Get it while it’s hot!

He might be referring to the Russian playbook to destroy western stranglehold on global politics. I doubt it though… I can’t remember the specifics, but that one is pretty old, I think.

“Felony Murder” is a specific kind of legal jargon that refers to being involved in a crime where someone died, right? IIRC?

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I’m always a little thrown off when I see the x handle anywhere. Elons apparently obsessed with that letter. First thing that comes to mind: “is this Elon Musk?”

You’re right. We don’t need a whole ass neural network. I’m throwing mine out right nowwwwwwwwwwjdjfjcmxn;&:@, jsi2@29394

You want to Benito Mussolini his ass? I don’t think Americans have meatballs as big as the Italians, but we’ll see.

Yesterday, I heard Magnus Carlson get called an insufferable viking. ‘Twas humorous.

You bring up my first intuition on the matter. If the federal government wanted to destabilize counter movements, they most certainly would take three approaches: (1) propagandize the organizations leading those movements, (2) attack the organizations leading those movements, and (3) attack the members of the organizations leading those movements. Look no further than the history between the US and their workers unions.

However, this perspective is unfair. It doesn’t quite justify the alternative, because the alternative seems to be: “don’t join the organization, alleviate the risk from yourself.” That’s just inaccurate positing from the fears mentioned here. The truth is, doing nothing has risks that you can’t predict. Though, you can approximate your risks by asking yourself: “what if I was on a green card right now?” Doing that, at least, lets you view the problem as though it’s already at your doorstep — and this gives justice to the inherent risk we all face during a fascist takeover. Fascists only start with minorities, as they develop the infrastructure necessary to target anyone they please.

Oh boy… are you opening the door to concept philosophy? Because that’s a fucking mind bender. First big assumption you need to let go of in this domain: mankind is not on some path of iterative progress where we find ourselves at the most knowledgeable and capable in the present. Rather, we’ve conveniently redefined what progress is in the first place.

God damn it, I hate my education system. I thought NATO was the peacekeeper of the world — a valuable residue of WWII. One sided propaganda-based education developed to fuel a belief in American exceptionalism and nationalistic egoism. This education-level propaganda is pretty effective because you don’t actually know what details to question, and so you grow up with some pretty bold assumptions about how the world works (and don’t even realize it). They had me believing Christopher Columbus was some kind of messiah-explorer too.

How does this happen? My anti-conspiracy brain wants to believe there’s no such thing as an evil man behind the curtain, twisting his mustache and orchestrating these details like ”meh, we need to make sure all the kids believe in this propaganda such that we have an imperialistic society.” So, short of that, how does this happen so effectively?

That’s less than a month worth of groceries for my family.

I would love if this creates some kind of decentralized energy network. You know how you can sell your energy back to the grid when you have solar surplus? We should have the option of choosing the rate too. If they don’t want to pay our prices, they don’t need our electricity,

I’ve used Infisical, AWS Secrets Manager, Keeper, and KeePass. How do you want your users to interact with the password solution? How do you want passwords to be modified, manually or automatically? If automatically, how do you expect that to happen (e.g., user changes password on the host site, and you want a modal to pop up that asks you to update it in the password manager)?

Do you want support for 2FA codes, passkeys, rsa keys, password generation? Do you want the password manager to install a browser extension to automatically fill passwords on host sites?

What’s your budget? What’s your teams experience with programming (e.g., Python)?

That’s fair. I’ve dealt with that before, and in my case I had to rebuild the damn thing for compatibility with the web version. When I did, I was able to use alternatives like Power Query M instead of VBA. This worked in my case, but I’m sure you’re right that some features just aren’t there in any capacity.

The external CSV thing is a PITA but you can (at least there) overcome it via adding a “landing sheet” for raw data. Nobody is going to want to deal with any of this, though.

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They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.

I would not shut down my PC and boot into windows just for office. I keep my Windows around because my wife prefers it (for now).

So long as you’re fine with whatever consequences the US is willing to impose on you for doing so, this can’t seriously be that hard—right? IIRC, the US just controls the server that signs flight plans? So… worst case scenario, that’s managed by a chip without any write access? Reverse engineer the little chip to ask your own server for permission, no?

Given we’re talking about state-sponsored capabilities here, am I oversimplifying things? I don’t feel like I am.

Hey, those aren’t Chinas resources! /s

Yeah, I deleted my comment immediately after I published it. How did you see that nearly an hour after the fact?

Regardless, doing so is extremely expensive (I would think). The ultra wealthy right now benefit from a legal system that protects them well enough, they can spend the majority of their fortune on fucking with the less fortunate. Let their paranoia dampen their capacity.

The ultra wealthy are dependent upon economic income streams to maintain any one of their systems. We are a society depend on the economy only until the economy stops serving us—by which point we depend upon ourselves and the economy flounders. I fail to see a scenario in which we are freed enough from our dependence to make tangible threat to the ultra wealthy, while still they maintain enough financial resilience to maintain their arsenal.

They’re doomed if a militia forms against them, because that’s only going to happen via their weakened capacity in the first place. Don’t you think?