ThisIsMyAltAcct

Yeah, this guy has slid off the deep end: https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-...

Great. Until then, if your state passes a legalization law, you can expect foreign cartels and gangs to set up shop nearby.

> It is thought to be one of around 270 illegal weed farms worth more than $4billion that have sprung up across the state since it legalized the drug in 2020.

Another blow to the "legalization kills the black market" argument

Yeah, the point is the situation in the US is lightyears away from being that bad.

Ukraine is taking volunteers for the front. Go fight there for a month and see if you prefer that to just stopping doomscrolling.

He already wants to but he's a small fish in a big pond.

Cyberattacks like these deserve the same kind of government response a terrorist attack gets.

At this point, unless you've been living in a cabin in the woods, it's almost guaranteed you've had at least an asymptomatic infection.

> Multiple findings indicated that the association between Covid-19 and cognitive deficits attenuated as the pandemic progressed. We found smaller cognitive deficits among participants who had been infected during recent variant periods than among those who had been infected with the original virus or the alpha variant. We also found a small cognitive advantage among participants who had received two or more vaccinations and a minimal effect of repeat episodes of Covid-19

Also look at Fig. 1 in the first study

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

> https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/31/us-military-admits-no-on...

No deaths were proven, that does not mean nothing sensitive or harmful was in the data. The argument failed in the sense that the court found that the leaked info was sensitive and harmful at the time of release:

https://archive.org/details/usa-v-manning-third-party-transc... page 7

> You dont remotely appear to be familiar with the facts OR are intentionally ignoring recent history. > https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cia-discussed-kidnapping-... > https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london... > https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/t... > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstler_v._Central_Intelligen...

The US has plans to nuke Russia and China too, doesn't mean they are going to follow through on them. Even in the absolutely unhinged Trump administration, there were enough checks to stop the wilder plans from getting anywhere close to happening, and now the most objectionable thing the CIA ended up doing was getting the contents of some phones from UC Global, for which they are being sued.

> I see where you're coming from, but I think there's a big misunderstanding about what Julian Assange is really being accused of

Not really, the full text of the indictment is in my link. I'd encourage you to read through it.

> It's super important to remember that a lot of what he did is pretty much what investigative journalists do all the time. Caitlin Johnstone nailed it when she said that Assange is getting heat for the same kind of work that journalists are praised for: helping sources stay anonymous, secure chats, and encouraging more leaks. This isn't "hacking" in the criminal sense; it's basic journalism 101 in today's digital world.

That's also the same kind of work that espionage entails. The discriminating factor is, like in many areas of law, intent. Specifically for classified info, whether it was leaked with the public interest in mind or to "be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation" and the degree to which the leaker conspired with the source. Yeah that's vague, but that's what a trial is for. Assange leaked unredacted cables, documents on cyberwarfare capabilities, in addition to stuff that was obviously of public interest. He and Wikileaks released so many documents that they admitted they didn't even look through most of it. "Helping sources stay anonymous" is a deeply funny thing to say that Assange did given what he leaked.

> Manning’s lawyer even argued that the leaked info didn’t contain anything that was still sensitive or would harm ongoing missions.

And that argument failed.

> When they went after Assange with those Espionage Act charges, they weren't just targeting him; they were firing a warning shot at every journalist out there.

There is, like, no better country on Earth to publish secrets about than the US. Glenn Greenwald and the Snowden documents, The Intercept and the Reality Winner documents, Neil Sheehan et al. and the Pentagon Papers. Even the sources themselves get fairly moderate sentences. Reality Winner got ~5 years, Manning got out after 7, Ellsberg wasn't even sentenced because the Nixon admin was so corrupt. The idea that Assange is going to be extrajudicially murdered as soon as he steps foot in the US is projection.

This guy on youtube goes around cleaning blocked drains and has inspired some copycats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV9dOHRDb3c

I think what Assange has done has gone a bit beyond "journalism"

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-sup...

> Commission Chair Jim O’Connor said he and three Republican ACC members approved the rate plan without knowing the real effect it would have on customers’ bills. Under the new rate hike, O’Connor promised customers will see their bills rise roughly 8%, far outpacing inflation.

lol the Twitter files. But none of these accounts were forced to be taken down, the groups just wanted Twitter to investigate them.

This is the form that miners allege will cause them irreparable injury and has cost them 40 hours to fill out: https://www.eia.gov/survey/form/eia_862/form.pdf

I mean, Trump has said this himself.

> “In the end that is all I know we can do right now without interfering with a free press. We are not asking for such covert disinformation to be taken down but a way to be found for the source to be labelled.”

Essentially, no correlation

This is laying the groundwork for the conspiracy theory that Google and other tech companies rigged the 2024 election, in case Biden wins. Tim pool has been posting about it recently. What most likely actually happened is these people got sick of working in the govt around 2018 (gee I wonder why) and fled to the high paying tech industry, and when a resume lands on your desk with 5+ years experience in the CIA, it's hard to ignore.

Feel free to look through here: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/facebook-dan...

Keyword is "armed militia". You can look a few of them up on Google to see what they get up to.

People yell at Meta when they don't moderate content and when they do moderate content, so I don't envy them.

Well, you're just flat wrong. These programs are meant to develop a country's domestic tech and spaceflight capabilities, test new technology, look for potential resources on the moon, perform science experiments, etc. Increasing national standing may be an objective but it's not the main one because there are cheaper and more effective ways to make circuses than launching a lunar lander. I bet more people know about the relationship Travis Kelce and Taylor swift than are even aware that the US has a lander on the moon. The headlines about it will be gone by Monday unless it explodes or something.

You seriously think the main reason to have a lunar program is bread and circuses? The ESA launched a lunar probe in 2006 but haven't since. I guess they only needed the distraction that one time? I guess each of the 22 ESA members needed a little "consent of the governed" boost?

Is there any country on Earth who, if they launched a lunar mission, you would not consider it a distraction from real problems?

Here you go: https://nitter.poast.org/ryanasanchez

I guess China, Japan, India, Russia, the UAE, and Israel are all just trying to distract from real problems too?

Have you scrolled his twitter feed lately? He's going to throw a huge tantrum about this.

https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk

Reddit has already been enshittified

I feel like this has been known for years. Don’t know why nothing has been done about it yet