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Are you running behind a VPN? 403 means access forbidden, which is to say that you’re being blocked on the server side. Could also be your instance, but I usually get blocked because of my VPN.

“Oh beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticides grain And strip mined mountain’s majesty, above the asphalt plain America, America Man sheds his waste on thee And hides the pines with billboard signs From sea to oily sea” – George Carlin

Kirby is the stuff of Thanos’ nightmares.

Because this is 'Murica, the land where logic, reason, decency, and compassion go to die. We’ll spare no expense to save money then write it all of as the cost of doing business. Fixing the problem isn’t nearly so attractive as just criminalizing anyone that isn’t helping our corporate overlords to turn a profit. Find a way to monetize the unhoused, make them a product of some kind (looking at you Soylent Green) and communities will be only to happy to welcome them in.

As the late philosopher Carlin said, “we don’t have time for rational solutions”

“Your windows boots up in what, a day and a half?”

This genocide brought to you by: United States armaments, the military industrial complex, and Zionism.

You could look into ente.io I use it and the price is quite good ($50/yr for 100GB). It’s e2ee and approved by privacyguides.org. They also have a free tier if you want to try it out before buying. Their app supports auto upload of photos and videos and they are multi platform (mobile/computer). Worth looking into

Don’t give them any ideas

I am Spartacus! Thanks in advance and even if not selected, it’s an honor just to be nominated.

In no way did i mean to suggest, imply, or otherwise push the stance that the LGBTQ/Trans issues don’t matter. They absolutely do. I fully recognize and complete support equality for all. Those communities are absolutely under attack by these closed minded conservative bigots. My phrasing was intended to convey that these communities pose no direct threat, of any kind, to the folks frothing at the mouth for their continued marginalization.

As you pointed out, they make easy targets to be lambasted in order to distract from the real issues of the day and conflating their cause with anything having to do with social, environmental, or economic responsibility or reform is an easy way to get the electorate to vote against their own self interest. So long as we’re made at each other for things we can’t change and the majority of us don’t understand, we don’t have time or resources to be mad at those actually making life hard for the rest of us.

Prototype?

The name of the game is to keep the masses fighting over and focused on ephemeral shit that doesn’t matter. Books, gays, lesbians, queers, trans, wokeness, CRT, religious tolerance, etc., This way the vast majority of the minority in this country are up in arms over what they see as threats to their way of life, as good god fearing christians. The real intent though is to keep them blind to how they’re being used, abused, sold out, turned into a product, stripped of their rights, and incrementally silenced, all so the people they put in power can make a few extra bucks while rat fucking a system that is engineered from the ground up to reward lying, cheating, demogoguery, and inciting division. The worst part is that this busted ass system is so entwined in the essence of what it is to be “'Murican” that questioning it, looking for logic, or even commenting on the hypocrisy in the design is enough to get violently assaulted in some parts.

Rome 2.0 is burning, and our leaders have convinced us that all of us fiddling is best way to deal with it

Don’t stop believing - Journey

After 5 years of hosting karaoke, everytime I hear the opening bars my eye twitches and I just want to kill the radio like it’s a life or death primal situation. Words cannot truly convey to depths to which I despise and loathe that particular piece of music. It is the bane of my existence and I firmly and fully believe that if there is a hell, that song will be blasted at max volume, on repeat, 24/7. An endless slew of drunk, belligerent college girls remaking that they “can do it better”, their boyfriends threatening me because I dated to “let someone else do (their) girl’s song”, the dozen or so singers who either tried to deep throat the mic or just vomited in it when trying to hit the high notes…

MDK2?

“I’ve made toast…mmdelicious!!!”