linearchaos @ linearchaos @lemmy.world

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Oh dems have. But you have to have control of the state to do that. Hogan (R governor) tried his damnest to unwrap central Maryland from Western Maryland.

Poor misunderstood Jeff.

Good people, all good people...

/s

I'm not sure that we do. Not in our lifetimes anyway.

With a functional justice department we'd have a chance. There's nothing to stop them from tweaking the electoral lines. There's nothing to stop them from not certifying an election. We're about to have the scotus filled with young like-minded Republicans. We're about to have every federal judge biased for them.

Even having both sides of Congress the best thing we could do would be to status quo because every time a veto is overturned the scotus could just stamp it down as unconstitutional.

The president has God King status, he can have opponents jail for executed.

The thing is even if none of these things were in play, The popular vote just voted for a dictatorship. He was utterly and absolutely clear and anyone that says he was joking around doesn't actually believe that they're just too embarrass socially to announce that they themselves are racist/fascist/misogynist. There is nothing here to win back. We're better than 50% rotten to the core and those people aren't going away.

Even this election wasn't right versus left it's right versus more right. If you put a true left candidate in they're just going to get murdered. (That may or may not be literal)

I don't think it would have mattered starting a few months ago he was very open with everything that he did and said. But media like that has a tendency to get buried over time and I want my kids and their kids to know exactly what the f*** happened

For a while now I've wanted to start a project of shit politicians say. Video as much as possible. Every shitty immoral reprehensible thing that they come out and say and do logged into a searchable archive. Make it super easy for regular people to stitch together anti-political ads using the politicians own words with context.

Somebody needs to fix IPFS so we can archive all that shit and share in hosting a chunk.

You don't need to be faster than the bear, you just need to be faster than the other slowest campers.

Health care and small ticket entertainment industries are more recession-proof than new car sales and home sales.

Stay away from big public corporations that are going to fire a bunch of people as soon as the stocks dip a few percent.

Make sure your boss knows about the family you're supporting, but in a friendly, proud way If you have kids make sure their pictures are on your desk

If you're in some field where there's new and different technology around it's not a bad thing to brush up continue education , Even if it's just something as simple as watching YouTube videos and talking with your boss about it, especially if it's something they mention that they have an interest in.

I know being a bootlicker is terribly out of fashion, but, within reason, try to make yourself the most useful cog you can be. Don't kill yourself bending over, don't just let them take a wild advantage of you, But try to make sure that in your boss's mind that there are people the team who are more replaceable than you are.

With any luck we won't have to endure a pandemic at the same time

None of this in the end may help, it's merely suggestions to help you position yourself.

Yeah, the red states already hamstring k-12 to the point they can't function.

Feds never should have let that happen.

Yes, this absolutely will not change in our lifetimes unless drastic things happen that can change the hearts of a huge swath of our population.

They're not being tricked, he's been painfully clear.

No way blue turnout is even marginally higher and any possible red votes go to zero.

The US as a whole is simply irredeemable. The want blood, and they're going to get it.

I love hearing a positive message right now.

But we just observed the majority wanting the racist misogynist horror show. Hard work doesn't fix that.

Ohh shit, I didn't even consider the kids canceling the parents.

They did make a solid attempt at making coups legal.

There's simply no way, the Democrats are going to look at the voting results and go this is what was legitimately voted for let it happen.

They've already said that they're perfectly fine with the economy taking a massive hit. Nobody about to come into power gives a damn about the economy, They can simply siphon money out of whatever systems they want. Drive up the deficit and pay themselves and their corporations out of the government coffers.

Even if they gave a damn about the economy, what are you going to push for collectively? The department of Justice is about to be fully corrupted. The separation of church and state is being removed. There's nothing that they're going to be able to give to satisfy the needs of the public short of a complete replacement of government which they are not going to just roll over on.

I don't think you can general strike out of a dictatorship.

The Republicans won because they were 100% Hitler, not in spite of it. The electoral college majority voted for Hitler

I mean they're also racist, misogynist, xenophobic, and hate-filled. A lot of them are saying they're voting for egg prices....

And not just the Supreme Court how many more federal judges are going to be propped up.

To be fair this is who the electoral college is. She probably got better than 50% of the popular vote.

Minimum open services is indeed best practice but be careful about making statements that the attack surface is relegated to open inbound ports.

Even Enterprise gear gets hit every now and then with a vulnerability that's able to bypass closed port blocking from the outside. Cisco had some nasty ones where you could DDOS a firewall to the point the rules engine would let things through. It's rare but things like that do happen.

You can also have vulnerabilities with clients/services inside your network. Somebody gets someone in your family to click on something or someone slips a mickey inside one of your container updates, all of a sudden you have a rat on the inside. Hell even baby monitors are a liability these days.

I wish all the home hardware was better at zero trust. Keeping crap in isolation networks and setting up firewalls between your garden and your clients can either be prudent or overkill depending on your situation. Personally I think it's best for stuff that touches the web to only be allowed a minimum amount of network access to internal devices. Keep that Plex server isolated from your document store if you can.