> Lanigan-Ryan said his email was blocked a little later on, then the call with his candidate dropped.
> "And then that was it," he said. "I was blocked out of everything. And then I saw on the news about 15, 20 minutes later that Google was announcing 12,000 layoffs."
> The fact that you're putting it into an account which is used to pay someone else's retirement and then hoping someone else will pay yours is not precisely a Ponzi scheme, it is more like an insolvent bank.
Huh. I always thought of it as a ponzi scheme. Good point.
I dont understand the underlying tech, but the smart money says they see the fediverse as an eventual threat because of how decentralized it is, so they are making a shiny new version with backdoor tools to centralize and control
> For nearly 30 years, Amos Miller has owned and operated Miller’s Organic Farm, an all-natural Amish farm located in Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania. Like many Amish farmers, Miller likes to do things the old-fashioned way.
> The USDA has been trying to bring the farm into compliance with federal regulations ever since, but it’s been a long hard series of court battles, in part because Miller has been, by his own admission, less than fully co-operative with the government. Miller is facing fines and jail time for his actions.
I've grown to love this quote/speach by Teddy Roosevelt. It is even more relevant today when social media gives the critic such a big microphone:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”