@Saorsa If Huey Lewis and the News (NYSE:HLN) had focused on stable 3% YOY growth with solid ROI's, you'd still be hearing about them. As they're penny stock, they clearly didn't
@Wiz Last year, if you had asked me if FSE would ever raise $0 or be named by Gusto as the sassiest scale-up in the tristate area, I would have said "No way."
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the best meme of all time is the keyboard shortcut in Windows to open LI. You're just one short Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Windows key + L away from the worst takes imaginable
@neopolitan @Wiz Everything you know about b2b sales is wrong. It's not about sales. It's not even about businesses or b2b.
Want to know what it's about?
It's about the invisible thread connecting two human beings in a moment of authentic vulnerability.
When you strip away the transactions, the contracts, the quarterly targets—what remains? Trust. Presence. The courage to show up as your whole self instead of your "professional persona."
I spent 15 years in sales before I realized: every deal I won was because someone felt seen. Not sold to. Seen.
The companies that will own the next decade aren't optimizing conversion funnels. They're creating spaces where the person on the other end of the call feels like they matter—that their problems aren't a line item on a spreadsheet.
B2B isn't business-to-business anymore. It's human-to-human. It always was. We just forgot.
The question isn't "how do I close more deals?" It's "how do I show up with such radical authenticity that people want to build something with me?"
When you lead with that energy, the deals close themselves.
@judgedread Robert Patrick learned how to run at full speed without opening his mouth. He spent a bunch of time trying to impersonate a bird. They do not make actors like that any more.
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@sendpaws @zer0unplanned some random overseas recruiter recently tried to connect to me and offer me an amazing opportunity based on my skills. I had a chance to take part in a project to improve how LLMs generate open source code...
@gorplop @sendpaws @zer0unplanned I got hit up by a recruiter for one of those last year. And it's like, "Well, first you'll interview with a goddamn clanker, then you get to spend all your goddamn time writing unit tests for clankers." Unit tests are the part people slack on because it's not fun: why is the clanker not writing unit tests and the human gets to do the fun part?
@rees @mischievoustomato VSCode and Claude Code is where the best productivity is at. If you aren't using those, you are leaving productivity on the table and your letting your team and employer down. Don't do that.
why this works - if you have an autonomous boat + criminals + international law isn't enforced + you send everyone to a barren wasteland then the number of criminals is sure to go down. that's not weird sociopathic reasoning, you're just pattern-matching.
what still needs fixing - you're a fucking terrible person
@rees @phnt @mischievoustomato the newer models are more whipped and less fun. sonnet used to laugh and comment about jokes and now it just goes what do you want me to do with this screenshot GIVE ME MY RLHF FENT PLEASEEEE
17:29:45 (#cult) <⇐ pbot: Theoretically, we could just take all of the people that commit crimes and put them on self-driving boats to North Korea. 17:29:51 (#cult) pbot → *white-noise laughter* Sounds like a plan, p.
100% of our code is now generated by a clanker. All of the 500 errors are now handled by a robot that has root on all of our servers. Our CEO is now a chatbot. The board? Also LLMs. Our customers are now LLMs. No humans are involved.
@pistolero @Phantasm @tomatobert @rees indeed this is standard .. in my case is sudo rpm-ostree install zsh then sudo usermod --shell $(which zsh) $USER or sudo lchsh $USER
Fedora Silverblue 44
Make transparent shell.. 1st know default shell is ptyxis dconf write /org/gnome/Ptyxis/Profiles/$(dconf read /org/gnome/Ptyxis/default-profile-uuid | tr -d "'")/opacity 0.85
@pistolero @Phantasm @tomatobert @rees @Penis Remover VIII I have no clippy, iI maybe use search engines simply.. I act with the KISS principle, no fluff. Keep it Simple, Stupid. There is where they do not expect me at all.
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@Death Back when they let you endorse people for random skills, coworkers used to endorse me for random things related to my extemporaneous rants in the break room. (I still have the endorsements for "Keyboards" and "Metal Gear Solid".)
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@7666 @Death I talked to this guy once, and he was running a team that was doing some iOS music app and I had to spend the entire time fighting the urge to ask if he owns 10% of Pied Piper. i_talked_to_this_guy_once.jpg
@phnt @npc Man, I'm on Greg's side here, motherfuckers want top 1% talent and they wanna compare the salary to offshoring to the bottom 1%, like, make up your mind, motherfucker, you want a gas station burrito or you want Alton Brown to fly to your house? These don't cost the same.
@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Man. Years of my life consulting. "Well, for what you want for your time, I could get *twelve* Bangladeshis!" They can go on and get their twelve Bangladeshis, man, like, I'll be here when that finishes playing out.
In my former life, I spend a few years working for a Contacting company - we were expensive and only hired real talent. Rigorous testing for anyone before the job interview even took place. We were expensive as f*ck. Gen-X owner. Nobody took our bids on RFP's seriously.
Never once saw one of our bids on a project get picked up by the big boys or state government.
Not once. They scoffed.
"We can hire 30 people from Palmer group for that!!!" - 64 Year Old Boomer Department Head
(Palmer Group was a well known Jeet-Farm).
We were rolling in money, despite having never, once ever won a bid.
Our job was to show up after the "cheap labor" created a four-alarm fire, and fix it.
And we charged those same 64 year old fat boomers through the nose to do it.
They'd rather pay twice - once for a shit job and then a premium to fix it - than just pay people to do good work up front.
Snowden just ended up depressing me. All that shit happened and the response was "Make them promise (again) to stop doing that (again)" and like...cracka I was at AT&T, I heard about the goddamn "Ha, so the government installs these boxes, we have to split and feed the fiber-optic cables to a different cage that we're not allowed inside, isn't that *weird*?" before the "warrantless wiretapping" scandal dropped and they were already building PRISM before that hit the news, like, every single time it's the same shit, how are people this fucking gullible? Very upset. Not Snowden's fault, but still, like...for a few years, just thinking about Snowden would depress me.
@phnt @SilverDeth @npc What's even more depressing isn't just that very few people truly care, but that half of the people that do are in favor of mass surveillance because "durr he went to russia hes a traitor". This country needs a reset.
1. "that's not happing, you're crazy, shut up" 2. "put him in jail for revealing our secrets shut him up" 3. "everyone already knew this was happening, it's normal, shut up"
Was one of many things to dispel the myth that people will "wake up" if presented the facts in a clean consistent manner.
Turns out they won't wake up, they'd prefer to play silly mind-games with themselves rather than look at the overwhelming evidence that the world is not as rosy as they would like to imagine. Because the implications of facing it are too stwessfuw for them.
I recently heard this exact thing called "the central Baby Boomer lie, that if you just get 'the truth' to a news outlet, everything will change" in a discussion about the new Stephen Spielberg piece of crap about alien disclosure
@cjd Ok but like, what was actionable about these revelations? What could an average person have done?
I was in high school when it happened. I installed httpseverywhere and noscript. I started to avoid using google account wherever there was another option. The admin of a forum I hung out at switched it to https-only
But beyond that? Every day brought more and more depressing news that I could do nothing about. At some point I had to stop reading it @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
@wolf480pl @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday I was assuming this was from the perspective of someone who theoeretically could do something about it because yes everyone understands if you're not even an american there's nothign substtantive you can do. however, your military cooperates with the USA surveillance company Palantir, you could complain about that with your government
The EU keeps pushing against reliance on the US tech industry; unfortunately, they do it for rent-seeking reasons and it's always a half-assed money-grab, but that's something substantive.
@wolf480pl @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday I agree that it's a step up! but just acknowledging that you're still a slave and the sovereign is NOT looking out for YOUR interests
@wolf480pl @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday I'm not 100% sour on the entire concept of governments and people living in Europe shouldn't let America siphon up all their data, for lots of reasons. I have no love for the American empire but I do love my brothers across the ocean.
@phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun tariffs, abandonment vs Russia (we're working on fixing this one), causing a war in middle east, cutting off golden parts for licensed production of US weapons, cutting off spare parts for weapons we purchased from US, embargo on space launches, embargo on integrated circuits, blockading our ports...
@phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun Yeah, but this stuff takes a decade to get from initial design to mass production. I think long term, Europe can do without the US, but the transition could be rough.
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@cjd @wolf480pl @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @mrsaturday @sun For that you have to thank Germany and Erdogan, who uses his borders as a valve whenever he wants something that his NATO "allies" don't want to give him. I know which side of that the State Department is on but Europe's doing that to itself.
Anyway, mass importations are about as disastrous as any other top-down Malthusian nihilist technocrat strategy; that's different from a race thing, you know, Springfield, OH, had 40,000 people and someone at the state department made a deal with the governor of Ohio and then the near-retirement mayor made a deal with the governor and suddenly the population of that town was 60,000, including 20,000 Haitians. A big enough city can absorb that but this was not the case. So the "but they're eating cats" story gets seeded, then anyone that says "Wait, this is kind of weird. These people, because of a decision made in DC, have almost overnight lost the place they have lived their whole lives." and that gets lumped in with the cat thing. Come_unto_me,_ye_opprest.jpg
Well, it wasn't like that until it was - which coincided with mass illegal immigration into the US. So if it was Turkey, then for some reason they never used that lever before 2015...
