Techrights Recent IRC Comments
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Sat 00:32:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Physical_Product6546
Sat 00:32:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have just turned 18, make around $16,000 per year and want to save for a down payment on a house. How should I do it?
Sat 00:32:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I replied,
Sat 00:32:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Find a half a million more dollars where that came from. Plus interest, which amounts to roughly $400,000 or so.
Sat 00:32:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Good luck."
Sat 00:34:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sat 00:55:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Reddit's servers seem to be overloaded with the lack of daily active users that caused their stock to plunge 20%.
Sat 00:56:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'll try back later.
Sat 00:56:06 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ Move out of the US, buy a house you can afford and renounce US citizenship
Sat 00:56:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It costs more to renounce US citizenship than it does to apply for it.
Sat 00:56:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even after you renounce, if foreign banks find out you were born here they'll still tell you to get lost.
Sat 00:56:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (FATCA)
Sat 00:56:57 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ IsambardPrince: maybe they improved their efficiency the way felon musk improved xitter's
Sat 00:57:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like a gypsy curse that follows you around.
Sat 00:57:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No offense, MinceR
Sat 00:57:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ none taken
Sat 00:58:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, In the interests of Freedom, your Sovereign which you may have accidentally become loyal to if your parents were on vacation here, has decided to release you....for a nominal fee.
Sat 00:59:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sat 00:59:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the UK, was taxed by the IRS, on the sale of his house in London.
Sat 01:00:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He then had to pay income taxes for years on his income, in London.
Sat 01:00:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And a fee of $2350 to renounce his US citizenship, which he obtained because his parents were on vacation in New York in the 60s.
Sat 01:01:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He paid it all to avoid being put on the US Treasury list of sanctioned individuals.
Sat 01:01:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For cheating on taxes in a country he never lived in.
Sat 01:01:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Apparently getting a letter from the IRS suprised Mr. Bogus.
Sat 01:02:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Sat 01:03:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I bet Obama was like "Watch me fuck with this dickhead. Lulz"
Sat 01:06:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/cory-mills-under-investigation-police/index.html
Sat 01:06:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Of the District Columbia[sic]"
Sat 01:07:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No proofreading.
Sat 01:12:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Judge Dale Ho declined to drop the charges against NYC Mayor Adams.
Sat 01:12:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump tried to drop the charges in a corrupt bargain to let ICE into the city jail.
Sat 01:13:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead the court appointed an attorney to fill in as the prosecutor.
Sat 01:13:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So Adams could be convicted anyway, and the DoJ would have no ability to control the prosecution.
Sat 01:17:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1iug7lq/eeoc_moving_to_dismiss_3_il_cases_of_trans/
Sat 01:18:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "The EEOC is moving to dismiss 3 harassment cases brought by transgender people employed by Wendy's Reggios Pizza and SisBro. Harassment ranged from having a supervisor demand to know if they had a penis, inappropriate touching by a co-worker, and being outed by a supervisor then verbally harrassed by co-workers.
Sat 01:18:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The EEOC states "it is not harassment to acknowledge the truth [that sex is binary, only male and female]". Therefore, harassment of anyone who is non-gender transforming cannot be prosecuted and transgender people are no longer protected against employment discrimination. EEOC moves to drop transgender discrimination cases to comply with Trump’s order | PBS News"
Sat 01:43:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dOHEw8izno
Sat 01:43:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My favorite from those commercials.
Sat 01:43:24 │ 〖nobody〗 │ how's the genital relevant to baking pizza? trumpistan
Sat 01:44:02 │ 〖nobody〗 │ just doesn't make sense, the problems you got there
Sat 01:45:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Asking someone who works for you if they have a penis would still be sexual harassment even if it's not a "trans" thing.
Sat 01:59:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ nobody: putler wishes it was, so it is.
Sat 02:27:42 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ pizza autobus cum genitalibus
Sat 02:28:23 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ that's my opinion on that country and it's final
Sat 02:28:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sat 02:44:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idg6AsX6hsg
Sat 02:44:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Russian stuff blowing up.
Sat 02:45:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :P
Sat 02:45:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Stargate: SG-1 - Battle of P3Y-229 (Ori Invasion) [4K]"
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Sat 02:54:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I was talking with my dad about Ukraine.
Sat 02:54:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He asked what I think should happen.
Sat 02:55:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "Every Russian soldier there that won't defect should die, and Ukraine should have every last inch of their land back and then Putin should hang."
Sat 02:55:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Probably not all of that is achievable, but that would be ideal.
Sat 02:56:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only thing Putin deserves for this is a blindfold and a cigarette.
Sat 02:59:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The ICC should do something useful and go ahead and have a trial in absentia if Putin doesn't appear.
Sat 03:00:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That way they can record him as a convicted war criminal and a fugitive that is, for the moment, out of reach.
Sat 03:07:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I liked Todd the Wraith explaining the self-repair system on a hive ship.
Sat 03:07:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Many of the problems we encounter correct themselves over time."
Sat 03:07:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So basically the opposite of Windows then.
Sat 03:08:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can't figure out how anyone uses Windows.
Sat 03:08:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It gives these bizarre and completely unhelpful error messages.
Sat 03:09:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You look up the error on google, it's just a bunch of Indians making YouTube videos about basic troubleshooting steps, very generic.
Sat 03:09:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The troubleshooters in Windows rarely fix anything and can cause it to get worse.
Sat 03:09:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You apply updates, and it reboots and says "Better every time" and now you get graphical glitches or the fingerprint sensor won't work.
Sat 03:10:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's if the updates even apply at all and Windows Update doesn't break down, but continues alerting you anyway.
Sat 03:10:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or it if doesn't corrupt its own bootloader.
Sat 03:11:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or it reboots and Bitlocker doesn't know how to decrypt your files and demands the passphrase you didn't write down, and couldn't type anyway because Microsoft requires the keyboard disabled until Windows is running.
Sat 03:12:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like the 737 Max of operating systems basically.
Sat 03:12:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It works sometimes unless it crashes itself into mountains or explosively decompresses, but other than that usually works.
Sat 03:13:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-dei-directive/index.html
Sat 03:14:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The federal government's injustice department couldn't define what "equity" means when pressed by the judge.
Sat 03:16:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, https://old.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1iuqx59/im_a_us_citizen_my_partner_is_threatming_if_i/
Sat 03:17:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So this person's partner does not even have a green card and is "threatening" to go to USCIS, admit they committed marriage fraud, and thinks the US citizen will be in trouble.
Sat 03:18:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The US citizen is unlikely to be in any trouble at all. But the government is likely to NOID the green card case and deport the immigrant.
Sat 03:18:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Don't make me angry or I'll blow myself up?"
Sat 03:18:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And take me with you?
Sat 03:18:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "No, just me."
Sat 03:18:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Oh, okay then. Have fun with that.
Sat 03:19:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Sat 03:21:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvXPVQGQv-M
Sat 03:21:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Jack O'Neill being iconic for 10 minutes straight"
Sat 03:47:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I wonder why you'd hand Woolsey an FN P90 and tell him to shoot at anything.
Sat 03:47:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Especially since they have no effect on human form replicators.
Sat 03:53:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Trump is trying to do the denaturalization task force again.
Sat 03:54:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So if you're a naturalized US citizen it's a good idea to live in a district where Democrats appointed most of the judges.
Sat 03:54:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That way they won't be toadies of Trump if they try to bring some fucking garbage through that court.
Sat 03:55:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, It was the Chief Bankruptcy Judge that handled naturalizations last year.
Sat 03:55:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Fitting I guess.
Sat 03:55:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If they're like us natural born US citizens about 25% of them will see her again at some point.
Sat 03:56:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Threaten bankruptcy is the best way to deal with hospital debt.
Sat 03:56:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ File bankruptcy is the best way to deal with them if they go further.
Sat 04:07:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, A Jew off happened in the Illinois legislature the other day after Pritzker (a Jew) made a speech about Nazi Germany.
Sat 04:07:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ First the Republicans got angry at being compared to Nazis, and took to the floor to declare that they were "Team Jew".
Sat 04:08:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the Democrats took to the floor to say "We're Jews and we're very offended by your Team Jew comment. You are minimizing my pain and suffering, our pain and suffering."
Sat 04:11:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Jews fighting to assert dominance over the other Jews.
Sat 04:11:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Nazi Jews and the Butthurt Whiner Jews.
Sat 04:11:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Taking turns with the microphone.
Sat 04:12:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Are there any normal fucking people on this planet anymore?
Sat 04:14:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i've spent over an hour waiting for Linux to show some interactivity
Sat 04:14:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i'm fucking tired of this piece of shit
Sat 04:28:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Backdoors would at least beep if i pressed a key or moved the mouse
Sat 04:31:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ lol
Sat 04:31:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, you know Linus bashed Con Kolivas and ran him off.
Sat 04:31:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then he let Red Hat fuck up the kernel more and send him to therapy.
Sat 04:31:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So that's going well.
Sat 04:32:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ not just ratcrap, MICROS~1 too
Sat 04:32:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Today Trump told a governor "I am the law." and threatened to end her career in politics.
Sat 04:32:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and goolag
Sat 04:32:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So that's going well too.
Sat 04:32:51 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ though at least goolag's code monkeys get chewed out every now and then for the shit they do
Sat 04:33:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ he lied and said he did well in Maine.
Sat 04:33:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He did not.
Sat 04:33:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ MICROS~1's retards are immune to criticism and it shows
Sat 04:33:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He did well in one of its two congressional districts, which under that state's weird voting laws got him 1 of the 4 EVs.
