designatedhacker @ designatedhacker @lemm.ee

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You need an encrypted cloud copy. 3-2-1 backup with duply to wasabi (AWS bucket-like). Otherwise you're hosed if you have a fire/tornado/theft/etc.

Daemon and Freedom(TM) by Daniel Suarez is sort of in this ballpark. Also Kill Decision by him is maybe a bit closer to the movie you saw.

Yeah, if I'm reading that right they're complaining that they're stuck at phase one of enshitification - lose money on aquiring users. The reason behind that is they're not able to monopolize the market for their games. "These damn mobile stores won't let us turn the corner and put the clamps on our users. Fix it please."

It's more like "Why are you smoking cigarettes, stop buying cigarettes." It's addictive, well marketed and cool, and totally avoidable with some self discipline.

I wouldn't joke about people with an actual illness by telling them to toughen up, but we're not talking about that.

Why not get a phone that can take, send, and receive pictures and video. It would also have maps, GPS, encrypted messaging, streaming music, audiobooks, e-books, home automation apps, ride hailing, food ordering, decent browser, etc.

Then, stay with me here, don't install social media apps. The lengths people go to so they can avoid social media when it is extremely avoidable is crazy to me.

This has happened like 100 times. Self loathing gay conservatives are the most anti-gay of them all.

Russia used to sell Finland gas. They just finished a new pipeline from Estonia. Winter is coming up.

There are far fewer hurricanes. You also get a couple days warning on most weather events. I take your point though, between waking up to seeing a related push message and seeing this meme I had forgotten about it.

At least it appears nobody died, only 5 injured.

Which blows my mind because he checks so many boxes for a textbook antichrist.

I'm kinda glad they couldn't redirect the religious fervor to DeSantis or anyone else. Trump isn't in great shape and he's not getting younger, so there's a definite shelf life for that blind devotion.

They wrote up a whole thing about it. It was linked in the article.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/90559

46% or 74M voters voted for him. Only 29% of 258M US adults voted for him. This same delusional 30% shows up all the time and they vote hard. They aren't 50% though.

Also going 69 MPH? Nice.

Why let you have your memories at all? Each day you remember the doctored history of a happy employee. You're excited for another day of peak productivity with a short break for your favorite meal (the only food you're aware of): Soylent green. Hey where's Steve today... who's Steve... better get back to work.

Beer warmer!? Yeah the bad thing is you're about to ruin a beer.

Windows: Clean boot no bullshit software, nothing running: 4GB RAM allocated.

I've been wondering about that too. This dude was already busted for passing off dolls as aliens. The article said they aren't even sure that he's made new dolls since then. So maybe this is just an opportunist that saw renewed interest.

More generally though, there's sort of a drumbeat of alien news from official sources. Like it's a psyop, but I don't know why. Maybe to give the Q-susceptible types something more controlled to fantasize about? Aliens are actually in contact and the govt wants to soften the blow? They made some badass weapon and want a cover story?

Guerrilla marketing for another X-Files reboot?

On CHRISTMAS FUCKING EVE! He has like 10 kids. He started a fire drill for employees on Christmas Eve, they have families too. What a cartoonishly villainous thing to do.

What message? Revolution to give the power back to the people? Yeah that's not great, but it has happened a few times with positive results. That's what the history book writers tell me.

Which songs are you talking about?

The problematic thing with Pantera is that the lead singer said some ignorant racist shit in 2016 "Metal musicians have condemned Pantera frontman Philip Anselmo after he was filmed last week giving a Nazi salute and shouting 'white power'." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/01/metal-community-condemns-racism-phil-anselmo-nazi-salute-white-power

He tried to pass it off as a stupid joke about white wine. He's since apologized https://loudwire.com/philip-anselmo-video-apology-offensive-gesture-exclamation/. People vouched for him.

But it's kind of a pattern at this point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Anselmo

So yeah the lead singer is probably a racist. Nobody that listened to them in the 90s knew that. None of their songs are racist AFAIK.

But yeah the lead singer is probably a shithead offstage. It's like Rodger Waters. Pink Floyd was amazing. He's dead wrong on a few things and a complete asshole about it. Two goundbreaking (in totally different ways) bands. Two shithead lead singers.

I know "separate the art from the artist" is a cop out, but people change. Maybe they are worse people than the ones that made the songs you love 30-60 years ago. Maybe they were secret assholes the whole time. I like the music.

Wish for omnipotence. Now you can do whatever you want. Now that you have that, make yourself incrementally smarter so you can better define smart each time. Become indestructible, but not like a super strong dead piece of metal like that asshole well would've done. Then transform the human race into a spacefaring utopian, post scarcity society where your new smartass self defines what that is. Basically become a real benevolent god.