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I mean, that's not a bad thing to do assuming you are making the right cases. It's more of the cases being made that's the issue rather than where they are making them. If your case is good, you should want it to go to the people who are against you. Worse case it does nothing, best case it puts someone on the path to changing their mind.

I mean... depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc... would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there's no way in hell it's not getting traced to you).

I'd agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).

Not sure that really works for git though... at least with regards to it's primary usage.

git isn't just a backup... it's about version control.

IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn't working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change... and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.

If you encrypted it so that git couldn't actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions... but you'd basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can't read the files).

Maybe progressive stronghold would’ve been less controversial.

anything stronghold doesn't make a lick of sense, when specifically new york mayor, is the very definition of swing, in that recent years it's gone 50/50. Progressive stronghold makes even less sense, Are you trying to say, any of their recent mayors were progressive, because I can't even come close to agreeing with that statement.

Whether it's a winning or losing recipe in other places is hard to say. Depends on what issues we are talking about. I would say in the bible belt, taking a hard line support of trans rights, would be dangerous. On the other hand, other topics certainly do make sense in other places. I used to debate with conservative friends here in the state of South Carolina... IE a place that is undoubtedly red. Most of them if you talk on the actual issues of prices, of taxing the wealthy etc... they'll agree point by point on left issues over and over again. They'll argue that the democrats don't stand for that, that they don't intend to do it or won't do it when they are in office. Hell half the time they'll say things like "they know it's a good idea so trump will get to it if it's possible".

So in short... I'd have to say, I'd personally imagine a Zoran or similar doing... well equally well to a centrist democrat here. Probably not able to win... but acting more republican doesn't change the numbers. The R gets all the voters that believe republicans are better. No amount of acting like a republican will pick up any of them.

Again I will say, the grey areas is the ones that might have the deciding factor on abortion, guns or gay/trans rights. In the bible belt, those are single issue topics that some that could agree with a left leaning economic policy, but may completely disqualify anyone who takes a stance on those issues. Honestly I don't know what's better or worse for those concepts. Because it's disgusting of an idea to throw LGBT under the bus to get elected, but also such a strong issue in these parts it's hard to imagine anyone winning with even a neutral stance on it.

Point still holds... the last time a republican New York MAYOR was elected, was only 4 elections ago... prior to Mandami's win the 10 elections prior to it for mayor went 5 for republican, 5 democrat. Doesn't really make sense to compare a mayoral candidate to a presidential result, in a city that apparently has a strong track record of supporting republican mayors even when they went all in on the democratic president.

I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of "self host" as 90% of what I host is a hetzner server running out of finland. because well that's off site backups lol.

my setup is.

Local: Frigate (CCTV manager), Homeassistant (home automation), Matrix (chat).

Remote: Mealie (recipe collection), Vaultwarden (works with bitwarden clients), Nextcloud (files and documents), Freshrss, gitea (github alternative)

Now in terms of wanting an offsite backup, you are probably right, assuming you don't have something offsite that you can syncronize with, and assuming you don't have any major privacy fears of what is hosted, those things are probably best to use cloud for, assuming you are more worried of losing everything in a house fire, than you are of say the stuff being spied on by a 3rd party or caught by hackers.

So yeah I'd say, personally in things I like to have self hosted... on site, probably I'd say a local messanger is good if you'd like a reasonably private communication for friends/family etc... Niche things like RSS readers, or recipe books, really anything strange niche you can probably search for some program to self host it.

I mean isn't that still kind of it though, I'm trying to figure out how new york city is being called a "democratic stronghold". as if it's been solid blue for the last 50 years or something... the place that made Rudy Giuliani, followed it up with bloomberg. Then followed up with 2 corrupt centrist democrats.

Well you have to factor 2 things, there still was a battle with congress to get those checks out during covid. (I remember Bernie walking into congress with the massive printout of trumps tweet saying he was going to send out checks), and of course factoring in that trump knew he wanted to get elected again. It's 3 years away from the next presidential election... and him getting a 3rd term probably doesn't involve an election.

I think the point being made is, dust doesn't stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.

The wait is nothing, though I guess the definition of "active development", publicly confirmed development etc... To my knowledge HL3 has been in some form of development since, HL2, but to my knowledge there's only been "leaks" rather than any official confirmation, and the joke teaser as valve goes to game event after game event without making announcements.

Pay no attention to Laura Ingram, we purposely trained her wrong... as a joke

Kind of the constant history of socialism. It's almost the same as the arguement against being LGBT.

See being LGBT is bad, I can prove it, look at the suicide rates of LGBT people?

Isn't that because you are bullying them?

Yeah, but I wouldn't bully them if they were straight, so that proves being LGBT is bad for your health!

I can give that on Isreal, she takes anti-semitism without the caveat of "except the ones that are in power commiting a genocide". The release the epstein files, and protect healthcare, is either she's actually concerned about helping people or punishing bad guys... or she's just pissed off with something in her party and is playing a contrarian to get something she wants (which yeah, I'd lean more towards the second, but general bigotry doesn't quite explain those 2).

Guessing middle class is... college students with rich AF parents that pay to fly them home... and people really well set, but not quite in the private jet level.

Saves us the trouble of needing to primary an incumbant moderate. Give us a good democratic socialist.

I mean it's a trippple doom for her. She's a woman, she's half way shedding maga siding with dem's on the epstein files, and on protecting healthcare, and she has a history of being outright crazy in multiple directions.

In short, I don't think her recent forays into sanity are going to erase the stain the R party has on it now, nor erase her claims of weather controlling machines and space lasers to earn any support from the left.

Then to court maga... obviously they'd need to be less sexist, and she'd need to seem more... on trumps side.

I think AOC's comment is probably right, she got snubbed for senate seat by trump... and now she's pissed and wanting to break that glass ceiling.

Only the media made the mistake of thinking that was negative in his mind.

So hilarious and so apt... I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what's effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones... but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.

Yeah there's a lot of benefits to multiverse with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. Most obvious is allowing multiple writers to work on the same series yet take it in multiple directions and not need to be perfectly synced or needing to care about contradictions.

Also allowing a 3rd author to basically do a best of taking elements from both incompatible universes (either via universal travel, or just make a different universe where things happened in a way to allow the events/characters they wanted from both other plots), and lastly a "what if things went wrong". IE the common plot point of the characters getting to see a universe where, they did things differently or didn't exist, and allow them to compare their world with that world. Which admitted is a fantasy we all have in our own rights, both on small level (What if I didn't break up with my first crush) or global level ("what if japan didn't bomb the US in WW2").

Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc...

Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it... like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy... watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.