protocols of the elders of zion

That’s fake.

LARP group

If you read up on what forces Italy and France fund in North Africa do to migrants, you’ll think that LARPing the “protocols” wouldn’t make it much worse.

It’s not F controversial. It’s F obvious. Except people collectively ignore obvious things when it’s about their herd instinct.

Naturally anonymized exchange tokens, not requiring global network connectivity, electric energy, approval of a payment processing system.

Seems such a good idea, almost impossible.

This is a smaller deal than it would seem. Any SBP or Mir payment you can already assume to be similarly surveilled.

In general appearances in Russia follow the actual state of things with a huge lag.

Similar associations, I’ve also noticed that my clumsiest and least respected opinions and predictions tend to be the most correct in the end. My well argumented and thought through ones are less so, because honestly they are adaptations, as much of my inner perception as I can put into words avoiding things almost impossible to defend against common emotional vibe-based opinions.

That’s because people are afraid and also want to deceive themselves. Finding some heaven somewhere else is the most natural reaction.

It’s, however, what was norm for European empires before 1914 and honestly interbellum. And for the Soviet union. People sometimes think it was more backwards than it really was.

It’s possible to make E2EE a similarly rare or limited thing as handguns. Many risks will grow manifold, but it may still happen and the world will live on. With your children having no privacy whatsoever.

I hope that “anonymous” infrastructure uses blind signatures, right? Right?

Don’t tell me it’s just a state-run service having all your info, just hiding it from services on the Internet.

Alaska. SW prequels. There’s also the Soviet movie “Until first blood”, where kids play “Zarnitsa” and learn something.

It’s not about peaceful routes, it’s about sustainability and avoiding evil.

Not all Bolsheviks were awful, too. It’s just that the general agreement about “we are doing a marxist revolution and transforming a country worse than intended for that, and so we can only afford unity and centralism, and some hard solutions are necessary” meant that the hard solutions led from executions of some people to executions of many, and unity led to gradually destroying opposition (the communist kind), and centralism led ultimately to Stalin.

No, I meant reduce distractions in the UI. Using all the same applications with native look. And reduce epilepsy-inducing elements in that native look.

I meant normal use.

I don’t mean that. I mean using a PC normally, but with a level of UI appearance adequacy approaching that of a DOS prompt.

BTW, I’m not OP, but just interested, about the general feel of the UI and solutions - how much of the 3d\blur\other effects can be turned off? Same with choosing a purely monochrome color scheme. These cause nausea for me every time I even look at MacOS screenshots.

And another question, about window management and solutions to that and the desktop and dock and launcher, - how simplified can that be? In addition to nausea, have anxiety from most things there, and every time touching a Mac wasn’t pleasant. Can one have a keyboard-controlled environment without rounded corners, without animations, without scrolled screens with icons to launch something? And how well can one hide the functionality of virtual desktop overview or whatever that is, to just forget it was there?

Suppose my ideal of tranquility would be a DOS prompt, gray on black. How close can one get to that?

Hypothetically.

Yes. It’s addictive.

Obviously, my point was that remembering a word is easier than remembering a letter.

I’m thinking of house cockroaches.

I dunno. If there were no meat at all - over time I’d probably think about it. Turned into some insect flour, then compressed into something between meat and mushrooms, then roasted.

But right now no.

A phrase is better:

unlucky friendly monkey got raped by feral donkeys the monkey ran away from donkeys led astray

It’s not very different from a sequence of 13 symbols, but there are many more words in English lexicon than symbols in ASCII plus 10, and the password becomes easier to memorize.

This is also an adaptation of a joke from a Russian cyberpunk novel, one of the last good things by its author, called “Labyrinth of reflections”. It’s still very good BTW.

One my friend has a very good taste in books and poetry, but when you talk to him, you wouldn’t think that. He spews bullshit about “patriotism”, alternative history, “anti-male laws” and such, believes that he can feel energies, and the only way to notice there’s something much better buried underneath is to talk about random life events for long, not trying to fix on anything in particular or reason logically. Yet every book he’s advised has been precious to me.

Playing Europa Universalis IV for many hours instead of going for a walk or a bicycle ride to the park. Sundays should be used better.

All pr0n watched, all sweets eaten, cause they affect my ability to concentrate and also cause weird feeling of irritation.

OK, since most of that happened a bit earlier than strictly 24 hours back, not so good, but still.

It’s not from ground zero.

And it can be effective. It won’t be experienced and will have to live through a lot of massacres and shame, similarly to what Russia did in 2022 or many other forces which hadn’t been properly tested for long. But it will be effective most likely.

But yes, 5 years to blitzing Russia again is something born by my short memory while typing.

You wouldn’t believe me.