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Others pointed this out but I wanted to put numbers on it for fun. Working class means you work for a living, doing some form of labor rather than being able to live and earn just off of your capital. However, someone could then try and argue that Musk for example "works" as CEO, so we need numbers.

The average cost of living in the US is apparently $61334.

The average return of investment in the stock market is roughly 10%.

That makes this part easy: you need roughly $613,340 in investments to no longer be working class in my book.

It's very frustrating to me. I bought a used Model 3 back in 2019 for like 35k. I'm not rich.

I know a guy who bought a Cybertruck. He makes around $140k a year which is better than most but still nowhere near what I would call "rich." Was it a stupid decision? Yeah. Does he support Trump or Musk personally? No. He saw the launch announcement, put in a reservation years ago, and went ahead with it when he got his chance because he was hyped about it for his own personal aesthetic reasons. That people think he's somehow to blame for Musk is stupid. That someone might damage his car, costing repairs he can't really afford because he spent it all on a stupid large car loan, but forcing him to pay Musk even more to get it repaired is so amazingly dumb that I can't actually comprehend the thought process.

Some people with Cybertrucks are probably a part of the problem. Some are just people who got hyped. But in this thread are people who unironically claim that buying a Cybertruck is supporting a Nazi while they themselves pay for Amazon Prime, use Gmail, own an Oculus, eat Nestle products, and buy gas at Exxon.

It just feels weird that this car is the line people draw. I guess because it's expensive, but when you look at how much some of those big luxury trucks cost you've almost certainly seen more expensive ones on the road more frequently than you've seen Cybertrucks.

I think it's a case of correlation not causation. To become truly wealthy in present day society involves stepping on a lot of people. To relish in being on top, desire more and more wealth and power even as you achieve levels that set you apart from the rest of society. I don't think that mindset is the same as being a pedophile, but it's the same as the mindset you would probably have to have to actually have sex with a child.

Oh I'm a data hoarder. Just with 12TB right now. The trouble is I have to double everything to expand the NAS at my friend's house that I'm doing encrypted off-site backups to....

I swear I saw an article a while back of someone who set up a multi-SD card reader with an obnoxious number of SD cards as an external drive. I can't find it now but I think that's the only way I could afford that much storage.

I'm picturing the US flag but instead of stars it's corporate logos.

I mean countries have always done that, just not quite this stupid but also often very stupid. People in Japan call their country Nippon, not Japan. People in Germany call their country Deutschland. There's a ton of countries that English just straight up changed the names of for reasons varying from some form of probable racism to misunderstanding that they never bothered resolving.

I'm not defending this move, it's dumb as hell. Just pointing out that "dumb as hell" isn't new.

The other poster gave you a lot. If that's too much at once, the really low hanging fruit you want to start with is:

• Choose an active, secure distro. There's a lot of flavors of Linux out there and they can be fun to try but if you're putting something up publicly it should be running on one that's well maintained and known for security. CentOS and Debian are excellent easy choices for example.

• Similarly, pick well maintained software with a track record. Nginx and Apache have been around forever and have excellent track records, for example, both for being secure and fixing flaws quickly.

• If you use Docker, once again keep an eye out for things that are actively maintained. If you decide to use Nginx, there will be five million containers to choose from. DockerHub gives you the tools to make this determination: Download number is a decent proxy for "how many people are using this" and the list of updates tells you how often and how recently it's being updated.

• Finally, definitely do look at the other poster's notes about SSH. 5 seconds after you put up an SSH server, you'll be getting hit with rogue login attempts.

• Definitely get a password manager, and it's not just one password per server but one password per service. Your login password to the computer is different from your login to any other things your server is running.

The rest requires research, but these steps will protect you from the most common threats pretty effectively. The world is full of bots poking at every service they can find, so keeping them out is crucial. You won't be protected from a dedicated, knowledgeable attacker until you do the rest of what the other poster said, and then some, so try not to make too many enemies.

Correct, horse battery staple.

When I was little, long before I had a reason to want it to be true, I had this theory that the Secret Service, which is obviously not a secret, was called that because they had a secret mandate: If the President ever gets really out of pocket and goes for dictator powers, it's their job to execute him as a traitor.

Anyway, I doubt it's true, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately.

Like the comment you're replying to said, it kind of has to go back to either one race is generically inferior, or one race is disadvantaged for other reasons. Any other confounding variables, like income level, go directly back to the same point: If black people have less money, is that because there's something inherent in them that makes them less capable of making money, or have they been disadvantaged by a system that prevents them from making money?

The irony being that you need unlimited money to be able to afford to live somewhere with proper public transportation, currently.