If you are upset about LGBT+, well, do you feel that men should be able to have their own preference in women who are blondes, brunettes, redheads, shorter, taller, different body types? How about women having the right to prefer men with a different build, skin tone, etc, are you against THAT? So, people should also have their own preference when it comes to sexuality, like it or not, it's the same exact thing, personal preference in who they are attracted to. Or, do you feel that everyone should have the exact same preferences?

I don't care what your preferred form of sexual friction is....

I just don't want it being flaunted and taught to grade schoolers...they aren't sexual, they don't need to know about boys sucking cocks...

I may not agree with it, but it is a free country and fuck who you want to fuck as an adult, plain and simple.

I don't, however, need to feel forced to play someone else's "games" with pronouns. You can pretend to be a woman or man or poodle, fine with me, but don't expect me to learn or respect the rules of what your pronoun are.....if you are going to be at the fringes of society, it's up to YOU to deal with it, not me.

A big part of "woke" is having to deal with stupid shit like I mentioned above.

Especially exposing kids to it....keep them out of it and allow innocence to survive as long as it can with them.

$1 for the chalk mark, the rest for knowing where to put it, and all that.

I remember being a kid in the 90s and watching scare stories on the TV about other kids in the 90s who were so addicted to the computers they were writing software and making their own websites! As kids!

I wasn't one of those kids. I didn't LearnToCode until college. But I was good friends with one of those kids while in college. He's worth at least 10 or 20 times more than me now.

And the other millenial parents on my street are grabbing up spots at after school coding classes for their elementary school aged kids.

Not that I think it's gonna go anywhere. Unless your kid is significantly smarter than your average bear, coding won't stick until high school at the earliest. But I'm sure there were fads in the 90s that my parents were too poor to pay for that I just wasn't aware of that also went nowhere but elicited equally strong visceral reactions over what turned out to be nothing.

On an unrelated note, let's everyone refrain from utilizing the faculty of recollection to the cave days of five years ago. Just because.

I know, right? It's funny because it didn't happen to anything I'm working on.

If it had, it would of course be a national tragedy and it'd be one of the bad isms if flags didn't fly at half-staff out of solidarity.

But it wasn't anything of mine so fuck yeah!

Retard.

They'll make a deal with the king to promote more non woke content.

Well, at least that would still be some progress....

the answer to that one is actually kind of obvious, IMHO where do put large number of gold bars that does not result in people asking a lot of questions?

Safety deposit boxes? - I guess if spread it around enough separate banks, you have some privacy accessing the box (usually) but you still are not the only one handling it, gold is very very put much of it a given box and it might raise questions. One nosy bank manager might become a real problem quickly.

Bury it in the woods? - That works unless someone finds it, how undisturbed can make the local landscape appear? Did anyone say a local sheriff, game warden, etc get curious about that pickup beside the road?

Even transport carries a lot of risk, - what if you get pulled over, and an over zealous officer decides to search the car? Sure legally you might be able to get the discovery excluded from evidence but you're not getting the gold back..

Given it someone else? - Who do you that both won't ask questions, is dishonest enough to help you do something they reasonably can guess isn't on the up and up, and also trusty worthy enough to not help themselves?

40 million in gold without some documentation as to why you have it is rather a problem. Even you hammered it into look alikes of 17th century Spanish coins and claimed you found it diving off the Florida keys, a whole lot of entities are going to show up asking questions and asserting it should be theirs, just look what Mel Fisher went thru!

1000X ^^THIS

I am not say we never as nation need to conduct clandestine operations, but having an entire clandestine service is fundamentally at odds with the concept of representative governance, day light, and democracy.

The CIA should not exist. It should be shuttered and actually operations running agents and gathering intel should be returned to the DOD, and even if for reasons of operational security a considerable amount of activity has to be done off the record, the people running those activities should be far enough down the chain of command that when gross failures occur and are discovered there can be accountability.

IE some General officer can say "you dun fuk'd up, you're demoted/fired bring your people in and shut down the operation" vs our current system of congressional hearings where everyone shouts at each other, the people in questions just lie and evade knowing full well any hard evidence of their obvious purgery went in the shred bin already.

I guess that is what gets most fraudsters in the end. Seems like the guy made a career out of false claims and progressively bolder lies. Probably started to believe he could away with anything.

