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Ironically, secession is about the most American thing we could do at this point. I enjoyed the following quote from this page on redstatesecession.org:

To quote James Madison in Federalist 39, each State is “a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound [in the Union] by its own voluntary act.” To deny this principle is to deny the most foundational idea of American law—that governments derive “their just powers from the Consent of the Governed.” If the States cannot peacefully secede, then they are in a Union held together by coercion, not by consent. Clearly, this was not the Founders’ intention. Furthermore, because there is no prohibition of secession in the U.S. Constitution, it is a right that the States reserve in accordance with the Tenth Amendment.

So disappointing. I clicked on this hoping your userscript would teach me German.

The only reason for RES is that Reddit is closed-source.

Thank you. I had trouble building it, and I don't currently have the time to devote to debug that. Maybe some other time.

You switched from BSD to Windows???

Alpine is mostly used for docker instances, but can also be used on bare metal, which is indeed what I do. It's currently my main OS on one of my several laptops.

Pretty sure I'm the only one who'd appreciate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

Whenever the 503 page does get updated, its title should probably be something other than "Log in".

If only firefox would render to the framebuffer, I'd need neither X nor Wayland.

I have not tried it yet. But it sounds quite similar to Alpine, using musl-c but not systemd. Is the main difference Alpine's default reliance on busybox? I have to say, xbps is a rather unmemorable name for a package manager. One of Arch's best decisions was to use the name pacman.

I don't have a source — it's just an observation based on my personal experience. The fine art world, musicians, and the entertainment industry lean left. You can find conservative painters, bands, and movies, but the default disposition for creatives is leftism. It's a personality thing. Creatives think outside the box, and push boundaries. Given the choice between something traditional and something radically new, creatives are apt to choose something radically new. So there's a correlation between the kind of aesthetic backdrop that might inspire a painting and the kind of people who tend to enjoy breaking tradition.

I've never heard that leftists rate as happier, and tbh that surprises me. My experience is that religious folks tend to be happier, and there are more religious folks on the Right.

With regards to urban versus rural, you have a good point. But cities along the West Coast and the inland places I mentioned became urban due to a confluence of people moving to a beautiful place.

If you have a rural town with a shockingly beautiful backdrop, before long there'll be oil painters, then art galleries, then hipster coffee shops, then yoga studios, and then the local socialist party headquarters. That's a bit hyperbolic, but there's some truth to it.