swordgeek

Have you contacted the RCMP about this?

Even republicans don’t want fascism.

Um, sorry but have you been paying attention for the last eight years?

The people left in the GOP are driving at full speed towards a fascist dictatorship. It's not Trump, it's the entire cadre of sycophants and Nazis he's set up to protect him.

Laura Loomer's "Alligator lives matter" didn't suggest that? Nor the fact that she was celebrating the creation of a new concentration camp to round up and possibly murder ALL Latinos in the US? (And selling merch to go with it!)

What about Kristi Noem filming propaganda in front of cages full of prisoners in El Salvador?

The six SCOTUS judges who are eagerly giving Trump every immunity and power he wants?

Ron DeSantis creating a second one-stop deportation centre?

The US Republican Party ARE fascists, and are ecstatic over how things are turning out.

If you call yourself a Republican and are against this, you're either a hypocrite, or a liar.

That's true, but some of your dystopian ideas require the entire planet to fall into collapse and ruin. Eventually the odds are pretty good that the rest of the world (assuming we're in decent shape ourselves) will start to provide humanitarian aide to the US.

And stating that "most of the world hates the U.S." is definitely a sign that you don't quite understand how we feel about the US.

Strikes me that you've forgotten about the rest of the world.

Sadly I can't take any credit for this drop, since I haven't bought a bottle of US wine in at least a decade.

Bourbon and a few other things (Aviation Gin) have been bought in the past and now are off my list, but that's a different graph altogether.

Interesting aside: Here in Alberta, our fuckwit premier has announced that the province will be buying from the US again. Since I never saw a shortage of US product in the local stores, I have to wonder if she just paused it long enough to wind down the current stocks in the ALCB warehouses.

I've made beer at home, and it's easily possible (with practice and determination) to make beer at the same quality as almost anything commercially produced.

Only once in 40 years have I tasted a homemade wine that would stand up to a good $10 bottle from the liquor store.

But arguably, it's not really about punishing the US - our economy is too small to really accomplish that.

It's about divesting ourselves of their influence. It's about turning our back on them and living with the rest of the world instead. And wherever possible, it's about making and buying our own products first.

...southern US...

I'd say that fundamentally it's because it's culturally accepted in those areas.

"Everyone does it" is a frighteningly strong impetus to do something.

I didn't consider hard drives (spinning rust or SSD) because they're generally internal/permanent devices. (although I do have a SATA dock sitting on my desk.)

Hmm. It gets more complicated the more I think about it.

Absolutely not.

We all have to make personal decisions about safety and risk, for our own unique situation.

While not in the US, I'm a straight, white, middle-aged dude. My risk in loudly speaking out is probably still orders of magnitude lower than yours is by staying quiet. If there are any moral decisions to be made, I'd say that it's my moral duty to use my overly-consequential and protected voice to stand up for the vulnerable and suffering.

There is no moral flaw in trying to survive within your means - and if that means keeping your head down, then hopefully I and many others will have your back.

Just a brain fart. I've edited my post to reflect them.

I've got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

I've also got most of the storage devices I've ever used over the decades:

• 5 1/4" floppy
• 3 1/2" floppy
• 4mm DAT tape
• 8mm DAT tape
• 1/4" QIC tape
• Zip disk
• Cassette tape
• Punched tape

I'm missing the following:

• DLT tape
• LTO tape
• 8" floppy
• IBM 2315 disk pack

Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

EDIT Don't know how I forgot about cartridges (Atari 400 and 2600 - still got em!) and CDROM/DVD/WORM. I have CDROM, DVDROM (in various formats), but no WORM media (i.e. IBM 3363 - a CDROM in a rigid case, before the official CD standard was created).