I'm guessing this is mostly rhetorical.. But my 2¢: They failed at everything since kindergarten: education, socialisation, relationships, career, finances; everything they've tried they failed or they feel like they failed.
They need therapy, but that costs vulnerability and money, and their parents or peers told them it was for the weak. So instead, they get angry, and look around and on the first page of Insta, YouTube, and Facebook they find people like Shapiro, Fuentes, Petersen, Crowder, Southern - all telling them that someone else is to blame, not them, and then pointing at immigrants illegals, blacks inner city youth, and Jews globalists.
So now they're looking for that someone else to punch down on to soothe their extreme insecurities, shame, and anger at the world (and themselves), but they're still that doughy, insecure 'failure' that they haven't done anything to change.
Businesses/orgs that have smart leaders are already implementing (or have already completed implementing) post-quantum encryption algs/methods into their systems to protect them for when quantum computers and quantum programming mature, making their existing encryption defeatable. For most systems it's just a matter of a software update and re-encrypting any data.
This is a problem for public proof-of-work systems that cannot change their encryption, eg: all crypto. Bitcoin cannot change how their coins are encrypted without redesigning and completely rebuilding their public blockchain - it would require concensus from all major bitcoin users and businesses (coin exchanges etc), and could potentially leave any prior-minted bitcoin vulnerable anyway. It will not happen anytime soon - and when it does happen, it may be too late.
Hence, its actually pretty high on the list of quantum targets, and will likely be attacked as soon as it's available. Some people might be able to steal a bunch of Bitcoin and exchange it for other new (secure) coins or for cash, and get out before the Bitcoin public realize its been cracked. At which time the Bitcoin price will crash hard and may not recover (depending on what action they take to resolve the issue), so the cautious are getting out asap.
Its worth adding that this proposed legislation has now been abandoned by Labor thanks to the Greens saying they would not support the bill in its current format without provisions for genuine protest - the Liberal party also said they'd not support it, for very different reasons. Either way, it's dead.
From video description:
UPDATE: The Government has since announced that it is abandoning its proposed law about promoting and inciting racial hatred. As this analysis now only has educational, not practical relevance, the comments have been closed.
This video is about one part of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 (Cth) which will [was to] be introduced and debated in the Australian Parliament on 19 and 20 January 2026.
Not as far as I'm aware, and it wouldn't be able to do it justice, because the original Xbox dash was fully rendered live in 3D. It's more akin to playing a game than navigating a 2D themed app UI.
Israelis are not a race though, they're just citizens of a country.
So it would not be able to be classified as 'racial hatred' and then they would have to pivot to charging that you're inciting hatred against Jews, which would be much easier to defend. Protesting against Israel is not protesting against Jews - in fact there are a lot of Jews that protest against Israel.
Edit - the proposed new laws add 'nationality', so my suggested response would not be helpful to avoid arrest/charge.
I agree with others the wording of the proposed legislation is very bad for free speech, restricting or curtailing the ability to protest against the action of governments. Protesters would have to very carefully state their disagreements were against government and government officials and if they ever broadened their placards or slogans (as is very standard for protests) to something like "Against Russian aggression", or "Stop Israel's genocide" they could be charged with inciting hate against a nationality. They could fix this by adding 'govt' to their placards but the chilling effect will be real and the legislation is an overstep.
What a joke. Thankfully the legislation has now been scrapped.
Oh yeah my bad, i meant rutorrent. The site is in Russian but easy enough to navigate as it uses the same forum template as a lot of sites, band names are all in original language so searching is simple enough. I sometimes use a translation browser extension to help.
You can own your own music in many more formats than just vinyl.
CDs are still being made, and cheap. Second hand CD trade is huge, and they are always cheaper than vinyl to buy and ship. Digital ownership is even cheaper (eg Bandcamp), and the same or higher quality.
RuTracker has an enormous collection of FLAC well-seeded, as do other sites (but they require invites). Soulseek has an enormous collection and requires no account.
Regarding equipment just get some good speakers and an amp, you'll need that regardless of what format you end up getting your music in.
Vinyl is often a trap. Expensive, fragile, degrades, difficult to resell unless you live in a big city (postage & packing), and the quality is ultra subjective and varies wildly between pressings. Just look up a couple of popular albums you know on Discogs or rateyourmusic and browse the comments see what they cost and how many people bring up complaints on pressings.
I'm all CD and FLAC and loving it. Bandcamp is my first port of call, then CD (new or second-hand), torrent if rare or OOP or unavailable anywhere I frequent.
Something else that may help - if you really think vinyl will sound better, enormous FLAC rips (2GB+) of popular high quality pressings in 192kHz/24-48bit rips are not uncommon on torrent and Slsk - vinyl enthusiasts often make a high quality digital capture of their purchases while the vinyl is new, so that they have a near-new copy in case their vinyl ever degrades with wear - or simply so they can use digital for convenience, but keep the analog hiss and increased frequency range of vinyl pressings. Best of both worlds.
Yep, the "strapped the head of a whale he chainsawed off to the roof of his car to drive it home as a souvenir" guy.
I still cannot get over Kathleen Kennedy (his daughter) recounting her vivid memories of this from when she was six.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen Kennedy recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
Sounds like a very fucked environment for a child to grow up in.
The fries are vegan in Australia ever since they stopped cooking them in beef tallow - around early 2000s iirc.
However, their own website says they offer no menu options certified as vegan or vegetarian, due to cross-contamination being something they don't wish to deal with.
Understandable as additional prep areas would be quite expensive, but also it's a pretty weak copout when they could go to the effort of labelling their vegan/vegetarian items (with the asterisked proviso that they may have cross-contam).. I suspect it's really to allow them to change up menu item suppliers to cheaper alternatives whenever they like, because they also do not bother to label any menu items with allergen info - and that's very standard across even small cafes nowadays. To find allegen info you have to dig through a PDF that they update every few months.
My thoughts are that the USA is in a far worse position now to shoulder and recover from the coming bubble pop, crash, and financial crisis that the mass implementation of AI is about to cause than they were in 2008-2009 when the last crash hit.
Could be wrong though. Maybe all the datacenters will get built on time, and be powered by a sudden breakthrough in nuclear fission, and maybe ~44% of people on the earth will sign up to paid plans with OpenAI so that they can become profitable.
Well, it's not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you're like "he seems fine to me", then let's just agree we have very different opinions.
I think this is why some people use Neofetch (and its contemporaries).
It helps give a quick rundown of server specs, OS, etc to help remind you of the command mindset you need to be operating in when you connect to a new machine remotely - just quickly run your info tool of choice.
Its a CIA-style listening device that people pay for and proudly install and display in their home, gathering data on them, sharing it with Amazon and anyone they care to sell or make that data available to - including police.
Ostensibly all to provide short voice answers and actions they could do privately with their phone in seconds.
I'm guessing this is mostly rhetorical.. But my 2¢: They failed at everything since kindergarten: education, socialisation, relationships, career, finances; everything they've tried they failed or they feel like they failed.
They need therapy, but that costs vulnerability and money, and their parents or peers told them it was for the weak. So instead, they get angry, and look around and on the first page of Insta, YouTube, and Facebook they find people like Shapiro, Fuentes, Petersen, Crowder, Southern - all telling them that someone else is to blame, not them, and then pointing at
immigrantsillegals,blacksinner city youth, andJewsglobalists.So now they're looking for that someone else to punch down on to soothe their extreme insecurities, shame, and anger at the world (and themselves), but they're still that doughy, insecure 'failure' that they haven't done anything to change.