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Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 83

Fox News really is breaking peoples brains. Crime has been slowly decreasing since the early 1990s. Covid caused a slight uptick but again it's declining. This is the safest time in history to be alive and yet one station continually says you will be violently attacked it's only a matter of time.

Its quite incredible how damn near every other station will fearmonger the living FUCK out of society over the horrific problem of gun “violence”, and how we must DO something to stop all that harm (to include disarming the innocent), while also constantly parroting that we live in the mostest safest time to be alive ever?

Forget the suicide statistics they always overlook in gun arguments. Make the horrifically peaceful violence part make sense. We either have a problem in reality, or we don’t.

Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 83

If you had situational awareness, you would not need a weapon. Very few people have the training to have the situational awareness to avoid being kidnapped if attacked by an experienced multi-person team. This is just a new twist on an old technique. Grabbing someone and forcing them to take money from an ATM, for example. Basic rules, don't go out partying at night, stay out of questionable bars, and don't show off your wealth, particularly do not show that it is a highly liquid form like Bitcoin.

Your advice demands a certain level of economic stability.

In a Recession, that ATM theft happens in broad fucking daylight.

In a Depression, it’s the police robbing you.

Comment Re:He can move on, can't he? (Score 1) 69

Cryogenics preserved his late wife's body. It did not guarantee that she could be resuscitated. I doubt she can anyway. Even if she could, how long would he have to wait for it to be possible? Would he even live long enough to see the technology created?

In short, his wife is dead. Let him get back on the market.

This. A man’s wife passed and they both agreed to essentially donate her body to science. He wont even be alive IF they can ever reverse her condition.

Her body is the experiment. Not his life. People move on all the time. That’s life.

Comment Re:Raises hand ... (Score 1) 65

Anyone know why the IRS would want/need people's airline travel records and payment info?

People claiming deductions for business travel maybe? Target investigations? For instance identify people who traveled abroad to places that get used as tax shelters. They are mining the data to some purpose.

This. IRS knows they aren't getting much blood from a starving stone. Another reason why $400K+ is a reasonable threshold of income to suggest a higher chance of Federal audit.

Auditing everything from business travel expenses to the actual (private) plane itself to ensure it's being used as deducted is probably low-hanging fruit that rewards well.

Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 83

The rest of the planet, is more violent than you assume. Every day. Forget the humans. You know how crazy it sounds to assume you know what Mother Nature is gonna do to you at any given moment? You do remember why we call them animals, right?

Only thing worse than dying young is dying stupid. Being unprepared in life, isn’t the advice your surviving ancestors lived long enough to give you. And if your ancestors were armed, perhaps you should ask why you’re not.

I'm a bit confused on this whole thing. What good does a Glock do against mother nature? Empty a magazine into a tornado?

If you're still confused take a good hard look at the rest of the food chain that roams this planet everywhere. Then take a look down at your bare hands and let me know how well you really think you'll fare against that. Especially after the tornado rips through a natural habitat and strips the next couple weeks worth of not-you meals away from every starving creature the concrete warrior assumes they can easily outrun.

Florida man just cracked another beer in salute to a Thursday afternoon watching another episode of ignorantly unarmed vs. "slow" nature. Gets funnier every time.

You pay plenty of taxes to have a talking head warm you that a tornado is coming, just in time to get into that tornado shelter your home insurance company made you buy. Because tornado warning technology. Everything else in nature and in the criminal world just makes you a victim whenever they want. It wasn't the idiot unprepared ancestors that survived long enough to create today's generation. Wasn't the unarmed masses either.

Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 83

As far as Free States go, remember why everyone waives a friendly waive at each other when passing on a country road in the South. Smart people know everyone is armed. Tends to make people quite polite.

Do you know how crazy that sounds to the rest of the world? If fear of being murdered is the only reason for being polite then you just might be the asshole. No wonder countries don't want to deal with the USA.

The rest of the planet, is more violent than you assume. Every day. Forget the humans. You know how crazy it sounds to assume you know what Mother Nature is gonna do to you at any given moment? You do remember why we call them animals, right?

Only thing worse than dying young is dying stupid. Being unprepared in life, isn’t the advice your surviving ancestors lived long enough to give you. And if your ancestors were armed, perhaps you should ask why you’re not.

