazy polluting the air. As long as the heat has somewhere safe to go and there isn’t anything else to catch on fire, burning things is easy.

Secular trends? As opposed to religious ones?

Yea. It seems wild the more I think about it that either party can be the same as the president. It’s become clear that people on Congress think they work FOR the president when one of their duties is explicitly checking and opposing the president.

Yea. This doesn’t seem like it should be under the jurisdiction of just any sheriff. But I’m not sure who I think it should fall under.

Holy fuck. That’s like… Straight rebellion. They think they can supercede the existing California government. He is calling himself governor pro tempere.

Fucking weird.

Geez, that looks nice. And the green is really a pretty color.

I wish we got small cars again. I’m going to be really sad when I have to give up my MR2 spyder. Fortunately, with an average of 1 to 2 mile a day, I think it’ll hang on a while.

What TV or box? I have aerial views for my Nvidia shield which can connect to an immich album.

Are fallout shelters going to make a comeback?

Not in Chicago.

We don’t like ketchup on hot dogs.

Mustard, relish, onion, tomato, pickle, sport peppers, and celery salt are what we like.

Cheaper than netflix, paramount plus, hulu, sling, fubo, Disney+, etc

Maybe not when talking about the hdd cost, though. It’s over 300tb of usable space. But at least a good amount of what I use has been wasted I’ve gotten for free.

The ipmi on my supermicro says it’s running 497w.

But that’s what 38 HDDs will do to ya. I used to spin them down when not in use (it’s mostly a Plex server) but it’s in my garage and over the winter I had some issues with the older HDDs not wanting to spin up in freezing temps. I’ll probably move it back to spinning them down over the summer.

Remember. Property damage isn’t violence!!

It’s probably the only way to make the protests be something politicians HAVE to deal with. They can ignore the minor inconvenience of people congregating. They can’t ignore having to replace cars, repair building, and have their budget fucked up.

Protests need to be disruptive. Like the garbage collectors strike in paris(?).

It’s can’t just be those who are already agreeing with you, thats why the no kings are kind of a circle jerk. Your protesting to whom? Who do you want to hear you? How can we disrupt the day to day lives of our representatives and federal government?

I mean shit. Just chalk messages on the sidewalk outside Stephen millers house caused him to run away to a military base

Yup. Like I said toward the end, it seems the only direct way is through violence and at the cost of an individuals life or liberty.

So many think that the solution to the paradox of tolerance is to simple by intolerant of intolerance. But that’s such an oversimplification. I agree on principal. I just don’t know how that looks in practice.

I don’t entirely disagree. But it does feel like it’s along the same slippery slope fallacy where once you start criminalizing one type of speech those who are unscrupulous enough will find a way to subvert it to attack others and restrict additional speech until dissent becomes criminal.

I don’t think we should tolerate the intolerant. We as a society need to be intolerant of them, but it’s a fine line when it’s the government itself that is doing it. Businesses need to ostracize them. Do not sell them goods or food. Do not allow them to enter your premises. Do not hire them.

We as individuals need to do the same.

Quite frankly, it’s the intolerant who have weaponized this so effectively. They have no qualms with harassing and doxing people whose views differ. I suppose there is a definition of intolerant that the tolerant need to collectively identify and fight at all costs. But it’s hard to define it especially when the intolerant use our tolerance against us.

I know that doing so will lead them to their own echo chambers and enclaves. I don’t have a solution for that which doesn’t involve physical harm. And the older I get, the more I understand the necessity of violence in order to preserve life and peace, as much as that sounds like an oxymoron.

Right. This one is funded and run by the state of Florida, it becomes an extension of government. So in the case of this school, yes.

Oh yea! There is no 1st amendment protection from other individuals. Just from the school itself, as a government run entity.

You and I have every right to do what you say. So long as the photos were taken in a public place where they have no expectation of privacy and the photos and flyers are true and factful information. There is nothing that I’m aware of preventing you from doing anything like that (except maybe the schools code of conduct, but no legal statute.)

I mean, that’s why we are free to post the picture of Musk doing the Nazi salute. And why I have this shirt.

This actually is a state school.

It’s part of the state university system of Florida.

It’s been that way for decades. The ACLU defended the Nazis in 1977 when they wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois. It was a big drawn out test of 1st amendment rights and while the person actually defending them hated them, he felt silencing their speech was tantamount to silencing all speech. It’s why there is the scene in the Blue Brothers where Jake says “I hate illinois nazis”

I’m torn on this, because in a way it really is a 1st amendment issue. Does a university that gets public funds and is accredited by the state get to police the political affiliations and speech of it’s students? At the college I went to in CA, we routinely had religious fanatics on campus telling us about sin and how people were going to hell, but they had a 1st amendment right to be there. We heckled them and yelled and did sin right in their faces anyways, because fuck them. Schools often have standards similar to public institutions with how they handle free speech, especially state schools.

Personally, I want to see every one in this group beaten to a pulp for their beliefs. And then beaten again. I want to see who they are and ostracize them and make them feel like shit over it.

I feel that it is more up to us to deal with it, than it is for a state institution or a school that is an extension of the state.

“just use tailwind” or any of the premade shit. It’s everywhere. Everything looks the same. I hate it.

No one wants to design a website anymore. They just want to make one as fast as possible.