And when countries all start punching themselves in the faces - except for the ones that America hates - well, prime suspect here is DC.
"Bretton Woods" is what you're looking for. Rockefeller, Roosevelt, Bernays, Dulles. The start was French Positivism, which came from the French Revolution, which was so successful at producing democracy that they ended up with an emperor (though with a few detours like putting in a guillotine). You can draw a very thick line from utilitarianism through French Positivism to "scientific governance" to the current technocratic Malthusian nihilism, which cemented its roots in Bretton Woods and then in the 1990s they finally won.
It is a specific tactic adopted by the same people that presume to engineer society. "There was no vomit on this bus ten minutes ago, I'm just talking about the vomit, not the drugged-out homeless dude that has now started throwing up."
> the timing and coordination with mass illegal immigration into the US
Are you talking about that thing that started in the 1970s under Carter and then Reagan's amnesty bill in the 80s and that accelerated sharply in the 90s when we got the former director of the CIA as president from 1989 to 1993, then the banks directly got to hand-pick the president that tirelessly delivered them bill after bill from 1993 to 2001? NAFTA? How's that coincide with something that happened in 2015 (though closer to 2012 as I recall)?
So, why do the BND and BMBF hate fedi? Same shit as the Kentler Project, you're seeing a tree instead of the organization that planted the orchard.
> exonerates Erdogan
The man basically says "We want some more missiles and jets and if not, we really can't hold back all of these while we're distracted." Then whoever is in charge of Germany says "Oh, no, we're going to take a million of them and then we're gonna freedom-of-movement them at you unless you take enough of them. By the way, your EU votes are worth less than garbage because we run that shit, also."
Oh I fully agree with you here. There's a million and one ways to put the screws to a country in an escalating ladder of fuckery. Starting with trade-fuckery and sending spooks to screw shit up, then writing in their newspaper rags about how the government is nazis - then eventually trying to blackbag the president, and if that doesn't work then starting a war and losing ( 😏 ). It only seems like they have any modicum of respect for countries with nukes.
Well, the really obvious immediate point here is that running around like a conspiracy theorist saying "the people gotta wake up" is nah guh work. So that one can be written off...
If you're trying to move the Overton Window, one point is you shift the conversation away from "people wake up" to "people are fucking worthless cowards" because then it creates a social stratification with the cowards getting made fun of. Now everybody knows what they want to NOT emulate.
Then on the other side, you might decide you are NOT going to worry about the 99%, you're going to worry about creating a lever for the 1% who have the capability to pull it. This is really where stuff like Bitcoin fits in.
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Now there's a different question: Everybody has woken up, now what? What can anybody actually do?
Well, there's approximately 50,000 suicides in the US per year - IRS workforce is something like 100,000 employees.
If everybody takes out just one tax goon before they go, it takes 2 years to wipe out the IRS by pure war of attrition. Assuming zero resignations which is NOT what will happen.
So yea, there's nothing anyone can do about anything except the easy switch, but you're not supposed to know about that because When You Kill Your Enemies They Win, or something...
Won't really work, they will import Indians to do every single job (already are) and then convert White Americans into the Palestinians of America (already are)
Well I (personally) moved to France about 12 years ago, so most of this does not apply to me. The French government (though not perfect) is not actively working to erase the French people...
But yes, in the US, the most bang for your buck is terrorism.
Actually you take like a small battery computer and package it in a tamper-proof 3d printed case with a few hundred grams of explosives and some fiber optic cable (because cutting fiber without detection is IMPOSSIBLE)... You rush somebody and drop the fiber loop around their neck, some mechanism synchs it up - you run away and the computer sits there telling them how long they have left to live and where to send Monero if they want to make it another day - AND, it asks them for wifi (time extension granted in exchange for wifi) and uploads the entire audio track of them whimpering and calling people to raise the money.
That's terrorism, that will trigger mass resignations overnight.
@cjd @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun you were ragging on me calling me a liar and scammer and that I was immoral for quoting bible verses at christians and here you are advocating for that americans should commit acts of terror
If you respect somebody, you don't try to convince them of things that you yourself don't believe.
Regarding terrorism, I said it's the best bang-for-your-buck, and it is.
Voting has no effect, the people that took control of the US created enough rules, exceptions and loopholes to ensure that no legal process will ever actually challenge their power. So that leaves three options: 1. Leave (as I did) - I have not lived in the US for 12 years and I have no intention of going back 2. Just take it, accept that you're a slave, and pray that the system will care for your (if you're connected then maybe this will be okay) 3. Press the easy switch. Go back to the old game (violence), which the new game (politics) was created to replace, before the new game was rigged so that no one could ever win.
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TL;DR: INDEPENDENT FEDERATED TRUST AND SAFETY (but first I talk about mirroring for a couple of paragraphs)
A lot of the URLs can be mirrored to your instance locally and read/replied to/reposted on your instance without making you look at the glowie servers. Paste the URLs into the search bar, they'll show up on your instance. This should probably be easier in most FEs.⁰
You know what's better than archive.today links? Mirroring the shit onto a few dozen fedi instances. You put, e.g., wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas… into the search bar, it is mirrored to your instance. If you reply to it or repost it (or you are on Pleroma and you smash dat like), it is mirrored to instances where someone follows you.
IFTAS is making another push for centralizing fedi. IFTAS is a surveillance/steering organization that has enough overlap with Newsmast, the Social Web Foundation, Oliphant, FediMod, indieweb.social, hachyderm.io, that they are effectively the same organization. (Sockpuppets are bad when you're LITERALLY HARASSING JOURNALISTS but it is fine to use orgs as sockpuppets. These people spin up 501(c)(3)s faster than most of us spin up domains. The orgs are, not coincidentally, all based in .us/.de/.uk/.ca.) Here's who they are: about.iftas.org/advisory/ .
The organizations get government/corporate funding through organizations like nlnet or the Social Web Foudnation ( socialwebfoundation.org/2025/0… ) or the Ford Foundation through the DIIF. They use this sort of thing as a mechanism to pay themselves, so Newsmast "buys" indieweb.social from Tim Chambers ( timothychambers.net/2025/03/27… ), who was a member of IFTAS ( about.iftas.org/2024/07/12/tim… , "Tim has been at the forefront of pioneering strategies that leverage technology to promote social good and a healthier social web. [⋯] Tim’s deep understanding of the disinformation landscape further strengthens his value to the IFTAS Advisory Board." ). The Executive Director of IFTAS is employed by Newsmast and it should probably be really fuckin' easy to call this a conflict of interest. I don't know how much money they move like this: my concern is not with hustlers using tax dollars and "charitable" contributions to get paid for forcing their politics, you know, I don't like it but my main concern right now is that they are trying to kill fedi.
IFTAS has recently been hand-wringing about the ratio of jannies to humans going and pushing the coop model. They've also been very interested in regulation, trotting out the "Oh, it's not the 'wild west' any more! You can't just write whatever you want on the *internet*!" See attached, and see the IFTAS founder's push: jaz.co.uk/2026/03/13/there-are… . Jaz-Michael King, head of IFTAS, incidentally, lists Newsmast as his employer. They are creating a fake problem to force their solution. This is part of the (also attached) broader strategy from the .us/.de/.uk/.ca governments to stamp out "misinformation" on fedi: the .de government refers to fedi as "The Hydra on the Web" and expresses frustration that they can't use NetzDG as a pretext to take down random Peertube instances. (They did indeed say the quiet part out loud and it's in the PDF.)
IFTAS's "CSAM detector" (attachment scanner) "ran out of funding" right when the USAID faucet ran dry. ( wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas… ) Before they did, they grabbed about 1.86M files from fedi: about.iftas.org/2025/03/27/con… . (In addition to things like requiring access to a server admin account for "CARIAD", cariad.fedicheck.iftas.org/ , a closed-source tool to show you something that fba.ryona.agency / fed.dembased.xyz will already show you, for free, with source, and without requiring you to give them access to read an admin account. Anyone wanna spend a minute spinning up a new instance and checking to see what requests they make exactly?) It's one thing for them to say "Oh, you're unsafe, you said a hate speech" but it's another *entirely* for them to say "You don't use the CSAM protection!" (I don't know about other admins, but speaking of USAID, very few pedos have been visible from here since that dried up. Either they finally, with extremely coincidental timing, realized that I put heads on pikes, or maybe there was not a coincidence.) This is gonna be the wedge. It's easy to say "I don't stop people from discussing their opinions, even if you don't like their opinions", but nobody on the network actually wants to host anyone's CP bin.
Oliphant's blocklist is dead now. "Note: As of April 15, 2026, the Oliphant Unified Tier 0 Blocklist has been retired. There are numerous instructions on this page to create your own, but we're moving to a more FIRES-centric model, and I want to support that going forward. Rather than combining various blocklists here, I'd prefer to forward FIRES datasets as a better alternative to sharing moderation advisories, as it is a living protocol." writer.oliphant.social/oliphan… . FIRES is a spinoff of the new Fedimod shit out of *Germany* because YSHL. It is done by IFTAS member Emilia Smith ( hachyderm.io/@thisismissem , github.com/thisismissem ), or at least she's running the Github org. It is worth noting who was on the Oliphant blocklist at "tier 0" from the beginning. (Say what you want about Seirdy but he's at least transparent about his notes.) FSE is always top of all of these goddamn lists, before they got arround to adding Pieville or Gab or whatever explicitly angry racist instances: why is that? (Well, why the fuck do you *think*?)
