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@mrsaturday @sendpaws cf. hollerith (now IBM) built the records machines. They still run the databases that back Palantir and adjacent programs.

Literally the same goddamn company, doing the same job.

@mrsaturday @sendpaws thats just Moussolini's fascism.

like i've said before the allies may have defeated germany but the nazis certainly won WW2. we've imported most of their bad ideas about social control.

@subnetter @sendpaws i want to take a moment to point out AIPac openly brags about selecting every chair in congress. now imagine if there was a RuPAC and Putin came out and bragged about it. There would have been screaming from the rooftops.

@subnetter @sendpaws yeah but israel sponsors this particular narrative.

they need the hitler story to buy legitimacy and people have been exceptionally generous with selling it to them. the more the state starts acting like literal hitler i think the more people have gotten cross with this.

britain has even outright said shit like "they act in ways that make it difficult for their allies to support them"

@sendpaws "release evidence of international child molestation and maybe don't do foreign wars" being ejected from congress with record funding from ethnocentric groups does not give very many charitable interpretations.

@sendpaws i think the 'jew shield' concept is falling apart. the left hates israel nowadays and stuff like massie's firing nakedly exposes disproportionate representation.

it turns out people only tolerate "hitler happened once" for so many school bombings.

@sendpaws basically if you're in the USA and you say "i want to do $literallyanything" and just start trying to do it, you run in to invisible malregulation walls everywhere. in India they're just blatently bribe seeking, in the states its a little better hidden. It's still rent sought and lobbied to fuck and back, it's just that only business owners SEE it, so normies are allowed to believe it doesn't happen.

we see this a lot here with like EPA malregs that ban an american from making any kind of pollutant (it's impossible to manufacture without any pollution) but the tariff policy doesn't selectively cut by compliance, so it basically just takes american manufacturing behind the woodshed.

@sendpaws the chinese arc is wild. i had to shrug eventually because the chinese clones finally surpassed the west, and the west heavily migrated out of engineering in to "laurel sitting."

the quality differential between an anker and a bose qc headphone is not much. my only issue is my head is too large for it (which anker could possibly have fixed in newer models, i don't know), but its 80% of the sound quality and also lets you turn DSP off (the QCs for some reason don't allow a "neutral" option, despite being 300$ MSRP)

i dunno that i'd credit amazon much for this. it's really just shenzen doesn't have a government trying to commit economic suicide presiding over it, which can't be said for the USA

@sendpaws basically we have known fail states which are few but well identified

- when food costs more than about 50% of day wages, peasant revolt is guaranteed
- when privileges are granted and summarily revoked, riots are very likely

its basically a long con of measuring out how much you can take back at a time, normalizing it, and repeating, the "boiling the frog" strategy, where by the time a resistance forms they implicitly accept most of your control anyway (they're arguing to undo your latest power grab, not that your entire paradigm of control was never valid to begin with)

@sendpaws most people don't really know what the word "enclosure" is who probably should. it's exactly what the tech sector has been slowly being drug through post-dot com boom.

there's a book "technofeudalism" about it--amazon et all quietly becoming inescapable commons places (every photographer must be on instagram or doesn't exist, every product must be on amazon or doesn't exist) despite not being subject to commons-esque social regulation (amazon does what it wants and is backed by DOD money, making it relatively immune to boycotts)

i think open communication proved to be too powerful for nation states and its been a really protracted fight to revoke it without causing An Event. (i liken it to a game where controllers are trying to maximize the size of a shape without ever touching the death triangle; a shape that causes you to lose, but there is no way to know that you have found it, as intersecting it causes whoever does so to die.)

@phnt the amount of rust crates that depended on nightly is one of the reasons i bailed on that community.

the language itself is discount ML but the culture is still entirely javascript

@a1ba corporate memphis diffusion

@0xabad1dea they are fundamentally the same company that had an internal management disagreement.

@elle @silverpill some of that is probably unavoidable because spec work is one of the times you have to put all the serious pants on.

you get to assume the person reading them has a relatively high degree of competence, but you still have to make sure all the ambiguity is aggressively edited out (ex. on the extreme end stuff like ASD-STE100 exists.)

@silverpill @happyborg @lutindiscret i eventually got a codeberg account but stuff like this is why i put it off for so long.

being stuck between codeberg and sourcehut is certainly a rock and a hard place.

@sun @silverpill @caohuak they hate monero because it works.

litecoin had mimblewimble for a time and the states shat themselves too (until it turned out to be broken.)