Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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We both mostly work from home and she likes clicky keys, so blues are not a problem.

I have a wife, daughter, and son. My daughter is queer. My son is a teen. There isn't a future here for them. My daughter, especially, will be in danger.

I've had to cut all contact with my family.

We've been saving since 2020.

If it was just me, I'd stay.

I pass as a bearded white guy good ol boy. The shit I hear. These people aren't coming back. Even if nothing happens with the next election, I don't know how they rejoin reality.

I don't know what happens to this country. I kind of hope there is a bloodless balkanization.

As best I can figure, the majority on the left are completely unaware of how dangerous things have gotten over the last few years. Unless you're living in it, most people see it as histrionics.

We live in the deep south in what used to be an island of relative progressiveness. I have acquaintances that joined the three percenters, know former military spouting Q shit. Lost the only man I ever called brother to the insanity. Things have CHANGED in the last few years.

Our friend circle has shrunk and we no longer talk to our neighbors.

We're moving to the northeast this summer. There's a very real chance that it won't be safe for us here much longer.

Like you, we're armed and also realize that it likely won't be enough.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. The smart Jews with means got the fuck out of Germany before things popped off. We can't afford to leave the country but hopefully we'll land somewhere safer.

Hope nothing happens and all the worry has been for nothing. I really want to be wrong.

Copied a previous comment of mine. There's some ugly context to this:

Former fundie here. Y'all are probably misinterpreting what is going on.

Mike Johnson is a True Believer™ from what I've seen. Doesn't mean he's not a terrible person, but his motives and actions aren't necessarily as simple as repressed urges to view gay porn.

The most likely explanation is that Mike Johnson's son was watching porn and got caught, probably more than once. He probably admitted his guilt early on, but he attempted to hide the activity. So, not only do you have the kid for sexual immorality but you've got him for dishonesty. After hours of lectures at the boy - involving his mother, father, possibly clergy or youth leadership - the poor kid is probably swearing on a stack of bibles that he sees the light and will never do it again. That's not good enough. He can't be trusted as this isn't the first time.

This passage was probably pounded in bone deep:

Matthew 5:

27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

So, the boy should rip out his own eyes and cut off the hand he jacks off with. Maybe he should castrate himself. If the behavior continues, he's willfully hellbound. Doesn't he understand?

So, Mike Johnson, wonderful paragon of fatherly leadership, says they will both install this software. That way he can prove what a good person he is and bear the cross of his son's sin. See how great he is? He's helping the boy with his problem. Barf.

So, now the kid's 'sin' is making national news and impacting his father who is a Great Man™.

Christian guilt in a nutshell.

I really feel for the poor bastard. Hopefully he makes it out from under the shadow of his father's insanity. It's truly evil shit.

Damn.

No doubt, the national security risk from something like this is pretty significant. IIRC, Covenant Eyes is basically a rootkit that you voluntarily install and you can get around it by booting from USB.

Many fundamentalists take a lot of pride in being Luddites. Knowing too much about computers and the internet can be 'Worldly'. Church networks are often wide open and church computers are frequently infected. Leadership roles in fundy churches - as low as Sunday School teacher - can come with an email address and instead of using webmail, members will install add-ridden software given by the webhosting company of their website. There are companies that specialize in providing webhost and associated services to fundie churches.

There's an entire cottage industry of 'Christian' software and computer services. You know they're good people because they have a fish symbol on their homepage and some bible crap in their about section.

The exploits write themselves.

Former fundie here. Y'all are probably misinterpreting what is going on.

Mike Johnson is a True Believer™ from what I've seen. Doesn't mean he's not a terrible person, but his motives and actions aren't necessarily as simple as repressed urges to view gay porn.

The most likely explanation is that Mike Johnson's son was watching porn and got caught, probably more than once. He probably admitted his guilt early on, but he attempted to hide the activity. So, not only do you have the kid for sexual immorality but you've got him for dishonesty. After hours of lectures at the boy - involving his mother, father, possibly clergy or youth leadership - the poor kid is probably swearing on a stack of bibles that he sees the light and will never do it again. That's not good enough. He can't be trusted as this isn't the first time.

This passage was probably pounded in bone deep:

Matthew 5:

27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

So, the boy should rip out his own eyes and cut off the hand he jacks off with. Maybe he should castrate himself. If the behavior continues, he's willfully hellbound. Doesn't he understand?

