He did suggest the possibility of injecting bleach.

Well, we will have to wait until the grown ups in other countries release information. In the US, they’re still protecting kid fuckers.

It’s tough… but you know it’s real progress too.

I tried getting into the nerdy side. I have an old PC with only one NIC, but apparently it needs two in order to bridge to a WiFi AP? That makes sense, but I don’t have an old PC with two NICs. Also, my NIC doesn’t support as much bandwidth as I have supplied anyhow. Sad times.

Edit: the desktop is old enough that the mobo doesn’t have the slots I need. Effectively, I have to get a new old burner PC. It’s an old ThinkCentre with a dvd player built in.

I don’t believe such a thing is sustainable. Look to Iran, a similar dynamic where Israel would have liked to prevent Iranian independence. Independence to build strength, presence, sovereignty, … Israel had this idea that they would need to “mow the lawn” — which translates to bombing the shit out of them every once in a while.

This is like antibiotics. You kill the many of the entities, sure, but short of committing genocide, you’re left with a smaller population of more capable individuals. Those individuals will come back stronger and will demand harder, as we can see now with the emboldened Iran we’ve been left with.

It’s not a pretty path forward. But, I’m doubtful it will work out for them in the long run.

What happens once everyone is forced into abject poverty, though? If we really play this out, what’s next? The push for AI comes across like the billionaires are saying “we won’t need you, anymore.” If that’s true, then what the fuck is the benefit of being a billionaire?

Take Zuckerberg for example. His income is derived from selling ads to potential buyers. Replace all the workers with AI, who exactly is going to buy anything from his ads? Where do they get the money from? Where do they get the free time to use Meta from?

The entire idea seems to be leveraging this fantasy ideology where the working class doesn’t need to be paid in order to consume, and like the billionaires aren’t dependents of the working class’ consumption. So, what am I missing that they apparently know? Why does any of this make sense to them?

Are they so beholden to capitalist ideology that even the blatantly obvious end result here is obfuscated by their need for short term gains? No, right? I mean… obviously that’s part of the situation, but there must be more. They’re banking on something, but what?

There was cocaine involved, then a base wide urinalysis the next morning. I learned, go figure, they were cracking down on a group of enlistees who were selling the drug on base. Go figure because I knew nothing about that; my story is more stupid, reckless and unexciting. I had gotten drunk and did some surprise cocaine at the bar with my civilian family member, the night before.

I was in the military, but I was kicked out because my penis snitched on my nose. Anyway, the entire time in there sucked. I had an instant after school hours where my house was hit in a drive by, my daughter had a bullet pass 2” by her leg and embed into a dresser next to her. My wife was freaking out. The officer in charge of my quarters didn’t let me go home to soothe my family, said there’s nothing I could do either way, and made me stay there mopping a fucking floor for the next four hours.

The military is filled with pieces of shit.

So he wants to eventually toll his blockade, because Iran didnt cede to splitting tolls with him, such that each vessel pay two tolls? Holy hell…