Notices by incognitum (incognitum@liberdon.com), page 2

@Moon

And if you check their Twitter feed, I'm 1000% confident they will have been the same people screaming platitudes about 'net neutrality' a few years ago. 🙄

@lain
I am on my second Garmin, upgraded me and the wife from a couple of vivoactives to the Fenix line, and I gotta say I am very impressed. Vivoactive was good, but fenix is amazeballism.

Compared to The galaxy watch (iirc)3(?) I had a few years ago, it's less trying to be another phone on your wrist, and more focused on health and fitness, but it does the smartwatch stuff competently and the battery lasts **way** longer. Only thing I still miss is turn-by-turn walking directions from maps.

@icedquinn

In the US the government has to keep swooping in with hundreds of billions (cumulatively into the several trillions) of dollars in bailouts to protect the banker caste *from* capitalism. It seems odd and perverse to lay that outcome at the feet of capitalism.

The US is fascism wearing a free enterprise skinsuit.

@aven @olmitch

@icedquinn

Think of the post office, or amtrak, or the NY subway, or public schools. They provide shit service at outrageous cost, and with all of that they aren't even profitable counting the public teet as "revenue". And they don't need to be because their customers aren't the people relying on their services, their "customers" are nameless bureaucrats spending other peoples' money.

Companies aren't inherently good, it's just that in a free market the bad ones are allowed to die.

@olmitch

@coldacid

Qualified immunity actually makes sense.... for the citizenry. A question of law can divide scotus 5-4, yet in the end the layman is punished simply for not having the clairvoyance to preordain an interpretation half of the top layers in the country disagree with.

Being "bound to know the laws" only makes sense for pigs who have swore an oath to uphold, and are paid to enforce them.

They've turned the system on its head. "Two legs good, four legs bad." And all that jazz.

@Moon

@icedquinn

The booze was qualitatively different back then. Gin was basically an apothecary in a bottle instead of cheap grain alcohol with some dye and chemical flavorings.

@icedquinn
🤔 I do vaguely recall AJ or someone around the mid-late oughts reporting on the secret development of a gas weapon that could be fired into enemy positions and turn them all temporarily gay.

@feld

The stock market is denominated in dollars. Brand value and company assets appreciate through inflation just like an once of gold. *Line goes up* is only meaningful if the Y axis is fixed across the X axis. So unless you are inflation adjusting your stock values, a new "record high" is meaningless.

@lain
Don't forget to like and join my coven

@icedquinn

>flavor of anarchism

Based. The black flag flies in many colors 🏴

@icedquinn

I'm not familiar with "egoist". Is that similar to "post-libertarian" like e.g., Pete Quinones?

@icedquinn

He was always a Cato-esque, "corporate tax rates *should* be 3% lower, but let's not do anything 'radical' that might actually reduce the size and scope of the state!" kind of libertarian, but he went off the deep end over covid.

He's just saying out loud now what Reason has been thinking.

@amerika

But across the desert outside of town a small band of nomads have managed to eek out a modest existence beyond the notice of the urban elite. That is until one day, by pure accident, two youngsters from these different worlds meet, and their love threatens to destroy both of their societies.

Coming this summer: *Distopian Vaugly Sci-Fi Agnsty Teen Romance Blockbuster*!

@feld

@feld

Having flown through Pane field recently, I can tell you there are plenty of planes rolling off the assembly line there still.

Also hot tip: Sea Tac is hot garbage, book all flights in and out of WA through Pane. It's great, what flying in the 60s must've felt like. Leather chairs and executive décor in the lobby in front of the bar between the gates. No private lounge, but you don't need one.

@jeffcliff @icedquinn @Moon

"Patent-free" doesn't help much when the hoops to bring "free" drug to market averages over 1bn.

*Fediblob Bio-Tech Startup, Inc.* never gets to shot 1 in arm 1 at that rate.

And while Uncle Sam is backing up dumptrucks of cash to pharma corpos, where did their billions in regulatory fees go? Or right, to writing infinite new red-tape on *Fediblob Bio-Tech Startup, Inc.* We never get our foot in the door without a Hunter equivalant on our Board of Directors.

@icedquinn

It is so much worse:

There's a special federal court for all vax injury cases. Rules of evidence are unique, skewed against plaintiffs and you have to be pre-approved to bring a case. If one vax causes too many payouts, they change the rules to no longer approve those cases because it would deplete their payout fund. Oh right, because even if you win in kangaroo vax court, it's the tax payers who pick up the tab, not one dime from corpos.

https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/vaccine-program-readmore

@jeffcliff @Moon

@p
Sorry for your loss.

@lain

Can you believe these chumps complaining about generational trama instead of harnessing its power coupled with school choice to propel themselves to super stardom?

@PNS
I've played that Mario Cart level

@graf