It kinda is, its practically a requirement for a lot of corporate espionage and a lot of spies have entire lives alongside their spy duties. Also fun joke I’ve heard about Vladivostok during the Cold war, “There were surprisingly only a handful of people in that city, American spies, Soviet counter intelligence, smugglers, cargo movers, and baristas who ignored the whole mess” heard that from an ex-CIA guy who was doing a talk at a spy exhibit back when I was a kid.
Maybe. Don’t actually know, the ones I’m in contact with have pretty universally chilled out but who knows about the other ones. Though even with that I’m not stupid enough to assume I wouldn’t fall back into my ancestors ways of banditry and murder, just requires the right targets and enough leeway to get away with it. Would be pretty lucrative for example to raid those shitty little orthodox Mormon communities out in the desert especially with a crew.
But like I said, as of right now all the ones I know were killers are dead or so old that they won’t be pulling that shit again.
Yeah and several of them were my kin and were murderers. My kin were the folks who you went to when you needed someone dealt with, hell I wouldn’t be surprised if my great great aunt killed someone as a favor to the Hells Angels back in the day. Let alone some of the kin I’m less close, I know at least one of them ended up in prison for murder back in the day due to some such Berdoo nonsense. Funny enough a kinsman who I only met once was also in Prison at some point and was on the bad side of the law into old age threatened to kill my sperm donor, glad he didn’t kill stealing is a step to far and that sombitch belongs either to my grandmother or myself.
That’s kinda the end result I would expect from music streaming being a thing. Folks with more specific tastes will gravitate to their weird little niche genres meanwhile folks who don’t care will continue to listen to whatever popular trite gets pumped out.
Just looking at my quick picks that aren’t artists we’ve got Witch by L-79, something in cyrillic that I can’t copy paste or type (inri inri abracadabra), Vigspá by Danheim, several Hulkoff songs, and several Credence Clearwater Revival songs. Nothing about my fucking suggestions is normal and that’s not even factoring in my digital library which is an ungodly mix of heavy metal, vocaloid, classic rock, synth, and whatever random songs I’ve ripped from games cause I liked them.
My great great aunt made me read the Bible so I’d be a good little Christian. Read it got the privileges for it, sucked right ass. My only conclusion is that I liked Samson and that most Christians are hypocritical asshats. But what was I expecting my great great aunt thought Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia were evil because they had magic.
Also if anyone is curious how well the good Christian aspect faired now that I’m 26 and not 8. Well hark to the ancestors, the spirits, and the gods, I’ll burn every last mega church to the ground and send them to their god to face a second judgement not my own.
I don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t that. Kinda disappointed it wasn’t a Rick Roll.
I think Carlson is a bit too IDK weak, timid, insecure. Don’t quite have the wording for it but one of the big advantages Trump has that most of his potential replacements don’t is that his narcissism is so all encompassing that he comes across as strong to them. Mind you that’s just self assurance and it’s equivalent to a sleazy used car salesman but it is a notable difference.
In theory they could and I think that’s what they were setting Kirk to be once Trump croaks, but then his neck did that thing. A lot of the problem is that the current crop of right wingers both the base and the leaders are fucking lunatics that are broadly crippled by their own egos and madness.
Just look at their propagandists, it’s gone from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to fucken Asmingold and Catturd. Sure the old ones were still just as horrific and stupid but at least they vaguely attempted to be respectable. I think this devolution has been broadly effective across the board, from the highest elements like Musk and Thiel to the lowest dregs listening to some inane podcaster on the way to work.
I legit don’t think they have anyone outside of Trump who can rally their base on a unified level anymore, so they stick to him hoping they can solidify their gains before the whole damned thing implodes.
What if we Holy Roman Empire and the feds just become a figurehead element?
All empires collapse it’s moreso what you get out of themwhen they do that matters. Frankly I’d say the collapse of the United States will be ultimately good in the long run.
We will still speak the same language and Scarlett Johansson would still exist presumably if the US collapses. Hell depending on how it collapses it may even result in more good things popping out of it’s former territories, kinda like how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wouldn’t exist without the collapse of the Soviet Union.
There’s also the factor of the death or at least severe weakening of regional cultures, think your old Californian desert, Appalachian, or Old Boston cultures. A lot of these were weakened or even wiped out by the Great depression, Dust Bowl, and post war migrations, meaning that even the stronger of these more regional cultures can barely flex even in their own areas.
While it’s obviously misguided there is a reason rural folks are so conservative, the source isn’t necessarily political it’s because they recognize that their culture is weakening to the mainstream Pan American culture but assume it’s political since they don’t really have the language to figure out otherwise.
The problem with AI is largely the data center shit. Nobody has a problem with Josh pissing around with a learning algorithm to detect when to run his air conditioner optimally, what people are pissed about is building fuck off worthless data centers for bullshit thats almost certainly not worth the corpo hype.
Obviously they aren’t completely worthless, there is worth in them being liquidated and sold off.
We may not remove it completely but we could definitely limit or even wipe out AI data centers even on just a municipal level. Limits on resources used and strict permit requirements would be enough to shit can them in a variety of ways.
Shouldn’t it be gynocide? Since it’s clearly pulling from Latin. Activists should be forced to work with linguists for their words, or face the penalty of be hit with a 2x4.
Swapped over to Mint a couple days ago, it plays ATOM RPG so I am contented with my slave jank.
I’ve got a Motorola, it probably still has spyware but at least it’s cheap, durable, and has a decent battery.
Pretty sure this is what the PS3 did at least in affect. You could flag a profile for child use and it’d block games with certain ratings based off the settings, then you could just password the adult accounts. Good way to stop little Timmy from playing GTA at least, hell I think you could also put in exclusions so if you wanted to allow an specific game it wouldn’t be blocked.
Instructions unclear fucked the drug dealer.
The Norks have quite literally done data breaches and major hacks via this exact method in the past. They basically have nothing to lose on the international level so they do this and then trade it to countries like China or Russia for whatever it is they want. If they didn’t have a documented history of doing shit like that nobody would assume espionage.
If they didn’t have a known tendency towards weird espionage shit going back to the 50 and 60s nobody would care, but they do have a known tendency towards doing weird espionage shit.