Well gaaaaawwwwleee.

That’s not what I said.

Chickens are incredibly intelligent and self aware.

It has the goal of living.

And that won’t be honored.

Imagine if half the people parroting the dnc line that a third party vote is wasted actually voted third.

I liked Bernie, but then he rolled over to support the DNC darling, HRC. I was angry and directed that at the DNC, saying I didn’t like that he capitulated, but appreciated his graciousness, but that is he capitulated again, he is worthy of questioning and ire. And he did it again. Fact is, Sanders and AOC not only didn’t move anyone left, they’ve consistently been moving right. Denial doesn’t help addicts get clean, and it’s certainly not going to clean up the Democratic party. Look at seventy years of history.

I’m not advocating for a particular party, I’m telling you both branches of the monoparty work for the same corporate interests. Last presidential election, there was a candidate running under Workers’ Party, with a solid platform, and it’s quite interesting the liberal branch of the corporate party sued and won to keep her off the ballot, but only in swing states. The candidates D or R torpedo could be evaluated. A platform is great, but a platform with a workable plan to implement it is better.

To an incredibly insightful comment.

The comments on combinator:

I have a real problem with the pretense posed by the article that the club has no blame. They should have understood the risk they were taking on by subcontracting a vendor to collect passports, and better vetted that vendor. Obviously the service provider was completely inept, but that doesn’t absolve the fools using them. I preach to my clients this sort of PII should be treated as a toxic, hazardous substance. Ideally don’t touch it with a 10 foot pole, and if you can’t help it then limit the scope, protect it with strong access policies that severely limit who can touch it (including encryption keys conservatively custodied), and securely delete it all as soon as possible.

Too many companies these days point you to shoddy third parties for some kind of functionality (e.g. book an appointment, perform KYC on you, host the online learning platform for your course, etc.), inappropriately foisting both a new business relationship on you that you never asked for along with their partner’s terms of service that you have no bargaining power in negotiating.

This is a side-effect of the SaaS era, and the model is broken.

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If these kinds of breaches were actually costly, then people would indeed treat PII as toxic. But they aren’t. The media brouhaha blows over within a week or so, and things are fine again. Leaking PII should be very, very expensive, and then this idiocy would stop.

Do what you’ve always done. Get what you always got. 💩

Do what you’ve always done. Get what you always got. 💩

Do what you’ve always done. Get what you always got. 💩

It’s been over seventy years since FDR left office. Look around do an honest assessment of how fascism corporatism has been working for us. Really.

Tbh, paper currency is pretty much cartoon dollar signs.

Yeah I read this and it’s just another infernal kiss extolling the virtues of 🐂 💩 greed. Capitalism.

Just like substance traffickers. Get 'em hooked, degrade the product, up the cost.

11-15 He replied, “You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn’t been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward a welcome awakening…

Nothing was meant to be taken literally. Ever. But you know how people who get power can be. 😋

Nowhere does the story Ok earlier in the book say that. And it’s not pertinent, anyway.

Dunno. Brief search found this: https://testamentpress.com/ancient-money-calculator.html but it’s a horrible website and doesn’t have that time frame or specific currency.