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I didn't mean to imply otherwise, so I apologize if that was the interpretation. There are tens of thousands of commercial flights every day around the world (a quick search suggests around 100,000+ per day), so a couple of crashes is a fraction of a drop in the ocean.

I think the news highlighting the other non-commercial airline crashes lately is due to the US charter flight/helicopter crash, so it's got higher attention traction. I also wouldn't doubt it's somewhat politically motivated, as the charter plane crash was attributed to underfunded, understaffed Air Traffic Control, while President Edolph Musk and First Lady Trump continue gutting agencies like the FAA.

Yeah I know, but it originated from Minneapolis and landed in Toronto Pearson Airport, which is very close to the US border (it's literally across the lake from New York). Different country, but really not that different since the airplane is also from a US airline with a US pilot.

Anyway, it's just uncanny how many planes have been crashing lately in a relatively short span of time.

Haven't there been 4?

I just looked it up and yeah, there have been 4 in just a few weeks: https://www.fox4news.com/news/deadly-plane-crashes-2025-timeline

Right?? Even at my peak fitness, my fastest mile was about 4:10 and I literally puked after just doing one mile (and I definitely didn't keep running afterwards). Here's this dude maintaining that speed for 13 miles.

That's simply insane. _{13.1 miles (}21.1 km) at <57 minutes is such an incredible pace. That averages out to about 4:20 minutes per mile, or 2:42 minutes per kilometer.

Amazing.

You also have to consider they have to get a contract and/or government employee team together to do the audit. If they go the contract route, that entails doing a Request For Proposal and the proper bidding process.

Government is slow because it's supposed to be transparent with proper accountability along every step. DOGE/Trump/etc all comparing government to private business is extremely stupid for numerous reasons, because they both serve wildly different purposes and have vastly different objectives. Anyone that wants the government to be more like how a private business operates is a fucking idiot.

It's apparent you all haven't been auditors. These systems are massive, and a real audit (not the bullshit faux-audits that DOGE is supposedly doing) takes thousands and thousands of man-hours on massive systems. Yes, DOGE has only been around for less than a month, but they've setup unauthorized systems and servers all over the fucking government. I can imagine what they've done at the Treasury Dept is going to take a lot of careful work and study to trace everything and generate a full report with actual artifacts.

That being said, at my job, we've had to comply with spontaneous audits on our network of over 100,000 devices (servers, workstations, appliances, etc) and have had it all completed within 2 months with around ~50 people working full-time. August is a tad extreme, but I'm guessing with such a sensitive system, they're going to want it to be extremely thorough.

Who the fuck, with any level of competence, would ever want to apply for a federal position after seeing this shit show?

That's the point. Musk et. al. are foreign assets with orders to weaken NATO and the US at all costs. They are successfully accomplishing their orders. And once the US's economy has spiraled and collapsed, the USD will no longer be a trusted currency used for global trade. Then it's BRIC's time to shine. That's their dream, at least.

Content has to arrive first for users to consume. It really is a "both" type of response to some extent.

In my opinion, the solution is for content creators to simultaneously release on alternative platforms while also maintaining a YouTube presence so they're still making money from that. However, they should start heavily advertising the alternative platforms on every video and transitioning to a different payment model (e.g. Patreon, Ko-fi, Indiegogo, etc). Content creators could organize with other creators to coordinate the transition. If you got huge channels like Digital Foundry, Linus Tech Tips, GamersNexus, etc (for the PC gaming scene, as an example) to agree, then that's already millions of users. It begins a snowball effect.

That being said, as far as I'm aware, there aren't any alternative platforms that can handle the bandwidth that supports millions of users simultaneously, along with thousands of content creators uploading and processing large videos regularly. There's a reason YouTube has such a monopoly, and their vast wealth of pre-existing content is the main component, but not the only one.

And yet Gen Z turned out for... Trump? He'll surely help the economy and enable a new era of magically plentiful high paying, stable jobs.

Worked for me. But it just brings me to a Zoom meeting, I'd rather it go to a website for some actual information before wasting time on a live event.

Google does in fact have a self-driving car. You may have heard of it: https://waymo.com/

But captcha is mainly about fingerprinting users versus using it to train self driving models. Google is primarily an advertising company, so being able to track users' browsing patterns is more useful to their core business model.

Reviews on the Firefox one says it requires you to download and install another app for it to work. Screw that nonsense.

