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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 02:43:09 JST InceptionState
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@blaaablaaaa @Bad_Banner They don't want you to know this, but bankruptcy is free. I have 143 unpaid credit card bills.

Seriously though a lot of young people will just go "fuck it, I'm not buying a house anytime in the next 10 years, might as well run up the CC bill and do Chapter 7". The entire threat is based on a number that is largely meaningless to people outside of mortgage applications.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 02:43:06 JST InceptionState
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@PunishedD @Bad_Banner @blaaablaaaa Think about this from the perspective of say a 23 year-old who just graduated college, who made some bad decisions and ran up say $25k in CC debt.

- Insurance companies? Sure, credit score is a variable but it's a much smaller factor than claim history and age/gender.
- Bank loan officers? The only loan they are getting is a secured car loan, and Nissan will approve them.
- Startup investors? They run standard background checks, but many of them would consider bankruptcy a badge of honor.
- Security clearance? Yes, but average Joe isn't applying to work at the FBI.

My point is that there is less incentive for young people to keep their score high. The main reason used to be qualifying for a mortgage, so if young people don't have realistic goals of buying a house in the next 5-10 years, the system starts looking awfully shaky.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 15:29:36 JST InceptionState
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@Humpleupagus @Twoinchdestroya @monsterislandcolonizer I don't know about the photo of her kid, but street addresses are generally public information. Anyone can pull that up via property records, voting records, etc.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 21:51:43 JST InceptionState
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@ahmad @graf What are the current protests like, as someone living there but outside the liberal jew vs conservative jew slapfight? Hard to tell if the media here is exaggerating things or not.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:32:08 JST InceptionState
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@condret @realcaseyrollins @feld @alex It's one area where the government is actually in a position to be uniquely useful. They can deal with validating and publishing the hash list due to the legal concerns, all everyone else has to do is just check against it.

Unfortunately it looks like a case of misaligned incentives though. The FBI runs an effective system for preventing CSAM and avoid 100,000 incidents? Their budget gets slashed because CSAM has become less of a problem. Arrest 100 people for downloading CSAM because it got uploaded to various sites? Promotions and awards all around.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 23:51:01 JST InceptionState
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@alex @realcaseyrollins > In the case of the hash list, while it is not possible to reverse engineer a hash, it is possible for bad actors to develop a crawler or other products that could use the hash set to find criminal images which they would otherwise not have knowledge or sight of.

Are they retarded? Hashing the data requires downloading the data, so they would have already obtained a copy of the CSAM. The only "utility" would be locating the CSAM in the data that they have previously scraped. And at that point they already have it...

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 08:43:00 JST InceptionState
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@PraxisOfEvil > As boomers leave from the workplace so too the boomer work ethic has left the mind of younger generations of American workers. People just aren’t putting up with the shit their parents did for a paycheck anymore and the people who still don’t understand why are being drowned out by young labor activists.

There is an implied bullshit:reward ratio that people are willing to tolerate. Boomers working a blue collar job could buy a house, support a family, etc. Today many of those jobs barely cover a studio apartment and basic essentials. So it really isn't surprising that the bullshit people are willing to put up with has dropped.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 10:44:20 JST InceptionState
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@pyrate @Doll @Sui @Humpleupagus @BigTLarrity @KiKi88 @Omega_Variant @SKracket @Xenophon @matty @xuya Image searching "bad dragon" is a weird trip.
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 03:02:57 JST InceptionState
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@BroDrillard @white_male @Terry Here's the actual article: mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/major-pay-dispute-hits-secretive-30470942

> The bust-up between the MoD and GMB union members is over a soaring pay gap between missile movers and staff who finally put the bombs together.

> Employees dubbed Craft Workers, who assemble the weapons, are paid £16.82 an-hour, plus £4,000 as their “Craft allowance” and a £6,000 retention bonus comes to about £38,000 a-year.

> Non Craft Workers, who transport the weapons, earn just £10.42 an-hour or £20,500 a-year and do not receive bonuses.

So they are basically saying they could flip burgers instead of driving explosives around, and make the same money.
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  Major pay dispute hits secretive MoD missile site supplying Ukraine
  
  from https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/chris-hughes/
  
  More than 50 key workers at a weapons depot in Scotland have walked out - with another strike due next week - with one source claiming could earn more money at Lidl
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 12:52:53 JST InceptionState
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@alex Classic. Also apparently the ActivityPub spec doesn't even specify an authentication mechanism.

