Endymion_Mallorn

I live in NJ. Whenever I’m not hearing traffic and the like, I get spooked.

Real men should update.

That’s your choice, but I don’t think leaving will do you any good. No matter where we live, human instinct will lead to conflict. And you can only do one of three things: run, and keep running; stay and get involved; or stay, and stay out of it until the last moment.

That’s why city voters, especially homeowners, have to go to council meetings and speak up. Call for a public vote on it.

Just remember your opsec. If/when (assume when) someone shoots the molotov bot down, make sure it doesn’t have a serial number that can be tied to you, or any data connection in its logs that connects to you. Don’t use your phone or any device you can’t immediately destroy (i.e. do not be tracked by the MAC either) to connect to it.

My suggestion, buy a cheap laptop from a pawnshop/cash converters type place, connect to the drone only from a Starbucks or McD’s. When you make the drop, either plunge the drone down into the fire, or get it to a safe location away from you that you’ll be able to get to without being tracked. Dismantle the laptop as much as possible, ditch all radios into public trash cans (preferably within an hour of normal pickup).

@[email protected] So do all who live to see such films.

It’s not a gotcha. It’s a decent cash flow to the city if he wants to se the real estate - and that’s before they tax him, and sue him again if he evades,

Well, it should be that the City Council refuses the permits, and if Musk does it anyway, the City either bulldozes the building, or sues him until the building is removed. So either the building comes down or the municipality makes a pile of cash off the bastard.

I hope that the people of Memphis can force the city council to refuse any extensions to the permit. We need to make sure that their actions are made public, and hopefully, people can break the companies.

I feel like our current political climate might make this an interesting exercise on a regular basis. If we could use a botnet on Google Maps with spoofed GPS data, could we, say, direct a bunch of traffic away from a place where certain government agencies are acting?

Nah, I’m honestly happy to work. I like my job, and I like money.

Agreed! Thank goodness for WFH in times of inclement weather like this.

Really? I saw a forecast of up to 22 inches this weekend at the highest (I think the highest confidence across all models was around 14" from Friday to Sunday). I hope your friend in Kentucky can either hunker down or has a plan to evacuate if it’s worse than that.

Ah, you’re on the eastern seaboard too.

Yeah, I’m reacting kinda like Radar, honestly.

I always liked how Zimmerman was an inversion of Soong. It made for a good dynamic.

It’s not logical. It’s a purely emotional reaction like all fears, hatreds, and the like. I can’t tell what’s gone through this man’s head. The one thing I’ve seen a few times in my life is similar to the irrational hatred of police (not the legitimate ongoing concerns, not the wariness or standing on your rights, but the proactive hatred). A few bad actors ruin your perception, and the human response is to react to the whole group based on the worst individuals you’ve met or heard about.

It’s a similar response to how abuse victims react around otherwise-decent people who resemble their abusers. I want to make this explicit: I am not suggesting that racists are victims. I’m illustrating the human tendency to react to individual actions irrationally and apply that experience to the group or category, regardless of evidence to the contrary. Plus, a lot of these people are raised in environments where the media they can consume has a habit of demonizing non-white people. They absorb that perception and it’s reinforced by the people around them. Sometimes it can be shaken when they meet an arbitrary number of people who are decent human beings that are part of that group - but the moment there’s any sign of reinforcement of the old pattern, they’ll likely fall back to it.

I mean, I use SeaMonkey still, and that’s the direct descendant of Netscape Communicator. So at least some of us are close.

This one was the NY Times.

They don’t want you exploring anymore. Exploration would take you away from their profitable walled garden.

Dang it. Hootsuite used to be a decent marketing tool. When it was totally free, it was even good for those of us users who wanted a slimmed down version of our social media (Fb & Twitter in a single tab especially). It’s disappointing to see them fall so far.