Yes. They've likely already downloaded everything. But the main concern from my perspective was them having continued access and essentially being able to hold our government hostage, so this order at least pulls their access from the live system.

I had thought that 5+ years ago, Google, Apple, Meta, etc. all created "master" private keys that would allow them to unencrypt users' data. At the time, the argument used was to combat CSA material/trafficking. I could be wrong, though. I'll try looking it up later.

Edit:

I did a quick search while on break at work.

Apple claims they have no master key and do not allow governments direct access to their servers. They only provide data when legally required to;

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests/

Google claims the same thing.

As for Meta, I could only find anecdotal Reddit posts that seem to somewhat contradict the E2EE claims from Meta, as an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1g6tqg7/meta_ai_scanning_private_conversations/

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1al9dk9/messenger_has_access_to_the_endtoend_encrypted/

So it seems that Meta is likely scanning content before the encryption takes place. So they can still claim that messages are indeed E2EE, but that's useless when their AI tools are still scanning the content beforehand.

There's also this recent development:

https://www.medianama.com/2024/03/223-meta-end-to-end-encryption-europe-interoperability-2/

In spite of these processes, Meta has concerns. The blog post said, “Without ownership of both clients (endpoints) we cannot guarantee what a third-party provider does with sent or received messages” and thus cannot assure that messages are safely encrypted and protected. Further they said that with interoperability they would “lose connection level signals that are important for keeping users safe from spam and scams such as TCP fingerprints.”

Finally, Meta said that having a intermediary between third party provider and a Meta server could expose the “chat metadata to the proxy server, which increases the likelihood that this data could be accidentally or intentionally leaked.”

Tldr; I wouldn't trust Meta's E2EE.

This is the type of gangster shit I like to see, versus the unpatriotic thugs that Musk's mafia have roaming around.

Sometimes this one place gives me $20 of food before closing when I only intended to spend $5 so the upsell kinda hurts

But that upsell is strictly self-inflicted. If it's before closing, I can almost guarantee the staff are just hooking you up because a large amount of that food is just going to go to waste since most restaurants require things to get thrown away (e.g. if it's a deli, some of the meats may have hit their shelf life limit).

I'd just tip what you can comfortably afford and what you feel isn't insulting (e.g. tipping someone like $0.50 on a $20+ order). I always follow the 15-20% rule, and possibly higher in some circumstances. But I don't know, I haven't worked food in 20 years, so maybe the manners/expectations have changed nowadays. Also depends where you live.

Also, don't forget that if the USD collapses along with the US itself, that BRIC (Brazil, Russia, Iran, China, etc) have been wanting the world to stop using the USD as trade currency for ages. It is no secret that the MAIN reason the US is still such a powerhouse is because of our stranglehold on the global economy. And the onnnnly way you can change that in the short term, is by destroying the US, it's global credibility, and its economic stability.

Elon has always been a conman along with Trump, and the rest of the oligarchy have bent the knee to accepting crypto as a, "viable alternative to fiat." BRIC setting these traitors up with lots of wealth using semi-anonymous crypto (who's going the investigate it anyways, all the high tier LE agencies he just gutted) as a means to transfer funds away from the public eye. They don't even need the USD to transfer the vast wealth.

As a sidenote: The main reason I think Elon is doing this, is because Tesla will probably fail in the next few years, collapsing his wealth foundation. Its stock value has been grossly overvalued for years (at one point it was valued more than all the other car manufacturers in the world that produce and sell 100x more vehicles than Tesla could ever hope to accomplish). Another possibility could be that he has been trying to rapidly expand Tesla's manufacturing capabilities, he needs access to a fuckton of lithium for batteries, along with other metals such as cobalt for electronics. Luckily, China has made lots of headway in Africa (e.g. see the ongoing conflict in the Congo where the US is supporting one side and China the other) and central Asia where there are massive rare earth metals deposits.

The last possibility is just simply because he's mad and wants to make us all suffer. It really could be that simple.

Bah, sorry for rambling. It's all painfully clear, just pay at least some moderate attention to world news and look at what each country's geopolitical advocacy has been for the last 10+ years and the signs are all there.

It still existed when I did the same thing a year ago or so. They implemented it awhile back to try and avoid antitrust lawsuits around the world. Though, now that Zuckerberg has formally started sucking this regime's dick, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes away.