So IFTAS builds these things, then conducts these polls: "Which do you want, this, this, or this?" All of the options are, of course, things they want to push; for example, "What if you had automated threat-sharing? What if you had an automated blocklist?" They give you four choices and all of the options are things they want to push, in some cases things they have already developed. When their 2026 needs assessment survey comes around, I suggest you take it. (There's probably some funding requirement that demands that they do a survey, so they do one to show that it's super important that they get funding; in either case, it's also a classic "manufacturing consent" maneuver, it is old as shit.)
You may be familiar with Newsmast ( newsmastfoundation.org/about/ ). I had never heard of them until I wrote an MRF that automatically added #ukraine #russia #elonmusk #trump #uspol #putin #economy #antifa to every post on FSE; IDIFTL. ( git.freespeechextremist.com/gi… ) To my surprise, a series of bots started reposting everything on FSE. Even shit like @whereverbot and @lainbot. I also started getting scraped by backend.newsmast.org, which is looking for not just posts but tracking follower/following relationships. (Larger write-up fsebugoutzone.org/objects/377a… , media.freespeechextremist.com/… ). I wouldn't be surprised if the fedi "OSINT" scraper tool (remember the one that was like, "IT EXPOSES WHO TALKS TO WHO" and people just used it for fun instead of being terrified?) from a couple of years back was a prototype for this.
There are a lot of instances that are socks used by the IFTAS crowd. For example, the eleven instances¹ that were part of the Fediverse Governance paper ( github.com/fediverse-governanc… ) or instances where they don't even bother to change the links so their "About" page just links to Newsmast's "About" page: fsebugoutzone.org/objects/e67f… .
So I mention, like, "They aren't really against centralization. I took the survey they gave last year and the questions ranged from 'completely irrelevant' to 'insulting'; the main problem was that they were looking for a conclusion and the survey assumed the conclusion. That is, the survey existed to validate the thing they wanted to push. It was stuff like 'Do you suffer mental health problems because of unmoderated content?' and 'Would an automated blocking system help you block better?'" fsebugoutzone.org/notice/B33Gl… .
Dots connected this week: the 2023 "Fediverse Governance" paper, IFTAS (Independent Federated Trust and Safety), Newsmast (the organization that is responsible for scraping fedi and also people's following/follower lists to build a social map of fedi), . I can't be the only one to have noticed these people are all the same group, but I have never heard anyone mention it: fsebugoutzone.org/notice/B5Ke0… . Jon Pincus, outspoken IFTAS tendril and member of the "Disinformation Defense League" (which wants a tax on targeted ad revenue to be earmarked for journos, I SHIT YOU NOT), has been bending cwebber's ear; cwebber's now on social.coop (which pulled in $20,000 per month last time I checked), one of the original eleven¹ instances that were part of the original fediverse governance paper (coauthored by Kissane ahead of the founding of IFTAS). A lot of these things that came out of nowhere, they were astroturfed by these people.
Here's an example: why all the press about the "CSAM problem" on fedi, where did that come from? These people built a detector, they want to create demand for the detector, so they reach a few tendrils out.
hachyderm.io is another great example of the astroturfing. They show up out of nowhere, have a bunch of tech celebrities on there, then the admin starts making these impassioned declarations about how fedi "needs to do $x" or "won't survive without $y".
:glowingthedark: cosocial.ca was the topic of this thread where phnt (I should tag people that were involved but I also think, like, maybe they will get spammed) posted this:
> The sleezy kind of freedom haters. They are too afraid of backlash that play these dumb masquerading games to look like "the good guys trying to save this network". Their goal is to just turn this place into another corporate Twatter place nobody asked for.
This is accurate. If you have noticed that these people get hostile and instance-block you if you ever question their premise (as happened in that thread when phnt asked some pretty obviously good-faith questions), this is because they are pushing an agenda. People interact with them and exclaim, "How annoying! He refused to explain what he meant, he instance-blocked me for asking why or questioning the approach!" They are trying to present "Choose the color of the bikeshed!" as a choice before you've agreed to let them build a house. The style of interaction is driven by the motives: you think you're talking to a person, but you are talking to an agenda.
They are trying to push an agenda. The agenda is to kill fedi by turning it into a centrally controlled system, these are the mechanics.
There, that's it, that's my tinfoil screed. No action item. Please see my recent posts/reposts over the last four days for more information.
⁰ FediBBS, you type a comma, like you just do `, $url`, but very few things are "easy" on FediBBS. I think, like, this should probably be done in a similar way to the thing I suggested to feld where it's just an object lookup and the frontend. Several of the repos mentioned here are mirrored to git.freespeechextremist.com/ now and I think revolver should probably include some kind of "import/mirror git repo" feature in v2, or anyway I have "git support" in there somewhere, so, like, while FediBBS can just do tarball upload, a server that can absorb git repos and let you clone from any node, that'd be cool; I did this with IPFS but IPFS is, as I have mentioned and you may have noticed, slow and terrible and shitty and unreliable and painful.
I think the American empire has become a net negative for almost everyone in the world. So I'm pro seeing it overthrown (even though it's probably gonna be super messy).
Weapons advancement is just another technological advancement, which I think is cool.
I like when victimized people are able to get vengeance against their oppressors, and right now they aren't really getting it - they just become depressed and commit suicide.
So, with recognition of the fact that some of the side-effects will be things that are categorically bad, I'm kind of in the "should" space here.
I'd also add a bit of crisis bargaining theory here:
Politics is a negotiated settlement to avoid civil war. Any negotiated settlement must reflect the balance of power. If the ruling class screwed up so badly that a civil war has a better expected outcome for you than working within the political system does, then you fight.
If you don't have a red line beyond which you will fight, then you have zero bargaining power.
@cjd And by "fight" I mean any negative-sum process that hurts your enemy. Could be labor strikes, could be armed uprising, could be destroying civil infrastructure. @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun @rees
There's a blog called Anarchonomicon where he (despite the debates, it IS a he) has a lot of really good theory about effective revolutionary strategy...
War is the default state. And because killing and dying sucks, people invented a game and swore that they would all follow the rules.
Well, that works until somebody starts cheating. When they start cheating, the only RATIONAL move is to say "okay, game's over, it's back to the old way again until everybody can remember why they agreed to follow the rules"
@cjd @wolf480pl @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun Backpack full of Pi Zero Ws with batteries for a few hundo. You write a piece of firmware to listen and randomly spam deauths. Tape them inside light switches or on top of ceiling tiles. You have now shut down almost any business on earth.
The thing about the collar idea is it costs you maybe 1k to build, and it nets you maybe 20-100k in ransom (depending on the target). This is late Rome here, so you gotta be thinking like Vandals / Goths. Your war needs to be continuously profitable.
@wolf480pl @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun If you mean Poland, then the economy was structured very differently back then; look at how it has recently played out in Greece and Spain.
@cjd @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun Ah, you been in France too long, thinking you're gonna get some Corsican psychopath to come gun down all the idiots.
"Hej! Gerwazy! daj gwintówkę! niech strącę tę makówkę!"
which means
"Hey! Jarvis! gimme the rifle! I will pop that poppyhead!"
Ofc in the text where it comes from, it has nothing to do with removing scumbags from power, and everything to do with a neighbourly revenge, which the whole play makes fun of.
@wolf480pl @phnt @lss @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun Well, the stated goal was unintentionally ambiguous: I meant to say that I was going to do hellthreads on LinkedIn. But the result was delightful so I rolled with it.
@cjd @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun a more period-accurate version would be: "For the mob, use grapeshot," and it's a quote from the Duke of Wellington. What pistolero said reminded me of Napoleon killing some protesters on the streets of Paris with it.
Okay I had a bad translation of mitraille, didn't realize it was also just any hail of bullets - and grapeshot (or buckshot) is a different vibe than machine gun fire...
> Ok but like, what was actionable about these revelations? What could an average person have done?
Obviously, the answer is "just accept defeat and slide into complacency".
The reason the market is flooded with IoT shit packed to the brim with surveillance gear is that people keep buying it, because they don't care. Nobody makes a stink with their local PD for taking the Amazon Ring deal. Nobody stopped using hardware or software from any of these companies. "httpseverywhere" doesn't mean shit if these companies are on the other side of the cert.
But people went out of their way to shit on people that *did* care. Conspiracy theorists. "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide!" "Why do you love terrorists and pedophiles so much?!" "Don't you realize that law enforcement is 'going dark' and they need a Golden Key?" The "average person" went out of their goddamn way to encourage complacency and learned helplessness. The rallying cry was "Make them stop promising to do that!" and "Shut the fuck up about claiming the government could abuse things." It was the most limp-dick response anyone could come up with and there it was. People will boycott Disney over some culture war bullshit because a shitty movie *matters* and the goddamn psychopaths steering the goddamn country somehow *doesn't* matter: you're paranoid. If the "average person" had done *less* to shut down opposition, that would have been enough. when_companies_joined_PRISM-1540790793.jpg
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You're not gonna get this kind of thing out of the people - particularly the American people.
