Yeah to me I don’t think the process really should matter that much, dude signs, has a designated signer pushes a button, what really matters is he knew what was going on and gave some form of confirmation.

To me, hypothetically president X, asks an intern to forge his signature, but says “he just authorized X”, that should be more legit than if a paper goes in front of president Y, he signs it without reading it, he’s asked about it 30 minutes later and has no clue what it is.

kind of ironic, I know so many in the poorer side of the country that argued "I know he’s an immoral horrible person, a womanizer, cheater, thief and a racist but I think his policies will be better for the economy.

apparently in rich circles there’s the opposite "I know his policies will wreck the economy, but I can’t help but think voting against him would send the message that a lying, cheating, racist rich guy who thinks he’s entitled to every woman might disqualify them for office… I can’t risk that.

Who’d have thought… the recomendations for how to lower prices… were, to stop doing those things everyone told him would raise prices and he swore up and down wouldn’t.

Flying pig was too on the nose?

That’s probably the scariest thought of immortality. Living normal life is one thing… hell most the things are just… more of the good and bad. But yeah over the course of thousands of years, the million to one scenerios that could get you trapped. (landslides, earth quakes, building collapses, swept out to sea, intentional “murder” (IE an enemy knows he can’t kill you, so he entombs, burries you etc…)

But then what leverage would horrible jobs have to prevent you from quitting if you weren’t worried of starving? and where is the money to start more wars and fund failing nations like argentina going to come from if we spend all our taxes helping the american people

I do 100% agree that the concept of having hugely varied terms for pedophile, and say the term Minor attracted person, and get really sick of hearing people lash out on when the term MAP is used to say “You just want to protect pedophiles”.

No I want people who have the urge to abuse children, to get treatement and never act on it and live peaceful happy lives where they never harm an innocent person, and to me that is far better of an outcome than a child being abused, but supposedly it gets made up for by the abuser getting tortured in prison.

I do have to second this… 4 levels of debate are valid on this.

Should executions be happening period.

if they should, did these people do crimes that should justify the use.

Are we really 100% beyond any remote feasible chance that they are guilty?

Agreed you and me are on board that taking it off at the first question is where it should be. But I also agree, the veteran status of the govorner or the people doesn’t really give me any change to the view, nor do I comprehend how it should.

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

I don’t think it even requires the police, in most US states, the law basically says that assuming the gated community has a “unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense” sign somewhere, then the owners of the gated community don’t need police approval, they can call a towing company directly and have the cars removed, only needing to inform the police afterwards.

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.

I mean… depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc… would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there’s no way in hell it’s not getting traced to you).

I’d agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).

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).

Maybe progressive stronghold would’ve been less controversial.

anything stronghold doesn’t make a lick of sense, when specifically new york mayor, is the very definition of swing, in that recent years it’s gone 50/50. Progressive stronghold makes even less sense, Are you trying to say, any of their recent mayors were progressive, because I can’t even come close to agreeing with that statement.

Whether it’s a winning or losing recipe in other places is hard to say. Depends on what issues we are talking about. I would say in the bible belt, taking a hard line support of trans rights, would be dangerous. On the other hand, other topics certainly do make sense in other places. I used to debate with conservative friends here in the state of South Carolina… IE a place that is undoubtedly red. Most of them if you talk on the actual issues of prices, of taxing the wealthy etc… they’ll agree point by point on left issues over and over again. They’ll argue that the democrats don’t stand for that, that they don’t intend to do it or won’t do it when they are in office. Hell half the time they’ll say things like “they know it’s a good idea so trump will get to it if it’s possible”.

So in short… I’d have to say, I’d personally imagine a Zoran or similar doing… well equally well to a centrist democrat here. Probably not able to win… but acting more republican doesn’t change the numbers. The R gets all the voters that believe republicans are better. No amount of acting like a republican will pick up any of them.

Again I will say, the grey areas is the ones that might have the deciding factor on abortion, guns or gay/trans rights. In the bible belt, those are single issue topics that some that could agree with a left leaning economic policy, but may completely disqualify anyone who takes a stance on those issues. Honestly I don’t know what’s better or worse for those concepts. Because it’s disgusting of an idea to throw LGBT under the bus to get elected, but also such a strong issue in these parts it’s hard to imagine anyone winning with even a neutral stance on it.

Point still holds… the last time a republican New York MAYOR was elected, was only 4 elections ago… prior to Mandami’s win the 10 elections prior to it for mayor went 5 for republican, 5 democrat. Doesn’t really make sense to compare a mayoral candidate to a presidential result, in a city that apparently has a strong track record of supporting republican mayors even when they went all in on the democratic president.

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.