Yes. Taking an existing thing and improving upon it is the literal definition of innovation.

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Nothing more efficient than creating an entire quasi governmental branch of bureaucracy to oversee the bureaucracy

You forgot the part where the komodo dragon’s “promised land” was full of Phoenician Canaanites they had to genocide first.

Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

“We don’t send sensitive information through texts.”

The ignorance almost physically hurts… Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.

I finally got a cane and I’m finding it really nice to feel so much more stable walking around. I don’t need it for a limp or pain, but I get really dizzy from a TBI and it feels like having part of my freedom back

I generally notice the fruity flavors more but that might just be my palette. I’m not sure how well it works with espresso. Never tried that but now I’m curious

Highly recommend a pinch of salt in any good black coffee.

Really opens the flavors in it.

Which is why you don’t do it to bad coffee. It will open up the bouquet of garbage haha

I keep telling my friends this. It was incredibly simple to do. And you can start with only a couple smaller 1 or 4 TB drives and still end up starting a decent collection

Everything he says like this is basically the same kind of shit I thought was deep at 12

I’ve become the same. I’m now that person seeking out more obscure and underrated gems from anywhere in the 30s through the 90s. I hate the thought of all this cultural collateral damage disappearing forever.

https://searx.space/

My current favorite search engine. Just pick one that’s running out of your country or close to it. Hope it works as well for you as it does for me.

I always find it interesting how they largely just seem to have switched dogmatic stances from some religion to atheism.

The real logical stance is “I do not know if this is true or not because it is unprovable”.

They look down on true believers while being true believers in atheism themselves.

Thank you for typing up the reply I hadn’t gotten to yet.

You the real MVP

The other person who responded to me made a very all written post but it gets a core assumption completely wrong.

They seemed to think that tax revenue in some way has to happen for spending to happen. That’s why they think GDP has anything to do with our ability to service debt. But the federal government creates money ex nihilo.

Money has to be created before it can be destroyed through taxation. Spending and back stopping creation of money by private banks through the reserve system comes first. You can’t destroy something you haven’t created.

It’s sad, really. Economists and politicians have blinded everyone with what I think of as “the money delusion”.

It doesn’t matter if the money can be “gathered up” to be spent on things we need. We do not rely on the money of the wealthy. What matters is actual, real resources and services we can provide.

The national “debt” is a misnomer. That’s the amount of dollars left in circulation that have not been destroyed through taxation, as well as the “dollars” that pay interest which we call bonds.

I’m glad to see at least a handful of other people who understand. Fight the good fight, fellow human.

This.

More people need to understand that the debt of a sovereign nation isn’t analogous to that of a household.

Public sector debt is private sector surplus.

I never said nor implied anything about any other system. I spoke about capitalism.

They haven’t overthrown shit.

This is what capitalism is and what it always leads to: siphoning all power to the top small % of people.

Omg. I lost The Game.

I haven’t lost The Game by thinking about The Game in at least 5 years.

OP is a diabolical genius.

Look at the zero fucks I give about whatever “private assets” will be stolen by Russia.

Maybe don’t sink your money into that place when they’re clearly our rival and enemy.