frezik @ frezik @midwest.social

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Don't kill people with guns. Kill people with paperwork. Most effective serial murder in the world. We know their motives, MO, and exactly where they live, but nobody will prosecute them.

And since we're talking about covid in a mass context outside of just medical professionals, that's entirely justified.

When it comes to attacks on the Internet, doing simple things to get rid of the stupid bots means kicking 90% of attacks out. No, it won't work against a determined foe, but it does something useful.

Same goes for setting SSH to a random port. Logs are so much cleaner after doing that.

Years ago, I was in the mall in Dearborn, MI. It has most of the stuff you'd find in any other American shopping mall. There's the Gap, American Eagle, and Spencer's Gifts. It's mostly full of teenagers doing things that teenagers do in a mall.

Then there's a random antique shop full of Edwardian furniture. I didn't see anyone in there besides a sales guy or two, and it seemed completely out of place. Dearborn is also fairly close to the Canadian border. I swear it's gotta be a money laundering front.

Under the current farm bill loophole, that brownie is probably now 100% federally legal no matter how much THC it had in it.

The bars on that suggest that alcohol has a higher harm to others, but crack cocaine has higher harm to users. Regular cocaine is a smidge worse overall than tabacco.

I dunno that this really sells it beyond being able to say "it's not as bad as alcohol and heroin".

That said, addiction should clearly be treated as a mental health issue, not a criminal issue. That goes for alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or tobacco.

And people probably will.

For the most part, the US has staple foods covered internally. We import stuff like coffee, but grains and potatoes and chicken/pork/beef are all here. I expect that when people see the shelves for electronic trinkets go bare at Walmart, they will panic buy food. This will end up like covid food shelves; a bunch of scary videos of food shelves being empty, but then restocked within a week.

That'll mean you may not be able to get things at the grocery store when you want them for a while.

I had happened to buy a small chest freezer just before covid, and that ended up being such a good investment just then. Looks like it will be again.

Credit card companies are. USPS doesn't have data entry people who would open the package.

People don't take those jobs as a choice.

You'd just be annoying some data entry employee.

This wouldn't work, anyway. They only prepay envelope postage, not a box.

You'd just be traumatizing some low level data entry employee.

It's a major part of their profit margin, but even with their decline this quarter, they'd eek out a profit without it.

https://carboncredits.com/teslas-carbon-credit-revenue-soars-to-2-76-billion-amid-profit-drop/

In Q4 2024 alone, Tesla earned $692 million from selling regulatory credits or carbon credits, accounting for nearly 30% of its quarterly net income of $2.33 billion.

At least for now, they're keeping their financial head above water even without carbon credits. Of course, no business would willingly throw away 30% of its net income.

The big thing for them is that those credits are free profit. Other car companies have to buy them to make up for their ICE cars. Tesla doesn't sell a single ICE car, so everything they make comes with a credit. Mind you, as the market transitions away from ICE, those will naturally evaporate from the company's ledger.

He could divest himself from the company.

Which isn't what the covid contract tracing apps did. They just looked for proximity. Which makes sense, because covid is primarily transmitted by breathing around people.

"We did things this way, therefore Democrats must be, too" - the furthest any Republican has thought about this.

You're confusing different things. "Contact tracing" has nothing to do with touching things. It just means you had some kind of contact with someone who had covid. Not even physical touch, just being relatively close.

Covid does not spread well through surfaces. This created huge waste as people were trying to deep clean with isopropyl alcohol, resulting in isopropyl alcohol shortages and companies putting in more dangerous forms of alcohol in hand sanitizer. It was completely unnecessary.

Joe Arpaio's old county. They're keeping the traditions alive, I see.

He's one of 16 investors. Source:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64564869/2027-slate-truck-revealed/

Don't get too excited about seething capitalists. Bezos is a major investor.