Iran has demonstrated they can take 1/5 of the global economic output off the table and there is fuck all anyone can do about it.

We haven't quite got to the point where we are willing to use nuclear weapons for the sake of convenience. As terrible as we can be we aren't really willing to let Trump genocide an entire country and I don't think the rest of the world is either. And nothing else would allow us to stop them from closing the straight.

Trump gave them something better than a nuclear bomb. He showed the world that Iran is in control of the street and that there isn't really a hell of a lot anyone can do about that unless we are willing to kill millions of women and children.

I know there are some people here that absolutely are. Especially if it means affordable gas. But they are very much still the minority.

Iran won't just sit on its thumbs either. The United States really fucked up when it took out Iraq and Afghanistan for no particularly good reason. It really showed the world unless you have something on the order of a nuclear weapon that you're not a country you're a vassal state. The same thing happened with Ukraine after they gave up their nukes.

What I ran has shown here is that you can have something just as if not more devastating than a nuclear weapon and we have Trump to thank for that.

Honestly by the time the great negotiator is done I wouldn't be surprised if we aren't a vassal state of the Islamic Republic. This is the guy who bankrupted casinos and couldn't sell alcohol and gambling to Americans after all.

If you use BitLocker similarly to how you use VeraCrypt, this vulnerability does not affect you.

The most common mode for Bitlocker is the automatic mode, where the drive is encrypted and Windows loads the key at boot time without any interaction. It's transparent to the user, most people probably don't even know it's enabled. It uses the computer's TPM to store the key, which is only released when Secure Boot confirms that the OS has not been tampered with.

It stops an attacker accessing files by booting Linux or removing the drive, or at least it is supposed to. The idea is that if you don't know the Windows password, you can't log in to access anything, but as this guy discovered you can just go into the recovery environment which doesn't need a user account. The drive is unlocked at boot as normal.

It does seem to be some kind of massive screw up at the very least. Windows 10 made you log in for the recovery environment, but for some reason it changed with 11.

If you set a BitLocker password that needs to be entered at boot, similar to how VeraCrypt works, this bypass doesn't work.

The SNES supported ADPCM, and I don't think it has a wavetable built in. It was up to the game to supply and PCM audio needed. It was definitely one of the better sounding 16 bit consoles though. The PC-Engine with CD-ROM is unmatched, of course, at least for music.

I'm wondering what version of the Doom soundtrack they used. The MIDI files? Some specific sound card's rendition, or all of them? I still have a Roland SC-88, and no 90s sound card ever sounded that good.

There was an issue for a couple of days with MG car connectivity in the UK a month or two ago. Simply going to the menu and turning off connectivity fixed it until the servers came back up. So it seams that there at least the connectivity switch does actually work.

Android Auto kept working, of course.

Why did you make a pedophile president of the United States?

Anyway as for how it'll be turned against you, have you not noticed all your civil rights being eroded? Like how did gerrymandering is making it so they don't need to care about how you vote anymore. Eventually you're going to want to try to do something more radical like protest or just some generic violence and none of that's going to work because with a 24/7 surveillance state you won't be able to use any of the traditional mechanisms for dealing with the collapse of democracy and getting things back on track.

Your ruling class that you seem to think you're a member of for some reason is going to use all that tracking to make sure you stay in your lane like a good little slave. Like in China you'll be woken up at 3:00 in the morning and given some weak tea and biscuit for your 14-hour shift.

Eventually they'll be completely tired of using you at all having replaced you with machines and he will be relegated to the kind of life the American Indians had on the reservations before the casinos. If you get uppity they will send drones to blow you in the kingdom come. If you even show signs of developing past bronze age technology they will wipe you out just to be on the safe side. Basically treating you like vermin at that point.

But it's fine I'm sure any day now you're going to get rich and be hobnobbing in the Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom at the White House... And you'll be able to join Trump and company on the new Epstein Island. You're certainly not just some schlub posting to a dying or frankly dead website

Catching the occasional murderer isn't worth a 24/7 super surveillance Network right?

The thing is people who think that it is worth it aren't going to speak up here or even look at the comments.

