I’m going to neg on my own comment, I don’t trust Snopes anymore, but many news services also discredited what I mentioned. So at this point, because we know their reality is mutable and transient, who knows if it really happened or not. I’d still bank on yes, but I have no actual evidence to back it up.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-roger-stone-guns-memo/

The national weather service is defunded and not even sending out weather balloons anymore, and is losing access to a military satellite used for hurricane detection. (Facts.)

So, there aren’t hurricanes anymore, just freak random storms that come out of nowhere for some reason. We did it everybody! /s

The real problem will likely end up being that civilians can’t own the firepower the US military/police have, legally. No full auto, no giant drums, no grenades, no missiles, no fighter jets. Even if it were a “well-regulated militia” one fighter/bomber could take them all out, and be marketed on some made up news articles as, “we stopped the terrorists, you’re safe now.”

If it really came down to it, such a battle would be very one-sided, so it would have to be more strategic guerilla tactics.

Oh, and the SS just got a huge budget increase, so that won’t help. (As seen above.)

There were already talks in the p2025 circles about ceasing civilian firearms in some fashion and then allowing “permits” at some future time for “loyal” gun owners. Wouldn’t be surprised if they’ll still try it.

Today would have been a good day to start it. People would mostly be off to get their affairs in order.

Or perhaps the best vehicle to ship in “soccer teams” that are a first wave strike force of freedom. D-Day just got cleats.

Am in the shithole, let me know if you need people to defend you against it.

And a fraction of Earth’s habitability for the power wasted.

Sounds like the dev is just not that familiar with Android.

Have you seen American history? We will do anything we can to not have to pay for labor. Even after slavery, using gray area immigrants has been commonplace for well over a century. Anything to save a buck.

The best outcome at this point would be to build machines that can harvest all the various unique crops to break the cycle, we may even be technologically advanced to finally do it, if we don’t destroy ourselves first.

How do other countries handle food harvesting labor? I’ll research in parallel, but curious, I’ve never actually thought about that question before.

Don’t sweat that either. While it likely plays into their game, as long as you can use the stuff anyway, just cease buying it for extended periods. “It is better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.” --Abraham Lincoln, probably

It is a tough balancing act trying to stay ahead of nonsense, especially with covid shortages still in recent memory.

@kescusay@lemmy.world don’t you go giving me a safe place to catch my breath as the US falls apart! (Kidding, if that wasn’t apparent.)

I hear that, and in parallel, mostly essentials only, minimum amount of purchasing for months now. Not paying a dime into their precious “economy” if I don’t have to. Remember too, something attributed to Eisenhower that he said to have heard from a soldier, “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” So don’t kick yourself if you think you maybe didn’t plan for a certain thing. Just be ready to adapt.

I’ve looked at food storage as less, “preparing for a shortage” and more, “a few things I like and regularly use to cover the spread as I pivot to whatever is available.” Temporary comfort during (insert random crisis here) to give some time to adapt. Keeps it from being a full on prepper living in a bunker, while keeping enough essentials on hand to cover supply chain hiccups.

Make sure you have at least one alternate communications option available, ham radio, GMRS, Meshtastic, FM radio, whatnot. The voice radios are great for talking between cars on camping trips, or for other similar reasons. The text meshes in some markets are really starting to take off, weather channels, groups for this and that, and coverage is really improving. Pretty much don’t need a cell phone at this point.

It was an example. Many states have myriad requirements for perceived safety. There is also obviously the argument that, hey, the Federal government is ignoring laws and the Constitution so F it and change the parts to enable full auto and acquire big mags. Missile drone probably still wins, but maybe other countries start helping at that point.

Firefox can be installed from Mozilla and managed by Obtainium. Much better option all the way around.

I’m the first to call out the larpers, but another angle. There are people that own, train, and do not support tyranny. Think about it, though. Would these people just suddenly randomly choose to use lethal force at the expense of their own life, to defend millions of others that are sitting on their asses in and outside America, doing nothing? Would they just walk up to a group of ICE weenies and blow them away? That would not only end their life, but put their entire family, friends, loved ones, community at extreme risk, let alone being the powder keg the Stephen Millers of the world angrily masturbate to.

Not to mention they’d be using a 10 round larper AR-15 that can only do semi-auto fire, versus possibly the strongest military force on the planet that has fighter jets, grenades, and missile-laden drones, and has already been illegally deployed in US cities on US soil.

Everyone on this planet is responsible for stopping this. Not just the few with semi-elevated defensive measures.

All Federales. They’re all corrupt Constitution violating Treasonists at this point.

There are no adults left at the Federal level.

I’m looking forward to 10 years from now, when this new novelty called, WRITING YOUR OWN SHIT (and reading it!) comes back into prevalence, and everyone thinks it is such an original idea.

(If we, or the Internet, are all still around then, anyway.)

Government was trying to kidnap a guy in a Colorado town, there’s an emergency response network to shut those shits down, and they did. The government morons retroactively tried to claim he was wanted for terrible crimes he did in Italy and was from El Salvador. Of course, there was no record of this being true in any of those countries, even the FBI’s most wanted list was devoid of this supposed bad guy. (I’m sure they’ll be sure to create fake dossiers in the future.)

Now, because of that, all the news was polluted with “These people did bad and stopped the FBI from doing good,” when the headlines should read, “Hero Activists Save a Person from Treasonous Thugs Violating the Constitution.” The government will probably refer to the news articles as circular logic proof that it was real at some point.

Troubling times, they’ve always lied, of course, the lies are just so much more toxic nonsense and there is less desire than ever to pursue facts or truth, as long as the evil deed is done. America is cooked.

Send help, or set up refugee programs, everyone else, we need it

Especially when it involves modems. Qualcomm had a vice grip on them for so long, and still mostly does, so there’s little competition, and no good competition. They make great modems, but they’re also a US military contractor and can’t truly be trusted. Competition, is also generally good.