Sat 04:34:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump might be right that the governor is taking an indefensible position on transgender issues though.
Sat 04:34:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Maybe not legally indefensible, but politically.
Sat 04:34:29 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 22 053236 < IsambardPrince> MinceR, Today Trump told a governor "I am the law." and threatened to end her career in politics.
Sat 04:34:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most Americans don't like that.
Sat 04:34:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ah yes, good old "republican" "rule of law" and "law and order".
Sat 04:35:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He forgot to get off his hovering motorcycle and put the kickstand down.
Sat 04:35:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And threaten them with his law giver.
Sat 04:35:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ could he get the motorcycle to work?
Sat 04:35:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Elon would.
Sat 04:35:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Malfunction! Malfunction! Malfunction!"
Sat 04:35:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Sat 04:35:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i doubt it
Sat 04:35:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just like Tesla.
Sat 04:36:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The UK seized someone's CyberTruck the other day.
Sat 04:36:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the UK banned them saying it was not safe enough to be roadworthy under their laws.
Sat 04:36:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, US States should look into doing that here.
Sat 04:36:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Refusing to plate them.
Sat 04:37:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They can pretty easily figure out when someone in that income bracket is falsely claiming to be an out of state resident on their tax filings.
Sat 04:37:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you have so much money to waste that a $170,000 electric truck is a toy for you.
Sat 04:37:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also, the oom killer killed 2 wrong processes while letting the problem process just keep on chugging
Sat 04:38:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i don't know what the fuck this pile of shit has an oom killer for if it can't even figure out what it's supposed to be doing
Sat 04:38:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The problem in Illinois is that the state played kissy face with Tesla.
Sat 04:38:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because of these bullshit green energy standards.
Sat 04:38:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ California too.
Sat 04:38:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And now Chainsaw Man is fucking with our federal grant money.
Sat 04:59:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-unveils-trembita-missile-designed-for-long-range-strikes-at-defense-expo-50492008.html
Sat 05:00:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $4,000 is pretty cheap for a cruise missile.
Sat 05:00:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The US spends the cost of a big house on each one.
Sat 05:05:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Serial Slopper says don't leave Windows https://betanews.com/2025/02/21/do-not-ditch-windows-for-linux-try-dual-boot-or-a-vm-instead/
Sat 05:07:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 21, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/22/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_February_21_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/22/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_February_21_2025.gmi ∎
Sat 05:09:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Hoopla locked me out saying there was something wrong with my library password.
Sat 05:09:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/22/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/22/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Sat 05:09:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's this new online catalog they switched to.
Sat 05:10:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Took me a minute. It was my password for that, not my old library PIN.
Sat 05:10:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/22/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/22/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 05:10:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was sitting here going "ahh ahhh ahh! you didn't say the magic word ahh ahh ahh!!!"
Sat 05:10:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Finally got it.
Sat 05:12:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sat 05:19:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rights group demands Egypt release activists arbitrarily detained for social control media posts ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/rights-group-demands-egypt-release-activists-arbitrarily-detained-for-social-media-posts/
Sat 05:20:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Does the EU CRA affect my business? ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/02/20/does-the-eu-cra-affect-my-business/
Sat 05:23:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New report warns of growing threat of mobile phishing targeting SMS and messaging apps ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/20/new-report-warns-growing-threat-mobile-phishing-targeting-sms-messaging-apps/
Sat 05:23:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO mostly ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/20/cisa-fbi-warns-ghost-ransomware-targeting-critical-infrastructure-businesses/
Sat 05:24:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Military Health Provider HNFS Pays $11M in Settlement Over Cybersecurity Failures ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-military-health-provider-hnfs-pays-11m-in-settlement-over-cybersecurity-failures/
Sat 05:24:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PoC Exploit Published for Critical Ivanti EPM Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/poc-exploit-published-for-critical-ivanti-epm-vulnerabilities/
Sat 05:25:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-fbi-warn-of-china-linked-ghost-ransomware-attacks/
Sat 05:25:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Atlassian Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Confluence, Crowd ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-in-confluence-crowd/
Sat 05:29:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-tools-found-in-ransomware-schemes-blurring-attribution-lines/
Sat 05:29:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mining Company NioCorp Loses $500,000 in BEC Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mining-company-niocorp-loses-500000-in-bec-hack/
Sat 05:29:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and of course if i try to kill 1 process without waiting for the oom killer to kick in, it kills the entire browser
Sat 05:30:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kitchenware excluded from French PFAS ban after intensive lobbying ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250220-kitchenware-excluded-from-french-pfas-ban-after-intensive-lobbying
Sat 05:30:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Bleeding Edge of Phishing: darcula-suite 3.0 Enables DIY Phishing of Any Brand ☞ https://www.netcraft.com/blog/darcula-v3-phishing-kits-targeting-any-brand/
Sat 05:31:30 │ 〖nobody〗 │ "without waiting for the oom killer to kick in".. at least it's memory safe with rust lang
Sat 05:31:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sat 05:32:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TTABlog Test: Are Cosmetics Related to Bottled Water for Section 2(d) Purposes? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ttablog-test-are-cosmetics-related-to.html
Sat 05:32:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it would sure be an refreshing change if someone came up with an OS in which occasionally what the user wants happens
Sat 05:32:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tunisia rights activist Sihen Bensedrine released from jail ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/tunisia-rights-activist-sihen-bensedrine-released-from-jail/
Sat 05:36:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday told employees that it would lift its monthlong freeze on investigating discrimination complaints at schools and colleges across the country" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination | Source: Pro Publica
Sat 05:43:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Alviinds Perks were actually more than 30 million ... He got awarded over 86 million in stock ... Some of the Pipmunks like Krabanaugh got 36 million in stocks" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmj6c284 if you give them stock, they will start treating the company just like a stock, and actively hurt it from a shareholders' perspective
Sat 05:44:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I will be careful about any news that comes from that source: timesofindia" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjbvbxs1
Sat 06:00:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's Market Share in Cameroon Falls to New Lows ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/22/Microsoft_s_Market_Share_in_Cameroon_Falls_to_New_Lows.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/22/Microsoft_s_Market_Share_in_Cameroon_Falls_to_New_Lows.gmi ∎
Sat 06:00:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I liked that. "To avoid being criticized, say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.""
Sat 06:01:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: it has always been like this universally
Sat 06:01:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i would have loved to never exist as a human and never exist on a human-infested planet
Sat 06:01:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but apparently i was never given that choice
Sat 06:02:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have several Raspberry Pis, but the two I use most often are 1B models that I picked up in early 2014. Right now one is running DietPi with a few basic utilities and no desktop. It's on this board that I'm currently writing this very post." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202502/20250221-ode-to-a-1b.gmi
Sat 06:03:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] > human-infested planet
Sat 06:03:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] correction
Sat 06:03:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] humans are becoming animals
Sat 06:03:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as noted in another channel
Sat 06:03:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ humans were always animals
Sat 06:03:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know
Sat 06:03:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but you also know what i mean
Sat 06:03:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ not sure
Sat 06:03:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "like an animal" =
Sat 06:04:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] basic insticts
Sat 06:04:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ basic instincts don't seem nearly as evil as what humans do
Sat 06:04:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the only other animal i'm aware of that is as nasty as humans is the dog, and they copy humans
Sat 06:04:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because humans have more means
Sat 06:04:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] are wolves better?
Sat 06:04:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes
Sat 06:05:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ human-infested planet gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250221-0.gmi
Sat 06:06:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I need at some point to build some kind of Faraday cage around the analog computer, but it is not a trivial matter as I would to find a metal box of the right size, remount the switches off the board, and figure out exactly how I would want to feed signals in/out of the box." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250221-1.gmi
Sat 06:07:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1213.jpg
Sat 06:07:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1563.jpg
Sat 06:16:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wolves work in packs and attack other animals
Sat 06:16:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that reminds me of humans
Sat 06:16:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more than dogs ;-)
Sat 06:16:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: yo dawg, i herd you like herds of cats
Sat 06:16:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, they suck at hunting, so they had to come up with pack tactics to stay competitive with felines
Sat 06:17:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not many felines left here
Sat 06:17:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there are lynx activists
Sat 06:17:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the mutation or human breeding of "cats" is just something that makes noises and poos
Sat 06:17:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] does not even protect a owner's home
Sat 06:17:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *an
Sat 06:18:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Ramsey said he had "met so many broke people" who had "all the right training and degrees" that he would almost feel discredited by mentionin that he has most of those credentials.
Sat 06:18:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LOL
Sat 06:18:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like my landlord.
Sat 06:18:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ nothing protects owners' homes
Sat 06:18:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The guy who thinks you make money with debt, long term.
Sat 06:18:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a bunch of Cleopatra meows
Sat 06:18:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he gets debt, does something stupid, goes bankrupt eventually.
Sat 06:18:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ though i suppose some WMDs could
Sat 06:18:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <MinceR> nothing protects owners' homes
Sat 06:18:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ask IsambardPrince
Sat 06:19:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ok
Sat 06:19:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] running around in boxers with the key to the safe with a pistol in it
Sat 06:19:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] welcome to state of ILL
Sat 06:19:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ IsambardPrince: what will protect us from the orc hordes?
Sat 06:20:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> The guy who thinks you make money with debt, long term.
