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Crismus ,

While reading this, I had a couple of thoughts.

John Brown really wouldn’t rest well with this.

Has the time come for a storming of an American Bastille?

All with the song from Les Miserables “Do You Hear the People Sing” going on in my head.

I think the time is coming to finish what the Abolitionists started and fulfill the purpose of the Civil War.

Crismus ,

Just like SSRI’s, Ecstasy does interfere with your hypothalamus and temperature regulation. So, small energy expenditures creat oversized responses.

You would still sweat heavily doing more than lying down with a fan blowing on you.

Crismus ,

So nice that before this happened, the railworkers wanted to strike duets safety concerns and understaffed Railroads. All to keep them from taking days off and lowering profits.

Good old Joe Biden (friend to the working man) denied the strike request because interfering with Christmas shipping would be a problem.

I think the railworkers should have called his bluff and all off the job. Unlike Reagan and the Air Traffic Strike, the military can’t just take over those jobs. He couldn’t replace the entire unionized jobs like the AIR Force could take over flight operators.

Crismus ,

It’s really all about having a way to get past encryption so they can spy on everyone indiscriminately. It’s pushed that it’s to save kids and unmask pedos, but the people in charge know the pedophiles are their rich donors.

It’s about controlling opposition and making sure the wealthy can stay on top. Imagine if no small business can hide their information from their competitors.

Crismus ,

In the US, there are multiple Supreme Court precedent cases that force profit-maximizing. Shareholders can sue the CEO and board to maximize profit seeking.

So yes, increasing shareholder value is enshrined in US law. Only private corporations can get around that rule. Also, a corporation cannot be forced to break the law to maximize profits, that’s just something most CEO’s are willing to do for fun.

Crismus ,

Just add some Sodium Citrate to keep it from separating.

Crismus ,

I think the issue comes that it only syncs messages one way and doesn’t sync on deletions. Apple should have messages that are removed from all devices when removed from the phone, but it didn’t remove messages when deleted.

Sure the guy is a moron for being a cheater and scumbag, but Apple should remove deleted messages. That’s a privacy problem with Apple’s sync. I don’t use Apple devices due to other Apple crap, but setting up iCloud sync should have a warning when items won’t be deleted and only will be downloaded to devices.

Wasn’t an entire stupid movie about the horrible sync pitfalls in Apple devices premiered years ago?

Crismus ,

Sorry I’m late, but I would say that that case means a system should have rules to define when and where the majority of the files are at. Or at least a defined way to declare which system is one-way, and which is two-way.

The old Google Calendar system had that flag, so I find it strange that Apple wouldn’t, unless they really want to push the iCloud data Subscription model.

Crismus ,

Yep, I will switch to Linux before I get another OS from Microsoft. Once 10 goes away, I jump onto a Linux distribution and use Proton.

I was hoping for a Steam Created distribution to come out, but I’ve been waiting for that for years. I’m just too lazy to switch over before I have to.

Crismus ,

Thanks for the info. I’ve noticed that having an Nvidia GPU may be my downfall. I would hate to have to switch my 3080 for my son’s 6800XT or even have to buy another GPU When I need to switch.

I have spent over 30 years doing IT work, so figuring out another OS won’t be too hard since I’ve worked through almost everything starting in the 90’s.

Crismus ,

Sadly Bazzite doesn’t work well with Nvidia. But that would have been my choice.

Crismus ,

Thanks. I will look up that distro.

Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)

Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....

Crismus ,

I had my first minor heart attack pushing carts in the snow for Toys R US at 16. That was a brutal job for $4.75 an hour in 97.

Crismus ,

They forget the part where the signing bonus doesn’t exist after they finish BCT.

Crismus ,

I know that when I joined up in 1997 a lot of those bonuses simply disappeared if you didn’t keep ahold of your original paperwork. Sometimes they had a lot of hidden clauses, so you could lose the bonus for a minor infraction. Or, the bonus was really part of your pay and the full amount would be paid out after if you actually completed 8 years instead of the 2-4 year commitment you started on.

All I know is I personally ended up permanently disabled at 18 and fought with the VA until 2019 to get my disability compensation. Which they only paid me back pay from 2009 instead of from the date of disability in 1997.

