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frankfrankfrank··on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
It would be funny if I didn’t think you were actually serious. It may be a recent term, but only because so many have arrayed against the Constitution and all the freedom and liberty it provides. It is solely a function of the enemies of freedom and self-governance that we even require such a ludicrous category as constitutional originalist, aka abiding by the Constitution.
frankfrankfrank··on Sam Altman wants to convince billions to scan eyes to prove they aren’t bots
Maybe all those suggesting and promoting these things should hand over all their assets for equal distribution. But as always, this tribe of people who think this way are always keen on redistributing other people’s things and wealth.
frankfrankfrank··on Sam Altman wants to convince billions to scan eyes to prove they aren’t bots
Altman? Fridmann? White tech?
frankfrankfrank··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
Is it ironic though? The whole system is inverted in that way that citizens are second class, and failure is rewarded and the injured punished, aka fraud.

It’s a system that simply cannot go well for the majority of people even if the top continues their plunder and walks away with everyone else’s chips.

It’s not an ironic bug if the intentions of the features are nefarious.

frankfrankfrank··on Judge decides against Internet Archive
I find it both shocking and terrifying that people lack the most fundamental understanding of how a properly separated government system would work, let alone why it should function that way.

It should concern everyone that these types of top down authoritarian mentalities are more prevalent as people without a tradition or culture based in western philosophy that has led to what used to be a clear separation of powers, become more prominent even all over the western/European based world.

It will not end well for most of humanity, even in this community, regardless if how much we believe ourselves to be doing good here, or at least not even considering the destabilizing consequences of what we do here.

frankfrankfrank··on Judge decides against Internet Archive
I agree with you until you parroted the propaganda trope about Roe v Wade. Roe has always been known as “bad law” even though it was never law, only illegitimate judicial dictate. It’s always been known as one of the worst rulings in American history.

It’s unfortunate that you would demonstrate such logically compromise in such a blatant manner, ironically, in a post about “bad law”. Ironically, overturning Roe specifically was good law, in that it followed the law the ruling was a blatant violation of.

frankfrankfrank··on Judge decides against Internet Archive
Here comes the memory hole, folks. This copyright claim is just the ruse to break down the wall, with the real purpose being to lay claim to news and internet archiving so that inconvenient news and information can be more easily memory holed without archives existing.

Let me put it this way, everyone should start working on decentralized archiving tools and retention of information locally about topics they are particularly interested in. I don’t say that out of the blue.

frankfrankfrank··on Big Banks Agree to Historic $30B Deposit Injection in First Republic
And then we can create an authoritarian uniparty to govern us all from behind a false appearance of a choice between two fake parties.

One of the facade parties we can make appeal to one half of society and the other we can make appeal to the other half of the society to make commoners think they are both choosing, having a say, and can feel virtuous about their fake choice opposed to the folks who chose the other faker party.

There can even be meaningless elections where the people can choose between the things the uniparty was going to do anyways like killing people.

Eventually we can just call it The Party and we can be at war with Eurasia, as we always have been.

frankfrankfrank··on Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
You have been marked as obsolete. Your participation in life is no longer necessary.
frankfrankfrank··on Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models
Well, it seems like the answer to what to do with all the useless people. Some had said drugs and video games, but I’m sure that custom VR porn dens will work too.
frankfrankfrank··on Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor
I frequently find myself in the middle of many things, one of them is that although I oppose the grotesque plunder of the public and citizens of countries by neo-aristocrats claiming to do one thing or another amidst blatant lies of social welfare, I also object to slavery and therefore cannot condone that everything should be free since people like being compensated for their work, and not by being indentured and forced to do things.

Things have to cost, even if they wouldn’t have to cost as much if we could stop the psychopaths at the top constantly plundering and raiding the resources of the productive people to maintain their parasitic and decadent lives.

frankfrankfrank··on When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?
Clearly some time before they started selling off their shares.
frankfrankfrank··on There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
Those are simply common correlate effects. Inflation is really rather simple, it is inflation of the money supply, i.e., printing more Monopoly money for oneself, knockoff purses, using chemicals to create fake honey, it’s what counterfeiters do … whether it’s some North Koreans or the federal government … its fraud, criminal, illegal, immoral, evil, and a clear indicator of illegitimacy of this or any government that does what this fake government has done.
frankfrankfrank··on There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
Yes, on the face of it. The issue with what appears to be the same old game is that those who absconded with the wealth pillaged through funny money, are not going to be the ones getting punished to “fix things”. This opens up a whole different set of cascading consequences because now on top of the moral hazard we had, we’ve gone well beyond that because the perpetrators have learned there are not only no consequences, but that you will be rewarded for your evils.

Combined with other factors too numerous to really go into here, we are seeing the emergence of essentially an aristocracy in the USA and Europe, consisting of, as the earlier aristocracy, of the pillagers of their own people and the people of the rest of the world.

frankfrankfrank··on The E-Ink Badge
You are of course correct. The far bigger core problem is that our government is generally captured and does not serve one of its core purposes, enforcing competition, i.e. preventing manipulation of markets. A way that a legitimate and constitutional government would do such a thing, would be, e.g., require competitive practices, e.g., e-ink screens must be sold to anyone so wants to buy them at fair price, to put in end products … if the company e-ink wishes to engage in interstate commerce, which is supposed to be regulated by Congress.

