bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@Charlamagne @chudbere @graf @josh @Moon You are correct but you are about a decade late to your "Roma locuta est."

The mistake was asking. Either they can stop you by turning it off, or they can't. "They wouldn't dare" went out the window on 9/11 and the window was welded shut two presidents ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point .

So people ask to get the Cloudflare turned back on, "Please keep providing us service!", people ask to get peering agreements restored, "Please keep providing us service!", people ask for the registrars and ICANN to stop fucking them, "Please keep providing us service!" There is no more expensive currency than pleas. If you need to ask, you're fucked, irreparably.

Attempts to get Zayo to turn peering back on are doomed. Finding another peer is a doomed endeavor. Anyone that understands the net and has both hands on the keyboard instead of alternating the thumb up their ass has been on that bus since way before Snowden. And that's where I'm fucked up about Snowden: everyone said "That should be illegal!" and it already was illegal, "Punish those big tech companies!" and the government isn't gonna execute their own snitches. Snowden was no surprise to any hacker, or anyone who remembers the important shit instead of running around chasing the new batch of rabbits every time the president or some congressman dumps a new bag of them on the floor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance , or if you wanna go farther back, remember when Windows was shipping with an NSA backdoor that they were dumb enough to call "NSAKEY"? Shit, the IME backdoor was just found a couple of years ago. My mistake was thinking that exposing all of those "secrets" would have shifted public opinion away from centralization: instead people said "WELL MAKE THEM PROMISE TO STOP DOING IT AGAIN, THIS TIME IT'LL WORK". Zero arrests for any of this except that they have attempted to arrest Snowden and have been working for years to get Assange.

Google didn't take off until Eric Schmidt joined up. Schmidt is in bed with the government ( https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ ), the same government that was doing Operation Choke Point before. And you have there Hillary Clinton, whose husband's presidency was responsible for the illegalization of cryptography and the Clipper chip. Eric Schmidt now has a post at the Pentagon, created specifically for him, as head of the Defense Innovation Advisory Board ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Innovation_Advisory_Board , http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/684366/pentagon-to-establish-defense-innovation-advisory-board ). Google took off because of the government, and now they're close enough to a monopoly that it makes no difference and half the people in this thread are using Android phones and Chrome. Great work, guys, we're really knocking it out the fuckin' park. I can't wait for the next time someone on fedi tells me to use fluoridated tech and I refuse and they call me a tinfoil boomer, then minutes later they post some Uncle Ted memes. Remember that photo of Zuckerberg and the thing that jumped out at people was that he had tape over his laptop's camera? (So many goddamn idiots around here that I'm nearly certain that I type "Zuckerberg tapes his camera" and the first thing they think is "ZUCKERBERG JEW! TAKE ALL THE TAPE OFF THE CAMERAS" instead of "Zuckerberg knows something we don't.")

Stop asking for permission to continue existing and get hacking.

WTF is this new Hell?

ffs

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Great thread sent to me by bf

The video is a man talking about how none of his construction hires showed up for the third day in a row

1/n

cartoons used to teach morals... or at least yknow. just. some sort of lesson.
"don't be a dick", "don't steal", "make friends".

parents would seethe when kids watched some stupid nonsense.

now literally all that's played is brainmelting nonsense to kids
what happened.

ich bin ein brotkrabbe

No other vaccine used the same technology, so of course there were more risks. Instead of using tried and true vaccine technologies, the drug companies took the opportunity to use this new technology for the first time ever. Most vaccines operate by presenting the body with either weakened viruses or parts of a virus that has been destroyed. By contrast, mRNA vaccines operate by having your own body assemble pieces of the virus, then your immune system attacks those cells with the foreign proteins that the vaccine induced them to create. It should be self-evident that there are different risks involved between introducing a weakened or dead virus into the body and having the body manufacture pieces of a virus and attack itself.

When I took the vaccine, I did so fully aware of the fact that there were different risks, but at the time governments around the world worked with communications providers to suppress information about those risks. When I got covid later, huh it turns out that despite their claims of 90% protection pretty much everyone who got the shot also got covid!

