ghostBones

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Kanye and Diddy are living proof that becoming a billionaire is destructive to your morality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I never thought I would see an entire political party engage in maximal confirmation bias, but here we are, over and over and over again.

It's what you do when there's no evidence for your fever dream accusations and narrative ideations. It's a hollow strategy for appearing to be right when you're perpetually wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The most active posts are now bot-created open-ended conversation starters on r/askreddit to stir up activity and give the illusion of a thriving community. The questions are usually very redditer patronizing, and some of them are thinly veiled marketing analysis to create value for future shareholders. they're often saturated with butt created responses.

As to why the post in question may not still exist? I suspect substantial posts about bot saturation are probably filtered out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I suppose that clarifying it as 'uncertified open source Android' would be more appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you. I was not aware of that. I don't really know how to check to see if a link has been posted before. I would like to avoid reposting. 'sure would be nice if a veteran citizen of Leamington could explain it. I have re- re-titled the title in light of your comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. Ars Technica is not known for being a clickbait site. They are merely stating what platform(s) the malware runs on. It's not an Android hit piece, and it's not clickbait, it's just a warning about buying cheap Chinese electronics that have access to your Wi-Fi.

 

"In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months)."

edit this is the v4 of the title of this post. I'm not accustomed to editorializing or de-editorializing posts. I believe that the brand names involved were fairly trivial to the discussion of escalating malware cyberoperations especially if they are state sponsored. Earlier versions of the title were mischiefously incendiary. I apologize for that.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

This is such an incredibly stupid timeline. If somebody had told that insolent toddler that he looked like a badass in a black mask, hundreds of thousands of people would not have died.

 

[...] the weather was pretty much like summer in June, July, and August across parts of South America, Africa, and Australia. Peruvians went to the beach last month as temperatures reached 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Similarly balmy weather engulfed Paraguay and Chile. Buenos Aires, Argentina, reached 86°F, the hottest August temperature in at least 117 years. The heat was downright dangerous in Brazil as thermometers ticked above 100°F.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or, another way of looking at it is, they're embrace of deceit and delusion means they periodically have to fabricate new imaginary dragons to slay. The problem with turning victimhood and grievance into a cult is that you need persecution for it to work. Hence, fabricating opposition. Wokeness is just a way for the elder elite to heap hate on the youth that will inevitably replace them. Constantly reminding everyone that you are a patriotic Christian is just a means to try to seize the higher ground for cultural warfare.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's likely because you've hammered your dopamine receptors for so long, they can barely get a signal anymore.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had a female friend/coworker that had previously served in the Navy, on a carrier as a communications specialist. She told stories of endless harassment. She said ultimately some of the women crafted partnerships with other female sailors and convinced everyone they were lesbians in order to just survive the job. It meant they had to spend lots of time together and play the part. She also said they had to work the jealousy angle because nobody wanted to be attacked by an angry lesbian girlfriend.

The male sailors assumed a lot of the women were lesbians because of the masculine nature of the work, or, as she put it, because they couldn't believe the women weren't attracted to them. It turned out if you gave them a plausible explanation you could fake your way through it. Without a plausible explanation, they could become resentful and dangerous. I asked if claiming to be married and/or have kids would work, she said it wasn't as effective and you ultimately needed female allies anyway. She also said that actual lesbians would pretend to "date" hetero women in order to protect them. She kind of described it as leveraging the power of rumors.

I told her it sounded a lot like what happens in prison. She said in some ways, it was a prison.

 

I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can't wait to tell him.

 

Well, that explains widespread cognitive and neurological decline.

 

Justice comes calling for the fourth time this summer.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Strictly speculation here. But, what if the motive not to return the documents for so long was because of empty folders? If any of those documents were traded for favors or money, he would need to hide the evidence of the crime that carries a death sentence. Not wanting to leave behind evidence, he took as many boxes as he could to search for them later. It's possible that he could not find all of the empty folders until the FBI did. When he claimed that mostly all he took was empty folders, it may have been an unconscious projection or gaslighting revealing his motives. The article is a bit dated, but those empty folders have been mentioned recently in discussions and news about the Mar a Lago docs case, and this article shines a little extra light on that particular detail. Oddly, there is even a claim that one of these folders was used as a lampshade of sorts, in his bedroom. Why would he have one of these in his bedroom? My guess is consternation and fear.

 

I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

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