it's not 2014 anymore. we aren't canceling anyone. we're getting canceled. JKR is doing victory laps. NHS has banned HRT for minors, as have 27 states. we're kicked out of the military, and forbidden from security clearances. teachers in Florida can't even use their own pronouns. Medicaid/Medicare/ACA funding for HRT for adults is stripped now. we can't get passports with the correct gender marker. Sarah McBride has to use the men's bathroom in Congress. Newsom calls us freaks. conservative media is calling us groomers and every time there's a mass shooter they spread the rumor the shooter was trans. "gender ideology" is the new Satanic Panic. NYT keeps running op-eds on why Dems should throw us under the bus. Nancy Mace shouted "tr*nny" three times on the House floor and wasn't censured for it.

you really think we're the ones holding the cards?

fuck Putin, slava Ukraini!

I'm sorry 🫂 there's not always a happy ending. the genocide of Native Americans, for example.

take care of yourself, and take care of your trans and migrant siblings. that's all we can really do, but maybe it's enough. ❤️

If someone dies of heart attack on plane, nothing happens, they just die.

they absolutely bring the plane down. most declared Maydays are for medical emergencies in flight. until someone's pronounced dead by an authority, they are a critically ill passenger.

"oh, you have that song on vinyl? I have it on M66T-xxL."

whips out a AA battery and a piezo speaker.

honestly tho. if the Torah is legit its advice should apply to the future too. haShem wouldn't just have been writing to Moishe's time.

my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.

I'm not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn't afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one's available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.

but serious addiction isn't new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.

now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.

I'm not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can't afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.

we're so past 5D chess that we've hit the Curse of Dimensionality..

I'm a left libertarian. I embrace decentralization, collectivism, freedom from corporate and central government tyranny, and want to maximize individual liberty and progressive values as we ideally move towards a society like the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.

I'm not Anarchist because it's too chaotic and unrealistic, and I'm not ML because I don't like State authoritarianism and central planning.

I really hope RFK Jr keeps drinking raw milk.

I needed this. I need to manifest this.

Every serious defence analyst has laughed at the idea that the F-35 has a secret killswitch. This would be the dumbest thing ever to include in an aircraft, because there is always the possibility that your enemies could find out about it.

just cryptographically sign the kill switch transmission. the fighter would contain the public key to verify, but enemies would need the private key to trigger it, which the NSA would keep buried in cold storage like the DUAL-EC-DRBG trapdoor key.

you'd probably also want to include the fighter's serial number or IFF transponder code, so the enemy couldn't capture or replay.

Consider; if an F-35 kill switch did exist, any buyer of the craft could invest the resources required to go over every inch of circuit and line of code and find it, and then deactivate every US F-35.

there's something like 100M LoC of C++ (not Ada 😥) in an F-35. and Canada doesn't have the sources, so they'd have to decompile that. maybe they could focus on the radios, radar and other devices direct connection to receivers, but the implant might be downstream, and there's a lot of ways to hide an antenna.

even dumping the chips isn't easy. many of them likely have security features, since they contain classified algorithms which the DoD would rather enemies not be able to extract from the downed wreckage of a fighter. certainly the JTAG pins are not going to be enabled. even die shots could be frustrated by metal meshes over the wafer or possibly even microscopic amounts of explosives triggered by de-lidding.

But this "killswitch" nonsense just derails that important discussion into paranoid conspiracy theorist nonsense rooted in the deranged ramblings of a self-aggrandizing madman.

there's secure ways to build a kill switch, there's an abundance of places to hide it in a highly complex fighter, and this kind of spooky stuff is well within the NSA's wheelhouse. it's the kind of thing NSA is known for, even - the Crypto AG CIA front, the DUAL-EC-DRBG backdoor, TAO's clandestine program to intercept and backdoor mailed routers and servers. they clearly can do this kind of thing, since they clearly have before.

did they backdoor the F-35? I don't know, but it's plausible, and CSIS/CSE should investigate.