We need these gun cunts that have been preaching 2a their whole lives to stand up and fucking practice what they preach.

I’m not pro 2a, but I’m far more “fuck hypocrites”. It further reinforces how absolutely worthless I think a majority of these people are.

That was the biggest surprise to me. I’m guessing the fear of retribution drove the decision for some, but others found an opportunity to make the changes

Yea… It looks like Coca-Cola hasn’t officially done the deed yet, but it’s assumed they have or will.

The Bad:

Topline Citigroup

PepsiCo

JPMorgan Chase

Morgan Stanley

Coca-Cola*

Goldman Sachs

Disney

Deloitte (US)

PBS

Google

GE

Intel

PayPal

Chipotle

Comcast

Accenture

Amazon

Amtrak

The Smithsonian Institution

Target

The FBI

Meta

McDonald’s

Walmart

Boeing

Molson Coors

Lowe’s

Ford Motor Co.

Jack Daniel’s manufacturer, Brown-Forman

Harley-Davidson

John Deere

* Coca-Cola and PepsiCo were preparing to comply with Trump’s executive order that sought to ban DEI programs as both receive government contracts, Bloomberg reported; Coca-Cola’s changes will likely be disclosed in future Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to the report, and PepsiCo’s latest filing removed references to its “diverse workforce” and DEI.

The Good:

Costco

Apple

Delta Airlines

Cisco

Deutsche Bank

NFL

Coca-Cola**

** Coca-Cola warned in an annual filing that abandoning DEI could hurt business, stating its diverse employee base “helps drive a culture of inclusion, innovation and growth,” and if the company’s employees don’t reflect the “broad range of consumers and markets we serve around the world, our business could be negatively affected.”

There is a lot more context and there are varying levels of shittyness, so it’s worth reading if that matters to you. To me, it’s all the same.

It shouldn’t just be difficult, they should be in fear everytime they are in public.

ICE can eat my asshole. I will obstruct their racist efforts any opportunity that I can.

If you’re just running it in AP mode and extending from your base router you will be better off than if it’s your WAN device. I don’t know enough about these exploits to know how they are executed, so I can’t give you a solid answer, but I think it’s best to err on the side of caution when it comes to your data security.

If you’re fairly tech savvy and willing to put in a little effort, you can flash the firmware on the TP-Link with something open source like openWRT and that would eliminate any exploits directly caused by their coding. I haven’t done this in years, but I’m sure there are plenty of guides to walk you through this. It would require resetting up your network, but you’d need to do that if you replaced anyway.

Personally, I would replace the device with something higher quality. I don’t have recommendations for you, but I’m sure there are some resources you can find with security minded device recommendations. For “pro-sumer” grade stuff, where it’s better than your off the shelf options but not enterprise grade, I’ve heard Unify is a good option, but it’s complicated and expensive.

Here is the main video I watched that breaks down a recent ish CVE and at the end he gives some thoughts on TP-Link, D-link, and another and just his professional security opinion on them.

It is only one source, but I think it’s a strong one.

TP-Link has a bad history of significant security vulnerabilities that have to either be gross negligence or intentional backdoors. Consumer router firmware is notoriously neglected in the grand scheme of tech, but TP-Link is exceptionally bad. Your average and even most above average techies probably have no idea unless they follow security releases or live in the security world. I personally wouldn’t know much if anything about them if not for some YT content I watch about software and security. I don’t love blanket blocking of stuff, but this one I feel is necessary to help protect an ignorant population.

I 100% agree with the sentiment that Trump is way more dangerous, because he is, but the two issues can be addressed (or not unfortunately) at the same time. If our reps won’t stop Trump, and not going to be upset over he small wins that we do get.

My brother didn’t vote and in person around family, he is not a Trump supporter but he is conservative. Publicly via social media, he’s never once said a bad thing about Trump and has never hesitated to strawman shit on Dems. During the run up to the election, he made some comments about Kamala after the first debate, and it was all just horseshit takes. I typed a dozen messages and deleted them because what I was going to send would have been one of those things you don’t come back from. Instead I’ve completely cut him out of my life and I’m on active avoidance. The only saving grace for him, is that I know he didn’t vote for Trump, which means almost nothing, but he didn’t actually do the worst thing. Because of that, in 4 years, I’m going to assess the damage of this Presidency and make a choice on if I will ever even consider seeing him again or if he’s dead to me. I will never forgive him and we will never have a relationship, but there’s a chance that we might both be able to go to familial gatherings, like funerals in the future.

For me, this isn’t a very difficult decision. We’ve never really been super close since he’s quite a bit older, but we were good. I’m fully prepared to miss significant events to avoid him. I’m not sure what your relationship with your father is like, but one thing you have to consider is how it’s going to affect anything else family related, like family reunions, funerals, weddings, holidays, etc. Make sure that you think of all of the effects this may have before jumping the gun and doing something you can’t undo. You can certainly try and salvage the relationship and have a serious heart to heart where you lay it all out, and if that’s not enough, then I suppose that the decision is easier. Alternatively, if you’re ready to be done, you have the option of sending him something with a reason, telling him what’s up and bye, or ghosting him. If you ghost him, that will make any chances of rebuilding a future relationship a lot harder.

Best of luck.

I don’t cut people out of my life because of their political views. I cut them out because they are racists, bigots, transphobes, fascists, and just terrible people. There are zero excuses to support a rapist who’s agenda is entirely around hurting people, fraud, and destabilizing geopolitics. Hanging with a Trump supporter and not talking about politics, is like hanging out with a Nazi and not talking about the Holocaust. At the end of the day, you’re just hanging out with a Nazi.

The optimist in me sees that there was enough pressure from the masses that change happened. Maybe that means it can work elsewhere too. Maybe my optimistic side will be right for once.

Probably not, but it would cool, eh?

2a

Knock on wood.

Kentucky is beautiful and full of whiskey and bourbon. Unfortunately, its also full of racists and bigots. It’s too bad that such a nice place is just ruined like that.

I’m in Iowa, and “Iowa nice” was kind of our phrase for a while, but that’s just false. If you’re a minority in Iowa, you will be targeted. This state has gone from one of the most progressive to one of the worst over the past 10+ years, and it’s because of Gov Reynolds and her ilk. Miller-Meeks jumped on the band wagon to sue the Des Moines Register for the election pollin, Ernst’s tongue is as black as Trumps boots, and the rep in NW Iowa is as bad as they come. I saw someone that announced running for Gov who doesn’t think Reynolds is supporting Trump’s agenda enough and wants to go further. If anyone’s thinking about it, do not consider moving to Iowa, it’s a shit hole that has cancer causing chemicals running through our ground water and legislation to protect the chemical makers from being sued.

Sorry for the tangent, but I really needed to dunk on Iowa. Fuck this place.

When you pretend 100% of the time to cater to fascists, then you’re not pretending, you’re just catering to fascists. Fun fact, there’s an actual name for those people: “fascists”.

2". That’s all we needed. Even small hands Trump knows what two inches looks like, it’s basically nothing. So damn close.

The brains take over the world.

(It was a reference to Futurama in case my reference was a bit to obscure, not an accidental typo)

Ouch… But true.

The DNC fucked up and ran a bad race, but saying it’s the fault of the Democrats for Republicans doing these things in real life is a shit argument. Perhaps if Kamala had gone all in on helping Palestine, she maybe would have won and things might be different. Alternatively, she may have lost more voters and lost by more. There is no way to say, so putting the blame on anyone but the actual party doing the bad stuff is nothing more than empty platitudes.