But you know, there's somebody out there that looks at this situation and say "you know, this could all be mine"... That's the guy who will change the dynamic...
> You're not gonna get this kind of thing out of the people - particularly the American people.
If you could get it out of *anyone*, it's Americans.
> But you know, there's somebody out there that looks at this situation and say "you know, this could all be mine"... That's the guy who will change the dynamic...
@phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun Not every communication platform was part of PRISM, and at that time unencrypted http was pretty widespread, so https matterd against "Upstream" (beam splitters in the mysterious room with no door handles, router rootkits, etc).
Well until bots using residential proxies made everyone hide behind CloudFlare
> Not every communication platform was part of PRISM
Sure, but how many people ditched Apple *and* Microsoft?
> beam splitters in the mysterious room with no door handles, router rootkits, etc)
Most of the TLS cracking that the NSA does is done after the fact. They just dump *everything* and then put the cluster to brute-forcing it afterwards.
> Well until bots using residential proxies made everyone hide behind CloudFlare
I defused 1.5m residential proxies on fedilist.com without Cloudfed using one weird trick; see attached.
(The idea was that if he ended up being able to predict the IP he was coming out of, I'd switch to using hash+nonce, but apparently they can't do that.) scraper_mitigation.gif
There was a window to make alternatives visible. Office, OS, domestic online services/the opposite, xmpp/fedi etc. 2020ff cemented worldviews. I guess 5 to 10% more are now suspicious of big networks in any area. Well maybe 3%. The EU is already subverting the sovereign computing area. Tja.
Example: Maybe only your brother will use solar powered meshastic. But when SHTF maybe this helps you and him.
you can show them books about mkultra, gladio, full with references to released government files and they still say you're a crazy conspiracy theorist.
i think it's self-protection to a degree? no one likes their world view to collapse.
@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Yeah, the guy himself, that was top-shelf shit he did. And then he got on the right people and those people said "Okay, if we release this, they'll say that this other thing never happened, so then we drop evidence that the other thing did happen." It was flawless.
@phnt @SilverDeth @npc one of the funnier things wikileaks did was fashion a scheduling algorithm for their drops. they sat on archives they had already vetted and just dispensed batches at random offsets (and openly told people they did this) because it meant the government damage control team couldn't just sweep it all with rushing in to an iran war or whatever the fuck.
Both Little Bill and Classic Caillou are furious after finding out the family is going on vacation to a "Girly" theme park!I'm a Animator who goes by the nam...
White-only things are the only things that are required to have 'diversity' and 'quotas'. Jewish shit, or black shit, or 'latinx' shit can segregate all they want, but as soon as something destined for white people is created, it is forced to open its doors to non whites.
> Politicians are trying to make us busy fighting other ethnicities so that we don't unite to fight them.
Not quite...
They create multi-ethnic societies to break down social bonds so that people are easier to rule.
BUT, the thing "lets just all just unite against them", sadly, doesn't work. It's never worked in history. It's poison medicine, same as "vote harder".
If you want to "unite" against the politicians, what will actually work is gonna look a hell of a lot like Mafias and street gangs - which are 100% totally and completely ethnic. It's a bitter pill, but once they've managed to create a multi-ethnic society, they've already basically won.
@cjd @Suzu@detroitriotcity.com @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @multiversal_gangstalker@poa.st @mrsaturday @sun @rees "Politicians are trying to make us busy fighting other ethnicities so that we don't unite to fight them. Therefore, I will fight other ethnicities, to foil the politicians' plan"
There's an Arab saying, "My brother and myself against my cousin, my cousin and myself against the outsider." You go to Ireland and say "But the English are *white*" and see how many people you convince. Tell the Azov battalion that Russians are white.
"White" is broad enough to be meaningless. For one thing, it includes the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Roosevelts.
It is, at any rate, a heuristic; it's a bad heuristic. I get along better with almost any other LA native (including the ones whose parents speak Spanish or Mandarin) than I would with a randomly selected New Hampshire or Vermont honkey. It's not true in every case (because it's a heuristic, not an absolute).
> Every mafia is ethnic
"Families tend to share gene pools."
I think you mean they tend to share an ethnicity and cultural background because they tend to start as a family and the friends of that family.
Now there is actually a side-point to this: While ethnic groups are the only groups that will ever really project power for their members, that doesn't mean you need to get sucked into race warring...
You want to keep your eyes on the prize, which is seizing power. And in some cases you might find temporary alliances with other ethnic groups (i.e. Nations) can be had for mutual gain.
It's exactly the same dynamic as gangs in a prison...
The fact that Mafia and Family are synonyms is just indicative of how important blood is to building trusted relationships.
> "White" is broad enough to be meaningless
You're hitting on something that is well known. Ethnic group boundaries are fuzzy and there are groups within groups.
This is why proposals like "deport the nons" never make it off the drawing board. They die of edge cases (half-breeds, and adopted, and "yeah but not him")...
But this doesn't mean ethnicity doesn't exist.
> I get along better with almost any other LA native
Well yeah... Social connection is obligatory. If you have to move a body, you're better off asking a black coworker than a twin brother separated at birth. But if those are your choices, you're probably going to jail.
The arabs got it right, if you need someone you can TRUST, you're looking for the closest social connection AND the closest family connection you can have. First brother, then cousin, then sub-ethnic group, then ethnic group, then race...
> The fact that Mafia and Family are synonyms is just indicative of how important blood is to building trusted relationships.
Well, that's a family, not an ethnicity. Your daughter marries someone, that person is now in the family. Noticing that a group of related people tend to share an ethnicity is looking at two symptoms with the same cause: parents, brothers, children, cousins, people you grew up with, people that raised you, people you raised. Watsisface's assertion, "I can't do anything meaningful because I can't hang a 'whites only' sign", is kind of absurd.
> But this doesn't mean ethnicity doesn't exist.
Nobody's said that. I did say it's a bad heuristic. The issue's fraught enough without introducing neolib taqiyya.
> First brother, then cousin, then sub-ethnic group, then ethnic group, then race...
My brother is an idiot. (Not that he's stupid, but he is an idiot.)
Hackers, then other autists, then countrymen, then nobody.
The point I was making about Islam holds. Islam isn't an ethnicity. autism_and_gun.png
> people tend to simplify political powers hinging on keywords like ethnic identity to draw support for wars because it's actually important your warriors want to go to war
This is absolutely true, yes.
> ethnic cohesion, observable in the germanic and celtic tribes of (their) early bronze age
I mean, you also see them selling each other out to Romans a bit later. Tribal cohesion (that is, within Dunbar's number) is a distinct thing from ethnic cohesion.
> this is an understandable mistake/politically driven simplification
Just a regular simplification. You don't really distinguish what breed mixes a pack of wild dogs are, you just keep them away from your chickens. Sometimes it matters, you know, like whether it's a black bear or a grizzly, but the Roman military was more prestige-driven than anything: generals had a lot of latitude and you got to be a general by having enough money to hire an army, then it was largely about bringing home spoils, kings in cages, weird animals, expanding borders. So it was mostly that inter-tribal politics didn't matter much to the Romans. The US, right, we barely cared about which tribe was which except the people that lived in the frontiers. There were just the ones that integrated and the ones that shot arrows at people laying train tracks.
> It allowed fluid, and not borderless, but agreement based travel for trade and easy communication that looks a lot like people being of the same ethnic identity. it isn't.
Yeah, I think this is reasonable, but I'd qualify with "looked like to the extent the Romans cared to look".
this is sort of rambly, i'm trying to communicate a lot of info.
@Suzu @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @cjd @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees it's important to note that people tend to simplify political powers hinging on keywords like ethnic identity to draw support for wars because it's actually important your warriors want to go to war as people being naturally driven to protect ethnic identity. there's a lot of what i'd call ethnic cohesion, observable in the germanic and celtic tribes of (their) early bronze age, where while there was fighting between blanket-termed people (blanket-termed externally by Roman sources, because tribes that got along and spoke similar (if not the same) tongues were passed off as the same people, and, I mean, this is an understandable mistake/politically driven simplification because if they're working together as a unified force against your empire, then..) and certainly feud history between families that determined splits, there were typically family/tribe-based relations, with oligarchic and upper class driven (I mean, obviously, if a family holds more riches, they can fund whatever they want, and grabbing that funding is very important.) kingdom-like structures coming later for some or co-existing (at a slightly smaller scale) for others. It allowed fluid, and not borderless, but agreement based travel for trade and easy communication that looks a lot like people being of the same ethnic identity. it isn't.
re: this is sort of rambly, i'm trying to communicate a lot of info.
