I’ve had the thought that if I were to design a psyop campaign, a pretty solid option for dominating the discussion would be to come out swinging and accuse everyone else of being an agent. That way, people have to either constantly defend against accusations, or they conclude, rightly, the accusations are baseless and decide to disregard the very idea that there is a psyop going on.

Sure, but that’s usually done through a UPS cabinet, not on an individual device level.

Appliances that don’t depower when unplugged sound like an incredibly bad idea.

Considering they had, IIRC, like 6 beaver suits total, I’d say it’s a production masterpiece.

…Sounds like you’re looking for “Thousands of Beavers”. Great movie.

More like a formed plastic sheet with contact pads glued on the underside. The whole keyboard was just a PCB, plastic casing, and a button sheet.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Oh, sure, especially if it’s the same few users. It’s just mildly surprising to not even run into them.

That’s actually a very interesting map! I didn’t know the gulf is just large enough to not be entirely divvied up!

Really? You never ran into the endless “…furthermore, .ml must be defederated” posts?

There’s always the worst possible option: they’re true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

Yeah, it’s not a joke, it literally happens all the time, and an error after block close generally means the system doesn’t think it’s closed, usually because a bracket isn’t paired off.

Another reminder that France, Spain, and Italy forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land in Austria because they thought Snowden was on it.

It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.

They think they’re Aragorn and we’re orcs.

The argument for Iran was that Mossadegh was “turning towards communism”. Same for Allende, same for Arbenz. Hell, just the concept of “domino theory” was all about stopping the spread of communism. Pretending they were some sort of equal opportunity saboteurs is deeply disingenuous.

"From each according to his capacity” is the absolute essence of exploitation.

…This is bait, right? It has to be, right? It’s such a profoundly ridiculous statement that it can’t possibly be anything else.

… Dude, I don’t know if you’ve heard about this thing, but it was pretty big. They called it “the cold war”.