People are starting to realize that the government’s of this world can’t actually control things as well as we all thought. As more and more people start to realize that reality the lid is going to come off on all the conflicts the local regime put the kybosh on under threat of coming down on anyone that gets out of line with both boots. We’ve all lost sight of the basic reality that at a certain point people want different things which is fine but enough people want everyone else to help pay for what they want or to live life the way they do that violence is inevitable. The threat of overwhelming violence on the part of the government paused it but that only lasts so long. Will it run out tomorrow? Next year? Next decade? Next century? Depends on where you are. And none of us get to control when enough people in our area have hit that point that violence becomes inevitable.

People are starting to realize that the government’s of this world can’t actually control things as well as we all thought. As more and more people start to realize that reality the lid is going to come off on all the conflicts the local regime put the kybosh on under threat of coming down on anyone that gets out of line with both boots. We’ve all lost sight of the basic reality that at a certain point people want different things which is fine but enough people want everyone else to help pay for what they want or to live life the way they do that violence is inevitable. The threat of overwhelming violence on the part of the government paused it but that only lasts so long. Will it run out tomorrow? Next year? Next decade? Next century? Depends on where you are. And none of us get to control when enough people in our area have hit that point that violence becomes inevitable.

I got a kit for that…

Most people will never figure out that clumping together is stupid & that if you do so they'll take any useful tool off of you.

They have no right to ban any tool but it won't stop them...

They never have and never will, but they are getting funnier and funnier, if you take it philosophically it is even funny 😂 .

Post: although this humor is expensive, it is paid for with our taxes 😢

If you want long-range contacts, in a disaster / lockdown, 27 MHz CB voice has no rivals that don't require a ham license.

My LoRa experiments have been with #reticulum rather than #meshtastic, but I've never gotten better than about 300m in this hilly, built up area.

Do I get to bring whatever I can carry from the house?

IDK, trial by minefield sounds more exciting. 😂

Define "accomplished". Voting has achieved many things, but only when the change was understood and supported by an armed populace able and willing to organise in non-systemic ways, and had the sympathy of an elite faction.

Diss, your persona is an obstacle to both one and the other :D You're entertaining, though.

Assassinating politicians is mostly useless in a bureaucratic society.

And buying politicians is easy, but keeping them bought is hard. Blackmail is good, but credible, persistent and organised threats are better.

Define "accomplished". Voting has achieved many things, but only when the change was understood and supported by an armed populace able and willing to organise in non-systemic ways, and had the sympathy of an elite faction.

Diss, your persona is an obstacle to both one and the other :D You're entertaining, though.

Assassinating politicians is mostly useless in a bureaucratic society.

And buying politicians is easy, but keeping them bought is hard. Blackmail is good, but credible, persistent and organised threats are better.

"— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾/🇯🇴 Israeli invasion of Syria: Map Update (17th Dec.)

In addition to the towns and localities already occupied by the IDF in recent days, Israel is now confirmed to have captured Saida Al-Jolan, Al-'Arida, Mawzarah, Ma'ariyya, Al-Kuwayya, Bayt Arrah, and Umm Batinah.

But even more importantly, Israel took control of the Al-Wahda Dam on the Yarmouk river reservoir near the town of Al-Qusayr in Syria's Daraa Governorate on the border with the Kingdom of Jordan, which provides for approximately 30% of Syria's fresh water supply, and 40% of the fresh water supply of Jordan."

From @Middle_East_Spectator

With control of the water supply, Israeli governments will be able to "turn off" the supply of safe water to Damascus and Amman as easily as they do to Gaza.

It also opens the possibility of diverting that water to grow cash crops. The Israeli government would need to organise hydroengineering works, but I'm sure Western taxpayers can be tapped to pay as "foreign aid".

good intentioned people who say Bitcoin will end wars, do not really understand government, money or war. What it will do is force them to find another way to fund their wars. Until the deceptions of the Ring of Power are destroyed, there will always be war.

good intentioned people who say Bitcoin will end wars, do not really understand government, money or war. What it will do is force them to find another way to fund their wars. Until the deceptions of the Ring of Power are destroyed, there will always be war.

If 90% of users are on phones why are 90% of developers making web apps?

I wouldn't mind seeing conditions on a permit that required the CEO and his family live on premises at least 250 days of the year.

"Skin in the game" is the best antidote to politicised hiring.

So first step before considering it is to get rid of those hired for "what they are" & hire based on "what they can do" instead... Or one of these dipshits will have us all marinating in the nastier stuff...