josemanuel @josemanuel@social.cleverlibre.org

An ex-NSA employee was charged with espionage (he tried to sell secrets to the Russians) because he was in “financial need“ _due to student debt_:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/nsa-employee-charged-with-espionage.html

Student debt has become a security problem in the US. But I'm pretty sure nobody will move a finger to solve it.

You now what? Now that I can quote-post, I won't be replying to people as much. I never really wanted to respond to them, but to add to what they said.

That's probably the same rationale that lead to the invention of prostitution. Or the Suicide Prevention Line.

The thing is, ‘liberalism’ has become a meaningless philosophy nowadays, because it's absolutely void of any ideology deeper than “vote blue no matter who” (or its rest-of-the-world equivalents).

Some conservatives (those who equate ‘liberals’ with ‘leftists’ and who think that anything that deviates from tradition is ‘communism’) can be put in the same group, but most are just people who don't know better and were led to believe some seriously sickening bullshit by those who want to take advantage of them. That's why I think liberals are worse, because they should know better. They should be leading society to a better outcome, but they won't, because they're sellouts.

¡Qué buen grupo era La Buena Vida!

Who cares about that shit? In the end, they will award it to the one who wants to start a nuclear war instead of the one who's in jail for exposing war crimes.

Fortunately, my ban was only temporary. I must say I'm pretty happy with the service my hosting provider gave me. Support lady was very nice, quick and efficient. She didn't really do anything, but still.

So, I got locked out of my own domain for running a port scan on it. How was your day?

I was searching the Internet for several old, probably out-of-print books, and I was appaled at the huge amounts of money US bookstores ask for them. Dudes, they are used books, not Picasso paintings! And shipping costs are never included. These alone range between $30 and whatever the fuck they feel like charging you.

Seriously, what kind of people does that? These are not stores. They are terrorists holding books hostage and asking for ransom.

Yo nunca he sido partidiario de subir impuestos a los ricos más allá de un determinado umbral, porque saben cómo esquivarlos. Me parece una mejor idea crear un impuesto a los artículos de lujo, porque eso sí que no pueden evitarlo. Un rico siempre querrá hacer ostentación de su riqueza, y para eso tiene que consumir. Un IVA del, digamos, 40% no le va a detener por la misma razón que la subida del tabaco no hace que la gente deje de fumar. El Estado ingresa y el rico no se queja (tanto), porque al cabo de un tiempo ni lo notará, como nos pasa a todos.

Now that Stadia is shutting down, it is the perfect time to go play a game there until the very moment that they pull the plug on the servers, so you can see if Overlord has any kind of basis in reality.