This isn't just taking shortcuts though this wholesale negligence.

Once in a while you hear such and such President/CEO of ACME never really graduated from Some Small University. They lied to get past the HR gate got hired as manager or director of Widget production 15 years ago where they were not an officer not responsible for signature on public records etc, later got promoted and nobody went back and checked up on stuff.

This though, the claims this guy made were shall we say rather remarkable for such a short career, service in multiple military branches, a graduate degree, pilot, managing a lot of people, etc.. A bunch of things that should have said to anyone reading the resume, this sounds perhaps a little puffed up, maybe I should check on SOME of this stuff which should have produced a few easily obtained artifacts. Obviously zero effort was made to verify any of it. Clearly nobody did any DD here not the hiring manager, not OMB..

I can't say I have run down every line on every CV of everyone I have hired but I usually at least go, ok says he was such and such at XYZ corp, lets look their about-us page on wayback machine, ok there is a picture of him a title that is near enough...so that checks.. oh he is a licensed PI, ok I can check the states website for that.. Then you just consider the claims, like ok says he graduated in 2000 and in 2003 was president of XYZ corp, again you check out XYZ oh fine it looks like they have about 4 employees and rented office in suburban Cincinnati; whatever, on the other hand if it is a 4000+ people and they have a XYZ Parkway named after them, you pick the phone and check that out.

Answer non of that matters. Almost all of those laws do not apply to the president, other federal employees, and in some cases legislators yes but the president largely is except for law that would prohibit him from trading based on his knowledge of confidential information.

He IS obligated by his oath of office to act in the interests of the United States, but he can profit from that as far as the law goes mostly.

disagree that is precisely the same question as "the script at dfgjkdf.bit.ly would like to save a file, allow?" as far as the ordinary user is concerned. They have no idea if it is a good idea to allow that or not and at the moment can't take the steps to even try to figure that out.

No the SaaS/Ad guys are the ones that want that API. The whole thing is opaque to the user. That is f'ing terrible for you and me! I can't for example (easily anyway) find the data I created stored by that API to backup, use in some other application, etc. It is all opaque to me. Again as for as Joe Normie is concerned they still have complete control over that data in terms of lock in etc. They just don't have to pay to store it for him. Which brings us to how they are actually going to use it, they will use it cache a bunch of app assets while they continue to offsite any actual information to where they can mine it.

With the growing ability to run local models at home on your own hardware, especially if you have Apple Silicon computers....I'm wondering if soon we'll see a LARGE drop in subscriptions to the Frontier models?

From what I'm seeing these local models can do what about 98% of the populace needs....and you aren't sharing your data with a corporation that is just sucking up all your data into their AI?

or hear me out on this rather than wasting actually resources, the browser APIs could just add something like sleep(rand(250)) in the path of read() along the i/o thread.

for the same of breaking the side channel attack it probably does not need to even be a particularly good secure random implementation as long as the seeds are unique to browser process/session.

The entire web security model is broken.

Experienced web developers don't understand Same Origin Policy, Content Security Policy, and often even cookie scope completely. As you say no end user ever could without becoming at least a capable amateur web guy/gal themselves.

To use a car analogy:
Asking for permissions at this point would be like a Toyota Corolla popping up a dialog on the dash board "Would you like to advance timing by 1.5 degrees?" while the driver is cruising along I-70. The percentage of drivers who could think about the question intelligently is small, the number of them familiar enough the current state of that specific car in terms of tune, conditions, etc without doing additional analysis no practical while operating is even smaller.

The simple inescapable reality of the browser sandbox is waaaay to open. The problem is that is how the SaaS, Ad, CDN, Surveillance capital, guys want it! And low and behold one of the biggest players in all of these spaces are the ones that make the worlds most popular browser engine... Realistically there is no way the oridiary end user can have useful online experience and maintain any sort of operation security/privacy/etc on the modern web.

Either we accept it or we come up with some kind of replacement application delivery solution, that has a much much more restrictive sandbox model, that operates from default deny, and forces application designers to be extremely choosy about what resources outside their package they fetch/contact/open/write/etc to, a lot more like mobile packages. From an end user privacy/opsec standpoint the WWW-browser/agent is DEAD.