Things only get worse once you flip sides and start digging into the truth on the frontier.

There’s a reason why he got the initial backing that he did. Unfortunately the side of Roberts that the fans had minimal exposure to was his penchant for development hell. (see: development history of Freelancer)

Star Citizen is basically what would happen if Hideo Kojima was given infinite budget and no external deadlines.

“I don’t like the prices of everything and the democrats are telling me I should be thankful to them because the prices aren’t worse, let’s try the other guy”

“oh dear, the prices are worse because the guy I elected did everything he said he was going to do and started a war for funsies”

Most voters are simple creatures with short term memories who don’t think beyond rolling the dice for a better outcome on their wallet. Then when they are “betrayed”, they repeat the process.

It’s a ten day old account shill account. They speak fluent Youtube comment because that’s where their experience is.

Why not both moment:

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Ignoring the practicality of achieving it for a moment, acquiring Greenland and Canada gives an allied Russia and US near full control of the Arctic Ocean corridors. Most of us spend our time staring at 2D Mercator-esque maps, so I highly recommend taking a look at things from the top down to appreciate this:

Also see: https://geology.com/world/arctic-ocean-map.shtml

I think it's best to consider that this is a long term play for control of the Arctic. Sea ice very much remains a factor, but the amount is shrinking every year due to global warming. Over time this opens up new seasonal routes, both for drilling and transport.

Sure, it could just be Trump's narcissism wanting him to add another state during his presidency. The thing to remember is that someone else is always the one giving him these ideas. (see: Project 2025) These imperialistic ambitions on Greenland and Canada of all places did not emerge from nowhere. It's the motives of people who are giving him these ideas that you need to be concerned with.

Svalbard is next.

Problem 1 is also largely solved by ditching GitHub in favor of an environment where you control who is allowed to submit a PR. GitHub is convenient but if you have problems with vibe code volume, choosing to host with a company who heavily incentivizes it and has a commercial interest in doing so is self-defeating. Treat it the same as any other free service that enshittified after several years of market capture on the basis of being free and convenient.

Problem 2 is the actual reason the project tanked and your take is spot on.

I personally vote for being polite and cordial. Patiently wait for them to finish, then swat the camera right back down with a baseball bat.

Smile, then offer them the baseball bat and invite them to take a swing.

You’re right, his posting history makes it very clear that he’s being sarcastic.

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lol, look at this kid trotting out “both sides” after repeatedly saying only dems kill people or want them dead. He’s so adorable when pretending to have empathy!

I hope you’re mistaken for a brown person by your precious ICE crusaders.

Agreed, no one ever thinks of the poor Nazis. What did they ever do to hurt anyone?

…Recently. No, more recently than you’re thinking. Like, they haven’t killed or lynched anyone in the last 30 seconds, have they? QED!

That was indeed the joke, yes.

In case it needs to be said, my participation up until this point has been 100% sarcasm. I am quite full of shit and wish you an excellent evening.

If you do feel it is justified, apply a litmus test: would it still be acceptable if it was done by [insert someone you hate here].

Woah, woah. Slow down there pardner. You're trying to teach leopard sensitivity training to someone who can't perceive a leopard until their face is halfway chewed off.

Shame on you. The empathy impaired are people too, and they can't be held accountable to awareness of rights that are not directly benefitting them at the moment.

I’m pretty okay with Tucker running for office. It can end the same way Crossfire did: with Jon Stewart sitting across from him.

IMO: A lot of this is groundwork for a parallel construction narrative. “Of course our numbers are better than theirs, we would have won every election ever if it weren’t for rigged votes.”

The primary goal isn’t to win by driving the actual vote count down, though it certainly helps. The actual goal is to create the widest smoke screen possible, so that any time the numbers look strangely in their favor it’s because there are fewer illegal immigrants “voting”. Deportations! Better ID verification! Blue vote numbers are down, and it’s because the Trump administration fixed the system. Just ignore all the fact based studies that showed how few votes were tallied in error.

Their demographic doesn’t need proof for what they want to believe, just a plausible narrative that they are already groomed to accept.

Your reasons for being unhappy aren't completely unfounded. We get that. It just doesn't change the fact that you're wallowing in a Canadian brand of conservatism in response to our even stupider conservatism. It isn't going to stop folks from rolling their eyes at the tone deafness or finding amusement at your microcosm of our own bullshit.

It's clutching poo to your chest while complaining that we're exporting our stinkier poo on your doorstep. Is ours stinkier? Sure, I'll be the first to admit it and include our right leaning "liberal" party in that statement. It's still poo.

From Smoot-Hawley to Bueller-Trumpy.

The naval equivalent of a useless fatass is also pretty on brand.

If anything, evil at scale tends to come from an absence of feeling for others instead of an impulse. A desire to validate that we’re better than others married to a missing regard for others.

• If you have a choice between bettering something you care for (yourself) and something you’re apathetic toward, what wins?
• Ethnic cleansing is everyday people being coached to apply this mindset selectively to a neighbor.
• Sociopaths don’t need the coaching and everyone else is a candidate for the cleansing. The people who they keep around are there to enrich their wallet or their ego.

True “evil” tends to occur when such people gather together and seek attention and distinction amongst themselves. The irrational pursuit of decadence leads to the decadence itself becoming enshrined as a system of measurement. Even serial killers aren’t likely to kill for killing’s sake. It’s not the moment of the kill that keeps them coming back; it’s the sense of superiority that comes from repeating the deed and not being caught.

Outliers exist, naturally. Sadism is a thing, much like masochism. Crimes of passion are self-describing, and some are more prone to volatile emotions than others. But when I view the problem at scale, I see people who 1) consider themselves the main character, 2) break things around them to ensure the main character wins, and 3) don’t feel anything particularly strong in the process unless they’re losing or “failing”.

If you have any way to check the key validity offline (for example, you subpoena the encrypted data) then it's trivial to check and automate.

Trivial to automate, yes. The rest is a question of how long it takes to compute, that’s the basic rules of cryptography:

• good algorithms are computationally more expensive to solve in one direction than the other
• the hardware of tomorrow will more easily solve the cryptography of today, making it important to rotate your bits into new algorithms as old ones become more solvable
• big business and big government have more power to throw at the problem, but not infinitely so; where will you fall on their wait list?

Lack of physical access to your files protects you against casual inquiries by businesses and local governments. If you’re a person of interest, they are breaking down your door and getting your bits unless they self destruct or are in a country they can’t bully.

In summary:

• Don’t be a person of interest if you can avoid it.
• If you live somewhere that hurting a politician’s feelings (or having the wrong demographic) will make you a person of interest, assume they will get physical access to your bits unless those bits are in an unfriendly country. What country do you want them in?
• Assume they will get their hands on your bits anyway. How easy are they to decrypt, and will the juice be worth the squeeze?