I've used privacy.com mostly for entertainment purposes. It is 100% likely to be a honeypot. But used properly with a separate bank account that you only transfer money to when you need it there, it can be quite useful. Setup a credit card that is vendor locked and/or limited total charges, or limited per period charges, or even make it valid only for the first vendor to charge it. And close down the new, CC anytime you want. Plus, it has the added bonus of allowing *any* name to be used at the merchant.
The entertainment can happen if you are buying from someone that seems a bit dicey, but have no other source for what you want. So you buy from them and laugh like a hyena when a month later a couple of attempts to charge the now closed card pop up from India.
[I did a little digging when I first found it and was entirely unsurprised to find they are located in...Chinatown.]
In this particular situation, you can create a new CC in your privacy.com account and set the limit to, oh, $5. Change your payment method to that new card, and then immediately close it after authorization. Amazing how quickly a spurned vendor will *contact you* when your payment method no longer works.
@sickburnbro Side note: I'm astonished at how retarded people can be to not keep local copies of everything they value that they put on line. Kevin McKernan lost a Terabyte of research data which he valued at $200k. All it would have cost him is around $150 at the time (now a mere $85 -- https://www.newegg.com/kingspec-1tb-ne-series/p/0D9-00...).
@Shadowman311 I can recall at least three videos I've seen of a feral black beatin' down a White dude, being filmed by an obvious sheboon based on the comments and grunts of approval you hear. And then White dude fights back and you hear, "NO! NO! NO! NO!" from behind the camera.
They are not human. And need to be treated as such.
@sickburnbro However, do remember the division of the feebs they euphemistically call "Community Relations Service", which, IIRC, has been decommissioned. I'm sure they were the first on the scene to explain to her how to speak to the media.
If I'm not mistaken, at least that interference is gone. For now.
@Goalkeeper The machines are more realistic, today. They'll accept all manner of mangled bills, but then reject a perfectly formed and straight one for no reason whatsoever. 😃
@sickburnbro@VidMasterEon I was going to add that, too, that the document itself is not what we honor. It's the principles behind it. Which means changing it to better match those principles should always be an option (but the process should be spelled out, explicitly, which in this case, it is).
There are plenty of subversives who adhere to the 'living constitution' dogma. That the most 'uh-mazing' thing about the constitution is that it can change. First, its not at all amazing, because any document can be amended with the agreement of the relevant parties. Second, amending it is not all what the living-constitution retards mean. Deliberately corrupting the existing language of it to mean something that it does not mean is what they are advocating.
@sickburnbro@VidMasterEon Oh, and I just reread the OP and Kauffman has no idea what he's talking about. I understand it may be a high bar, but SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, recent by the same standard. Also, Obergefel may get the axe, too, which is much more recent. And the Chevron standard was adopted right around the same time as TN vs. Garner, yet that is now deep sixed. WTF does recency have to do with it?
@sickburnbro@VidMasterEon This is derived from the Lysander Spooner quote, "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist"
I'll say the unpopular thing. That was a retarded comment for him to make. Because it implies that no contract or anything else put in writing is fit to exist if the outcome does not line up with its intent. Everything put in writing is meaningless without moral men to ensure it happens as intended.
@BowsacNoodle@retroedgetech Yup. My general POV, now, is no intervention unless I'm dying right tf now and it's preventable. If one part of my body gets separated from the rest and I'm bleeding out, I'm kinda, sorta hoping that they can stanch the bleeding and stitch me back together. And for known ~100% fatality things like rabies, I'll take my chances with Big Voodoo.
I had an intention (not a goal, as that implies some degree of flexibility that you might not meet that goal) to absolutely refuse to ever start on a med that I 'can't ever get off of' (according to them). Average 60yo in the US is on about 8 meds, 4 of them to counter adverse effects if the other 4. I'm on zero and intend on keeping it that way.
There us no such thing as a pharmaceutical deficiency. And that includes vaccines. Read up on how the universally vaccinating against measles has made it demonstrably worse for subsequent generations, for example.
In all cases I know of, natural immunity (including that passed on by the mother) is always superior. So if the mortality is low (definitely the case for measles since we got better sanitation and nutrition...with the latter deteriorating since Ancel spit Keys...but I digress). So there is a significant high bar for safety for nearly all childhood illnesses. At least in places where pooping in the street is frowned upon.
So at 61, all prophylactic vaccines are a hard no for me.
@BowsacNoodle@reallyangry@graf My entire life of over six decades, 'vaccines' have been sold to me as prophylactic, not as treatments after infection. Until Covid nonsense. Weird.
On the other hand, both rabies and tetanus shots have additionally been used as treatments. That is the kind of thing that makes one go, "Hmmm."
It is retarded to claim viruses don't exist. But it is also bad medical research practice to lay down and just accept a bad treatment (and lie about how bad it is...prophylactic mastecomy, chemo, mRNA, etc). Oh, they might do some research, but they usually go, "Uh...duh...wut? We already _have_ a Standard of Care. We don need no root cause analysis."
@Sui@ThatCrazyDude@Myshkin@PNS I was a sponsor for an in-law from a South American country and very vividly remember the clause about me being financially responsible for her should she become indigent. Thankfully, my blood relative is still married to her and is gainfully (self-) employed, and she's since become naturalized. I do remember her being a little irate that the naturalization forms she had to sign required she 'renounce' her citizenship of her country of origin, though. And she's barely able to speak or even understand English after 25 years. But at least she's completely inactive politically other than voting, and not mooching off of my taxes.
@sickburnbro@egirlyuumimain@caekislove Before Musk fake-converted by first buying Twitter and then jumping in front of that MAGA-train 5 minutes before the election, I remember seeing him in what was probably an all-hands meeting of Space-X with questions from employees. Someone challenged him with, hey, why do you require employees to be US citizens? His response was that because he works with the government (i.e.: NASA, and surely other agencies), he had no choice. You could tell that if he *had* the choice they'd *all* be H-1Bs or even illegals.
@caekislove@sickburnbro I'll say the unpopular thing. I don't care. Musk (and others) can take their balls and go home. They can fund it by building actual businesses without government contracts that I pay for.
*After* you are successfully without the gib-mees, we'll talk about the possibility of things that have an actual ROI in reasonable timeframe (i.e.: not 50 years or more).
I'm okay with keeping the FAA out of the way with their gatekeeping, as that doesn't cost us anything worth mentioning.
Old lady gets pulled over by the cops for some minor traffic violation. Cop approaches and after asking for ID, asks if she has any firearms in the car. She says, yes I have one right here in my purse. He says okay and asks if she has any others. She says, yes, as matter of fact I have one right here in the console. Getting a little more concerned, he asks, any more? She says, yes, I have one here in the glove box. No obviously annoyed, he asks, "Ma'am, what are you afraid of?" She says, "Not a fucking thing!"
We don't leave the cities because we are afraid. We leave them because we are smart. We are not 'afraid' of fags or trannies. We are disgusted by them. We don't reject clotshots because we hate the pain of the shots themselves. We reject them because of the mountain of evil behind them.
Attaching '-phobia' is the secular form of anathematization.
Late coming Gab refugee. Late coming Noticer of (((things))). Long time anticipator of TND. Think I'm a fairly SMAHT GUY, but regularly get humiliated.First Orania, then the world.The ride never ends.