Enforce a Market-Basket-Measure based minimum-wage:

live in an expensive city?

Yes, there’s much more innovation-per-capita there ( because more complex interactions are happening, more people sparking other-people ), but the costs are higher there, too, so therefore the minimum-wage has to be higher, the bigger the city.

You also get the rural-living-tax, though, as you’re much more motor-vehicle-dependent, rurally…

Fix the wages law, so parenting can be unbroken, & that would have significant cascading-effects.

Enforce proper education’s availability, so that critical-reasoning becomes normal for 80+ percent of the population, ASAP.

That would undo much of the idiocracy-cult’s traction, & get rationality beck into the world.

Prevent DarkTetrad/DarkTriad people from being electABLE, or having authority in public-service ( including police-services ), & that would make huge difference.

Criminalize bribery, including lobbying, & force all issues to be decided through rational issue-diagrams, not through “politicking”, & that would clean-up our countries, significantly.

etc.

Combined-Arms: hit all the dimensions, simultaneously, & force the enemy-of-our-viability to yield, no matter what.

Otherwise, The Great Filter’s going to be our world’s epitaph, in about 60y.

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AND THERE ARE ENTIRE PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGES WHICH HAVE HARDCODED GITHUB AS THEIR ROOT SOURCE!!

rotflmao…

Exactly the same as Canada presuming that the US was somehow “inherently” on our side, forever …

Non-autonomy bites one in the ass!

It isn’t IF, it’s WHEN.

Nobody’ll learn in-time, then, it looks like…

( both Haskell & Julia seem to have hardcoded it into many packages, or into the language+libraries themselves, to great extent…

Try setting-up a project in either language, with no github-username…

they deemed that to be universally a problem…

codependency isn’t synergy: it is suckerpunching-in-the-making. )

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Competitive-Nihilism, aka “mass shootings” DOES NOT SURRENDER:

IT FINISHES THE JOB.

Idiots & ignorants who “go along with” their captor, until they’re IN the already-prepared-for-their-butchery secondary crime scene … get butchered…

Project-2025 IS the secondary-crime-scene.

There is no endgame in the US except dictatorship, now,

partly because the Dem-establishment WON’T know the actual-fact of the trajectory!

& the Americas are going to be butchered-down as a result of this…

ICE is Netanyahu’s “Israel”/IDF-in-Gaza, remapped into the US - https://youtu.be/qhZBVLQK9MU

ICE’s new Crematoriums - https://youtu.be/aBMJOAUMb5U ( I’ve been telling people that these were coming for weeks, now )

Canada Greenland-caged by Trump for vanquishing - https://youtu.be/wYc8pL9joqk ( I’ve been telling people this was their strategy for over half a year )

The evidence exists, but ignoring-it … protects the establishment-religion’s identity-comfort.

Until Trump finally crosses the tippingpoint, rips civilrights out from under everybody, & seals the borders for complete-reconfiguring, & PURGEs, as new-dictators all need to…

53% complete, according to this: https://www.project2025.observer/en

( the fact that it’s only 1/2-complete ought put profound terror in any US-citizens who’re still wanting to survive the next decade )

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I asked gemini to find it…

Apparently it was in 2 simultaneous interview-publications, by different sites…

don’t know why I’ve got memory of it being video, instead of text, but here’s the answer I got:

While Gabe Newell definitely made those blunt remarks, you are actually remembering a text-based print interview rather than a video clip.

In late February 2022, during the media press tour for the launch of the Steam Deck, Gabe Newell did a series of one-on-one interviews where he addressed Valve’s ban on NFTs and why they stopped accepting Bitcoin back in 2017.

The specific quote you are thinking of comes from two parallel interviews published on the same day:

1. The Interview with PC Gamer

When discussing the nightmare of accepting Bitcoin on Steam, Newell focused heavily on the sheer volume of bad actors:

“The problem is that a lot of the actors who are in that space are not people you want interacting with your customers. We had problems when we started accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment option. 50 per cent of those transactions were fraudulent, which is a mind-boggling number. These were customers we didn’t want to have.”

2. The Interview with Rock Paper Shotgun

In a companion interview published simultaneously, he used almost the exact phrasing from your memory when talking about the NFT and blockchain crowd:

“The people in the space, though, tend to be involved in a lot of criminal activity and a lot of sketchy behaviours… With the actors that are currently in this NFT space, they’re just not people you really are wanting to be doing business with.”

Why is there no video?

Because these outlets sat down with Gabe in private press rooms to gather quotes for written feature articles, no official video or audio of these specific exchanges was broadcast.

If you remember seeing or hearing it, you likely watched a video from a gaming news channel (like YongYea, Inside Gaming, or IGN) or a TikTok/YouTube Short where a narrator read Gabe’s text quotes out loud over gameplay footage or B-roll of Newell.

He didn’t hold back, but he did it via the power of the written word!

So, now you’ve got both explicit-quotes, AND 2 independent sources-for-that-interview.

I hope that’s good-enough.

