Blocked from posting on lopsided posts. The system wants to demonize half the population and infantilize the other. I’ll post when it draws a crowd. Why waste the forums I’m not blocked from. Uncomfortable truths are free.

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Cake day: July 30th, 2024

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  • I think there’s still one that deserves punishment. Didn’t act in violence, but acted as bait… Unless that was one of the new ones, bet they were assistants and the bait is still wandering free. Throw them into solitary and leave them until their term is up. I’m not trans, but I don’t need to be to see I don’t want people that are willing to do what they did, just running around society. Who the hell is next? They already went after a trans person that wasn’t harming anyone. Maybe they go after nuns next because they don’t like their vow to god… Idk just saying.





  • I quit streaming services around 4 months ago, determined the exact maximum streaming quality every device I own can handle, used a $60 used office PC from craigslist, admittedly I haven’t fully figured out how to get subtitles to work without transcoding, but I just need to sit down and figure it out at some point. I direct stream all of my content from a 10+ yr old PC and it uses less than 5% cpu while watching a 4k movie. I could stream to easily 5-10 PC’s and still likely be able to do software maintenance on the PC at the same time. That and with how jellyfin looks like a streaming service, with no transcoding it’s better than any streaming service. Nearly every streaming service you use is transcoding on the fly instead of storing 20versions of each video for direct streaming, direct streaming a previously encoded asset will always deliver a higher quality viewing experience.





  • They simply don’t need an encryption backdoor. Proper investigative work will always provide more than enough evidence without violating encryption. Backdoors breaks encryption, just don’t have encryption if it has a backdoor. What did governments do before they could tap phone lines, and hack cell phones? They fucking worked. That’s what. They put their noses to the grind stone, and they worked. Proper feet on the pavement. What the idiot politicians once again are doing, is trying to make controlling the masses easier, by removing protections the people have against tyrannical governments, which is what ANY government is that wants an encryption backdoor, tyrannical.






  • So long as there is people living in a place, having kids, and trying to improve their lives, the places will remain. The government may change, social structure’s get overhauled, but the same fact that people are having kids and building a life means those places are unlikely to go away. The old republic is dead. We have supreme court justices taking bribes then passing judgments saying they can. We have the position of President where anyone in it can legally say “I was doing it for my country the laws don’t apply.” And get away with it. The United States of America as a Democratic Republic, is over. But there still exists a United States of America that has transitioned to a Democratic Empire/kingdom. So to the question; “Is the USA screwed?” The simple answer is No. It will continue on so lobg as the population does. Is the Democratic Republic of the United States screwed? Bitch be dead, screw the corpse if you like.



  • Make yourself do one thing a day. Today you washed a sink of dishes, keep going until the dishes are done if you can, but at least force yourself to get one thing done, unless you are physically unwell as well. If you are physically unwell, always try to fix that first. Injury, illness, and other physical malady, usually causes depression so you slow down and have a chance to figure out what’s going wrong. If you aren’t sick and only depressed, you can look back on the 1 thing you got done and know you didn’t just waste your time so at least you have that and don’t have to feel bad about doing nothing. Instead you decided to fight back the entropy with 1 task. It ain’t gotta be much, but making yourself do something, is still doing SOMETHING.



  • The problem with any currency in our current state is 2 fold:

    1. The people that already have too many assets can simply buy a bunch of the currency and fuck with it. Roller coaster that shit.

    2. A small group of dedicated individuals with a large sum of money together could perform a similar attack.

    3. This is an extra specifically for crypto that I happened to notice while angrily trading btc, doge, and ethereum, they are heavily traded by algo’s, you can crash them by repeatedly buying on a dip, then selling for a minor gain. The algo’s see it as pattern trading and alter their trades to try and recoup losses, the price goes down. Most stocks are not currently as easily manipulated in this manner. Most stocks if you get a gain of a few cents, algo’s will see it as a stock paying out, and will pile into it meaning after you sell for a profit the price keeps going up… Which stinks, but it’s doing that because you made a profit, and likely the movement would be different if you hadn’t made profit, if you took a loss, the algo’s might see it as people are giving up and try to pile in shorts so the price further sinks… My point over all is; having a finite resource of any kind as currency is dangerous because a small group of people already have a majority of the current limited resources and there’s nothing stopping them from simply buying up the new limited resources when it’s available. As Argentina is finding out… Also young currencies have inherent liabilities to them like loop holes people can use to get gains or losses when gains or losses are not due.


  • Been considering a new name for the 1 state solution that merges both Gaza and Israel into a working 1 state solution. Fantastica was my initial thought, kinda gives a middle finger while being a nice reference to the fact anyone murdering children for any reason are living in a fantasy world with real world repercussions like Fantastica in The Never Ending Story, book not movie, movies got nostalgia on it’s side but the book is a lot better, even though it was originally a young adult novel, I read it about 9yo, and liked it so much it’s still one of my favorite books 30ish yrs later… But if not Fantastica, maybe New Manhattan, or New Juneau, new Alaska, gotta be something that shatters their belief the land is holy. Fertile, sure, holy… Well it is holey where they keep detonating. But if all it takes is “talking to god”, fine, I talked to god, they busy, that land is as holy and sacred as the current inhabitants see the life of people they view as less than them. So Israel is gonna need to be leveled, for something useful like a giant pyre of holy texts, Gaza too, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. To quote Borat: " your opinion is no require."