“Everything is Falling Apart”…?

Yeah lol, here’s a $7k expensed bill, that your insurance covers an unpredictably random amount of, due to hyperbyzantine complexity of billing codes and what not, for ultimately a sterilized suture and some ibuprofen/tylenol, that anyone with basic field medic training could have done in 15 minutes, charged maybe I dunno, $50 - $100 bucks for labor and supplies.

ProTip: Go to a hospital without your wallet or phone, don’t give them your name.

This is the entire fatal conceit/flaw of the US medical system, which private insurance just actually can’t address, I guess maybe unless we also implement a digital panopticon society with biometric ID resolving cameras literally everywhere.

Yes.

That is literally exactly what it is for, in a ‘spirit of the law’ sense, from the historical standpoint of when it was written.

Oh, the government has become tyrannical and oppressive?

Make tyrants afraid of their subjects again.

Many of the Founders imagined something like a constant, ongoing, roughly every generation or two, just total revision/rewrite of the whole Constitution / Federal Government… its just that the system they designed did not actually allow for this, in practice.

This is why ‘Originalism’ is just laughably stupid as an approach to high level legal theory, because the actual, directly stated ‘original intent’ of a huge chunk of the Founders was that we should be able to adapt and make large, fundamental changes on an ongoing basis, throw it all out and start over if necessary.

Uh, every single lemmy commenter who shows up in every thread in the last 9 months scolding everyone who tells people that eventual armed resistance to ICE is inevitable, and that purely peaceful resistance is insufficient to accomplish anything materially impactful against ICE, its basically just a a giant virtue signal circle jerk of positive vibes, at best its a run the clock delaying/harassing tactic against violent armed facsist paramilitary criminals.

Oh, also most moderators who like to delete such comments and ban such people for ‘advocating violence’.

You know, American (neo)liberals, turbolibs, people who are either historically ignorant and/or cannot concieve of all their cherished norms and values actively imploding, even though the news is full of stories about that every single day.

… I have bad news for you regarding Hertz, Carmax, Carvama, the state of US Road Infrastructure, the entire US auto industry/market in general.

Ok, now, I want to see either:

AirForceProud does a video series / bit where he roleplays as the ATC from Breaking Bad who falls apart and then quits…

OR

… the flight sim ATC community is essentially gang-pressed into real world ATC duty.

Crowd-sourcing!

What could go wrong?

Well, you can keep going with this and attempt to estimate what a more general economic collapse does to demand for natural resource extraction, international logistics (trade) off all kinds.

The US is currently uh, starting to roll down the steeper part of the valley into Great Depression 2.0, and when the AI bubble pops, our financial markets will implode, intensifying the ongoing financial / shadow banking panic.

MSFT CEO just kind of accidentally announced that they’re actually just stock piling GPUs, which there isn’t even enough available power or existing data centers to even… use.

So… thats basically like a government just buying massive amounts of wheat and then long term storing it, purely to maintain/inflate price levels.

Not good.

The massive AI/Tech company circlejerk fraud is going up soon, along with the already blowing up US auto market, subprime collateralized debt assets based on the US auto market, the US residential and commercial real estate markets…

The US financial/monetary system just is massively interconnected to the rest of the world, and that blowing up, along with a US consumer demand collapse… that’ll have a massive impact on the whole planet.

The Fed has already lost control of the ability to actually set the bond market rates.

In the last week or two, we’ve seen massive panic in repo markets as banks are in a liquidity / collateral quality panic, scrambling for actual liquid cash, which has driven US bond yields outside of the min max target channel the Fed sets to peg US bond yields to.

Yeah. You read me right.

The Fed is losing control of its ability to actually move the bond market rates, for its announced rate cuts or raises to… actually do that, to actually work.

If you have any pension or retirement fund, any amount of just cash in a bank account over the FDIC threshold of 250k? You should probably look into all that, but its also probably already too late to meaningfully… do anything about it, other than buckle up.

The USD as world reserve currency is dying, US Bonds are no longer seen as risk free assets, and that is causing a lot of chaos that is not being widely reported on outside of finance wonk outlets or like youtubers with a bloomberg terminal that just do daily updates on this stuff.