However, because Congress and the whole government is inherently illegitimate as is easily objectively measured by its constant, frequent, and persistent failure to abide by the constitution; things like industry capture of government and fraudulent regulatory bodies, is now the norm.

frankfrankfrank··on Loopholes in Google’s data safety labels
That is absolutely false and at the core of the rather schizophrenic mentality towards the world today. Capitalism has absolutely nothing to do with the means of production beyond it being a method for accounting for resources and allocating then based on a value assigned, ideally in a kind of double blind manner, which is the part that has been broken by cheating through things like corruption and “money printing”, i.e., fraud.

You may be referring to the favorite alternative method for accounting under the inherently fraudulent system that fraudulently calls itself communism, while hating and having nothing at all to do with community, which allocates resources, i.e., means of production, by central committee that sees itself as some kind of contemporary gods on earth.

The means of production are a separate thing and are generally separate from gore they are accounted for and allocated for some purpose.

To simplify, you having the skill, told, and wood to create a bookshelf are the means of production; your method and decision making that lands you on making a bookshelf instead of book ends or something else, is where you could use capitalist or “communist” practices to determine that, Party of which is accounting for the resources and drawing a conclusion as to what to do.

frankfrankfrank··on My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
First mistake is using any of the Microsoft knock off services whose primary purpose is to trick “deciders” in the C-suits and in halls of bureaucratic hell that can confirm that the box for things like “to do” functionality is checked on their list. Every single Microsoft service, including email, several decades later, is still deep into subpar.
frankfrankfrank··on My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
I’m not sure what people expect from anything associated with Microsoft. After literally many decades now of horrible Microsoft products and services that never ever reach the threshold (excel possibly being the lone exception), why would anyone expect anything other than abysmal things from Microsoft. It’s what happens when you let a robber Baron type corporation seize monopolistic control and there is effectively not real pressure to compete and get their things in order because there is a cultural assumption based on corruption/lobbying and the monopolistic lock-in will resolve any slight challenges.

I don’t mean to solely focus on Microsoft, but they are the dominant example in their domain and the biggest example in tech.

As a society it should have never been allowed to even be possible that things like the government, including public schools, become so captured by Microsoft’s disastrous ecosystem. People give Apple some justified flak for lock-in issues, but at least there it feels more like Apple trying to keep the horrors of especially Microsoft and Google at bay … formal dress required for entry.

frankfrankfrank··on Loopholes in Google’s data safety labels
There is this fixation on “the dollar” or even “capitalism”, but in reality both of those are essentially just abstractions for the underlying human behaviors, which is mostly greed and the lying and deception used to obfuscate greed.

Neither the dollar as the object of transaction nor the system of accounting (accounting for resource allocation) called capitalism, have any real connection to the underlying drivers. The same problems existed in many other means of transacting (currency) and economic systems (communism notoriously being a sprint towards corruption).

Unfortunately, people have forgotten or have intentionally been misled from realizing the tacit type of self-regulating controls of a system like actual capitalism (you lose money when making bad decisions, you aren’t rewarded by thieving friends in government) and even aristocracy, where you had to maintain a certain balance of relationships even with the peasants in order to prevent being made a foot shorter.

Ironically, the rather tyrannical caste that has we emerged on Mt Davos is forgetting that sometimes the dumb and easily manipulated peasantry the technocrats see themselves as being benevolent demigod leaders of, don’t take so kindly to their shenanigans, with dire consequences for all.

I mean what are you, a bigot, racist, sexism homophobe for questioning the beneficent and glorious, exhaled rule of the Ruling Gods over your life and limitations on what you can do, say, and think? You better. Don’t get any ideas or your gods on Mt Davos will strike you down with ban hammers.

frankfrankfrank··on U.S. food additives banned in Europe
I know, right. It’s like how can we know things like that the cancer clusters that will show up in that population inside the government created toxic mushroom cloud fallout region around East Palestine, OH has anything to do with setting thousands of barrels of toxic chemicals on fire and letting them seep into the waterways that supply 20 million people.

Let’s discuss it over cocktails at the K Street Lobby Bar.

frankfrankfrank··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
That diversity stuff OUSD really working out great. We now have a diverse set of problems, not just all of the original problems too. How wonderful that when we imported India, we also got the diversity of India problems.

No, guys, it’s fine. This OSS a great thing to have all kinds of diverse problems of all the different cultures from everywhere all at the same time.

frankfrankfrank··on Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
It’s just typical pretentiousness common in government related things, by people who use it as cover for mediocrity, especially when talking to laypeople.

It’s intentional in order to create a mysticism about government and military matters to impress the commoners.

There’s even legislation and policy directives to require the government to use and require common language instead of jargon. In typical government action fashion it is of course only effective in a very limited, below threshold manner, but it also cannot affect the people in the private sector so use it to feel important to commoners and project their mediocrity to those in the know.

