[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The fifth circuit believes regional monopolies should be exploited to control consumers.

With proper competition, banning someone for suspected misuse would only chase them to competitors.

The fifth circuit is incompetent.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago

I pronounced it like cayenne pepper until someone corrected me. But I learn a lot of words from reading them before hearing them. HEJeeMOHnee.

Related, Celtics (soft C) are a basketball team, Celts are a ethnic demographic and a Selt is an ancient kind of knife.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Until I was 24 or 25 I believed that women were disinterested in sex, and that sexual relationships were wholly transactional. I also thought I was hidiously undatable.

Nope. Wrong on all counts.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 1 day ago

Someone please tell me that if we stop Trump, Musk shouts NO IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN THIS WAY! and then spontaneously, melts, or shatters like glass, or gets swallowed up by a chasm, or eaten by hyenas.

And then every cybertruck, every tesla, every Spacex capsule and every Starlink satellite simultaneously turns into magic dust before evaporating into nothing.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

The ownership class will tremble before a communist revolution! We have nothing to lose but our chains!

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago

Shareholders love lootboxes too.

And one party autocracy.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because religious fanatics have been fighting over controlling access to the holy sites for centuries now, and show no sign of slowing down.

Making the place an exclusion zone would devalue those sites, except for the most determined.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Wow Microsoft is still a dick... which is totally on brand.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

As a fiction writer, I do research on espionage, sabotage and even methods of assassination all the time. But I'm not going to make a salted bomb and nuke Jerusalem even though that is an entirely viable evil plot that may even create a net negative death toll.

True poisoners, as Agatha Christie notes, use thallium, not arsenic nor cyanide (though ricin is good if you can get it.) Thallium assassins are also self-regulating, like demolitions experts, killing off those insufficiently careful when handling the stuff.

Modern police are lazy until enough of a stink is made to find a culprit for a specific incident, which is why modern assassins targeting VIPs will find a self-radicalized desperado and point them toward the target. This is the sort of thing FBI is looking for in the investigations of Crooks and Routh. They are likely just blue suicides (or green suicides in this case) but finding a operative pointing them towards Trump would indicate an actual plot. But even if those tracks are found, it would unlikely lead to a specific identity.

I know about this not just to write fiction, but also to understand how things happen, how our fall into one party autocracy and societal collapse plays out. And yes, it means I do a lot of web searches that might excite an onlooking behavioral research agent. Sadly, they'd find I'm yet another boring false positive, though if the nation does succumb to autocracy, I'd certainly write for the resistance. FBI may not care so much about that.

We often look up creepy things just so see if we can, and we do that a lot more than because we're eager to build a bomb or fast-track our inheritance.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 6 days ago

And this is why the NSA is supposed to close exploits rather than harvest them for surveillance.

This is why surveillance backdoors are always bad, and you can't math around that.

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Only too late would we discover what would become of our children.

(More terror than horror, but I think qualifies.)

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