TheFogan

agreed it's kind of a... we need to get schumer out of the way, because he's a large part of preventing us from doing anything else to clean up the party. He's not the sole problem no... but he is probably one of the biggest supporters of many of the other problems.

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.

It's kinda complicated, but I do have to say... smuggling on that scale something more is going on. If you told me someone is smuggling 200,000 lbs of cigarettes from a state where they are cheap into a state they are expensive... I'd say there's a 99.99% chance somewhere in the line there's some major violent crimes done to enable it. An opperation that large isn't just a couple guys providing for their friends, that's clearly dealing with some form of organized crime or gangs... that most likely aren't holding their territory by friendly agreements.

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.

Hard to judge from your link, as apparently they paywalled it.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/literally

but I'm assuming it's not too different than this. Which also includes

(informal) used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not literally true I literally jumped out of my skin.

You gotta realize even the dictionary has given up on this one...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

Because the dictionary covers the practical usage, and the misuse is as common as the actual use. The dictionary definition for litterally includes the formal "in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression" and the informal that means the exact opposite "statement or description that is not literally true or possible"

I find it kind of ironic to say it's actual definition for literally includes effectively or it could also mean "not literally"

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.