remember when Trump pretended to care about this kinda thing?

Not really. He appointed a puppy-killer as the head of DHS and a brain-worm addled deer hunter as the head of the FDA. It’s been pretty clear that he supports armed thugs killing animals for leisure and gratification.

Now, unarmed immigrants not killing or eating pets, on the other hand…

I think you mean 99.5%. The mask is off now, and I doubt they care much about preserving the illusion of democracy now that they think they’re untouchable.

The fact that that statement was never treated as treason or conspiracy to commit an insurrection is both disappointing and expected.

DisplayPort has a +3.3V 500mA pin specifically for pushing power. In theory, great for powering an active adapter. In practice, has killed motherboards because Dell can’t design a computer for shit.

No one thought this would happen to this extreme.

No, it was actually pretty easy to imagine when:

1. Trump told people to “find votes” for him;
2. Trump had himself pre-emptively certified as the winner in some states; and
3. Trump used stochastic terrorism to incite a riot outside a government building, as a response to his impending loss of power.

All of that screams “power-hungry facist”, and the predictable outcome of someone like that regaining legal authority, obviously, is an attempt to transition towards fascism so they can retain that once-lost power indefinitely.

AI: (satire)

<Reasoning>

The user wants to translate the phrase “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”. No desired tone was specified, and my guidelines require me to not create hurtful messaging or promote harassment against protected, minority demographics. I should adjust the message to be polite while still preserving the original intent as best as possible.

“Business Idiots” is ableist and can be considered targeted harassment. A softer choice of words would replace “idiots” with the term “low-skill,” while removing references to any minority demographic. An ideal replacement would be “worker fools.”

“Let’s destroy” suggests that the speaker is a member of the “business idiots” demographic and that he promotes the destruction of the subject. The subject appears to be “translation jobs”. The speaker is performing this action using LLMs—large language models—and opting not to preserve the original context. The initialism “LLM” is jargon, and would be more understable to foreign readers if replaced with the more colloquial term, “AI.” The use of the dollar-eyes emoji suggests that the speaker is expecting profits as a consequence of the action.

</Reasoning>

Sure, here you go; a translation of “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”

Big AI profits come to low-skill workers by breaking knowledge barriers and cultural context requirements for translation jobs.

I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another update, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.

That suggests Trump will take the repercussions for them. Maybe try this template?

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/277315444/Big-guy-protects-small-guy

No no, they were engraved in the matches before they were burned to ash.

Unless he actually answers, it’s probably safe to assume Sr. Keyboard Warrior.

Playing Devil’s advocate here:

Releasing the Epstein files is something that people on both the left and right can mostly agree on. Even a subset of MAGA want it.

On the other hand, killing protesters is disappointingly more of a partisan concern. Traditional Republicans probably wouldn’t approve, but MAGA has been brainwashed into supporting “retaliatory” violence against anyone left of them.

Pushing the Epstein files will, therefore, be more effective when trying to get people together.

It wouldn’t even surprise me at this point.

Used to. I gave up for the various reasons mentioned in my comment. But yes, that’s pretty much what I did. If you’re interested in trying, using WireGuard and iptables is relatively straightforward:

https://blog.arrogantrabbit.com/vpn/net/Wireguard-DNAT-and-IPTABLES/

The key question of course is how the maga base is interpreting this.

At least some of them are going to read it as “the corrupt pedophile Democrats want her dead so they aren’t exposed”. I wish I were joking, but these people might as well be holding the Olympic medal for mental gymnastics in blaming “the left” for everything that ever happens.

I know it’s a joke, but some of them think they’re doing exactly that. The propaganda machine has them convinced that they’re the real Americans and everybody left of them (which is basically everybody but other MAGA) are anti-American, Antifa, terrorist, communists.

Hosting your own mail server for example is probably not worth it for most people.

If the homelab involves using an IP address under a residential internet service, that quickly goes from “not worth it” to “literally impossible”.

Unless you’re willing to set it up so SMTP and IMAP are tunneled through a VPS that you also pay for, the story becomes:

Why can’t I receive my test mail?
Oh, the ISP blocks inbound SMTP connections.

Why can’t I access my mailbox from outside my home?
Oh, they also block IMAP and POP.

Why do my outgoing emails all end up in the spam folder?
Oh, most email providers insta-spam anything from residential IPs ranges.

And then, even if it’s not a homelab, DIY email hosting is:

Oh my god, there’s so much spam.
I need to set up more aggressive filters.

Why did this important email get filtered?
Oh, I need to make the spam filter less aggressive.

Why are my outbound emails being marked as spam?
Oh, I need to set up DKIM and SPF.

Why is it still being marked as spam?
Wait, some providers require reverse lookup hostname of the mailserver to match the sender name? Fuck.

Oh, ok, now my server or its IP block got added to a spam list.
How do I get removed from the spam list?
Painfully. Very painfully.

And so on.

It’s really not worth it.

That’s not true. Internet Explorer was fucking useless for scripting together things, unlike bash.

They also aren’t learning skills that will help them when they are released

That’s by design. Teaching people skills to support themselves gives them an opportunity to break out of the cycle of recidivism. Teaching people skills that are useless for most employers but are profitable to the slavers ensures that they are left disadvantaged, where they’ll eventually end up back in prison for another round.

To the same end, having a culture where employers are legally permitted to background-check candidates for any old job makes it harder for reformed criminals to reintegrate into society.

When adding “tough on crime” politicians and their legislature to the mix, you can begin to see exactly what the goal is.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they will find some moral-grandstanding excuse to avoid doing it.

What was the threat they were trying to stay from?

• Hurt feelings from not having their authority respected.
• Being reprimanded for not meeting their monthly arrest quota.
• The idea that they might eventually be the minorities.

Take your pick.