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@RedTechEngineer @Wiz @Dymphna @pistolero @ins0mniak with the W Rizz Once a week when the market is there on public streets over here in West EU I go get a grilled Chicken.
Meat is the standard.
The rest of the week now meat gets expensive af
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I grew up when the biggest threat was a nuclear warhead. We feared what governments could do with weapons. Now the weapon is in your hand and you paid for it yourself.
In the 80s, privacy was default. No one tracked your every move. You called a friend the line was yours. You bought a record , no algorithm noted it. You walked outside. no camera logged your face.
What a great time when berries and cherries were abundant?
Now? Every click is harvested. Every purchase profiled. Every step tracked. The dystopia William Gibson warned us about isn't coming it already shipped, and people paid to install it in their pockets.
The 80s had nuclear anxiety. We have surveillance capitalism. Different fear, same powerlessness.
The difference: back then the machine was visible. Today it's invisible, and most people call it convenience.
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People or They named as the black conspiracy theorist actor here ..
You can imprison a man. You can silence a voice. You can burn a book, ban a platform, deplatform a movement, arrest a journalist, kill a leader.
You just...cannot kill an idea..

Ideas have no body to handcuff. No address to raid. No bank account to freeze. An idea is a shadow and you cannot shoot a shadow. The harder you chase it, the more it spreads. Every attempt to suppress it writes it deeper into the minds of those watching.
The surveillance state knows this. That is why it doesn't try to kill ideas anymore.. it tries to drown them. Flood the feed with noise. Bury the signal under ten thousand distractions. Make people too tired, too entertained, too divided to act on what they know is true.

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American business culture has never valued employees unless they have some leverage. It should surprise no one that a company which is planning to replace all its people with AI in a few years is perfectly happy to piss every single employee off by ganking their raises and bonuses and actually telling them it's to pay for the AI...

businessinsider.com/teradata-p…

A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI

Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.
Polly Thompson (Business Insider)
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@Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪 I thought you had it already after reading your post yesterday... it's sad. But It's like that yours is regulated and also a max grams you can buy. I found a site in Holland and they bring it to your door for 50 grams you pay 6$ for 100 you pay 4$ so my friend takes the 6 once a month for me and him and we took Silver Haze for day time as well 25/25 that service you must command by using Wire app and he comes to your door and you open aand taste and pay him in cash.

edit: they have 10 menu cards like you go to Amsterdam to a coffee shop and it comes from there around a little further. Menu's are sent tou your Wire App.
If you ask me that is not secure. better use Session or another I can't find the name again without mail or number
And it's more than 4 years we do it this way, never has a problema

WickR.me is the other that is good for this!

@Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪

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Let me ask you a question. Using your personal, for real situation right now: If Cloudflare decided to ban all the IP's from VPNs and flagged your home and work IPs as bots, along with all the devices you personally own, identified by device fingerprinting, what would your life be like? Could you really get on with any kind of normal life?

Well, governments just started talking about banning VPNs in service to "Know Your Customer" and "Child safety". Do you think they'll try to hunt down every piece of VPN software on the internet, or will they use their "mandate" to force a choke point corporation to use their already ubiquitous scanning to block suspects without any due process or chance of appeal?

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We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes...

" The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the construction vehicles rolled in."

finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli…

A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began

The AI boom is coming for rural America. Inside one town's effort to fight back
Sharon Goldman (Yahoo Finance)

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Secretary of Forever War and barely closeted Neo NAZI, Pete Hegseth, has been recruiting his own pernicious kind into the military. #ShockedITellYouShocked

Xeltuwas (@illcitvirus115.bsky.social)

Did the Gotham City Police Department turn a blind eye to recruiting officers on the Mob payroll? [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Xeltuwas (@illcitvirus115.bsky.social) (Bluesky Social)
#ShockedITellYouShocked

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This isn't probably going to reach the right audience here, but seriously, if you are still paying to be productized by Windows, just stop.

ZorinOS , which more or less looks and feels just like Windows from an interface and organization perspective, runs wildly faster on my four year old laptop than Windows 11. I didn't have to install a single driver (exception: I needed to get my browser to control my USB ports, which is a weird, uncommon requirement, but I did have to install a driver for that.). It has an app store that actually has things in it I want, unlike the windows store, it boots in thirty seconds, and I found a Linux app to replace every program I commonly use on Windows. It even comes in a "Lite" version for even older tech.

I even got Linux Lite to run on my twelve-year-old laptop in under an hour, and although it's a little bare-bones looking, it plays video and loads web pages just as well as my newest laptop running Windows 11.

I'm no fanboy, but I feel like maybe we're approaching consumer-level Linux...

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Unus Nemo

@Blaise

Gnu/Linux will never be consumer grade, it is professional grade 😀 😉. Users that take their computing seriously have been using Gnu/Linux, BSD or other 'nix (Unix Derivative) for decades. MS/Windows has always been a play OS for beginners in my opinion Now, with its built in spyware people have more reason than ever to upgrade to a real OS.

Zorin is not a bad Gnu/Linux distro though I hate the DM, I do not care for anything resembling MS/Windows though I know that was likely the reason you chose it. I prefer Gnome, it meets my needs perfectly. I am currently using Fedora 44 though that may change when OS level verification hits the scene full force. I may go back to building my own systems.

@Blaise
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