I wonder how long it will be before the Amateur Radio (ham) spectrum allocations are deleted? After all, that allotment is a set-aside for the good of the public, and we can’t give handouts like that to the commoners any more. Loafers and degenerates, make them PAY for their bandwidth, make them earn it.

With enforcement deleted and existing public-use bands sold off to the highest-paying (or best-politically-connected) grifter, I hope high-power, not-exactly-legal mesh networks can get a foothold.

All right out of Stalin’s playbook. First you arrest them, then you hold them indefinitely in jail without contact with the outside world. During this time you torture them until they confess to whatever made-up “crime” you accuse them of, and preferably falsely rat out others who the torturers want to give the same treatment to. Then you sentence them to decades of “hard labor” in a remote camp, and to more torture. Sentencing done by a non-judicial, non-accountable administrative tribunal whose primary job is producing “guilty” verdicts in order to meet their quotas.

Apply this method to the weakest first, and then to the working classes (including veterans) and then to the middle- and upper-classes (administrators and engineers and military leaders and especially “intellectuals”), rinse and repeat, until you’ve got yourself a society composed of individuals who live in utter terror of Uncle Elon and Tusk, and of being arrested themselves. Members of that society will never step out of line, will never be a threat to the regime.

Here’s a first-hand description of how it works : https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol1__I-II__Solzhenitsyn/

I’m looking forward to seeing Indian tech companies outsourcing their tech work to formerly Elon-employed punks in the US, for pennies on the rupee. The punks are auditioning for it right now, and clearly their work will be shit but at least it’ll be cheap.

5’9" and 68 lbs, that’s just mind-blowing. He’s got to be just a skeleton, no fat at all, no muscle left anywhere. I weighed more than that in grade school. I wonder if he can even walk? Holodomor vibes.

Well, she’s decided to prominently display that she’s a Christian with that cross there. So I guess we’re supposed to understand that she’s by definition a Good Person. Give her a slap on the wrist, admonish her to not be naughty, and let her go. Whatever she did is God’s Will after all.

FWIW the term was in common use in Vermont when I was growing up, and was used to refer to Vermonters who wintered anywhere in the U.S. south. It was kind of a generic term though and could have referred to Canadians too, and to people with other southern nesting sites outside of the U.S.

edit to add: pluto was discovered the same year the diagnostic rules for autism were established, too. so pluto, the planet, causes autism.

So autistic people are from Pluto? Illegal aliens? Pluto is covered with ICE, that must be how they got here. Deported.

A couple of terms that need to be resurrected and put into common use during this MAGA Occupation:

• Quisling
• Collaborator

No need to grind when they have soft, very-white underbellies.

I might add, this cemetery is about a quarter mile from a VA hospital too, one that’s already seeing cuts. Convenient, once the patients get kicked to the curb to die, they can be disposed of quickly and easily.

I just came back from a walk through a nearby, private cemetery. It’s a mix of old and new burials, some dating to the late 1800s. There are a lot of veterans interred there, and yes, some women veterans even! Probably some dark-skinned veterans too. There’s a section that contains many graves of Asians. I can’t read the writing on the stones but I’d guess Chinese - this was a railroad town back in the day and if I recall my HS history correctly, a lot of Chinese labor was used by the RR industry - yes, immigrants! This town still has a lot of Ukrainians and Russians and eastern Europeans, and the cemetery has a section that has a lot of their graves too.

I couldn’t help but wonder how long before all of the documentation of these people, scant as it may be (just stones), gets erased, flushed right down the Memory Hole. It’s a private cemetery but I’m sure there are ways the Musk administration could twist the arms of the board that runs the place. It sounds unthinkable, but until the last week or so, so did the idea of un-documenting a lot of US military history as the article describes.

VSCode + Vim keybindings + Metals for Scala development. I used to use IntelliJ (paid and free) + the Scala plug-in, and Pycharm (free). For Scala I’d be fine with either VSCode or Jetbrains, just depends on who is paying (or not paying). I suspect that Python support in VSCode is a lot better these days so it might be a viable option to Pycharm. I need to check out VSCodium, if it works well with Metals and gets frequent updates I might make the switch.

Harper’s Magazine (not to be confused with Harper’s Bazaar). https://harpers.org/ There’s Granta for mostly long-form fiction. A quarterly. It’s excellent but more like a periodic paperback book than a magazine.

Trouble is, these old folks aren’t ready to fight a revolution themselves. You see them at the food pantries and Little Free Pantries already, the better-off with walkers and canes, just a step or two away from being homeless and all the hatred and suffering that that brings.

Still, for the kids of the old folks, assuming they have any, and assuming they care somewhat for their parents, it could get ugly fast w/o SS and Medicare. Grandpa and Grandma lose their homes and have to move in, all kinds of caretaking and medical bills and old-folks Rxs to pay for, and all that on 1950s America Great Again wages. I’d like to think the pitchforks would come out at that point, but I dunno, people would have to put their phones down and get off their couches.

I like it. Maybe mix in some vids by egg influencers on SM showing Canadians frying up some product and sitting down to big plates of omelettes. President Musk and Drumpf could be on TV in the background, red-faced and shrieking and fuming and Nazi-saluting, with the TV sound turned off of course, while the Canadians smile and have 2nds.

Yep, just plug 'em in and they’ll work 24x7x52 without a complaint. That’s the goal.

“The race” to AGI is just the race to unemployment and complete subservience to the TechBro super-rich and their ilk.

Yeah, now that eggs are so cheap and all (went to the grocery yesterday and they’re rationed here). I haven’t checked dog shit prices but that’s too good for him anyway.

The gofundme is here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-dr-borrenpohl-fight-for-the-first It’s doing well, it’s great to see how many people care about openly-violent fascist thugs being paid for by the sheriffs office and used to beat up non-compliant citizens. I donated.

These thugs are certainly masters of the “Idaho incel” look, and of not much else.

and if the (forced into marriage) wife wants a divorce

Well, you have to understand, she’s much, much, younger than he is, nearly a child, she can’t possibly know what she really wants. She’s 17, he’s 50, just the arrangement Jesus approves of, ask any Republican geezer and he’ll tell you.

I agree, but cross-posting doesn’t seem to be allowed to actually_infuriating@lemmy.world .