“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller
OpenWRT all the way.
Skynet firewall
PiHole
Stable IP addresses and a private interface for family phones/laptops/pcs
Guest network for nasty Roku TV/peleton
EDIT: my favorite thing about Skynet is the new-ish ability to filter by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Riot
The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing it among the disputes between Crown and colonists that culminated in the American Revolution.
In 1722, under the Broad Arrow Policy it became illegal to cut down white pine trees larger than 12 inches in diameter in New Hampshire in order to reserve them for use as Royal Navy masts. This law was not strictly enforced until 1766, when Governor John Wentworth began enforcing it.
On April 13, 1772, Sheriff Benjamin Whiting and Deputy John Quigley discovered a sawmill in Weare, New Hampshire, violating this law. They arrested the leader, Ebenezer Mudgett, and released him on bail. The next day, Mudgett and twenty men attacked the Sheriff and Deputy at the Quimby Inn, beating them nearly to death with large rods and sending them out of town on horseback. Some credit this incident with inspiring the Boston Tea Party, which significantly contributed to the start of the American Revolutionary War.
When someone tells you they value Faith, they are telling you they value belief without evidence.
They are literally telling you they have the mental habits of a child.
They should be kept away from decision-making roles.
Should not be obscure to people who ostensibly have degrees in philosophy and/or social science and presume to have the wisdom and foresight to set public education policy
My local school board installed cameras in the buildings. Ostensibly to track where the shooter is in case there ever is one.
I spoke against this at the meeting by talking about Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon.
I spoke fully 5 minutes before realizing
None of the fucking school board knew who Bentham was or his idea for total surveillance prisons.
I haven’t figured out the best one for Trump yet.
It’s in a field in Pennsylvania
It’s a broad based fallibility of all humans and we must all be vigilant about information bubbles
Some needs are better served by free individuals acting alone in a field in Pennsylvania, instead of a bubmbling government operation
He must have hated Bertrand Russel
By just 0.25"
Oh, they’re a classy bunch
New Hampshire Libertarians tweet image of Zelensky with Hitler mustache
Also :
In another tweet from Aug. 26, which has since been deleted, the party wrote: “6 million dollar minimum wage or you’re antisemitic.”
idiot murderer
Q: What do they call the person who graduated bottom of their class in medical school?
A: Doctor
cheat like hell like they do
Sociologists find that universally, in countries with persistent corruption, the populace believes “everyone is doing it” – and that therefore, they are being taken advantage of unless they do the same.
It’s this pervasive sentiment that makes it so hard to break. It is a memetic social disease.
Because I set it up like 5 ywars ago as a pandemic project and that was the top option from my searches
OpenVPN on a VPS from Njalla paid for in Monero
I’m not being silly (other than that I’m a freakin’ tinfoil hat compared to most people)
This is my actual setup.
Yeah I just did some digging and I call BS until there’s evidence.
Apparently there are currently 38 4-star Generals/Admirals. Perplexity gave me each one of their names and their Senate confirmation dates (original and most recent). Most were done en masse in a voice vote on Dec 19, 2023.
That said, of the 38, these were listed as “pending/unclear status”
Guest Network in OpenWRT prevents inter-device communication on the LAN. So the thing can talk to its cloud service or whatever but can’t see my phone/laptop/PCs.
This means that untrusted devices which get pw0ned (or are surveillance-by-design) can’t then get into your more important machines. Most people use guest networks for IoT devices like Ring cams and smart washing machines but I don’t even own shit like that.