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@dalias Maybe but I have more than a passing understanding, having maintained DNS for multiple domains over the years.

@dalias Control of the domain or physical internet infrastructure does not imply shutdown though? Other large dictatorships (China and Russia for example) control and monitor internal communications effectively without destroying them completely.

@dalias Don't see how it can happen quickly enough. If the current US government seizes the domain infrastructure how does communication move elsewhere? And big complicit telecommunication companies control the physical infrastructure.. you think they will resist?

@dalias @lauren Lots on distributed platforms (like the one we are using) do. And the owned centralized platforms have complicit owners. I am not sure what you are implying.

Some non Internet based communication? Non DNS based Internet?

@dalias @lauren The DNS infrastructure is completely US government accessible. They seize domains all the time. Other governments control and monitor all internal communications .. you are thinking that it won't or can't happen?

@dalias @lauren But both sides have access to that information infrastructure. And the government side likely has the upper hand.

@lauren There's a Catch 22 here though. More demonstrations will be used as a pretense by Trump to send troops elsewhere. I don't have a solution though so maybe escalation is the only way forward.

@lauren Took 20 years though.

@GottaLaff There is not much lawful that Democrats (or anybody for that matter) can do. Trump is president, has lackeys, toadies and brown nosers controlling congress and the Supreme Court and will soon have all cabinet positions and critical civil service totally submissive.

Short of armed rebellion what do you suggest?

Too good not to share.

#crypto #pyramid #ponzi

@skinnylatte Hmm and who will control the department of labor? It seems like a loophole big enough to drive a truck through.

@carnage4life Who defines "prevailing wage"?

@evan It's not like ChatGPT is guaranteed to be correct. I fed it the exact question you asked in your post.

@evan The property you're describing is called a subadditive property.

In a subadditive set, no individual element is greater than the sum (or combined size) of all the other elements in the set.

(ChatGPT’s answer anyway).

@JustOneMoreThing Busy <> productive.

@georgetakei Passive aggressive living next to a passive aggressive?

@evan My understanding though is older posts are lost. Is that not true?

@evan Probably would be a boost for fediverse but likely would be used to tie unwitting people to a service so they could not move easily (like email).

@evan Better for what?

Duke's Big 4

Duke Ellington Quartet

#jazz #vinyl