Yeah, it might be low, but it’s not high.

Because it’s been a very short time. It’s still possible laws are enforced, although dangerously precarious.

“and this judge thinks”

You can’t just bitch any time someone tries to do something. Does this judge think he’s going to single handedly rein in this fascist administration? No, probably not. Should he try anyway? Absolutely.

We don’t need more Robert Muellers.

So you want the judge to give him a pass?

At this point it’s still just a good attempt at not being a republic. We were, after all, dumb enough to vote this guy in legitimately.

We’re in the “if you can keep it” phase.

Enough money that it’s a legitimate job on its own really helps. 300k is a reasonable number for that.

I never noticed how robotic those head turns are.

We don’t need the nickel or dime either.

It’s easy when your definitions of “fraud” is “anything I don’t personally like”.

Specifically, click this and search for a made up name. The goal is not to ddos. This is a useful site that we want to stay up. The goal is privacy. They’re not above using this data.

Tell your loved ones that if you are detained by ICE, they can try to use ICE’s online detainee locator to find you: https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search

It helps if you google (specifically Google) things immigrants might google. It hides hotspots on the map for search terms.

Another thing the idiots tearing down USAid don’t seem to realize. It’s not just charity; it’s our insurance. We intentionally overproduce food. Because, as you say, food doesn’t grow from dollar bills.

The thing the idiot billionaires didn’t realize is that they already had maximum money and minimum accountability.

Money. Which would you rather have, a million dollars or a million rubles? By grinding the US economy to a standstill, they may have more dollars, but they’ll be worth less.

When they complete turning us into a fascist oligarchy, they’ll have more accountability, not less. Nearly every single one of them will have to spend more time worrying about getting thrown out of a window by a “superior” or shot in front of a hotel on their way to a conference.

They’ll have to fear everyone above and below them. They discarded a set of rules that originated from general agreements to help us all get along, and have chosen power and blood as the deciding factor over laws. Well, that goes both ways. Democracy requires some good faith, and we’ve taken that for granted.

The founders understood this. It’s why they invented our system of democracy. It wasn’t just out of the goodness of their hearts. That all happened around 1776, as you know.

Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris.

That sentiment didn’t arise out of the blue. It was around for decades before it got to that point. The founding fathers were very aware of what was happening there. The English civil war happened in the mid 1600s and the king was executed.

It turns out constant power struggles were often not great for those in power.

But we’ve forgotten that. So now, instead of learning from history, we’ll repeat it.

Lemmy.world is also the most reliable and the smoothest experience.

I strongly have the opposite opinion. Let people start on Lemmy.World and once they have experience (like you), they can move to where they want.

They’re an actual non-profit org out of the Netherlands with professional hosting.

Federation is a feature like divorce is a feature. It’s extremely important that it exists and is accessible. Not everybody needs to do it. Other servers are a fine option if you know what you’re doing and are willing to deal with more issues OR if there’s a compelling reason (such as the various regional servers).

When federation between lemm.ee and lemmy.world is behind by an hour or two, where do you think users will have a better experience? When 90% of their content is now a couple hours older, that’s a worse experience.

And spreading people out doesn’t really fix anything. It just puts more stress on federation technology. If you spread out all the users, Federation becomes a much harder to manage many to many relationship between all the servers, instead of primarily being a one to many relationship.

In short, if you spread out the users equally, suddenly every instance begins to have federation issues with each other, and everyone has a worse experience. With a bigger “main” instance, the majority of users are less affected by federation issues, and the issues are less common.

The regional servers have more of a balance here. 90% of their content may be old, but the 10% they are up to date with are the things closest to them, most important to them, and maybe in their language.

I do appreciate having several general use instances. I just don’t want to send newbies there who will generalize their experience to all of Lemmy and the Fediverse.

They’re secure. Absolutely more secure than going without. I know a total of about two passwords, which are used in only two places.

The rest of my passwords look like PaB@@f%G4q77Mh#EsL%DG@

Keepass uses a file you keep on your own computer, encrypted, with two passwords. One password (a keyfile) is stored on your disk. The other you remember. With that much security, you can give someone your password database and it’s unlikely they’ll ever open it. If you’re ultra paranoid, you use keepass.

Bitwarden is more convenient, more user friendly, and stored in the cloud. It’s open source and audited. If someone breached Bitwarden, it’d be huge news.

Not having a password manager, besides being a huge pita, is more of a security risk. I bet you use the same password on different sites, maybe with a variation based on the domain name. You likely often have trouble remembering passwords, and might try several passwords if your first try fails. All this is information you could be giving away if the site is compromised.

I never forget a username or password anymore. If the site tells me I’m wrong, I know it’s them and not me.

Plus Passkeys are pretty great and are starting to be supported.

Also get a password manager of some kind. Keepass and Bitwarden are both great. Never have this problem again.

It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.

elaborate reasons why it’s all true

Usually it’s “just read these 10 hundred-year-old books” that they absolutely have not read.

And if you ask them to make a point from those books, they can’t. Apparently they’re only comprehensible as a whole.