Kash Patel is definitely the stereotypical Valhalla-bound nordic warrior.

No lawyers who value their lives and don’t want to end up on a MAGA hit list will touch that one with a ten-foot pole.

Okay. Not doxxed perhaps. But put on a list that’s implicitely a hit list.

It’s not great.

For those who have the money to hire an attorney, yes.

Don’t people know they shouldn’t divulge their identifies on the internet? Or is it a rule only those of us of older generations who still have a concept of privacy and self-preservation apply?

There ya go:

Oh sorry, my bad: you said AI…

I don’t think the folks who got doxxed by those maniacs are laughing…

There never was an American dream. There is - or rather, was - an American fantasy entertained by immigrants, that turns into a rather bland, if not unpleasant reality check when they arrive in the US and don’t strike it rich, which is the overwhelming majority of them.

Even the Pilgrims sailed to the New World with that fantasy in their minds, and then were confronted with the pretty awful realities of their miserable voyage and even more miserable life in the Plymouth colony. This is nothing new.

What an abhorrent country…

There’s a difference: Rome took a thousand years to fall. America has gone back from going to the moon to medicine by leeches in half a century.

You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.

China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.

One does what one can where one can.

Well, there’s another reason why I run this ARM laptop: it’s fully open-source. Well, mostly: there’s one binary blob left. But that’s as close to open-source as I was able to find.

Like I said, there’s no good option if you need a computer - or indeed any product - that wasn’t made by some company in some country that runs against the values you believe in. Only the least bad option. This laptop is the one that ticked the most boxes for me.

Oh yeah I had one of those when I was a kid 🙂 I never liked it because it was a combination of plush toy (nice) with hard rubber bits in it (not nice).

Dude… I’m still not done with the fidget spinner fad. This is going too fast!

I use an ARM laptop as my daily driver (RK3588 CPU).

Is ARM great? No. It’s slower than similarly-priced AMD64 machine, and for some reason, whatever power-saving algorithm my particular compute module is running makes everything CPU-intensive that interacts with the users choppy and annoying.

But it’s more than usable, and I have no doubt it’ll get better over time.

Here’s the most important thing about ARM for me though:

• It’s not Intel: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through its stake in Intel.
• It’s not American: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through sales taxes.
• It’s not Russian: even if Elbrus processors were obtainable, I refuse to fund the Russian fascist regime through sales taxes.

The ARM stuff I currently rock is made in China. Not great, but if you need a computer, it’s sadly the least terrible option at the moment.

My wife and I who have been together for 35 years agree: this is not an act of love. Self-defense, surely and understandably. But there’s nothing to love in war. Fuck this sick rhetoric.

Even if cryptocurrencies weren’t a giant scam - and in fairness, at the beginning, they weren’t - did you really think the governments of the world would just idly let randos take control of money out of their hands?

I refer you to Amschel Rothschild’s famous quote:

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!

I’m actually surprised that the authorities around the world have tolerated crypto for so long. It probably has something to do with corruption, and the fact that it’s really just a scam and not sustainable in the long run.

That’s true. I lived in Utah, so I know.

The thing is though, I’ve never met a Mormon more extreme than that hateful kid Charlie Kirk. He wasn’t a republican, he was a full-on MAGA of the most extreme right-wing variety, so I can’t really conceive of anybody even more extreme than him who might think he didn’t go far enough to the right enough to gun him down.

But hey, anything is possible in this nauseating world of extremist morons I guess…

Okay, I admit I’m ignorant of modern internet and gaming lore.

But what do you make of the fact that he shot a fucking fascist? That’s not a video game reference now, is it?

The kid reportedly left a bullet casing with “Hey fascist! Catch!” engraved on it, and he killed a fascist.

I don’t really know what kind of nuance you want me to display here. It’s pretty black and white: the kid was 200% antifa and the checklist is factually wrong.