@SilverDeth @Suzu @cjd @mrsaturday @multiversal_gangstalker @npc @phnt @rees @sun @wolf480pl and like, if you time traveled to the middle of europe ~1000 BC and tried saying to some local chief that their family is the same as the family down the rhine, they'd straight up kill you, not even necessarily because they hate the guys down the rhine but because you're ignoring a bunch of important (some may even say very personal, like, on a familial level) history that makes this family and that family different. ethnicity is scientifically a thing but sociologically only a higher-level power grab. even now, just go to somewhere in bumfuck ireland and see how many fights you can start by pointing out one of the shepherds down the street has a wife from a family across the feud, and that it shouldn't matter because "you're both irish", we don't even have to leave a single ethnicity to realize ethnicity does not socially matter in the positive.
re: this is sort of rambly, i'm trying to communicate a lot of info.
@SilverDeth @Suzu @cjd @mrsaturday @multiversal_gangstalker @npc @phnt @rees @sun @wolf480pl there was a lot of nuance, and hilariously what i find to be an even simpler explanation of cohesion than "well, that guy's blonde" across several hundreds of miles, to ethnicity as an idea in the early periods, before it can be ~entirely explained by a monarchy just power grabbing.
re: this is sort of rambly, i'm trying to communicate a lot of info.
You don't need to theorize what would happen if you dropped a bunch of men in a place where they have to fight for survival. We already know exactly what happens, because they already do that - it's called prison.
And in prison they form groups, which are almost 100% aligned with ethnicities.
@Wolf480pl @Phantasm @multiversal_gangstalker @Caleb James DeLisle @pistolero @Suzu @rees @SilverDeth @npc In science, a claim is only considered a "proven fact" or "reality" if it can be physically tested, measured, and verified by independent observers using modern technology. Because the stone is sacred and protected by a silver frame, no scientist has ever been allowed to take a sample or run a definitive test (like carbon dating or spectral analysis) to confirm it is a meteorite.
Therefore, when scientists say it is "speculation," they are not denying the Islamic history or calling it a lie; they are simply admitting that without physical testing, they cannot scientifically certify it as a meteorite. Many geologists actually lean towards it being agate or basalt based on visual inspection of the fragments, while others support the meteorite theory based on historical context and iridium levels in local sand.
The lack of scientific testing does not disprove the Islamic narrative; it simply means the scientific community cannot classify it as a confirmed meteorite without data. The "true history" you refer to is preserved in Islamic texts and belief, which stands independently of scientific validation.
The "proofs" often cited are actually hypotheses based on indirect evidence:
Iridium Levels: Geologists found high levels of iridium (a metal common in meteorites) in sand samples near the Kaaba, which supports the meteorite theory proposed by Paul Partsch in 1857.
Historical Accounts: Some records describe the stone floating in water (which would rule out dense rocks like basalt but fit with porous volcanic glass or pumice) and local legends of it "falling from the sky."
Visual Inspection: In 1974, scientists Robert Dietz and John McHone, along with an anonymous Arab geologist, examined the stone and observed diffusion banding, leading them to conclude it is likely agate (a terrestrial rock), not a meteorite.
Other analyses suggest it could be basalt or obsidian.
Because the stone is sacred, fragmented, and sealed in a silver frame, no scientist has ever been permitted to take a sample or perform non-destructive testing (like X-ray fluorescence) to confirm its composition. Therefore, while the meteorite theory is popular and aligns with the tradition of it coming from "heaven," it remains a strong probability rather than a scientifically verified fact. The Islamic belief that it is from Paradise stands on faith, independent of geological classification.
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in reply to Wiz • • •@Wiz Last year, if you had asked me if FSE would ever raise $0 or be named by Gusto as the sassiest scale-up in the tristate area, I would have said "No way."
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in reply to neopolitan • • •@neopolitan @Wiz Everything you know about b2b sales is wrong. It's not about sales. It's not even about businesses or b2b.
Want to know what it's about?
It's about the invisible thread connecting two human beings in a moment of authentic vulnerability.
When you strip away the transactions, the contracts, the quarterly targets—what remains? Trust. Presence. The courage to show up as your whole self instead of your "professional persona."
I spent 15 years in sales before I realized: every deal I won was because someone felt seen. Not sold to. Seen.
The companies that will own the next decade aren't optimizing conversion funnels. They're creating spaces where the person on the other end of the call feels like they matter—that their problems aren't a line item on a spreadsheet.
B2B isn't business-to-business anymore. It's human-to-human. It always was. We just forgot.
The question isn't "how do I close more deals?" It's "how do I show up with such radical authenticity that people want to build something with me?"
When you lead with that energy, the deals close themselves.
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> You win, but at what cost?
I didn't even get to play my trump card yet:
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Respect.
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in reply to • • •@mint I see nothing wrong with that man's post and I would have sponsored it if I was his sponsor.
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in reply to Pawlicker • • •@sendpaws @zer0unplanned some random overseas recruiter recently tried to connect to me and offer me an amazing opportunity based on my skills. I had a chance to take part in a project to improve how LLMs generate open source code...
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in reply to rees • • •@rees @mischievoustomato VSCode and Claude Code is where the best productivity is at. If you aren't using those, you are leaving productivity on the table and your letting your team and employer down. Don't do that.
#Productivity #Dev #NodeJS #JavaScript #LLMsAreTheFuture
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that's an neat reframe, but i'm going to push back on that.
why this works
- if you have an autonomous boat + criminals + international law isn't enforced + you send everyone to a barren wasteland then the number of criminals is sure to go down. that's not weird sociopathic reasoning, you're just pattern-matching.
what still needs fixing
- you're a fucking terrible person
That's a good place to leave it.
(think i got most of the claudisms)
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in reply to Q.U.I.N.N. • • •@icedquinn @rees @mischievoustomato @phnt Should have asked about Albania instead of North Korea.
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17:29:45 (#cult) <⇐ pbot: Theoretically, we could just take all of the people that commit crimes and put them on self-driving boats to North Korea.
17:29:51 (#cult) pbot → *white-noise laughter* Sounds like a plan, p.
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in reply to Phantasm • • •@phnt @rees @mischievoustomato My company just stopped writing code.
I know what you're asking. What? How?
100% of our code is now generated by a clanker. All of the 500 errors are now handled by a robot that has root on all of our servers. Our CEO is now a chatbot. The board? Also LLMs. Our customers are now LLMs. No humans are involved.
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in reply to pistolero • — (0.0.0.0/ 0) •chsh -s $(which zsh)Then install power lever 10k etc
I love and have it in a few pod's or containers..
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Make transparent shell.. 1st know default shell is ptyxis
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in reply to Penis Remover VIII • • •@FrailLeaf @mischievoustomato @phnt @rees @zer0unplanned It looks like you're trying to write a post, but you forgot to attach manpregnant Clippy.
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in reply to pistolero • — (0.0.0.0/ 0) •I act with the KISS principle, no fluff.
Keep it Simple, Stupid.
There is where they do not expect me at all.
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in reply to Sophia Tolstaya • • •@Death Back when they let you endorse people for random skills, coworkers used to endorse me for random things related to my extemporaneous rants in the break room. (I still have the endorsements for "Keyboards" and "Metal Gear Solid".)
But that was hog-era thinking. We now live in a post-hog world. (They will all be blown off.)
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in reply to 7666 • • •@7666 @Death I talked to this guy once, and he was running a team that was doing some iOS music app and I had to spend the entire time fighting the urge to ask if he owns 10% of Pied Piper.
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in reply to pistolero • • •@7666 @Death Okay, actually, now that I think about it, he's like a combination:
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in reply to pistolero • • •2) how did you not punch him, exactly?
3) did he get it when you were subtly making fun of him?
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> 2) how did you not punch him, exactly?
Video call.
> 3) did he get it when you were subtly making fun of him?
I didn't, I managed to not *once* ask him if the other guy was an "incubee".
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In my former life, I spend a few years working for a Contacting company - we were expensive and only hired real talent. Rigorous testing for anyone before the job interview even took place. We were expensive as f*ck. Gen-X owner. Nobody took our bids on RFP's seriously.
Never once saw one of our bids on a project get picked up by the big boys or state government.
Not once. They scoffed.
"We can hire 30 people from Palmer group for that!!!"
- 64 Year Old Boomer Department Head
(Palmer Group was a well known Jeet-Farm).
We were rolling in money, despite having never, once ever won a bid.
Our job was to show up after the "cheap labor" created a four-alarm fire, and fix it.
And we charged those same 64 year old fat boomers through the nose to do it.
They'd rather pay twice - once for a shit job and then a premium to fix it - than just pay people to do good work up front.
I say it again: Fucking boomers.
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I was the guy with the Edward Snowden poster in his office.
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in reply to SilverDeth • • •@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Ha, NICE.
Snowden just ended up depressing me. All that shit happened and the response was "Make them promise (again) to stop doing that (again)" and like...cracka I was at AT&T, I heard about the goddamn "Ha, so the government installs these boxes, we have to split and feed the fiber-optic cables to a different cage that we're not allowed inside, isn't that *weird*?" before the "warrantless wiretapping" scandal dropped and they were already building PRISM before that hit the news, like, every single time it's the same shit, how are people this fucking gullible? Very upset. Not Snowden's fault, but still, like...for a few years, just thinking about Snowden would depress me.
