I’ve heard this song before. Lordstown Motors, for example.

If they can get some trucks rolling out the door, I’ll get interested real quick.

Yes. My mouse.

Womp womp.

Robin Hood (Prince of Thieves, Men in Tights, etc.)

V for Vendetta.

Fight Club.

The Patriot

Braveheart

“Won’t someone think of the children?”

NO.

The ability to turn water into whiskey.

Zero-day exploits are security holes that exist and are used by bad actors, but aren’t yet known to you, or anyone capable of closing the hole. The clock to patch the hole doesn’t start running until the exploit is known: it stands at zero days until the good guys know it exists.

What zero-day exploits exist for ssh?

By definition, you don’t know. So, you block root login, and hope the bad actor doesn’t also know a zero-day for sudo.

Didn’t have any, but my husband put in a word for me and I got hired.

Networking.

If it was nepotism, you would have said:

Didn’t have any, but my husband was the hiring manager, and put me on the payroll anyway.

My father and my grandmother (who lives with us, in the USA) are PRC Citizens with legal US permanent residency.

“Permanent” residency just means there is not currently a specific intent to revoke their status. It does not mean that they are immune from the immigration witch-hunt currently sweeping the US. More than a few “permanent residents” have been deported, most for simply pissing off someone empowered to use deportation in retaliation.

But I don’t think they are looking at some anonymous Lemmy account, right?

Your account is currently “anonymous”. But everything you post is online, and documented forever. What happens 6 months down the road, when your anonymity is pierced, and your name is permanently tied to your past acts? Have you said or done anything that would lead the head narcissist-in-charge to think you don’t like him?

My advice would be to focus your activist energy on long-term, local issues. Lobby for public transportation, school funding, homeless shelters, victim assistance, bike paths, free clinics, legal aid, Habitat for Humanity, or any of a thousand other worthy causes with broad, positive effects for the community. You don’t have to keep your head down, just stick it out where it will do the most good. We don’t need more evidence of the current regime’s malfeasance; we do need good people focused on what happens after they are out of office.

Nah, I’ll just use my “Tariff Dividend” check when Trump writes it. China will pay for it.

That would be the first iPhone I’d actually buy.

Because the only thing worse than self driving is human driving.

This transfers money from the advertiser to the advertising agency, without creating a sale for the advertiser. This devalues the services of the agency.

The “brain trust” thinks Europe is a bunch of freeloaders, reliant on the US for their security, but disgusted at how the US provides it. The Greenland/Canada thing is intended to force Europe to build up its militaries.

It is also serving as a distraction to the shooting war they are trying to start in Central and South America.

I discovered a simple upgrade for the infotainment systems in most cars. The screens work perfectly well with either suction or adhesive-mount phone holders.

Even the shittiest phone is a major upgrade compared to any built-in infotainment system.

This, exactly.

Boomers grew up with a 91% top-tier tax rate.

Nobody ever paid that rate; anyone who was close to that line found some tax deductible way of spending their excess. That “tax deductible way of spending” was, ultimately, someone else’s paycheck.

Without that punitively-high top tier, there is no need for them to actually spend their excess income. They invest it, creating a debt owed back to them.

We tolerate this horseshit out of fear that “they’ll go away, and take the jobs with them”. Which won’t happen: When we restore our 91% top-tier tax rate, the rest of the world will follow.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I didn’t even know I needed to edit my prompt, but now I don’t know how I have lived with it for so long.

If you don’t defend that speech

Just because something is spoken does not make it speech. The spoken word can, indeed, be “violence”.

You’ve described “disturbing the peace” (“megaphone”, “yelling”). You’ve described “harassment” (Every day for years while the kids get on and off the bus). You’ve described “assault”. (causing stress and great anxiety; harming).

The actual “speech” you’ve described, you have explicitly defined as insufficient to get him arrested, so I would have to defend his right to say it.

But in the context you’ve provided for him, the totality of his actions rise to the level of “violence”, and nothing I’ve said demands tolerance for that.

In a public forum that he hosts for himself? The “disturbing the peace” charge falls away. Non-vulgar comments about what he finds enjoyable and the content of his dreams, that don’t rise to the level of harassment? The stress, anxiety, and harm you described didn’t come from his speech, but from his harassment while disturbing the peace: Since his statements are no longer harassment or disturbing the peace, the “assault” goes away as well.

Now, he’s speaking. And now that this is speech, I would invite you to join me in speaking back to him, even as I caution you not to censor him.

We certainly do draw lines in different places. You are calling for the violent eradication of certain people. We agree those people are despicable. We can even agree the world would be a better place without them. But, I’m going to stand between you and them, and tell you not to become them.

When they cross the line from speech to violence and actually try to “silence” others, we will, of course, defend those others. We don’t need the paradox to do that; we don’t need to become fascists ourselves to identify and defend the victims.

Hatred must be stamped out,

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend - to the death - your right to say it. The same goes for anyone you would silence or eradicate.

You can’t out-auth a fascist without becoming a fascist yourself, and I don’t want to live in a fascist state.