That’s what I do being off-grid. I have my battery bank then a series of Supercaps to essentially act as an on/off ramp//drawbridge and temper quick demands. Kinda like an inverse soft starter so this is suuuuper interesting to me.
You know why there hasn’t been a wild bear sighting? Because your grandparents weren’t idiots and cleared the area of dangerous predators.
If a bear charges you, and you have a shotgun, you might be able to stop that bear before you get turned into hamburger. If you’re shooting 10 gauge slugs your odds increase, but still aren’t guarenteed.
I was walking home from work one night as a teenager and two bear cubs crossed the road about 15ft in front of me, going from my side of the road to the other. All the adrenaline in my body released at once and I spun on my heel and walked back towards work as fast as I could without running, acting like I never noticed the cubs. I could hear the mother and she took 3 steps towards me and then followed her kin.
No dude. No human illicits that fear. It’s gutteral, almost overwhelming. No car accident or work accident or the 1000 different ways I’ve almost died, not being mugged, not the abuse given from the justice system, not the physical fights that were thrust upon me in my early 20s, not getting pulled out by a riptide and then stranded in the ocean for 4 hours before I could get back to shore, not even swimming in the sea of Cortez and spotting tigersharks closing in on me, not getting attacked in my sleep and then fighting off coyotes in the Sonora desert, no dude. Nothing has made me feel fear more than that momma bear.
Anyone who says bear is super detached from how deadly nature can be towards us. In a grid down situation, TEOTWAWKI, the most valuable thing you can have is a friend. People are the MOST valuable thing to your survival.
It’s a cliché to say that electricity surged through a courtroom — but it did when Hope Hicks took the stand Friday morning for her testimony in the election interference trial of former President Donald Trump....
Rich people don’t care about fidelity, they care about it being noticed. It’s not a betrayal, because they are all doing it, its the scandal they want to avoid. Wealth provides power. Power takes, or buys, what it wants. It is as it’s always been, of every culture, of all time.
“Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what’s actually driving food prices higher in this country.”
Tor is funded by the CIA, which means assets use it to get info or send info.
It’s going nowhere.
Same thing with Bitcoin. It’s not going anywhere. In fact thats the reason why the CIA can trace every Bitcoin transaction and identify the owners, which was thought no one could do, but what do you know, when you wire up 3000 ps4s into a giant supercomputer for 1/50th the cost apparently the budget opens up some and now they must have a dedicated supercomputer just for this. Those chucklefucks who blackmailed the pipeline in the SE, that energy company paid up in Bitcoin, within 24 hours the NSA/CIA had the Bitcoin back and perps arrested.
Make your trades in favors, that’s all I’m saying.
Footage taken late Friday night of a tense confrontation between pro-Palestine demonstrators and pro-Israel counter-protesters at the encampment revealed it was a pro-Israel student demonstrator who said “Kill the Jews,” asking the pro-Palestine demonstrators “anybody on board; anybody on board?”...
Before CHAZ or CHOP; before the east precinct abandoned their station at 4am when no one was around, fearing for their safety, we went around before the protests and kept finding, and then picking up and taking, a bunch of abandoned backpacks full of bricks on the side of the road.
Motherfuckers man. Sadists. Serial killers. Amongst the highest paid people in the state, making up to 4 times what our state senators get paid, and these bitch ass cops get spooked by a yellow umbrella, then proceed to war crime, i mean, tear gas an entire neighborhood, a good hundred square miles, every night for two weeks, the mayor, city council, etc promising to stop everyday but nooooope.
Class traitors.
Getting a hall pass on their cruelty from the “elite” doesn’t mean you’ll ever be anything more than a servant to them. It’s a private party, and we aren’t invited. The American dream is a dream because you gotta be unconscious to believe it.
And God I love telling them that. I know it broke thru a few of them. You can see the veil lift in their eyes, and the despair they feel behind it. And they deserve that despair
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Every single comment here is describing symptoms but not the cause.
Enshitification is the evolution to the final form, only possible after the company, thru merger/acquisition or stock manipulation (leveraged buy outs, acquiring controlling stake, shorting a company into insolvency, etc), has achieved a commanding monopoly.
Then it flexes it’s monopoly powers, the buttons fly off its shirt and the monster shows it’s true colors.
We have laws to prevent this. Lina Khan is the first FTC chair to start holding these companies to meaningful account in my lifetime (yea, Microsoft/netscape is exponentially smaller than todays issues). Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon all need to be broken up into a thousand different companies, same as we did with AT&T. Uber, Angieslist, homeaglow, all the contractors pretending they’re just networking hubs (like some union hall) need to busted up and gigwork made to contend with employment law, which it can’t, because it’s all bad faith exploitation.
