[…] that feels like the internet of old.

But this shit, this hatred, does not belong here.

Buddy I got some bad news for you about the internet of old, flame wars are some of the first things we ever got up to on the internet.

To be clear, I agree with you, fuck that noise - but I don’t think this is a hill you want to get too comfortable on. It’s best to just ignore them, or block them if you feel strongly about it. People have been and will continue to call each other stupid assholes on forums from the beginning until the end of the internet era.

Local speech to text has been easy to do for at least a decade and then you’re just firing off a text file to HQ to add keywords to a user file. These days an AI will likely parse the text to find recommendable products, ten years ago you’d have just had a gigantic list of all your partners’ brand names and desired key trigger phrases in a database and run the conversation text against the database and look for matches. Super easy to accomplish. Updating someone’s ad preferences 15-30 minutes after they talk about a product may as well be considered real time.

Faraday cage should cover that no? Styro even mentions in the linked video that he needed to encapsulate his workshop in one in order to not get angry visits from the FCC. I’m sure for something scaled up like this you might want to nest a couple of them together.

Again, not an engineer, I could be (and likely am) wildly off base here. Not sure what makes it such a terrible idea though. I am pretty certain that a MW-scale Tesla coil probably wouldn’t blow out a larger area of communications than, say, nuclear testing would, and we do that all the time in the Midwest.

Not an engineer but I sometimes watch them on YouTube.

Could you not just set up a breakout point and have it arc to ground? If the power source is renewable then wasting a little when you have a full grid shouldn’t be a big issue. I’m thinking something along the lines of StyroPyro’s arcing plasma flamethrower should chew up plenty of excess power if you scale it up. As you ramp your total storage up toward 100% capacity I’d start shutting off inputs (disconnecting solars, etc) and then have what’s basically a big old Tesla coil to vent excess power over 95% capacity.

• Conservatives are doing [X]

• They pre-emptively go on TV and loudly blame democrats for [X] before it becomes a major story

• When it comes to light that [X] is in fact happening the public is already primed to blame their opponents for it

It’s the sort of thing a 5 year old might do to try and blame the cat for a broken cookie jar, it’s baby’s first con, it’s stupendously obvious what’s going on, but, here we are.

“Voters have not been voting for progressives."

What this actually means is “we have not allowed the voters any progressives to cast votes for”. The people who really most care about voting for progressives are doing so, and are voting third party. This is by design. If the DNC fielded any actual progressives they’d likely receive such a flood of record voter turnout that the Dems would then have their hands forced into actually accomplishing something to the detriment of their campaign donors. This can’t be allowed to happen because then the money faucet turns off. They’ve been controlled opposition, running on a platform of “at least I’m not that guy”, for as long as I’ve been alive and I can only assume several decades prior. The momentum of the two-party system blocking out viable third party candidates is what safely allows this for them.

Implement ranked choice voting now and we can rip this entire ugly weed up by the roots. Making the two-party megalith vulnerable will light a whole lot of fires underneath a whole lot of asses in the existing structure, as well as actually enable more than two political parties to exist in America.

Unfortunately this change must come from the bottom up, because the DNC from the top down benefits from the status quo and won’t shoot themselves in the foot with this. This can’t happen until a suitable number of leftist/independent/third-party representatives are already elected for local and state office to successfully make the push for this in congress, which puts us in a fine catch-22 where we probably need RCV in order to elect independents but we probably need to elect independents to implement RCV.

I hate it here.

I have never, ever in my entire life aspired to any sort of political office. I figured I wasn’t well suited to that, I don’t have a law degree, it’s just not for me.

These days that opinion is now “well I couldn’t possibly do a worse job than the ones actually getting elected for this”, so…

Fuck around, and y’all might catch me running for local office soon.

Luckily, as a firearm owner the choice then becomes “go quietly with the men who claim to be from the government”, or to cancel the home invaders’ life subscription. Especially in a castle doctrine state. If they can’t or won’t show identification then you have carte blanche to start blasting. Not only that but doing so is a morally good act.

Studies? No, we don’t do studies here anymore. Now we just declare things. If you just declare something enough then it becomes true.

Counterpoint: the Hotwheels Sisyphus spider (warning: spider)

If they’re practicing proper Read Only Fridays then we won’t hear about it from them

Right. So it told you objectively wrong information while the correct answer is freely available from technical documents that it ought to know how to read.

So imagine if that was something actually life threatening.

And don’t forget his second channel, https://youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre

Q-anon was a psy op to reduce public faith in Democrat elected officials.

Faith in Democrat officials is at an all time low and Trump is dismantling the white house. Its purpose has been served.

This still doesn’t explain why Cena’s victory is being reported to much hype in the sports sections.

True that, but I don’t have any control over whose the CEO of a product I use

Yeah you sure do, it’s called “don’t use their product”

Companies don’t stay in existince with no customers/users.

I was under the impression that WoW classic came about because nu-WoW was hemorrhaging players to other, better MMO’s, such as FFXIV and Guild Wars 2.

Not much need for a GW Classic if GW2 is still going strong.

Find me a person who doesn’t know who Elon Musk is, go ahead, I’ll wait.

I fix cars at a big retail chain and yep. There’s instant verification now where in order to accept it we have to punch all the info into some service on the POS computer to make sure the check clears, but if it does, yeah we take those. Money is money. Checks are still issued and cashed by banks so we still take em.

Yeah it feels like that’s getting glossed over but that’s a really fucking big deal.

For those unaware, habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin, lit. ‘you should have the body’, basically ‘bring us this guy’) is a legal procedure that exists in basically every legitimate government anywhere, not just American, which effectively states that if you’ve been wrongly imprisoned then your lawyer can call to have you moved from prison to a courtroom to determine whether your detainment is lawful. Basically saying you can’t just be thrown in a dungeon to be forgotten about because someone can force the court to retrieve you and give you a court date. I’m not a legal expert so read it for yourself to get a good understanding.

At any rate, someone recommending suspending habeas corpus is never up to any good, it is always 100% bad without exception, always. Even saying those three words together should be instant political suicide and should be grounds for disbarment. Successfully suspending habeas corpus with your rubber stamp and signature should be subject to execution. Any judge who accepts that it is suspended is unfit for their position.