Wandering Adventure Party

@sundogplanets Orbiting data centres are stupid for a huge range of reasons, not the least powering them, cooling them and fixing them. Just another idiotic idea from Musk (Optimius, Cybertruck, The Boring Company, “Full” self driving, etc….).

@petealexharris @Remittancegirl @angusm @cstross Quoting Sergio Caneva, writing in 1973, describing Italian Fascism in his book documenting the history of partisans in the Veneto (my translation).

“Fascism was neither an idea nor a doctrine, it was just a big cloud of soot created to defend the interest of the land owners and industrialists ... with the abuse of the word ‘fatherland’.”

History rhyming and all that.

@petealexharris @Remittancegirl @angusm @cstross That’s because they dare not actually be upfront about what they want to impose on us. So their main way of getting people on side is to simply make people scared and angry at imaginary things.

@TechConnectify Absolutely brilliant and insightful commentary, both the economics and the politics. Well said.

@cstross @lauren They could just go full Spartan and leave new borns out overnight so that only the “strongest” survive.

(Note, this is not a good idea on so many levels).

@briankrebs The annoyance is that if any of my family were to travel to the USA they’d be obligated to dox me to the US authorities. Which is something I wouldn’t want to do to them.

@briankrebs Noping out hard on that.

@stux More money can be made from you if you have to rent and can never own. We’ve been increasingly skewing to rentier capitalism over the last few decades, which is one of the many reasons things are turning to crap.

@stux I run PiHole at home to filter all DNS requests on my home network. It black lists a huge range of ad servers. Works a charm on a cheap raspberry pi sitting next to my router.

Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking

(pi-hole.net)

@stux Done.

@stux Abigail Thorn, from philosophy tube, has an excellent video on this. She was part of a group of researchers who spoke to a range of folks who chose to not to get vaccinated. They aren’t arseholes, just wrong for often dumb reasons. https://youtu.be/Va0RCgbywGc?si=Icj8ySuwukXqzbqo

@stux Done. Thanks for running the service. Very much appreciated.

@stux Done

@stux Great way to destabilise your economy when the rug eventually gets pulled.