One of the things I'm seeing among the right wing is that they know that their beliefs are wrong and that they will be hurt by implementing them but they want them so badly that they are withdrawing into safe spaces where their never challenged.

And I mean never challenged. Not even for a brief second. Because the right wing has become so cartoonishly evil that the slightest challenge breaks the spell like The emperor's New clothes.

You can't reach them anymore. Maybe their families could but they've cut themselves off from their families too. It's why people keep calling the right wing a cult.

So when you are an adult you don't go pointing fingers at a problem you just fix the goddamn problem.

Accountability sounds cool until everybody starts fighting amongst themselves uselessly like crabs in a bucket.

You don't go blaming people you recognize the problem and fix it.

Only as I described on another post we can't do that because the problem is structural.

Specifically we used to just kick low academic achievers to the curb and that was okay because we had factories for them to work in where they could make a living. Those factories are stuffed with robots or overseas. So we can't do that anymore.

So we aren't abandoning them because we frankly can't, you can't have millions of young kids with absolutely nothing to do sitting around waiting for nothing. If all else fails they'll get violent. And you don't have the testicle fortitude to just kill them out right.

So here we are with the problem and absolutely no solution. Any solution that actually would solve the problem isn't acceptable to you

So you point fingers. Doesn't solve the problem but it does let you temporarily avoid facing real solutions for a bit longer. Keep it up for another few decades and you'll get to die without actually having to recognize the problem or its potential solutions. And that's basically the American dream now.

A lot of times you're going to find kids are using social media because they don't have opportunities to interact in the real world.

Suburbs are isolating as are cars and car based cities. At least for anyone who doesn't themselves own a car.

Cars have become ludicrously expensive so that fewer and fewer kids actually have access to them. Remember it's not enough to have your license you need to actually have reliable and ready access to an automobile so you can get around. It doesn't help that your parents probably can't lend you the car on Saturday because they're at work picking up an extra shift to make rent this month.

You can't even tell the little shits to just go get a part-time job because they're competing with people in their 50s to work at McDonald's and McDonald's is going to pick the 50-year-old because they know that person has to show up to work whether they want to or not.

So what you are most likely seeing is just poor kids versus the rich kids. The poor kids make heavy use of social media because that's the only mechanism for socialization they have outside of lunch time or a 3-hour bus ride.

Honestly it's always been a bit of a problem we've complained about teenagers hogging the phone for years. It's another one of those problems we don't like to acknowledge because fixing it will require huge structural changes that would bite into the profits of car companies and fuck if we're going to do that.

We know what the problem is. 8 years ago when my kid was in high School their math class had 45 students in it and there weren't even enough chairs for everybody to sit. This was not one of the poor school districts either. Not a rich School district but not poor by any measure. Meanwhile covid hit education like a brick.

On top of that parents are working two or three jobs just to keep a roof over their kids head.

We also don't allow public schools to abandon kids anymore and they're aren't any jobs for a high school dropout or frankly even a College dropout at this point. Certainly not something that you can make a living off of.

This means that you've got students who traditionally would have disappeared from the system but are now being educated and they bring the numbers down. Incidentally this is also why private schools look so good, if your grades start to drop in a private school they kick you out almost immediately. They aren't any better generally than public schools unless they have a lot more money and even then they can abandon anyone who isn't making the grade.

So basically a whole bunch of people we used to just toss into factory work can't do that work anymore because we either automated it away or we shipped it to china, and now those kids are still in the system and they are struggling and on top of that you have all the other social problems like covid and the leftovers from that and their parents not having any time because of over work etc etc.

There isn't actually a solution to any of this that doesn't involve massive transformations of society that a bunch of old farts like us are going to veto.

We could make the numbers go up and the class sizes go down by kicking all those kids to the curb but the problem with that obviously is we don't have anything to do with them and now they're just milling about getting into trouble. And we aren't going to do the kind of massive government programs Ala the New deal that would be required to employ that many people who struggle with high school algebra...

On the plus side the declining numbers and the increased cost of managing those kids means that we can point to how bad the numbers are and use that as an excuse to dismantle public education so I guess there is that. Think of all the tax savings for billionaires and all the profit when we privatize what's left of education.

