benmmurphy
5mo ago
governing well seems to be a W for everyone who has to actually live under the regime and maybe the best we can hope for. i guess revolutionaries and accelerationists want to turn everything to shit so they can create their utopias but i feel like decent governance can inspire more decent governance.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
isn't that only 0.3% of the US federal budget. it's just a rounding error :)
benmmurphy
8mo ago
I thought it meant regulate cryptocurrency investments so Black men don't gets scammed. Not sure if these policies are fleshed out in more detail elsewhere. Possibly, there is no intention to give specific details so people can just fill in the blanks with their preferred policy.
benmmurphy
9mo ago
It doesn't just work once but it imposes an ongoing cost to your enemies operations to avoid the same thing happening again.
benmmurphy
8d ago
Photos remind me of the Capitol from the hunger games.
benmmurphy
1mo ago
right wing housing theorem of theory sounds a bit like high housing prices suppress TFR and this leads to an increase in immigration in order to maintain high housing prices. not sure if the data is consistent with that. i guess left wing housing theory of everything wouldn't include immigration but include inequality and some other left wing focused issues.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
Someone could make a crazy work of fiction out of Garmin's life. This whole Calliope story in the Sandman (https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-sandman-episode-calliope-ending-explained) along with the scientology connection where his parents were apparently second in charge in the UK. They could have Garmin making a pact with the aliens to commit rape against women in order to spread an alien virus in exchange for his fame.
benmmurphy
6mo ago
That reference to running is weird as well because pacesetters are actually doing part of the work that a runner would otherwise do (https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/drafting-runners-research/). Though, I'm not sure having access to faster male pacesetters is that useful. I'm sure you could always find some female pacesetters to run at the same speed as a male for part of the race. But I guess the problem is they wouldn't be able to run as far at that pace and you are not able to continuously swap them out. My theory of pacesetters for faster times is they run part of the race at a desired pace and they take the lead in order to take some of the work away from other runners then they fall off at some point because they are not able to maintain that pace while doing the extra work for the whole race.
benmmurphy
1mo ago
I suspect most countries now have some form of anti-trust legislation. Wikipedia has some details on the price fixing page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing However, there may have been periods of time where countries had strong unions but no anti-cartel legislation. I think Australia only cracked down on price fixing after 1974.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
I wonder if @campfire would be interested in doing a breakdown of the destiny lawsuit drama similar to the Daniel Green - Naomi King scandal. Another youtuber pxie (https://substack.com/home/post/p-155256128) has brought a lawsuit (https://www.givesendgo.com/suedestiny) against youtuber Destiny (https://youtube.com/watch?v=c5Jwhx3ZggE) over sharing explicit videos to a third party without consent.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
they need to get their people into the agencies controlling what the money is being spent on instead of using the OMB. short term they should be able to do something similar to impoundment from within the agency, however in the long run according to laws congress has passed they need to spend the money. but then they can just use their 'discretion' to spend the money in ways that are very objectionable. for example lots of agencies spent money on DEI commissars and that was completely legal. i'm sure trump and elon are not lacking in imagination.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
You can probably do this if you are producing. If you aren't producing and also not playing the game then things might be difficult unless you are working in a dysfunctional organization.
benmmurphy
10mo ago
are wide ranging parole conditions that look to violate 1st amendment rights unconstitutional? i found united states vs chaker which the ACLU/Cato/EFF joined but the court dodged the constitutional question. https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-chaker-2
benmmurphy
11mo ago
When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse
benmmurphy
4mo ago
If independent means they are effectively run as a faction of the Democratic party are they really independent? It sounds like the US has some agencies where for the electorate it doesn't matter if they vote in the opposition party the agency will still be run by the Democratic party.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
its crazy that Amazon is getting the blame. i think the primary agent responsible here is Alex. but if there is a third party to blame I think the schools should bear a little. the tax payer shells out good money to fund the school system and i feel like they are not doing a good job in instilling proper values into young children. the state has a lot of control over kids. they should really be propagandising them to not do this kind of shit. it could even be the state is doing the opposite and propagandising them into hating society which i don't think is very productive.
benmmurphy
6mo ago
It's also kind of insane that the Rotherham crimes were able to occur because there is a lot of red-tape you have to deal with if you have contact with children in the UK. Apparently, some of the men involved had criminal convictions which should have automatically barred them from having regular contact with children who are not their own. So not only were the police ignoring accusations of sexual assault but they were also ignoring crimes where the prosecution should be very straight forward. Also, people in positions of authority who deal with children are meant to be trained to notice signs of abuse and I believe there also mandatory reporting requirements. So the people who covered this up or ignored it not only fucked up their jobs but it is likely they committed some kind of criminal act as well.
benmmurphy
9mo ago
hasn't Trump built a bridge across the aisle. he is campaigning with Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. similarly, the Democrats have support from anti-Trump Republicans.
I don't even understand why something like clownstrike is necessary in 2024. It should be possible for the OS to be locked down to the point where it's not necessary to have an anti-virus running. And if you need some other security system because you are worried about zero day exploit from nation state threats then you should really consider your threat model because the clownstrike system is effectively a malware distribution platform. I guess its fine if you trust clownstrike and the US government but its a far from ideal situation. Clownstrike seems to have a very nice relationship with the US security state. For example they were brought in to do the hacking investigation by the DNC and provided attribution to Russia.
OS vendors should really expose some kind of interface that allows security vendors to perform these deep inspections 'safely'. I think linux has EBPF which I think some vendors have been using for providing file system monitoring and network monitoring.
Also, the SOC2/etc compliance mandates a lot of this stuff. We run most of our software on Fargate ECS where the compute is completely managed by AWS. I've been using this as an excuse as to why we can't run file monitoring and other garbage on our systems that use Fargate. I also suspect why these managed docker/managed kurbernetes systems are popular because potentially you can avoid some of the tickbox security work. We also run all of our containers with a read-only rootfilesystem so I don't even understand the threats that a file system monitoring system would be trying to remediate in our situation. Technically some kernel exploit could allow the root filesystem to be modified even if its read only or AWS employees could fuck with us but I suspect in these cases the file system monitoring could also be trivially bypassed.
benmmurphy
23d ago
The banking system is already an investigative part of law enforcement. It would be just another crime to add to the list of crimes they are responsible for investigating. I'm not arguing having the banks perform this role is a good idea but that ship has already sailed.
benmmurphy
6mo ago
Not a crime I would think. Just standard lying in politics.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
If the Democrats refuse to certify Trump I think its more likely to be due to claiming Trump is unqualified to hold office (for some reason) than voter fraud allegations. But don't be surprised if Trump wins and they try and do a similar challenge to what Trump did but somehow its preserving democracy instead of destroying democracy.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
the twitterati need to punish people for defecting even if their particular instance of defection produces no harm in order to send a message to all the other potential defectors.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
it could also be Johnson is a good faith actor and his CIA took me to a room claim is a way of telegraphing to everyone that he has been compromised.
Apparently, medicare/medicaid fraud is a big thing with hospitals. Apparently, there is a US Senator (R) who used to be a CEO of a hospital company that engaged in a large amount of fraud with the US government.
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