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Cake day: March 7th, 2025

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  • Just wait until your average beat cop is given Federal powers to “assist”, regular citizens are deputized with Federal powers, or military units are tasked with rounding up people en masse.

    Those are very likely going to happen. Logistically, it is the only way he can round up everyone he wants. There are 14 million undocumented immigrants in this country. If he were to evenly split how many are detained and deported, that is 3.5 million annually, or, just under 9,560 people a day. ICE isn’t staffed for that, having only 20,000 employees (general employee number count, many of those may not be ‘field officers’). Even including Customs Border Patrol and their 58,000 employees (most of which can’t be tasked with field missions because they need to work the borders themselves), empowering standard law enforcement and Federalizing the military is the only option to logistically complete Trump’s task.

    And, when rounding up nearly 10,000 people a day, there are absolutely going to be innocent US citizens kidnapped as a result. And if Trump’s goal is to not just detain but deport that number of people as well, that means that there are likely going to be law-abiding US citizens who are kidnapped and flown into a foreign prison without any due process. There may be US citizens already caught in the process of this; sadly, we don’t know. The US government may determine that it would just be easier for them to just be “disappeared” rather than bring them back to the US and spill the story to the media. US families will just one day find that their husband, wife, son, or daughter didn’t come home from school or work, or was taken in the middle of the night, and vanished with no confirmation or acceptance of responsibility from the government.








  • Uncommon because I don’t hear it being pushed a lot for food, but oats. They’re cheap (about the same price point as many beans, about $0.60-$1/lb), but are such a fantastic, well rounded food. Protein, fiber, carbs, are good for blood sugar and cholesterol, and can be eaten alone or used as a filler for breads, meatloafs, and other baked goods. They also don’t take as much water to cook as dried beans do.
















  • My plans. Plans for everything, and plans for those plans if they fail, and tertiary plans. I love plans. SOPs (standard operating procedures). I’d rather have a solid plan for everything reasonable (and some unreasonable) than all the gear in the world with no plan. Plans documented, memorized, printed and digitized. I had a very logistics-heavy role in the military, and as a civilian with a family in this day and age of so much uncertainty, I’m honestly more focused on them than I was when I was serving.



  • It’s definitely a cool option for complete off-grid comms. There is the option to use MQTT as well for messaging, but that requires internet to work. I’m planning for no internet, so that’s what I ‘train’ with. You can make it so you are on the ‘open’ channel for anyone to jump into, directly contact individual nodes, and/or make ‘channels’ that only other people with the same encryption key can access for group chats. No subscriptions or anything else, plus there are a ton of different hardware types available, antennas, and other options. And overall, fairly inexpensive to get started.

    The only real ‘difficult’ part is if you live near a mountain range. Without other nodes from other people around the peaks or setting up repeater nodes yourself, getting past mountain ranges isn’t going to happen.