nickburns

As if that makes any sense.

I'm unable to read, speak, or otherwise understand Japanese.

Nothing here is remotely parody.

Psychopathology.

1.) No. It's another helpful tell. (And what do you mean 'anymore'?)

2.) I'm comfortable with varied comma stylization.

3.) My personal usage of the em-dash hasn't changed in a few decades and I don't see it doing so just because a bunch of folks only just recently learned it exists.

This meme, too—shall pass.

I say this in good faith: oh, stop.

I'm not.

I doubt it.

You clearly speak only one language.

You got the impression I was trying to argue with you? Go look it up like the president doesn't. I'm personally not a recognized grammar authority.

Yes. But mostly just because it's in reference to this particular president who's a dullard and displays it regularly in this particular way.

The word 'president' being a potential title doesn't make it a title nor a proper noun in all contexts.

Your bio contains comma splice, by the way.

> The President, within this context, identifies a single entity. As such, it is a proper noun

Yeah, no. You're just making things up to suit your position like the president does.

Friendly advice: please don't capitalize random common nouns like the president does. It's a marker of one's affinity toward precision (among other things).

And intelligent, hence the Nazi stereotype.

Definitely Signal. It strikes the fairest balance between industry-standard end-to-end encryption ('E2EE') and usability.

Get as many of your contacts onto Signal as you can. Disable the displaying of message text within device notifications from within the Signal app settings (for both Android and iOS).

All of the above and anything else you can think of that can be tied back to 1.) profit; or 2.) the accumulation of clout with authorities (in that order).

Failing to connect those dots is (unfortunately) what keeps many, many people from moving their otherwise private conversations to a more private channel. I think you're right that it bears mentioning.

Then why end the more insidious route rather than stay the course?

Probably figured they'd ride the wave of E2EE messaging while public popularity crested to draw some conversations (group chats?) onto the platform, just to inevitably rug pull later.

> They want to know how many people are using their site and how.

Yeah, why?

The state healthcare exchanges doing any kind of targeting and/or marketing, even to 'get people' to sign up for subsidized healthcare, could also be conceived of as unreasonable. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't think their mandate under the ACA contemplates any targeting or marketing of themselves whatsoever—even if it's ostensibly to increase enrollment.

That it feels like there's an implicit assumption that they would (target or market) seems to be part of the problem.

Fucking marketeers. STFU.

I know they've come to be known colloquially as 'viruses'—but software can contract pathology?

1. I can only assume the DoD has complete control over this IP address.

2. Not something we can answer. Why would it need to be invisible to function as network surveillance?

3. It is on the same broadcast domain, which is how my edge router is able to 'talk' to it.

4. See response to #1.

Holy derp.

Long tentacles indeed.

arpwatch running on an edge router of mine tells me that there's a host with a DoD-registered IP address connected to my (major US) ISP network segment, which I know for a fact contains both business and residential subscribers. I port scanned it when I first discovered it just to say 'hello', and I have little doubt that a dragnet surveillance apparatus lives on the other side of that firewall.

Governments have utilized clandestine wiretaps for as long as there have been wires. Bad guys and the children and all that. Not to mention, what an advantage that people think you're kooky when you talk openly about this stuff!

So basically—both Apple and Alphabet love the way you think.