the threat was more effective than the trigger pull. trust the orange idiot to show the world our bare ass.

global cooperation is the answer, but no… assuming a zero sum game (a game america is ill prepared to “win”) is the mantra of decades of psychotic us leadership. so tired of this planet sized madhouse.

non-amp version

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-expected-sign-memo-targeting-act-blue-rcna202673

evolution is (generally but not always) a slow, incremental process and, just spitballin here, nature has made no promise that we are not a dead-end species.

really interesting article with a sharp, knowledgeable guy. 2025 and suddenly interviews about the irs are now an everycitizen must-read.

“every accusation is a confession” should be (metaphorically - yeah, lets go with that) tattooed on the forehead of each trump appointee.

As Elon Musk, Trump family members, and others become increasingly implicated in potentially illegal activities, their incentive to preserve democratic processes diminishes proportionally.

so far only the lower courts have been tested and held as best they can. the military has not been tested… yet. interesting times. :(

The Defense Department calculates the cost per flight hour to operate a C-130 at $20,756, so for a trip of five to six hours, it cost the Pentagon $207,000 to $249,000 round trip, or $23,000 to $27,000 per detainee.

doge should really look into this.

an expanded explanation of your first paragraph would have been useful for general discussion.

your el salvador paragraph absolutely killed the mojo.

December, 2024, El Salvador, in an agreement for a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, agreed to reduce bitcoin purchases, removed the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin requirement on merchants, will no longer accept tax payments with the asset, and will wind-down its involvement in the Chivo wallet.

Based on the available data from the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (Iudop) of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), here is the percentage of Salvadorans who reported using Bitcoin for transactions from 2021 to 2024: 2021: 25.7%, 2022: 21%, 2023: 12%, 2024: 8.1%.

el salvador was always going to be an example of the very worst tendencies of hard-currency (anti-inflationary, proof of work, etc) crypto, specifically because the very worst of the cryptobro “community” was involved in it.

as of now, some of the worst people on earth are the face of cryptocurrency. major “L”, even for the arguably useful chains.

edit: bunny ears for community

depending on specs it will be a little power hungry, but a good virtualization platform.

yes, the power supplies are likely redundant and the server will complain if they are not both powered.

it will use a VGA connection, but you should be ale to find cheap VGA monitors or cheap adapters.

RAID controllerfor those drives? how many processors and cores? how much RAM? what OS are you planning on running on it? iDRAC included? (if so, likely idrac6, but still usable)

this hardware is very well supported by linux - I have used these older servers extensively. your boss was right to be excited for you. its a great exploration platform that you will be able to do lots of things with.

fire up a live linux distro and get detailed specs on the box - that will guide what you can play with right away.

exactly.

While he said donors are taking calls, they are “asking harder questions, which I think is a good thing.”

my family sends in contributions to progressives doing on the ground work. every. single. month.

no need to beg for donations when its clear you are actually trying to make a difference.

this is next level insanity and I am in awe.

what an awesomely cool read!

still slightly less painful than listening to vogon poetry.

look, the hyperspace bypass is upon us. if you happen upon the literary equivalent of a subether sense-o-matic and a digital thumb, I will have my bathrobe and towel at the ready.

but we gotta try and take everyone.

I hear ya. just not sure there is going to be a single buffet of easy, bitesized solutions :-(

short but dense article. a very useful read.

“Watch USAID tonight,” Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator and member of the Senate foreign relations committee, said in a post on X on Friday evening.

Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, citing a “rumor” that Trump planned to dissolve USAid as an independent agency, said in an X post that such a move would be “illegal and against our national interests”.

said on where, now? Democrats continue walking happily into the choppers. are any of these idiots also on something a little less Nazi? yes, I know a few are, but where is everyone else?!

indeed. it will serve you well in many, many… situations.

They see everything as: Are we winning the media today? Right now their program is let’s go to Aurora [in Colorado], let’s do the road show of enforcement. When we have no more blue cities to do that in, then we’ll pull up the worksite raids. This is about a messaging campaign.

very informative read.

kudos on poking at the app privacy statement. the real interest in this is going to be running it locally on your own server backend.

so, yeah - as usual, apps bad, bad, bad. but the backend is what really matters.

not religious either, but this touches on the most elemental parts of everyones humanity. well worth the time to read and share. thank you for posting.

ahh, yes. the grimace of the fake smile.

you would.have thought these throughly damaged human beings in the public light would have figured out how to convincingly fake it by now. guess thats either no longer needed or impossible for them to pull off.