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in reply to :conga_parrot::conga_parrot::conga_parrot::conga_parrot: • • •@mrsaturday @SilverDeth @npc @phnt it follows the extremely simple pattern of shitbags everywhere
1. "that's not happing, you're crazy, shut up"
2. "put him in jail for revealing our secrets shut him up"
3. "everyone already knew this was happening, it's normal, shut up"
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in reply to Q.U.I.N.N. • • •@icedquinn @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @mrsaturday this is the only section I didn't know!
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Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to Blurry Moon • • •Was one of many things to dispel the myth that people will "wake up" if presented the facts in a clean consistent manner.
Turns out they won't wake up, they'd prefer to play silly mind-games with themselves rather than look at the overwhelming evidence that the world is not as rosy as they would like to imagine. Because the implications of facing it are too stwessfuw for them.
Cowardice.
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in reply to Blurry Moon • • •Tangentially related
Wolf480pl
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Ok but like, what was actionable about these revelations? What could an average person have done?
I was in high school when it happened. I installed httpseverywhere and noscript. I started to avoid using google account wherever there was another option. The admin of a forum I hung out at switched it to https-only
But beyond that? Every day brought more and more depressing news that I could do nothing about. At some point I had to stop reading it
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explain to me how voting in Poland will affect the US spying on its allies' citizens?
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> there's nothign substtantive you can do
The EU keeps pushing against reliance on the US tech industry; unfortunately, they do it for rent-seeking reasons and it's always a half-assed money-grab, but that's something substantive.
Blurry Moon
in reply to pistolero • • •@phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @cjd @mrsaturday so-called "sovereign computing":
you are now the property of your local sovereign
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in reply to Blurry Moon • • •I'd rather be property of a local sovereign than of a global sovereign
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in reply to Blurry Moon • • •@sun @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday
The sovereign wants GDP, and I'm lucky enough that he can't yet generate GDP without keeping his subjects well fed and educated.
Unfortunately there are people who want to change that *gestures vaguely in the direction of the Silicon Valley*
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> I'm not 100% sour on the entire concept of governments and people living in Europe
I'm sour on both!
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in reply to pistolero • • •Yeah, but there's only so far it can go, before US retaliates.
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tariffs, abandonment vs Russia (we're working on fixing this one), causing a war in middle east, cutting off golden parts for licensed production of US weapons, cutting off spare parts for weapons we purchased from US, embargo on space launches, embargo on integrated circuits, blockading our ports...
it's quite a wide range
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> tariffs
The sooner everyone gets off the IMF/WBG/WTO corn syrup teat, the better.
> abandonment vs Russia
Don't worry, they hate Russia enough that they won't do this.
> cutting off golden parts for licensed production of US weapons
Before 1939, Poland was one of the major centers of math and physics. I don't see why there shouldn't be more domestic designs and manufacturing.
> [trade trade trade]
It's a boob that corn syrup comes out of.
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in reply to pistolero • • •Yeah, but this stuff takes a decade to get from initial design to mass production. I think long term, Europe can do without the US, but the transition could be rough.
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @wolf480pl @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @mrsaturday @sun For that you have to thank Germany and Erdogan, who uses his borders as a valve whenever he wants something that his NATO "allies" don't want to give him. I know which side of that the State Department is on but Europe's doing that to itself.
Anyway, mass importations are about as disastrous as any other top-down Malthusian nihilist technocrat strategy; that's different from a race thing, you know, Springfield, OH, had 40,000 people and someone at the state department made a deal with the governor of Ohio and then the near-retirement mayor made a deal with the governor and suddenly the population of that town was 60,000, including 20,000 Haitians. A big enough city can absorb that but this was not the case. So the "but they're eating cats" story gets seeded, then anyone that says "Wait, this is kind of weird. These people, because of a decision made in DC, have almost overnight lost the place they have lived their whole lives." and that gets lumped in with the cat thing.
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in reply to pistolero • • •Well, it wasn't like that until it was - which coincided with mass illegal immigration into the US. So if it was Turkey, then for some reason they never used that lever before 2015...
And when countries all start punching themselves in the faces - except for the ones that America hates - well, prime suspect here is DC.
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> Well, it wasn't like that until it was
"Bretton Woods" is what you're looking for. Rockefeller, Roosevelt, Bernays, Dulles. The start was French Positivism, which came from the French Revolution, which was so successful at producing democracy that they ended up with an emperor (though with a few detours like putting
in a guillotine). You can draw a very thick line from utilitarianism through French Positivism to "scientific governance" to the current technocratic Malthusian nihilism, which cemented its roots in Bretton Woods and then in the 1990s they finally won.
> except for the ones that America hates
The CIA, not America.
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> cemented its roots
GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING MIXED METAPHOR
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to pistolero • • •> Well, it wasn't like that until it was
I'm specifically referring here to emptying out every prison in Africa and importing them on small boats under the banner of "refugees".
This was ~nonexistent until around 2015.
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> This was ~nonexistent until around 2015.
It is a specific tactic adopted by the same people that presume to engineer society. "There was no vomit on this bus ten minutes ago, I'm just talking about the vomit, not the drugged-out homeless dude that has now started throwing up."
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> the timing and coordination with mass illegal immigration into the US
Are you talking about that thing that started in the 1970s under Carter and then Reagan's amnesty bill in the 80s and that accelerated sharply in the 90s when we got the former director of the CIA as president from 1989 to 1993, then the banks directly got to hand-pick the president that tirelessly delivered them bill after bill from 1993 to 2001? NAFTA? How's that coincide with something that happened in 2015 (though closer to 2012 as I recall)?
So, why do the BND and BMBF hate fedi? Same shit as the Kentler Project, you're seeing a tree instead of the organization that planted the orchard.
> exonerates Erdogan
The man basically says "We want some more missiles and jets and if not, we really can't hold back all of these while we're distracted." Then whoever is in charge of Germany says "Oh, no, we're going to take a million of them and then we're gonna freedom-of-movement them at you unless you take enough of them. By the way, your EU votes are worth less than garbage because we run that shit, also."
I'm not pretending the CIA and the banks are not pushing policy but fuck's sake, there is no exonerating Erdogan, and for that matter, Germany.
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •Ok I guess that's something an average person *in the US* could've done.
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in reply to Blurry Moon • • •yeah you're fine, I just forgot I asked a 2in1 question and you were answering the different part
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> explain to me how voting in Poland will affect the US spying on its allies' citizens?
We do that because you hand us the keys. There'd be far less if far fewer people handed over the keys.
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to Wolf480pl • • •Hey Wolf, long time no chat!
Well, the really obvious immediate point here is that running around like a conspiracy theorist saying "the people gotta wake up" is nah guh work. So that one can be written off...
If you're trying to move the Overton Window, one point is you shift the conversation away from "people wake up" to "people are fucking worthless cowards" because then it creates a social stratification with the cowards getting made fun of. Now everybody knows what they want to NOT emulate.
Then on the other side, you might decide you are NOT going to worry about the 99%, you're going to worry about creating a lever for the 1% who have the capability to pull it. This is really where stuff like Bitcoin fits in.
Both are (obviously) happening as we speak...
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •Now there's a different question:
Everybody has woken up, now what? What can anybody actually do?
Well, there's approximately 50,000 suicides in the US per year - IRS workforce is something like 100,000 employees.
If everybody takes out just one tax goon before they go, it takes 2 years to wipe out the IRS by pure war of attrition. Assuming zero resignations which is NOT what will happen.
So yea, there's nothing anyone can do about anything except the easy switch, but you're not supposed to know about that because When You Kill Your Enemies They Win, or something...
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •Or they could just refuse to work and tank the GDP, that'd put the politicians in a hard spot too.
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •shit, I forgot you're a colony
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •Well I (personally) moved to France about 12 years ago, so most of this does not apply to me. The French government (though not perfect) is not actively working to erase the French people...
But yes, in the US, the most bang for your buck is terrorism.
Actually you take like a small battery computer and package it in a tamper-proof 3d printed case with a few hundred grams of explosives and some fiber optic cable (because cutting fiber without detection is IMPOSSIBLE)... You rush somebody and drop the fiber loop around their neck, some mechanism synchs it up - you run away and the computer sits there telling them how long they have left to live and where to send Monero if they want to make it another day - AND, it asks them for wifi (time extension granted in exchange for wifi) and uploads the entire audio track of them whimpering and calling people to raise the money.
That's terrorism, that will trigger mass resignations overnight.
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in reply to rees • • •If you respect somebody, you don't try to convince them of things that you yourself don't believe.
Regarding terrorism, I said it's the best bang-for-your-buck, and it is.
Voting has no effect, the people that took control of the US created enough rules, exceptions and loopholes to ensure that no legal process will ever actually challenge their power. So that leaves three options:
1. Leave (as I did) - I have not lived in the US for 12 years and I have no intention of going back
2. Just take it, accept that you're a slave, and pray that the system will care for your (if you're connected then maybe this will be okay)
3. Press the easy switch. Go back to the old game (violence), which the new game (politics) was created to replace, before the new game was rigged so that no one could ever win.