Sat 06:20:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i mentioned it the other day
Sat 06:20:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they say they "have debt
Sat 06:20:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or "have credit"
Sat 06:20:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not in debt
Sat 06:20:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] which is the same
Sat 06:20:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or have a lack of money
Sat 06:20:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "credit"
Sat 06:20:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "credit" means minus
Sat 06:20:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i have cancer"
Sat 06:20:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no
Sat 06:20:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i have credit"
Sat 06:20:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i have EXTRA cells"
Sat 06:21:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "COOL MAN!!"
Sat 06:21:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ extra cells... is that a tumor?
Sat 06:21:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only thing I think you should have is some good rewards credit cards for gas and groceries and stuff.
Sat 06:22:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You might need 3-4 to chase the highest rates there.
Sat 06:22:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And pay them in full every month.
Sat 06:22:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Kate talks to Rose MacDonald, one of Australia's top digital forensic detectives, about domestic violence, intimate-partner abuse, coercive control, smartphones, stalking, spying and much more. What steps can you take if you suspect your phone is being used against you?" https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=41
Sat 06:22:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <MinceR> extra cells... is that a tumor?
Sat 06:22:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You're basically keeping some of the money other people lose by doing dumb things with credit cards.
Sat 06:22:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no, it's american express
Sat 06:22:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "it's not a tumah! it's not a tumah, at all!"
Sat 06:22:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tumourgraPHY!!
Sat 06:23:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: they get addicted
Sat 06:23:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and have no other choices
Sat 06:23:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just worse evils
Sat 06:23:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like payday lenders
Sat 06:27:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Right.
Sat 06:28:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Do dumb things with money and eventually you have to ask them.
Sat 06:28:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it'll be a harsh deal.
Sat 06:28:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eventually they'll see you as a huge risk and the only people you can ask will want 866% interest.
Sat 06:28:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Which is the payday loans.
Sat 06:28:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mom used to go to these all the time, write them bad checks, knowingly.
Sat 06:29:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Waiting until the prosecutor was after her.
Sat 06:29:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And getting my dad to pay it so she wouldn't go to jail for check fraud.
Sat 06:29:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] deferred stress
Sat 06:29:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he did it over a dozen times that I know of.
Sat 06:29:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's like STI/STD
Sat 06:29:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people can be drunk
Sat 06:29:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or just dumb
Sat 06:29:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then she cheated on him, stole part of his pension "invested it" in Gonad the Barbarian's house.
Sat 06:29:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] do bad things
Sat 06:29:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] get preggy
Sat 06:29:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or take huge debt
Sat 06:29:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Reaped the dividends of domestic violence and marital rape.
Sat 06:30:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For 8 years.
Sat 06:30:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and worry about it later
Sat 06:30:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then stepped in it again when she got a divorce.
Sat 06:30:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] marital rape?
Sat 06:30:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you did not mentionj that before
Sat 06:31:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know he beat you up
Sat 06:31:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you were not even his biological son
Sat 06:31:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Ramsey says the average recession is 10 months, the average boom is 57 months, and when a boom goes on that long, eventually a lot of people have stupid ideas and call them smart.
Sat 06:31:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it leads into a bubble and another recession.
Sat 06:31:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ True.
Sat 06:31:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i hope you reported that and he got arrested before he died
Sat 06:31:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He got arrested.
Sat 06:31:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They sent him to anger management.
Sat 06:31:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only thing that really came out of it was I had to live in my car.
Sat 06:32:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In another city.
Sat 06:33:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eventually I got a crappy apartment.
Sat 06:33:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Crappy apartment has been a recurring theme.
Sat 06:33:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Landlords never inveest much in places they don't have to live in themselves.
Sat 06:33:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] your country used to have a space programme
Sat 06:33:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i say used,
Sat 06:33:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] past tense
Sat 06:33:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They see it as wasted money to do much except paint over cracks and spiders and nail holes.
Sat 06:34:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you see where MElon and Bezos and NAS go
Sat 06:34:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (NASA
Sat 06:34:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Rich people amusing themselves.
Sat 06:34:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Blowing up rockets above people's homes.
Sat 06:34:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people in debt
Sat 06:34:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they don't own the home
Sat 06:34:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] BoA owns many
Sat 06:34:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but they allow them
Sat 06:34:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to say,
Sat 06:34:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "my home"
Sat 06:35:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or "homeowner'
Sat 06:35:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the bank's name is on it
Sat 06:35:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Ramsey said what's going on with my landlord.
Sat 06:35:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] apropos
Sat 06:35:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as my dad says
Sat 06:35:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Even a turkey can fly in a tornado."
Sat 06:35:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how come they say GAFAM is worth trillions?
Sat 06:35:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many GAFAM offices are not theirs
Sat 06:35:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He took advantage of loose credit practices to buy a dump, for too much money.
Sat 06:35:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they rent these
Sat 06:35:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they have no assets
Sat 06:35:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And now the economy will die.
Sat 06:35:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] meanwhile banks own trillions in homes
Sat 06:35:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and are "valued" at far less
Sat 06:35:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how does THAT work?
Sat 06:36:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the same people who say openAI, which can only LOSE money, is "worth" this and that
Sat 06:36:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/01/IBM_Says_That_Half_of_Its_Assets_is_Basically_Pure_Fiction_Good.shtml
Sat 06:36:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/25/Microsoft_Claims_Goodwill_Is_an_Asset_Valued_at_119_163_000_000.shtml
Sat 06:36:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Goodwill"
Sat 06:36:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the new curency
Sat 06:36:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bring it to the pawn shop
Sat 06:36:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "sir, me wanna have me house mmkay"?
Sat 06:36:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "tell ya what"
Sat 06:37:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I will give you a million in "Goodwill" mmmkay?"
Sat 06:37:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I want this penthouse for it"
Sat 06:37:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] exchanged for my ""Goodwill"
Sat 06:37:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], There's a bill coming that this guy can't pay.
Sat 06:37:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Ballster.
Sat 06:38:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you said so
Sat 06:38:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i hear it all the time
Sat 06:38:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] will your mom "pray about it"?
Sat 06:38:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Probably.
Sat 06:38:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like mr. t cutting his lifeline?
Sat 06:38:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and her son's?
Sat 06:38:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She's good at praying, not so much the doing part.
Sat 06:38:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who got dragged to vote "t"?
Sat 06:38:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She gives her church $10,000 a year.
Sat 06:39:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Said she wouldn't sign a support affidavit with me to help Mandy.
Sat 06:39:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because she was worried about money.
Sat 06:39:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She makes it sound like she has nothing, then gives her church her entire pension check.
Sat 06:39:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sounds about white
Sat 06:39:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] anyway,
Sat 06:39:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only thing left is Social Security checks and Amazon packages.
Sat 06:39:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Three maxed credit cards.
Sat 06:39:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] since we talk about us and fake money
Sat 06:39:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or the lack of money
Sat 06:39:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like,
Sat 06:39:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And 72 cents in the checking account.
Sat 06:39:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] x in debt
Sat 06:40:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and x divided by 1000000 being billionaires
Sat 06:40:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] which is where the debt sort of comes from (not really)
Sat 06:40:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], She's a major hypocrite.
Sat 06:40:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when do you r eckon mr t lets the economy saf entirely?
Sat 06:40:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we discussed it last night in re your walmart comment
Sat 06:40:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and what would happen if...
Sat 06:40:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] walmart might become insolvent
Sat 06:40:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people buy the cheapest
Sat 06:41:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they do price hikes
Sat 06:41:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they ban rebates
Sat 06:41:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, Walmart should start talking about NFTs again.
Sat 06:41:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they came up qith a new name for it here
Sat 06:41:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not "discoun t"
Sat 06:41:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Remember those are a thing for about 2 seconds there?
Sat 06:41:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "rollback"
Sat 06:41:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i didn't see that yet
Sat 06:41:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i am t old that now they rebrand discounts as "r olllbacks"
Sat 06:41:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart gorged themselves on price hikes.
Sat 06:41:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i wonder why
Sat 06:42:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And now they can't get anyone to bother to shop there.
Sat 06:42:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they lock things and pay police officers.
Sat 06:42:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like a shop in City 17 with the Combine Civil Protection watching you shop.
Sat 06:42:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> And they lock things and pay police officers.
Sat 06:42:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just chatter on the ratio with people with ski masks and guns.
Sat 06:42:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Very foreboding.
Sat 06:42:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Much wow.
Sat 06:42:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in football in some countries the cops now want clubs to pay the cops
Sat 06:42:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as it's not fair for taxpayers to pay some OILigarchs
Sat 06:43:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Hey you! Pick that up!
Sat 06:43:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for their sporting or sportwashing spectacles
Sat 06:43:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Jewel doesn't have cops.
Sat 06:43:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they don't fuck up my orders.
Sat 06:44:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], He's talking about a book.
Sat 06:44:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The 2025 Scholarly Kitchen Readership Survey is Now Open - The Scholarly Kitchen" https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/21/the-2025-scholarly-kitchen-readership-survey-is-now-open/ via iophk
Sat 06:44:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ How the Mighty Fall.
Sat 06:44:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The five stages of decline of a business.
Sat 06:44:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Must remember to read this.
Sat 06:44:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] go ahead
Sat 06:44:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what are those?
Sat 06:45:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i can tell from experience in Sirius
Sat 06:45:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but without outlining
Sat 06:45:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.amazon.com/How-Mighty-Fall-Companies-Never/dp/0977326411
Sat 06:45:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it went like this
Sat 06:45:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1. lose key staff
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover.
Sat 06:45:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2. start stealing from staff
Sat 06:45:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4.
