Commercial VPNs route your traffic through shared IP addresses. thousands of users on the same IP. those IPs are public, known, and listed. The government can block them the same way Netflix blocks them, one IP list. done. A self-hosted VPN is different. Your server. your IP. nobody else's traffic on it. there is no list to add it to. the government would have to identify and block your specific home address or VPS individually. that is not scalable. that is not what mass VPN bans do. here's how to build one in under 10 minutes. you need: — a $5/month VPS (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr — any will work) — Docker installed — 10 minutes step 1: get a VPS. pick any provider. Ubuntu 22.04. the cheapest plan works. step 2: install Docker on it. curl -fsSL https://get[.]docker[.]com | sh step 3: run WG-Easy. one command: docker run -d \ --name wg-easy \ -e WG_HOST=YOUR_SERVER_IP \ -e PASSWORD=your_password \ -p 51820:51820/udp \ -p 51821:51821/tcp \ --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \ --cap-add=SYS_MODULE \ --sysctl="net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" \ --restart unless-stopped \ ghcr[.]io/wg-easy/wg-easy step 4: open your browser. go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:51821. log in. click "new client." download the config. import it into the WireGuard app on your phone or laptop. that's it. you now have a private VPN that: — nobody else uses — isn't on any blocklist — costs $5 a month — logs nothing unless you tell it to — uses modern cryptography the NSA currently cannot break WireGuard is built into the Linux kernel. 4,000 lines of code. fully audited. faster than OpenVPN. no configuration mistakes that accidentally weaken your encryption. They cannot ban your server.

So, about the credibility of experts...

WOW‼️The government's public consultation on Starmer's social media ban had ZERO ways to object.

HE DID IT THE FUCKING MADMAN ACTUALLY DID IT

Sweet

Right on time. This is definitely not coordinated.

Oh, that's generous.

If 90% of parents support it then why does the government need to step in? Honest question.

Anyone vote for this?

So let me get this straight: Leftists want 16 year olds to vote. They want 12 year olds to be able to consent to sex changes. But they don’t want those same teenagers to read conservative opinions on social media, only Blue Sky? Their agenda is pretty obvious.

Can we please just stop with the bullshit?

If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.

Good luck getting your passengers to follow ANY sequence.

"A racist mob is hunting migrants. This was called for by a British right-wing extremist (@TRobinsonNewEra) and tech billionaire @elonmusk." German public media.

"You don't want to fuck with black people, because we might fucking kill you." I'd rather this not be the policy. If it is? I expect CRA '64 to be repealed, because white people will need to be prejudiced again. For some obvious reason, I would rather that not happen.

Let me get this straight… Apparently, an ICE agent being struck by a car is not enough to create reasonable fear of serious bodily harm. But Karmelo Anthony being shoved during a confrontation he allegedly escalated, going on to say, “touch me and see what happens,” where he was then pushed, is enough to justify pulling a knife and stabbing someone in the chest? That isn’t a consistent self-defense standard. That’s a tribal and political standard. Either imminent serious bodily harm matters, or it doesn’t. The logic isn’t logic’ing.

This is terrifying.

GPT-5.5 lies constantly, Grok 4.20 doesn’t. We made a simulation to see if AI lies when the stakes are life & death.🧵

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