Phonics-based teaching was coming into vogue when I was learning to read. My parents objected because that's not really how English works, and they weren't wrong; my cohort generally has shitty spelling abilities.

Rote memorization of the basics is about the best you can do, because English is too recently cobbled together from too many different languages to have a consistent spelling system. You need to learn Latin, Greek, French, and German at a minimum if you want to be able to reliably deduce spelling from sounds once you're past the elementary level.

Europeans are probably in better shape on that front than Americans or Canadians.

It's the same thing. Whether it's talking about being a rugged individualist by solving the problem of our collapsing of energy grid due to AI data centers by throwing up solar panels or threatening violent revolution the key here is you have given up on electoral politics because you don't think you can win.

That's the thesis of the entire discussion going on here both with your comments and everyone else's.

My point is that's just cope. Electoral politics is the only path forward and if we completely lose that then it's over. We become a Russian style oligarchical feudal system. And there's no getting out of that anymore because modern technology and weapons means that the level of control over the peasantry that can be exercised is unlike anything the kings of old could imagine and they still had a lot of control back then and maintained the feudal system for centuries..

What pisses me off is we haven't lost yet. There is a small chance that the fascists will be beaten back due to their own incompetence.

But having people dreaming about nonsense like everybody having their own personal solar systems or beating a standing army with a handful of civilian firearms isn't helping. It's a thought terminating cliche that lets us say fuck it and not have to stand in line to vote on a school night...

This is not how things work under kleptocracies. The US was never particularly strong on communal resources anyway, now it's just not even pretending.

Much of the problem could be fixed if the police simply learned not to do what the computer tells them, and think it through first.

There's no revolution there dude. People are getting stuck in renting. Apartments and shit. So they're going to have to buy electricity from the grid or they're going to have to do without. Probably the latter.

You can't let your entire grid in your entire civilization collapse and just pretend a bunch of rugged individualists will make everything better that's not how that works. It is ultimately going to be more difficult and expensive for individuals to put up solar than to build solar farms and proper electric infrastructure. Economies of scale don't go away just because rugged individualists are cool.

I can tell you right now that honest homesteaders on YouTube will tell you up front that they aren't making a living off the homestead.

As for the guillotine and violence you can't beat a modern military. At best you will end up with a military junta in charge instead of the techno-feudal warlords.

You are there fix this shit now and save civilization or you lose it. Cope isn't going to help you

I looked up the figures a few days ago - but having since driven to the other end of the country, I've forgotten the precise details. IIRC it was something like Goofy having a higher aphelion - so most of the time (and length of orbital arc) it is going to be further out than Pluto (by a few %, but it also has higher eccentricity, so it's aphelion is lower than Pluto's (and indeed, Neptune's ; which is also true for Pluto). Since orbiting objects travel faster at aphelion than perihelion, that makes the average orbital period of Pluto and Goofy the same (or their year the same, or their semi-major axis the same ; these all mean the same thing) despite Goofy travelling further per orbit than Pluto, with a faster arc near perihelion.

You see the same sort of thing with, say, Uranus, Neptune, and 1P/Halley ; Halley and Uranus have quite similar orbital periods, but Halley's aphelion is well out beyond Neptune's orbit. the long period it spends out there is counterbalanced by the 3 year long Sun-dive it does form (approximately) Saturn's orbit, to the Sun, and back out to Saturn's orbit.50-odd% of it's orbital path followed in about 5% of it's orbital period.

Just because Newton's laws are quite simple, doesn't mean that their consequences are simple. Just ask (if you can get his bones to talk) one J. Kepler, who had to work out the orbits from raw observational data, unsullied by Newton's theoretical framework.

(It still sometimes astonishes me that there is no simple way to calculate the length of an arc of an ellipse or it's total perimeter - you have to do a really complicated, progressive approximation calculation for each specific shape of ellipse. Which, when you realise that Kepler would have had to make hundreds (thousands?) of such approximations while reducing Brahe's data, explains why Kepler came up with at least one relatively good approximation to the length of an ellipse's perimeter.)