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WTF I just posted this quote in another thread like half an hour ago.

The state is a lecher.

Reminds me of one of my favorite stories, from Phaedrus:

Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved or disapproved. The story goes that Thamus said many things to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts, which it would take too long to repeat; but when they came to the letters, “This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered.” But Thamus replied, “Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.

https://www.antiquitatem.com/en/origin-of-writing-memory-pla...

The inspections. Actually, I think it would be legal to do so, but if the builder sells the home and they don't disclose problems with the house they'd likely be opening themselves up to a civil suit, and having a contract which severely restricts the kind of inspection you do would be strong evidence that they knew, or should have known, that something was fucked up. Lennar certainly has a team of lawyers that know more about this than I do...but a lot of this sort of thing depends on legal action costing more than it's worth...and one or two odd cases they do get might just be settled out of court and chalked up as an operating expense.

Scumbags.

WTF. I'm fairly certain that would be illegal in my state.

I had this on an old brick phone, but I forgot which brand. You'd triple click the power button and it'd start ringing a few seconds later so you had time to move your hands away from it and not look like you triggered it. You could even have it display a custom contact.

Yeah she was so popular they had to rig caucuses in her favor, and superdelegates had to defy their constituents.

Relevant:

https://news.utexas.edu/2017/06/26/the-mere-presence-of-your...

Still bitter we never got the chainsaw emoji a few years back.

I thought the issue was duty cycle, and that low refresh rates kept the screen working longer. Has e-ink tech gotten around this?

Yes, and the superdelegates, whose job was to make sure people didn't pick the wrong candidate (how democratic of them), picked probably the least popular politician in America at the time.

Trump likely would have lost against almost any other candidate, but he had help from the Democratic party, who treated Hil's nom as a coronation.

Superdelegates hamstrung the process. Kate Brown for instance, the governor of Oregon at the time (who btw was an unelected governer during that term, as her predecessor had stepped down) voted against the will of her constituents for Hilldog -- Oregon had overwhelmingly supported Bernie. Let's not forget some of the caucuses in other states which were outright rigged. An auditorium blew up for Bernie but the presiding party official put it in for Clinton. When shit like that just happens out in the open you have to wonder what's going on behind closed doors.

I believe Republicans actually have a democratic nomination process without superdelegates, which is how they got Trump -- IIRC he had a few early wins and snowballed from there.

This goes back to 2016, when Dems decided it was better to nominate one of the least popular American politicians in living memory than the alternative candidate who had broad working class appeal. Not to mention they juiced up Trump's campaign because that was the only candidate Mi Abuela was projected to win against. Yeah Trump may be the Antichrist but we wouldn't be here without him being able to run against some of the most comically weak candidates.

The generation raised by iPads are in HS now and American IQ tests scores are in decline, especially in the last 10-15 years.

I've been happy with the One, but two Ethernet ports is definitely not ideal for even casual home use.

Funny because I met quite a few Japanese that liked Trump leading up to his first term. They thought he was really going to fuck with China.

I hope their experiments with the "OpenWRT One" keep going.

OpenWRT Two is scheduled for late 2025 from GL.iNet and should go for ~$250.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512495

Forth would be neat on an RPN calculator.

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Seconding this. I'm looking for a fanless industrial mini PC with out of band ECC and I'm having a hell of a time.

America is in love with privatized surveillance, it helps get around that pesky Constitution that prohibits unwarranted search and seizure.

"Wipeth thine ass with what is written" should be engraved above the doorway of the National Constitution Center.

We've always been at war with Eurasia. Not all threats are external.

National security doesn't just refer to USA...?

France has national security considerations, just like the UK, Uruguay and Uganda. They'd all benefit from having open access to verifiable information.

They never existed if nobody ever gets to collect on them.

In America we like to fire anyone right before they get a chance to collect on any retirement benefits.

I strongly suspect that the net zero thing is at least half bullshit anyway, and probably more like 90%. We have forests on paper that have no basis in reality, either because of wildfires or because they just planted seedlings in summer and they died immediately. Those carbon credits don't get negated though. But now you get a forest of carbon in the atmo + whatever emissions those credits justified, while "conscious consumers" pat themselves on the back for choosing net zero products.

Where there is a layer of abstraction involving money, there is always bullshit.

Honestly Wikipedia+Archive.org remaining online have national security implications (not just USA, but any democracy). Though I'd wager the current administration would take a different view.

Just look at Afghanistan.

Apples and elephants. I'm talking about a double digit percentage of the population fighting a guerilla resistance against a rogue state and you link me to like 50 guys in a house that's surrounded.

Hard disagree. Guerilla resistance has proven itself surprisingly effective against modern militaries. Multiply that by a military which would be going to war against its own citizens and you have a very uncertain situation.

Yes, if the military was targeting you individually you'd almost certainly be fucked. But a guerilla resistance spread out over a continent would be very difficult to eradicate. Just look at Afghanistan.

It's not just Nissan drivers, and it's not just younger people, but younger people are definitely the most egregious. I do roll my eyes when they're in a Nissan missing the front bumper though