Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’,

Oh look, yet another Tankie who thinks the grass would be greener where the lawn describes itself as communist.

How’s that “more freedom” been going for the Uyghur? Or maybe you meant the freedom to free-fall out a window when running as a political opposition to Putin?

That 17% is just the people who whole-hog wanted to annex Canada. There’s an additional 16% that didn’t care enough to have an opinion on it.

Is 1 in 3 more along the lines of what you were expecting?

Presumably, yes. The only thing Taco hears is himself.

He is obsessed with windmills and thinks they are bad.

Donald Trump
Don a l d t r u m p

Sort the letters…
Don a d l m p r t u

Erase part of the l…
Don ad i mpr t u

Flip the ad by 180 degrees and mirror it…
Don qu i mpr t u

Squish the mpr…
Don qu i (*) t u

Unsquish it back…
Don qu i xo t u

Substitute sounds of excitement with boredom…
Don qu i xo t e
Don Quixote

How did we not see this before?
It all makes sense now.

THANK YOU. You get it.

Would they even get that bonus as cash? The cynic in me thinks there’s a missing asterisk saying “in equivalent benefits”, where the benefits are just health insurance and something stupid like a gym membership or subsidizing part of the price when buying a new American™ car.

That would at least make it less of a slap in the face to the teachers who are actually trying to make the country a better place.

As I said in both my original comment and my follow-up replies to other people, the point is to create a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation which would have real consequences for trying to suppress. With bittorrent and IPFS, there’s zero consequences for them to try other than wasting their time and own money.

The correct approach is to use all 3 for redundancy.

I mentioned that, and yes, that’s the point. If they do that, they destroy trust in it. If they destroy trust in it, they destroy its value. The people they actually care about—the multimillionaires and billionaires—hold some as part of their portfolios and are going to be very unhappy about that.

It’s a lose-lose scenario. They either leave it up, or they make an enemy out of their backers.

It’s not entirely a stupid idea.

Block-chains are an append-only ledger where each block includes a cryptographic hash of the previous block, where new blocks are accepted by quorum across all independent nodes. The only way to fuck with the ledger to erase history would be to either exploit an undisclosed flaw in the cryptographic hash, or have enough nodes to convince the every other node that their version of history is wrong and that this fake version of history is the only truth.

Burning an undisclosed cryptographic vulnerability for this would be an extremely stupid (but plausible) idea that would make the vulnerability worthless to them in the future. Even if they didn’t have to burn a vulnerability to break the block-chain’s system of trust by rewriting history, they just proved that bitcoin is untrustworthy—which would immediately destroy its financial value.

What might actually be even better, though, is that multimillionaires, billionaires, and the United States government itself hold a bunch of cryptocurrency. The former for investment/tax evasion/laundering, and the latter in seized assets. On top of that, many criminals and hostile foreign governments hold Bitcoin, too.

Encoding the list in the Etherium or Bitcoin block-chains would make removing it extremely self-destructive for the fascists who don’t want the list to be public. It becomes a lose-lose situation for them.

A bittorrent magnet link or IPFS would be less wasteful, but they lack the self-destructive disincentive that would make them think twice about even trying to stop it.

As of now, total is 800 k.

Didn’t one of his other videos conclude with something about an object falling infinitely though portals causes them to accumulate opposing positive and negative masses and eventually turn into a black hole?

I meant the DDoS

FYI, I am not the person you replied to.

The part where the comm it’s from is trying to not be political is, apparently, political. Some people here seem to think that spending every waking moment inside a landscape of political doom is a necessary purity test.

You would hope, but knowing how competent copilot is, it’s just going to turn out like this:

User:
I’m running out of space, can you help me clean up?

AI:
Sure thing, I can help with that. You have some programs that haven’t been opened since 2017. Would you like me to delete them?

User:
Yes

AI: OK, let me do that for you.

I apologize, but as an AI Agent, I am not allowed to delete files or uninstall programs automatically. You can remove them yourself, however. I have created the cleanup.txt file on your desktop, which you can run by renaming the file to cleanup.bat, right-clicking on it, and selecting “Run as administrator”.

User:
Thank you, I did that but it only freed up a little bit of space. Can you find more?

Error processing request: 0xC3E9A005.
Unable to connect to copilot agent service:
The system can not find the module specified: “kernel32.dll”

Not that they will ever investigate crimes they started, but isn’t it also a federal crime?

Isn’t that worse? Chocolate ain’t exactly healthy for most animals.

they can’t offer such programs to try to win such votes because… reasons?

It would undermine their entire anti-socialist and anti-Democrat rhetoric. They campaigned on the premise that social services and welfare are the sole cause of out-of-control government spending taking money out of the Average Joe’s pocket (conveniently ignoring military and federal agency spending) and used it as a hook to sell their policies to the poor, stupid, and xenophobic.

The depressing part is that they could offer such programs and they would still keep most of their voters as long as they frame the programs as helping the everyday American and don’t call it welfare. A progressive Republican would still get votes, since their voters vote by party loyalty (tribe/team) and not by policy.

But, as you said, they’re proud of being compared to Nazis. Calling them authoritarians would just give them a fuzzy, tickling feeling in their loins—because “authority” and machismo.

If the goal is to describe their own behavior to themselves in a way that they both understand and will blow a gasket over, calling them communists is pretty much a guaranteed way to do it. Most of them don’t actually understand what “communism” or “socialism” is beyond conflating them with Russia and China-flavored authoritarianism. Add on to that they grew up being indoctrinated into unquestionably believing that communism is the antithesis of America, democracy, personal freedoms, and all that is good in the world.

They see themselves as the good guys fighting evil. Calling them “commies” is, in their own minds and in a single word, outright saying they are the pure evil they hate. The cognitive dissonance of trying to reconcile that thought for even a moment would be agonizing.

Or shot.

The past week has shown them that the federal government will defend their claims of “self defence” using flimsy video evidence that shows the contrary. Just imagine how emboldened one of them would be in using disproportionately lethal force against an actual threat instead of a perceived one.

Call them commies. They hate anything related to socialism, but they’re creaming their pants at the idea of the government giving handouts to the people who “deserve” it (a.k.a. themselves) while everyone else lives like peasants during China under Mao.