With accounts that are less data-miney, you can replace all your account details (name, email addy, region, etc.) with gibberish and wait for it all to update, and then replace your password so not even you can get into it.
If it’s more data-miney and you are willing to put in a few months / years of maintenance, you can trickle in the gibberish and false data until it’s thoroughly poisoned.
Pete Strzok, now podcast cohost of Cleanup On Aisle 45 commented that seeing RFKjr in this pic reminded him of the old drug-cartel vetting practice of getting the new guy to sample the product (by nose or freebase, usually) to show that they’re true undergrounders and not a law-enforcement plant.
ICE is doing all the SS / SD stuff (as in Schutzstaffel / Sicherheitsdienst ) and had gotten a lot of calls to see the department abolished during Trump’s last term. One of the notable comparisons is how ICE is targeting immigrants who don’t have violent felony records even though they had been ordered to only target those with violent felonies, which is how we ended up with impacted detention centers (through which infectious diseases ran rampant).
Compare this to the German SD who targeted all Jews regardless of an order to only go after those with criminal records.
Hopefully, ICE will overstay its welcome in these cities much the way the German occupation did in Paris France (or ICE did in Portland during the George Floyd protests) which tripled the active resistance within a week. If ICE chooses to be that brutal, and we stand by our neighbors as they are harassed, then at minimum they’ll get chased out, and at best we’ll actually see the department get shut down for turning into the propaganda poster of police brutality.
So, in the 1970s, climatologists just said +2.0℃ is going to kill us. The reason the Paris Accord chose +1.5℃ is because everything above +1.5℃ is expected to get pretty exciting and it’s difficult for labs to R&D or to include mitigation projects in the budget when your coasts are being hammered with hurricanes yearly, and your mountains are burning all the time.
Nowadays when we ask climatologists what happens if we let the global mean temperature go above +2.0℃, they like to say it won’t be good or even it’s going to suck but few actually talk about what will actually happen, and I think this is partly because no climatologist really wants to be discredited as alarmist because what they’d say is pretty extreme.
So here’s the gist, because I wanted some solid dick from an Iron Man:
We’re running out of water. An example would be in southern California, where acres of choice land are owned by the Saudi family and are used to grow alfalfa using water pumped up from the water table. All this alfalfa is then shipped to their cattle ranches and fed to cows. Alfalfa is incredibly water dependent, and the water table in question is getting low, which is a concern locally, but since the Saudis control water rights there, there’s not a thing they can do about it. Eventually all the water will be extracted and all those farms will either depend on some other source (like the Colorado River) or will go dry and stop growing things.
This is a problem all over the world. We’ve been pulling up bunches of water, or using the various rivers which have been getting progressively lower (and letting all the ecosystems dry up) and there will be a point where it will all run out.
And at that point, when there’s not enough water to grow stuff, we’re not going to have enough food for everyone. Famine will follow. Those who don’t want to die from famine who have guns will try to take from other people who might or might not have guns, and war will follow.
In our best case scenarios (Imagine if everyone in the world took action today ) we’ll have enough food for about a billion people. Contrast eight billion who are alive today.
But we’re not doing anything. We watching the water get pumped, we’re still growing alfalfa and feeding cows. We’re still burning fossil fuels and coal and polluting the sky faster than ever. So it’s not going to settle at a sustainable population of one billion, it’s going to settle at much much less. So instead of one out of eight of us dying, it’s going to be one out of eighty, or eight hundred. We don’t know because we don’t know at what point we turn around and take it seriously, and if that’s in time.
Big picture time: Homo-Erectus as a species lasted two million years (roughly) or eight times the 250K we homo-sapiens survived. However, there was at least one period in which the total H-Erectus population was less than ten thousand, and they survived under stark conditions until the conditions improved enough to multiply again. Eventually H-Erectus would be out-competed by its smarter, more social cousins. We, too, may survive by a dwindling, lingering number if we don’t completely wipe ourselves out. Since we’re navigating not just the climate great filter, but also the plastic great filter, we might be screwed already. But we don’t know.
At any rate, all the culture that exists today is at risk. From Beethoven’s symphonies to the Words of Lao Tzu to the Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems, all our culture is in jeopardy. It’s likely that the next chance we get to try our hand at global civilization will have little to nothing to do with what exists today, for better or worse.
TIL game cheats is a category of deplorable that belongs with pirates sofware and warez.
I remember looking on line to unlock game cheats for Saints Row IV specifically to turn off the downstage pixellation effect and found that this was the most common SR4 cheat in use.
That is the way that the police work in the United States yes.
We’re not talking about the police, we’re talking about the Secret Service protecting the President-Elect of the United States… at a golf park Not only that, but a park where people have to be super rich since access to Trump (leader of the GOP and now President-elect) is figured into the membership fee.
And while the police are happy to gun down the rest of us shlubs, they treat rich people like they treated OJ Simpson after he hacked up Nicole Brown. When they don’t and they actually shoot a rich person, then high-powered (blue-haired) lawyers come and sue the precinct and county for enough money to collapse the GDP.
But I do hear you. Police in the US are bastards to the last.
That’s assuming I actually look like a threat, rather than someone infatuated with the weird robot dog.
It’s a golf park full of rich old people. I bet the dog-hecklers will come dozens per hour.
The ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed.
My approach to the armed ones, particularly the TASER-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.
Dang it. He’s not the master vampire.
Is that Leonard Leo in the back? (Right side)
That’s the master vampire! If we stake him, the rest lose their powers!
Coo at them. Pet them. Call them a good doggie. Drop a treat on them, all in defiance.
Sony will pirate from anyone who isn’t Sony. Same with Time-Warner. Same with Columbia. Same with every studio, every label, every publishing house.
Absolutely no-one in the industry takes piracy seriously until it’s their own stuff being pirated by someone else.
Moreover, they all are used to Hollywood accounting, in which lawyers try to justify not paying someone for work whenever they can.
Hollywood. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.
…guns dont fire accidentally
Oh yes they do, and its a contingency in any theater of war. New guns are required to be safer but old guns that are less safe still exist and are in use. I was raised shooting guns well older than I was…or am.
And they can misfire which often means clearing a cartridge that might still go off. Fun times.
This [is what] I was taught handling firearms in the eighties. So imagine my surprise and distress seeing the police lines during the Ferguson unrest standing or walking with their guns pointed at the crowd. One unintended discharge by law enforcement could have been disaster.
We’ve gone batshit bizarro regarding guns in the US.
They may already have your data today but as soon as you can cut off pipelines that data starts getting stale.