Fuck :(

I mean, I haven’t had the malware issue and it gets removed from indexers just the same anyway :shrug:

I’ve had better success than torrenting, 100%. It’s faster, too, since it just uses SSL.

Suit yourself but I think it makes Nebula have better quality. It’s quality over quantity.

I have a couple hundred terabytes (half of it being spare), so I’m good for awhile. If I saw excessive failure, I would eventually need to downsize, of course.

I’ve had better reliability from Usenet, personally, but YMMV. Safe though? If you use Usenet over SSL, you don’t even need to download over VPN, if that’s what you mean.

True, but I was talking about private indexers, not shares. I guess I’m lucky that I bought a fuck ton of drives before the bullshit.

Signal only sends a “new message, retrieve the rest from Signal” ping to your phone through Firebase. It doesn’t contain message details, just that you have a new message.

Even better is Usenet 🤫

Will Trump be providing his?

I only feel valued by my friends and family. My job doesn’t make me feel valued, nor does society. Without my family, I’d struggle to find reasons to go on.

Except for platinum blonde of course.

Did you miss the “and even if he were able to get past that” part? You know, the rest of my comment?

I don’t deny that he’ll try, but them passing laws like the SAVE act show that they’re still planning on having elections. There would be no need to do voter suppression if you were just going to cancel the election. That’s the thing I’m really saying - the elections may not be free, they will cheat (or at least try to cheat), but there will be ““elections””. I’d rather not make people feel like they shouldn’t bother voting because “the election is going to be cancelled anyway”. The more people that turn out, the harder it is to cheat.

The only services I have native are pihole and Home Assistant. What are you running that is easier to maintain natively?

I’ve been putting off migrating a bunch of my docker run configs to compose. All of the services I’ve stood up for the least year and a half or so are using compose, but I still have most of mine using standard docker run (mostly because that was the default for Unraid when I built my server years ago). Maybe some day I’ll have the time to just do it all at once.

I didn’t say he operates within the checks and balances of the system. Those seats will be filled one way or another, meaning that there will likely be elections of some sort. It’s just predetermined, like Russia. That is more plausible than fully cancelling the elections under martial law. Why do that when you can keep up the ruse of ““elections””? Why would you forcibly cancel them, making it so people directly see that you’re doing so, and give them the chance to rise up against you?

Similarly, why bother with voter suppression bills like the SAVE act if you’re going to throw it all in the trash anyway?

This is exactly why Russia and countries like it still hold ““elections””. It’s easier to control the population when they feel like they still have a say.

I said:

People should have been using the ballot drop boxes all along anyway.

You said:

They do

So I said:

Then, according to you, this order wouldn’t affect anything?

Then you said

No liar

You are conveniently leaving out where I said that it can be fought or evaded with efficient and frequent placement of ballot boxes.

That is fighting it.

What is your suggestion, then?

What is the GOP going to do about the record amount of retirements and empty seats if they cancel the elections?

They need the elections as much as the Dems. It’s a matter of how free the elections will be. They will happen, but will they be predetermined like in Russia, or will they be the US standard level of BS?

I’m real tired of hearing this line at this point. States run the elections, and even if he were able to get past that, republicans are on the same ballot and are also retiring in huge numbers. They need the elections to happen, they’re going to happen.

Now, you could argue that the elections won’t be free elections, and that would make more sense. Even shitholes like Russia have ““elections””, but of course the result is predetermined. Nonetheless, Russia has ““elections””. That’s not even getting into how the US has never cancelled an election, not even in the civil war.

Saying he’s trying to cancel the election just makes people who are considering to vote to change something for once less likely to do so, because why would they if they’re going to be cancelled anyway. You shouldn’t do the job of voter suppression for the GOP.