brambledog

joined 2 years ago
[–] brambledog@lemmy.today -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fun fact: this Joe Rogan rant from 2011 you plagiarized wasn't even written by him.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Chinese government doesn't know you exist. The Chinese people are theoretically banned from site like this and even if using a vpn, they are almost certainly accessing webpages made in the language they actually speak.

Maybe there are better ways to take a stand against the Chinese government. Ones which aren't empty gestures.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

Catch-22 or Gravity's Rainbow, if my memory of books I've read once is still accurate.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to feel like the Republican plan is use Donald as a distraction and have Biden and Harris taken out in a terrorist attack. Mike Johnson pardons Trump and begins the reign of puppet tyrant.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

Except he appears to be running the company at a loss currently, being over half a billion in the hole after making close to 5 billion (largely in government contracts).

https://archive.ph/2023.08.17-224420/https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b

I'm not saying the rumors are true that Joe Rogan has been pumping him full of ketamine to get him to sign over his fortune, but Musk is clearly starting to lose his ability at what he was good at: making money.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really?

Please show me in which of Orwell's writings he suggested that economies should be based off allowing financial criminals to commi their crimes against citizens, unimpeded.

The thesis of 1984 is that when totalitarianism takes hold, we will turn on those we love to protect ourselves. Which specific portion of that novel do you believe told you that true freedom is getting your money stolen with no recourse?

This is primarily the issue with libertarians. You guys are constantly applying a book you haven't read to every situation you don't like. It's weird and I think people see through it.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today -5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

As you yourself out it, the issue with monero is that it is designed to protect attackers.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How could it not?

You buy one 20 pound bag of rice and one 20 pound bag of beans and then canning supplies and you sell limited edition holiday dried and rice bean mixes. When you sell out, you buy 40 poinds of each.

Within 5 generations you have now become the rice and bean king of New Hampshire and have only spent $40 of your initial stimulus seed fund.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago

Growing up in the age of Clinton and Bush, my father used to always say, "I didn't leave the democrats, the Democrats left me."

My jaw hit the floor when I read that very same quote out of politican's mouth in writings from that era. Over the next few years it dawned on me that my father was 5 when the civil rights act, and his grandfather was a minor figure in the Texas Democrats back in the 30s.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 12 points 2 years ago

The people communicating with each other need a way to ensure that they are communicating with who they think they are; and for most people, they are trying to hide what they are discussing, not necessarily who they are discussing it with.

When I first got into open source I downloaded every app I saw that could make me feel like a spy, but I quickly deleted 90% of them because I had no use cases for them. I did find an app I believe based off the signal protocol which had no names or numbers and the only way to initiate contact between two people was by scanning each others qr code, but good luck ever meeting somebody to download the app.

It's been hard enough convincing anybody over signal. Americans are pretty locked into SMS and everybody else seems unwilling to leave WhatsApp.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 11 points 2 years ago

I haven't had a single complaint in my few months if using it.

That being said, I have 3 people to use it with so on average have only gotten about 20 minutes per week.

I will say that the WiFi calling on their app is far superior to the samsung's drag down buttons.

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So a man whose wealth has largely been built off lying to investors and consumers about his products told you that his father only gave him $28,000, and you just believed him?

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