Sat 06:45:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
Sat 06:45:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3. compromise company ethics
Sat 06:45:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 4. take ANY client, even bad ones
Sat 06:46:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 5. lie t o staff, clients, even providers like webhosts
Sat 06:46:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Where would you say Microsoft is. They reached denial of risk and peril a while back.
Sat 06:46:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ With all this stinking money they waste on LLMs and OpenAI.
Sat 06:46:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i will say this om MSFT
Sat 06:46:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in 2025
Sat 06:46:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'd say Walmart is at Stage 4.
Sat 06:46:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they do another buzzword shuffle now
Sat 06:46:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Grasping for Salvation.
Sat 06:46:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3 this week
Sat 06:47:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1. "quantum"
Sat 06:47:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (to distract from 2:
Sat 06:47:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2. "hey hi" in games
Sat 06:47:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart has cops in the stores, admit locking shit up loses sales.
Sat 06:47:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the media pointed out BOTH (1) and (2) DO NOT WORK!!
Sat 06:47:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3. i forgot what it was, i saw it last night
Sat 06:47:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They jacked up the price there's no reason to buy their shitty food.
Sat 06:47:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now they try to attack me using actual criminals
Sat 06:47:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they attack rianne too
Sat 06:47:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i will write about it every day
Sat 06:47:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe for 2 years
Sat 06:47:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can go to the actual store, or even Aldi, and not have armed cops and rotten produce that tastes like nothing.
Sat 06:48:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, 600+ posts possible
Sat 06:48:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even 1000
Sat 06:48:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the numbers are not spoilers
Sat 06:48:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we are also not done with ontario criminal
Sat 06:48:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but much later
Sat 06:48:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So Walmart got exceptionally greedy, chased off legitimate customers, got left with people who steal and smash.
Sat 06:48:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And had to pay armed police to stand there all day. AND private security too.
Sat 06:49:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we had walmart UK
Sat 06:49:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just driving around the parking lot playing with their dicks, so to speak.
Sat 06:49:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also known as ASDA
Sat 06:49:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they receded
Sat 06:49:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Sat 06:49:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 22 074306 < IsambardPrince> MinceR, Hey you! Pick that up!
Sat 06:49:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] t hey still use walmart systems
Sat 06:49:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and have some walmart in the baord
Sat 06:49:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, 2 people
Sat 06:49:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ can't. i'm still looking for the willpower to continue the jankfest that is "on a rail"
Sat 06:49:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and i can tell you that you see the similarity
Sat 06:49:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in HR
Sat 06:49:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not just the computer systems
Sat 06:49:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but t he tactics
Sat 06:49:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re the screwing of customers
Sat 06:49:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, same
Sat 06:49:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] remove the low-price choice
Sat 06:50:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I linked to that before
Sat 06:50:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ASDA did that
Sat 06:50:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] force people to pay more
Sat 06:50:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while the old brands vanish
Sat 06:50:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "end of life"
Sat 06:50:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re staff
Sat 06:50:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] give less commitment
Sat 06:50:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the contract
Sat 06:50:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and get people to fight over hoiurs
Sat 06:50:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] get people to leave
Sat 06:50:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Ramsey says taking stupid risks with money starts with "my job is stable" "I can make the payments with my job."
Sat 06:50:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the RTO/relocation equivalent
Sat 06:50:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Walmart if not RTO
Sat 06:50:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the tactics are similar
Sat 06:50:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead of saving money, they spend everything them sign up for payments on a stupid car or something.
Sat 06:50:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] make the work less pleasant
Sat 06:51:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] do not keep up with inf lation
Sat 06:51:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people get pissed off
Sat 06:51:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "early retirement"
Sat 06:51:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or leave
Sat 06:51:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] get back
Sat 06:51:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lose seniority
Sat 06:51:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "This hubris causes sloppiness and denial of risk."
Sat 06:51:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] start at bottom
Sat 06:51:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lower salary
Sat 06:51:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no contract
Sat 06:51:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a tactic
Sat 06:51:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Been there. Like when I financed a car with John.
Sat 06:51:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Figuring I could get through 5 years of payments, with John.
Sat 06:51:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then no more John.
Sat 06:51:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No more car.
Sat 06:52:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then I had to go buy another clunker after the car got hauled away.
Sat 06:52:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we talked about it yesterday afternoon
Sat 06:52:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re cars
Sat 06:52:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It left me worse off in every way.
Sat 06:52:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] never mind the context
Sat 06:52:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the upshot was,
Sat 06:52:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people take a car on 4 year installment plan
Sat 06:52:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we said 4
Sat 06:52:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because, 500 amonth
Sat 06:53:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 6000 a year
Sat 06:53:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] times 4
Sat 06:53:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] about the cost of an OK car
Sat 06:53:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (maybe "smart")
Sat 06:53:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think cheapest tesla here is about 45k)
Sat 06:53:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they hude the real cost
Sat 06:53:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they do not really own the car
Sat 06:53:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] until 4 years later
Sat 06:53:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when t he car model 20xx is already "5 years behind"
Sat 06:54:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you finally really own the car, if you are lucky
Sat 06:54:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but it's just a garage visit
Sat 06:54:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Don't ever make car payments.
Sat 06:54:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at that age
Sat 06:54:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you keep paying 500 a month
Sat 06:54:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You'll be broke as hell and probably lose the car.
Sat 06:54:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for garage visits
Sat 06:54:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and on and on
Sat 06:54:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so not you have some clunker
Sat 06:54:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "enjoy YOUR car"
Sat 06:54:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *now
Sat 06:54:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i stopped driving
Sat 06:55:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to drive you need to work more
Sat 06:55:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just to pay for the car
Sat 06:55:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some people work for 500 pounds/year
Sat 06:55:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] pay taxes
Sat 06:55:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nhs etc.
Sat 06:55:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] net salary 35k
Sat 06:55:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or 3k a month
Sat 06:55:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a car can be 0.5k
Sat 06:55:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dave Ramsey says "investing in the lottery, or cryptocurrencies, or heaven help us NFTs, will always bring you pain". LOL
Sat 06:55:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rent 1k
Sat 06:55:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so there goes half your salary
Sat 06:55:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] surffice to say:
Sat 06:55:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart sez: We will sell NFTs and take Bitcoins!
Sat 06:55:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1) you are paid 50k a year
Sat 06:56:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That was 5 years ago.
Sat 06:56:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2) you CANNOT cycle to work
Sat 06:56:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's too far
Sat 06:56:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Never happened.
Sat 06:56:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or colleagues would belittle ytou
Sat 06:56:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you need a car to maatch your work status
Sat 06:56:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a "decent" car
Sat 06:56:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so a lot of the time you spend workiong
Sat 06:56:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe up to 60 hours a week
Sat 06:56:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (for salary of 40)
Sat 06:56:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is to pay for the car
Sat 06:56:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that you just use to go to work
Sat 06:57:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then you also spent a third of the salary on rent or mortgage
Sat 06:57:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for the home you barely use
Sat 06:57:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you sleep in it
Sat 06:57:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Car payments are horrible. Just horrible.
Sat 06:57:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's a root canal every month when the payment is due.
Sat 06:57:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] becauee "carl" and "vanet" say stay late, "we have a deadline soon!!"
Sat 06:57:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "we'll reward you with a sabdwich"
Sat 06:57:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they did t his to my sister
Sat 06:58:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they used "sandwich"
Sat 06:58:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] work extra
Sat 06:58:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for a "sandwich"
Sat 06:58:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you cannot say no
Sat 06:58:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they do this in taiwan too
Sat 06:58:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they did that to rianne
Sat 06:58:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] she worked in tech there
Sat 06:58:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the 'free meal'
Sat 06:58:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you can say no
Sat 06:58:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but not really
Sat 06:58:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's like a showing of disloyalty
Sat 06:59:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they will find some excuse/pretext for dismissal
Sat 06:59:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they will not say
Sat 06:59:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, they made me pull doubles and brought in sandwiches.
Sat 06:59:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "she didn't take the f**ing sandwich"
Sat 06:59:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've had that experience before.
Sat 06:59:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Fuck these people.
Sat 06:59:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they might say
Sat 06:59:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "she browsed a youtube page while at work"
Sat 07:00:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] btw
Sat 07:00:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i heard about a GAFAM story
Sat 07:00:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] last month
Sat 07:00:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it went like this
Sat 07:00:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many were leaving
Sat 07:00:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to take smaller salary
Sat 07:00:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to reduce stress
Sat 07:00:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] coyldn't take it anymore
Sat 07:00:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] were cutting their salary in more than half
Sat 07:01:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "just to survive"
Sat 07:01:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one of them was in an office with many colleagues
Sat 07:01:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they made them work extra
Sat 07:01:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for no extra pay
Sat 07:01:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he said,
Sat 07:01:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "look, WHERN IT IS 5 PM THIS PC IS SHUT OFF"
Sat 07:01:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he would say it out loud
Sat 07:01:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not just do it
Sat 07:01:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 5PM?
Sat 07:01:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I AM SHUTTING OFF"
Sat 07:02:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then mumvble something about time with family
Sat 07:02:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i can respect that
Sat 07:02:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Sat 07:02:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this guy will be first in the layoffs line
Sat 07:02:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how dare he work t ill 5 like the contact says?>?
