Threeve303

Lots of songs tell me cannabis is harmless even if you smoke it all day every day.

Read about this a few years ago... Makes you wonder what other kinds of effects this has on organic things.

> He doesn't care about the truth, and would rather lie to his base to get reelected than do what's right.

Politics 101, unfortunately.

WINDOWS-19 Delta

This is new territory for Florida Man

Nothing stopping them from holding it up to your face to unlock it, though, right?

Oh no! Anyway…

Story of my life. Also, it helps if you can fail up.

It’s either the actions of the company or the name. Must be the name, right?

The historical aspect of the article is mostly accurate. The issue seems to be with using Bitcoin as a currency for every day transactions. The transaction rate still hasn’t been solved. Bitcoin still has a role to play in international finance, it can replace the need for a reserve currency at all due to the distributed ledger. In this way, look for it to replace the functions of the Bond market first. It is ideal for keeping track of large transactions over time between nations and companies. Also, the key to a reserve currency since Bretton Woods has partially been that energy has been priced in U.S. dollars. Another advantage for crypto, for those same energy interests that seem to own everything already, is that more energy is consumed as financial activity happens creating a sort of symbiotic relationship that the U.S. dollar had for some time. This inherent fact might be why it continues to survive various crashes.

Do not make yourself even suspected of anything computer related to state or federal authorities. It is never a good idea.

Conveniently timed too with the whistleblower testifying at the same time.

One of many methods is to look at the code page used if it is a text document or something similar. I guess if you wanted to there is nothing stopping you from making a document look like it came from a foreign country based on the document encoding. Then you have a ton of other metadata on files now that would have to match. Not exactly impossible.

Based on daily volume and number of posts per day [0], it kept up consistent usage and growth over the years. It is still a great way to distribute information to large numbers of people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes

Friendly reminder that all law enforcement can lie to you, they can lie about you to anyone and there is no consequence for it happening. You cannot sue them for defamation, you almost always have no recourse. On the other hand, lie to certain agents and it could be a 10 year felony.

Accountability can take many forms

This Town Needs an Enema!

Fair point, I have no proof of that happening. It just seems like an easy way to sell data that shouldn't be sold for various reasons. If it hasn't happened yet, it is only a matter of time.

Its not just big tech, every company does it because they have to. Quite a few just choose to. And many sell your data for the right price. Others fake data breaches and get paid under the table then collect insurance. Its all an ugly game.

Most states have their own mini secret police now. These Bureau of "Intelligence" agencies do not have much oversight. Often to the agents and leadership, their cultural and political views are more important than the law itself.

I don't think we need to defund the police but they need more oversight based on certain experiences and things I've read about over the years.

The same thing happened when the Soviet Union was going through its slow collapse. KGB type agencies became more and more powerful and the average citizens suffered as a result. Many of their methods have now made it here with things like psychological torture and using the mental health system to practice punitive psychiatry.

One silver lining to having a stasi-esque surveillance state is that it watches everyone, even the crooked cops involved in a conspiracy. Unfortunately, the public in the U.S. seems to be fully onboard as we continue our descent into a fascist state.

If someone was hired and trusted with the data then they leaked it or used it for personal gain then it’s not all that virtuous

For every action, there must be an equal but opposite reaction.

Coming soon virtually to a life near you!

In the United States, law enforcement essentially has read and write privileges over your cloud accounts. It's not impossible for this to happen with foreign services too but it's at least less likely due to the many more hoops someone has to go through.

Democracy can fight back

Well we’ve all got to stay busy

Yeah, fair point...

Democracy is broken because half of the people don’t want it anymore. So they will never be satisfied in that process.

This wouldn’t be so bad

This can’t happen fast enough. Imagine this situation happening for four years and it be a crime if you ever heard what they said about you.