They think they are portraying the subject as ‘weak’. It’s for their racist base to feel like ‘right on, we made a weak black leftist woman cry, like they all deserve’'.

It was never about making her less sympathetic, but a celebration of hurting the ‘correct’ people to get hurt.

Sure, but as yet he remains the mouthpiece.

If he either falls apart or even worse, somehow grows a conscience, then they will isolate him and speak on his behalf.

McCuntneck thank you very much

Because all the President has to do is say “Naw, I’m good”

Or, historically, his wife claims he’s good, but can’t speak to anyone directly, so she would talk with him away from everyone and come back with his feedback.

I predict Stephen Miller would be the one to assume that role this time.

Getting a dns name is straightforward enough, and let’s encrypt to get a tla cert…

But for purely internal services that you didn’t otherwise want to publish extremely, the complexity goes way up (either maintain a bunch of domain names externally to renew certificates and use a private DNS to point them to the real place locally, or make your own CA and make all the client devices enroll it. Of course I’m less concerned about passkeys internally.

And the USA gets real pain.

Oh certainly I think they imagine the likelihood of a full way is low, not fall to recognize the likelihood of a more surgical clandestine op which absolutely could have a high chance of success even from one of the less resourced adversaries they are pissing off.

Note that violent means only had 4%. So 13% wouldn’t mind a peaceful purchase. Which is still dumb but at least not as outright insane as Stephen Miller would go.

I didn’t know if that’s “doing” anytime. It’s all rhetoric.

They also said all sorts of stuff about curbing his actions in Venezuela but when it came time to vote they couldn’t even get it to need a veto.

Maybe violating European sovereignty is a bridge enough to actually pass something, but I expect them to just let the veto happen

Frankly, I don’t see anyone domestically going to the ammo box over Greenland or nearly any foreign situation. That’s one of those things people will do soap box or ballot box, but not ammo box.

The existence of the ballot box mollifies people, that nice, safe and easy mechanism is far preferred over the work or risk of the ammo box. I fear the project 2025 fall to understand this and will trigger people to the ammo box by denying them the ballot box, but at least in the moment this would be more of a voting thing.

Hey look, the “civics” lessons in the South are oddly favoring conservative talking points…

Historically tests for voting competency have not been to ensure educated voters, but to disenfranchise groups. You don’t want to open that door.

I’ve seen enough of the die hard maga folks talk that I see why authoritarianism appeals. It’s annoying to think and if someone just simplifies the world for them, they find that much more appealing.

To scrutinize the actions of their leader is just too much work, so they just slip into the comfortable position of “this is my guy, I agree with whatever he says, even if I were to be even vaguely at odds with him, is just because he is better than me and accepting whatever is just the right call”

Some say their amygdala grew three sizes that day.

The point is that eggs are usually one of the cheapest options for the nutritional value.

If you skip them because they are too expensive, then you are probably not getting good nutrition.

If you are eating other options that are more expensive, well then sure the cost doesn’t matter as much.

But with bird flu being a thing the egg prices are going to be volatile, and generally nothing to do with the presidential administration one way or the other. Need a “basket of goods” to get a more useful picture.

Broadly speaking, the private keys can be protected.

For ssh, ssh-agent can retain the viable form for convenience while leaving the ssh key passphrase encrypted on disk. Beyond that your entire filesystem should be further encrypted for further offline protection.

Passkeys as used in webauthn are generally very specifically protected in accordance with the browser restrictions. For example, secured in a tpm protected storage, and authenticated by pin or biometric.

For ssh, ssh keys.

For https, webauthn is the way to do it, though services are relatively rare, particularly for self hosting, partly because browsers are very picky about using a domain name with valid cert, so browsers won’t allow them by ip or if you click through a self signed cert

From my talking with someone who grew up under a nation with a corrupt regime, self respect is a luxury that people under such a regime cannot afford when dealing with the government.

Small, petty, corrupt government personnel are a way of life and people just accept this sort of stuff as mundane fact of life.

So such folks are uniquely emotionally prepared for this sort of interaction.

So I heard an interview with one of her associates and they seemed pretty pragmatic about whatever sucking up they need to do to make Trump change things the way they think needs to be changed. And it didn’t sound like they were disappointed or shocked or anything, just that’s the way things go.

Reminds me of speaking with a colleague that was an immigrant from a country with a well known corrupt government. He just couldn’t get as shocked as the rest of us over Trump’s behavior. He recognized it as bad, but as far as he was concerned, that was just life and he was used to it. Disappointed for things to start feeling a bit too much like his home country to be sure, but overt corruption was just the way things were. I could imagine being in the thick of such a government and just being boringly normal about this level of petty corruption.

He used the general maga as a baseline and then said the approval for this is under 10%, not even popular among the people who are rude or die with Trump

I agree with you, though I think in this case being unprofessional is warranted and worth it, but I totally understand suspension.