If US citizens and US businesses choose to operate there, they should be footing the entire bill for their own private protection services. Just say “no” to Socialist military spending.

Watch for the prices on goods+services to go up 2x-3x that rate, with manufacturers citing “Covid” (of course, that’ll never get old, they’ll be blaming their gouging on that in 2100AD if anyone is still around) and “inflation” (again). Along with the price gouging, there’ll be plenty of shrinkfllation too, blamed on the same factors, and also on “for our customers’ convenience, we’re proud to announce the Super-sized Product”, in a smaller package, at twice the unit price. And that’s if unit prices continue to be displayed to the public at retail locations. Retailers will most likely remove unit prices altogether, for “our customer’s convenience”, because customers want less information about pricing, yep.

My email service provider just jacked up the price I pay by 46%, for no substantial change in service, and justified (of course) by Covid and the usual twaddle. I’m dumping them, because I can. The only way to fight back is to stop spending money.

I would think it would be helpful to use a VPN and switch locations over and over, use servers all around the world as well as all around the country while Googling. Really poison enhance the precision of the dataset.

Nazi Musk, lock him up.

And for those who didn’t click the link, the ‘visceral fury’ is that of the judges. Not of Cheeto, which is the way I first read it. It sounds like a headline mean to provoke fear of Drumpf, 'Oh no, daddy is mad, really mad, quick, hide under the bed!". No. Pity, it would be all the better if it was Orange Diaper Baby’s visceral something or other (probably filling his diaper), it’s fun to watch a spoiled brat rage. Muskrat is already coming unhinged at not being able to play with ALL the toys he wants.

Gerry who? Never heard of 'em.

That many Vermonters dying in Brussels?

I’m really hoping the MC is turned up to 110% thrust. The results are going to be hilarious and tax dollars well-spent.

These are almost all small consumer goods. Where are the tariffs on big-ticket industrial goods and services? On Teslas? On datacenters and cloud computing services (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, M$FT Azure, Oracle Cloud)? Hit American BigCorps where it hurts. Make the execs and shareholders feel the pain.

As the purges commence, I’m wondering if there will even be a functioning IRS come April. When I send in my return will there be anyone at the IRS to process it?

“But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth.”

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickle and Dimed, chpt 2

Brilliant move! I bet the ACLU and the EFF would appreciate the relatives’ generous donations as well.

Ah, it’s all starting to make sense now. But why would people do such things, when Agile is absolutely not a cult?!

Wow, that’s just awful, after seeing the vid I can’t imagine there are any survivors. RIP to all.

I really like Fastmail’s web client - just the right mix of 1990s web and “reactive” eye-candy web. The phone client is OK as far as I can tell, don’t use it much. The service itself has always been great and I’ve been a subscriber for 10-15 years, long before Proton existed.

Yes, it’s a pro in my opinion, don’t want all my eggs in one basket so to speak. And of course the providers want you to do just that, to use them for everything - mail, vpn, storage, passwords, aliases, docs, digital wallets (yeah proton has one now too!) - because that makes it very difficult to leave their service if their CEO turns out to be a Nazi or if you just find a better offering.

I’m also annoyed with how they pile so much into the service that for some of us, they’re extras which aren’t needed.

I agree, it’s ever-more loaded up with crap that I won’t use. I’m a free plan user and rarely use the service. Between the never-ending nagging to upgrade that I get on the website, the discount deals that end up being “one year only then full price” and their intentional crippling of the service (# of aliases, domain support, etc) that basically requires you to subscribe to one of their expensive plans just to get the functionality of other competing providers, there’s no way I’d ever give them money. And now there’s the kissing the Orange Diaper Baby butt on top of all that. It’s going to be fun giving all these Nazi tech bro services the boot. mailbox.org is looking pretty good, unless they turn out to be AfD bootlickers.

I just signed up for the cheapest paid Addy plan and so far I’m very impressed, especially since it seems to be a one-man show. The docs are good which has been a huge help, and the user dashboard website is easy to grok.

You might want to have a look at this site to study-up on available/recommended tools: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ I use Mullvad VPN myself and am happy w/it. Ditto Bitwarden which works well and is cheap. I have a Tuta account but detest the UI and the fact that they don’t support IMAP/SMTP clients, or PGP, so I do my own PGP encryption/decryption using Thunderbird Mail on desktop which has built-in support for it. Also I use Fastmail as a (paid) provider (no built in PGP but tons of other bells & whistles) though mailbox.org looks interesting and is well-priced. Finally I use addy.io for anonymous aliases/forwarding and they have good PGP support.

New Hampshire, the Idaho of the east.