Aqivex

It is time for a grim dark reboot of ReBoot.

Let’s see what Bob chooses to do after Megabyte offs Nibbles and Little Enzo Matrix turns into a real problem for Mainframe.

Easily defended against: Upon finishing your transaction, simply press every single button on the machine in quick succession, with roughly equal firmness.

About $30K-35K for the proper rolling solar punk set up, and family health issues meaning I’d be the lone survivor guaranteed after the first winter.

Imo, the ladder goes:

Rest of the terrestrial animal kingdom < Bengal Tigers < Polar Bears < Hippos < Rhinos < Elephants < Honey Badger.

That’s as far as the ratio of animal capability to fuck something up divided by willingness to kick something else’s ass goes.

I actually think the Tiger and the Polar Bear are fairly close in terms of power and lethality, and it would all come down to whether the Tiger had the opportunity to stalk, which it probably would avoid doing anyways to something the size of a Polar Bear.

I still do not know where Honey Badger rightfully belongs on Earth’s tourney ladders, so I rather err on the side of caution there in case one reads this.

Ya don’t break a rule; the car runs you over because distracted driver.

Ya break a rule to avoid distracted driver; you get ran over because your rule breaking in your tiny and light bicycle triggered the road rage of someone in a SUV whose control was entirely based on spite and the fact everyone else should follow rules without exception (that the state legislature carved for cyclists to try to minimize their deaths).

Being a cyclist commuter is fun, much recommended.

Hmmm. How smart are squirrels and how food motivated are they? This bears further study…

Do not eat the reality-veil lifting shrooms.

Lilliputian affairs aren’t meant for humankind and the separation is intentional. Hmph.

Demilitarization is just a (admittedly big on account of how counter to the long running paradigm it would be) single step.

The next 5 presidents will have a lot of work to do over the next 20 years…in the as of now extreme hypothetical thought exercise where the country is steered towards actually being an honest member of the global community.

This hypothetical can’t even happen as long as the fascism is on active display mind you, so that means it would have to be thrown back into the shadows (most likely imo) or finally fully eradicated (I fucking wish).

But after all that, the next 20 years of US history would need to be a lot of demilitarization, a lot less meddling in the affairs of other countries with the sole goal of “How does the US come ahead of absolutely everyone?” and a hitherto unknown for practically the entire country’s history period of “What do we negotiate to make a better world in which the US thrives because the world was made better?”.

In addition to a lot of work and money spent to recoup any semblance of soft power back, and a lot of loss in easy political wins.

The soft power can’t even begin to pretend to be restored without a lot of spending on public education and I don’t just mean schooling for children.

Extensive outreach to deprogram the ‘might is right’ and other assorted fascist/racist bullshit out of the population would be required, because it’s easy as shit for other countries to see when there’s no political will in the American people to force its leaders to carry through with something.

Fuck, I could stay here all day, but it’s also kind of depressing. It’s not impossible, none of it.

But the hurdles to fix this fuckery? Hella.

Maybe with some dragon gold hoards in the people’s Treasury, and some nice and fancy dragon scale armor, it would be easier. Grinding boss fights for XP tends to make the journey easier 🗡️.

That probably should be one of the earlier steps and sure would show the world some commitment.

Are you my former boss?

Right? Low key the only time in my life I’ve read a believable “and then they clapped” on the Internet. I wish I could shop when there’s a grocery bag hero about.

A farmer may want to make sure the law lets him fist his steers or whatever the farmer lingo is, whilst holding a fancy turkey baster with cow batter for the oven, for money. For more cows.

Does his nephew diddle the sheep? I dunno. What happens in Kansas and stays in Kansas affects me a lot less on the day to day than…

The director of the FBI seemingly and very vocally suspiciously trying to make his dog whistle sexy.

These sick fucks would bring back the coliseum if they could, and make sure they bold on the marquee in big bold letters how the show features wild beasts sating their every appetite.

So yeah, I personally count AG carve outs a few rungs beneath the wtf ladder from googly-eye. The horror machine AG exemptions can and do empower as far animal welfare goes non-withstanding.

Because these weird fascist fucks always project their desires that they want to push on the rest of us in advance and this one is just fucking weird.

It would be pretty trivial for their backend system to interpret the images server side and build an identification profile for each vehicle. This way, even if you remove your plate, your vehicle can be identified.

They already are.

That’s what Nightshift/OS whatever the fuck they changed the name to, the law enforcement portal that makes use of the camera feeds and cross references with/across the various law enforcement databases, empowers.

The publication briefly mentioned it obliquely, but the article is about the camera software itself and they’re being remarkably restrained in their reporting. To avoid legal challenges perhaps.