Sat 07:02:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "5?? BYE BYE, shutting down machine"
Sat 07:02:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i like that
Sat 07:03:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] further thought
Sat 07:03:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if society was right and just
Sat 07:03:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we would make machines shut themsleves off
Sat 07:04:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at 5
Sat 07:04:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like Windows Update
Sat 07:04:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then people smartphones too
Sat 07:04:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to prevent people being contacted by anything work related after 5
Sat 07:04:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but this is 2025
Sat 07:04:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it does not work l;ike that anymore
Sat 07:04:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you can get told off for switching off the phone after work
Sat 07:05:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rianne was unhappy when in oct. 2022 sirius wanted to sent us company phone
Sat 07:05:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and we joked that if they did this we'd put it in the garden
Sat 07:05:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we quit weeks later
Sat 07:06:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Following my latest article about running NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/netbsd-running-at-full-resolution-on-my-rpi.html | Source: Nico Cartron
Sat 07:06:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we really should hgave left in 2018
Sat 07:06:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or 2019
Sat 07:06:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but covid-19 happened
Sat 07:06:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so we waited and waited
Sat 07:06:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] working from home seems like a good bargain for a while
Sat 07:06:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while lockdowns went on
Sat 07:07:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in 2023 we publish many articles
Sat 07:07:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so the microsofters decided to harass more and more
Sat 07:07:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and now actual criminals from microsoft have a go
Sat 07:07:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it will NOT end well for them
Sat 07:07:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] dumb dumb dumb
Sat 07:07:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you seed stupidity, you will sow/reap desperation, IsambardPrince (Ramsey)
Sat 07:08:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you asked about phases in MSFT
Sat 07:08:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now it is desperation
Sat 07:08:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] basically using criminals as attack dogs
Sat 07:08:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NetBSD on Raspberry Pi!" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/netbsd-on-raspberry-pi.html | Source: Nico Cartron
Sat 07:08:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ZFS has proven itself to be a reliable and trustworthy filesystem over many years of use. Its RAID-Z level, an advanced form of RAID-5" ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-expansion-a-new-era-in-storage-flexibility/ | Source: FreeBSD
Sat 07:09:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] anyway, time for links (I offloaded the above as it seems relevant to tech and the position many in tech in 2025 are in)
Sat 07:09:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (t here are worse i heard of... like 80 hours a week)
Sat 07:09:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Office Space was 1990s
Sat 07:09:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it covered the y2k bug fixing
Sat 07:10:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the main character
Sat 07:10:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 90s were a good time to be in "IT"
Sat 07:10:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] anything after that was progressivelt getting worse
Sat 07:10:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we moved from "napster" to DRM
Sat 07:10:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and from Netscape to TPMs
Sat 07:10:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over a month after the previous Alpha 5, System76 officially unveiled COSMIC Alpha 6, the latest sneak peek at its upcoming Rust-based new desktop environment, focused on fine-tuning user experiences before the much-anticipated beta launch." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-alpha-6-released/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sat 07:28:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], My mother is utterly broke.
Sat 07:28:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Less than $1 in checking.
Sat 07:28:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Gives her whole pension to some church.
Sat 07:28:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And says they "might have come after her money" if she helped me with Mandy, who has never taken anything.
Sat 07:29:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The obligation would end either after he worked for 10 years or was a US citizen.
Sat 07:29:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Whichever came first.
Sat 07:29:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's a US citizen.
Sat 07:29:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got it done without her.
Sat 07:29:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So there's only three things that could really be going on here in my mind, they're not exclusive.
Sat 07:30:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 1. She is being bigoted. Racist, views him as an immigrant parasite, which is common among Trump voters. Homophobic, sees gay men as revolting/sinful, common among Christians, and even just garden variety Nazis with an engineering degree like Dad.
Sat 07:31:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (Dad is worse. I didn't even ask Dad. He doesn't even obscure it.)
Sat 07:31:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 2. She doesn't REALLY like me that much and doesn't want me to be happy. She's miserable and misery loves company.
Sat 07:32:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 3. She really is so brainwashed by this cult, as evidenced by the massive and horrifying (compared with her income) amount she gives to it, roughly $10,000 a year, her entire private pension check, that she has prioritized them in front of her own family.
Sat 07:33:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I happen to think it's probably all of that.
Sat 07:33:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just mix it up, you got chocolate in my peanut butter, no you got peanut butter in my chocolate.
Sat 07:33:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ However you want to put it.
Sat 07:34:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nazi ideology, hates her son (even if she won't come out and say it) and wants him to fail at everything and be miserable), and brainwashed by a cult into giving them $10,000 a year when she knows Mandy wouldn't have ever cost her a single penny.
Sat 07:36:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'd be living in a box before my parents would do anything for me, so I don't dare risk being as reckless as she is with money. I learned a hard lesson with John and where he left me. Destitute and over $100,000 in current debt. It took a gut punch to get out of that. I would have never been able to pay it off myself, I got rid of it in the most destructive (to your credit) way possible.
Sat 07:37:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And so I have to be very cognizant of avoiding "consumption". Because if I become a "consooooomer" again then this whole lesson could repeat itself and I'm out living in a tent behind the Citgo and burning sticks for warmth like the people I drive past in the mornings.
Sat 07:38:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], My mother is utterly broke.
Sat 07:38:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you said this days ago
Sat 07:39:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lastly, if you simply want to test how the new images behave, Gentoo recommends using the “no root password” image with QEMU." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-makes-qemu-cloud-deployment-easier/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sat 07:39:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Bury the past. Kill it if you have to." -Kylo Ren
Sat 07:39:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Sat 07:39:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not great movies, but a good line.
Sat 07:40:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Normally, I try to avoid Internet drama, so to speak, but something rather interesting caught my eye this week." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-flathub-story.html | Source: Dedoimedo
Sat 07:40:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> "Bury the past. Kill it if you have to." -Kylo Ren
Sat 07:40:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you impregnated many women, become a woman
Sat 07:41:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When it comes to hacking on the go, makers are quick to use our favorite SBC—the Raspberry Pi — to make their ideal rig." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/dual-raspberry-pi-picos-power-this-portable-mini-pc | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sat 07:41:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is someone merely mentioned that you impregnated many women, report it as a "hate crime"
Sat 07:41:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I think Brandon Lobster watched Zardoz while he was stoned and gone weed crazy. Took "The penis is evil." part too literally.
Sat 07:41:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also:
Sat 07:41:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] strangle women
Sat 07:41:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if someone mentions it
Sat 07:42:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, ^
Sat 07:42:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that you strangle women
Sat 07:42:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] make extortionate threats
Sat 07:42:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (that's microsofT)
Sat 07:42:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Before_Trying_Censorship_by_Extortion_the_Serial_Strangler_From.shtml
Sat 07:43:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He testified openly that he went crazy from smoking weed.
Sat 07:43:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And believed that the police were out to get him.
Sat 07:43:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Lobsta
Sat 07:43:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That was the gist of it.
Sat 07:44:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's gona moon mad!
Sat 07:44:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :P
Sat 07:44:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No wait, that was MoonMoon.
Sat 07:44:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He/Him/Awoo
Sat 07:44:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (Not creepy at all.)
Sat 07:45:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Anime is great, usually.
Sat 07:45:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Unfortunately a lot of the people it attracts are weird.
Sat 07:46:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Lives in the basement, doesn't take baths, tells himself I feel pretty oh so pretty while he applies lipstick.
Sat 07:46:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Reefer madness.
Sat 07:47:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I cannot possibly be related to my mother, but my birth certificate says I am.
Sat 07:47:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Her mother is crazier, and that's an achievement.
Sat 07:48:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Always has been crazier, but 20 years of living on toaster strudles and not taking her insulin made it much worse than it had to be.
Sat 07:48:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The body lives.
Sat 07:48:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "However, if attackers control the input" ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/21/dont-recurse-on-untrusted-input/ | Source: Trail of Bits
Sat 07:48:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ On a good day it can remember to ask my cousin to bring the baby to see her.
Sat 07:48:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She remembers she's always liked babies, but when they grow up she stops liking them.
Sat 07:49:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This one won't have to experience that, at least.
Sat 07:49:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sometimes the cycle is like this
Sat 07:49:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "he's kind of cute"
Sat 07:49:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i like him"
Sat 07:49:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "he got me preggy"
Sat 07:49:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "ok, babies are cute"
Sat 07:50:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "this guy is not "RK" (rich kid)
Sat 07:50:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the kid grows up
Sat 07:50:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they get bored of it
Sat 07:50:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they maake another baby
Sat 07:50:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then that one too grows up
Sat 07:50:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and debt piles up
Sat 07:50:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] etc etc.
Sat 07:50:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wash, repeat
Sat 07:50:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], My maternal grandmother wwas a very good man.
Sat 07:50:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] father?
Sat 07:50:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Possibly the only one in the past two generations of my direct ancestors.
Sat 07:51:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or mother?
Sat 07:51:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ mom's dad
Sat 07:51:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] typo there
Sat 07:51:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so grandfather
Sat 07:51:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *grandfather
Sat 07:51:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ herp
Sat 07:51:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ yeah, yeah
Sat 07:51:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's the older generatipn
Sat 07:51:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lost generation and boomers
Sat 07:52:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Very down to Earth. Good with tools, fixing stuff. Smart guy. Went to church. Had some class. The Great Depression humbled him. But he tolerated his wife, for many years.
Sat 07:52:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He once said "That woman could spend everything if I had six jobs."
Sat 07:52:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Version 0.110 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250221144551 | Source: Undeadly
Sat 07:52:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is where CxxWrap.jl comes into play." ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/bridging-julia-and-c-with-cxxwrap.jl | Source: Julia Programming Language
Sat 07:52:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At one point he worked for General Motors, was a salesman for a coffee company, and made and sold pizzas to people he worked with, all at once.