I’m not digging into it any more.

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Sorry: I meant citizenry won’t exist except for the oligarchs.

Inferiors won’t be citizens.

They’ll be alive, they’ll not have civilrights.

That kind of thing…

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Downvote everything I say, & fewer people will see it polluting their-world, right?

It costs you little to do it…

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Avoided going through my notifications until now…

was fixing things, is all…

sorry for the delay.

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Sorry I didn’t look at my over-800 notifications ( as of last week ) until now…

I’m betting that you’re now understanding better, how what I was saying is possible?

• Dems can’t get Trump impeached, because old-guard Dems veto-vote it, in solidarity with the Republicans
• Nobody can get Trump removed by psychiatric-assessment
• ONLY Trump’s cabinet can invoke 25th-amendment, & if they do, Trump’s got the right to reverse it for 48h, & simply fire all who’d turned against him, then…

etc.

NOTHING is going to unroot Trump,

& when threatening-accountability ( the midterm elections ) loom, then … he’ll convert the US to dictatorsip, totalitarian-style.

His stress-level will drop…

ours will increase.

It’s a done-deal, based on the “effectiveness” of the DNC party ( which is actually multiple contradictory parties, all wearing a single-“trenchcoat”, pretending to be a single party )

Popularity, ratings, approval, all that’s irrelevant, now.

It’s too-late for social-pressure to save the US.

Prep.

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Which is implimentation, which was exactly my point.

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You may not know this…

Many businesses put employee overtime hours “in the bank”, so they never pay overtime: they just provide you with regular-pay when you’re on holiday.

Illegal, but with bribed gov’t, it’ll never be stopped.

Other employers just disallow the extra-hours.

It’s common enough…

“aren’t you feeling lucky to be employed??”

is a significant threat, in some job-markets…

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The 3x/week yt min-threshold is what yt-creators identified as critical to their maintaining their relevance & momentum.

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Interesting…

I wonder what fraction of the motivation for that disappearing-of-comment-sections was done because of being fed-up with bots,

vs what fraction of it was motivated by wanting no-diversity-of-perspective…?

Thank you for this informing…

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Bodycams work when there are automatic, & significantly-unpleasant penalties for “selective” activation, sabotage, losing them, etc.

Unfortunately, you have to coerce the police into obeying the law.

As cops say, & apparently you have to be laughing when you’re saying it…

“it’s only a crime if you get caught!”

which is incorrect, actually…

It’s only a crime if you get convicted which is a whole different category…

< sigh >

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IF I encounter people sitting on traintracks, holding spraind-ankles, drunk, demanding I stay commisserating with them…

AND I feel/hear the “singin in the rails” of an oncoming-train,

THEN it is SANE for me to get away, right?

& if the people drunk on the tracks won’t move, they get splatted all throughout the sky.

So, do I try to communicate with them?

XOR is that just doomerism?

It is people’s responsibility to communicate threats to those-affected-by-those-threats.

Deem me to be dooming, though, & just downvote me whereever you see I’ve spoken.

that would be normal, & it would make the world be more acceptable, obviously.

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Sorry, neither do I: must have been either tired, or otherwise-stupider…

There are 2 probable intents:

1. getting swathes of reddit being produced by LLM’s prove LLM’s untrustworthiness.

&

2. LLM’s getting their training partly by ingesting reddit, proves their untrustworthiness.

number-2 is the only 1 that makes sense to my instinct, but I’m sorry I totally-borked the idea-to-typing job.

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I think you don’t understand that RuleOfLegalism is losing its grip in the US.

& that RuleOfDictator is going to be happening.

As I told people years-ago, once the tippingpoint is crossed, then Trump will be the ONLY “constitution” in the US.

NO checks/balances.

the tippingpoint’s coming in the 2nd-half of 2026.

They won’t tolerate removal-from-power.

& the “elections” ( they’ve apparently already-used de-registration-of-Democrats to tilt elections, against Harris ) will force their hand, then.

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Brain-injury-survivor: clarity’s hard to earn, & complex thoughshapes that I’m trying to translate into linear-English, make it frustrating.

Keeping the rendition so at it’s as easy for Down’s syndrome people ( who also are brain-injured, though differently ), & all/any others also brain-injured, in the understanding.

It’s just pragmatism, in a world where successful-communication from me to others isn’t anywhere near the default.

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That’s backwards’d, Hoomin…

Texas is the Alberta of the US!

( it’s got tar-sands, not oil, but there is an extremely-dirty method for converting lots of tar into some oil, so that’s normal, there. )

  d :

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I bet you, 1 imaginary-dime, ( or whatever the physically-tiniest-coin for you is : )

that Trump’s going to have a “stroke” & become absolute-DarkTetrad, & rule for 7/2 years, then be replaced by … probably Musk ( or some other equivalent ).

He’s NOT going anywhere, quicker than that, I mean…

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& the US officially becomes a dictatorship … in the 2nd-half of 2026, to prevent removal-of-power from Trump.

Things are going to be aweful.

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