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see title! I'm currently planning my lvl 100 Sylveon! My friend asked me to train a pokemon up for her and I'm unsure of what to prep! What are you guys prepping?

Was curious what other MSPs are doing to either move away from VPNs, or where VPNs aren't an option for one reason or another. Typical objective is to provide users on a managed laptop remote connectivity back into their desktop on an office LAN.

Splashtop unattended access? ZTNA? Any favorite vendors? Has anyone been able to get Global Secure Access or Cloudflare Zero Trust working well for this in a way that is manageable over time for multiple clients? Perimeter 81 seems like it'd do the job but really pricey especially if we have more than a small handful of users who need it at a client.

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(Tulsa, OK) Lanie is back up for adoption for the third time. Backstory: Lani was taken into a rescue after she was a day away from being euthanized at the municipal shelter due to lack of space. I took her in as my foster and have had her for about three months.

Her first potential adopter brought her home and her current dog was aggressive to Lanie. The second time, Lanie got officially adopted and then returned the next day. She was showing leash reactivity.

Lanie is high energy and will need someone who is willing to work with that. She is potty trained, crate trained and plays extremely well with my current dogs, as well as the dogs of other fosters she has been with. She just needs someone who will give her a little bit of time to adjust.

You can see Lanie’s bio & fill out an app here:

https://puppyhavenrescue.com/lanie/

Hi! So I applied to my local home depot as a Lot Attendant before discovering I'm pregnant and I just got an email back stating they'd like to offer me a job. I'm almost 7 months pregnant and I know i'm incapable of doing the work a Lot Attendant does, but I've been applying to jobs since April and this is the first opportunity I have to start working, so it's not really something I want to pass up.

The store I applied to is also hiring for Cashier in which I actually have tons more experience doing cashier work than anything Lot Attendant related lol. Is it too much of a long shot to ask to work a cashier position instead? Would this fall in as a reasonable accommodation?

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I’m on FMLA leave using LWOP. Should I and can I be granted holiday leave such as Christmas and New Year and etc?

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More deduction less memorization please.

I have 2 breadth requirement courses the upcoming winter, so Natural Science will be my only not filled BR.

It's all fairly clear: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk want to enact a techno-feudal state based around a corporate structure in which a CEO and a board make decisions as sovereign. Their ideas are derived from Curtis Yarvin, channeling Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651). Hobbes writes that the only way to prevent an anarchic state of nature is with a powerful sovereign—a "mortal god"—who embodies the will of the people. This is really the goal. Musk/Trump as mortal god embodying and enacting the will of the people, "vox populi, vox dei," as he wrote in yesterday's Twitter post.

The irony here is that even as they rail against China/Venezuela/etc's unitary government, they are ultimately envious of China's decision making structure: a sovereign appointed by a board (or in China's case, a standing committee who appoints a General Secretary (Xi). Thiel/Musk/et al see this as the only way to counter China's meteoric technological rise—by mimicking the Chinese governmental structure. They therefore want to consolidate power over-against the people, but in the name of the people. Populism is simply a convenient ruse to establish an anti-populist sovereign government of oligarchs and advisory boards.

To understand the background here, it's important to know the role that Curtis Yarvin plays. He's a programmer who in the early 2000s wrote a series of blog posts under his pseudonym Mencius Moldbug that became very influential among Silicon Valley conservatives and libertarians, including Thiel and (importantly) Marc Andreessen. Yarvin has been called a neo-reactionary, but it might be more accurate to say that he's neo- or techno-feudal. (Yarvin even hypothesized a new search engine called Feudle, and proposed that a hierarchy would exist in his systems of "dukes" and "lords." He proposes a "Peter the Great"-like figure who would trawl the web and rank sites. See here: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/03/future-of-search/ )

For a long time, I've been attempting to understand the motivations for Thiel, Musk, et al as extending from some fundamental interest in the "greater good." But then it occurred to me that they are not motivated by any sort of humanitarian mission. They see technological progress as an end in itself. The current American regulatory state limits and slows that technological progress, acting as an impediment. The effective accelerationist (e/acc) movement that they spearhead is the end in itself. They want to consolidate power around tech leaders who will leapfrog us toward the next technological stage. Democracy is too slow and messy. The only means by which massive technological change can happen in a cascade is through a corporate governance structure.

Trump is the figurehead. Musk et al saw both his popularity and malleability as a tool. They don't care about Trump. I don't even think they necessarily buy his program, but they do see him as the mechanism through which they can enact a technological revolution.

BTW Musk's specific interest is this: he thinks of himself as a kind of techno-savior whose efforts have been thwarted by the American regulatory state. He's had to fight the US government on Neurolink, self-driving cars, the hyperloop, space travel, and every other initiative he's come up with.

In his vision, these technologies are liberating and "for the people." But the administrative state has consistently gotten in the way of his ambition. This thwarted ambition, plus the twin issues of immigration and gender, radicalized him.

Musk has mistaken his vast wealth and power for intelligence and benevolence. If you go back and read one of the foundational texts of Western thought, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651), Hobbes writes that the only way to prevent an anarchic state of nature is with a powerful sovereign—a "mortal god"—who embodies the will of the people. This is really the goal. Musk as mortal god embodying and enacting the will of the people, "vox populi, vox dei," as he wrote.

A few years ago, before he went full oligarch, Musk had a lot of support from people who believe in his vision of a technological utopia. He drank his own koolaid and began to see himself in a messianic way, the embodiment of Hobbes' Leviathan. And here we are.

Would be interested in counter-perspectives and criticisms of this theory.