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You guys don't own:

1. Your movies
2. Your video games
3. Your music
4. Your computers
5. Your phones
6. Your cars
7. Your personal security

Everything you guys buy, from printers to razors, is locked into an ecosystem that big daddy owns.

It appears that your capitalists don't believe in personal property. And your government doesn't either.

All that time fighting communism, because it doesn't allow you to have private property, and you guys aren't even allowed to own your own shit.

By the way... Happy 4th! Have a good freedom day.

>The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Western legal precedence, and a lot of Philosophy, doesn't agree with that.

Legally, we have something called Blackstone's Ratio. Which states that, while trying a group of people for a crime, if a single one of them is innocent, you have to let every single one of them go.

Individuals are smart, but groups fall into group think, and become stupid. If their wants and needs surpass my own then the individual is dead.

"All for one, and one for all," is a much better philosophy.

Everywhere I go, the people I talk to are all about putting on happy faces and keeping everything positive. All kinds of vibe checks and loyalty tests bullshit.

But they all feel fucking broken. Like it isn't real. Everybody's got someplace to go or somewhere to be. They can't take 5 seconds to discuss constructs or ideals.

And God help you if you ask about what's going on, or question the status quo. Or, try to be creative in any shape or form. If you can't express your feelings just right. Or, if you don't follow a set standard, you're the bad guy. "We aren't 5 year olds." "Just trust the process." "Let the experts figure it out." "Look at this person's post history. They don't know anything."

The experts are using the ingenuity of the 5-year-old.

Is the entire world tripping balls on fucking bath salts? Am I the only one not invited to the party? I feel like I'm surrounded by psychopaths on all sides.

And then, you have people who believe that there's no such thing as free will. Of course there isn't when all forms of communication and idea expression are suppressed. When every basic biological expression is seen as a threat to etiquette. You've essentially stopped all mental productivity.

Email and HTML have become excessively convoluted. To the point that it's difficult for new developers to get their feet wet with the underlying protocols without utilizing a library of some sort.

How would you design a new email protocol?

Current suggestions:

1. Easy to use for developers and users -- no huge servers required for sending basic messages
2. Encryption by default
3. Subject IDs for messages, so that they can contain threads
4. Voice messages
5. Federated, no central authority owns the technology
6. Protocol should be storage agnostic. Protocol should focus only on message delivery and receipt, with no concept of message storage.

Thinking of building an old-school social network.

One central mail server, which allows users to subscribe to channels.

#channel@mailserver.com

Then broadcasts messages received to everyone on said channel. It also has an anonymous email for everyone on the server.

304954390@mailserver.com

So that you don't have to reveal your email to the group.

Anything like that open source at the moment?

I keep searching Google for open source mailing servers or listservs, and it keeps giving me one-to-many mailing list software.

Everybody thinks about it -- being president.

I always thought that, if I were, I'd take the Presidential Address to name all the Senators and Congressmen who're hurting the country with backwards morals and corruption. The ones who blocked bills that everyone agreed on. The ones who slipped poisoned amendments into good bills, to keep them from passing. And I'd use this time to let Americans know who was really screwing them.

You see... You can't hold people accountable by blaming non-corporeal things. Labels like Congress, Supreme Court, Illuminati, etc... They're just smoke screens. Something the people in power can hide behind to carry out their plans.

When you start saying "X did this," and X is a name, people know whom to be angry with. They know who the problem is.

Every time you post a news story about bad politics online, it should be titled as, Sen. X votes to Y. Or, Congressman X Amended Y, rendering it useless.

The only way to fight the shadows is by pulling back the curtain.

I just thought up a simple adding machine in my head, and am wondering if there were any blueprints for entire compute modules.

It doesn't even have to be Tinkertoys.

I've asked in a couple other places, but Reddit's filters keep blocking the question.

A few months ago, I posted about how Star Trek was secretly a dystopia. The shows pretty much follow the captains. The problem is, EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAPTAIN and NOBODY WANTS TO PERFORM MENIAL LABOR.

The future will still need lifeguards, DoorDash drivers, and dog walkers. Somebody has to fill these roles. It's why the US military put out propaganda back in the day, letting its soldiers know that the cook was just as important as the front line.

That being said, I'm not entirely tone deaf about the fact that our current system is keeping many of these people in the doghouse.

I've just finished watching a string of YouTube videos about college graduates being unable to find work in their desired fields. That's frustrating, but not where the economy is -- not where work is desired. Which, in Star Trek terms, translates to a whole lot of people with post-high school education, serving as lifelong janitors. Finding other ways to use their knowledge where they are. And, those people have to be OK with that.

Once you begin to see how having a driven personality and being denied promotion are in conflict, you begin to see where the dystopia arises. You have skills you DREAMED of your entire childhood, but can NEVER use.

I fully support college-level education for all. I think society -- as a whole -- operates better when everybody knows what's going on. But sometimes you've got to serve in the more needed capacity and find a way to transfer your skills.