It’s very much the same kind of behavior as is common in the financial sector to cover and obscure and obfuscated the scheme.

frankfrankfrank··on Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
“tightly classified” … as is everything that would embarrass or expose the ever increasingly crooked and immoral people that have accumulated in the US government. Otherwise, the “citizens” may start realizing it’s basically all just lies, fraudulent, and fake; which is a bit of a problem for a multilevel Ponzi scheme.
frankfrankfrank··on Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
You overlooked an obvious pink elephant; that the “security” state is yanking our chains as a distraction once again, as they so often do so effectively.

It could be for a couple different reasons and/or a combination of them, but included in those are probably things like distraction from the lies, failure, and collapse in Ukraine or even the “OMG, it’s UFOs” now is to prevent that huge toxic chemical catastrophe in Ohio taking peoples attention. But maybe it’s even just priming people for the minutes of hate to initiate Oceana’s war with Eurasia that we have always been in.

The social engineers in the government constantly misdirect and redirect attention by using their patsies in the media companies, so it’s not like it doesn’t happen. And now we have AI generated propaganda to look forward to an even more efficient psychosis inducing stream of lies.

What I’m more curious about is how otherwise smart people are so easily redirected and played tricks on as if they’re babies, too they point they don’t even realize the magic smoke and mirrors show happening as the ball disappears and reappears in the other hand and the young attractive lady survived being sawed in half.

Boop! The government’s got your nose! What will you do without your nose. Boop! Ok, it put it back. Phew! That was close!

frankfrankfrank··on The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement
It’s odd that people ignore the far bigger devil problem that the Dutch public, and most western public, are being plundered and defrauded of their money to support the lifestyles of the ruling class and foreigners against their will.

You call it discrimination and I call it theft by the ruling class against its own people to import foreigners that the ruling class can more easily control in order to arrest control away from the native populations that keep insisting on being in control of their own lives.

It is sad that people don’t seem to want to understand that “immigration” is a weapon of abuse by the ruling class to attack and shatter the “will of the people”.

It has really never dawned on anyone that there is something wrong with the situation when the richest and most powerful people … literal lying, murdering, stealing psychopaths … are all cheering on and support “immigration”, as if anything they support will have any kind of positive impact on regular people?

It’s not very sane to believe such lies by abusive psychopaths in the ruling class. The people who start wars, kill millions, and pillage countries … the very same countries they then cheer on “immigration” from … should be trusted on “immigration” any more than they should be trusted???

It is mind boggling to be to what extent people will go to trust their abusers. The same people who are doing this and who are responsible for things like COVID are also the murdering pillagers that destroyed and murdered Iraqis, among all the other death and destruction they reap. Why are people trusting these psychopaths?

frankfrankfrank··on BP sees biggest profit in 114 year history
It’s because the ruling class’ actual objective was arresting mobility and social interaction and potential for organizing.

It bothers me sometimes that people seem to simply ignore, tolerate, and make excuses for the abuses like some kind of abused wife.

While many people not only bend over backwards to curtail their life in a belief of salvation, the same ruling class that has psychologically abused a certain segment of the population into their new form of religion, jet around in private planes between several of their mansions and from one energy intensive event to another to discuss how the peasants should not be able to use energy As they pile the wealth of the working people who produce the value.

I wish more people had an understanding that we are sliding back into an aristocratic type system by way of a typical trap pattern. Being reliant on electricity and public transportation means you are totally dependent on and can be totally controlled by the ruling class. Have you exalted the virtues of your rulers sufficiently today, peasant? Maybe you do not get to charger your bike and definitely do not get to ride the public transportation system.

People are not shifting away from anything, they’re being herded into a trap and into a system of dependence, immobility, and control.

frankfrankfrank··on Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves
That seems like a bad model if it does not include the effects of the waves penetrating inland and instead acts as if the coasts are inviolable.
frankfrankfrank··on Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?
Because not blowing it up would mean people would continue asking pesky questions and demanding evidence. But that would take down the real hot air balloon, the narrative.
frankfrankfrank··on Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation
Because they are, as is clear to anyone not on the tech sauce. It’s the “I’m a loyal and faithful partner; minus the cheating, lying, deceiving, and gaslighting” of financials.
frankfrankfrank··on Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
Keep in mind that a far more pernicious and rather evil system is that of the donation receiving “non-profit”. It has over time been exposed and highlighted at various points, but I don’t think it has really at all penetrated the consciousness of the general public as to what a vast majority of “non-profits are, borderline con-jobs; and that’s being generous.

I won’t go into explaining and outlining exactly why that is for the time being, but suffice it to say that I have personal knowledge of the extremely manipulative industry that “non-profits” are. But I get it, some will not want to believe me, I mean they’re called “non-profits” and profits are bad, right?

The point of my caution is essentially this, what you are trying to avoid by stopping tipping, you will only far undo by essentially making “non-profit” executives and their friends and family rich instead of that money going to your employees.

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