So much for cash anonymity. Unless a payment system is completely anonymous whilst supporting secure transactions, it’s a non-starter. Unfortunately the EU does not appear to be able to tolerate privacy for its citizens, hence constant attempts to undermine and curtail any privacy/anonymity-first technologies or concepts.

I figured most datacenter customers wouldn’t be running pcie cards, they’d be running OAM for higher density.

Poor things :(

I have reached something of a conclusion there myself - we haven’t done anything wrong. It’s systemic, “they” never had any intention of allowing us to work our way to a good life. It was always going to be just enough to keep you alive and most importantly hungry. There are more people in this situation than we think.

This is absolutely the case - it takes time to destroy credibility for a large institution considered a “paper of record”. And it makes it really easy for them to just “forget” to include certain pieces of information that drastically alter a story’s narrative. The BBC is also hugely guilty of this kind of manipulation, with the ceaveat that the truth of it is in plain sight - the BBC is literally a government-run propaganda organ! But hey, you get a bunch of sober sounding people wearing professional costumes to talk to a bunch of “experts”, get a bunch of reddit bot farms to post well researched science/tech articles to build a foundation of credibility with your professional classes, and then you start slipping your real content in between the fill. Many people will be trained to accept facts from that environment at that point, and it takes effort to keep on top of it all.

What’s made things so egregious recently is that this approach only works when everyone’s half asleep. Hypnotized, if you will. In the context of more and more people being forced into an activist stance by their ethics, morals and in most cases and sadly more importantly (to them) personal situations, it isn’t a good approach, because people who are already active will be distrustful and less likely to accept their “content” at face value. From there, it all kind of unravels.

It’s a peacetime control tooling for a sleepy, well-fed, soft population. When things get hard and the reality most people lives is wildly discordant with the “facts” they are shown, it generates friction and resentment. Populism is the result - left or right. Our elites made a very bad bet thinking they could step down this path rather than New Deal-ing their way out of it, because they are already losing control of the situation. The hysterical screeching about Mamdani - in particular kirsten gillibrand’s racist tirade - is what it looks like when they panic, stop maintaining the mask and you see what’s underneath.

It’s a bunch of magic tricks that the audience just worked out, the bunny rabbit getting pulled out of the top hat is falling to bits and scaring all the children. And all the women. And all the men.

The important thing is to not give up, and it’s important to bear in mind that at least in my experience other than being social manipulators they’re quite uninspiring in many respects. That is also why they don’t like people who don’t fit - they are, by nature, disruptive to that state of affairs.

I think if you keep working the problem you will come to a good conclusion.

You probably did not say horribly wrong things, those people are likely just assholes.

Because it’s a shit-tier rag that’s consistently skewed in favor of a few special interests - involving apologizing constantly for one that is currently blowing kids up on our dime. I honestly cannot understand why anyone would give this rag any credence since they drummed us into a war in 2003.

I guess I found my satire threshold. This just hurts :(

Just refuse to use it. They will come around if they value communicating with you. And if they don’t… well, you have your answer.

The only solution those fuckheads will pull their thumbs out of their assholes for is the final one in Gaza.

pity about that denuvo crapware.

The collective delusion of social power is being tested. I don’t see the current configuration passing.

For that, you will have to learn Mandarin.

And now let’s followup on the nuances of both of these positions. Go on… do a debate. As a treat.

“Mamdani’s defeat of…” not “Mamdani’s victory over…” - they really are reaching, aren’t they?

A “Sexual harassment scandal” ? Not falsifying records and deliberately killing a whole bunch of old people? Not shutting down 1/3 of NYC’s power input at the Indian Point NPP by caving to Secretary Brain Worms? Not generally being a corrupt quid-pro-quo creep?

The fact anyone voted for that mobbed up trash at all is concerning, especially given in private conversations all it’s boiled down to is pure and simple racism. It’s been made clear that there is now a critical and growing mass of people who are genuinely committed to working towards multiculturalism, who can respect their fellow human beings, and that there is a dwindling number of those who can’t get over themselves enough to do better. These people are going to get increasingly vicious as their grip on power loosens. It’s going to be difficult for those of us committed to doing better to keep ourselves clean, whilst we deal with mounting attacks from those who are of the mud, and will become more and more desperate in slinging it.

It’s now up to everyone who supported Mamdani in the primaries to sustain their exceptional efforts, and carry this through the general election. The DNC will now do everything in their power to throw the general election, because they don’t work for you, and they are cartoonishly petulant in the face of this perceived loss.

It’s become impossible to ignore over the past week that a large number of them work for foreign interests instead, and that intersection between the specters of the 20th century geopolitics and local politics is the unfortunate political singularity point we’re living through right now. The previous order is over - clintons, biden, cuomo and schumer got it badly wrong, resisted positive change, acted as despotic and irresponsible custodians of their duties to their constituents and are now paying the political price.

Expect to see similar themes playing out as democratic genocide apologists more focused on propping up a depraved, genocidal tottering international order vs. looking after their own taxpayers face deep public displeasure at their many and cavernous failures.

We need to get it right, and nobody is coming to help us - but for the first time in a while I feel like I got a breath of fresh air.

That guy has consistently been on the wrong side of nearly every issue for decades, and so thoroughly ineffective in his broken clock moments to warrant a round walloping in a primary.

At this point, I’d consider going just to get away from everybody else.

True, in NK you actually have to do something in order to get into trouble. Beyond that as I understand it, you’re largely chaperoned around.

Serbia sells arms to anyone. A lot of people are making bank now that conflicts are turning hot globally.

For instance…an israeli 747 was just loading up in Belgrade this morning…