Sat 07:52:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Much of the building was demolished and rebuilt soon after we vacated." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2502-empty-office-spaces/ | Source: Heliomass
Sat 07:52:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ To support his family and my grandmother's dumb shopping.
Sat 07:53:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> Very down to Earth. Good with tools, fixing stuff. Smart guy. Went to church. Had some class. The Great Depression humbled him. But he tolerated his wife, for many years.
Sat 07:53:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] did you know him in person?
Sat 07:53:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or just accounts from other people's memories?
Sat 07:53:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She's a real spendthrift. Mom took after that.
Sat 07:53:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], He didn't die until I was nearly 15.
Sat 07:53:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I remember him pretty well.
Sat 07:53:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you knew him as a kid
Sat 07:53:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not as adult
Sat 07:53:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes.
Sat 07:53:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and he didn't live long
Sat 07:54:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Cancer.
Sat 07:54:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he killed himself for the madame
Sat 07:54:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Lots of people at the funeral.
Sat 07:54:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] smoker?
Sat 07:54:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Filled a church. A big church.
Sat 07:54:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employs about 12,000 staffers around the world" ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/400770/noaa-doge-musk-trump-weather-cuts | Source: Vox
Sat 07:54:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mom says he smoked for a few years, but nothing heavy. He quit because he was furious that they raised the price to 50 cents a pack iirc.
Sat 07:55:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he just said no more of it and neither of them smoked after that.
Sat 07:55:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe he smoked due to stress
Sat 07:55:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] very common
Sat 07:55:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Probably.
Sat 07:55:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] stress due to work
Sat 07:55:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i hear it all the time
Sat 07:55:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] vices
Sat 07:55:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there are other vices
Sat 07:55:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they kill people
Sat 07:55:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and t hey do not at tribute it to work-related stress
Sat 07:55:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] stress kills mostly indirectly
Sat 07:56:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it leads to lack of exercise
Sat 07:56:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was something wrong with his mother and she couldn't nurse him.
Sat 07:56:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bad diet
Sat 07:56:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] addictions
Sat 07:56:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No formula in the 1920s.
Sat 07:56:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] gambling etc.
Sat 07:56:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they used goat's milk.
Sat 07:56:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people whose lose is stress-free don't need "a fag"
Sat 07:56:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Wow, he would have been 100 this year.
Sat 07:56:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Later this year.
Sat 07:57:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] my grandpa's brothers could make 1009
Sat 07:57:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *100
Sat 07:57:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he died last year or 2023
Sat 07:57:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because he had enough
Sat 07:57:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] didn't want to extend his life
Sat 07:57:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] saw no point
Sat 07:57:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I think I take some after him.
Sat 07:57:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] his eyesight wasn't so good anymore
Sat 07:57:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not everything. Too much dilution.
Sat 07:57:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've been told that I bear a strong resemblence to him when he was younger.
Sat 07:58:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I dress modestly. Overalls usually.
Sat 07:58:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he was also a friend of https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/25/rip-harvey/
Sat 07:58:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I went out of my mind and let grandma take over when I was with John.
Sat 07:58:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Overalls cna be practical
Sat 07:58:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in a workplace
Sat 07:58:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm buying this because I'm me.
Sat 07:58:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Buy now, pay later.
Sat 07:58:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many workplaces used to default to overalls
Sat 07:58:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now it's assocoiated with low class
Sat 07:58:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The horrors that unfolded made me go back to acting more like grandpa.
Sat 07:58:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like pants hanging loose
Sat 07:58:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's crime"
Sat 07:58:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or hoodie
Sat 07:59:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rib shirts are "wife beater"
Sat 07:59:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or so my g/f told me 20+ years ago
Sat 07:59:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My grandfather wouldn't have approved if I said to him I financed a car.
Sat 07:59:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I financed a car."
Sat 07:59:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's not in his vocabulary
Sat 07:59:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He would have financed a car, after my grandmother screamed at him, slapped him around a bit, and utterly wore him down.
Sat 07:59:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's more like rental
Sat 08:00:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] than "finance a car."
Sat 08:00:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then he'd get to suffer for it while she drove it.
Sat 08:00:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] think about what actually happens
Sat 08:00:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And pick up another job.
Sat 08:00:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when you stop paying
Sat 08:00:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many mortgages are also rent in a trenchcoat
Sat 08:00:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], My grandmother is basicclly a lot like MARISOL.
Sat 08:00:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the landlord is some big bank
Sat 08:00:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So when I encountered MARISOL I was like "I know this music."
Sat 08:01:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sometimes you wonder how banks make money
Sat 08:01:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then you realise,
Sat 08:01:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "oh wait"
Sat 08:01:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They both have a serious keeping up with the Joneses mentality.
Sat 08:01:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "they keep trying to sell me mortgages"
Sat 08:01:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They both want things they can't afford, in abundance.
Sat 08:01:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they garnish and take over a portion of most people's salaries"
Sat 08:01:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while closing branches
Sat 08:01:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to lower costs
Sat 08:01:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They both have horrible tempers and emotional outbursts.
Sat 08:01:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so people pay them each month
Sat 08:01:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] download some "app"
Sat 08:01:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and the landlord is an "app"
Sat 08:01:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you need to fix THEIR home
Sat 08:02:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to insure THEIR home
Sat 08:02:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (you must)
Sat 08:02:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and pretend it'll be yours by age 67
Sat 08:02:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "it's not compatible with the original 2D game" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/among-us-3d-announced-supporting-cross-play-with-among-us-vr/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:02:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My grandpa died at 73.
Sat 08:02:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for February 21st, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/what-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-february-21st-edition-plenty-for-steam-deck-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:03:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] germany's life expectancy for males is over 80
Sat 08:03:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you're supposed to own it and then die so the government can steal it and sell it, or the bank can take it back and sell it.
Sat 08:03:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or used to be
Sat 08:03:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] b ut that's another gewneration
Sat 08:03:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and may be worse after covid-19
Sat 08:03:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Pay. Pay. Pay. So they can steal it and sell it to someone else.
Sat 08:03:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Either the government or the fucking banks.
Sat 08:03:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] judging by ancestors, i can make it to my 90s
Sat 08:03:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Useless parasites.
Sat 08:03:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if i can keep out of stress
Sat 08:04:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], One of Mandy's online friends killed himself.
Sat 08:04:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] unless putler nukes us with his neighbour to the "east" (alaska)(
Sat 08:04:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Chemotherapy. Just wasn't going well apparently.
Sat 08:04:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> So you're supposed to own it and then die so the government can steal it and sell it, or the bank can take it back and sell it.
Sat 08:04:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "sell"
Sat 08:04:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as a mortgage
Sat 08:04:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to the next fool to rob
Sat 08:04:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeppers.
Sat 08:04:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] :)
Sat 08:04:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2 adults working
Sat 08:04:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to pay the mortgage for 20 years
Sat 08:04:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not 30
Sat 08:05:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after 20 yerars they let go
Sat 08:05:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and the home goes 'back'
Sat 08:05:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to the bank
Sat 08:05:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] scare quotes
Sat 08:05:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, almost happened to mark and marisol in 2014
Sat 08:05:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was ALWAYTS the 'bank'
Sat 08:05:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] let people live in hopes
Sat 08:05:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ the credit card people came for them too.
Sat 08:05:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 78% live paycheck to paycheck
Sat 08:05:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] us
Sat 08:05:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ?
Sat 08:05:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] acc. to ramsey?
Sat 08:06:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Those two degenerates next door listening to monkey music real loud, smoking weed, and fucking, are "normal" in this country.
Sat 08:06:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yeah.
Sat 08:07:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Unlike them or Lobsta I have plans to do something other than get high, masturbate (however you do that with no dick I guess), and eat cheetos.
Sat 08:07:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Sat 08:07:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], He's talking about some people and their debts.
Sat 08:08:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This example had $5,000 on some credit cards;
Sat 08:08:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ NOPE NOPE NOPE
Sat 08:08:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You kill that credit card debt if you can't kill anything else.
Sat 08:08:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Your car is probably 4-6%. Your house is probably 3-6% depending on when you got it.
Sat 08:08:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Those credit cards are like 23-40%.
Sat 08:08:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not as much money, but it's at very high interest.
Sat 08:09:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the woman got laid off.
Sat 08:10:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ After racking up a huge home loan, a car loan, and credit cards.
Sat 08:10:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The house and car "went back".
Sat 08:10:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They went bankrupt.
Sat 08:11:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], He's talking about some people and their debts.
Sat 08:11:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so that's 4 out of 5
Sat 08:11:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more or less
Sat 08:11:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Most of the makeovers I've seen have had life smack them so hard, that they got the denial smacked right out of them.
Sat 08:11:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LOL
Sat 08:11:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Me.
Sat 08:11:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ACTION preparing breakfast for both of us
Sat 08:12:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For people who enjoy seeing improvements for emulation on Linux, and for Wayland support - the Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 has now enabled support for it by default" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/playstation-2-emulator-pcsx2-enables-wayland-by-default/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:13:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Denial knocked right out of me.
Sat 08:13:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Playtron, the company attempting to build a Linux gaming distribution to take on Valve, Microsoft and others have released GameOS Alpha 3 with a bunch of new features" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/playtron-gameos-alpha-3-brings-the-gamelab-tool-for-game-configuration-and-remote-management/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:13:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: you mean,
Sat 08:13:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you got trapped
Sat 08:13:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then denied you had fallen into one?