So, Mike Johnson, wonderful paragon of fatherly leadership, says they will both install this software. That way he can prove what a good person he is and bear the cross of his son's sin. See how great he is? He's helping the boy with his problem. Barf.

So, now the kid's 'sin' is making national news and impacting his father who is a Great Man™.

Christian guilt in a nutshell.

I really feel for the poor bastard. Hopefully he makes it out from under the shadow of his father's insanity. It's truly evil shit.

Admiral Stabby!

Oh jeebus fucking christ. Sometimes the dumb hurts and then you get the existential dread knowing you're about to have to call this moron. And, even better, they usually make more money than you.

I'm probably, mostly, behind my eyes, inside my head.

In moments of adrenaline and action, I'm in my chest or gut. Sometime hands, especially when doing delicate or involved work. Sometimes legs or arms when laboring.

In times of pain, I'm often at the focus of the pain until I work and ignore the physical and go somewhere deep inside that doesn't hurt so much. Usually, a good memory or fantasy.

Y'all are motherfucking gangsters. Appreciate the work you're putting in. I don't do your kind of code or I'd pitch in. Much love. ♥️

Been using Linux for around 20yrs. Mostly Ubuntu derivatives. Lots of Xubuntu cause I'm not spending money on fancy hardware that I don't need. Just grab what's laying around and use it. Got a 8yr old Chromebook I need to convert.

Tinylinux or something similar on a '95ish laptop once to read ebooks and play with BBS for shits and giggles around 2010. Kali Linux or some such when playing with TOR. Mainline Ubuntu to build a home media server about a decade ago.

Been doing a lot with Raspberry Pi Os lite lately as I've built a home media server.

I just Google shit until it works.

They all mostly work.

I'm stripping ipv6 because I'm ignorant on a lot of this and a lot people say it's bad and show how to strip it. I'm a script kiddie in a old guys body.

I ran both iptables-save and nft list ruleset but, the output was so offensively formatted when inserted into Lemmy, I'll wait until I've had some sleep to try and get it legible.

Right, fail safe is the concern, I couldn't get the kill switch to work so I started monkeying with UFW.

I've got 53 and 5353 open so that DNS will work for my local network when connecting to *arr and jellyfin.

I.E. type raspberrypi:8989 in a browser to bring up Sonarr.

Should I restrict to UDP?

RiF migrant here. Howdy, y'all! Pull up a chair.

I wish more people on the left realized this. It's been my experience that a lot of the left are insulated from just how big a threat the Nat-C's really are. Most people lack the historical knowledge to see just how spooky the similarities between the rise of Nazi Germany and events in the US over the last few years. The Beer Hall Putsch and the response to it are frighteningly similar to January 6th.

Due to the rural/urban divide, even in red states, most of the left aren't seeing or hearing how far off the deep end a big chunk of this country has gone. I'm a redneck, have a heavy southern accent, beard, truck and most of the other stereotypes. People just assume I'm conservative.

The shit strangers just say to me is unreal. "Putting the n*****s back in their place, only good democrat is a dead democrat, the Storm is coming and then they'll see."

The racism has gotten worse, or at least way more open, people didn't used to be so openly racist even when they thought they were only talking to likeminded individuals. I almost never heard anti-Semitism until a few years ago, there are so few Jews in the south it just wasn't much of a thing. Baptists tended to support Israel. Now they're getting talking points from whatever Q-hole they're feeding from and talk about Jewish conspiracies. I can only think of a couple of times I heard Jew-bashing. One was an actual Klan member and the other moved to the south as a teenager.

There's always been anti-black racism, it's the south, but BLM ripped the lid off. Claims that black men were punching white women in Wall-Mart in town and that the cops weren't stopping it. Crazy shit.

And then there's the queer community. If you have a queer kid, and you're smart, you get that kid into an online school. The hatred is truly vicious and supported by the State.

We're getting the fuck out in the summer of '24 and moving up to Yankee land. Figure it will be a lot safer there.

Machining and blacksmithing are highly correlated with right wing BS in the US. Check my uname and ask me how I know. 😁

If I have to, I'll figure out how to make a community and mod the thing until someone better comes along to mod it. I'm very much a lurker and rarely post.

I'm hoping that there's already something out there.