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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent.

    The problem isn’t that you can’t predict when a stock is mispriced, that’s sometimes very easy, it’s predicting when all the other dipshits will come to the same conclusion because ultimately that’s all that matters.

    Right now musk still has a personality cult and there are a lot of morons buying the stock like their worldview depends on it. They don’t read the earnings reports, they don’t read unbiased news, they mostly don’t even own the cars, they just think it’s going to the moon because…for lack of a better word, propaganda.



  • It’s all of these posts. Firearm content attracts a lot of downvotes on Lemmy. The classic firearms were precisely what made me want to say something. One can’t really have that kind of community here because of all the people trolling ‘all’ and randomly interacting with stuff that wasn’t meant for them.

    Also liberal is in the title so it felt right. I’m not a liberal, I’m an leftist, so do with that what you will.










  • Ideally it doesn’t matter, I’d rather my taxes go to storing guns while people are on vacation or not using their second home than having people die because they felt there were too many hoops to jump through. Also, guns not being stolen while people are on vacation or whatever is also strictly good from a public safety standpoint so it’s kinda win-win.

    Similarly, ideally the process is sealed box to sealed box possession, in other words the government has no idea what they’re storing within reason. Gun laws change constantly and can be hard to stay on top of so I’d rather someone get their homemade 3D printed ghost machine gun grenade launcher back than lots of people die because they were worried they might get arrested for trying to be safe.





  • It comes down to looking at the chain they can use to link a post to you. You should be able to express yourself fully without fear of retribution.

    First and most importantly, get a password manager and use unique passwords for everything, this covers the overwhelmingly likely scenarios. All your online accounts should either be ~14+ character “dl+ruHgGv6-c0$1hh7” style passwords or 4+ random word “correct horse battery staple” style passwords. The password manager should generate them for you.

    Make sure your phone has a password and consider using it instead of biometrics (face/fingerprint unlock). Passwords can’t typically be compelled but they can force you to unlock things with your face/fingerprints. Enable whole disk encryption on any computers that have access to your password manager or accounts. Turn these systems off when you’re away or asleep. Enable automatic reboot on your phone if supported so it will reboot itself if not unlocked after a set amount of time, preferably 12-24 hours max. This sounds dumb but makes it 10x harder to break into if you’re taken into custody due to how phone encryption works.

    If you like social media, create accounts that aren’t in your name and have no common links (different email addresses, passwords, user names, etc). Do so over a VPN or Tor, ideally with an exit node outside the country and use email aliases through proton or similar so they’re all different. Never access them from a non-VPNed connection, your IP is logged every time you connect and kept for who-knows how long on the servers. Rotate these accounts so that your opinions and posts aren’t all connected to one identity. If you accidently post something that identifies you (you will make mistakes and should plan for it), that limits the damage to only the posts associated with that account rather than all your activity on that site. Stay logged out of Google/Facebook/Twitter etc as much as possible or use incognito/container tabs to keep those logins isolated from your other web activity. Disable history on everything! Google search, Google maps, Google location history, YouTube, your browser, EVERYTHING. Most of the stuff you see in court is just “well their Google history said they searched for XYZ so clearly they’re a terrorist”.

    If you’re really enterprising, setup an old computer that’s only for social media and has the VPN enabled full time. Bonus points for using Tails Linux as the operating system but if you keep to the above it’s just an added layer of safety.

    Right now the stuff we’re seeing is mostly low hanging fruit, they seem to be targeting people by literally browsing Canary Mission. They’re not employing particularly sophisticated methodology yet. That may change though so the above guards against that, at least somewhat. Your mission isn’t to be able to resist the full attention of the NSA, it’s to be much more difficult than average so they turn their limited resources elsewhere because they have a quota to meet that week.