And for fucks sake we need to make the fine for white collar crime that extends state lines to necessitate the forfeiture of the entire C-suite’s and board of directors assets, both domestically and internationally, upon threat of seal team 6. Empty their bank accounts and leave them with nothing, like they regularly do to employees. They’re so fucking smart they can earn it all again, right? Right!? Corporations are the largest thief in the land, just in WAGE THEFT. Everything else they do that’s slimy is all BONUS. The 2nd largest thief in all the land? the fucking Police force. The lunatics have taken over the asylum, democracy doesn’t work in mental institutions. We don’t need to defund the police, we need to fire all of them and start over with transparency. If casino employees can be video taped all day, so can cops. Fuck em.
What America truly needs is another Teddy Roosevelt. We need to revive the Progressive party with the Bull Moose as the symbol. Protect the environment, protect the family by protecting the workers, end legal loopholes and trustbust the 1% back down into the 10%.
And if we don’t? The path ahead is obvious, I for one, don’t want to live in Blade Runner, but that’s where we’re going until we stop fucking around and right ship.
I’m waiting for an “Ohio” moment like CSN&Y sang, it’s coming. That shit happened to boomers, who have now become the oppressor, continuing the cycle of needless pain, loss and suffering. That’s the kind of shit that keeps the aliens from showing their face. I would’ve want to be known about around that kind of normalized psychopathy either.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Cops today are too indoctrinated that they are at war with the citizenry - of which they clearly hold themselves above. They’re gonna spill students blood. Students who are protesting supplying Israel with weapons for what’s become an unjustifiable offensive war. Hell half of these cops fetishize throwing the Zionists back in the old ovens but they just can’t pass up any chance to spill 18yr old girls blood for having an opinion. And at this point the girl is the only moral one in the group. I don’t think I’d even stand in the way of the cops if they were going for the Zionists.
Fascists all around. Kleptocracy staring down the barrel of loaded gun.
Above all, we need to collectively realize that the story of our lives in our head is a fiction. Every second we are alive we are deciding what kind of world this is, with our actions. There is no one coming to save us. You are the adult in the room. If you see a wrong, justice demands you act. All of us. Together that adds up to community, a zeitgeist of home.
I have a metaphysical theory that we all unconsciously carry the weight of our ancestors with us, and some part of our subconscious, or our reflexive self (the part of you that blinks the millisecond before something hits your eye), or maybe our supra conscious/soul/spirit, (the part of us not bound to time/Morty playing Roy) is constantly tabulating a score and multiples of maladies manifest from this ennui.
If you’re bored, you aren’t trying hard enough. If you’re depressed, you need to insert yourself in the solution, whatever you see that as. Your depression will magically resolve itself. No ones depressed in a war zone. Science has quantifiably proven that.
It’s better to die on your feet, in defense of the truth, and as an agent of justice than live on your knees having sold the essence of your soul, sacrificing dynamism for mediocrity. 5 years that run the gamut of highs and lows or 50 years of office work. It’s not even optional to me, it’s just fact.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president....
Idk if they had more money than what Murdoch has but regardless, $900M in damages, just from Fox. Yea, the rest took notice and Fox, y’know, were all indignant at first, then remembered real life has real consequences, a billion dollars of them, aaaaand uhp…uhp…uhp…started sitting straight up again.
Well, as straight as they can with their heads so far up the kleptocracies asses.
Those little fuckers will destroy yr garden if you let them.
You can leave beer out in a cooking pot and they’ll climb the walls then drown in it - but I don’t drink and don’t want to buy beer
Sooooo you can capture 4 or 5 of them, cut them in half and impale them on skewers and line your garden Vlad-like and that will, I shit you not, scare the rest from coming in.
Unfortunately, slug eggs are super fucking tiny and are just left random-where in the soil, so there’s nothing short of nuking the ground that we can do to get rid of them…so the staking continues.
After watching Balls of Steel Fain take on Detroit and bring them to their knees, doubling worker pay, yea, Id let him negotiate for me.
I don’t even build cars and I’d vote for that guy for to be president. He’s done more for more families than 95% of Congress. He’s represented more Americans, by actually looking out for their interests, than 99% of politicians in DC.
He’s called for a general strike in 28. Gonna be a good time. If that interests you, and if you get paid with a paycheck then it should, work on building up mutual aid networks between now and then.
While for many it’s obvious how serious Trump’s declining mental capacity has become, for too many Americans that reality has not yet broken through. The media continues to treat Trump like a normal candidate; many Americans have baked Trump’s bizarre behavior into their perceptions of him; and many take right-wing lies...
