I think you mean first rule if Project Mayhem.

Check the info on the GoodRx cards and compare it to the given info on the TrumpRx cards. It’s exactly the same. BIN 015995, PCN GDC, that’s the info that actually matters to the pharmacist. But yes it is also somehow also worse since it seemingly doesn’t cover generics.

It’s literally just a rebrand of GoodRx.

Me going outside:

Session at least has a foundation behind it as well to try to seek financial support and drive development, and I’ll give it that.

However, personal opinion incoming, I think another underappreciated aspect of the “privacy” conversation isn’t just routing but also hardware ownership. We can rely on other people’s routing services all we want, but in the end, that’s still other people’s property we have to traverse to make connections. Especially for groups that function within a small community, I think locally hosted intranets are really important. Sure, some metadata leakage may happen, but most of the metadata leakage that happens (if I recall correctly) is to the service host/admin. So if you’re in a small, local, tight-knit community you may not be worried about your best friend who is a technical wizard knowing small bits of metadata for your localized interpersonal communications. Especially if you use the Matrix protocol but decline to federate and keep it an “internal” tool for your group/organization. I think “ownership of the means of communication” may be the 21st century equivalent of Marx’s “ownership of the means of production” in terms of importance to the proletariat. If we continue to just use large organizations network pipes to communicate, there are still unfortunately ways to target and block our traffic.

I mean… That’s why it’s called theater, because its theatrics to make you feel secure but doesn’t actually secure anything at all.

So what those other countries are doing is simply called “security.”

The US: “We can ignore shooting a puppy in the face, but being a woman is a step too far.”

I’m sure they’re banking on international consumers having as short of memories as US consumers.

Remember “Freedom Fries” and rejecting Heinz ketchup for them because John Kerry was married to an heiress of the Heinz fortune and he had the audacity to run against Bush in 2004?

Yeah, most people completely forgot, especially the people who claimed that the would boycott Heinz forever.

Trump has done damage with specific partners like Canada, but I don’t think people in the UAE, South Africa, India, or Brazil are going to sneer too much at taking products from people in the USA who used to act superior to them.

I don’t know if you’re ready to hear this, but international trust in US news was in the shitter before 9/11 and got flushed after 9/11.

Or did everyone forget the lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction repeated breathlessly by US media without question?

TSA sucks too, though. Security theater that strips travelers of 4th amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure. Tons of shit that isn’t supposed to get past the TSA does and people are chosen at random for enhanced screening where they have to open their bags for no good reason. Also those X-ray machines were never proven to be necessary or safe.

Nah for real fuck the TSA too, they were an overreach during the Bush era that never got put to bed. It was a stealth jobs program to help cover Bush’s shitty economy.

So for real I don’t feel bad that privacy invading TSA agents aren’t getting paid for their 4th amendment breaking jobs.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but… USA isn’t the only country with a viable middle class to sell shit to anymore. There’s Canada, most of Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China… Other countries may not have as large of middle class citizens to pull from, but they exist as well in places like Brazil, India, Egypt, Israel, Iran, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates as well as others.

Sometimes I am dumbfounded by my fellow US citizens still somehow thinking we’re the center of the fucking world when all that good will from the rest of the world was flushed down the shitter after 9/11. Trump is just the final stages of no one giving a flying fuck what happens to our middle class anymore.

300 million people in the USA are the bottom 90%, that’s a fucking drop in the bucket of the worldwide population. Do you really think that they’re gonna be hurting by not selling to just us anymore? Just, christ, USA’s economy doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

The goal is to reduce the quality of life of the average US citizen to match the low quality of life in poor countries so our labor can “compete” in the market by vastly reducing our pay and purchasing power.

It’s part of why Trump is pushing the “return to manufacturing” angle so hard. He doesn’t want people in other countries being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes, he wants people in the US being paid pennies a day to put together $300 Nike shoes.

I mean, it’s a long time coming. The wealthy have clearly thought for a long time that US workers are too coddled and demand too much and deserve far far less.

Exactly, the depraved and cruel sex acts (such as rape of children) usually come from sexual repression from religion and lack of education on consent and boundaries due to religious repression.

It does not come from healthy adults exploring with other healthy adults in a consensual environment with healthy boundaries. That comes from sexual education and freedom.

EDIT: What’s even more infuriating is the first sentence of that statement is still correct when it comes to rampant child abuse: “I don’t think this country has, or even will, come to terms with the sexual corruption of the boomers.” The whole statement is real “they had us in the first half” material.

Funny because the UK colonized half the fucking planet just for tea and curry.

Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.

https://www.wireguard.com/

You’re very lucky. I lived 60 miles south of Seattle, 30 miles southwest of Tacoma, and was able to get a single channel with an antenna because my city was in a valley surrounded by mountainous terrain and so the broadcast signals from the TV towers were all blocked by the terrain. No local stations, no local towers. Seattle actually has plenty of stations, but unless you’re in the right areas, they’re nearly impossible to access.

I also worked in local television for a long time in the early 2000s and 3 out of 4 of the stations I worked at no longer exist and there are fewer and fewer rural stations, so unless you live in the big city or unless you’re in a very flat area where the big city signal can get to you, you’re shit out of luck.

Swap codeine for a full bottle of 1990’s robitussin.

Well you better fuckin’ believe it because some people live in actual poverty and even getting high is a luxury. The idea that I have ever had the money to piss away on food delivery is fucking laughable, but especially after I got really financially fucked being diagnosed with cancer three years ago now. Even during COVID I was busy getting a degree and had to budget super tightly to make it through and be able to afford weed once in a while. My budget has been so tight lately that I haven’t even smoked in a year and a half (and sometimes I really wish I could afford it because it really helps with the stomach cramps caused by my cancer medications). There hasn’t been a time in the last eight years that I didn’t qualify for food stamps. I don’t know what to tell you.

Yes, a matrix server is an “instance” of matrix on the larger federated service.

Discord calling their different channels “servers” was really unhelpful because they were never servers to begin with.