habitualcynic

I think one of the biggest contributors to American complacency in this is the slow decline of communal relationships over the last half century.

If you’re an average person and don’t interact with your neighbors often, know things about each other, and have similar concerns and interests, how do you build momentum to even start? How do you go from barely knowing someone to a whole group of people going out and marching together?

So even if people started to act, the starting point is getting to know people… THEN convince them to join. It’s no longer “I believe in this and I know Bill does too.”

Now combine that with the fact that more than half of the country is so overwhelmed existing that they don’t know this stuff is happening because they’re politically disengaged or unaware from just keeping the lights on.

That means meeting your own community, building rapport and support, AND educating them on what’s happening and why it’s important. All of that before you even hit the streets.

The fact that any mass protests like the ones in Vermont are happening at all is incredible.

We need to be building up these relationships ahead of time and from now on. (Which as an introvert is repulsive)

Obviously, we can coordinate with online communities and meet up, but there’s a big missing piece with our local community immediately around where we live that has died off.

Rant over…but for my online community friends, I’m down for a protest in Phoenix or DC if we have to go. LFG

Excellent read, thanks!

Too true, I hope they make it home safely

I sure hope so, I’m encouraged by the town hall videos with angry republicans and veterans.

Sadly, you’re probably right. At least about most of them

It’s awfully brave of them to mess with this particular voting bloc that may be armed and have arms training.

Can’t wait for Musk to claim he’s somehow a hero even though this launch was planned before they were stranded.

All true, but I think Twitter was a “good” bet. He controls a surprisingly large amount of the media landscape now and it got his bff rapist in chief elected.

I think this is due to credit card companies screwing over retailers in the US, and overall driving up all prices. The EU has a lower set % they can take per transaction, so there’s less impact on prices but also less fake incentives to use credit cards that ultimately just drive up all prices.

Pretty sure it’s this video that I learned it from: PolyMatter about credit cards

Fellow noob here, lots of great suggestions already. I agree with the “find a specific idea and start there” so you can be vested in what you need to learn.

I suggest starting with an old raspberry pi or other old hardware that may not get the job done, but fiddle with it toward your goal until you prove you can do it. It’s so rewarding!

Once that’s done, move on to getting whatever hardware you need to execute the vision well. Mechanics don’t start learning by working on a Ferrari!

I agree, these helped me a ton. I’m still a noob but message me if you can’t find links with what u/lemmyingly said

I’m patiently (cf impatiently) awaiting the arrival of an Aoostar WTR Pro and components to build my first NAS and full Arr stack for Linux ISO’s.

I completed a proof of concept and learning a month ago on a Pi 5, and I can’t wait to get my hands dirty with something more real!

I’ll take any advice anyone throws my way :D and thanks to this community for the learning and inspiration since I joined Lemmy!