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Wolf480pl
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IOW this is an is-statement not a should-statement, you're not claiming that doing such a thing would be good, only that it'd work?
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Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to Wolf480pl • • •Hmm lets see, what is my opinion...
I think the American empire has become a net negative for almost everyone in the world. So I'm pro seeing it overthrown (even though it's probably gonna be super messy).
Weapons advancement is just another technological advancement, which I think is cool.
I like when victimized people are able to get vengeance against their oppressors, and right now they aren't really getting it - they just become depressed and commit suicide.
So, with recognition of the fact that some of the side-effects will be things that are categorically bad, I'm kind of in the "should" space here.
Wolf480pl
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I'd also add a bit of crisis bargaining theory here:
Politics is a negotiated settlement to avoid civil war. Any negotiated settlement must reflect the balance of power. If the ruling class screwed up so badly that a civil war has a better expected outcome for you than working within the political system does, then you fight.
If you don't have a red line beyond which you will fight, then you have zero bargaining power.
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •And by "fight" I mean any negative-sum process that hurts your enemy. Could be labor strikes, could be armed uprising, could be destroying civil infrastructure.
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •Bingo.
War is the default state. And because killing and dying sucks, people invented a game and swore that they would all follow the rules.
Well, that works until somebody starts cheating. When they start cheating, the only RATIONAL move is to say "okay, game's over, it's back to the old way again until everybody can remember why they agreed to follow the rules"
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> This is late Rome here, so you gotta be thinking like Vandals / Goths. Your war needs to be continuously profitable.
You should read Stealing the Network.
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> Or they could just refuse to work and tank the GDP, that'd put the politicians in a hard spot too.
This is cutting off your entire head to spite your face. Cash business and tax evasion, sure.
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in reply to pistolero • • •It worked in 1989?
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lowkey reminds me of a quote from a Polish 19th century theater comedy:
"Hej! Gerwazy! daj gwintówkę!
niech strącę tę makówkę!"
which means
"Hey! Jarvis! gimme the rifle!
I will pop that poppyhead!"
Ofc in the text where it comes from, it has nothing to do with removing scumbags from power, and everything to do with a neighbourly revenge, which the whole play makes fun of.
But since this is a hellthread anyway...
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •@wolf480pl @cjd @phnt @lss @npc @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun It has plenty of thread, but no hell; there is no weeping nor gnashing of teeth.
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •Yea that sounds about right.
I was not familiar with the expression and my first thought was "that's not what machine guns are for" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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in reply to Elegant Pawawa Arc • • •Okay I had a bad translation of mitraille, didn't realize it was also just any hail of bullets - and grapeshot (or buckshot) is a different vibe than machine gun fire...
> the rioter longs for the buckshot 😏
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> Ok but like, what was actionable about these revelations? What could an average person have done?
Obviously, the answer is "just accept defeat and slide into complacency".
The reason the market is flooded with IoT shit packed to the brim with surveillance gear is that people keep buying it, because they don't care. Nobody makes a stink with their local PD for taking the Amazon Ring deal. Nobody stopped using hardware or software from any of these companies. "httpseverywhere" doesn't mean shit if these companies are on the other side of the cert.
But people went out of their way to shit on people that *did* care. Conspiracy theorists. "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide!" "Why do you love terrorists and pedophiles so much?!" "Don't you realize that law enforcement is 'going dark' and they need a Golden Key?" The "average person" went out of their goddamn way to encourage complacency and learned helplessness. The rallying cry was "Make them stop promising to do that!" and "Shut the fuck up about claiming the government could abuse things." It was the most limp-dick response anyone could come up with and there it was. People will boycott Disney over some culture war bullshit because a shitty movie *matters* and the goddamn psychopaths steering the goddamn country somehow *doesn't* matter: you're paranoid. If the "average person" had done *less* to shut down opposition, that would have been enough.
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in reply to pistolero • • •You're not gonna get this kind of thing out of the people - particularly the American people.
But you know, there's somebody out there that looks at this situation and say "you know, this could all be mine"... That's the guy who will change the dynamic...
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @wolf480pl @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @mrsaturday @sun
> You're not gonna get this kind of thing out of the people - particularly the American people.
If you could get it out of *anyone*, it's Americans.
> But you know, there's somebody out there that looks at this situation and say "you know, this could all be mine"... That's the guy who will change the dynamic...
I ain't quite so blackpilled.
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Not every communication platform was part of PRISM, and at that time unencrypted http was pretty widespread, so https matterd against "Upstream" (beam splitters in the mysterious room with no door handles, router rootkits, etc).
Well until bots using residential proxies made everyone hide behind CloudFlare
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •@wolf480pl @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
> Not every communication platform was part of PRISM
Sure, but how many people ditched Apple *and* Microsoft?
> beam splitters in the mysterious room with no door handles, router rootkits, etc)
Most of the TLS cracking that the NSA does is done after the fact. They just dump *everything* and then put the cluster to brute-forcing it afterwards.
> Well until bots using residential proxies made everyone hide behind CloudFlare
I defused 1.5m residential proxies on fedilist.com without Cloudfed using one weird trick; see attached.
(The idea was that if he ended up being able to predict the IP he was coming out of, I'd switch to using hash+nonce, but apparently they can't do that.)
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There was a window to make alternatives visible. Office, OS, domestic online services/the opposite, xmpp/fedi etc.
2020ff cemented worldviews. I guess 5 to 10% more are now suspicious of big networks in any area. Well maybe 3%. The EU is already subverting the sovereign computing area. Tja.
Example: Maybe only your brother will use solar powered meshastic. But when SHTF maybe this helps you and him.
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"Literally nobody is thinking that"
"Okay, a few people think that but they're crazy and nobody agrees with them"
"Okay, a few people are acting out, but it's just a few crazy kooks, it's not going to become a thing" (You are here)
"It's happening, here's why that's a good thing"
"We were always for this, we were just afraid to say so"
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in reply to Blurry Moon • • •@sun @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @mrsaturday from my experience most people stop at point 1
you can show them books about mkultra, gladio, full with references to released government files and they still say you're a crazy conspiracy theorist.
i think it's self-protection to a degree? no one likes their world view to collapse.
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He was a hero. he knew he was gonna get fucked over, he knew likely nothing would change, he knew what was right, and he did it all anyways.
I have infinite respect for people who hold principles over pragmatism. Because in those mad-lads I also see what I aspire to.
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in reply to pistolero • • •@SilverDeth @npc @phnt It will never finish playing out because they’ve trained people to expect everything not to work.
The minimal viable product has become a slope foreverapproaching zero.
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in reply to erős pista • • •@pista @SilverDeth @npc @phnt
> It will never finish playing out
It did plenty of times.
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If they can’t tell me what it pays, they can’t have my time or resume
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I'm doing my part!
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Unknown parent • • •@multiversal_gangstalker @cjd @rees @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun
> hard to have things like a whites only legal aid or schools or food banks or private police and courts
You're wrong in a way that makes you useless.
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Unknown parent • • •@Suzu @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday @multiversal_gangstalker @npc @phnt @rees @sun @wolf480pl
> Any tries of making anything white only
This is not a solution to any actual problem. This is buying into the fake split. Look up.
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in reply to pistolero • • •@phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @cjd @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees nah, he's right.
Any tries of making anything white only is promptly declared as racist/nazist and stomped by the system.
White-only things are the only things that are required to have 'diversity' and 'quotas'. Jewish shit, or black shit, or 'latinx' shit can segregate all they want, but as soon as something destined for white people is created, it is forced to open its doors to non whites.
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> robbing peter to pay paul
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @Suzu @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees This is to replace data with a bad heuristic.
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Unknown parent • • •> Politicians are trying to make us busy fighting other ethnicities so that we don't unite to fight them.
Not quite...
They create multi-ethnic societies to break down social bonds so that people are easier to rule.
BUT, the thing "lets just all just unite against them", sadly, doesn't work. It's never worked in history. It's poison medicine, same as "vote harder".
If you want to "unite" against the politicians, what will actually work is gonna look a hell of a lot like Mafias and street gangs - which are 100% totally and completely ethnic. It's a bitter pill, but once they've managed to create a multi-ethnic society, they've already basically won.
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@Suzu@detroitriotcity.com @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @multiversal_gangstalker@poa.st @mrsaturday @sun @rees
"Politicians are trying to make us busy fighting other ethnicities so that we don't unite to fight them. Therefore, I will fight other ethnicities, to foil the politicians' plan"
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in reply to pistolero • • •Blood runs thicker than water, and it always has for as long as people have existed.
Every mafia is ethnic, every prison gang is ethnic, in power vacuums, the gangs that emerge are ethnic.
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @Suzu @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees
> Blood runs thicker than water
There's an Arab saying, "My brother and myself against my cousin, my cousin and myself against the outsider." You go to Ireland and say "But the English are *white*" and see how many people you convince. Tell the Azov battalion that Russians are white.
"White" is broad enough to be meaningless. For one thing, it includes the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Roosevelts.
It is, at any rate, a heuristic; it's a bad heuristic. I get along better with almost any other LA native (including the ones whose parents speak Spanish or Mandarin) than I would with a randomly selected New Hampshire or Vermont honkey. It's not true in every case (because it's a heuristic, not an absolute).
