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My interpretation of this might be different, but I agree wholeheartedly with my interpretation.

Being morally just doesn't just mean "not causing harm" directly. It means striving to not cause harm both directly and indirectly. As someone who lives in the USA, our entire society is built off of exploitation. The less expensive something is, the more heavy the exploitation likely is. The cheapest manufacturing is done in countries where labor is exploited or even enslaved, where the manufacturing process can pollute and poison the area with little consequence (to the manufacturer), and where the powerful can force deals on the government to let them extract valuable resources and pay a fraction of its value - depriving the locals and nation prosperity. Even when buying US food products, the food industry mostly relies on extremely poor conditions for the animals it keeps, taking advantage of farmers it buys from or employs, and may even employ migrant children for dangerous slaughterhouse labor.

Avoiding these kinds of practices throughout most supply chains is sometimes impossible and usually more expensive the more thoroughly you manage to avoid the practices. Even then someone has to check in and constantly verify that the practices are legitimately avoided and not just greenwashing or fraudulent.

It's really quite depressing.

Their Dogs Were Astronauts - Progressive, Djenty. Hard to pick a favorite track or album.

Opeth - Started as progressive death metal but they have gotten more chill and progressive and experimental over time. Favorites for me are Blackwater Park (on the harsher end of the spectrum), Windowpane (chill end of the spectrum), Reverie / Harlequin Forest.

The writing is already on the wall for Hegseth. Is he trying to pretend he deserves some credit for being a maverick?

Lol. https://news.gallup.com/poll/653489/majorities-back-stricter-gun-laws-assault-weapons-ban.aspx

Sorry everyone, forget everything I said. This one person says that the first reason in my list of reasons of why it can be effective to form a tenants union isn't a big deal in their state. I guess that miraculously invalidates all of my other points that aren't related the legal fees of the eviction process. Obviously, it also applies to every other state, even if the fees thing is different there for some reason.

It can cost landlords a lot of money. You can evict everyone but then you need to actually go through the process with them, one by one. The union can also collectively call attention from the municipality, file official complaints, etc.

If you rent strike and the landlord evicts eveyone, then they need to ready all the units all at once with none of the units generating any income. Assuming they have maintenance staff, they don't have enough to handle that kind of volume. They'll need to contract it out or deal with no income as units get ready one by one. The only downside (upside for them) is that they might be able to raise the rents on new tenants if demand is high enough.

Really, he should be wiping off the fake tan...

Regular users wont switch to Linux until the machine comes preinstalled with Linux.

I think there is a share of enthusiasts who will be willing to give Linux a shot as Microsoft continues to turn the screws. I know someone with a steam deck that has been impressed with it and even uses discord on it from the desktop mode. Maybe not many regular users but a subset of more technical users who haven't yet been driven to try. Add in those of us willing to suggest Linux to friends and family and then support them as "regular" users when they try to adopt it. There are also a number of smaller companies who are selling and supporting devices with Linux installed from the factory. There is a chance to start to tip the scales, maybe.

Those in power absolutely know these things but making things more difficult is the actual point. Voter fraud is extremely rare. The justification is all bull shit.

It's ultimately about preventing people who might vote Democrat from voting. If it affects a ton of Republican voters that's fine so long as it hits disproportionately more Democrats.

While I'm not against body cams, I feel like they address issues so niche and so far removed from the core problems that they only really provide a false sense of a solution.

The problem is that a cop's purpose in our capitalist system is not to protect and serve the general population. It's not to universally enforce laws that improve society for the good of everyone. The system they exist in is corrupted to its core by capitalism. Most of the law itself doesn't exist for everyone's benefit - it exists to serve existing power structures.

Sure, cops will give legitimate tickets to people breaking traffic laws, and sometimes the powerful can't just pay for a good lawyer and have to face... a fine. Of course, a fine is just the cost of doing business if you have money. Also, note that the only portion of my example that was actually illegal for a cop was planting evidence, which cops have already learned to bypass by shifting their torso to distract from or obscure the action. Sure, they sometimes get caught if the victim has the resources for a good lawyer... and the cops misjudge how well they obscured the action... but the cop doesn't usually target people with those kinds of resources. Things like traffic fines exist to harvest money from the population to fund the department and serve well as an excuse to pull someone over and escalate the situation if needed.