Getting money from the government takes a long time. The people downwind of the Atomic test sites have been fighting 50+ years for the full payments from being irradiated during the 50’s.

But hey, joining the military is a good job if you aren’t stupid and taking a combat MOS when you could have a steady non-combat job with perks. Right now the Commissary benefits for cheap food is worth it with how food prices have been going.

Crismus ,

Basic Combat Training, which is about the same as what you said.

Crismus ,

As much as I want “Jarvis” OS system, I really don’t want the version made by Microsoft, Google, or, Apple.

I want to be able to talk with my AI PC, but I want secure AI that’s just for me and won’t steal all my data for any Corporations to browse.

Crismus ,

I find it sad that some lawyer sold them on this suit, while also settling with the police department for peanuts.

The police caused all of the extra pain here, and no studies have ever shown a link to violence from video games.

Crismus ,

Sadly that’s what most of the gun laws are designed about. Book banning and anti-abortion both are limiting tools because of what a small minority choose to do with the tool.

AI image generation shouldn’t be considered in obscenity laws. His distribution or pornography to minor should be the issue, because not everyone stuck with that disease should be deprived tools that can be used to keep them away from hurting others.

Using AI images to increase charges should be wrong. A pedophile contacting and distributing pornography to children should be all that it takes to charge a person. This will just setup new precedent that is beyond the scope of the judiciary.

Crismus ,

All this does is impact legal gun owners and makes it so the poor don’t ever have the means to defend themselves.

The only thing that increasing legal firearm costs does is keep the elites able to protect themselves and their lifestyles while making sure nobody can rise up against them.

This means more people are unable to practice with their guns, which has the opposite effect of making things safer.

Firearms are tools and an inalienable right for all people, not just the wealthy. The push by the elites to attack Gun Rights are so that nobody can oppose them when they keep increasing prices and their greed becomes an even greater burden to the rest of the population. Crime has been going down for decades, but the anti-gun groups still push the fear of guns.

The amount of spree shootings are almost insignificant for the majority of kids at schools, but they constantly make kids afraid of guns by pushing the shooter drills.

The fix to gun violence is fixing economic inequality. Stop treating the majority of the population as slaves and increase wages and break up the Oligopoly that controls goods and services. Stop allowing stock market manipulation and bribery. Start charging the wealthy people and multinational corporations taxes like they used to. Stop giving the wealthy people the ability to pay less Social Security taxes and let disabled people not be forced below the poverty line. Force the Stock Market to pay dividends instead of allowing stock price be the only value from investing. Finally, bring back pension funds, stop qualified immunity, regulate media companies again, and fix the election spending problems.

Every single one of those changes will do more to stop violence than increasing taxes on firearms and ammo. Hell, they started promoting smoking again because CHIP funding was down because too many people stopped smoking and the rich didn’t want to pay for childhood health insurance.

I’m glad I don’t live in California anymore, but criminals don’t pay taxes and won’t ever follow gun laws. Also, police have no duty to protect, so their only job in modern society is to fill out the paperwork when some criminal kills an unarmed person. Most police will shoot the civilians they were called to protect from the criminals and will be rewarded with paid vacation time. Making it more expensive to protect yourself and your family really is a bad call.

Oh, and just a FYI; when Biden reschedules Cannabis, it will make every dispensary under the control of the DEA. So the DEA can just close them all down or make up new rules to steal all the profit from Marijuana sales nationwide. The DEA will become the supplier of all Cannabis and everything that the last decade did for legalization will disappear.

Nobody in Government really has a clue and the Supreme Court will keep steamrolling our rights.

Crismus ,

Those were many things on their own that would fix the problems. Fixing the pay inequality is the easiest, but making companies pay taxes would be pretty easily if those in power weren’t bribed to not pass those changes.

Gun laws don’t lower crime, crime has been lowered without them. The media makes good money with pushing the fear aspect, the same way that Trump gets media attention for all the BS coming from his mouth. The media never shows people protecting themselves with gun’s because it goes against their main narrative.

The main reason billionaires push the anti-gun rhetoric is because they don’t want to face the gun’s when people finally get sick of their exploitation.

