Not broken, but the wrong system.

Stephen Miller is dangerous. Of all the fascists’ lies, his are the most poisonous. He consistently dehumanizes his opponents and deals in falsehoods specifically designed to incite hatred and violence against them. He is trying hard to get people killed, all while whining that the other side is too violent. Stephen Miller is exactly the kind of bitterly mediocre man who would fit right in with the OG Nazi leadership. I sometimes wonder how much the tone of this administration would change if they just didn’t have Miller pouring his poison into Trump’s ear every day.

Someone would have to pay for the API calls though. And that tends to mean either pay a subscription or view ads. There’s no technical reason your local LLM couldn’t call a search engine’s API to give you an ad-free search experience, and in fact you don’t need an LLM to run a local ad-free search frontend. But there is a commercial reason, namely that whoever runs the search engine API will want payment. It would be some progress to have an ad-free search subscription, but it wouldn’t get around all the megacorp fuckery that decides what search results you get.

Trump and Hegseth’s people are really endearing themselves to the military. I do hope this ends badly for them.

Especially when the only thing keeping you protected from invasion is that only your country has those production facilities.

It’s probably the “alternative medicine, don’t trust doctors” crowd, which traditionally wasn’t a particularly right-wing thing but then merged with the right around the pandemic/QAnon time. Some of them must have been left behind.

I have never seen Trump look more confused and stupid than with his recent Tylenol speech or his befuddlement over “war-torn” Portland and inability to understand how the TV might show him things that aren’t true. For a long time I was skeptical about claims of his cognitive decline (from an already low starting place), but it is undeniable now.

Those people actually tried to overthrow the federal government with violence. And yet this guy won’t think they should be hanged, because fascists do not ever speak in good faith or care about consistency or principles. That’s why you can’t argue away fascism.

Hoekstra can’t keep his bullshit consistent with his own bullshit a few seconds ago when he denied his previous bullshit after being called out on his bullshit being bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ4RX5PsnFM

No no, it’s that radical Stalinist Chuck Schumer with his extremist policies of sending everyone in the room to sleep with longwinded explanations of why, despite the mildest of misgivings, he’s agreeing to everything. It’s basically terrorism.

You could use NFC instead of OCR, for messages and key exchange. I like the idea of a device that prevents plaintext ever entering the phone.

Agreed. We won’t tech our way out of fascism but the tech could be useful. Local organization is the thing, offline.

The people waiting to take over from Putin are not going to make matters any better.

4 hours? You and the person above are overestimating how much free time working parents have each day. I’m lucky to get 30 minutes, and I only get that because I’m hiding in the bathroom.

Remember when science could be debated? Now we just have to accept everything as fact without question if it supports the correct agenda.

Questioning science gets you banned, lol. It may as well be religion at that point.

Questioning what science gets you banned from what, by whom? Scientists question science all the time. That’s how it progresses. You’d need to give examples to explain what you’re referring to. And can you give an example when we’re expected to simply “accept everything as fact without question”?

Edit: It has been a day. I guess there are no examples coming.

Remember when Reagan would confuse movie plots with things that actually happened? The USA doesn’t learn from its mistakes.

Even taking the question seriously is sane-washing the President’s delusions.

Yes, Meshtastic may be very basic and limited, but now might be the time to set up a node or two while it’s still possible.

Decapitating this regime might actually help the USA.

Too many decades of anti-left propaganda has left people with the crazy idea that the only model for anything is a profit-making business.