Skip Navigation

aramova

@ aramova @infosec.pub

Posts
1
Comments
126
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Removed

    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

    Jump

  • Could you elaborate on that a bit? I guarantee you there's a group of people that think you know the age of consent in all states when you write stuff like this :D

    So the way I read your response is:

    Since the OP is concerned that making posts to large data corporations who use that data to target the OP with ads, collect as much personal data as possible to sell or monetize and train LLMs based on the OPs "community contributions", they must be a pedo.

    Bold take.

    You're a first year McKinsey intern I take it?

  • ICE could ‘run out of money next month’ and is already $1bn over budget to carry out Trump’s deportation plans

    Jump

  • It's up to us.

    That's what scares me.

  • Pakistan nominates Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

    Jump

  • "They're eating the dogs! They're eating the cats! They're eating the pets"

    47th President of the United States

  • Top Democrat Launches House Probe Into FBI Role in 'Disgraceful' Arrest of Padilla

    Jump

  • Fuck the Marvel Multiverse is getting crazy with the unbelievable stuff.

  • Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation

    Jump

  • Yes, absolutely, 100%.

    FAA has from the beginning been very forceful in asserting that it is the sole authority for things attempting to defy gravity.

    On the flip side though, the GOP stopped caring about anything courts say.

    So. Guess we'll see how this plays out for the next few years at least.

  • Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry

    Jump

  • Christian rent a cop gone hard core MAGA treasonous family murderer.

    Checks out.

    Remember kids, religion isn't spread by the quality of its truth, but by the quality of its violence.

  • "The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over

    Jump

  • About 36% of eligible votes sat it out last time, a not so insignificant voted based on a single topic... "Kamala isn't vocal enough in supporting Palestine" was a big one.

    Remember folks, every vote counts. We did this to ourselves.

    I've said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard...

    It's just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It's like the people who thought China paid the tariffs...

    The house is almost tied. That's who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents...

    218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.

    Let's see, take New York for example.

    26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.

    5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.

    People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn't matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.

    Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.

    Apathetic morons who don't realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.

    District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.

    Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state... Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.

    So, if you think that your vote for president doesn't matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you're a fucking moron who can't grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.

    And don't get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.

    Every fucking vote counts.

    And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we'll keep getting the shit we deserve.

    House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.

    Democrats would need ~18 seats.

    First, that won't happen in 2026.

    Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.

    Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.

    How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we're living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers...

    Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.

    • Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
      • Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
        • North Carolina (Budd-R)
        • Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting.
      • Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout).
        • Iowa (Ernst-R)
        • Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups.
        • Kentucky (McConnell-R's seat - potential retirement changes dynamics)
        • Kansas (Marshall-R)
        • South Carolina (Graham-R)
      • Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters.
        • Texas (Cornyn-R)
        • Mississippi (Wicker-R)
        • Alabama (Tuberville-R)
        • West Virginia (Capito-R)
        • Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner)
        • Wyoming (Lummis-R)
        • Idaho (Risch-R)
        • Arkansas (Cotton-R)
        • Nebraska (Ricketts-R)
        • South Dakota (Rounds-R)
        • Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system.
    • Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead)
      • Highly Competitive Targets:
        • Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup.
        • Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here.
      • Stretch Targets:
        • Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested.
        • New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back.
      • Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states)
        • Tennessee (Hagerty-R)
        • Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics)
        • North Carolina (Tillis-R)
        • Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially)
        • Texas (Cruz-R)
        • Kentucky (Paul-R)
        • And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).

    It's going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.

    The amount that's being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities...

    We're on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.

    No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.

    Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.

  • "The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over

    Jump

  • Shit, you're right. Guess Trump 3rd term it is.

  • xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows

    Jump

  • Typically.

    This is Musk's AI project though, he's not going to wait to secure power or permits or environmental impact studies or anything like that...

    Did Jenson deliver the G100s? Grab some generators and get pumping.

  • Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven

    Jump

  • Can I get an Amen Ken?

  • California Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed at Noem news conference in LA

    Jump

  • True, but explaining that to the orange nosed ass-kissers of the Mustard Mussolini won't get us anywhere.

    Americans need to remember lessons of the past. All of Europe and America at the time couldn't "negotiate" with Nazis. Only thing they understood was a bayonet in the gut.

    Modern Nazis are the same way.

    Like Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance... The only way to ensure tolerance is not to tolerate intolerance.

  • Newsom requests Trump admin return National Guard control to California

    Jump

  • Strongly worded letters are all the current Dems are good at.

  • ‘Inhumane:’ Latinas for Trump founder condemns White House immigration crackdown

    Jump

  • Making merica great, bald eagles, kid rock, 25¢ eggs, free diesel for their monster trucks, short bottom shorts on blondes, beer holders in car and no seatbelt laws taking their freedum.

    That sorta thing.

  • Besides mod logs, is there a better way for the Fediverse to keep track of malicious actors, such as Kiwi farms members, Nazi apologists, and genocide deniers?

    Jump

  • They are with FISC court orders.

    A bit more powerful than a Pub/Sub or RSS feed.

  • Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

    Jump

  • Only problem I see with this plan is the Mustard Mussolini's fox and friends would push the federal financial systems to cut off Californians from the banking network, effectively embargoing the state.

    As much money as it has, it's not totally self sufficient.

    Plan a bit first, get some other states to join in, and countries who are sick of Trump's shit to help supply.

    Worst case is the president comes in with military, while the Cali national guard could be called up, technically they can be federalized, court battles, federal soldiers looking to arrest Newsom.

    Cali, Washington, New York, New Jersey splitting though would be a hell of a blow, cripple shipping.

  • White House Mocked After Admitting They 'Sent Letters' to Remind Countries About Trade Deal Deadlines: 'We Resorted to Begging Now?'

    Jump

  • Sing to the tune of Macho Man by the Village People

    He's a TACO TACO man. That chicken shit mango is a TACO man!

  • Godaddy is pissing me off. Which registrar is decent for selfhosters these days?

    Jump

  • Porkbun.

    Decent API, good prices, not trash people.

  • TIL Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock) discredited Robert Koch ( discoveror of tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax) tuberculosis cure.

    Jump

  • Like imagine if Gwyneth Paltrow absolutely eviscerated and ended the career of RFK Jr with evidence to back her up on every single point.

    Aiming to set the bar low eh?

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Pick themselves up by the bootstraps buttercup.