The theme song from Mighty Mouse gives the description of a hero that I subscribe to. A hero is someone who is there to save the day when someone really needs saving. Anyone can be a hero if they answer the call when fate provides them the need for one.
Mister Trouble never hangs around
When he hears this Mighty sound.
"Here I come to save the day"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way.
Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right
Mighty Mouse will join the fight.
On the sea or on the land,
He gets the situation well in hand
So though we are in danger, we never despair
Cause we know that where there's danger he is there!
(He is there, on the land, on the sea, in the air!)
We're not worrying at all
We're just listening for his call
“Here I come, to save the day!”
That means that Mighty Mouse
Is on the way!
We're not worrying at all
We're just listening for his call
“Here I come, to save the day!”
That means that Mighty Mouse
Is on the way!
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/mightymouselyrics.html
First things first. You need some food to sustain you while you search for the wallet. Do you have a leather belt or some shoes or anything like that you can boil and eat? It's only a temporary fix, but trust me, you'll have a much clearer head after you get some tanned animal hide into your system. Next priority: finding that wallet. What you need to do is go to the last place you had it and then retrieve it from there. Most people never realize that one very simple and effective trick, instead spending far too much time searching places where they had their wallet slightly-to-somewhat before it was lost.
Finally, always remember to troubleshoot and isolate the root of the issue. If you need your credit card, and you reach for your wallet only to find your wallet is missing, you have two separate problems. Your wallet can be found by following the steps I shared earlier, but you credit card might be in an entirely different place and it's the credit card that you needed right now. Keep your eyes on the prize.
It's like you can't read, but I know you can because you can write well enough, so I guess it's that you either didn't read or lack the tools to comprehend?
When will you be attempting your first political assassination? Who will be your target? Don't go all American on me now, you're a big strong Aussie after all, right? You got some MAGA-types down your way, when's the next attack planned? Or are you going after the US Embassy to really send a message? Do tell...
I'm not denying reality. I'm mad and I want to make things better. So I work within my personal sphere of influence to lead by example and show the people around me what being kind, caring, interested, and engaged looks like in real life. I talk about the scary things I see or read about happening, along with the historical correlations when I recognize them and have the opportunity, with anyone and everyone that wants to discuss it, and frequently in spaces where others can overhear the conversation.
I think there are lots of people taking a similar approach. Talking to people around you in person is a lot more effective than doing it on the internet.
I'm not saying you're doing the thing I'm about to mention, to be clear, but it feels adjacent to it, so I'm throwing it out there for the lemmyverse at large. I think it's kinda shitty to see all the "why aren't Americans doing anything" comments and posts. It would be astronomically stupid to post openly online about any serious resistance efforts. Most of us just want to live our lives, raise our families, and teach our children how to grow into honest and caring adults when they grow up. Being a lone wolf in a revolution that hasn't yet materialized does not help any of us accomplish those goals, and it hurts the chances of a real popular uprising once a critical mass is achieved because it gives the gestapo something to point to and say "See, we're actually needed for safety and not fascist pigs." I can't go fix this problem by myself any other way than the one I am doing right now, and I'm doing the hell out of it.
But it makes me sad, and a little bit depressed, probably like you are feeling too based on your post, to see such an apparent dearth of true patriotism reflected in our ruling class and to further see it echoed by the ruled class with stupid signs and idolatrous Trump flags alongside American flags that the flyer clearly has no real connection to other than as a cult symbol. Always remember how hard moneyed interests in the US attacked our education system, and never forgive the people that have made it a multi generational effort to ensure American children grew up without a true understanding of how government works nor the stakes at hand.
And now, with our society operating with a 6th grade reading level, the ruling class is performing their next trick: fooling the undereducated into allowing the rulers to take over and own everything as they see fit. After all, running things is very complicated and the instruction manuals are written at a much higher reading level than we can really understand entirely, you see. They fucked us, they are fucking us, and they continue to fuck us, while removing our collective ability to spread awareness of the perpetual enfuckening and how it has developed.
It's just a whole thing, man. Fuck me. I'm trying, I'm doing my best, others are too, the constant reminder that I'm not doing enough is a bit much, and I'm not in a position where I can just declare myself a plumber with an affinity for he color green and see how my new career works out. In fact, that would probably make me less effective to the resistance efforts. You know?
Zero times. Married 15 years now. Identifying and admitting to oneself that they are in a bad relationship can feel scary and overwhelming in the moment, been there too, but it's healthy to break things off with someone with whom you are incompatible.
Proxmox on a Lenovo micro form factor is probably a good cost effective option. Get a business class ThinkCentre, like an M720 or something similar that's 3-5 years old that a corpo has just upgraded away from, i5 or Ryzen 5 with however much storage and RAM you want. Spin up a container specifically and only for PiHole+Unbound (and consider adding a pi or some other dedicated hardware for DNS later on for redundancy in case your main goes down), and then the rest is however you want to build your environment.
For me, I've got a Pi dedicated to 3 key tasks: PiHole, Unbound, and PiVPN (edit: and Nginx Proxy Manager. It's dedicated to 4 key tasks...). It's basically my filtering interface between the home network the rest of the internet immediately after my router handles the frontline defenses, and then I've got a Proxmox cluster to run most of the rest of my internal services.
The theme song from Mighty Mouse gives the description of a hero that I subscribe to. A hero is someone who is there to save the day when someone really needs saving. Anyone can be a hero if they answer the call when fate provides them the need for one.
Mister Trouble never hangs around When he hears this Mighty sound. "Here I come to save the day" That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way. Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right Mighty Mouse will join the fight. On the sea or on the land, He gets the situation well in hand So though we are in danger, we never despair Cause we know that where there's danger he is there! (He is there, on the land, on the sea, in the air!) We're not worrying at all We're just listening for his call “Here I come, to save the day!” That means that Mighty Mouse Is on the way! We're not worrying at all We're just listening for his call “Here I come, to save the day!” That means that Mighty Mouse Is on the way! source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/mightymouselyrics.html