Success means a split of the Republicans, because the vast majority of Dems aren’t going to follow Elon after these last few months.

Supposedly an American spouse, on a Finnish instance? Probably a Russian account.

Edit: and it’s a day old account.

They’re not even trying.

So you’re part of the fucking problem. Good to know. I’ll make sure to tag your account to remind me of the context when your stupid posts show up later on.

Makes me really wonder though how an affluent American spouse ends up deciding that a Finnish Lemmy instance is the one to make their account. Much more likely you’re just a Russian troll.

I assume this is targeted at things like the AI voiceovers reading random reddit stories or comments alongside generic video content, probably also AI generated.

No, a stroke. Rendering him unable to speak and without fine motor control so he can’t tweet or play golf.

I switched to Bitwarden after the LastPass stuff a couple years ago, and I just got around to installing Vaultwarden on my TrueNAS system at home. Using a single Cloudflare Tunnel to handle secure external connections for that and other services like Emby easily. Took a little bit to setup following some guides, but has been working flawlessly for me and some friends. You can use the regular Bitwarden apps and extensions since they natively support self hosting.

It would be a state law. Dems in CA are much more likely to make sure it gets enforced compared to the federal level.

It’s actually not that vague looking into it. They have to be readily identifiable. They can totally wear masks as long as their identifiable as police and not trying to disguise themselves. So things like SWAT and riot equipment already identify them as police.

It has an exemption for undercover officers, which already have existing requirements and paperwork associated for oversight. There is zero reason for any other officer to not be identifiable.

It requires intent to disguise, so effectively this just outlaws plainclothes officers, which should already not be allowed honestly. Too easy for them to escalate a conflict from within to then justify an escalated police response. Protesters aren’t violent enough? Send Jeff and Bobby inside in plain clothes to start some shit.

They’re basically extending an existing law making wearing a disguise while committing a crime a separate offense, to cover law enforcement while in the performance of their duties. It’s already illegal for you to do this as a regular civilian, they’re making it the same for law enforcement.

There is an exception for undercover officers. There is zero reason outside those situations for an officer to disguise themselves. SWAT aren’t usually disguised, they are very clearly identified as police already and aren’t trying to disguise themselves.

Plainclothes officers outside undercover assignments are already a grey area to be honest, too easy for them to purposefully escalate conflicts while making it look natural, and then justify a response to an escalation they created. ICE is just using that to their advantage here.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to wear a mask, false whiskers, or any personal disguise, as specified, with the purpose of evading or escaping discovery, recognition, or identification while committing a public offense, or for concealment, flight, evasion, or escape from arrest or conviction for any public offense. This bill would make it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties, except as specified. The bill would exempt an officer engaged in an undercover assignment from these provisions. The bill would define law enforcement officer as any officer of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency, or any person acting on behalf of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would declare its provisions to be severable. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

SB627 | California 2025-2026 | Law enforcement: masks. | TrackBill https://trackbill.com/bill/california-senate-bill-627-law-enforcement-masks/2670575/

This actually is not a particularly vague law. It’s pretty clear cut, and requires an intent to disguise. With the ICE bitches there is a clear intent to disguise there and not identify themselves as law enforcement, they’ve even admitted that is the case.

The mask itself isn’t the issue, it’s the mask alongside not being not identifying themselves as police via something like a uniform or vest.

That’s when California started restricting firearms so heavily, under Republican leadership at the time.

The Republicans love to talk about CA gun restrictions, and conveniently leave out that they started it specifically to undermine citizens expressing their 2nd amendment rights in the state.

So can the US military. We’re talking about reality though, not what’s technically legal.

They’re going to make the soldiers’ life a living hell for not following orders all the way through the inevitable court martial trial.

The crazy part about this is we have no explanation for why they were using a modified version of Signal that allows for the type of message backup needed for archival purposes if they weren’t doing that. They might as well just have installed the regular version of the app. The only explanation that seems to fit is to purposefully create an unmonitored security vulnerability by having that access available.

Both were shot at their homes and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source said.

Impersonating law enforcement, or actual law enforcement? If they don’t have the suspect in custody yet, they have no idea whether they were impersonating law enforcement.

So not just a civilian, but a US military veteran who earned his citizenship via service to the country. I’d argue if they want to try and make different levels, since that’s clearly what they’re trying to do, that he’s more an American citizen than anyone that happened to be born here, especially more than any of the current Administration.

Also, how much you want to bet they’re checking every piece of paper in his immigration file to see if a signature or date was missed. Serving earns you citizenship, but it is not automatic. You still have to fill out the paperwork, and that leaves open the possibility of errors. We already have stories of people who have been deported because they don’t care about fixing paperwork errors caused by Immigration staff if it gives them an excuse to get rid of someone.

Jefferson wanted it to be every 20 years. Every generation essentially.

Instead we let the chuckle fucks in Congress stay as long as they want, into their 80s, across 4 generation. Determining laws for technologies and both global and local economic situations they have no comprehension of or even a chance at understanding.

They offered them a 64 box of Crayola. You really expect them to ignore that offer?

I’m torn on this because that is correct, but it also means that the average person hasn’t seen just how damaging those policies really are. The damage control is working well enough that many people aren’t noticing there’s much damage at all.

While the collective memory is staggeringly short, Trump 2.0 is entirely the Republican Party’s fault. Their base will vote for whoever the fuck they put on the ballot, they clearly don’t think for themselves. Hell even the politicians do what they’re told by leadership. The party could have forced Trump out, cut him off from all support and made him an outcast, instead they decided to embrace him fully.

Adding additional backup communication methods is a good thing. Your home might be fine with one connection, but large businesses often have 2 or more separate physical connections for redundancy. I’m sure places like the White House effectively have as many as they can. One of the worst things for the White House is to be disconnected from communication with the outside world.

This clearly wasn’t intended for that purpose, but I’m sure that’s at least partially how they sold it to get it done quickly get it installed now for DOGE use and it can be added to those systems later, additional ongoing revenue as well.

Not sure that’s gonna happen anytime soon, if ever. Elon made himself the face of the company,without exception and his foray into fascist politics turned away many of the most diehard Tesla supporters. The ones that had been around because of things like the environmental goals and shift away from fossil fuels despite some of his previous statements.

But now there are other viable options available on the market, and within a couple years most of the hold outs from legacy auto are finally entering the market with interesting options. Supporting Tesla directly now means supporting a clearly and openly out fascist company leader. There will be some supporters that stick around, and some will come because of that, but for many the two are completely inseparable.