I think you have comprehensively missed the point of this post.

This post: “people under threat here’s some things you can do to lower your profile, mitigate risk a little” (positive actions)

Your comment (initial & reply): " how did the US let this happen & why didn’t you fight it, why aren’t you fighting it now"

That assumes a) the people most under threat are the same people who should be/can be fighting it b) that they didnt before the election and c) that the actions you prescribe will be effective.

So. Are your assumptions valid and do they actually add anything by voicing them ?

I know many in the US queer community worked tirelessly to prevent Trump being elected (assumption b) but now they really do need to get as low profile as possible, because there is a pogrom coming. Straight white people can afford to protest, the numbers are there. Minorities in small numbers not so much. Easy pickings.

I’m increasingly annoyed at all these posts going "here’s how to lock down your comms from all the people coming after you for all the protesting you’re not doing.

People aren’t going to be coming after LGBTQ+ people “for the protesting” they are or are not doing.

They’ll be coming for them because they’re queer.

If you’ve even been paying a little bit of attention the magats have made it clear the two main minorities in their sights for the first round are immigrants and trans ppl.

They’ve already sent a US citizen to an El Salvadorian camp and shrugged and said sorry, can’t reverse that now.

If you think the rest of the queer minority are not in their sights you’re kidding yourself (and us)

Check your privilege.

Download fennec it’s the fork of ff mobile with less of the cruft.

I don’t know if it has fixed that specific problem, but I can’t recall seeing it

Given there is going to be serious economic disruption there is a lot be said for diversifying your assets. If most of your assets are currently in the US moving your pension fund into assets held outside it is a strong de-risking move, particularly if you can move it out of the country totally using a foreign prover provider as well as holding non-US assets(not sure if that last is legally possible, don’t know much about your pension system).

Note you may get poorer performance - it’s really up in the air just yet what the short term impacts will be economically (depends what King Mango ends up deciding, it’s mostly speculation right now)

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He may have been a russian asset since 2004 (I don’t know either way) but it certainly was nothing to do with that SpaceX meeting. He went there to try and buy Russian rocket engines, they told him to pound sand. He was forced to do it the hard way and hire a team and they designed what are now the Falcon 9 engines.

I don’t understand why people keep making stuff up (not just this post, it’s one of many), he’s evil enough on the actual facts

Mate, I’d love to be wrong and lose the money. Maybe the Yanks will actually front up on all their “second amendment protects us from tyranny” but I doubt it.

Already have. The biggest delay was I dont normally bet so had to create an account

<shrug> whatever. I don’t know who kalshi are and I don’t trust anything American. Betting agencies in my own country have it at a bit worse than evens. I trust paddypower or bet365 who have been around decades to pay out a lot more than some US tech bros. Ignoring the fact it’s not a bet, it’s an options contract.

And yes, you can keep circling around poking at it but I stand by the assertion that there won’t be a fair election in 2026 because a) trump has been running line by line down the Hitler playbook and b) he said the quiet part out loud (after nov24 i wont need your votes) and c) musk’s kid outright said the same thing too and 4year olds dont drop clangers like that unless someone has said it in front of him

Ping me in two years

Ok, but this isn’t a betting site, this is an options contract, which given the current price split of 73c:28c is not a good buy (winning isn’t profitable and you’re tying your money up for 2years).

The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.

I’ve checked the mainstream betting sites and GOP are solidly odds on (4/6 on through 8/13on) which isnt hugely profitable but I guess it’ll shorten even further

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Oh they won’t stop / block the elections initially they’ll hold that first one & just conveniently get 75+% of the vote like every dictator before him.

I’m happy to put money on it if you can find a market. I’ve been unfortunately right too much, not because I’m smart but because you can literally pull out a history of Nazi rise and map it onto MAGA and the last 10 years. The only hard bit is guessing the timings, not what, just when.

I’d really like you guys to break out of this and prove me wrong

It’s demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).

People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.

That 10-year time horizon is a very good point. And it’s not likely that the tariff would stick around that long since every four years has a changing administration who can do whatever they please in those regards.

Lol, you guys are hilarious. I keep seeing these comments.

Fascists don’t allow fair elections.

The only way the magats are leaving office is mass insurrection / mass protests & strikes or revolution.

It most certainly won’t happen at the ballot box

Yeah, first we need to a bit more traction I think 😁

Yeah keep it unopened ready for when the shooting starts.

Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.

Either move the VPS to being hosted somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP

While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It’s a “colonial relic” is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.

Solid state is just around the corner in the same way fusion is. Toyota announced in 2010 they’d have it in prod by 2015, then 2018, then 2020, then 2025 then…"real soon now™ "

The MG “may be a semi solid state”

https://electrek.co/2024/12/16/new-semi-solid-state-battery-ev-launching-2025/

Which is not quite the same thing.

BYD and CATL who have a good track record of delivery are suggesting 2030

TL;DR

Don’t wait for solid state, the current battery tech is more than adequate for the majority of people. Holding off for something “perfect” that may never arrive when “good enough” is here diesn’t seem logical to me

The target audience is monied tech bro millenials who really wanted a warthog out of Halo.

The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.

“Super bad PR and not at all effective”

Yeah that sounds like a farcebook initiative