https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-disable-windows-thumbs-db-files-from-being-created this kills that.

.Trash-999 was already taken by a metal band.

Metadata that’s a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple’s own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Helps a bit.

Honestly, the best kind of “survive but strike” would literally be to buy the bare minimum everything. I’ve already started myself. Cancel streaming services, get a cheap $20/mon cell phone plan, downgrade to the cheapest Internet connection, drive less to buy less gas. Everyone do everything in their power to spend as little as possible, collectively, across the entire country. That punches those shits in the “economy” while collectively we still mostly survive. It also means you will have a surplus of money to save up, or pay down debts faster.

The one thing to truly make this succeed, however, is an advertising campaign to let them know we are all doing it. Billboards, ads on every DC TV/radio/stream/podcast, robocalls and emails to every government official that this won’t stop until they get their heads out of their collective asses. That part would take some capital.

The best part of the advertising campaign is it’s basically reverse-propaganda. As more people see it, more people will start doing it.

Edit: The propaganda should be designed to look like the US propaganda from WWII like “buy wisely - cook carefully - eat it all” to enhance the gravity of the situation.

If that doesn’t work, and it comes down to full-on fascism, it isn’t going to matter if your family has a home or not, because we’re all collectively fucked.

They’ve always been two sides of the same oligarch sandwich. The mask is just finally off. There are one or two good eggs like Bernie or Warren to make the party look good, but Dems are just shitty oligarchs that pretend to care while profiting just the same. Oil production was up under Biden, Harris loved fracking in her campaign, Pelosi rolled her eyes during a Biden State of the Union when he mentioned going after big business, it’s all just lies and bullshit for profit from both parties.

Sucks really, I genuinely thought they were the party of “Good” myself, or at least mostly good-adjacent by comparison, and worth fighting for to have a chance at functioning governance. The last 25 years have shown that was not really ever the case.

There’s some thriller book around the collapse of the US power grid that had a Zuck in it, he pre-replaced all his teeth with ceramic (I think?) so he’d never need a dentist. Had a bunker built off-book twice underground with food, supplies, security.

I assume this Zuck is that Zuck (6 months from now, with our current timeline speed.)

That Zuck died pretty quick, hilariously. Terrible people never win in the end, and they’re always alone.

It’s not because a fiction book on the human condition is right, it’s because when it comes right down to it, survival of the fittest kicks in, and no being in the universe would pick a piece of garbage as the winning choice.

The mistake these oligarchs always make, is that they think the “alpha male” in a pack chose his role because he was greedy and powerful. In reality, the alpha male was chosen by the pack, because he was the best chance of the pack’s survival.

That’s the thing, his being a “businessman” has never really meant anything. When a person starts out with a large pile of money, they can make bad decisions their entire lives and still stay rich, as long as their accountants don’t let them spend down the seed money. His mom front-loaded his idiot life and he’s been claiming to be successful since.

Reddit’s response to this will reveal where Reddit likely falls on the Spectrum of Evil. They’re a privately-held company, so any possible protection money they may have paid to the Nazis won’t be visible like Meta’s and such until the FEC report is (likely never) released in 3 months.

Yeah, it started in WWI.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36579/did-the-u-s-government-try-to-rename-hamburgers-to-liberty-sandwiches

From a 1976 interview with German-American T. Max Kniesche, who moved to San Francisco in 1907, and worked in restaurants and cafes there:

Teiser: What was it like in San Francisco for Germans during the first world war? You were working at a clearly German restaurant. […]

Teiser: Did you change the kind of food that you served, or the decorations?

Kniesche: Well, the hamburger steak was Liberty Steak. French-fried potatoes were Liberty Potatoes. [laughter] We called it Liberty, but the liberty wasn’t there. Anyhow, everything went to “Liberty.” [laughter]