It’s so fricking infuriating because, literally we were actually seeing the cracks form. Trump admin is violating the hatch act, pushing “dem’s have shut down the government”, and yet poll after poll shows the american people put the blame on the republicans. Trump was constantly boo’d to his face at the commanders game… and the democrats had an amazing election where they won every contest they were in. I can’t fathom a worse time to fold

In recent days, aides have presented Trump with three scenarios for the overall outcome of the redistricting fight, none of which include Republicans losing seats when all the maps are finalized

So, sounds to me like… trumps yes men are only bringing him scenerios where he wins. They don’t want to be like the girl who brought him unfavorable jobs numbers.

As a result basically they might slice numbers up so that in attempting to dillute democratic districts out of existance, they may instead turn all the districts competitive, and if everything swings like this last election he might lose more than he gains.

Admitted though, could go in favor for him as obviously this weeks election had one huge key detail going in it’s favor, the democrats gave the illusion they were actually fighting and standing up to trump. Which as usual they managed to completely screw it up… right after getting overwhelming evidence that “yes this is what we want!”.

That’s the double whammy to me. It’s bad enough that we lost and got nothing for it, but we paid a huge price.

I mean, that’s not a bad thing to do assuming you are making the right cases. It’s more of the cases being made that’s the issue rather than where they are making them. If your case is good, you should want it to go to the people who are against you. Worse case it does nothing, best case it puts someone on the path to changing their mind.

Sadly I could so see that happening… and some crazy stupid arguement that bypasses the term limits because democrat trump is considered a new candidate.

Though I’d also say the odds of him living to the end of this term with all his health issues, is under 25% at this point.

agreed it’s kind of a… we need to get schumer out of the way, because he’s a large part of preventing us from doing anything else to clean up the party. He’s not the sole problem no… but he is probably one of the biggest supporters of many of the other problems.

Not sure that really works for git though… at least with regards to it’s primary usage.

git isn’t just a backup… it’s about version control.

IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn’t working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change… and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.

If you encrypted it so that git couldn’t actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions… but you’d basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can’t read the files).

I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of “self host” as 90% of what I host is a hetzner server running out of finland. because well that’s off site backups lol.

my setup is.

Local: Frigate (CCTV manager), Homeassistant (home automation), Matrix (chat).

Remote: Mealie (recipe collection), Vaultwarden (works with bitwarden clients), Nextcloud (files and documents), Freshrss, gitea (github alternative)

Now in terms of wanting an offsite backup, you are probably right, assuming you don’t have something offsite that you can syncronize with, and assuming you don’t have any major privacy fears of what is hosted, those things are probably best to use cloud for, assuming you are more worried of losing everything in a house fire, than you are of say the stuff being spied on by a 3rd party or caught by hackers.

So yeah I’d say, personally in things I like to have self hosted… on site, probably I’d say a local messanger is good if you’d like a reasonably private communication for friends/family etc… Niche things like RSS readers, or recipe books, really anything strange niche you can probably search for some program to self host it.

It’s kinda complicated, but I do have to say… smuggling on that scale something more is going on. If you told me someone is smuggling 200,000 lbs of cigarettes from a state where they are cheap into a state they are expensive… I’d say there’s a 99.99% chance somewhere in the line there’s some major violent crimes done to enable it. An opperation that large isn’t just a couple guys providing for their friends, that’s clearly dealing with some form of organized crime or gangs… that most likely aren’t holding their territory by friendly agreements.

Well you have to factor 2 things, there still was a battle with congress to get those checks out during covid. (I remember Bernie walking into congress with the massive printout of trumps tweet saying he was going to send out checks), and of course factoring in that trump knew he wanted to get elected again. It’s 3 years away from the next presidential election… and him getting a 3rd term probably doesn’t involve an election.

Hard to judge from your link, as apparently they paywalled it.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/literally

but I’m assuming it’s not too different than this. Which also includes

(informal) used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not literally true I literally jumped out of my skin.

You gotta realize even the dictionary has given up on this one…

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

Because the dictionary covers the practical usage, and the misuse is as common as the actual use. The dictionary definition for litterally includes the formal “in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression” and the informal that means the exact opposite “statement or description that is not literally true or possible”

I find it kind of ironic to say it’s actual definition for literally includes effectively or it could also mean “not literally”

The wait is nothing, though I guess the definition of “active development”, publicly confirmed development etc… To my knowledge HL3 has been in some form of development since, HL2, but to my knowledge there’s only been “leaks” rather than any official confirmation, and the joke teaser as valve goes to game event after game event without making announcements.

I can give that on Isreal, she takes anti-semitism without the caveat of “except the ones that are in power commiting a genocide”. The release the epstein files, and protect healthcare, is either she’s actually concerned about helping people or punishing bad guys… or she’s just pissed off with something in her party and is playing a contrarian to get something she wants (which yeah, I’d lean more towards the second, but general bigotry doesn’t quite explain those 2).

Guessing middle class is… college students with rich AF parents that pay to fly them home… and people really well set, but not quite in the private jet level.

Saves us the trouble of needing to primary an incumbant moderate. Give us a good democratic socialist.

I mean it’s a trippple doom for her. She’s a woman, she’s half way shedding maga siding with dem’s on the epstein files, and on protecting healthcare, and she has a history of being outright crazy in multiple directions.

In short, I don’t think her recent forays into sanity are going to erase the stain the R party has on it now, nor erase her claims of weather controlling machines and space lasers to earn any support from the left.

Then to court maga… obviously they’d need to be less sexist, and she’d need to seem more… on trumps side.

I think AOC’s comment is probably right, she got snubbed for senate seat by trump… and now she’s pissed and wanting to break that glass ceiling.

Bigger thing here “testing nuclear weapons on an equal basis”…

equal basis to what? nobodys fucking testing them because digital simulations are pretty damn accurate, and nukes are so powerful no matter where we drop it, it’s going to wreck the hell out of the wildlife and usually some group of poor people.

Unless he’s just talking about launching empty ICBM’s like north korea does etc…

Only the media made the mistake of thinking that was negative in his mind.

So hilarious and so apt… I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what’s effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones… but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.