Also, don’t acknowledge the organization as real. They were created in 2003 when the Federal government decided to take away all our rights, tap all our communications illegally, all to save us from dangerous shoes, and 5 ounces of shampoo at airport scanners.

ICE was borne of evil, and is evil. They all deserve a complicated life and zero respect, at a minimum.

(Fun fact: TSA was created in 2001 for similar reasons.)

On the other hand, since the Federal government is no longer adhering to the rule of law, nobody should care to.

Respect one’s state and local laws, if they are fair, and one feels like it. Otherwise? Fuck it all.

On the front end, you can put lipstick on that pig.

On the back end, it has to work and there’s nowhere to apply lipstick.

OTOH, it seems there is a trend in modern dev practices that it’s acceptable for a service to terminate frequently, as long as it respawns, which finally made me figure out all the sci-fi tropes where a ship’s systems aren’t responding. It’s because too many are crashing in concert. But mostly terrifying that this practice would ever be considered practical.

Check out OpenHAB. They already have containers available right on their downloads page.

Proof! Canadian quarter in a vending machine: rejected!

Completely fake money! (/s obv. Border states often interchange Canadian/US currency, vending machines reject currency they don’t know.)

It’s so easy to parse what they say if you use 1984 rules. Reverse everything.

“Democrats are cheating the vote!” => “We are”

“Democrats are trafficking children and drinking their blood!” => “We are”

“Democrats are letting gangs into the country!” => “We are”

As a consumer, I’m almost glad. China was abusing that loophole to firehose so much half-assed garbage into the country. There were entire business models around people buying items from China and then reselling them on Amazon at 4x+ markup.

Reality is, once the grifters refocus, the same half-assed garbage will keep coming, it’ll just come in bulk, cost more, and still be junk, and still be cheaper than if it were to be manufactured in the USA.

Parsing commas is hard, right? No, not really.

• young
• poor
• women

Did some research a while back.

Mango Mussolini failed businesses:

• At least four failed building ventures
• Had a failed “university”
• Failed vodka business (how hard is that, right?)
• Failed steak business
• Failed airline
• Failed board game
• Failed casinos in Atlantic City (how do you fail at running multiple businesses that only exist to hoover up money?)
• Failed magazine
• Failed luxury travel organization
• Failed mortgage company
• Failed presidency that took Pres. Biden’s administration most of their entire term to fix. We’re talking documents that are gone, departments that are deleted, abject chaos that had to be rebuilt from scratch in some cases.

Successes:

• Had mommy’s money to get him going
• Had 5 successful buildings built, mostly in the 1980s
  • At least three of them had fraudulent financial statements, inflated valuations, and inflated tax losses

On Mac at least, you can rename the app back to Remote Desktop. Microsoft sure is dumb as a bag of bricks these days.

Probably the LARPer subcategory. The smart ones know cops aren’t to be trusted due to low IQ requirements, among other problems.

Law in the US ceased to exist on January 20, 2025. The rest of us are just going through the motions until the reality catches up. (So, while in the past, something might have happened, now, they will get medals.)

Silicon Valley “needs to stop and think and impose guardrails before it launches products to market.”

Why would they? They’ve had unlimited freedom to do whatever they want for 30+ years. The only place ever doing anything to reign them in is the EU. The US thinks what they are doing is “capitalism”, while they recklessly rewrite the fabric of society.

They use laminate glass on the side windows as well as windshield on some models for noise reduction. Traditional window breaking tools don’t work on them. It’s basically a tombmobile.

BNPL over-extension and collapse was one of the things that led to the 1929 stock market crash. Back then, people were BNPLing things like RCA radios. Today it’s cell phones and groceries.

Too bad we can’t learn from history.

All I ever see is most people using (whatever system cloud provider comes with their computer/phone/tablet) and forking over $3, 5, $10, $20 a month to make the “your cloud is full!” alert to go away.

Somewhere in the middle is the way, and in countries like the US, that something in the middle should probably not be a US cloud provider anymore.

Cons include a dependency on a cloud service, which has a recurring charge and a privacy impact. The charge is typically minor vs the cost of a NAS or similar, and most services have some privacy assurances that may be enough to ease your concern.

With how places like the USA are degrading right now, the privacy impact is increasingly huge. Having a photo in your archive that could be flagged by an ML filter automatically as doing something now deemed “illegal” like having the wrong skin color is bad.

As for cost, you’d be surprised in that a few years of cloud or less can easily cost as much as a small NAS that can last a decade.

I’d advocate people learn how to preserve their data themselves, it is a good skill to have, and it helps strengthen data education in a time when Tech Bro companies want people as dumb and reliant on their tech as possible.

Easy enough to follow guides or ask an AI to set up a sync with another similar box at someone else’s house in a different city or state to have an offsite copy.

Not if they are in another city or state, though. Easy to cover that contingency.

The shit that people seem to forget, is that he inherited a broken US government. Entire departments were missing paper trails, documents, and people. Most of his 4 years was spent undoing the damage from Mango Mussolini 1.0 by building a cabinet of competency to go fix things.

Was it glamorous? No. Did the shit democrat party do a single thing to point any of this out? No. Has Mango 2.0 had any success finding this alleged “fraud, waste, and abuse”? Nope. (In fact, after applying the necessary double-speak filter, FWA is what Mango 2.0 is doing.)

Should he have run again? No, he should have honored his original decision not to, and dems should have spent those 4 years fleshing out a proper young candidate.

Why people jump to negative shit so fast, one can only attribute to the negative energy broadcasts from the Mango and the Party of Evil. No decent human should feel it necessary to be a jackass.

Channel that negative energy at those actually harming humans, and everyone’s entire existence, like Mango, Muskrat, that yahoo running Israel, and Putein. Oh, and towards educating those narrow-minded people that abstained their votes rather than try to protect their own country from harm. Better yet, get positive and help.

Remember when Steve Jobs said FaceTime was going to be an open protocol? Pepperidge Farms remembers.