Sat 08:14:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The update simply called "Content" brings a whole lot of extras to Lucky Tower Ultimate, my current favourite dungeon crawler that keeps on making me laugh" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/my-favourite-comedy-dungeon-crawler-lucky-tower-ultimate-just-got-a-big-content-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:16:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yeah.
Sat 08:17:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's dangerous when you think you're doing okay.
Sat 08:17:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you're really not.
Sat 08:17:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lol, there is some mammal outside
Sat 08:17:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] running
Sat 08:17:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You're making financial decisions you can't back up.
Sat 08:17:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not sure it's a rat
Sat 08:17:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] probably climbed on some fence
Sat 08:17:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You're living with someone that is not reliable, trustworthy, or mature.
Sat 08:17:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I loaded up my credit cards and had a car payment, while living with John.
Sat 08:17:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The community made and supported OpenRazer driver has a new v3.10 release available now, further expanding Razer hardware capabilities on Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/openrazer-v3-10-brings-support-for-razer-basilisk-v3-35k-and-more-on-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:18:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That was some dumb fucking shit.
Sat 08:18:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] john salinas the giant dildo man?
Sat 08:18:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every month I paid the cards, and the car.
Sat 08:18:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Had nothing left.
Sat 08:18:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ NOTHING
Sat 08:18:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] except some korean car
Sat 08:18:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] de facto rented
Sat 08:18:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] till it got broken into
Sat 08:18:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was using exactly what was coming in to pay off stuff I already bought.
Sat 08:18:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] which is, i guess, the on;ly "happy ending"
Sat 08:18:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, John got a massive dildo.
Sat 08:18:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not actually owning the darn thing
Sat 08:19:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he stuck it onto the wall in his room on that lake house.
Sat 08:19:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, your mom saw it
Sat 08:19:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you would hear him in there with it.
Sat 08:19:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because that immature idiot is that dumb
Sat 08:19:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No, she heard him.
Sat 08:19:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Oh it was nasty in his room.
Sat 08:19:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was that thing on the wall.
Sat 08:19:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He came all over his bedsheets and never washed them.
Sat 08:19:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ok, change suybject
Sat 08:19:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Garbage all over the floor.
Sat 08:19:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] TSA
Sat 08:20:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle just got a major update with some fancy new features, but it seems like it's now broken on Linux with AMD GPUs using Mesa like Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-gets-dlss-4-and-fsr-3-1-but-breaks-on-steam-deck-linux-with-mesa/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Sat 08:20:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yes, he worked at TSA.
Sat 08:20:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] vroom vroom motherdildo
Sat 08:20:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ By the time he was boasting that he liked feeling up teenage boys, it was too late.
Sat 08:20:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I already had that car and it was in both of our names.
Sat 08:20:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And I just pretended I did not hear that because I didn't want to unwind that mess.
Sat 08:20:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it ended up being a bigger mess than I could have imagined.
Sat 08:21:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Ramsey quotes the bible.
Sat 08:21:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Do not be fooled, bad company destroys good morals.
Sat 08:21:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You turn into the people you hang out with, kind of. Not the part about liking teenagers like John did, but I picked up his bad financial habits.
Sat 08:21:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ All of the bad financial habits.
Sat 08:22:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You hang out with bad people, you start slowly becoming them.
Sat 08:23:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Ideas that are corrupt, filthy, perverted, evil, disgusting, dishonest, and wrong.
Sat 08:23:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They start breaking down your defenses, like an acid.
Sat 08:23:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They start replacing your values.
Sat 08:23:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eventually you need a clean break, but it's going to hurt.
Sat 08:23:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that's what I got.
Sat 08:24:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "10 Years on After 'Data and Goliath' Warned of Data Collection" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/20/1255237
Sat 08:24:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Crossroads" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crossroads
Sat 08:24:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got it all ripped out of me.
Sat 08:28:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I fell into a deep funk and you know, a manic episode in the interim, after I had to move out while he was at work and go into hiding.
Sat 08:29:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Six figures in debt, facing false charges. You know. I didn't know if there was a way back from that. It turned out there was, but it was just going to take a lot of work. But it seemed for a while, a few weeks maybe, like I'd be better off walking in front of a train or something. I had all kinds of plans about how I'd do it.
Sat 08:29:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then I decided that I was too angry to be depressed.
Sat 08:31:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's so obvious, right. They stopped reporting on Metra suicides because they didn't want copycats.
Sat 08:31:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But we have them constantly.
Sat 08:31:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hundreds a year.
Sat 08:31:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One of Metra's CEOs did it.
Sat 08:31:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They caught him embezzling from the RTA and he went and walked in front of a commuter train.
Sat 08:33:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not particularly clever, right, but like what weighs a million tons and goes 80 miles an hour?
Sat 08:33:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They focus on removing guns and stuff, so people do this.
Sat 08:33:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Sort of like Japan.
Sat 08:34:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Japan does glass doors on the subways and commuter train platforms.
Sat 08:34:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like some sort of suicide sneeze-guard.
Sat 08:35:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People will do anything other than fix their diseased society and social problems so less people even want to do this.
Sat 08:36:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We need to fix unemployment and provide people with therapy. There's a radical idea.
Sat 08:36:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead we get Elon with a chainsaw. Firing half a million people. There will be suicides.
Sat 08:39:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "It's said that if you tell a lie often enough, loudly enough, for long enough, myth will be accepted as fact. Entire populations have been lulled into the approval of ghastly deeds and even participation in them by gradually moving from the truth to a lie."
Sat 08:40:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This is part of what exploded and took out the chances of Biden or Harris being in office right now.
Sat 08:40:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They tried to present men as women, as if it were a fact, in front of a horrified nation where only 14% approved of it.
Sat 08:40:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And now they're not talking so loudly about trans issues anymore.
Sat 08:40:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because they know it's why they lost.
Sat 08:41:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't take that San Francisco or Portland trash and parade it around a Centrist country without a violent reaction, politically.
Sat 08:42:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not now, probably not ever.
Sat 08:42:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Good politics means you learn to compromise.
Sat 08:42:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Bill Clinton moved too quickly on gays in the military, it almost ended him.
Sat 08:43:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He walked it back as Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and quietly planted some seeds.
Sat 08:43:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Being gay no longer meant you lost security clearances.
Sat 08:43:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Judges would come back 20 years later and throw out DOMA and the state marriage ban laws.
Sat 08:44:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 1996 was not the right time to be agitating for that. And if Bill Clinton did gay rights in 1996 like Joe Biden did tranny stuff in the early 2020s, there would have been no second Clinton Administration.
Sat 08:44:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So being a good politician, he limited the damage, and planted seeds.
Sat 08:46:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In all of Clinton's interviews, when people ask why he signed DOMA and why he did all this stuff, he says "It would have been worse if I hadn't."
Sat 08:46:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were pushing to pass a Constitutional amendment. To ban it forever. It would have passed and it would have never been disposed of.
Sat 08:46:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he signed DOMA, and planted seeds (the judges to overturn it).
Sat 08:52:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] back from breakfast
Sat 08:53:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] > <IsambardPrince> Six figures in debt, facing false charges.
Sat 08:53:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there are worse
Sat 08:53:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like people who lost their home
Sat 08:53:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] which they never owned
Sat 08:53:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then tried to blame some person
Sat 08:53:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in another country
Sat 08:53:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after abusing that person
Sat 08:54:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for over a decade
Sat 08:54:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then getting sued :-)
Sat 08:54:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the UK
Sat 08:54:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he didn't see that coming!
Sat 08:54:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Gangster Party - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/gangster-party
Sat 08:55:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Running a Public Static Website from a Raspberry Pi" https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/02/21/running-a-public-static-website-from-a-raspberry-pi/ (blocked by gratuitous javascript)
Sat 08:56:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "CHEETO Is Helping Airlines Reduce Payouts for Flight Mishaps" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/trump-airlines-luggage-overbooking-compensation/
Sat 08:56:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Plaintiff Statements: U.S. District Court Denies Request for Injunction by USAID Employees" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/plaintiff-statements-u-s-district-court-denies-request-for-injunction-by-usaid-employees
Sat 08:57:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: who is really in control there? https://ljpuk.net/2025/02/20/apple-music-adding-random-songs-to-my-library-again/ ("Apple Music adding random songs to my library again")
Sat 08:58:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I did Nazi that coming. Nyuck nyuck nyuck!" -MElon
Sat 09:02:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he promotes the nazis in germany
Sat 09:02:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] driven by resentment
Sat 09:02:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and trying to ruin europe
Sat 09:02:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/25/elon-musk-reportedly-regular-contact-vladimir-putin/
Sat 09:02:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://fortune.com/2022/03/26/elon-musk-says-hes-probably-not-richest-man-in-the-world-putin-significantly-richer-than-me/
Sat 09:02:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] us is finished to many people
Sat 09:02:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even to some usians
Sat 09:02:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] those who could leave left
Sat 09:03:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some think about it
Sat 09:03:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the world does not want them
Sat 09:03:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] esp. now
Sat 09:03:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are like russian refugees
Sat 09:03:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] which is not better than syrians
Sat 09:03:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are unwanted for different reasons
Sat 09:03:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but both not wanted
Sat 09:03:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not trusted
Sat 09:03:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one can become russian spy
Sat 09:03:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] t he other might run over people in a xmas market
Sat 09:03:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] both undesirable
Sat 09:05:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The US is a magnet for most of the world's population.
Sat 09:05:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This is true.
Sat 09:05:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It is also true that...
