I do not claim to be an expert on this, just some dude with the internet, so answering that is going to be a team effort.

I’m not sure I follow what you mean by “borrowed” here. Do you mean money borrowed by the Treasury, or by people?

Yes, that’s exactly the point I made.

The boomer generation is getting old. There are more people drawing from SS than paying into it.

• As a result, social security has been running a deficit since 2010
• In 2023 social security made up 1.3T, or ~20% of our deficit.
• According to a report last year, at this rate the social security fund will deplete in 2035

DOGE is shooting for optics, not actual savings. Cutting penny production is about $90M out of the $6.1T deficit. Which isn’t as useful to the American people as the headline is for DOGE. Their goal is to get one of these headlines every month to make it look like they’re doing something useful.

But 70% of our deficit is: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Military, and Interest payments on debt.

• They can’t cut interest payments, period.
• They won’t cut military, obviously, but there is probably a lot of low hanging fruit here that they should be scrutinizing.
• They might cut SS or Medi*, predictably eating the faces of their base.

And if they cut literally everything except for these, we’d still run over a $4T deficit. Meanwhile, the quality of life for Americans by cutting all that will get measurably worse.

So yeah, more likely is that they’ll keep aiming for random little optics opportunities, while trying to find ways to funnel more of this money to Musk and his buddies via govt contracts.

They just have to say it’s something Obama did that Trump is undoing. I actually think the less the right wing media even acknowledges it happening, the more successful it will be.

They’re acting like he said these things 10 years ago when he was a stupid kid, and has apologized since then.

He said it 5 months ago, and he tried deleting them so he didn’t get caught, not out of shame or apology.

They know this, they just don’t care anymore. I’m surprised they made any statements at all.

His kids are apparently half Indian, which was why he said that.

It’s not clear to me how tailscale does this without being a VPN of some kind. Is it just masking your IP and otherwise just forwarding packets to your open ports? Maybe also auto blocking suspicious behavior if they’re clearly scanning or probing for vulnerabilities?

I need everything to be fully but securely accessible from outside the network

I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. Who is going to need to access it from outside the network? Is it good enough for you to set up a VPN?

The more stuff visible on the internet, the more you have to play IT to keep it safe. Personally, I don’t have time for that. The safest and easiest system to maintain a system is one where possible connections are minimized.