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"when the game is rigged its justified to flip the table"

I think this is a monstrous thought that will never be explained to you.

Because that line of "enjoying your existence" making no mention of the monumental harm we cause to every biome on the planet is exactly the kind of selfishness that the button pushers would like to eradicate.

I've noticed a big split in viewpoint between people who don't live in the US.

Its like those who live in the states have a incentive to act like everything going on is ok, while those outside are increasingly having statements like yours. "How do you not see this power 13 years past Snowden"

I've not given up trying to point out how dangerous the US govs powers are in the hands of an ever less capable and more fascist government, ie posting here on HN, but the odds to convince people are low.

This is just one more thing in a time of all the things. When all this backlash comes to roost at techs door this site I expect will be shocked. How could the average American confuse the rich VCs with the moloch worshiping pedophiles and the fascist government populists?

When the giant finally wakes in America it won't be reasonable or well targeted. I'm reminded that violence in gang neighborhoods is modeled as a contaigen. Have we ever seen a violence "pandemic"?

Which I guess is why Zuck has been building compounds.

I mean when you're that far ahead of the class is it any wonder?

i keep tabs on posts roughly along the lines of "maybe we need guns after all."

imo they're usually too late, as guns without training and a group aren't very useful. but i can tell you the number has went up about 4x the baseline in the holiday season. and thats after its doubling after November's elections.

this country is a powderkeg and what's worse is i think these provocations are international. the admin seems to want to start a civil war.

oh no, he had the reefer madness?

aint no war but class war, correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System

just realize that poster is more than a century old and it will probably still be being explained a hundred years from now.

they do not.

what gets me is trying to make the argument that market economies are not necessarily capitalist economies. it seems plain over time that capitalism works to destroy markets. As an American I'm pretty pro market, but that means at this point I'm an enemy of capitalism.

Which seems wild to what I was taught growing up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification is helpful if you arent aware of how late stage capitalism works

And the enshittification treadmill continues. Great time to be a kafka alternative.

I'll start.

https://github.com/tansu-io/tansu

As someone formerly a member of the the Center for Inquiry and still a believer in its mission, I understand what you're saying.

I would still point you to, there is something to this. And theres not been any whistleblower mention of anything "visiting." What they report aligns with the most probable scenario that the things we're seeing are automated Von Neumann probes, most likely sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and they've probably been here a long time.

I think Age of Disclosure is coming out. Might be interesting to watch if only to scratch your head about how many military and defense people are trying to convince people the opposite, that there are craft with extraordinary capabilities and they ARENT ours.

I made fun of UFO people the same as I did the religious and bigfoot believers, but after the video in the Times in 2017, and all the military people who have come forward with roughly the same story.. I would very much like to know whats behind it.

"no reason to jump to aliens"

I agree with that, which is why its pretty interesting the whistle blowers who went before Congress used the term "non-human intelligence" pretty extensively.

In any case the point the article makes and the one I'm most interested in, is it looks like we've been lied to.

if you believe like i do that gpg is an awful dead and outdated tool you'd never enforce on your worst enemy, its a good time to mention sops supports age.

https://github.com/chrisdeutsch/direnv-sops

"they" dont detect it light years away. from what has been published in the public domain, like in the congressional hearings, there are machines that have been here possibly a very long time. think at least 500 years. theres no indication the "they" behind those machines have ever made contact, or are on this planet, or are even still in existence. but there is something mechanical here that was not made by us.

as far as I know, the very few publicly identified records of speeds we have suggest a really big power source and the probable manipulation of fields we cannot yet (mass/gravity), but nothing breaking the speed of light.

so many people make leaps beyond the evidence we have and then declare them not plausible.

GOP apparently had enough votes to pass a budget by reconciliation. Which means the riders they want to add on, dropping Obamacare funding expansions are at minimum important enough to shut down over.

They do not seem to be acting in good faith, not sending people to negotiate any of this. Combined with the leaking presidents comments about being able to force through things under shutdown they wouldn't be able to otherwise, I think a reasonable interpretation is this shutdown is intentional and part of someone's plan.

edit: since subtext is dead its called Project 2025 and it's supposed to be a "bloodless coup" of the federal government. And if that isn't obvious by now please wake up.

lol buddy look who's in power right now. you ain't doing a good job of that.

and when you get to this point, you show your true colors and the dumbest, meanest animal is still gonna recognize your nature.

you have to respect people, you have to care about their agency even to their detriment or else who are you saving?

its called the straw boss.

as in "and the strawboss said well a-bless my soul, you load 16 tons.."

I respect at least your choice but I'm not growing tofu on the farm. Veganism is one of those protests that while i appreciate going after factory farms, you're only enabled to do so by large corporations.

live like an outcast

in all things. I would encourage you and everyone who reads this post to stare down this option with realistic consideration. In a society this broken, it is the solution to more and more things. To checkout, to accept the hard mode because to pick the path of convenience is to be exploited.

Again, and again, and again.

^ found the fascist.

what's the hangup about naming these companies?

Without snark I think we're on a site where being anti-corporate could hurt someones stock investments, naming companies is seen as rude.

at one upscale grocery chain a chain pharmacy

so you're complaining, but also defending the position of the companies and intentionally refusing to name them.

its like you dont know you're in a class war here, and you'll be sick of these increasingly authoritarian practices until you fight back.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1mjuunh/strange_objec...

and in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpxjuX-rDM and in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBQGn7GzLg

tip of the iceberg. of course 95% of these are balloons, rolling shutter cameras, insects close to the lens, etc etc. like this is probably a balloon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlwvV7_6l4

But out of that misreporting rate which has remained more or less the same since Project Blue Book, there bubble up some decent evidence of worldwide, fast moving, sometimes glowing orbs. And the folks with infrared and radar sensors are more convinced of it than those with access to random cameras.

Since that comic was posted, bigfoot, ghosts and the like have fallen out of reporting by the general public. UFOs/UAPs have not.

If Grusch and the rest's testimony is to be believed, you hear about UFOs yet find no evidence because the evidence is difficult to obtain and has actively, intentionally been subject to a multi-decades long disinformation campaign where none of it can be validated. Which is one helluva whopper to believe, I very much understand.

But I think we are slowly getting real scientific evidence. I'm looking forward to this paper being peer reviewed about transient contacts in pre-sputnik sky surveys that then disappeared. The "orbs" are the single most reliable phenomenon that you can find good evidence for and the point on which has captured my own belief. Beyond that I can prove nothing but am super interested in what we find out. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6347224/v1

Conservatives lose any kind of intellectual high ground

I'm not sure what country you're from but in the US conservatism has always been a reductionist, post-hoc justification of doing "whatever the hell I want because I can", going back as far as I know political history. Civil war era at least, when states rights were when it was good for me and Federal enforcement when it was bad.

The market was free when that was how these groups made the most money, now that they arent making the most money its tossed out like yesterdays garbage. And if you believed "reasoning from principles" fluff around it, I think you could reconsider what incentives lead you originally down that path of weaponized naivety that is so common in this community (organized as it is around making money.)

I appreciate you well defining the standard.