I don’t see any reason the global south should get involved.

When has the global south ever gotten the choice to not be embroiled in the empire’s machinations?

At least be consistent in your thoughts.

Do you really believe that the CIA “superiors” didn’t know about the cover up stories and their necessity to chaff the signals up and dilute all of the coups, human trafficking, narcotics empire building, and more realistic ineptitude based fuck ups with wacky zany stories about staring at goats?

If so, their use of silly is working.

1% is generous, in my opinion.

That’s assuming they clear several hurdles and their little nightmare system works out to be the dream they want for them.

It won’t. It’ll be a dystopian nightmare for them too.

They always fuck up their goals and only end up closer by the sheer inertia and risk insulation that controlling our economic output gives them.

Then some bright and talented person who dreams of doing the right thing provides the missing links in their machinations and they either steal or buy them.

They made sure that wouldn’t happen this time by preemptively trying to rob all of the brightness until those who can won’t give them anymore, and those who will are slowly being cognitively robbed of the capability itself.

The AI taking over is both (as currently deployed) impossible and probably amongst the best outcomes, compared to the deathly wave of fucking ineptitude these chuds are unleashing and will continue to unleash.

“Me: Oh a list of assholes to avoid, nice. Shopify, who tf is that? EZ. 1 keep sucks, lol. Dell…they make trash, easy. Meta, lol, already done. Coin base more like Rube Base am I right? Digital Ocean still relevant in the hosting world? I thought they’d have gone the way of Go Daddy, Ez boycott list.”

“Brain: You skipped one.”

“Me: reads again Fffffffffffuuuu”

I have no fucking clue how to effectively boycott CloudFlare, gang. That’s…kinda the point of how they positioned themselves.

Stupid fucks, they’re the only one who stands to make as much hand over fist whether open source enshitifies or not. Except if it enshitifies enough, their spigot stops spilling money.

Greedy cunts and the allure of control, what a dynamic duo.

The fuck to use to replace the quintillion different services CF sells?

Asking for…several friends, actually.

One should never engage in sounding as an escape for the ennui of life.

Once it gets old the only next step is to try to fill the hole in your life by filling all the holes at once. Then when that doesn’t work you gotta work in electrification, macabre-sex circus acts, and hand holding.

Even more after that.

It never ends, and the slippery slope isn’t your bum like every fella thinks, it’s your pee hole.

This is a cautionary tale.

• I addressed the realpolitik in my last sentence re: black sites.

• You seem to overestimate the acumen of the current members of the praetorian guard, in a way that is out of sync with their recorded performance lately.

• The hypothetical presented has the perpetrator instigating a physical altercation in a moment of passionate rage, whereupon the perpetrator has placed themselves in an unfavorable position from which there is not enough time to avoid consequences.

Whether the Secret Service risks shooting their charge to kill the hypothetical reporter on the spot or does their actual job and throws the sack of lies over the back of a strapping agent is not a part of the hypothetical.

In such a scenario, the victim may be dead, but the perp, does not escape the classical (maladjusted) but natural response to saying shit like what is regularly produced with impunity, to another human being. The elderly perp.

It doesn’t matter how big or tough you are. It does not matter what is legal, what is right or wrong, or any other factor. The victim would be dead, and the perp would be immune.

You’re looking at the whole hypothetical exercise the wrong way. Despite its cathartic construction, it’s not about how big or tough.

The enemy cannot be considered neither overwhelmingly strong nor inconsequentially weak.

To say either one in absolutist terms is to play word games, rather than approaching a fight how it should be approached.

Honest estimation bound to context is required to “Know thy enemy”.

Wow. I was mildly to cautiously optimistic after the reveal trailer a while back.

Now that excitement is completely gone.

I wanted The Wolverine not Fisher Price’s Angy Weasel.

He could be found not guilty due to Presidential action all day long for not committing assault and battery for all I care.

So long as the boxing champ working for AXY news or whatever is also found to have acted in self defense in accordance to their jurisdiction after their reflexive and mighty right hook starts a needed constitutional crisis.

The courts can handle the absurdity.

Not that the presidential immunity is ok at all, far from it.

But there’s a vital distinction between “Can’t be charged for anything while performing Presidential duties” and “Anyone who exercises a legal right that crosses unto the protected person has that legal right deactivated”.

Which…yes, pretty much is defacto currently for 99/100 things that any aggrieved party could claim as a grievance committed by the US. Gov, currently and effectively, I’m aware.

But unstoppable force meeting immovable mouth?

I feel codifying that too deeply would be a legal bridge too far.

Not for decency but because what it means for the puppeteering interests. The reporter would be more at risk of ending in a black site than a courtroom, imo.