Trump’s beyond being able to be involved in day to day activities of governing, oportunists just do thing around him. Remember last time he was firing off dozens of incoherent tweets at all hours of the day and night? Unless I’m missing something that’s not happening in the same way this time, on musk’s or his sites.

Sure, but the question is whether he was recruited or whether he just like what Putin does to him in private.

Both. Do both. Make it easier for them to address the issue than ignore you. Depending on which side of the aisle your MP is on, focus your letter on either “those evil <other side> are doing thus terrible thing, I know you’re bold enough to stand up to them.” or “this policy seems to have the following problems, and it’s leaving you open to attack from <other side>. It’d be a shame if you lost your position over it.”

“Don’t be ugly” is definitely helpful physically, but vital intelectually and emotionally.

What I find particularly concerning is that the were able to “hide javascript commands that link the victim’s phone to a new device” in the payload of a qr-code. I can’t see any valid use for javascript in the group joining process, I would expect the code to just be a signal URI with the relevant group ID, so is there sone external javascript interface being exposed?

You can have your drugs, or you can have Koffing blowing smoke. Make your choice, but choose wisely.

“Rapist demands freedom for other rapists.” What a delightful timeline. sigh

ownership of businesses exceeding a certain value should be made public.

That just means that businesses aproaching that value get split into two, with the same owners, via the same sorts of shells and offshore trusts.

An UPDATE without a WHERE clause that doesn’t get noticed for a week or two. Your data’s hosed and you can’t really cope with reverting to your last known good backup. Bonus points if you haven’t tested your recovery procedures recently. Then he runs around screeching about how the data is obviously fraudulent and he’s a genius for finding it.

Yeah, I don’t think he gets a pass by blaming his behaviour on mental health issues, but a lot of people bring it up. I watch people like him, and I’m fairly convinced they don’t have the principals to actually, deep down, be Nazis, they’re too vain, too self-centred and too desperate for power of any sort. That doesn’t mean they won’t fly that particular flag if they think it’ll bring them what they want, or that they wont cheer on the harm it brings to others if they think it gets them closer to power. Functionally, you can treat them as Nazis, traitors and whatever else they align themselves with. With luck they will reap the consequences of that.

Could I offer an alternative viewpoint? I don’t know if it’s true, and if it is I don’t know if it’s better or worse. His style of ‘music’ holds no interest for me, and I know nothing more than what I have read about him, so I could be wildly off base.

As many have pointed out, he might well have a mental health issue, but is it not also possible that he is, and always has been, just totally amoral and has seen which way the wind is blowing? He seems to have sonewhat list relevance recently, and fixating on, and loudly proclaiming your hatred of, a chosen ‘other’ group may seem like a good way to get back into the centre of attention and curry favour with those in power.

I don’t think that would be any better than him being a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi, as functionally it means he is one, but might explain a rapid appearance his Nazism.

I started reading that from the top and got increasingly angry on the way down. That creature is a monster.

Lies! Look at the picture, they’ve managed to pick up sone coke. It’s a matter of quantity rather than ability.

If they’re lieing to us about that, what else are they lieing to us about?

Wake up sheeple etc…

In the play store, don’t forget to flag it as innapropriate.

So their standard hourly rate is $100, but for $75 more they’ll teach you how to do it? That might not be a bad deal, depending on the task, and how frequently you’ll need to do it in future. Even if you had to go to the super delux “do it while I watch” option to really get to grips with it, it might be worth it.

Hey, at least bats isn’t running them over with his tank-monstercar thing

…bats isn’t running them over with his tank-monstercar thing yet.

Show up in person and explain exactly what you want to see from them, and why it would benefit them. Then let them talk to the next person, who does the same. Make sure your representatives hear the same message again, and again, until it’s easier for them to do what you’re asking than not.

That’s not helping…

For media to endure, whether we’re talking years or millenia, you need to answer three questions:

• What to record it on.
• Where to store it.
• How to encode it.

The first is, perhaps, the easiest to answer, we have cave paintings from the stone age, velum and parchment that have lasted thousands of years, clay tablets that have similarly endured and various other historical artifacts that could be considered ‘media’. Alternatively, there are more modern techniques, such as etching into plates of non-coroding metal or other substances, or encoding in stable chemical structures such as DNA. Each approach has different benefits, but largely depends on the second question, where to store it?

Storing the media is the next question, and the answer is going to depend on both what media you’ve chosen and how long you want it to last. Somewhere dry, solid and geologically stable probably makes the most sense, but it also needs to be accessible to those you hope will find the information later. The Voyager disks are a good example of long term storage that will probably outlast the human race, but they’re not exactly handy to retrieve. The same goes for the various efforts to send archives to the moon; they’re more for posterity than use. Finding, or digging, a tunnel in a bedrock type mountain, far above current, or expected, sea levels is probably a good bet. Don’t forget to record how to find the repository, and find a way to keep that knowledge available. That could be a record in another repository, or maybe engineered into the landscape such that signs point to it.

The last question is how to encode the information. If you’re aiming to store the information for an extreme duration, you have to assume the entity finding it will have little or no cultural, technological or language connection with you. Pictures may work, we’ve learnt a lot from stone-age cave paintings and Egyptian tomb paintings, but they can only convey so much. For textual information you’re probably going to need multiple layers, the first being illustrated and readable without special equipment or techniques, and showing how to access the latter layers. The next layer should include information about how to read the rest of the layers (do you need magnification? If so, how do you do that? Have you included a lens that could be used? Do you need special illumination, or other techniques? How should the reader do that?), information about the language(s) used (perhaps a Rosetta Stone type artifact to help translate if they know any of the languages) and information about things like the units used (how long actually is a metre? What is a second?). The next layer would explain any envoding used for the rest of the information. If it’s binary stored as pits engraved in stone, or DNA base pairs, or holographically stored in metal plates, how do you extract the data, and how do you convert the naughts and ones to text for example. You must assume the entity processing this has no common base with you to work from, so everythis must be explained in detail. Finally you can store the information you actually wanted to store in the final layer.

These concerns hold whether you’re trying to store information for millenia or just a few decades. For instance, if I handed you an 8" floppy disk containing a Wordstar file, could you read it without more information? Even once you’ve found an appropriate drive (very rare now-a-days) and a machine that can use it (likewise) you need to hope the disk has been stored appropriately.

If you’re trying to store information to be accessible to humans over a timespan of no more than a few lifetimes you’ll probably be better served by arranging for it to be reencoded and tranferred to new, modern, media every few years.

Like a sea turtle trying to get up on a raft.

What a mental image. Brain bleach, stat, please.