Ideologies tend to sort people into a limited number of overly simplistic categories. This makes theorising easier but applying it to reality much harder.

Very few people could live in a capitalist system and remain pure. e.g. My pension fund is invested in the stock market so I very partially own thousands of companies. I’ve also purchased a small amount of shares in selected companies, a situation I had more agency in creating. Sometimes I subcontract work to other contractors who function as my temporary employees. And so on.

Small nitpick: the Democrats impeached him twice. They don’t get to choose who the DOJ prosecutes.

Ask your boss for an early christmas bonus. “Hey look I’m having a really hard time here. Money is very tight and I can’t afford to keep electricity running at home. An early bonus would keep me more productive than if I was bouncing around public libraries and coffee shops”.

Then use the bonus to buy what you need to live in a camp ground. Tent, warm sleeping bag, etc. There’s a world of difference between intentionally-and-planned-for-homeless and forced-homeless.

Is there a public library nearby? Get down there, plug in and use their WiFi.

Don’t think of it as stopping, quitting or denying yourself something. Get better hobbies. Take up a new interest. Fill your life with things that make trolling on the internet seem lame and stupid in comparison.

I’m a bit doubtful of the plate tectonics that would produce this. But I guess once you allow rings with unlimited power the brakes are off.

Part of the issue is the system of voting is set up so that there can only ever be two parties. Dividing the country up into chunks and then having one winner in each chunk creates a situation where voting third party is a wasted vote. When there are only two options it’s pretty hard to vote for your interests.

In the 90s when New Zealand changed to MMP to led to a proliferation of new parties getting into parliament and the people involved were much much less often old white males. It changed the dynamic completely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand

Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB

I use my searxng instance several times a day.

DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can’t browse anything.

I also selfhost a SaaS that I built. It’s essential to me that it’s available to my customers although I don’t use it personally.

After X attempts to log in, it bans the IP address.

It will scan your wordpress files and alert you if any of them have changed in suspicious ways (hacked).

It can disable the xml-rpc endpoint which is rarely used and is a big vector for hacking.

… and a lot more but those are the main ones for me.

The WordFence plugin is a must-have for security.

If you use Caddy instead of Apache then you get SSL automatically. You’ll need php-fpm as well, tho.

Don’t forget that Trump is completely inept and this time doesn’t have any help from people even trying to be “the adults in the room”. He’s made some huge huge promises and I just don’t think he has the ability or the team to make much of it happen.

It’s not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.

https://bimmerlife.com/2020/10/31/study-bmw-drivers-are-the-rudest/

BMW drivers are the worst. It’s science.

Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I’m sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.

There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.

Story by a game dev who gave up on Rust after 3 years https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

Sure sounds like it!

And, in real life, the house has a much larger bankroll.

hardcoded into android

This explains so much! Thanks