IS IT AS STRONG AS YOUR URGE TO EAT MANGOES??

Hell, I love downvotes. It either means I’m wrong and need to check myself, or I made some people really mad. Win win.

And there’s no way to go back to “the way it was before.” There will be revolution. The only questions are when and what it’s going to look like on the other side.

Quality over quantity.

I just bought a Reolink camera, as opposed to the cloud-only ones. It’s quite nice, requires no account anywhere for it to work including person/pet/vehicle detection. Has FTP configuration so you can have the device upload footage to an FTP server of your choosing, or just leave it on the MicroSD card.

While I don’t have a home assistant center, I’m sure this one has those capabilities.

They have been radicalized by Democrat Party rhetoric …

lol no. I’ve been radicalized by the fascists who have taken over the entire federal and many state governments.

Yup, and the side that loses is the side that wasn’t violent enough.

Violence works, otherwise there wouldn’t be any. We’ve put up a whole system of laws and police and investigators and courts and prisons in order to provide an alternative to violence. And even then, that system is itself backed up with a real threat of violence as well as its occasional localized deployment.

Yesterday’s “pep rally” where none of the military leaders dragged in had anything good to say about it suggests that there is not the overwhelming military support that Trump wants there to be. There are plenty of examples of far less powerful local forces successfully standing up to superpowers. Afghanistan is one. Wallachia is another.

When the entire federal government and many state governments have wholly abandoned the systems put together to avoid violence, and are in fact using the husks of those systems to apply violence to their opponents, we’ve already crossed the Rubicon.

I’ll get my pikey.

That last bit reveals something important.

Be yourself unless you’re too weird. There will be no elaboration on what “too weird” is.

So here we all are, every day wondering “Am I too weird?” and not daring to find out lest we be shunned.

Buy a bookmark? For like $5? Use the $5 bill instead, and have some emergency coffee money with your book at all times.

Oh you want my password? Okay, ready?

F … U …

No that’s it.

This is easy (read: privileged) advice to follow if you’re entirely self-sufficient. Most people aren’t. Most people need things from other people, which means that they have to tailor their words and actions accordingly, so that they’re not cut off from resources.

First of all I am THE objective authority about eating mangoes and that is not up for debate thank you very much. As much is my goddamn birthright.

I thought, “Ha! That’s some very funny hyperbole right there!”

Then I read the rest of your comment. I no longer believe that your opening statement was inaccurate in any way.

There are so many ways this is all very bad.

You can even get a workable burr grinder for ~$40.

Thumbnail has a framed movie poster of my favorite film of all time:

“fffff”

Body dysmorphia.

They’re correct that it’s not a 1A violation by Nexstar (or Disney or Sinclair). The First Amendment is about what the government can threaten to do to you for legal speech. Like what Brendan Carr and Donald Trump have done, among others.

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