Sat 09:05:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This week's surveillance news | "Veckans övervakningsnyheter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/02/21/veckans-overvakningsnyheter/
Sat 09:05:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of the world's population is illiterate, starving, violent, and diseased. One or more of those.
Sat 09:06:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The reason the UK isn't a huge magnet is because they don't give citizenship to any run down asshole who comes there with a sob story.
Sat 09:06:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They put you in chains and send you right back, like Trump is doing.
Sat 09:06:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have the same birthright citizenship policy Trump wants.
Sat 09:06:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If the person who birthed you does not have some meaningful ties to the UK like permanent abode rights or citizenship, you do not get anything.
Sat 09:06:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Since like 1982 I think.
Sat 09:08:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Donald Trump deported 37,660 migrants in his first month, falls short of Biden’s average" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/donald-trump-deported-37-660-migrants-in-his-first-month-falls-short-of-joe-biden-s-average-101740169756834.html
Sat 09:08:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Korea, Saudi Arabia forge partnership to boost film industry" https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/02/689_392736.html
Sat 09:10:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I don't support the end of birthright citizenship.
Sat 09:10:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't even want to limit it much, or any.
Sat 09:10:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's wrong to punish children.
Sat 09:10:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And people would keep having them anyway.
Sat 09:11:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Something being a stupid idea that will not lead to good results doesn't stop anyone. It gets smart people sometimes.
Sat 09:11:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It gets uneducated people more often.
Sat 09:11:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So we'd have a worse problem.
Sat 09:12:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We need to focus on keeping them from getting here, and removing them quickly once we find them here anyway.
Sat 09:13:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The first step is mostly achieved if you believe the administration.
Sat 09:13:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People apprehended at the border and "gotaways" are down to about 10% of what they were late last year.
Sat 09:14:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They know we're not going to give them anything and if they make it over the border and don't get inspected, it means expedited removal.
Sat 09:14:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] back to tech,
Sat 09:14:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> Instead we get Elon with a chainsaw. Firing half a million people. There will be suicides.
Sat 09:14:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now talking about penises
Sat 09:14:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump expanding expedited removal to two years means if you were inspected, you need to hide until it's been at least two years since they took biometrics, or they can get rid of you without immigration court.
Sat 09:14:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] apparently
Sat 09:14:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a lot
Sat 09:15:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some very emntally damaged people
Sat 09:15:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like scam altman
Sat 09:15:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who according to his sister did incest
Sat 09:15:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] are running your admin
Sat 09:15:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also trump, esptein's friend
Sat 09:15:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like, wth?
Sat 09:15:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you let the worst float to the surface
Sat 09:15:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and now they govern the nation
Sat 09:15:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] firing scientists
Sat 09:15:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and giving bailouts to scams
Sat 09:15:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women
Sat 09:16:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then you wonder why they arrest doctors
Sat 09:16:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for merely giving abortion pills and such
Sat 09:16:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i would not set my foot in the us again
Sat 09:16:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] have not since 2006
Sat 09:16:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because i had to present at a conference in arlington
Sat 09:16:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as part of my phd
Sat 09:17:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it never occurred to me since to visit there
Sat 09:17:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not even thinking about the possibility since then
Sat 09:17:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even by 2006 it was getting quite grim
Sat 09:17:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] before the 2007/8 crash
Sat 09:19:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The single user mode is particularly useful when you need to reset the root password, fix misconfigured settings, repair a damaged file system" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/almalinux-single-user-mode/ | Source: TecMint
Sat 09:20:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i don't understand why linus went there
Sat 09:20:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] chasing money
Sat 09:20:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in some dying chip company
Sat 09:20:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Among Us 3D, Playstation, OpenRazer, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/22/Games_Among_Us_3D_Playstation_OpenRazer_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/22/Games_Among_Us_3D_Playstation_OpenRazer_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 09:20:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for what?
Sat 09:20:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then outsourced to oregon
Sat 09:20:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then SF
Sat 09:20:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for money
Sat 09:20:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and gulagboy ran there too
Sat 09:20:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] too arrogant to realise what was coming
Sat 09:21:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and now licking his wounds with muddy water in some woods
Sat 09:21:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while exploring how to get back to the uk, fiind an actual real job, and get his weirdo partner some life and steroids
Sat 09:21:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (steroids are expensive in the uk)
Sat 09:22:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I've been banned from a lot of forums. One thing that gets me banned a lot is saying don't co-sign a loan for anyone.
Sat 09:22:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The banks are foaming at the mouth to lend money, and they are alarmingly accurate at knowing who will probably default.
Sat 09:22:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] right
Sat 09:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i am not in debt"
Sat 09:22:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They know your friend or relative is a disaster waiting for a place to happen.
Sat 09:22:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "i HAVE debt"
Sat 09:22:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bussinesses are like this too
Sat 09:22:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they told them to get a co-signer.
Sat 09:22:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You will pay this loan.
Sat 09:23:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/15/Microsoft_Has_Only_17_482_Million_Left_Cash_on_Hand_Sank_40_Bil.shtml
Sat 09:23:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Spitz Plus GL-X2000 is a 4G LTE Wi-Fi 6 router designed to deliver reliable connectivity for remote work, travel, and rural internet access." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-spitz-plus-gl-x2000-is-an-upcoming-wi-fi-6-and-4g-lte-cat-12-router/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Sat 09:24:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A co-sign requirement means a bank isn't going to take a risk at any interest rate.
Sat 09:24:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they're totally good for it, they tell you.
Sat 09:26:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I hope my mother needs a co-signer some day.
Sat 09:26:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I'd love to help you, you know I would, but I just can't risk them coming after me."
Sat 09:26:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In a very sarcastic and mocking tone of voice.
Sat 09:27:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is this a US thing?
Sat 09:27:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] cosign?
Sat 09:27:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what does this mean
Sat 09:27:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] another party adds up as "collateral"?
Sat 09:27:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Basically, you have to pay the debt instead of them if they fuck the bank on the loan.
Sat 09:27:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ YES
Sat 09:27:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and if so, what's to be gained?
Sat 09:27:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that you make it easier to get the loan?
Sat 09:27:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The bank may approve THEM for THEIR car.
Sat 09:28:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes.
Sat 09:28:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] weird
Sat 09:28:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so one party gets the risk
Sat 09:28:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and no benefit
Sat 09:28:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] why sign
Sat 09:28:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ?
Sat 09:28:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] haha, maybe marison can forge mandy's sig again
Sat 09:28:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you either gtfo and stop bothering the loan officer or come back with someone you've guilt tripped and is stupid enough to do it.
Sat 09:28:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and add him as co-signer
Sat 09:29:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "loan officer"
Sat 09:29:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Stallone?
Sat 09:29:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "leave me Stallone!!"
Sat 09:29:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I put fraud alerts on Mandy's credit reports and froze them.
Sat 09:29:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She can't even do an inquiry now.
Sat 09:29:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MARISOL can't.
Sat 09:29:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] mark canb
Sat 09:29:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can
Sat 09:30:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If she managed to, it would demand ID.
Sat 09:30:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or her kids
Sat 09:30:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when they grow up to 18+
Sat 09:30:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] she also signs for mark
Sat 09:30:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] she can fake two-way
Sat 09:30:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't pull a credit report that's frozen.
Sat 09:30:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No pull, no loan.
Sat 09:30:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Sat 09:30:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] mark getting a loan without knowing it
Sat 09:30:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] cosigned by mandy who does not know it
Sat 09:30:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "art of the deal"
Sat 09:30:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] narcissist fromm tondo
Sat 09:31:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She can't prove she's him, she can't get the reports unfrozen without the PIN.
Sat 09:31:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I also got IP PINs from the IRS for both of us.
Sat 09:31:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't file a tax return without those PINs.
Sat 09:31:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I also suppressed his LexisNexis report and froze it.
Sat 09:32:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So there won't be more insurance policies.
Sat 09:32:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And if she managed to piss me off badly enough, well.
Sat 09:32:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] p,s explain to me LexisNexis
Sat 09:32:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i keep hearing about it
Sat 09:32:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sometimes in re patents
Sat 09:32:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sometimes jobs
Sat 09:32:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They are "risk solutions".
Sat 09:32:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or loans
Sat 09:32:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] LexisNexis is profiling people right?
Sat 09:32:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're a consumer reporting agency.
Sat 09:32:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes,
Sat 09:32:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Credit bureau.
Sat 09:32:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like a private "data broker"
Sat 09:32:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with scores for people
Sat 09:32:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But caters to car insurance, life insurance, etc.
Sat 09:33:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some banks use it.
Sat 09:33:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] LexisNexis is the private "CPP credit score"
Sat 09:33:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ With a frozen report, you can open a bank account, but only with ID.
Sat 09:33:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when china does it it's eveil
Sat 09:33:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] us makes a business out of it
Sat 09:33:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like "LexisNexis"
Sat 09:33:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some person gets rich
Sat 09:33:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] charges a lot for access to scores
Sat 09:33:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and the public pays the fat cat
Sat 09:33:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] china does this at a gov level
Sat 09:33:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it's more evil apparently
Sat 09:34:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, gulagboy had serius issues with LexisNexis
Sat 09:34:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and stupidly he talked about it in social control media
Sat 09:34:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as if to say
Sat 09:34:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "hey, i have TB"
Sat 09:34:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "hey, LexisNexis does not like me"
Sat 09:34:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] why would people say that in public?
Sat 09:34:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] draunl
Sat 09:34:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *drunk
Sat 09:34:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] very basic common sense
Sat 09:34:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you have TB
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