WASHINGTON—Alarmed at the prospect of unconstitutional overreach by the Trump administration, millions of fearful Americans have already begun stockpiling facts before the federal government comes to take them away, sources confirmed Friday. “I know my rights as an American, so you’d better believe I’m getting my hands on as many facts as possible and keeping them somewhere safe where this First Amendment–hating president of ours can’t snatch them all up,” said Pittsburgh resident David Edelman, 38, adding that he was worried that President Trump planned to not only suspend production of facts, but also seize existing ones, leaving Americans and their families completely defenseless. “The minute I saw Trump, I knew he was someone who didn’t grow up around facts or the kind of folks who use facts. Well, the founding fathers cherished my right to possess facts, and they’d be rolling in their graves if they knew the Feds were going to bust in and try to steal our facts in the middle of the night.” A spokesperson for the Trump administration dismissed such fears, saying that the president merely wanted to keep facts away from certain dangerous people.
  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Not enough onion flavor here. I just downloaded a full copy of Wikipedia last week in case the trumpanzees go after it.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Been lowkey prepping for a while.

      I’ve been keeping a copy of the Zim for ages just waiting for doom :)

      good time for local copies of books/movies/tv

      good time to have a decent stock of long-term food staples.

      keeping a copy of some LLMs around isn’t bad either; they’re not great, but they are bang for the buck (compression wise) FULL of data from all over the net, you just need to be careful and not just trust it openly.

      I can’t say i’m happy that it seems like it might be useful in my lifespan.