Cops exist to selectively enforce laws mostly designed or corrupted to be selectively enforced. Sometimes the masses will get a decent law passed or a cop will try to do the right thing but the rest of the system has been corrupted enough that those with power rarely face consequences.

These laws and "enforcers" exist to teach the masses that they need to behave and keep their filthy, unworthy hands off of whatever the powerful don't think they deserve. The culture is that of the thin blue line, which serves to isolate them and otherize "civilians". The culture is that of noble warriors fighting for their lives and ready to defend themselves from a barbaric, uncivilized world... like brown kids and distressed minorities. They think that they "protect and serve". They put a lot of lipstick on that pig when you look at the big picture they only protect and serve those with power... and sometimes themselves.

When shit gets real and the masses protest, cops will be there to find (or infiltrate and create) a reason to escalate, arrest people, and disperse the protest. They'll enforce curfews to "keep the peace". They'll absolutely protect businesses. Sometimes they'll even break up strikes or attempts to organize.

I worry that for 3rd parties to put forth any effort, there needs to be incentives... which would be in the form of demand... which isn't there yet because they don't put any effort into it.

MS is playing a dangerous game (for them). If they turn the screws on users hard enough then Linux might gain enough market share for there to be real demand. I'm trying to get people to switch but the lack of third party support makes it a minefield sometimes.

The war of drugs, and most other similar initiatives, mainly exist as tools for "law enforcement". In reality , "law enforcement" is primarily aimed at the lower classes when they step out of line.

It's extremely important to recognize that "laws" are enforced selectively. Those with power, money, and influence rarely suffer anything more than performative punishment, and only when not doing so might cause a substantial public backlash.

At the start of the war on drugs with Nixon, it was recognized (openly in conversations made public thanks to Watergate) as an extremely convenient way for cops to target and control blacks and anti-war protesters.

This continues today. Cop pulls you over and gets suspicious because you aren't white... "Is that marijuana I smell? I'm going to have to search your vehicle to find or, maybe even plant, something I can use to charge you with a crime." ... "You don't consent? That's sounds really suspicious. What are you hiding? Nothing? Well then it'd be easier if you just consent. It's really in your best interest." ... "Still no? Well, I hope you don't have somewhere to be, I'm going to have to call a K-9 in while I take 30 minutes to write up your ticket..."

Their union has done a decent job of documenting some of their behavior. This wasn't an anomaly.

Don't forget that when it crashes, they'll get to try to rebuild the system so that it's more stable for the capitalist class and workers have fewer rights and options.

It'll also help to underfund the system so that Republicans can pretend they need to cut more shit, like "entitlements" (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid).

Don't forget my favorite part: Greedflation.

Your iPad now costs $900 because they can blame the price increase on tariffs and inflation. Every other company does it so now more "inflation" and you iPad will be $1,000 next year.

You try to buy a 100% US made tablet (what tariffs are supposed to be used for) but the US company that actually manufacturer goods in the US jacks up their prices too because they can blame inflation and their completion is even more expensive now.

American consumers are about to get fleeced hard and inflation is going to explode while the wealthiest folks slurp up even more of the wealth.

It uh... actually doesn't.

Thanks for being so detailed!

I use caddy for straightforward https, but every time I try to use it for a service that isn't just a reverse_proxy entry, I really struggle to find resources I understand... and most of the time the "solutions" I find are outdated and don't seem to work. The most recent example of this for me would be Baikal.

Do you have any recommendations for where I might get good examples and learn more about how do troubleshoot and improve my Caddyfile entries?

Thanks!

While I like the idea of credit unions, I opened a bank account with one for my first credit card - I was traveling overseas and it was recommended to have a card for that. I put $500 in a new savings account but the card arrived too late for my trip so I kind of let it sit and never really used the card or account. Checked back a year or two later and the account lost money due to an inactivity fee. Closed my accounts instantly. Shit like that really sticks with you and I'm still hesitant to try them again.

When I was a kid my mother's boyfriend bragged of doing exactly this. He heard them having a conversation in another language at a gas station, approached them, and started speaking to them in German. When they were confused he allegedly said exactly the phrase. You are in America, speak English. He thought it was hysterical.

He may have been full of shit, but the fact that he felt it worth bragging about said enough about him.