That’d make a great switch to Linux billboard.

I snagged a Chromebook back in 2016 and used it for 9 years. It wasn’t speedy, but for small time browsing, terminal use (I rooted it and put a real Linux distro in there), and media watching it was just fine.

Again? It used to be called something else even further back.

It must be part of the “security through making it hard to search for online” strategy.

The real elites shall forever be the Plan9 group. There’s dozens of users! Dozens!

To quote Alex:

Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.

I moved to a city with 37% of the land being greenspaces or rivers. The city has 1900 playgrounds for children and one park nearly the size of Central Park in NYC. So much nicer than my old city that’s rapidly becoming yet another Stroadville USA.

She needs more Mar A Lago face. Go all in Alina.

Completely unqualified lawyer and should be removed from anything even close to the government.

Nazis supporting Nazis in Idaho? Who’d have thought it?

Go get 'em Canucks! The services need them and other nations are currently exporting their best and brightest.

More diseased children: check

Another victory for Conservative politics.

Many of them done from the 1960’s to the 1980’s in the US will have asbestos. It’s fine as long as it stays behind the paint, but cutting/drilling into it is very dangerous.

That’s what you asked for. That’s what you wrought. These are the seeds of hate and terror you fostered, Marge. You sailed on a wave of cruelty and destruction of the nation trying to become rich, and you succeeded in your theft from the nation, but the problem with riding a tiger is getting away once you let go of their ears.

Downtown Spokane is a island of blue. Pullman is usually the same. By the time you get to Spokane Valley the people there actively vote for Christian Nationalist Terrorist organizers.

The Spokane City Council is actually very strongly progressive right now. The city’s districts were changed about 10-ish years ago. Since then the votes from downtown actually matter and the city is quickly improving on several fronts. Basically, it’s downtown demanding process with everywhere else demanding we woodchip homeless people and storm schools with ICE to beat up children.

You can say “of course that’s hyperbole!” I say: I canvassed Spokane door knocking for politics and I heard those exact ideas from the people I talked to. They’re fucking crazy. I don’t really know what happened, but the US lost any and all sense of humanity in the rural/suburban areas over the last 40 years.

The classic source for the research is The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer. Full text available here from the author: https://theauthoritarians.org/

He studied authoritarian attitudes and other related behaviors for decades. The book came out on the heels of the end of the George W. Bush presidency. He absolutely called the future of the Republican party / Conservative movement we have today as it morphs into a full on fascist administration.

Very highly recommended reading, designed for more laypeople then pure researchers, and is spot on for the situation we’re in.

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I’ve begun speaking more with people in my goal language. It’s scary, but when it works, very rewarding.

We were on the road this weekend, so I had to navigate some hotel staff interactions. I was able to understand much of the language, but my ability to speak is quite limited still.

My reading is soaring forward. I finished my A2 learning book (pass #1, I’ll read it again soon) and am working through some other children’s books for basics practice.

They were also in on the whole Clipper Chip debacle. They tried to force a hardware level encryption backdoor into all computers back under President Clinton. This stuff isn’t new for them, they’re just less dictatory then the Conservatives who are founded on the restoration of the monarchy.

About 30% of all people, regardless of descent, are Authoritarians. They’ll gladly sign up to hurt others when told to and assume they’ll be rewarded by the dictator for their loyalty. Even when the whole basis of the cruelty is on race, there’s always Quislings lining up to be oppressors assuming they won’t be on the firing line later when the conservatives run out of other outsiders to kill off.

White Fascism is a death cult. Anyone participating is first killing everyone around them, and then themselves. They are not to be trusted.

That would be greatly ironic. I’ve spent months getting access to a VPN connection at a partner university. I’ve got gotten it working since it’s the “only” way to log into resources there securely.

Then the govt comes along and lines up to ban VPNs. Exactly how are we supposed to use connected computers, pray tell? I can’t just use SSH because IT people fear it and I can’t use VPNs because government politicians fear them. So… I’ll just read a book at home, I guess.

They’re just rightfully following in the footsteps of their ex leader who only ever did one painting properly.