You’re just not thinking about all of the car companies that would benefit from having so many more cars to sell!

I love your work.

You’re giving yourself away by frothing at the mouth about leftism and pretending that anyone on the left is advancing the cause of anti-Semitism.

Maybe be more subtle next time.

They’re not being trained to be elite troops the way that people mythologize the IDF who somehow managed to miss all of the warnings about October the 7th and can’t tell the difference between a baby and a bomb.

They’re being trained to be the enforcers of apartheid. Racistly motivated government shock troops don’t have to be competent or capable they just have to be cruel and follow orders.

It’s annoying that there’s a typo in the tagline of the headline of this haaretz article. I don’t have much else to say that hasn’t been said, but that bit stuck out to me.

Celebrities didn’t stop talking about the things that are important to them. The media doesn’t want to show people talking about that kind of stuff so it has largelystopped asking them and stopped amplifying their messages.

It’s not that they’re any more or less preachy than anyone else, it’s how their words are framed and presented to the audience that makes it so easy to resent it. They’re just people who generally get an outsized amount of airtime compared to the man on the street sharing his own opinion to the interviewer.

With commercial media, all scheduling is strategy. There is no such thing as a slow news day on planet earth, but if the news it outside the scope of the topics the channel exists to promote, they don’t cover it.

If the news doesn’t fit the narrative and it can be ignored, it will be. If it does fit the narrative they will shop around until they find a person who can speak charismatically on the subject and in the right way. If the news is too big to ignore and is hostile to the narrative then they will impanel a group of experts to tear it down. If they can dress a celebrity up like an expert and stick them on the panel all the merrier for manufacturing consent.

The same media that will fawn over their personal lives doesn’t have the attention span for much of their political opinions when they can’t use them to sell something.

Celebrity culture is a tool of capitalism just as the commercially driven media is. The owners don’t like to encourage or enable celebrities to express opinions that undermine the work, consume, consent gameplay loop they have going on.

Once he is dead, all of those creditors he doged will be fighting each other to pick the corpse clean. She will probably be shredded in the feeding frenzy.

It encourages foreign divestment which is good if you are in the crowd that thinks that trade is bad.

It also leads directly to rapid inflation as those dollars once used for trade are now sitting idle in the money pool. Rapid inflation is good if you own monopolies on essential goods like housing, fuel, groceries, and medical care as it provides cover for you to raise prices and decrease quality.

Also, with rapid inflation it becomes easier to hide graft and extortion in the government and maybe go after people like Powell for cost overruns on projects that could never have predicted that you would tank the economy.

Good thing I didn’t bring up spying at all or you might have a point that somehow speaks to a thing I said.

What the bill does include is a wish list of stupid things you could only want if you didn’t understand the technology.

It’s also the thin end of the wedge meant to create a context for an excuse to further restrict these devices.

Most 3D printers run software that is smaller than most 3D prints.

I’m going to say that another couple of different ways in case you didn’t understand it, The software that runs on these devices is measured in the hundreds of kilobytes. A 2-in wide Batman symbol with no flourishes or extra details is going to be 10 to 30 times that size. There’s not even enough memory on the device to hold the entire print so it reads the instructions on how to make it one line at a time.

Those instructions are written in G-Code and g code is older than even the concept of most computer peripherals. G-Code can be written by hand, and is a technology older than computer monitors, digital audio, the mouse, or The indicator light.

So you want to add more computer to a device than the device normally costs so that it can run software that no one has written or knows how to write so it can detect shapes based on their future intended usage to prevent people from using their highly customizable home manufacturing device to Make single use firearms in a country that already has more guns than people…

There is no algorithm for that. That’s just technobabble. In order to detect if somebody is trying to print any specific shape you’re going to need software that can look for that shape in an arbitrary cloud of point data. That software does not exist.

No one has developed that kind of software and in order to develop it would require a tremendous amount of research and development. Who pays for that?

Now let’s say you were the company who did that research and development Do you build the cost of developing this anti-product into a line of products that you will sell? What’s the market for that product? If you sold the printer with no chip at all are you exempt from that requirement?

Will a device that has to include the additional cost that comes with all of the additional needed computer hardware, software development, and anticircumvention technology be in any way competitive on the market against models that don’t include these additional unnecessary expenses?

How long will people be allowed to make aftermarket modifications to their 3D printer if the aftermarket modifications don’t also include the additional computer hardware needed to run software that could arbitrarily detect gun parts in 3D printed designs?

I don’t think you understand how completely insane and unworkable a plan like this is because you’re comparing 3D printers to 2D printers. That’s a little bit like comparing paint by numbers to scratch and sniff.

Tell me how many handmade 2D printers are out there with this restriction?

How many 2D printer building kits have you seen online?

Ever seen open source sold with censorship built in? How would that work?

