https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn6AOtkZxy4

This gem might need an update.

I don’t think there would be any way to protect from that, but you’d have the same issue with full deletion.

Until insurers decide they’re too expensive to cover.

Light em up!

On the flip side, keeping your personal online footprint small is definitely more secure.

Maybe we need a soft kill switch to disassociate content with an account after x amount of time. Like for me personally, I’ve put zero effort into mopping up old content, and as often as I post, I’m sure someone with the desire could put the pieces together and dox me.

I’ve left it up anyway cuz I don’t want to do to Lemmy what you’re concerned about, but if I could nuke all my content older than a few months into an anonymous version, I’d be all for that. Leave the info up for anyone who might benefit from it, but scrub my username.

That said, for community building sake, I’d hate to see posts go anonymous right out the gate like some 4chan shit; and posts should be associated with an account at least long enough for mods to have a reasonable amount of time to take action against an account that breaks the rules. But again, posts that are months old? The conversation there is over - my personal involvement is moot at that point, it’s just data now.

$800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks

Cybertrucks aren’t worth the glass of the molotovs that ignite them.

Worth and cost are not synonyms.

Skyrim

If you’ve played and enjoyed skyrim and want more of it, do check out Enderal!! Trailer 1, Trailer 2

The version you install will depend on the version of skyrim you own:

Original Edition

Special Edition

Tons of new scenery, and fast travel is way limited so if you want a game to just slow down in and soak in the sights, look no further.

Easily one of the best stories I’ve ever experienced.

The graphics are fantastic, but it’s a nonstop grind and super pay-to-win, and the top paying players never get banned despite constant exploits.

I don’t really recommend it. 3/10

And if you don’t pull a gun in this situation it will absolutely, without a doubt, get you killed. If that’s the way you want to go, that’s your decision, but compliance is not going to do anything to protect you.

…and if those are the options, might as well drop a Nazi or two on your way out.

Hadn’t really considered gangs… I wonder if this will drive them into some unity. If they got over the whole red vs blue bullshit or racial focus, their combined force would be one to be reckoned with.

…fucking sad when literal gang violence is being floated as a plausible solution to active tyranny.

The goal wouldn’t be to overthrow the government - like you said, a .38 special isn’t going to do shit against an air strike; but it could do shit against like 1 or 2 ICE agents who are trying to violate your human rights. The goal would be to incapacitate them so that you can disappear and get to safety. Worse case scenario the attempt at self defense fails and you get killed on the spot; you’re looking at getting sent to a literal death camp anyway for complying, so might as well try to take a few pop shots and gtfo before they have a chance to get your ID.

The escalation from there, as a few others have mentioned, is guerrilla warfare. We’re still no match for the full force of the government, but if the government wants to go full Nazi, the people can go ahead and go full Inglorious Basterds. I wouldn’t expect anyone to just bend over and accept their death at the hands of fascism. Fight back.

If you don’t have a gun yet, now might be the time.

…honestly when you put it that way, using shiny shit to keep Trump distracted from important shit is the second-best way to handle him; and using shiny shit to keep him isolated from tactically capable shit makes Trump more vulnerable to the best way to handle him.

don’t lie - ever

That can be dangerous advice in some contexts. Like if you’re an immigrant being confronted by an ICE agent, say whatever you need to say to get the fuck out of there.

Basically if a Nazi asks if you’re a Jew, the answer is ALWAYS ‘no’ regardless of whether or not that’s true.

I won’t criticize others for something I’m guilty of myself

Often it takes seeing other people engaging in a habit that you share to realize or accept it’s a bad one: criticism can still be warranted and constructive, but in that case I’d own the complicity openly and direct the criticism to ‘we’. Introspection is good!

Pushing 4 decades, and the older I get the more I try to live by a philosophy of: be the person you wish you had when you were in their shoes.

Biggest thing is school right now: I did the college thing a bit a long time ago, struggled academically and financially, joined the military instead, separated, and now I’m back for round 2 using the GI Bill. I try to generate as many resources for my classmates as possible, run study groups, host group chats, send out reminders… The VA gives me a stipend for supplies each semester, which I’ll use in it’s entirety and give those supplies to the class. At clinicals (on-the-job education - nursing school) I’ve noticed a few students don’t eat cuz weren’t able to pack a lunch and hospital cafeteria food is WAY expensive for the average broke-ass college student, so I’ll cover the odd meal and tell em to just pay it forward once they get their RN. Shit like that. Kinda feels like I have 50 sons and daughters lol. But I remember my first attempt at college and how overwhelming everything felt… idk if having a ‘me’ would have made any difference in the outcome of round 1 - can’t make the horse drink and all - but if I can hook these kids up with an easier ride, then fuck yeah I’ll do what I can!

I try to apply that kind of approach to pretty much any context - be it school, work, or just random encounters with people.

Feels good to be helpful.

They do wear the mark on their foreheads…

Oh shit, yo trans peeps getting chopped from the military - assemble into a modernized and trans version of the Sacred Band of Thebes?! We could use a well regulated militia to mop up some Agent Orange right about now…

Edit: THE SACRED BAND OF T’s!!

Well… I’d place that as exceeding my personal expectations, so… yay?

Any hope of some actual positive reform with this guy, or are we back to old cult dance of fucking alter boys and sucking political dick?

Oh. So they did. Well shit.

Edit-

Revising my answer to the Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftens.