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The correct terminology is Internally Displaced Persons, or IDPs.

And the US had around 2.5 million IDPs over all of 2023 as the result of natural disasters. IDPs are difficult to track as well, as it's hard to tell of someone settles somewhere new of they would still go back somewhere else or not.

The problem is that is much worse than bullshit, it's a death sentence.

Not fully, but in practice to benefit from no trade barriers. And it'll be done by 2040.

I think what we'll get is no more singular head of state because the Unitary Executive model is a flawed premise that highlights the fragility of having only one person as the chief executive. It's a poison pill. Suggesting it is to suggest inevitable death of the Republic.

What we'll end up with our scaled up Switzerland. An Executive Council of 5/7/9 regionally elected members, with a rotation of who is the ceremonial head of state for functions. I like 7, with more of the East Coast and Midwest consolidated.

But whew...the constitution will need a major overhaul for that to work.

It's actually very interesting you brought this up:

The Koch bro plan was what precipitated Red Stating. It's always been iffy at best because despite their dismantling efforts, they still want to try and do most of their plan legally and through "the system" so it can't seem like it can be easily undone. But the goal is to repeal the 20th century and social gains like civil rights, abortion rights, etc. But here the long term goal is to fully go back in time to 1892 to cosplay robber barons.

The tech brologarchy version is entirely different in its final goal and process, but the interim goal of ending the Republic and repealing the 20th centrury is shared. The difference is that they want to be left alone and have islands of state-level power that they would and can project in a totally re-made world. Despite their hate of "tribalism" they want non-geographic nationality based on...well, tribaliam. All facilitated by AI and blockchain, called decentralized autonomous organizations. They want techno feudalism where they expect everyone to work at an unreasonable, manic level because that's what they do.

In both cases, they truly, honestly believe they're fighting for the side of "good" by wanting people buying from the Praxis or Kochistan company store, working everyone to death to make them as "benevolent" god-men kings more powerful.

Feta and watermelon

Cantelope and prosciutto

Anchovies in Ranch dressing (make it fresh, you animals)

Goldschlager and Cuervo Gold tequila as a shaken shot (tastes like snickerdoodles)

Pancakes topped with yogurt and honey or pistachio butter

Georgian pesto is walnuts and cilantro, 10/10

Peanut butter in a tomato stew sends it in an African direction, and it's amazing

Deep fried olives filled with cheese

Salmon marinated in bourbon, touch of soy sauce, and brown sugar, baked.

Anchovies and capers on your pizza if you wear big boy pants

Red wine and coca cola if you're 14

Candied pine cones and creme brulé is 1 million percent magic

Cheez-its and canned whipped cream tastes exactly like if you asked ChatGPT to describe what cheesecake tastes like.

Kiki Riki?

What's funny is that's ginger, onion, amd garlic away from West African peanut stew as a bread spread.

An app where all you end up recording is "Bro! Bro! Bro! Broseeeeph! Let's gooooooo, Bro!"

Vibecoding games about cats in HTML. All retro style, easy to play type stuff.

Up to 5 so far.

Not even. Him and Elon biffed every other form of autocratic guidance that laid out steps to take.

Cutis Yarvin is furious at how incompetent Musk and Torange have been. By 100 days in they should have been drowning journalists in foam. They haven't even hit 50% of Project 2025 progress.

Rank amateur bitches. Can't even do authoritarianism well.

Elon will count that as $3.8 billon that DOGE saved.

This was originally marketed in 2006 as MMS, "Miracle Mineral Supplement." An insane guy named Jim Humble experimented on people in Cameroon and Uganda with this, claiming it cured literally every disease. HIV/AIDS, malaria, dengue, cancer, meningitis, you name it.

At some point around 2016 even Humble admitted it doesn't do anything. If you've ever maintained a swimming pool you know that you add acid to the water with chlorine to activate it. It's exactly the same thing in a glass.

While it's obviously harmful in high concentrations, ultimately, if you drink water with it, it dilutes to the point of being no more harmful than tap water from a large city. Not ideal for gut health long term, but honestly less terrible than eating breakfast cereal every day.

Well, to be fair it's also proof that people do not value privacy, and that the means by which actual privacy can be obtained are few and narrow.

It also really drives home the fact that our systems of IDs, licensure, taxes, property purchase, etc. are designed for an analog 20th century world. We need new systems based on modern technology, bit not in a way that simply contracts out to the very companies that put us here.

I've done OSINT research and that alone converted me into a privacy advocate. Seeing how Alphabet, Meta, and MS have allowed creep to get training data... Whew. It's breathtaking and complicated beyond the ability to explain in 114 characters.

Y'all, we are cooked. Currently. Present tense. If you aren't freaked out already, you're missing about 85% of reality.

It was such a good troll at first. I heard the episode of Art Bell when the first fax came in... Just enough detail to lead people on, not too much to be disproven immediately.

After a few posts online it all got just...wobbly, and that's when he stopped posting. Which was a good call on his part. The fact that nothing from that timeline ever got close to happening left him years of doubt, but by now...

He only knows what the last convincing person said to him -- IF -- IF he's had a sliver of doubt about Putin's loyalty to HIM. Putin's lack of giving T a ceasefire that T needs to appear to accomplish something does that.

What's funny is T is literally the last person in the country to get to this realization. But hey, maybe he got there, right?

The easy solution is to stop engagement on Lemmy. Cool. Cool cool cool.

This is the correct answer. He famously (so I thought) hates guns.

No, would he have JD or a marshall do it for him? Non-zero chance.

All of this is exactly right. #2 is the least cringe-inducing because of the lumpy bottom.

Is this fork thing an official diagnosis metric? Or just not yet?

I do. I really do.

It's been a topic of conferences, books, podcasts, and new laws for almost a decade. They have it all in plain sight. Lol, made it up.

Curtis Yarvin has his Butterfly Revolution, which Thiel is all in about. Therefore Musk as well. Of the five pillars of Yarvin's guide to authoritarianism, the EO about forcing university accreditation to heel is the last one needed to hit them all. Well documented, and the Nerd Reich had a post recently about how Yarvin is mad at how incompetent Trump and Musk are because they're literally not gasing people to death by now.

A guy named Balaji wrote a book called the Network State that outlines the government that should replace democraticly electing people. Also a podcast, also conferences with folks like the creator of Etherium backing it. He's been pushing countries to recognize DAOs as legal entities. Wyoming is on board, and Palau and the Marshall Islands have also been receptive as nation level test cases. Network city-states are in the mix as well.

This is the stuff that makes Project 2025 look like quaint kids' games. However, where they both agree is the idea of repealing the social gains of the 20th century. Civil rights, women's rights, gone. The goal is techno-fascist fifedoms built around crypto and AI, like Thiel's investment in Praxis, where broligarchs don't just have money, they control the force and violence of the state, which is something that money can't just buy.