After thumbing his nose at the Federal government and refusing to follow federal law AND SCOTUS rulings, New York Mayor Mamdani has the nerve to file a lawsuit in Federal Court asking the Federal government to stop a company from operating in the city.
OK, we’ll get right on that.
Asshat.
In the ED where I work, I am one of only 18 nurses who work there. Two of those 18 nurses are PRN (I am one of them). Of those 18, two of them just got transferred to a different location, one just took a job in another department, and two quit. Doing the math, we just lost a quarter of our nursing staff. That tends to happen with nursing- it’s difficult to find good nurses, and competitors try to hire them away.
They are trying to hire more and have had a few interviews, but no one who has been offered the job has accepted. I’m guessing it’s because nursing pay in the area has climbed again and my employer is offering less than the candidates are being offered elsewhere. They will be forced to raise starting pay again, which is the only way to get a raise- about every two years, change jobs for more money.
At any rate, we still need to staff the place, and to do that, management has declared a critical need. When they do that, the bonuses come out. For the months of July and August, any shift you pick up in addition to your contract gets you a bonus: $33.33 per hour ($400 for a shift) on weekdays, $41.67 per hour ($500 for a shift) on weekends. Since I am PRN, I am only contracted to work one day per week, meaning that I get that bonus for every day that I work in a week beyond that first one. Even if I only work full time hours, I get $800-$1000 per week in bonuses.
The best part is that it is the slow season for emergency departments around the state, so our workload is low. High pay and low work? Of course I jumped on it. I am working a bunch this July, but I am going to make about $20,000 this month alone. When the August schedule gets done, I will try to do the same.
That just adds to the retirement fund. I will be busy, but still working less and making more than I would if I were full time.
I once told all of you I thought 30 million illegals was too high of an estimate. Maybe I was wrong
It’s time to declare New York City to be in a state of rebellion.
Trump should:
It won’t be the first time a Republican President did so.
Either that, or once the 2026 election has been lost (as it likely will be) states like Florida should simply declare Federal law to not be enforceable within their borders. Machine guns and missiles for everyone.
First, there is the desired outcome.
Then, mental gymnastics.
Then the camps.
Elon Musk exposed the waste, fraud and abuse of USAID. It was cut.
Now the left says people are starving and dying as a result, making Musk- you guessed it- literally as bad as Hitler.
It’s the only insult they have. Still, make no mistake, they are coming for all of us. You have two and a half years to prepare.
The posts from the last week on how you are being tracked are about to get a boost. The FCC is about to pass a rule making anonymous cell phone ownership illegal. Registration is always misused.
They want to track your every movement, word, and thought.
The gaslighting is real. This guy, part of an Antifa terror cell and a wanna-be killer tranny Bradford “Meagan” Morris says, well, I will let you read it:
“The original intent was just to show solidarity with the detainees who hopefully lift their spirits with a fun fireworks display and go home,” she told KERA. “If the officer got shot by someone, that person was acting alone. But they want to punish all of us.”
A fun fireworks display? That’s what you are calling that? They had a planning meeting. Conducted recon. Did a weapons check over the radio. Then tossed fireworks into the detention center to lure the ICE agents out. Then they shot a cop, and would have shot more, but Antifa tranny fags can’t shoot for shit.
I remember 2020. You assholes were tossing fireworks as makeshift anti-personnel rounds. That’s called constructive possession and throwing of a destructive device. We haven’t forgotten that, and I don’t believe for a second you were doing this as a crowd pleasing display. Fuck you- rot in there. The only better outcome would have been if the cops had smoked your shit.
I call it like I see it, and that’s how I am calling this one.
Some little Antifa twerp is angry because his pals got some serious time for ambushing ICE agents, shooting one of them in the neck. It was a coordinated ambush. The eight convicts got a combined 470 years in prison.
Too bad.
The hardware of the entire new network is in place. Some of you asked for a system diagram. Here is the wiring diagram for the new network:
Now that that is finished, we needed to install the ACL’s and rules. The VLANs are:
So the rules are simple. This controller handles rules higher in the list as being higher priority. For that reason, you list exceptions first, and general rules second. With that being said:
That is the network. I set the network up like this, and everything seems to have been working well for the past week. I am sure that I will add other rules as things go on, but that is what I have for now. Once a week, the entire contents of the server are encrypted and sent to a backup server that’s stored in the house of a friend. That way, I have a copy of everything important in the event I lose access to all of my data here. Since it’s the Internet, that person and my backup data can literally be anywhere.
Then I installed AdGuard, which is my own private DNS running on the server. It allows me to control which clients on the network can interact with my network. It lets me block malware, spyware, and all sorts of advertising. About 30% of the DNS requests originating from my house are things I don’t want phoning home.
There is a VPN built into the system that allows me to hide my traffic from as many people who don’t have reason to see it as possible.
Then the surveillance software went in. The software was Surveillance Station and is running on the Synology rack server. It is recording a single PTZ and several fixed cameras, all in 8mp. It’s been running for ten days and I haven’t even used 2tb of my 7.8tb of storage so far. I think I have plenty of recording time. My goal was for 30 days’ retention, but it looks like I will get more than 60 days out of it.
Then there is physical security provided by Home Assistant. That includes sensors for motion, doors and windows, as well as a link to my smoke detectors. Different events cause different actions. Motion in a give area causes Home Assistant to take a snapshot of the area through the nearest security camera and send it to my cell phone as a text message. It can remind me that I forgot to close the door on the way out, other things like that.
The best part is that all of it, every piece, is owned by me. Amazon doesn’t decide to send my camera video to the cops. My ISP and their DNS server doesn’t need to know what websites I frequent. My devices don’t need to be reporting to data brokers what happens in my house.
Is it foolproof? Nope. Will it stop nearly all of the bullschnozzle? probably. Will it stop a determined, talented electronic wizard? Probably not.
It’s still far better than what I had three months ago. Now you know why I did all of the posts about data mining.