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Its a tough question because lemmy is for a cleary majority a variation of political left. ML is infamous for being tankies for example. One reason i observed for this is because corporate sites, you know which ones ars increasingly leaning if not full on political right.

There are right leaning communities oc but i doubt there is much truly Neutral. You may also encounter a lot of defederation with those communities to protect targeted communities from fascism

The far right takeover happening in the US is not helping because what even is the center position at this point? Feels like a full on information war.

Having said that i fully agree that there should be neutral ground if not purely on the basis that the word is not America and there is plenty of political spectrum in the world besides (Anti)Facism.

I have noticed that the big political communies all allow US posts because we are still reasonably small. As we grow we will see more diversity.

Which brings me to the my last point, do not be afraid of empty communities. Be the user you want to see and subscribe to it, maybe post something. Someday someone may and as an early member you get the privilege of helping to shape it towards what you believe we need.

They hired Daniel Penny who chocked and killed a homeless mentally ill black man.

He was cleared in court on the defense of protecting others but the victim had not used violence, they were erratic and appeared threatening, and had been involved in fist fights in the past (which is irrelevant in the present). Its Penny who started a physical attack and ended that mans life.

Even with the most extreme benefit of doubt where Penny really is a good samaritan. Hiring him in the context of this political collapse is a clear sign and cannot be misread.

Killing undesirables gets rewarded.

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My HA is not port forwarded and only accessible when connected to the home network.

I have a private backdoor tunneling into my network with self hosted vpn so i can use it away from home.

Integrations i use come in two types relative to your question. But all of them involve giving HA acces to the controls and data. Not the opposite. I have never heard of an integrations that required data from HA.

The biggest tell on what is what is does the intended way to control the device make use of any cloud. If your device does not require a cloud or account and you can connect it to the integration with just an ip it should all be local.

But many integrations will require you to provide the credentials for a cloud because it’s easier. In that case you are not any more exposed then if you use the vanilla apps.

For my solar panels i could use the cloud but i convinced the technician to give me admin rights enabling a local api i can use instead. That cloud stuff is still there, cant disable it but it means i can still read my solar panels in case of an internet blackout.

If i could all my devices would be blocked from talking to the outside and all use local apis for control but its sadly not how most stuff is build. For stuff like cameras i wont even consider it unless they do though.

Sopuli is a solid choice as i have yet to encounter any real drama or problems.

I did notice however that images posted by others into the comments don't load because the file size is too big but i cant verify the actual cause for if.

I can post images in comments myself without issue and people can see those.

The planet will survive no matter what we do, i hope so will humanity.

To me being a witness to the actual end of the old world is simultaneously with being witness of the new world that begins after.

I do understand that i may not have much to live after because i may be to broken and sick. But seeing my children finding a new hope after the collapse of the society we were born into would be plenty to call my own life a success.

Things get worse and keep getting worse till some threshold forces radical total change.

At least this is what i understand from history.

I fully intend and hope to see “THE END” of this world because it means i and the generations after me have a chance of something better.

I couldn’t tell you how to solve them because i am more than a decade out of practice. But if i just let my fingers handle it without thinking much i can still complete it now and then.

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The complex emergent nature of this world is to much for any person or group to truly understand.

The documentary “HyperNormalization” covers this and assesses that the global elite have stopped trying to do so to instead focus on perception management into the facade that everything is normal and no one knows whats real anymore.