There are some privacy-forward domain registrars and you can register with a privacy mode enabled that hides your name and info. Also, it's an honor system, no one comes around to check your ID and phone number, at least in my experience with NameCheap. I registered a domain with a day-old Tuta address. Likely using a credit card with KYC didn't make them look any farther, but if you get a burner SIM and have an image of an "ID" at the ready, and set a VPN for an EU location, I expect you'd be fine. Just don't put all your eggs in the basket for a month or so.
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When will people learn that any advertising that occurs during extortion like this is the focal point of hate and fear?
This is like anti-advertising.
Same, I used to have some Caliber extension that stripped DRM. Last used it 2-3 years ago and worked for Adobe DRM at least.
I like to go check out the book I want from the library, and when it gives me the Amazon DRM version I just go search for the epub version online and download that. IIRC, completely legal as I have legal access to the book...somehow.
You have 2 neighbors where it's basically a public good.
I saw a guy in a park in Milan at almost midnight filling up a few 5 liter bottles from the carbonated water station. He clearly lived across the street and just...needed to bathe in fizzy water right then? No idea. But it's not just you all.
Bonjour, mon aime.
Right, and so I'm saying that forgetting how to make CPUs as a premise seems far-fetched when the actual fact of the matter than we can easily lose the ability to make CPUs with only a few significant supply chain losses. A total societal collapse isn't necessary. A single catastrophic natural disaster that only directly impacts one part of the world might be enough.
OK, but what if they have to trade their driver's license for voting rights?
It's not just the manufacturing of that one thing that is under consideration. There's an entire supply chain that gets you to that point where you finally have the inputs needed to enter the lab and make the product. There's likewise a whole bunch of supply chain needed to get an ISO Class 5 clean room, which is what's needed for general microprocessors. Even if you're only talking about a clean work box on a bench top.
Who is mining the cobalt and aluminum and making the glass and plastic tools needed to stock the lab where you're making 1980's style microprocessors? Who is making a pure silicon ingot you'll slice to get a wafer? What will you use to slice the ingot for the wafer? How will you polish the wafer to microscopic levels of flatness? Who is making the oscilloscopes that test the processors to see if they work? Who is making the glass for the lenses for high-power microscopy you need to work? Where will you get the bulbs and needed for the photolithography stage? Where will you get the tiny tiny tiny wires that connect the pins to the chip? How will you purify and process refined silicon dioxide? Sure, the stuff is everywhere, but think through how you go from a piece of quartz on the ground to a material you need to layer on a wafer (where you gonna get the wafer??) and what machines and processes are needed for that. And on and on and on. One of those things missing means you can't move forward.
And depending on the scenario, each of those things needs to be local to you as well.
This is Carl Sagan "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you need to invent the universe" level picking the process apart. Everything is connected, and we don't always appreciate how much things are inextricably tied to what we use on a daily basis.
My favorite example: This guy figured it out when thinking through a cheeseburger.
There's also a book from 2016 called "When the Trucks Stop Running" that is fearmongering oil industry hype, all about how important oil is to fueling heavy machinery. (Spoiler, it's not as important as they make it out to be) But the real lesson of the book is how many rarely seen or talked about corners of the supply chain are fundamental to keeping huge numbers of industries running, and how fragile many advanced technologies are to supply chain interruption.
I was thinking of modern CPUs the whole time and then people are trying to "What-if" their way into whatever they want it to be.
Fine, it's whatever you want it to be. We'll be making modern CPUs in a bucket next to the bucket where we recycle paper.
Grandma, we're watching things on the internet now. It's consolidation of the media because those formerly powerful outlets are dying and now these things are cheap.
This is a Boomer problem, and I'm fucking tired of Boomers running stuff, because they suck at it.
I propose a Constitutional Amendment that the voting age starts at 18 and ENDS at 70. And that no one over the age of 70 can be elected to anything Federal ever again. That anyone currently in office over the age of 70 be kicked out right the fuck now.
Then let all the Boomers exist in their paranoid racist little bubble getting scammed and buying pillows and catheters from whoever the TV tells them.
Americans, I don’t need to tell you where we are as a country. We are currently operating outside the bounds of the Constitution. Quite a bit outside, in fact.
A lot of this is predicated on the use of the long-standing Unitary Executive Theory. Google it if you’re not familiar. If you are familiar, your cortisol level just jumped reading those words.
I have a bad feeling that 2028 is going to be more of the same. Even if it’s not, it’s not getting better. I’ve worked in a lot of developing countries, and even without a conflict to tear a functional country apart, it can take decades to recover from a period of prolonged corruption and survival for spoils. It's going to be a rough patch.
Also, it’s been 54 years since a Constitutional Amendment that mattered to Americans was passed, the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18. The longest gap between substantive Amendments was 61 years, between the 12th and 13th – that stagnation included the Civil War, you’ll recall. IMO, it’s inevitable that in the next 15-20 years, we end up at a place demanding a Constitutional Convention to unfuck all the fuckery that’s only just getting started now. Not some little band-aid stuff, I mean like a full-on gut-rehab.
So we must ask: How do you prevent an Executive ruling by EO fiat? How do you dismantle the Unitary Executive Theory once and for all so it never does this to the country again?
You revise Article 2 to make the Office of the President an Executive Council.
There’s two current examples of this in action at the national level: Switzerland and the UAE. Classic Examples also include the Venetian Republic, which was baller AF for the day. I’ll take the Swiss Example, which is that a seven-person council where everyone takes turns being the ceremonial head of state. No single person can go off the rails, no single person can flip out and jerk around tariffs, no single person can put their personal enrichment ahead of the nation and get away with it either. Not that the Swiss are immune from issues, but this is a single-issue fix.
How would Americans work this? Probably pretty easily.
We already segregate ourselves by geography: The Southwest, the PNW, The Plains, The Great Lakes, The South, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. It really depends on how many divisions you want. Governors already have conferences grouped by geography and culture as well. This is the natural progression.
And no, 12 districts is not the right number. Depending on if you want ties or tie breakers to enforce decision-making, six or seven regions would be the way to go. It’s not the mess of Congress, it’s a group small enough to arrive at decisions quickly. Maybe a super-majority of five out of seven so it doesn't turn into the Supreme Court right now where one swing vote ruins everyone's year.
So if we’ve revised Article 2, we’ve eliminated the Electoral College as well (praise be!). Depending on if we have an enlightened set of descendants and survivors rebuilding from the wreckage of the Thunderdome being erected now, what would make the most sense would be either rank-choice or direct 50%+1 wins in most counties in the region, which is how janky US elections are already organized anyway. As much as I don’t love the Electoral College, it stands to reason that something needs to prevent one major metropolitan area from just steamrolling the rest of the region. LA, NYC, and Chicago, yes I mean you.
The Council would take on some part-time duties of Cabinet positions, rather than adding a half dozen people to the room. Some of those roles might actually be better delegated to those sub-national levels anyway. DOT, HUD, HHS, and USDA come to mind as already being so on-the-ground as to benefit from decentralized leadership. Things like DOI or DOD or State stay at the national level. Questions like “Who does The Football follow?” are worth asking, and as much as the fun job of being Ceremonial Head of State rotates, so does “being on call” for Defense issues, Domestic Issues, etc. where a council member can make some decisions that can always be re-checked by the council as a whole, or push decisions to the full council if needed.
Thoughts? Come at me. Tell me I’m an idiot or whatever, then steal this idea for a PoliSci thesis.
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If you do 2 a day, after a couple months you'll be good.
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List?tab=readme-ov-file