What is this? A doxxing for ants?

I misread this as “Trumps pooping White House meeting with Netanyahu” and the thumbnail did not disappoint.

“It was thiiiiiiiiis beeg, Donnie!”

Expect another 2-5k trim when the EU announces its retaliation.

CA sales tax averages 10%. While it’s nowhere on the scale of the tariffs, it could offset the impact significantly if reduced or eliminated for goods coming from specific countries.

Additionally, the government of CA has enormous purchasing power. Directing where that money goes could serve to be a powerful tool in mitigating the trade war.

Plus, one element that most folks don’t think about is the financial weight of the CalPERS retirement fund. This organization controls a huge amount of investment money subject to state regulations as to where its invested. Opening up that revenue stream to select foreign companies could be a mighty tasty carrot.

Fucking Methford - figures. Literally the toilet of Oregon. I’m not surprised whatsoever that the crackdown started there.

The homeless problem in Jackson county was out of control long before drug legalization. When I was doing homeless outreach there in 2020, there were over 7k people on the street who had lost their homes to the wildfires of the previous years - still unhoused, and the fires had been over for more than a year. There were almost no support services due to the rural nature of the county and a lack of public funding. My hat goes off to the folks who volunteer to support the homeless there - they do a huge amount and almost all of it is privately funded through volunteer outreach.

The drugs weren’t the problem - the lack of housing, jobs and the constant police harassment were. What drug legalization meant was that they no longer had an excuse to just pick up the homeless and warehouse them in jail to keep them out of the public eye - and as a result, the public got to see up close and personal what it’s like to live on the street.

Drug criminalization is almost never about the drugs or the harm they do. It’s about having an excuse to put people you don’t want to see in public in jail.

As an aside, it’s a pretty well known fact that the Methford police are corrupt as fuck, love to bully the locals, and the ACLU started a lawsuit in August against them for illegal spying. If Oregon ever becomes a police state, it will start in Methford.

Ashland cops, on the other hand (15 miles south on the freeway), are actually a great bunch and were actively working to support their homeless citizens while I was up there.

FL 11 was an amazing piece of software - that’s the version that really kicked it into the big leagues.

You should check out the newest version - the download manager is much better since FL Studio 20, and they’ve got a bunch of new packages and plugins. The Flex plugin is one of the best traditional instrument synths I’ve ever worked with (think it came in on v 17 or 18).

Even the new version has excellent performance on my 10 year old desktop - you’ll love it when you get a chance to upgrade.

If you’re into music production, FL Studio has a lifetime license that’s stood the test of time, and has kept up with or exceeded the capabilities of packages like Reason, Ableton, and Logic. It was the first to really embrace an open VST plugin interface, and has so many options that even after 25 years I haven’t yet explored them all. It also comes with a ton of free instruments you can download (basically free DLC).

I picked up a lifetime license for $99 in 2001 when it was Fruity Loops 2.0. Used it for 10 years as it evolved and was amazed that it was keeping up with the big boys. That encouraged me to drop another $80 to upgrade to the producer edition to start making professional level tracks - and I was not disappointed.

The best part? The base license is still just $99. Producer edition is still $179.

EDIT: side note - the demo is actually the full software package, so you can try it out for free. The license just unlocks the capacity to save projects with the plugins that are covered by your licensing.

The Empire was fought to a standstill, and Lady Crawford Organa took her seat on the high judicial council.

Or maybe it’s just the judicial council. I dunno. I’m high.

But well done Wisconsin - the force was fucking with you today!

Further examination of the leak showed that at 3% of those accounts were run by real people. 50% of those accounts had mail.ru email addresses.

/s but I’m guessing my numbers aren’t far off.

Pritzker is rapidly becoming my top choice for President in 2028, if we’re still allowed elections by then. The man has the character and intelligence needed to dig the country out of Trump’s mess.

You’re both right, and you both got my upvotes.

The current administration will absolutely use any unrest it can to solidify its grip, and they are, as @[email protected] mentions, looking for just such an event to declare martial law.

But @[email protected] is also correct in understanding that this process has already begun, and that retaliatory actions are not specifically analogous, especially as it’s very likely that the Reichstag fire was a false flag event engineered by the Nazis themselves as an excuse for Kristallnacht.

Will this kind of event help in the long term? I’m uncertain. On the one hand, it’s really good to see resistance take physical form with the potential to inspire further action, but on the other, it means that the right can use it as an excuse to further oppress. Since the mass media has been captured by the right, it’s most likely that the perception of this event will be tailored to reflect the latter.

So, unless this action created an impact on the GOP beyond simple property damage (like destroying lists of political opponents they’re looking to deport), I think this action will likely backfire per @the_crotch’s conclusion. However, that could be offset by the publicity inspiring further resistance on the left. And @pourous_grey_matter is very correct in understanding that we have a very small window of opportunity to act.

So kiss and make up - you’re on the same side, and celebrate the fact that you can argue about tactics publicly.

We may not have that option for much longer.

In the US, so as of 1/20/25, sadly yes.

Musk right now…

Elon right now…

Well, Digg back then was better than Reddit is now, so I guess that’s something.

Looks like it was a practice run. It’s relatively easy to take out webservers with a standard DDOS attack. This is considerably more sophisticated, and I think they were testing it on gaming networks in prep for a larger attack on financial and/or government IT infrastructure.