Crismus ,

They just want private Corporate Gestapo. Which is totally better than Government run Gestapo. Private “Corporations” always make the right choices.

/s

Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals (www.nature.com)

A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been silently spreading in US cattle for months, according to preliminary analysis of genomic data. The outbreak is likely to have begun when the virus jumped from an infected bird into a cow, probably around late December or early January. This implies a protracted, undetected...

Crismus ,

Except only idiots drink nonpasteurized milk so it won’t spread to the general population. Or we already would have had a pandemic.

Using our standard protocols works, no need to fear.

Crismus ,

Iran should have plenty of material for a dirty bomb from their joint Russian reactor project many many years back. The problem is that the US can fingerprint Uranium to where it was mined after a blast due to each mine having their own set of impurities based on the region the material came from.

If the he material used in the peaceful electrical reactor project ends up in a bomb, it could be used as Casus Belli for a Nuclear Reaponse against Iran and Russia by Israel and the US.

Crismus ,

It’s not about affordability at all. The people that are willing to loan the US money are only willing to loan the US money for guns and bullets to go to Israel, money to Ukraine is good as long as its for more guns and bullets because weapons have a great ROI. Healthcare for all in the US has poor ROI so there is no point t to it. People are replaceable here in the US. That’s why they’re trying to push through AI way too early on us all.

With the coming Grant’s Pass Supreme Court decision to legalize slavery against homeless people coming soon, who needs regular employees. Just CCI Prison Slaves for all your manual labor needs. Also, all the former abolitionist states have now passed total gun control legislation so people will no longer be able to break out their slave family members from their prison worksites.

I never wanted to actually live in the Cyberpunk 2020 world. I was just hoping for some of the bonuses instead of all of the negatives.

Record numbers in the US are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and on sidewalks? (apnews.com)

The justices on Monday will consider a challenge to rulings from a California-based appeals court that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment....

Crismus ,

So back to slavery, just legal 14th Amendment slavery of homeless prison slaves.

Isn’t this the greatest country on earth. /s

Crismus ,

Right thanks. Always switch numbers around.

Crismus ,

I’m wondering when the time will come to start turning into modern John Brown’s, or will the Billionaires have succeeded in outlawing all guns before people wake up?

The modern gun control movement has been bankrolled by Billionaires for decades and used the media to sit fear of guns so that their control will never be overthrown.

Every pleb is a consumer who must slave and consume.

Crismus ,

Fear will keep people from asking questions.

Crismus ,

Which is very helpful when their security carries guns and won’t be near grappling range.

If the collapse comes, all the rich people will be booted outside their nice bunkers and starve.

Crismus ,

I really wish it was this easy to get the meds I actually need. I’ve been dealing with Chronic Pain for over 20 years now and still can’t get enough meds to function as a normal person.

Crismus ,

I gave my Index to my son who has the time and physicality to use it. I’m just too old for action gaming now.

I would have loved it if I was 30 years younger. I can do more from a chair with my desktop PC than an Apple Vision Pro can. It’s just another Apple Con.

Crismus ,

I was raised to be ashamed of anything I enjoyed. So I damn well am going to hide everything from anyone who knows me.

I’ll be in my corner with the rest of the abused people, alone.

Crismus ,

So, the elites get all the fancy meth thy want for free, but I can’t get my necessary pain medication for the last 3 years. I’m stuck in a Lay z Boy and an office chair in constant pain while the eople mak8ng the rules denying my care can get anything they want…

This is the worst timeline ever. Read the article, it was Obama and Trumo that both had this happen under.

Crismus ,

My guess is that repair costs are higher because they have to be sent out for expensive repairs because the car software is locked down so they cannot repair them in-house.

That’s what the future is coming to with cars. No more fixing with your own parts at home.

Crismus ,

Not only task manager, but the ability to open up zip files inside the regular explorer folders was him too.

Made them on his own time and sold it to Microsoft, back when that was possible.

Crismus ,

Do they understand that the President isn’t a King?

Crismus ,

An excellent pilot. I hope this gets fully picked up.

Crismus ,

Also using the donation angle is bad when the Supreme Court has been accused of having conflicts of interest with gifts/bribes.