> Every mafia is ethnic
"Families tend to share gene pools."
I think you mean they tend to share an ethnicity and cultural background because they tend to start as a family and the friends of that family.
> every prison gang is ethnic
Not the Muslim ones. I wonder what that means.
At any rate, I don't care what color a normie is: they're goddamned normies. They have to go back.
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in reply to Wolf480pl • • •@wolf480pl @cjd @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun @rees Well, that's the thing, right? You could get nearly 100% buy-in on "We should dismantle the IMF, the WBG, the WTO, etc." and most of these groups refuse because they don't agree on which bogeyman to blame for these banks.
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •Now there is actually a side-point to this: While ethnic groups are the only groups that will ever really project power for their members, that doesn't mean you need to get sucked into race warring...
You want to keep your eyes on the prize, which is seizing power. And in some cases you might find temporary alliances with other ethnic groups (i.e. Nations) can be had for mutual gain.
It's exactly the same dynamic as gangs in a prison...
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @wolf480pl @phnt @npc @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun @rees
> While ethnic groups are the only groups that will ever really project power for their members
> It's exactly the same dynamic as gangs in a prison...
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Unknown parent • • •@pepsi_man @cjd @SilverDeth @lss @mrsaturday @npc @phnt @sun @wolf480pl
> Who actually uses LinkedIn anymore?
People looking for work go where the recruiters are. You have a better idea, I'm all ears.
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to pistolero • • •The fact that Mafia and Family are synonyms is just indicative of how important blood is to building trusted relationships.
> "White" is broad enough to be meaningless
You're hitting on something that is well known. Ethnic group boundaries are fuzzy and there are groups within groups.
This is why proposals like "deport the nons" never make it off the drawing board. They die of edge cases (half-breeds, and adopted, and "yeah but not him")...
But this doesn't mean ethnicity doesn't exist.
> I get along better with almost any other LA native
Well yeah... Social connection is obligatory. If you have to move a body, you're better off asking a black coworker than a twin brother separated at birth. But if those are your choices, you're probably going to jail.
The arabs got it right, if you need someone you can TRUST, you're looking for the closest social connection AND the closest family connection you can have. First brother, then cousin, then sub-ethnic group, then ethnic group, then race...
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @Suzu @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees
> The fact that Mafia and Family are synonyms is just indicative of how important blood is to building trusted relationships.
Well, that's a family, not an ethnicity. Your daughter marries someone, that person is now in the family. Noticing that a group of related people tend to share an ethnicity is looking at two symptoms with the same cause: parents, brothers, children, cousins, people you grew up with, people that raised you, people you raised. Watsisface's assertion, "I can't do anything meaningful because I can't hang a 'whites only' sign", is kind of absurd.
> But this doesn't mean ethnicity doesn't exist.
Nobody's said that. I did say it's a bad heuristic. The issue's fraught enough without introducing neolib taqiyya.
> First brother, then cousin, then sub-ethnic group, then ethnic group, then race...
My brother is an idiot. (Not that he's stupid, but he is an idiot.)
Hackers, then other autists, then countrymen, then nobody.
The point I was making about Islam holds. Islam isn't an ethnicity.
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in reply to pistolero • • •> I did say it's a bad heuristic.
It's not a bad heuristic, it's a heuristic that you don't like.
But all throughout history, it has been THE heuristic. From warriors in antiquity, to criminal organizations - people fight for their blood.
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in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @Suzu @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees
> It's not a bad heuristic
It's a bad heuristic. You can get more information by looking at someone's clothing than you can by looking at their genes.
> it has been THE heuristic
> people fight for their blood.
Family is not ethnicity.
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in reply to pistolero • — (0.0.0.0/ 0) •What you do have are religious extremists that commit so called terrorism, but they were trained and funded by the wing that wants the right to have ammo.
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in reply to pistolero • • •> Mohammed votes no
Nice timing as Persians and Arabs look like they're about to go to war...
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> people tend to simplify political powers hinging on keywords like ethnic identity to draw support for wars because it's actually important your warriors want to go to war
This is absolutely true, yes.
> ethnic cohesion, observable in the germanic and celtic tribes of (their) early bronze age
I mean, you also see them selling each other out to Romans a bit later. Tribal cohesion (that is, within Dunbar's number) is a distinct thing from ethnic cohesion.
> this is an understandable mistake/politically driven simplification
Just a regular simplification. You don't really distinguish what breed mixes a pack of wild dogs are, you just keep them away from your chickens. Sometimes it matters, you know, like whether it's a black bear or a grizzly, but the Roman military was more prestige-driven than anything: generals had a lot of latitude and you got to be a general by having enough money to hire an army, then it was largely about bringing home spoils, kings in cages, weird animals, expanding borders. So it was mostly that inter-tribal politics didn't matter much to the Romans. The US, right, we barely cared about which tribe was which except the people that lived in the frontiers. There were just the ones that integrated and the ones that shot arrows at people laying train tracks.
> It allowed fluid, and not borderless, but agreement based travel for trade and easy communication that looks a lot like people being of the same ethnic identity. it isn't.
Yeah, I think this is reasonable, but I'd qualify with "looked like to the extent the Romans cared to look".
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in reply to Dymphna • • •You don't need to theorize what would happen if you dropped a bunch of men in a place where they have to fight for survival. We already know exactly what happens, because they already do that - it's called prison.
And in prison they form groups, which are almost 100% aligned with ethnicities.
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> "well, that guy's blonde"
Well, that was much farther north when the Romans were running around.
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> We already know exactly what happens, because they already do that - it's called prison.
I don't know how much you know about prison in the US but I've spent a lot of time visiting them.
> And in prison they form groups, which are almost 100% aligned with ethnicities.
Biggest gangs and fastest growing gangs are Muslim and they do not care about ethnicity, they care that you get on the prayer mat five times a day.
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Ha, shit, wow, his hair survived: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterby_…
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in reply to pistolero • • •@Suzu @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @cjd @multiversal_gangstalker @mrsaturday @sun @rees >Tribal cohesion (that is, within Dunbar's number) is a distinct thing from ethnic cohesion
you're right, I even explicitly said it was tribe based rather than ethnicity based, and should've used tribal cohesion as my term instead.
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in reply to Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕ • •@Blurry Moon @:conga_parrot::conga_parrot::conga_parrot::conga_parrot:
@Wolf480pl @Phantasm @multiversal_gangstalker @Caleb James DeLisle @pistolero @Suzu @rees @SilverDeth @npc In science, a claim is only considered a "proven fact" or "reality" if it can be physically tested, measured, and verified by independent observers using modern technology. Because the stone is sacred and protected by a silver frame, no scientist has ever been allowed to take a sample or run a definitive test (like carbon dating or spectral analysis) to confirm it is a meteorite.
Therefore, when scientists say it is "speculation," they are not denying the Islamic history or calling it a lie; they are simply admitting that without physical testing, they cannot scientifically certify it as a meteorite. Many geologists actually lean towards it being agate or basalt based on visual inspection of the fragments, while others support the meteorite theory based on historical context and iridium levels in local sand.
The lack of scientific testing does not disprove the Islamic narrative; it simply means the scientific community cannot classify it as a confirmed meteorite without data.
The "true history" you refer to is preserved in Islamic texts and belief, which stands independently of scientific validation.
You really do not want to see the truth.
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in reply to Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕ • •@Blurry Moon @:conga_parrot::conga_parrot::conga_parrot::conga_parrot: @Wolf480pl @Phantasm @multiversal_gangstalker @Caleb James DeLisle @pistolero @Suzu @rees @SilverDeth @npc
While there are strong theories and historical accounts supporting the idea that the Black Stone is a meteorite, there is currently no definitive scientific proof because the stone has never been analyzed with modern techniques.
The "proofs" often cited are actually hypotheses based on indirect evidence:
Iridium Levels: Geologists found high levels of iridium (a metal common in meteorites) in sand samples near the Kaaba, which supports the meteorite theory proposed by Paul Partsch in 1857.
Historical Accounts: Some records describe the stone floating in water (which would rule out dense rocks like basalt but fit with porous volcanic glass or pumice) and local legends of it "falling from the sky."
Visual Inspection: In 1974, scientists Robert Dietz and John McHone, along with an anonymous Arab geologist, examined the stone and observed diffusion banding, leading them to conclude it is likely agate (a terrestrial rock), not a meteorite.
Other analyses suggest it could be basalt or obsidian.
Because the stone is sacred, fragmented, and sealed in a silver frame, no scientist has ever been permitted to take a sample or perform non-destructive testing (like X-ray fluorescence) to confirm its composition.
Therefore, while the meteorite theory is popular and aligns with the tradition of it coming from "heaven," it remains a strong probability rather than a scientifically verified fact. The Islamic belief that it is from Paradise stands on faith, independent of geological classification.
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> You really do not want to see the truth.
I don't think I said anything about the rock, just that throughout history, religious grouping has mattered more than ethnicity.
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in reply to pistolero • — (0.0.0.0/ 0) •Pretty sure God has a LinkedIn account as well.
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