Hah, that’s a blast from the past.

I remember seeing those ads, and then my elementary school teacher showing us how to make ‘we have gak at home’, basic non newtonian fluid, via mixing water and cornstarch in the right proportions, roughly 1 cup cornstarch to 1/2 cup water.

Apparently there is another fairly basic recipe that is closer to the very synthetic, actual gak, but is not non toxic, so you could try that with older kids, or I guess nostalgic, non suicidal adults:

https://livingwellmom.com/homemade-gak-less-than-5-minutes/

Ok so, I was gonna top level comment, but somebody already mentioned I2P, so:

I2P.

https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent

Now, with normally configured I2P, you can only torrent or file share with other I2P users/nodes/sites.

But, you can also set up an ‘out-proxy’, to connect to the broader 'net, via I2P, essentially using it as a giant, dynamic maze of proxies, where all your traffic is arguably better encrypted than via Tor.

Or, you could actually use Tor as the out-proxy, for… ludicrous levels of encryption maze.

https://geti2p.net/en/about/browser-config

Its slow though. Much slower than all but the most dogshit free vpns.

But… that’s the tier you already appear to be at, lol.

Uh yeah, you can use I2P to access/browse and torrent from the clearnet, not just the I2P net, you just have to properly set up I2P with an out proxy.

I believe the youtuber Mental Outlaw has some videos that walk you through both how to do an I2P basic set up, and an out-proxy set up.

Also, general privacy/security tip:

configure your webbrowser to only do DNS over HTTPS, also known as DoH.

Use Ublock, Canvas Blocker, Privacy Badger, test your web fingerprint with EFF’s tool, make sure all your shit is actually configured right before torrenting anything, use sites that try to trace route you and find your real ip, make sure you don’t have any… emergency fallback to not using your VPN or I2P or normal HTTP.

… Is a panic attack when you hit both buttons, or when you have… the equivalent of decision paralysis and stand there, vibrating?

laughs in pirate data archivist

If something isn’t worth waiting just a bit of time to torrent it, as opposed to just instantly streaming it?

Good rule of thumb: It’s slop, you don’t actually care for it, it’s just white noise.

… you’ll never believe how I learned such agile and nimble reflexes…

Man, that reminds that… while Christopher Hitchens was not a perfect person…

He aruged that waterboarding was fine, volunteered to get waterboarded… and then did a total 180, nope that shit is absolutely torture and anyone who defends it is a barbarian.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58

Believe Me, It’s Torture

What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.

… try and imagine literally any politician doing something like … publically admitting you were completely wrong.

Muchless volunteering to go through what they force on others.

… Dick Discord.

nice.

Obligatory: King Missile - ‘Detachable Penis’

Yeah, as an ex or deconverted fundamentalist, it is somewhere between hilarious and terrifying to me how… just fucking obvious it is that all of these nutjob theofacsists just are worshipping people who meet basically all the criteria.

They are the idiots who would be fooled by false miracles, they follow the lawless one.

They’re so incredibly deluded.

Here’s my uh, off the cuff, ‘end times’ theory:

The Rapture did happen.

No one was saved, because none are worthy.

… and that’s assuming their contributions aren’t just vibe code, spat out by an LLM.

Kind of a tangent, but:

Sorry everyone, we just uh, forgot, uh, yeah, we forgot how to render video games without $2000+ GPUs, so, you just need to buy those now.

No. No.

Do not look at MGSV’s Fox Engine.

Do not look at TitanFall2’s custom Source fork.

They’re not real.

Stable, performant, realistic realtime graphics are only possible with very expensive, bleed8ng edge technology, ok?

It’s totally not a skill issue of other game engines devs and game dev teams and (mis)management and willing collusion from corporate, OK?!

Also, this guy is a self-taught expert on ‘the Anti-Christ’, and really, really wants you to know he is not the Anti-Christ, its uh, actually, Greta Thunberg, or something.

Just go back to the wine, Kamala, no one cares.

Or uh, I dunno, prosecute some criminal ICE agents or something?