They’d deploy the national guard, and you can’t spell slaughter without laughter

Huh, that’s fascinating. I wasn’t aware, but that’s cool to hear, despite how frustrating and depressing the motivation for it may be

What a fucking tool.

Good job, Biden. You care so much about your legacy? Guess what: your legacy is now “one of the hubristic egotistical dipshits that made so many unforced errors that you basically opened the fucking door for the fascists to take over”. You’ll be remembered alongside the likes of Neville Chamberlain and Paul von Hindenburg. You absolute fucking chode. You lost the fucking republic.

Are you for real trying to ivory tower armchair general a person who now fears for their life due to the overt threats of the candidate who just won the fucking presidency? Hold on- let me get you a ladder so you can try to climb down out of your own asshole.

It’s all going away. There will be no punishment. We’re done here.

To be clear, none of that is a good thing.

Tbh I’m honestly kinda surprised that electoral fuckery wasn’t even needed.

In a lot of red states these days, the reason is “the election officials and Secretary of State (for the state in question) have made it extremely difficult - and in some cases impossible - for me to vote”.

I’m not saying the points you’re raising are irrelevant, but honestly, just look at Texas. It SHOULD be purple/swing, the legislature there has enacted swaths of anti-democratic (small “d”) measures with the expressly partisan intent of making it effectively impossible for any party other than the GOP to win anything meaningful in the state.

I cannot fucking wait for the bottom to fall out of the real estate market. I’m on the wrong side of 35, and owning ANYTHING reasonably sized for a reasonable price has just seemed deeply laughable for the entirety of my career.

Is this one of the areas where corps are buying up a shitload of real estate?

My concern at this point is that a lot of electoral positions in swing states - e.g. Georgia - appear to have been co-opted by overtly partisan Trumpians. And I’m not convinced they’ll abide by the court injunctions of “that’s not your fucking job, just do your job and nothing else”, because Trump would almost certainly pardon all the people pulling electoral fuckery like that if he figures out how to weasel his way into office. That is, in fact, a core element of their plan, and why all the fuckery appears to be kinda proceeding in lockstep. This is also why a lot of them are so die hard for Trump - they are fully cognizant of their guilt, and know that the DoJ is going to take a long, hard look at them if Harris wins, and very likely hang together, as it were.

Oh yeah, Hell March is fantastic - though I was referring to this one in particular, since the SPACE clip was (iirc) from that one

Not to mention, George Takei was an INSPIRED choice for the head of the 3rd faction.

Also, the menu music is unironically an absolute banger

Oh, most definitely.

Gotcha - I thought you meant you had seen some sort of demo/article/whatever with a proof of concept, but I misunderstood.

That sounds neat. Link?

The repeal of fairness doctrine played a huge role in terms of how we got here

Tbh those things are great little thin clients to leave near your couch, despite their age

Rules for thee, but not for me

DAS enclosures are super easy to set up. Disk won’t be a big issue if you go that route.

If you’re planning on running containers, tbh I would not. The required virtualization layer (due to macOS being BSD-based) is going to make containers WAY less efficient. You’re better off with a system you can easily slap proxmox (or whatever distro floats your boat) on.