In theory, it works that way.

In practice, we’ve never openly stopped anyone with those systems.

When it comes time for them to justify the invasion of privacy, they don’t have any school shooters stopped, and they don’t have any Unabombers stopped. They don’t have any cases of stolen kids stopped. They’d be shouting all that from the rooftops to expand and extend that funding.

If they have actually stopped anyone, it’s at super-secret spy game levels. The guys you’re expecting them to stop aren’t even a concern for them. Worse yet, they may actually be rooting for them.

That’s how religion keeps power. Only our group are righteous and are doing it right.

Why’d you pick me up?

Why’d you take me out of my house

and kill my parents with me? Ain’t you committed to me?

Where are we fuckin’ goin’?

Though Yolanda AKA Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction it a close second.

Find a job where you’re never without something to do.

Huh, turns out I can never go to Romania. I would eat until I pop.

When I visited Ireland I was very impressed by the Irish cartoons. Anywhere I went I hardly heard a lick of anything but English, but it was obvious what they were there for and it was very cool thing.

I’m balanced.

I’ll help you push you car. I’ll hold the door for anyone, I’ll let you in, in traffic. I’ll over-tip the wait staff, even the ones having a bad day. I give kids in my neighborhood freezypops when it’s hot AF. I’ll go out of my way to make sure your food allergy is covered and you’ll have safe snacks at my gathering.

I won’t give the guy begging on the corner money. I won’t help you forever if you never reciprocate. You skip a paycheck, I won’t wait for you to get it sorted.

I won’t remember that you hate mushrooms. I won’t remember your kids name or wife’s face. I’ll forget you birthday if it’s not in my calendar. I’ll tell you I need to focus on something for an hour and go take a nap.

When firing people is difficult, it’s not infrequent to promote them to hire someone useful to backfill.

Those people keep rising the ladder through seniority and attrition.

They never do anything bad enough to get fired and just make everyone below them miserable cuz they don’t understand the business and like to prove that they’re in charge because of fear of inadequacy.

I can’t fault him for any of his depth and character building and poetry and storytelling and descriptive environments it was all very thorough and for the right person wonderful. I think the movies did a giant justice to making his work accessible. There are a lot of people out there that can’t manage to make their way through his poetry sections. And you can’t not read the poetry sections because there’s definitely content in there you need.

You could make automatic breaking without a full blown computer, but it’s so much cheaper to put a full-blown computer than it is to do it all in hardware. Everything uses turing complete equipment now, it’s actually less expensive at this point.

There’s absolutely no reason not to put multiple computers in the car I think the real win is not surfacing it to the end user.

Insurance is an interesting case. You’re paying into a loan you might never take out in case an unlikely event happens. The entire reason the companies stay in business is because people never take the money out.

Instead of “insurance”, make it work like a mandatory 401k. You have to pay into it, it’s yours for retirement, but you can draw against it. Qualifying life events happen you can draw against it up to a point. you can pay it back down.

Medical care, Pharmacy, Schools, Daycare, Elder care, End of life care, prisons.

These things should not generate revenue with the target of making rich people richer.

Not as such. But it also doesn’t mean that it can’t have catastrophic results.

Your water heater has an overpressure valve, but just one. A failure in that valve and a temperature regulator and you can have your hot water heater shooting up through your roof.

Your furnace has a control board. It turns the gas on, hits the igniter, watches for flame. An older, shittier designs, it was entirely possible for just one or two sensors to go bad and run the furnace to the point of melting down and have the house burned down. Source: happened to me on vacation many decades ago.

Can we try once? Just give him a night, let him know what he’s up against?

Npm isnt horrible for that.

I would love better blocking. But I understand the costs of doing that in a truly federated environment. I’ll just settle for not caring what they actually say about me. The whole point of the trolling is to get a rise out of someone.

Secret? Their playbook literally has four bullet points and this is #2.

As soon as anyone starts arguing in bad faith I just block them. I don’t really care what they have to say about me for my argument.

If he doesn’t get in this is a foregone conclusion. Untaxable donations, tax shelter for purchases. Every Trump property will become a church campus, every collection attempt religious oppression.

Oh grandma what big teeth you have.

It’s coming from inside the house…