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How is this news, though? Those of us who pay attention have been painfully aware of this for years; and those of us who don’t pay attention love his antics, because it’s entertaining, and they don’t understand what’s happening, at all (or they do, but they love Fascism).

I’ll buy one of these, unless they add an AI agent to it, in which case I won’t.

Sherman should have kept burning.

I dunno. They were driven underground before. How did our grandfathers manage that‽

So, how do we drive these fuckers back underground?

And after the fall of the Roman Republic, when the emperors would speak to “rule of law” in theory, but relied almost entirely on “might makes right” in practice, assassination attempts became so commonplace that it simply became part of the job of being imperator.

Without due process, our civilization devolves into a mafia mob boss scenario - assassination and coup after assassination and coup - until eventually the empire fragments into fiefdoms. But now with rifles and drones.

No sane person should want this.

I used to think that the term “zeitgeist” was a neat metaphor, but people who took it too literally were silly and merely playing around with woo-woo mysticism (like Jung).

Now I’m not so sure. The “zeitgeist” of America appears to be going through its cruel edge-lord phase, and the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

It feels like a force of Nature happening, like a sudden flood or something.

I’m leaning on the mystical to explain this shit now, fuck it. Maybe our land, too, has something akin to a “Spirit of Odin” that rises up every few centuries and makes people irrational, blood-thirsty, and crazy.

I just don’t know.

I installed Slackware in ’96.

Things have most certainly changed.

If we could somehow cure Cluster B Personality Disorders, 95% of humanity’s problems would disappear overnight.

It’s just the perennial Problem of Evil, but with modern psychological terminology.

Same shit, different day.

Most crypto is traceable, if someone is willing to spend the time and energy on it.

Monero is not traceable. Because of the better privacy, I’m surprised Monero isn’t more popular. But I guess other cryptos are “private enough” while offering other advantages (like not having to mirror the entire blockchain).

Ironic, since he’s long been obsessed with the dangers of falling into the tyranny of left-wing authoritarianism.

So he willingly runs into the arms of right-wing authoritarianism.

At the end of the day, authoritarianism all looks fairly alike in practice. So he may get to experience a taste what he’s long feared (just the Nazi variety, not the Communist variety). So it’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy, attracting what you most fear and all that.

Look, maybe Canada has warts. Maybe I don’t like the idea of being forced to use pronouns or whatever, I dunno. But that “woke” stuff is far better than the darkness that’s brewing here in the US, especially here in the South. People are embracing Fascism, full-throated, here. I want out. I’d happily trade places with Dr. Peterson and move my family to Canada.

I do like how my Apple Watch allows me to take calls without bringing the phone with me.

But yeah I’d like to cut out most of the features and data colllection.

I didn’t know when I signed up. I just had to “pick a server,” so I did.

I was sorely disappointed to learn that Grammer is a member of the MAGA cult.

Judges can and have been issuing rulings “blocking” Trump’s actions. But he ignores those rulings and keeps on going.

At some point, push will come to shove; meaning, these judicial rulings will have to be enforced, somehow.

There’s not really a good vehicle for enforcing the law on rogue presidents. Unless someone is willing to physically arrest and detain him, possibly muscling past secret service in order to (attempt to) do so, they won’t be enforced at all.

If someone will be willing to enforce the law, and can successfully do so, the Constitution may be saved.

If not, we de facto have a king, regardless of de jure court rulings.

I’m (barely) old enough to remember when cable television was touted and sold as “ad free.”

I’m also old enough to remember when satellite radio was touted and sold as “as free.”

Never believe them. Enshittification is inevitable, and planned.

There was a day, not too long ago, where I’d seriously considered buying a Tesla. And I nearly did.

As of today, I for one will never buy a single Tesla product - not a car, not a truck, not a battery, not a robot, whatever - for as long as I live.

And no decision from Tesla leadership will change my mind at this point. Fuck them.

Even if that makes me a crazy old man 30-40 years from now when all this is in the past. Never means never.

I didn’t know it was considered a tankie instance when I signed up, and I’m not a tankie, fwiw.

If you’re not aware, Palantir is named after the scrying tools used by the bad guys in The Lord of The Rings.

Peter Thiel is an evil nerd.

All my neighbors are MAGA