Both Biden and Trump have said that Israel needs to wrap it up.
With Biden that means cease hostilities and let in humanitarian aid.
With Trump that meant “get it over with faster, while I’m causing this weeks third distraction” Trump wouldn’t give two shits if Israel nuked the West Bank, Tehran or Mecca. Nor would he give a shit if Moscovy nuked Kiev.
Trump does not make the world a safer place, regardless of his reticence to use our military, whom he has disparaged and disrespected multiples of multiples of times. Tho he had no prob assassinating Irans general. That’s just the kind of guy he is. Unethical, immoral as fuck. And make no mistake, he has no love for those beneath him, which is all of us, I guarantee that.
They fed ground up chickens to cows, then fed ground up cows to chickens, who went back to the cows = prions. Run the cycle on repeat until there’s enough prions in the cows to burn holes in their brains, until the solid muscle matter is literally like a kitchen sponge = mad cow disease.
Prions are a super spicy protein from cannibalism. Unfortunately, any animal can make them, and prions are hard as fuck to kill, surviving a week exposed to the elements on a surface and will transfer species.
If you wrap your head around it after the 2nd viewing, you’re doing better than most people.
It took me a few watchings of Akira to really have it all sink in.
Koyaanisqatsi
Visual poetry. Literally. It’s conveying a message, it’s just you have to come up with the dialogue. Beautiful work. The sequels are fantastic as well.
Israel was releasing AI generated pictures to justify their narrative. OBVIOUSLY AI generated, artifacts everywhere. Extra arms and shit.
Then there’s the soldiers themselves uploading themselves in the act of committing was crimes.
Israel has lost the benefit of any doubt. They need to come heard with evidence at every claim or to anyone critical of, y’know, genocide, they can be assumed to be lying.
Fuck the Zionists. Double fuck them for their bullshit attempt to conflate Anti-Zionists as anti-semitics.
I can’t fucking stand fascists. I have an anti-swastika tattooed on me (thank you NOFX) and the media blitz has me wondering if Jews do actual own all the media. Fuck them thrice over for even making me wonder that.
I hope every Zionist who appropriates land in Gaza or the West Bank’s family is cursed for the next 3 generations.
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)
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Hope Hicks’ testimony was a nightmare for Trump (www.cnn.com)
It’s a cliché to say that electricity surged through a courtroom — but it did when Hope Hicks took the stand Friday morning for her testimony in the election interference trial of former President Donald Trump....
Galen Weston calls Loblaw boycott 'misguided criticism', says grocer not responsible for higher prices (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
“Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what’s actually driving food prices higher in this country.”
Why are many men growing beards again ? (lemmy.ml)
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety (www.techdirt.com)
from the less-safety-equals-more-safety,-say-EuroCops dept
Video footage reveals ‘Kill the Jews’ remark used to explain police intervention made by pro-Israel counterprotester in provocation (huntnewsnu.com)
Footage taken late Friday night of a tense confrontation between pro-Palestine demonstrators and pro-Israel counter-protesters at the encampment revealed it was a pro-Israel student demonstrator who said “Kill the Jews,” asking the pro-Palestine demonstrators “anybody on board; anybody on board?”...
Any apps to find your phone if it's on mute?
My wife and I regularly misplace our phones in the house and we also keep them on mute like 99% of the time....
Antybooties (mander.xyz)
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Military horses run loose in central London, injuring 4 people and causing havoc (apnews.com)
https://i.imgur.com/9r2kjHZ.mp4...
It's Dangerous to be Right when the Government is Wrong (slrpnk.net)
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Judge in Trump case orders media not to report where potential jurors work (apnews.com)
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president....
banana slugs (mander.xyz)
Volkswagen employees vote 2628 in favor of UAW, 985 against, ignoring governors of Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama (www.npr.org)
LAPD officer will not face criminal charges in killing of 14-year-old girl at store during police confrontation with suspect (www.cnn.com)
Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps (www.theguardian.com)
Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment...
One Day 10 Years Ago, I Stopped Paying My Taxes. I Don’t Regret a Thing. (slate.com)
I ignored the IRS for an entire decade and got away with it. I think....
Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay (ghostarchive.org)
While for many it’s obvious how serious Trump’s declining mental capacity has become, for too many Americans that reality has not yet broken through. The media continues to treat Trump like a normal candidate; many Americans have baked Trump’s bizarre behavior into their perceptions of him; and many take right-wing lies...
Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt (infosec.exchange)
TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants." (www.telegraph.co.uk)
And it gives them bird flu....
Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why?
Israeli Doctor Blows Whistle on War Crimes (consortiumnews.com)