Bonifratz

I’m all for strikes in red states, there should be a nationwide general strike with no set end date. But Minnesotans can hardly organise a strike in a red state, so taking action in their own state is the next best thing. Collecting money to target MAGA politicians in elections is also a good idea, no disagreement there. But one doesn’t exclude the other. Re: Dems being responsible, I’m referring to the Democratic political establishment, not their voters. And while this current fascism has its home in the Republican party, a lot of it was enabled or allowed by the Democratic party. It’s paramount for Democratic voters to force their party to go the Sanders/AOC/Mamdani route, people who are actually wiling to fight fascism.

By the way, it seems at least some Minnesotans support an “economic blackout”: https://piefed.zip/c/news/p/936915/minnesota-faith-union-community-leaders-call-for-economic-blackout-on-jan-23#post_replies (Not a strike, I know, and only one day, but it’s a start.)

I get your point and I was considering the same when I wrote my comment. My reasoning is twofold though: First, something has to happen, but what are Minnesotans to do? The legal way is useless because Trump is beyond the law. A strike, while technically directed at the wrong address, would still give the strikers agency, a sense of community and a shared outlook, and a lot of time they could invest into protesting or other means of stopping fascism. Also, I think it still makes sense to pressure a Democratic state government as the Dems are partly to be blamed for all of this, too. (Don’t know if that applies specifically to Minnesota Dems.)

And second, I believe a general strike in one state could finally get the ball rolling in the rest of the US (because I believe the entire country needs to come to a halt and the non-fascist majority has to finally end complicity-by-passivity.

You’re certainly right in a way, but on the other hand with social movements it sometimes only takes a handful of people with conviction to get the ball rolling. And my point is, when people’s lives and freedoms are at risk anyway, they might as well lay down their work and go full-time protesting.

I don’t think I could just go on working like normal if my neighbours’ houses got raided by a paramilitary force.

mastodon too complicated

Literally the only thing to understand before using it is the multiple instances, which doesn’t take a PhD. (Even better, you can safely use it even without knowing about instances.)

If people don’t want to move to Mastodon because it’s “too complicated”, they’re not actually looking for an alternative.

How is the entire state of Minnesota not on a general strike by now? There’s a paramilitary group marauding their streets and kidnapping and killing people.

Hats off to you, then. I see you truly know your lines.

I don’t give two shits about your LiNe ExPeRtIsE unless you built at least ten >3 minute tracks in the original Line Rider.

When you go to the mall, what exactly causes the anxiety/feeling weird?

Thanks a lot for the offer. This might become a project of mine in the future but not before the end of this year. I might get back to you then. :)

Do you already have a server deployed? How familiar are you with Linux?

No server. I just installed Linux a few months ago as dual boot after being a lifelong Windows user (since 3.1 lol). Currently using both OS but will move fully to Linux once I have some projects finished. Self-hosting might become a future project after that and if yes, I’ll come back to this community and this thread!

I.e., not limited at all.

What’s stopping people you know from taking this step?

I’m a noob when it comes to IT. (Even though in my family I’m the one people ask when they have computer issues lol.) I would really like to get into self-hosting and all that, and I think if I found some good guides I would probably be able to make things work, but it still sounds very daunting to me. Like, I imagine days if not weeks of sifting through online resources to fix a thousand little errors and issues that would come up. (Maybe I’m mistaken, maybe it’s all really easy even for noobs. Just trying to explain my feelings on the matter.)

Edit: Woke up to 10 replies lol. Thanks for everybody’s input and helpful links. I think this might become a future project for me, but not before winter 26/27 (for life reasons).

Yeah I’m gonna make a bold prediction and say this guy will face no consequences whatsoever.

You got that all wrong. He ended the US-Venezuela war! I’m sure he’ll end the US-Greenland war next!

That’s such a (US) American thing. “Someone coughed when the cop didn’t order it? Deserves to be executed right then and there.” I see it all the time in comments about killings like this and it never stops weirding me out.

Good for California. If only all countries of the earth followed suit so the billionaires would have to move into their weird libertarian ocean hubs.

…or the time travelers were just unsuccessful. I mean there have been attempts on his life.

Canada would be wise to build nukes ASAP.

No. I was just interested because I’ve seen a lot of headlines about how Grok creates all these problematic images of women, minors etc., but not about other similar generative AI software. But my understanding so far has been that there’s no real way to safeguard generative AI at all, so I was wondering whether this was a Grok-only problem, and if so, how others were avoiding it.

Do other generative AI services also do this? Or do they have functioning safeguards?