> Unfortunately at the time of standardization, there are no strongly agreed upon mechanisms for authentication.

w3.org/TR/activitypub/#security-considerations
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  The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 12:39:43 JST InceptionState
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@alex Kinda weird that they chose RSA instead of ECDSA. Eg. with Curve25519 the keys would be 32 bytes each which would be much more reasonable to store in the database. Also it's a lot quicker to compute the signatures.

cryptobook.nakov.com/digital-signatures/eddsa-and-ed25519
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 07:54:25 JST InceptionState
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@Zealist @Wormwood It's honestly pretty good now, I deleted my Windows partition a while back and haven't really missed it. It can be a bit tricky for niche use cases though, like streamer setups with OBS or running particular games that use anticheat that deliberately break Wine. So if you're really into competitive FPS or something, you might be stuck with Windows for a while yet.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 14:55:32 JST InceptionState
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@Twoinchdestroya @keith @Humpleupagus @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @Salaru @1nter4ri Challenge: have more than 1 kid
Difficulty: impossibruuu

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 14:55:31 JST InceptionState
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@Twoinchdestroya @keith @Humpleupagus @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @Salaru @1nter4ri The demographics are still kinda fucked, fertility rate is still 1.18. They will have to do some insane social engineering to fix that.

pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/05/key-facts-about-chinas-declining-population/
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  Key facts about China’s declining population
  
  from Janakee Chavda
  
  China has had the world's largest population since at least 1950 but is now projected to experience an absolute decline as early as 2023.
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 14:55:30 JST InceptionState
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@Twoinchdestroya @keith @Humpleupagus @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @Salaru @1nter4ri I'm wishing them the best, someone has to figure out this whole demographic collapse thing without immigration. The West is just kicking the can down the road another generation or two vs. China, so if they come up with a viable solution we can steal that would be great.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 05:31:16 JST InceptionState
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @Leaflord @MeBigbrain It's often just lazy writing. These authors spray out thousands of words a day for years on end, they don't bother with stuff like characters with depth. And a lot of the main tropes have pretty close equivalents in Western fantasy. They are just less ashamed of just throwing random shit together and calling it a novel, or padding word count with 5000 words describing their new shiny objects.

For example:
- Spoiled young master / spoiled aristocrat: an easy way to contrast our virtuous, hard-working main character with an undeserving nepo-baby.
- Fortuitous encounter: pretty common in Western fantasy for the protagonist to stumble across a magic sword in a stone or some similar stroke of fate.
- Success is only found via fortuitous, fated encounters - this gets subverted all the time. Half the stuff I have read involves a main character using tenacity and grit to overcome "luckier" opponents.

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 00:47:01 JST InceptionState
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@coin @r000t @Tony @bot They apparently have an office in Atlanta, so he could get an order to start seizing their stuff if they don't pay up. There was a pretty funny story of a guy doing something like that to a bank during the financial crisis.

> On June 3, Nyerges, two sheriff's deputies and a moving truck showed up at the local BofA branch. The deputies informed the manager that he could either pay the Nyerges' legal fees— $2,500—or the movers would start taking away the bank's furniture and cash. The manager, after conferring with his superiors, gave the deputies a check.

abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclosed-angry-homeowner-bofa/story?id=13775638
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  Bank of America in Florida Foreclosed On by Angry Homeowner
  
  from ABC News
  
  In Florida an angry homeowner whose home was wrongfully foreclosed on by Bank of America, gets revenge by foreclosing on the bank's local branch. In Georgia, in a different property dispute, a city court judge threatens to jail the local BofA branch manager for contempt of court.
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 11:35:48 JST InceptionState
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@alex It's their gap year, regularly scheduled rioting will continue in 2024, 2026, 2028, ...

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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 03:17:50 JST InceptionState
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@caekislove @spitfire @alex It's worse than that, more like:
> Do no research
> Print false information
> Ignore rebuttal correcting all your factual errors
> Profit!
> Get cited by Wikipedia as a "reliable source": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_102#The_Daily_Dot
> Some retard updates the Wikipedia page with the false info
> The next lazy journalist copy-pastes from Wikipedia
> Oroboros of bullshit continues
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  Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view). If no reliable sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. This guideline discusses the reliability of various types of sources. The policy on sourcing is Wikipedia:Verifiability, which requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations. The verifiability policy is strictly applied to all material in the mainspace—articles, lists, and sections of articles—without...
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InceptionState (inceptionstate@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 03:13:57 JST InceptionState
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@Koropokkur @alex Basically impossible, for journalists you have to show actual malice - in other words, they absolutely knew they were wrong and published anyways to screw with you. Journalists just use the "I'm retarded" defense and win 99.9% of the time.

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