A friend of mine who lives in Georgia said she's seen a lot more out there (for both Trump and Harris), and that it's significantly different from the Tennessee side ... weird
Have you seen any election signs in your area? I'm in Southern Tennessee and there is nothing. I think I've seen one Harris yard sign and maybe two bumper stickers. Other than that: Nothing. No Trump. No Harris. The past month I've had to drive to multiple neighborhoods all around town and even into Georgia and I haven't seen a damn thing that's noticeable.
The local community centers only have local election signs .. and like maybe 5~10 when normally, at this time of year, there'd be like 30+ signs.
Maybe everyone realizes elections are fake and gay and no one cares anymore ... or is it just my city that's like that?
I am for smaller government: no EU .. people say smaller nations can't scale. I think they'd scale more slowly, and when they do so, it will require more open standards and interoperability (not just with tech, but laws, procedures, etc.)
I think you'd eventually still get confederations across small countries for things like food safely and regulation, and would see corruption grow there, but it would still be an improvement over mega-states.
It's a double edge sword. Not having good food regulations and labeling leads to the situation in China. I had a Chinese roommate when I lived in Australia who said a lot of meat had filler or was injected with water so it looked fresh when it wasn't. Look up Chinese "Gutter oil" too.
But you're right, regulations are also use to squash out competition. It also keeps people who want to buy questionable things, like raw milk products, from being able to accept the risks and doing so. At the same time, fat retard law-tuber Barnes is defending Amos Miller, an Amish farmer whose raw milk has gotten people sick. The state has even tried to work with the guy to decontaminate his tanks, but he just ignores them and keeps selling.
And in the US, the food industry has lobbied against labeling GMO food. So unlike many places in Europe, you can't tell if a food comes from genetically modified crops by the packaging.
I wouldn't say infosec is "bullshit." I'd say a lot of people in those fields are NOT developers, and they lack a true understanding of what security techniques are actually versus beneficial versus those that tick a box on a checklist (CrowdStrike was always a garbage security nightmare from the moment I saw it; and I constantly raised concerns and no one cared because "compliance.")
SHIELD certification was talked about a lot ~2012 and a lot of people in the security sector were against any type of certification, because it's just so pointless. There was a panel discussion about SHEILD form 2012, but Ruxcon pulled the video for some reason. I'd put it on catbox, but it's 950Mb.
One of the most iconic images I remember for a security conference was [Travis Goodspeed's talk on packet-in-packet injection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQk0GHXs8NY), because of the following image titled "Encapsulation."
Software is built on layers, and even security is designed in layers that are intended to create isolation as well as redundancy. The trouble is that very few people can describe, in any reasonable level of detail, everything that happens in a single HTTP request.
Modern security exploits are often a single strap in these layers. No matter how much everything else is locked in, one bad link could cause everything to come crashing out on the motorway.
But 2/3rd of people do need to vote. That's what keeps a society running; that belief. That moment you get a 15% turnout and the propaganda is not strong enough to turn it into a 50% turnout, your society is at risk of evaporating.
It's important to watch how others votes because it lets you know where things are heading and if you might have to move. But voting yourself just leads to jury duty.
You can be involved without voting. I'm not saying you shouldn't vote. I'm saying I personally don't think it matters. James Corbett has often said on his podcast that if you think we can vote our way out of our current situation, he wishes you the best and yes, go vote. Hopefully you're right and he's wrong.
But it's important to be realistic. Just attending protests or being involved locally with city council meetings or school board meetings is arguably way more important than voting. I've helped in local campaigns before. Not in a long time though; it does jade you to the process.
When people stop getting involved, when people lose hope, that is when the Oligarchs and dictators starts to act
Dude they're always acting no matter if you have hope or not. The media flips the majority of the population like a switch.
I used to think that voting didn't matter. I changed
I mean... if it gives you purpose, good? Keep on keeping on. Nothing wrong with a religious belief. Keep proselytizing I guess. Maybe you'll convert me one day. But for now, the risk of jury duty doesn't outweigh the benefit of trivially placing my wish on a piece of paper for one from the list of psychopaths running.
Xitter is hardly a free speech platform. It's a straight up propaganda website for everyone's favourite richest South African defense contractor technocrat. Chip my brain harder Elon!
Did we go to the moon? The more I look into the details, I feel like we had to have. There are too many weird little details for it to have been made up (videos showing the extreme difficulty of center of gravity changes for astronauts, the fine/dust particles that ripped into suits, etc.) Maybe the first Apollo was a lie but subsequent ones made it? Even James Van Allen said it was possible to make it through the radiation belt named after him before he died.
So why didn't moon expansionism continue? Having a permanent research station on the moon would have been insanely valuable for the past couple of decades; far more than the ISS. Back then it should have been much easier to convince law makers to spend an insane budget needed to fly supplies up there.
The Artemus project just seems doomed to failure. 11~15 fuel pods need to be in orbit first? and they haven't even tested in-space refueling? and they want to start in 2 years?!