With a name like that you are destined for weapons-grade mischief.

Sweet Jesus this is a gold mine. George Washington Hitler’s son, DR. GAY HITLER?

I have left this mortal plane.

I’ve had an antagonistic relationship with a vendor like this, it’s awful. In my case the vendor was supposed to be a fast moving tech startup - the only thing that moved fast there was the revolving door of engineering talent coming and going.

Even worse, my boss had been convinced by their founder that he had all this pull with the company, and since the company was super cool, that made him super cool, and I dunno if you’ve ever tried to criticize something that has made a middle aged nerd feel cool for the first time in his life, but let’s just say it was not a fruitful endeavor.

The number of things I effectively fixed for them via email, the abominations I had to construct to work around the things they refused or failed to fix…bad times.

As a lefty gun owner, couldn’t agree more. Peace as a choice is only available to the folks who know how to do otherwise, and frankly even simple know-how isn’t enough. Pacifism is no virtue, peace is no natural state.

This has long been a litmus test for me of an individual’s psyche or perspective - are you more concerned about the people freeloading, or about the people who need help and can’t get it? Which is the bigger problem?

So many other opinions seem almost downstream of the answer to that question, in my experience.

Pareto principle for ya, eh? Diminishing returns be diminishing.

I hope this comes across as a genuine question, despite the thread itself getting a little jacked up. Like many of us, I’d like to find better systems of governance / better solutions to the problem of needed / beneficial coordination.

How does a communist society as you’ve described defend itself against opportunistic, hierarchical forces that would subsume and control it? What is the (de-coordinated? If you’ll accept my term?) answer to such a problem, pragmatically?

Agreed. It’s the shitpost com, so fair game I guess, but all of us humans do this thing where the more we see or hear something the more we soften toward it subconsciously. It’s almost the basis of advertising. That’s good in general, but not in this case, fuck this dude forever. I don’t want my subconscious tryna tell me otherwise just cuz people enjoy the lols, but hey, that’s me.

I’m a big fan of saying weird shit and leaving it up, cheers fellow weirdo.

I was with you until the last line, lol, had me scratching my head and wondering if I was okay

Bro. What lol.

Why have you done this to us?!

Listen nerd, that was a lotta words. Nothing that matters takes that many words to say.

You can tell Vitamin A is good cuz it’s the first one. We need to get back to basics in this country. You ever heard of a kid getting too many A’s?

Git yer fiddly science outta my child-rearin!

So you’re saying kids these days are published with a buncha DLC and microtransactions?!

I hope you’ll update us if you chase this down. I like 404 Media and I want to keep liking them, but only if the reporting is good. Hopefully it’s a typical tech journalism mistranslation where they use Tesseract OCR to scrape PDFs and the author just misunderstood, or something like that.

Edit: after looking, I don’t have any issues. Looks like just a raw list from whatever source, I don’t need 404 Media to try to “curate” that or remove elements that seem irrelevant, they can leave that to us.

That’s not a joke, ALL these dudes have extensive doomsday prep. Secure facilities, staffed and stocked. There’s a ton of reporting on it. They’re gonna fare a LOT better than we are if shit gets really outta hand. Unless we do something about them before it gets to that point, anyway.

Edit: added a detail

I almost wonder if it’s the same mechanism as the sunk cost fallacy, where a losing situation is irrationally maintained because of how unpleasant we find loss.

Edit to add: def no disagreement about refusing accountability though, that’s such a pattern with that kind of personality. And not to give them TOO much grace but frankly I’m not sure I myself would act defensibly or even sanely right after losing a child.

How ya just gonna leave the icing off the cake?!

This is a sus anal bum party, and don’t you forget it!

Anyone have any particularly good info about AdGuard re: Russia? My understanding is that the devs are Russian. Seems like they have set things up to explicitly be outside control of the regime, but it makes me worry without some ironclad info that it’s safe.

Sigh, it really was so much less political just a few months ago. Feels to me like the content changed due to how crazy the political situation got in the US (bleeding over into lots of other places too of course), which is understandable but sucks.