Orvorn

Find a local lefty group (anything from Food Not Bombs to SRA). Participate, listen, organize, help people where you can. I live in a remote rural area and I still have half a dozen small but active groups to choose from, you just have to get out there and find them.

Edit - it doesn’t matter if none of the groups near you follow your exact variant of communism or anarchism or whatever, we have much bigger problems right now than leftist infighting. Always deescalate conflicts with people who are not the enemy.

I can verify that Makerbots are both fussy and haunted.

That’s my impression as well. I would recommend making a free account with Schwab or Fidelity and putting your savings in SPY

How did you meet your husband?

It’s called a coif. They also serve a critical part in terms of shock absorption.

They do! To make sure their psychologically unstable enough to be trained as special forces.

Glad to hear Cuba is still based.

Literally the message of Tolkien’s writing, yes. The good guys sought to destroy power, not wield it.

As a fellow 2080ti owner I love my Steam Deck.

This perfectly describes Star Citizen.

Spindrift

Are Ubiquiti devices still the best value for homelabs and small businesses these days?

Depending on what kinds of books you’re into: https://www.pmpress.org/ https://www.akpress.org/

Not from scratch - just like with other AI models they are created by mixing together a bunch of existing voices.

The only good printer is a dead printer.

Agent 747

It has so many features and customization options that it can be a little confusing until you get it set up how you want it. The first thing I’d recommend is making sure it’s in the orientation mode where the map will rotate to follow your direction of travel instead of always pointing north. (You can change the orientation mode by tapping the compass icon.)

There’s an open source navigation app called OsmAnd that uses Open Street Map data. I’ll never use Google Maps/Waze again.

I’ve participated in in-person protests with various groups about a dozen times a year since 2020 and I don’t even live in a city. People are definitely out here protesting, we just don’t get any media coverage at all unless we break things.

edit- in an attempt to actually be helpful - search the internet for any progressive or socialist activist groups near you and sign up for their newsletters/follow their socials. Try to attend a few events, and there you’ll hopefully meet people who can get you connected to local anarchists/more radical folks who go out and protest a lot. Then you can carpool with folks and share expenses and have a safe group of people to go to protests with.

I love the world of Blades but my group couldn’t wrap our heads around the rules.