Crypto is a revolutionary product because it enables users to possess their own units of account.

By this reasoning, so is Monopoly money.

No, the cinammon taste will be softer (cooked out) but it will be have some smoke and burnt notes that will give the guest the v feeling that they’re drinking it next to a roaring fire.

You’re wrong and you’re right.

I have a very direct knowledge of military marksmanship - much moreso than probably 90% of the people in this thread - but in all fairness my hands on knowledge is with the Canadian military, and I’d forgotten that since we’re talking about zombie movies, we are of course talking about US soldiers. So not really the same thing.

The Dem establishment will obviously blame anyone but themselves. That’s what establishments do. That’s why, assuming there are still free and fair elections in America in two years time, left wing voters in the US need to start planning now how they’re going to primary out every last establishment Dem who thought that leaning right was the answer, and replace them with people who do believe in real progressive politics.

It won’t work everywhere. It can’t. And some of those people will inevitably get caught up in the machine, or turn out not to be what they claimed. Reality is messy. But get enough of them in and you can make a real difference. The mid-terms are the American left’s opportunity to do what the right did in 2010.

But at the end of the day none of this matters, because we’re just two outsiders pontificating over another country’s politics. Despite how deeply those politics affect the whole world, there’s nothing we can actually do about it, other than focusing on what we can do in our own back yards.

Here’s one of my own (its a minor variation on this; https://youtu.be/nEQjcLZ-DaE?si=Ug4CMykM_RDjPdTa)

I call my variation a Northern Soul.

• 1.5oz rye whisky (I reccomend the Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye)
• 0.5oz Cointreau
• 0.25oz Maple Syrup
• 1oz Half and Half Cream

Shake over ice, strain into a chilled coupe. Dust the top with burnt cinammon (take a pinch of cinammon between your fingers, sprinkle it through the flame of a blowtorch and onto the surface of the drink. You can also use a match or taper as long as you’re careful not to get ash in the drink, and this can be done in front of the guest for added showmanship). Optionally, express an orange peel and rub it on the rim, to really amp up those orange notes.

This gives you the Christmassy feel of ice cream and cinammon, but without the heaviness of egg nog. The half and half sounds like a lot, but with the dilution from the ice it becomes more like drinking chilled milk, and orange brightens up the taste and keeps it from being over bearingly sweet. Well, in my opinion anyway, but obviously I’m biased.

Never underestimate the “fuckton of playtime” option. Some people just get really into a game.

Oh yeah, that list is going to be an absolute goldmine for scammers.

And honestly, if crypto people had any self reflection at all, the fact that being overtly a crypto person makes scammers flock to them, because they have hard data showing, statistically, how gullible they are should really make them reconsider being crypto people.

They actually do… Or at least, the government as a whole does. If you look back at the great depression, WW2 and its aftermath, and the radical actions that the US government took to solve the cost of living crisis then, you can see that it absolutely is possible.

Would it have been possible for Biden in 2020? Technically, yes. The Dems held two branches, and with an end to the filibuster rule and court packing they could theoretically have secured control in the third. A razor thin margin in the senate would have required some very clever, and possibly very ruthless backroom dealing to get things done. But the possibility did, technically, exist.

Buying into the narrative that radical solutions are impossible is exactly why people are sick of the Democrats. Yes, obviously Trump will only make things worse, but the average person doesn’t see that. They only see that they tried handing the keys to the Dems, things only got worse, so now they’re going to try handing the keys to the other guys.

Yes, they are morally culpable too. Even more so than the people who refused to vote for them.

That’s the thing about ethics when you actually apply it in reality; someone else being wrong doesn’t mean you’re right.

So, it was worth Trump getting a second term in order for you to maintain your moral purity?

Listen, fuck Harris and every other Dem who failed to condemn the war in Gaza, they all deserve to burn in hell for that.

But did you really get what you wanted out of this?

“More than the entire world’s GDP” is just a massive understatement here.

Let’s put this number in context. The highest estimate for the number of planets in our galaxy is 8 trillion. If we terraformed, settled and developed every single one of those planets, to the point where every last one had the same total GDP as Earth today, it would still not be enough to pay this fine.

How far short would we be? Would we need to settle and develop two entire galaxies worth of planets? Ten? A hundred? A thousand?!

Nope. Twenty million. We would need to settle TWENTY. FUCKING. MILLION. GALAXIES. Each containing 8 trillion planets. Each planet containing about 8 billion humans.

That’s how comically, ludicrously, impossibly large this fine is.

Well, can’t say fairer than that.

Yeah, I did try to stress that just because I can’t envision a use for it, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist. I’m totally OK with that. My question was more “Am I the idiot here for not being able to see what the use is?”

Both of the recent Japanese Godzilla movies (Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One) actually do an excellent job of neutralizing the military factor.

Conventional infantry tactics from 1945 certainly don’t work. We haven’t fought like that in forever.

Modern infantry tactics would be “Sit inside my nice warm armoured vehicle while the gunner shreds everything with a 25mm autocannon.” And I think that would work just fine against zombies.

Also any competent military shouldn’t have the slightest difficulty getting headshots on a slow moving target that isn’t trying to evade or use cover.

Obscurity is not the same thing as security.

You know those can be self hosted, right?

And yes, by all means just set up your own Wireguard or OpenVPN access if that’s what you prefer. You do you bud.

But that implies you do have your SSH open to the world, right?

The way I access my private web interfaces remotely is through something like Netmaker, Tailscale or Zerotier. Same thing for SSH. No way in hell am I opening 22 on my router.

I’ll admit, as neat as this is, I’m a little unclear on the use case? Are there really situations where it’s easier to get a command prompt than it is to open a webpage?

The CLI side I can see more use for since that does expose a lot of actions to bash scripting, which could be neat. But on the whole I can’t say I’ve ever really found myself thinking “Man, I really wish I had a UI for managing Radarr, a program that already includes a really good UI.”

I know it’s shitty to hate on something just because you’re not the target for it. That’s not my intent, it’s more that I’m just fascinated by the question of how anyone has a burning need for this? It feels like there must be something I’m missing here.

Also don’t fight at night. Or in the Arctic circle. Or really anywhere during winter. Or sandstorms. Dust storms. Overcast days. Rainy days. Snowy says.

Y’know what, just conduct all your warfare during beautiful clear sunny weather at daytime. Why would you want to fight in crappy weather anyway?