That’s not an argument that the Robert’s Court wishes to turn into a Precedent.

Crismus ,

Not to mention Buprenorphine on top of the ketamine which is bad news with a hot tub.

Crismus ,

I’m on bupe as well, but both together is a bad news with the hot water. It increases the chance to sleep, and falling asleep in a hot tub will make you drown.

Add to his known addictive personality that he has had a problem with for decades, he shouldn’t have been on that combination.

I personally hate bupe because it rarely works on my chronic pain I’ve had for the last 20 years. The media blew up the legal fentanyl patches I safely took almost 10 years ago that gave me a normal life. This will be just another excuse to restrict medication that works. A buddy of mine has stopped his suicidal issues because of ketamine therapy.

Crismus ,

Butt the battle scenes are amazing. His portrayal is horrible though.

Crismus ,

Is there shared targeting data with teammates? I remember lining up targets for the big artillery teammates as a scout in the older games.

I loved being useful as a fast scout beyond the rush to kill scouts in other games.

Crismus ,

Wasn’t a spree shooter. Just a disgruntled person who had no more prospects left so killed those who he felt were in his way from getting a job.

The gun was bought over a year ago legally. He had just been evicted and lost out on getting a promotion to tenure so he had no more options left. None of the students were targets because he killed coworkers.

It’s sad that the students were afraid, but gun control wouldn’t have changed anything. The way to prevent this from happening would be to spread the tuition money to associate professors who actually teach the classes instead of all the money going to Administrative Profit.

The shootings won’t stop by banning the tools, but by fixing the inequality in our economic systems. Sadly the media and politicians will talk about guns instead of the actual problems with pay. UNLV already was a gun free zone, but somehow that will never come up in the media coverage. Banning AR-15’s wouldn’t have changed this outcome.

The media loves sowing fear. Articles about scared students will feed the vultures for weeks and never go into actual real world ways to stop this problem. We have lost hope in this country. The majority of people are 1 crisis away from death, and we are stuck with politicians and a President who don’t want people to be able to defend themselves. Not to mention asking the corporations bleeding us all dry to please stop raising prices.

I really hate the blatant fear mongering.

Crismus ,

What I was talking about the media focusing on fearful stories.

Maybe I’m old, but shouldn’t we fear fear itself instead of having a media push stories that promote fear? Kids have been pushed into fearing guns and school shootings when it is such a low percentage of death.

Or maybe you just are unwilling to see past the narratives and see the bias inherent in the media recently? The media has been pushing division for decades now to keep the money hungry corporations happy. Local news has all been bought up.

I’m sad about that students hardship, and am happy they were able to tell their father they loved them.

I just recognize that it is pushing a fear based narrative to become fish in a barrel and embrace death during a crisis.

Crismus ,

Respect isn’t fear. Knowing what something is capable of isn’t being afraid of the item. Fearing something puts more emphasis on the bad possibilities than is reasonable.

Recognizing danger should have nothing to do with fear. Fear is irrational.

Crismus ,

99% of our gun issues are due to intractable poverty and inequality. 50 years ago we didn’t have these issues because Corporations were not so overbalanced. There were perks to many jobs because taxes were very high on profits.

Fix the extreme poverty, housing, and take-home pay and most of these social issue will disappear. The rich and powerful ( Corpos and people) want people to give up rights because their problem is about control more than money.

Giving up rights won’t change any suicides because there is no more hope in the US anymore.

Crismus ,

He only bought Twitter because he was forced to or admit he was trying to manipulate the stock again.

He bought a much higher stake, used Twitter to telegraph a higher price than it was worth. Then he didn’t use his own money when he was finally forced to purchase Twitter at the higher price he tweeted. The money he used to purchase Twitter came from countries who have stated they didn’t want Twitter to be around because it hurt their public perception when they were caught doing shady things.

His Twitter gift started the same way the SEC sued him for market manipulation for his Tesla manipulation years before. Publishing his $420 price point then selling stock when the price goes beyond his tweeted price point.

He was never savy enough to use shorting like the Hedge funds do, but his reach among the idiot masses to cause jumps in price to artificially male a bigger profit.

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