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  • but (a) there is no small fish in ai, it's either software layer of 5 techbros over existing models, or giant internet companies, who, aside from oracle and maybe nvidia are not that exposed. (b) plus gobbling up data centers of gpus, which are on the 5-10 year amortization schedule and massive ongoing spending via electricity is a little different proposition from snatching 50% priced homes, which would exist for 50 years and don't require that much maintenance. basically the firesale has to be at 90% discount, not 40% to make any sense, and would be done if anything either by dod or gulf tyrants (who won't have money cause oil should also crash at crisis)

  • Seems very pisraeli to me (the only free democracy in the middle east, thus beyond reproach)

  • No, it’s two claims: before signal servers and on your isp provider side sits nsa sniffing device (likelihood 99%), which trivially can reconstruct social graph without specifically designed obfuscations on server side (something like nym, exactly, but for signal servers themselves, with random delays and obfuscatory traffic).

    Second claim is all messages are encrypted doesn’t exclude possibility of keyboard input->app internals middleman backdoor, likelihood of it existing unknown (hi, nsa), with pegasus infection 100% at least.

    Basically, you are fucked with state adversary, and shouldn’t use phone for anything not serving to appear normal, and while signal can provide necessary tools to message each other, you should assume it to be transparent and appearing in some court if things go wrong. (But crucially transparent to very advanced adversary, not bumblefuck from local police, so it’s not a call to rely on messages which are so trivial to intercept with sim card duplication for 1k-5k bucks, and unencrypted for traffic interception)

  • Just because of your rant windows will add a fourth settings menu, also with different design, it will blend award winning design of modern tile settings menu and registry editor power via ai commands changing registry keys from futuristic copilot enabled design

  • nah, weird gravity and eternal darkness aside not supernatural as such (had a funny one where i opened my door into black hole (like stars and blackhole looming below the door) and i fell into it and things of that nature)

    *(vague threats of something following do happen though, like dilapidated building with red splashes and noises behind, but i find them easier to reel in cause they are much less believable than my building collapsing or whatever), but i think i can vaguely remember this happening like 2-3 times, compared to falling down nightmares

  • amazing things are happening in the green fields

  • eru ilovatar would fucking love chat gpt

  • Imma be real, go to cuba and spend currency =\ while china should ship like 1 gw of solar and electric buses (cause internal transport situation is not great even now), piggies from usa should be wasting dollars there so that people can buy solar. (they have some local oil and gas production facilities, so in like 2-3 years this shit wouldn't hurt that much) or participate in appropriate donation drives. because internal production during covid dropped due to fuel shortages, so if this shit happens again, the situation would be even worse for people going to work on buses. while something like residential solar and electrobike would solve half the issues there, locals implied as much that some people doing residential solar from direct money from tourists/remittances in crypto, which cost in the realm of 4k-5k bucks, but they can't really afford to do it if they don't contact foreign currency (so working normal job). (so they can buy it if the money is there, china will happily ship bought stuff whatever the blockade, they just don't have money for it, + oil embargo is easily dodged cause it's not oil)

    and tbh south africa should be ashamed (not them alone, but christ)

  • Well for one they didn’t have that many cars, for two - party functionaries (or student dipshits) compared to say tractor drivers are least likely to be exposed, yet it seemed they worked very diligently to get their own candle making factory, while people just wanted them to chill with alcohol ban and adjust the production priorities somewhat

  • But it wasn’t lack of interest, some collectives continued fighting in the 90s (I’m talking collective farms and strikes), and not just because of infernal conditions of 90s, but over the concept of privatization as such. The destruction was performed from the top, at first bumblingly unleashing private forces and then doing jack shit to kill them. At more involved level you can say intelligentsia did it for treats, but that’s not lead poisoning but lack of cultural revolution/second purges/integration into work force

    There was that itty bitty 2008 crash, which was worse than dotcom on real economy, and then shit with healtcare getting worse, cause boomers are attached to the state, while rest of people isn’t.

    Was pink tide also lead poisoning? Or black panthers? (You might have a point about amerikan adventurists like bla, i can make up 50 plans more plausible than whatever the fuck they were doing)

    I do think environmental factors play underappreciated role in history, but those are bad harvests forcing mass migrations (see from pov of people “invading” rome), either by climate change or pest arrival, pandemics, solar/ice ages interplay, but those psychological stories of ooh everybody was drunk all the time in medieval era, or they all got lead poisoned into stupor are convenient individualism back door of history. Its easier to believe that american cruelty, optimism and lack of memory is something environmental rather than superstructural society producing same people over and over

  • What exactly outbound signal message looks like to isp? if it's a burst to central server with known ip, social metadata is absolutely trivial to extract, if it's peer2peer (which seems exceedingly unlikely with phones constantly swapping ip), only then you have to do time correlation attacks and likely non-trivial to solve and easy to obfuscate. (p2p meshes also dodge direct inference of social connectivity, but i don't think signal functions that way)

    Not that they would compromise keyboard-encryption backdoor if it exists over something so trivial, but one shouldn’t just trust something on the say-so

  • I think revival is overstating, it’s more like the lack of necessity-treats (healthcare/homes) leads people to question the system somewhat, but as we can see as soon as boring bureaucrat is elected, the moral side of the argument falls under, system doesn’t change, they swing back to amusing rightwinger, system still doesn’t change, they vote for bureaucrat again. And activity at low level, while in some cases is inspiring, is roughly at same level as historically.

