The entire goal is to smash as much of the federal government as possible before anyone stops them. If you break everything govt does then sell off those duties to an unregulated 3rd party there’s a metric shit ton of money that can be extracted from public assets and formerly public services that are now a revenue stream for whichever billionaire buddy you feel like handing those contracts to.

Not as badly as you’d expect, modern compression is pretty quick using the lz*'s and you’re only expending cycles when you’re hitting swap

We joke but zram swap works wonders on low resource systems sometimes

Tell me you don’t know many cybersec folks without telling me

I think I bought them from redbubble. Hit and miss quality, this particular one was fine.

The housecats of politics. They desperately want out of the house and don’t understand that they’re just an appetizer for the wealthy without regulation to protect them.

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