Comment Burning Expectations. (Score 1) 56

... including ChatGPT and X

Is there somewhere I can donate to keep this going?

I hear they burn mostly coal for fuel. Work to keep them and the Black Friday marketing offline! Coal for Christmas I say! A lump in every stocking should put a dent in their supply, and a damper on childhood arrogance.

Say it with me now! Ho Hell Nooo! Cooal for Christmas!

Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 2, Interesting) 83

Because when it's three on one, they'll stand there and give you time to draw. Just like in the movies.

Having a Glock, or any weapon, only works if you have time to use it.

Gnawing through plastic, is not the primary lesson. Situational awareness, is. Plenty of non-victims still alive today understand what helps a concealed weapons holder. Being in the right place at the right time is almost as important as knowing how to read the room and remove yourself if necessary.

As far as Free States go, remember why everyone waives a friendly waive at each other when passing on a country road in the South. Smart people know everyone is armed. Tends to make people quite polite.

Comment Gold-plated Irony. (Score 1) 83

"Your teeth will get through anything," Mr. Kayll advised. "But it will bloody well hurt."

Speak for yourself, my teeth will barely get through a cheese sandwich at my age.

Somewhere deep in the closet of irony exists a new old tradition where the shitcoin owner is forced to bite down on a pure gold coin to prove they’re stronger than the kind of imaginary value that can grow a cute little cartoon ape into a token serial killer of investments.

Comment Re:What moron pays for cable... (Score 1) 105

..On the occasion that a visitor comes over and wants to see something not in the favorites, it's almost always a journey of "yes! contentX is available!! ... for a trial subscription on Ploom, or for $3.99 per episode on Skunkr, or with ads AND a mandatory email signup on Gizzrd" and so forth into endless "streaming platform you don't care about" spam.

Really? Don’t look now, but you just gave about a dozen reasons why people are still on cable and prefer it. Describe that nightmare process to anyone paying for cable 30 years ago and they would have laughed non-stop. “Modern” conveniences of the future my ass.

And if the iPhone has already taken more pictures than any other camera ever, it stands to reason humans have wasted at least eleventy seven billion more hours scrolling through 4,000 streaming channels across a dozen streaming services filled with half-subscriptions they might get to find something to watch, vs. 200 channels of get-what-you-see TV with one guide, one gate, and one price.

K.I.S.S. is a timeless concept for valid reason. Yup. Cord cutters were bragging back in the day. For about five fucking seconds.

Comment Re:What moron pays for cable... (Score 3, Insightful) 105

...when literally any content provided on them is available for streaming and download for free?

In a word? Convenience.

Where is your centralized TV Guide that allows you to browse and stream on demand as easily as cable does?

And how much of an actual threat is that to any aspect of your life if you're pirating it, both today and tomorrow?

Comment Re:Surprising! (Score 2) 59

People don't like having cameras streaming from their bedrooms and livingrooms.

Those same people also carry around a smartphone 18+ hours a day, armed with at least two HD cameras and a 3D microphone array. Boardrooms. Bedrooms. Bathrooms. Bathtubs. They carry that everywhere. At least the unread TV EULA only violates from the wall it's bolted to.

I'm shocked.

I'm shocked people are still shocked about people.

Comment AI for AIs sake. (Score 1) 15

The article states: "Anthropic said it was confident, based on the digital infrastructure the hackers used as well as other clues, that the attacks were run by Chinese state-backed hackers."

TFS/A also seems to be hell bent in injecting AI into the hacking discussion, on behalf of AI and sponsored by AI.

Hackers have been using AI for years now to conduct individual tasks such as crafting phishing emails or scanning the internet for vulnerable systems.

Knowing what the nmap command is and using a textfile of email addresses to create a d-list to send the latest Nigerian Prince bullshit, isn't exactly what we should be calling AI bragware. Even for the Toddler AI we have today. Smells more like the kind of script based shitware we've seen for decades, long before AI escaped the pages of science fiction to pretend to be what we have today.

The hackers conducted their attacks “literally with the click of a button, and then with minimal human interaction,”

Uh, yeah. That's kind of how modern hacks work. Do MSN editors think DDoS attacks are done manually by humans driving stick-shift hard drives? The virus and worm aren't exactly hanging around waiting for the trojan horse to finish taking a shit.

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