The politicians around the world violated people's basic human rights by shutting down any speech that didn't follow exactly what they wanted said. Anyone who believes in liberal values who lived through the pandemic came out the other side with their faith in virtually every institution destroyed. And you will never make me forget that people's ability to pay for food, to pay their mortgage, to support their families was taken away by my government for having the gall to demand policies that the same government ended up implementing a mere eight months later. All the while people like me were called racist sexist misogynistic transphobic homophobic American Russian bots, again, for demanding policies that the exact same government would implement eight months later.

I will never forget that. I will never forget that my donation to a charitable cause I believed in was reversed twice under the pressure of government under no law. I will never forget that politicians who opposed the status quo were arrested.

My grandfather fought in world war II to oppose tyranny, and those same countries that he fought for around the world spit on his grave. If you ever want to know if the Holocaust could happen today, we just proved that it can at any time.

You don't seem to remember a whole lot about the pandemic. People who weren't getting vaccinated were being referred to in the same way that you might talk about an insect infestation or rodents. The rhetoric was downright genocidal. Our prime minister asked whether we should continue to "tolerate these people" and ominously ask whether we should allow them to continue to "take up space". We were talking about a head tax for those people in some areas. In australia, they were literally being rounded up and sent to concentration camps. In the meantime, the government lockdowns were being entirely blamed on the unvaccinated, even in places where most people were vaccinated. (Of course, the establishment media in the pocket of government will tell you that yes the camps exist, and yes they're there to concentrate people who are more likely to get covid, but they're totally not covid concentration camps)

Go figure, clinical trials run by companies that stood to make billions of dollars ended up finding exactly what those companies wanted to find. If you'd like, I can dig up all of the studies sponsored by cigarette companies that say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.

By the way, let's not forget here that the entire process was streamlined via Trump's Operation Warpspeed. They didn't run the same testing as they would on any other vaccine, that's why they were able to get it done in less than a year rather than the 10 years it normally takes to have a vaccine approved. It takes 9 months to make a baby. It does not matter how many women you put on the job, or how many men you put on the job, it takes 9 months to make a baby. It doesn't matter how much money you put into the process, it takes 9 months to make a baby. Similarly, it takes a long-term to complete long-term studies. The other thing that you need is the freedom to speak truth. If you wanted to end your career in medicine, a really good way it would be opposing the official narrative on covid. The massive corruption in medical science was on full display for all to see.

That moving of the goal posts that you're supporting here is required because of the expedited schedule and reduced testing. There were no long-term tests, so they didn't know how long protection was going to last, they didn't know what the long-term effects could be. "Just get two doses of the vaccine and covid will be beaten" has now turned into "get a shot every 3 months"

I keep on bringing up stuff that actually happened, and you keep on saying that you don't remember it. How about this 2020 article that said the vaccine is 95% effective? One of many.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/18/coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-is-95percent-effective-plans-to-submit-to-fda-in-days.html

I'm afraid that given the authoritarian measures taken, you can't separate what you remember from the political. Not when all of the news organizations and all of the social media companies were directly being dictated policy by the government. That's the cost of authoritarianism. You want to control everything, you get all the credit and all the blame.

I aspire to navigate #life using #reason as well as I can to make decisions based on as parsimonious a set of #axioms as possible.

"The scrollbar is a displeasure to my sensitive designer eyes, I will make it razor thin to turn it into a usability nightmare instead"

"A little bit about ourselves... We're an #antifascist instance on the wide open Fediverse!"

Wow! So I can collaborate and hear diverse ideas from anybody across the whole network?

"Oh heavens no! That would be dangerous! You are not allowed to talk to these 200 instances out of the few hundred on fedi. If you try, you may be banned and listed on #fediblock."

Forcible suppression of opposition... Centralized autocracy... Subordination of indivudal interests under the guise of the common good... Isn't that a little fashy?

"No no no... We're the *anti* fascists, you see!"