Obviously you are not at all familiar with how 3d printers work, how that currency counterfeit prevention works or how the limits of it mean that they had to put tracking dots into the machine as a backup, but here’s a dirty secret about it:

The reason printers are so expensive, you have limited options for brands, no one has an alternative open source version and they can’t be built at home is because of laws that make it a requirement to have this technology that restricts their use.

It’s dramatically easier to prevent a two-dimensional printer that requires proprietary software from your computer to prepare the prints to send to the printer. For starters, that proprietary software is only available from The printer manufacturer and it weighs hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of megs. The printer also has on it a pretty powerful chip to receive all that information and instructions and pretty powerful DRM to make sure that you can’t access it without jumping through their hoops.

Most 3D printers are made from components that can all be taken out and replaced individually. They run software that is custom built and available open source. By their very nature nearly every model of 3D printer is much more customizable and It is widely understood how to build one from scratch.

Making a law like this is a kin to making a law that says it’s illegal to sell a notebook that people could use to plan a crime. It’s unworkably restrictive and in order to pull it off you’re going to have to violate a whole lot of rights.

Sanctions are used to bully that’s true. The only people really victimized are the common people in a country as the leadership doesn’t face any amount of want or change in lifestyle.

But the narrative, the excuse that is sold to people who believe themselves to live in “free” and “democratic” countries is that sanctions are used to force the citizens to put pressure on their government. It is a flawed idea and really just translates to “we will punish their peasants because their nobles don’t pay patronage”.

I’m not saying this is good, correct, righteous or effective, but I am saying it is how this is done. Americans fundamentally do no think the same rules apply to them as does the rest of the world and have smugly defended the kinds of trade sanctions that lead directly to mass starvations in other countries.

Americans are also generally deaf to the privation that persists all over our own nation and generally rationalize starving children whether here or abroad to a lack of motivation to simply walk down the street to the grocery store and buy food with plentiful money that you get from working every job.

I am not confident that enough Americans will blame Republicans and Trump for the economic collapse and Even less confident that they will remember that all the way through to November. November might not even get here and Americans will probably have excuses lined up for that too. I don’t think you can reach these people, I think we’re all in for a really bad time.

They would fall in line as they always have and do as they are told as they always do and then seek our sympathy when they are betrayed as they always are.

You’d think that governments would at least honor their soldiers but time and time again we see soldiers having to organized together and march on the government to get the government to treat them with the bare minimum dignity that the law entitles them.

We’re going through another phase where soldiers are going to have to learn that. They seem to forget it every so often.

Trying to explain to my fellow Americans why we put sanctions on other countries makes perfect sense until I say, “and that’s why other countries may have to put sanctions on us.”

They follow the pieces like, “How is that not collective punishment?!” and “they should only put the sanctions on red states” (they kind of already tried that, and capitalism routed around it).

What Donald Trump has convinced the world to do is even worse than sanctions, He’s convinced them to look at a future without reliance upon the United States.

Americans don’t seem to understand who actually pays for all of our shit. Through the petro dollar we were able to hide the damage as we inflated the currency. We kept inflating it just to keep showering money on rich people. That gravy train has ended but we are still showering money on rich people.

The government doesn’t even have to print money to cause hyperinflation. The world just has to stop using our money to do stuff and we fold like soggy cardboard.

Losing you means losing one more person who sees what’s wrong with the world. That emboldens the enemy. Don’t let them win. A bulwark is not secured with one rivet.

We will need all hands on deck to keep bailing water until we can right this ship. Sometimes that just means securing strategic resources like good people with empathy while we are buffeted by a cross sea many are yet unable to recognize.

This is for sure true. Power corrupts but it also attracts corrupted people. Hierarchical authorities are resistant to enacting consequences on authority figures because in the mind of the authoritarian that would undermine their authority. So for the good of the organization many people within it believe they must hide evidence of wrongdoing. Plenty more within the organization will justify it as the fault of the weaker party.

Most cults of authority are like this and will inevitably produce heinous abuses that multiply in scale in response to how much influence, protection and power in society they have.

Jehovah’s witnesses, The Amish, Haredi, and Mormon church benefit from The American government’s structural deference to white-coded religious authority. Other cults also take advantage of this like Scientology, Adventists, the military, and political parties.

The Catholic Church is like the Dark Side to Drag.

Instead of the fabulous garish fashion and outpouring of love, expression, and inclusion in a cheaply decorated tax paying dive bar that is no threat to anyone you get from a drag show, the Catholic Church is a bland seepage of shame, repression, and exclusion in an expensivly adorned tax exempt cathedral that tends to threaten all manner of earthly punishment whenever it gets a little power.

As someone that grew up in a red state, I learned long ago that if the government gives you a choice between registering as a fascist or a non fascist, you should choose fascist.

The non fascists are never going to round you up for being a card carrying fascist, but the fascists will absolutely target you for being something else.

Fascists always come for you. Eventually they come for each other too, but that is down the line a bit still.

When police look you up and find you are registered a Republican, even if you look like a hippie, they are more likely to go easy on you.