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quickly and completely corps change their minds

What pisses me off is how utterly willing any given minority is willing to boot-lick a corporation because of a rainbow avatar or 50 word statement of support or whatever.

Corporations will, at best, pretend to be your friend until it's no longer convenient for them to do so, then your ass is out on the street.

Don't fall for it when they change their mind again, because they are at very best minimal-effort dont-rock-the-boat-too-hard temporary performative allies.

You have to wonder about something though.

In the 90s, the Republicans were very angry about Clinton getting a blowjob in the oval office.

Would the 2025 Republicans also impeach someone for fucking a couch in the Oval Office?

I'm wagering they don't do anything at all anywhere. The absolute most might be a 'happy pride!' page buried somewhere.

But, honestly, as a gay dude, I don't care. This was all performative nonsense anyways. It was, at the very best, just some virtue signalling bullshit marketing thought might sell another car or book or potato or whatever the fuck, and never ever actually meant support or willingness to stand on principles or even get fucking involved in anything - though, I'll admit, there were a very few exceptions to that.

There's lots of shit needed, but an avatar picture that's just fucking marketing from trillion dollar companies ain't it, boss.

Thanks for posting this.

Re-started my archiveteam warrior stack and shoved it onto this project.

I'd argue that using dummy account is mandatory, not a preferrential choice.

If you have a phone on you with ANY of your personal data on it and a cop takes it, you should simply assume every single thing that the phone could access will end up in the hands of the proescutors to use against you.

Don't log in to ANY accounts that have ANY personal data on a phone you're taking to a protest, and sure as shit don't log in to any account that have ANY political/sociologial discussions or plans that could be used to paint you in a bad light in court.

Make new accounts for everything, and only install and log in to the very very bare minimum. This includes using your google or apple account when you set the phone up, too: google and apple have an enormous amount of data about you and if they get a subpoena for it, and there's anything anywhere that might be damning, you can bet it'll get used against you.

(As a side note: don't use anything electronic to do illegal shit either, because your other accounts could also be subpoenaed if the cops have reason to think your real google account has what they need, and most JPs will just rubber-stamp shit cops ask for anyways. If you MUST do illegal things do not use electronic devices. Meet in person, don't make notes/videos/recordings/post it on tiktok/wahtever.)

And frankly, in any case, posting someone's name online in correlation to a public job isn't doxxing.

Too many people have gone 'posting anything online about anyone is doxxing!' which is just stupid.

If you work for the government, then yes, your name is (unless you're doing some classified shit) is public. So is/was your salary.

Don't want your shit public, don't work for the public. Very simple.

I'd be a little nicer: there's at least one if not two generations now who have never communicated outside of these walled gardens.

Like, I'm entirely certain some of my niblings have no fucking clue what a text message is, since they grew up on snapchat and whatsapp and facebook messenger.

Perhaps a reasonable outreach that's not just 'u suck for using nazi shit!' (which uh, I do agree with) might be a little more useful in capturing anyone under the age of like, 30.

What do you bet they don't even do that anymore?

$5 says almost no company does even the most perfunctory rainbow capitalism avatar changes this year, because, well, that'd be DEI or woke or someshit.

I have to ask but uh, does he REALLY look like that, or has someone photoshopped him. Because if you look up 'weird nerd nobody liked in highschool on a power trip because he runs a webstie now' on wikipedia, that's the image you'd get.

(And before I get lambasted about how I'm judging someone from their appearance: just no. I just find it hilarious the guy who acts like that also happens to look exactly like you'd expect. Some sort of uh, appearance determination thing, or whatever.)

Where else is there to go when I want to read content that's an unmarked advertisement?

Oh right, the NYT/WSJ/WaPo exists, nevermind.

That was a joke. And besides, only certain distributions count anyways. Keep an eye out for our Slackware brothers, they need our help and support in these times.

Plus, there are a lot of folks here (it seems like a majority sometimes in my personal experience) that are quick to advocate violence/sabotage in lieu of negotiation and debate. That reeks of puppeteering; there can’t be that many arseholes here, right?

That's because there are a lot of marginlized folks here - gay, trans, autistic, linux users - who have spent decades disucssing politely and negotiating.

Problem is the people throwing Nazi salutes and writing all these executive orders have, quite clearly, said they want us all either dead or in camps.

Now I wouldn't dream of speaking for everyone else, but I'm certainly not going to be attempting to politely debate myself out of a one-way train ride, if it comes to that.

So, yeah, while I don't encourage violence for the sake of violence, the neoliberal 'oh dear we must all be very polite at all times and let rationality solve all our issues!' is dead and worthless.

I've taken classes for and armed myself, and I have zero qualms with defending myself and friends and family by any means necessary if it comes down to a situation where it's us-or-them, regardless of who 'them' is.

If you told me even five years ago that I'd be carrying a gun and be fully prepared to use deadly force to defend myself I'd have called you goofy, and if you told me that I'd be willing to use it against agents of the state if they came after me, I'd think you have lost your damn mind.

But, well, it's been a long 5 years, and frankly, IMO, the rule of law and the trust in any governmental institutions have been eroded into nothing.

I mean, the american dream was always a lie.

Perhaps in the 1950s maybe you could have had it as it was sold to you... as long as you were white, straight, and otherwise toeing the perfectly-normal-nothing-to-see-here line.

But beyond a very, very short period of privilege, it's always been bullshit.

Well since they seem at least ambivilant on linux, perhaps not?

(Kidding, kidding.)

Maybe planet fitness can put it next to the free donuts?

Yeah, that lady is 100% going to show up at when you absolutely most expect it, and kill you in the most incredibly predictable way you can imagine.

Don't eat random plants.

Ugh, I got stuck in a Tholian web once at a Equinix datacenter.

Took four hours for the guys to figure out how to repolarize the emitters to get me out.

Really really annoying.

what does the cid come up as when calling a landline with name&number cid? just ‘wireless’ and number or somesuch like some cell phones, the billing name (like others–what we don’t want. we use a line as a business line), or can you customize the names that show up with the number?

I have no idea, tbh.

I went to try to test, but it turns out I don't know ANYONE with a landline phone anymore, so uh, I can't.

I'm still on the trusting-the-banks: I have a lot of money in the largest banks in the US, and if they fail, we're all fucked: if BoA and Chase and Citibank collapse, we're all going to back to growing our own food on family plots and you'll want a donkey and 10 acres more than anything else.

To that end, I'm spending a lot of money on what amounts to chickens, seeds, canned/preserved food, and bullets.

I mean, I may not need 5 years of seeds, and what's close to a year's worth of not-great-but-not-starving food stores, and enough ammo to clear out the 100 acre woods, buuuuut if you do need it, better you have it.

The problem is for people who have more than $500 to save somewhere: if I put half my assets in crypto, we're talking north of $600,000.

I do not trust a bunch of people who think computer-generated monkey pictures are neat with great big piles of money, and until they stop acting like a cross between the stupidest shit you've ever heard and a poverty-spec casino, it's not gonna fucking happen.

So yeah, I still trust the banking system more than I do putting it into even something like ETH or BTC, even if I'm doing self-custody, because I don't trust a single player that's involved will do anything other than immediately collapse if it reaches the point where crypto becomes more useful than real money and people start trying to pull usable money out of their portfolios.

If I can't pay my bills and buy food, then I might as well have just invested in shiny pebbles.