You sort of do, until suddenly, unexpectedly, you don’t:

https://www.vox.com/politics/2026/1/xx/fascism-normal-life-authoritarianism-duality

All evidence so far indicates ICE is above the law.

I’m using my own LetsEncrypt certs for TLS with cloudflare free. I too wonder how I’m the product in this scenario.

I always assumed it was a loss leader play: the more selfhost type people are using cloudflare at home, the more likely they are to recommend and implement it at work, on a paid tier.

I saw Blues Traveler live a couple of weeks ago.

Nobody in that band works harder than the harmonica tech. John had her fiddling with the settings on his harmonica amp (yes, really, he has a harmonica amp) for about half the show.

Whatever she kept changing, I couldn’t tell the difference. Eventually John was either satisfied or gave up.

Correct. And it’s not strange.

This comment appears to have aged well.

Hunted a bit growing up. My guess is, if you hit a human pretty much anywhere above the thighs with .30-06, they’re not going to live through it. The hydrostatic shock is devastating and the exit wound is significant.

If the round was armor piercing, .30-06 has enough force to go through a car engine block.

Pretty sure the glass dome traps the heat they’re trying to dissipate.

It’s the purple one that curves around from the bottom left of the map along the bottom of the map, then curves up along the right side of the map.

That’s not quite the way they summarized the plot on the Oscar nomination, but yes.

The letter ‘h’ just entered the chat.

And if you go to a locally owned restaurant, pay with cash. Fuck visa/mc/banks and their merchant fees.

People have to work to live. They’re working to make money to buy food at the grocery, or at the other end of the spectrum, they’re working by hunting and gathering food.

I’m excluding people with enough wealth to buy their food indefinitely from this discussion. At global scale, not many people are in that category.

It has options for providing metadata, thumbnails, etc for jellyfin automatically, by pulling the metadata from the youtube page.

You’re right, but neither would we.

Fucking French. ‘we’re never, ever going to say this ‘h’ character, but you still need it to spell words correctly because fuck you, that’s why.’

But that’s not important right now.

It’s easy to forget all the shit Ashcroft said he was going to do, like misinterpret existing laws to go after porn producers, harrass gay folks, all kinds of other Christofascist shit. Then 9/11 happened, and this is a pretty good summary of what happened:

he sought to sweep away any meaningful restrictions on his power and use the fact of September 11th to do so.

But this is an attorney general who treated dissent and criticism as if it was treason, who launched the largest campaign of ethnic profiling we’ve seen in this country since World War II, who sought… who treated judicial review and congressional oversight as inconvenient obstacles to getting the job done.

And I think ultimately he’ll be seen as a disaster, both from a civil liberties perspective and also from a national security perspective.

You’re an optimist. This decline is gonna be way more than a generation.

Being at risk of being attacked by a sexual predator is neither funny nor cute.

The right-wing has never been an advocate for protecting women, so the leap you’ve made here is rather spectacular.