If you come out and also have the link we can put it on after one of these.

It said price, not cost. Now no one will solve climate change because the price is beneath cost.

We just killed the printing machine of one group. We’ll trade other things.

Yes. But some countries includes the United States, and US states, and others. There is an established relation between the US government and payment processors to shut down activity the government doesn’t like but either can’t or hasn’t make illegal.

https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship

Cash. Buy things in person. Use bitcoin. Use AMEX. Save money.

So many options besides using Visa or Mastercard.

Remember when Paypal said they would straight up steal your money if they found social media posts they don’t like. Even if it’s on a platform they have nothing to do with?

This proof that the world needs more crypto.

I’ll tell you why. Government uses soft threats to encourage private business to censor things. I know some of you guys don’t like this side of this parallel story, but do you remember when the FBI was marking posts for twitter to take down as “misinformation,” and accounts to ban, that then was shown to not be misinformation, but rather just inconvenient for the current presidency in charge. Whether you like it or not, that happened, and it was wrong.

The legal code in the US is so large and companies engage in so much activity that it is impossible to run a 100% legal business. Companies instead run by an “ask forgiveness later” model. It’s the only one that can actually work in the US. But to be able to run that model you need the good graces of the government. The government can always decide to prosecute on an otherwise small matter instead of advise correction. So when it says jump companies do it.

There was a time when you could be banned off of twitter for saying factual things the FBI didn’t like. And it’s not like the FBI didn’t know better. We didn’t need independent verification of the Hunter Biden emails because we had confirmed cryptographic signatures on all of the emails. Journalists get a pass because they are technologically illiterate, but the FBI and Twitter sure didn’t. The FBI said “It looks like something Russia would hoax.” Sure. It does. But they didn’t because we have cryptographic signitures. Always did.

What’s crazy about this is that the supreme court ruled against this use of third parties. But the practice wasn’t new when it hit social media because it’s been a long practice with payment processors. So my question when that ruling came out was “what about the existing similar practice in payment processors.” Apparently the government and processors are still in cahoots in violation of that ruling. That relationship was actually started in an effort to crack down on bestiality porn, which is never the less legal in the US.

So the question is do you like to government directing third parties to censor?

https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship

Don’t you know you need self value from being a slave. Chase fake paper money like a good gerbil. Our slave morality tells us you are not a good person like us unless you do what we do.

It’s really a more general problem with Western culture around engineering. Restriction maximizing engineering makes the world shitty. Engineers think they have an obligation to make any product do the absolute minimum that stat still meet spec. That is not to reduce cost or design difficulty by coming in just at spec, but to actively try to make things as shitty as possible using significant effort to do so just so the thing can do only the minimum thing that can be said to do the thing at all. It actually takes effort to make this happen.

The end result really sucks. Because this is so costly and everything is layered maximal minimalism this means that if you want to scale anything up at all the cost to do so is insane if western engineers are involved. This is a significant reason why China gets the manufacturing work and western engineers don’t. They are yes men. Yes we can build that. And they have a network of yes men behind them that can help them execute on anything. And because they don’t waste time engineering restriction every product and sub-product is adaptable.

But the western engineer only knows one mode of thinking. “We need to isolate the regimes that this product may operate in.” Sometimes that’s true but it shouldn’t be everything we think about.

It seems like politics is more likely to turn someone into a rapist than video games will.

For anyone who missed it here is the movie https://gvid.tv/v/KnLvloD8

And then everybody clapped.

I do have that. When you get past the nudity it’s not as bad as people say it is.

Told people to go home?

This is bad design. If a bike path is large enough for a car to get on it and it is next to a road with bad traffic design that holds up cars you should be able to anticipate someone will create a problem. So you should add some vertical columns in the center. Not very many of them because that’s a nucence. Obviously a clear trail is preferable. But two or three polls will make this a non-issue.

You store your credit card in your computer? If browser credit card management isn’t secure enough to avoid that attack you shouldn’t be using it.

They are so short sighted to. Ad blocker help advertizers. It allows sites to fill up sites with ads to the point of being unusable while not losing 100% of traffic. That keeps these site relevant enough that old people who don’t have ad blockers end up there too when they follow links or google ranks a site high because it has traffic.

If they got rid of all ad block somehow they would have to decrease the ads because I wouldn’t use the web. Or online communities would be way more conscious of the ad level of the things they link to.

Sometimes the people who fight have more in common with each other than the people who don’t fight. It takes two to have an existential ethnic conflict. So yeah, we kind of did export nazism to the middle east. We took efforts to de-nazi the Germans but we didn’t consider the need to de-nazi the Zionists. Because they were on the losing side we assumed as victims they couldn’t have the same tendencies as their opponent. But if both sides had the same tendencies one side was bound to be in the losing position and be the victim.

If it quacks like a duck and genocides like a duck. Maybe we have a duck.

That’s like saying the space shuttle is responsible for curing polio. Yes, the the period before the space shuttle existed there was a lot of polio. The military incursions from Muslim countries into Europe were ended by the Crusades.

A lot of news is just blog posts on a site that claims to be more than a vlog. But is it really. Sometimes what gets classified as news is poorly researched as fuck. And then this “news” end up on trashy blog sites that run 10x more ads than most blog sites. I don’t buy appeal to authority fallacies so the fact that those articles are written by “journalists” is irrelevant. Modern journalists don’t act like journalists because they write crap.

90% of news is a hair away from blog spam once you ask the Socratic questions, what is blog? what is news?