    Re: ussr being complete midwits about marxism because shops in USA had treats is not related to violent outbursts/poor impulse control, which is typical to lead poisoning. No theory of marxism explains glasnost however you put it, i better believe gorbie wife was deep cover agent (for treats)

    Americans seem to structurally have one third petit bougie demographic or similarly treated workers to be indistinguishable (which is like 15% in other places), for a century or more, working class cant dislodge it, then big capital will (and does), they go fash as expected, and empire start to search for loot to satiate them

  • You can dissolve lots of other stuff in dmso without access to weapons-grade agents tbh. And it’s typically used as skin penetrating agent in lots of topical creams and stuff, so it’s somewhat freely available for sale 😔

  • Soviet union used leaded gasoline. I think settlerism->petit bourgeois mentality->cars/suburbia being solitary coffins perfectly explain american a-societal tendencies, they don’t think other people aside from coworkers and family are real

  • Now if one were to engineer an epidemic specifically targeting ice agents, say by interfering with their face masks, that’s what epidemiologist might know about and should write an article

  • with some shenanigans and thermally massive sinks (say boilers) heating can be intermittently fed, i don't think a lot of people (some industries might) are bothering with that for now though. (so not heat pumps but say overtly massive boiler with radiator and a fan attached to central hvac system to provide heat as needed, and heat pump as a backstop). plus winter solar efficiency by default is what 40-60%?

  • small firms are unlikely to get favorable debt burden compared to bond market, so like what, 10% apr? this would just cripple them, structurally, not to mention it creates place for misreporting shenanigans over assets/obligations, not that anyone cares. for workers it's whatever, for economy it's not great sign.

    although i'm sure financial bros will argue that mini bourgeois also deserve debt market, so ymmv

    (aside from this being available as a sign of stress, structurally financial capital now interferes even in normal running of small-company)

  • hair status fairing in a blizzard ✔

    confirmed stapler thrower

    (but also, do those silly photo ops work on people?)

  • tbh the shittiest part of residential solar is how unsynced it is to work, aside from like boiler, your car is gone during work, ac should be off, fridge eats like 500w at worst, you can maybe use like 5kw (and that's what, for 30-60 minutes per day?) with boiler at best on your own, you can't charge car cause it's at work, and batteries explode costs. so you either go quarter-hog or full hog

  • the spare parts are within you

  • podcasts @hexbear.net

    When “When Prophecy Fails” Fails (QAA E350)

    soundcloud.com /qanonanonymous/when-when-prophecy-fails-fails-e350
  • podcasts @hexbear.net

    Citations Needed: Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms

    citationsneeded.libsyn.com /ep-231-how-to-oppose-genocide-without-opposing-genocide-part-2-aipac-dems-fake-israel-criticisms
  • bloomer @hexbear.net

    Somewhat positive boycott news

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Go to Palestine: A Report From the Ground

    partisanmag.com /go-to-palestine/
  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    More like nron

  • europe @hexbear.net

    In Belgium, Labor and the Government Face a Showdown

    jacobin.com /2025/11/belgium-labor-austerity-unions-strikes
  • news @hexbear.net

    A Single Warehouse in Jersey City Moved Over A Thousand Tons of Military Cargo to Israel Every Week

    www.dropsitenews.com /p/jersey-city-warehouse-israel-military-equipment-united-states-israeli-ministry-of-defense-interlogbal-forwarding-services
  • History @hexbear.net

    Anton Jäger, Complicities — Sidecar

    newleftreview.org /sidecar/posts/complicities
  • electoralism @hexbear.net

    "Change is Possible": How Somerville Organized to Pass a Ballot Question to Divest From Israel

    www.counterpunch.org /2025/11/21/change-is-possible-how-somerville-organized-to-pass-a-ballot-question-to-divest-from-israel/
  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Fedcobin mentioned 🎉🎉🎉

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    The world prompt must be spectacular

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    We are reaching gambling levels i didn't even imagine

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Hello judeobolshevism v 2.0, now over mildest socdems

  • podcasts @hexbear.net

    Citations Needed: Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour

    citationsneeded.libsyn.com /ep-230-how-to-oppose-genocide-without-opposing-genocide-part-1-biden-worlds-reputation-laundering-pr-tour
  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Best dem leader anyone can find

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Average dem be like

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    This is why you can't have higher minimum wage

  • podcasts @hexbear.net

    The People's Era: How France Unbowed Reimagines Leftist Politics - Varn Vlog

    varnvlog.buzzsprout.com /1777565/episodes/17542974-the-people-s-era-how-france-unbowed-reimagines-leftist-politics
  • electoralism @hexbear.net

    Good dem :headpat:

  • technology @hexbear.net

    AMD & NVIDIA Reportedly Consider GPU Cuts, ASUS and Others Slow Motherboard Plans Amid Memory Shortage

    www.techpowerup.com /343017/amd-nvidia-reportedly-consider-gpu-cuts-asus-and-others-slow-motherboard-plans-amid-memory-shortage