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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Sucks that

    • smart phones +
    • obsession with “linking” real ids to devices and phine numbers +
    • singular enforced official app stores with many unable to access sideloading and non-official Appstore approved apps +
    • no alternative non-WebKit based browsers allow for homogenous penetration when backdoors or hacks are developed

    essentially makes a substantial part of the populace sitting ducks for this.

    Was just reading article on how 2 daemons on Mac as part of Appls Personal Knowledge Graphs silent “feature” make it trivial for anyone who gets access to it unencrypted to have the perfect databases with real time correlated inferences on personal relationship graphs to give all the convincing receipts necessary to seriously fuck with or compromise anyone using them





  • His pragmatism is stunning and brave and very welcome! This is how you get shit done, fuck the go-high-when-they-go-low bullcrap

    If we need their participation because they hold the Presidential fucking Veto and remain influential among a still way too high demographic that its better or free to have buy-in with , you work with them to help them come around to what you need to get done, especially when they can be bought so cheaply that all it takes is temporarily stamping their name on it or holding up on the raining down of criminal investigations and legal reckoning to ensure they let thru and that they would just pardon themselves from immediately anyhow.

    Those largely performative things can wait, universal health care and possibly other goodies like banning legislative voter map fraud/disenfranchisement cant wait, shit needs to change and change soon. Remember: Trump isnt actually a “conservative”, he was a registered Democrat for most of his life and he’s shown he cares far more about flashy branding and photo ops and superficially being liked, consulted with, presenting the finished product he practically had zero to do with but that can benefit from his cultural and branding bona fides.

    Sure Putin’s probably got some shit on him but it seems like thats largely at a stalemate where if he pushes the guy any further Trump might just say fuck it and unleash the coveted systems Ukraine wants and terminally successful sanctions that could actually finish the war in record time and decimate Russkies and even Putin. He could be the newly empowered Dem’s own higher controlled Opposition in Name Only President who actually fucks over his own Party for a chance at hitching his boat to the rising Dems and actually get all the cool shit everyone would have thought impossible.

    Its gonna be pretty hard for the remaining parasitic DINOs to contain the damage when fucking Trump is already prematurely announcing working with DSA to deliver the goods America actually needs (by doing nothing more than shuttig up the traitors by advertising it and ultimatey just signing it)

    Just goes to show how insidious all the paid-for fuckhead AIPC+insiders+centrists were and how cynical they were in telegraphing their fear mongering about gasp a “socialist” [insert left and right wing boogie men which are often diametrically contradictory.

    The damage done to the completely fucked Overton window and loss of faith in the electoral system and the despair its caused by hijacking the peoples vote so it didnt matter which party it went to but bipartisanly never went towards policies that could help them, only to the interests of the “donor” class (who,lets be real, are nothing but political bribery and pay to play access gone rampant) is aggregately incalcuable and it needs to be mitigated and all its upholders need to be unelectable after they finish their current terms and neutered before they have even have an iota of a chance to capitalize on the current blue wave their DSA betters largely made happen for the party.

    DSA holds the promise of a left Tea Party but the actual better Angels inherent to our “side” that is the counterpart to the Demons comprising the Republicans’/Tea Party wing (which is almost the entire party at this point in the same way the Dems were largely corporate/DINOs prior to independants loosely associated like Bernie and DSA)



  • I doubt its about screwing over opposing counsel(altho like any other ego-driven effort or personality type im sure it also happens), more like better lawyering to get an outcome they can brag about to future clients. Im sure some or many want to not only do justice to the cases they accept but also give their clients some sense of closure, whatever the outcome

    The worst thing is often the uncertainty and the way it makes it impossible to plan your moves going forward. Even if you lose, its better to have closure on that so you are able to make the best moves to recover and chart a better course now that the fallout is established

    Especially if a victory can be known or projected to be “pyrrhic” and open the door to a harsher big picture outcome for their client. Lawyers are known chess appreciators for a reason, im sure many arent totally cool with bilking a client to fund their own foreseeable destruction but again, it almost definitely happens










  • Ya these things take time but I actually think thats one of the positive things associated with that demographic. They’re definitely breeders which means many children which means they are more statisticaly likely than not to end up with direct exposure to that which they most detest and “fear” and over time it’ll just be so much easier to stop giving a shit

    There is enormous social leverage in needing to avoid scaring away your own children and close relatives. I will never not judge someone who is missing someone in their family photos and their excuse is some attempted face-saving bullshit like “they drifted from thuh Lord” or some bullshit