In historical terms is is not unusual for jews to obtain enough political power in a society to enact laws make criticism of them illegal, but without exception it marks the turning point where their position in that society takes a sudden drastic turn for the worse.

The most recent example was in the USSR where widespread criticism of mostly-jewish bolsheviks reached such a level that they made antisemitism a capital crime. A few years later Stalin came to power and then the purges started.

Once you've studied enough history it's amazing how little about the various social and political crises of the current era are actually new. It's all happened before, usually many times, and so the broad strokes of how all eventually play out are not difficult to predict.

I found 0.3 of a Bitcoin I owned a few years back - I had never paid for Bitcoin, it came from free things like "the bitcoin faucet" and I only had it out of interest to play about with this programming paradigm (blockchain) that had come along.

I made good use of it when I discovered it. Got a few $100 of value out of it for nothing.

Years ago, I mined a block with the spare time on the VPS I used for my websites, mail, etc. That was 50 BTC, dropped into my hands. A year or two later, I got the idea to use it to try to mine more. By that time, CPU mining was no longer feasible. GPU mining was still somewhat profitable, but FPGAs were doing better and the first mining ASICs were about to hit the market. 50 BTC was worth about $650 at the time. I used it to buy a couple of Butterfly Labs ASIC miners (they were supposed to be the USB-powered "coffee warmers," but they ended up shipping small cubes with two chips each (IIRC) to deliver the promised hashrate) and a Radeon RX 6800 to have something to run while I waited for the ASICs to arrive.

If I'd just held onto those 50 BTC, they'd now be worth $3-3.5 million. Even if I'd cashed them in at $1 million or $2 million, it would've been more than enough to quit my job, buy some land, and build a homestead with plenty left over to buy whatever I couldn't grow, raise, or make.

Try exchanging bitcoin (or any other crypto) with no computers or electricity.

Have you not heard of paper wallets? Print one out, transfer some bitcoin onto it, hand it over to somebody. You probably want to write the amount on it somewhere. You can pass it around among people indefinitely.

For a slightly more sophisticated method, there's this note generator that provides standard denominations and a method for the private key to be obscured non-destructively.

Both do ultimately rely on the proper functioning of the network to redeem the stored value. This is analogous to the way you used to be able to redeem paper currency for fixed amounts of precious metals. Until it's redeemed, though, it can be handed off from one user to the next.

Are there going to be any more whistleblowers after the last two ended up dead?

There's nothing slow about the decline of the USA right now. The only question is how close we are to the USSR in 1991.

If I ever had worked for Boeing I'd never admit it for health reasons. They may not have any money for QA, but their hitman department is fully funded.

RTO originally was pushed heavily by investment firms with exposure to commercial real estate. The intention was drive up demand for office space but it's not working and just caused a bunch of collateral damage.

Jim McNerney isn't likely to ever face any consequences for permanently obliterating Boeing's ability to build planes by intentionally forcing all the talent out of the company. As far as I know he's several million dollars richer for having done so. I don't see any signs that the executive class in the US has learned any lesson from this other than to do the exact same thing and get out before the consequences show up.

I don't think I've ever seen an IDE floppy dive, myself. Every one I used had the floppy drive interface.

LS-120 drives mostly used IDE (and that probably includes the ones installed in an external case with a USB adapter). They had their own 120-MB format they supported, but were also backward-compatible with ordinary floppy disks.

Back to Old Timey Matchmakers, only using AI to pick matches for us. All because we're too lazy to have human interactions ourselves.

Thank You. I'll update my question to be more complete.

"Are you incompetent or evil, or both?" :-D

When you fly, which thing do you pick first, Price, or safety?

My point is, we the consumers are almost monolithic in picking the cheapest option first. I call it the Harbor Freight option. There is a reason there is no SnapOn Tool
or MacTool store in every city.

We're flying in Pittsburg quality airplanes, because that is what most people want.

When one cannot tell the difference between incompetence or malfeasance , they'll use that to their advantage every single time.

We need to start asking that as a question: "Are you incompetent or evil?" Those are the only two reasonable alternatives.

Most people are bots, they act with programmed responses.

The percentage of people who can rationally form any cohesive thought is astoundingly low.

The problem is that name calling works, so that functions as "intellectual" these days. I've been called a Zionist Jewish shill and a Nazi by the same person within minutes of each other. You can't make this stuff up.