She fled the state from an abusive ex. Went to a state where abortions were legal. Had it performed. Texas puts out a national search over the Flock network. And the state where she fled told Texas where she was.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it

I'm working with LoRa at the moment, which transmits extremely short low-power long-range data packets over the ISM bands.

It accomplishes this by using a broad bandwidth of 500khz, in the US.

Seeing as the power of electromagnetic waves is fourthed for every distance doubled, we'd not only have to be working with some massive amount of power, but also a broad spectrum signal.

How broad would the frequency need to be, and at what power output to reach the nearest star -- without sounding like cosmic background noise -- outside our solar system?

I've been saying this for years. 5-dollar-words, like indifferent or impale, force people to turn off their humanity and go searching memory for meaning. Taking them away from the event and forcing them into other areas of their minds.

Brevity has its place, but there's a reason it's mostly used in academic papers. It has a way of muddying waters, by both being extremely subjective and divorced from emotional reality -- the second reason being why they're used in academics. And the first, why every academic paper must start by defining the words it uses.

Big words are not meant for everyday consumption -- Mark Twain (and several other authors) noted that a 50 cent word works far better for emotional comprehension -- even with people who actually know what those words mean.

It's good that you have a large vocabulary, but bad when you don't know when and where to use it.

If you want the world to change around you, you have to learn the environment you're writing in.

No other country on the planet requires IDs for all of these things at the same time:

• Voting
• Getting a job
• Drinking alcohol
• Smoking cigarettes
• Watching porn
• Renting a home
• Cashing a check
• Staying in a shelter
• Getting a cellphone plan
• Boarding a plane
• Owning a computer, cellphone, or tablet
• Opening a checking account
• Walking in public
• Paying your taxes
• Purchasing certain meds and cleaning supplies
• Staying in a hotel room
• Using a bathroom
• I could go on.

You guys are supposed to be the Land of the Free. The safest place on Earth, with guns to protect every American. And you don't even appear to be able to go 5 steps without having to know the true identity of everyone around you.

No wonder you guys are so out of your minds. You spook way too easily.

I mean, think about it. . . Google knows. . . It knows every website you visit. It knows every search term you enter. It knows every video you watch. It logs every app you open on your phone. All this stuff is time-stamped and dated.

It has security cameras and recording hardware. It has access to your phone's microphone. Your bank statements. Your car. It powers most of the Internet's DNS.

It knows who has access to Grindr. It knows who looks at child pornography. It knows your emails. It knows your text messages. It knows your phone calls. And your every location.

It could blackmail a child struggling with pedophilia to shoot up a school? A president to declare war? A judge to rule a certain way in a trial?

Google could easily blackmail anyone, to do anything. Congressional votes, presidential signatures, etc.

And, with the biggest ad network on the planet, it can plant these ideas in your head without you even knowing it's happening.

Do you want to know why all your leaders are voting against your interests? Can you imagine building a competing project, and then seeing a strange email popping up in your inbox, threatening your to discontinue your work? Then, it disappearing?

Doesn't the Bible say the number of the Beast's name is 666? Guess what WWW is transliterated to in Hebrew. . . 666.

Disclaimer: None of the claims in this thread are indications of current actions carried out by Google, only potential future actions, given the tools and data they're in possession of.

If water cannot be wet, then what color is a crayon?

Purely hypothetical, because I never really follow through with any of my ideas...

I've been thinking of a predictive key algorithm for a long time.

Basically, the left side of your keyboard is all you'd use -- each of the 3 letter rows and the space bar. One key dedicated to other options. (11 keys for letters and 1 to show other letters).

There'd be a floating transparent window that showed the current options.

As you typed, the backend would build a profile of your most used keys based on letter position within the word you were typing.

For example: The most frequent letter that words start with is S. S could be in the first position. Then, based on words it'd learned from you that start with S, the letter keys would change to the most frequent letters you used after S for particular words. And so on and so forth.

What's the best kick bike for a 15-mile journey?

I'd like to focus on: parts availability, ride experience, and long-term use.

Let's say I flew to 10 cities, in the US, picked by a computer generator.

I setup at a random shopping location, then asked people if they owned their homes and had the mortgages completely paid off.

What percentage of people would respond with, "yes?"

Anthropic was just ordered to pull its latest AI models, by the US government, because they could be jail broken and ordered to find software vulnerabilities.

Why is that a bad thing?

The only thing I can think of is the US government doesn't want to lose access to all the security holes its found in modern software.

Any software that has security holes deserves to be called out for it. If we're gonna burn through resources to power AI, we should at least be using it to make our lives better, not worse.

Or, are our resources being wasted for services only the rich can use?

All these old politicians made a big show about how AI is the future -- Trump included -- and how it was going to make our lives so much better. But they're making it illegal to fix gaping security issues with it.