T Swizzle is the American equivalent of a Royal now…

and some people don’t get it works both ways

Yes.

If this was any other president the right would be losing it.

Yep, at the end of the day it’s about using the best available tool for what you want to do

Well yeah you don’t need currency when value is based on physical stuff Catan style. I make brick, I trade for milk.

But when you have a trade that doesn’t make physical goods or doesn’t involve the stuff you have to offer you’ll need a do-good coupon that everyone agrees to represent value.

Seems like they’re pissed because they didn’t get their cut of federal funding

AI is a distruptive technology…just not in a way most people can use in a positive productive way. As entertainment it’s a cool toy

But its best use right now is manipulating public opinion and creating convincing but non-legit material. As a propaganda tool it is a dream come true

Yes and no. It’s more I want the big socials to have competition and shrink

With AI seeping into everything I think offline backups should be made of everything that is important to you or your organization.

Imagine you are a government or corporation. Instead of recognising and dealing with any painful past events you just pull a 1984 and rewrite history, changing movies and editing old documents.

This is scary shit because we know people are already abusing it for their gain

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I close the door when I poop.

It’s no secret, and I’m not doing anything wrong, but it’s MY business and nobody else’s.

Fingerprints are the least invasive of biometrics imo. If your fingerprints are weak the govt may put you under more scrutiny “just in case” and I think that would be a much greater violation of your privacy

Prints prove you were in a place just like an airport camera and airline records would. As long as your phone/computer etc isn’t unlocked via fingerprint that’s really all it can be used for on most cases. Don’t get me wrong it isn’t ideal and I see your point of wanting to avoid giving that away regardless

I’ve seen Amish:

Burn chemicals and paints in a pile behind their shop

Have dumpsters full of plastic “sawdust” from a shop that makes plastic furniture

Rebrand cheap chinese electronics and batteries to sell in their communities (MillerTech)

Zip around on a one wheel

Ride electric scooters

Log out relatively pristine forest to make more farms

Log land that isn’t theirs, without permission, for weeks before being discovered and confronted.

Vote down school levies repeatedly until the local schools shut down

Open a retail store in a mall

These days the amish button isn’t nearly as great as you might think…still funny to think about how everyone would react though

Target of choice: knee

Running with Rifles, Army Men II (comparing the game mechanics) and on my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2

I was joking of course, but I will say that a cool thing about gardening is you know exactly what you used on your plants instead of taking an industrial farm’s word for it

Or are you naive enough to think everyone should be growing their own Victory gardens?

Yes.

Most cops have some kind of tactical gear kept in the trunk of their car. They don’t mess with it for each call they grab and go.

I’d rather have them wear night vision for nothing than spend an extra 10 minutes fucking around in the parking lot to not.

But I do agree with the main point of the post. Clothing plays a part in our psyche. If you dress sharp you’ll act sharp. If you dress slopply you’ll act sloppy. If you dress like a soldier you’ll act like one, and that usually isn’t what cops should be doing. Hammers seeing nails and all that.

May the odds be ever in your favor