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Look up the Powell Memo. There has been a 50 year project to dismantle government oversight of business with the aim of maximizing profits and externalizing costs and we are near its conclusion. Primarily the work of this project has been done by judges hand-picked for their ideological commitment, often through the Federalist Society. A good, more recent example is when Obama attempted to increase the salary cutoff where employers must pay overtime wages from $23k to $46k per year. Employers would just call their employees managers and get around the Davis Bacon Act and not have to pay OT to people making over $23k, even if those people were doing work that would otherwise be wage labor. A business lobbying group challenged the rule and found a federal judge in East Bumfuck, Texas who put a hold on it, and then it was killed by Trump. Democrats have effectively been controlled (via the judiciary) opposition since the 90s, but I have some hope that there are more Democrats coming up who understand what needs to be done. There is power in Congress and the White House to do something about all this, Democrats just need to wield it as freely as the Republicans do when they take power. The Biden administration was actually decent at this stuff. It’s a shame he was senile by the end and too proud to give up power to another Democrat that would have stood a chance, until it was way too late, anyway.

Same, I had enough people I wanted to have access to it that I didn’t feel like explaining Tailscale to all of them. Also, you can’t easily run Tailscale alongside a regular VPN like Proton or Mullvad. Of course, you have to pay for the domain name and setting up a reverse proxy and appropriate DNS forwarding rules are not trivial tasks.

Tailscale is a pretty good option if said old people have an Android or Apple TV, not sure about availability of Tailscale on any other OSs. Run it on your server and the TV client, grab the Tailscale IP from the dashboard and enter [Tailscale IP]:[Jellyfin port] when the Jellyfin app asks for the server address. You could homebrew a VPN too. Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.

Isn’t that how Social Security is supposed to work? In 30 years it’s going to be Gen A paying for millennials. It only has reserves because the trust fund was set up to cover the baby boomers because they knew it was a much larger generation. The trust fund was never intended to be a permanent fixture.

Oh, it sure as hell was.

AOC says millennials aren’t punk kids anymore? No shit. I haven’t been a punk kid for 20 years. Even Gen Z aren’t kids anymore. There are a few of them that are already managers at my workplace. Insane how US mainstream culture has held space for boomers for so long. So frustrating how unserious we’re considered to be when we’ve been the ones on the ground making shit happen for the last decade or more. Shout out to Gen X for never having been taken seriously.

A semi-automated whitelist solution would be nice. I’ve settled for Crowdsec with very strict automatic banning behavior.

These people are eugenicists. They are trying to kill us. The ones they can’t kill will have their wealth siphoned from them to fund this balooning, kleptocratic federal deficit. They are looting the near-dead body of the empire so they can transcend nations, and us, the blood, flesh and bones, will be left to rot. We have one, maybe two chances left to defeat these people peacefully.

Ah, but you’re forgetting that something something socialism.