It is democratic. You have a right to all information, the right to error, the right to skepticism, and the right to protest in all nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others.

In this regime of rights, the right to skepticism is the fundamental. You have a right to think for yourself. Authoritarianism is the opposite. Trust is its fulcrum and individual thought, belief, and access to information are not rights of individuals.

You cannot have democracy and citizens without outlets of free expression of all types. There is no way to know if some group is in collusion or spreading misinformation for various purposes. Having the right to anonymously express and check concerns in the public commons is absolutely critical to democracy. Any attempt to remove it is an attack on skepticism, the fundamental cornerstone of democracy that if removed causes total collapse.

NDA’s

Money’s on AI picked target of “their terrorist training camp.”

No, but I just use a browser for everything. That alters my habits quite a bit. The apps are optimised for retention. When I’m in a browser, it just hits different for me, like I’m going to a public commons versus some lord or the rings magic jewelry kept in my digital pocket. It is not a thing I own, or am a part of in a tribalistic sense.

It is the failure of a system of inherited wealth. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. Inherited wealth has no meritocratic order. A lack of meritocracy is terminal cancer. Any inheritance beyond a trust fund for life covering an upper middle class life is the issue. Solve this one issue and it removes every problem name you know. Japan already solved this problem politically. You do not know the names of any Japanese problem billionaires. It is not a coincidence.

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military hospital doc versus special forces… Doc’s more effective.

Gross inherited wealth is the societal version of terminal cancer. It is the actual underlying problem that has gone unsolved. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. No amount of money can replace meritocratic hierarchy at scale. As long as that issue goes unaddressed, this place will crash and burn. Anything beyond an upper middle-class trust for life must be forfeit. That one change eliminates every problem person you know by name.

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Check DNS logs. Discord is proprietary undocumented garbage that connects to dozens of raw IP addresses that have no documentation, rhyme, or reasoning. You have no clue what or who is connected in that mess of garbage, or why they are there.

It is about like, I’m going to give you access to a phone, a special phone, it just works.

It is a prison phone. You are in prison when you use it… technically. But you don’t really “see” the “place”. The other inmates are all around you. They see you, but you don’t see them. Never mind that though, the phone just works. Lots of people love that phone. Nobody asks questions. Just use the phone and pay no attention to all the rest. It will be fine.

Business model? Viability? Never mind all of that. Don’t ask questions like that. The numbers do not add up in the slightest. That is the magic of prisons. Justice costs a lot, but it is worth it right. Magic phone is easy. Ask no questions. Expect no answers. Totally normal, everyone is doing it.

The whole thing is a mass of clueless zombie morons that ask no questions and have no idea who what or why they are connected to with all those raw IP addresses. They all give trust blindly without accountability or understanding.

Is fluxer as network f’ed up as Discord without the minimum democratic standard of human readable domains, or is it the slavery of dozens of undocumented raw IP addresses?

Who would you want them to save first?

Becoming a roadie and riding a bike everywhere for years fixed me feeling like this. I had to get over all of my insecurities being in public in a cycling kit. Being around other people riding and racing, it became my normal. Now… I don’t have to look at me, so why the fuck should I care what anyone thinks. They are used to it or whatever, who cares. I’m more interested in inferring their real intelligence versus narcissistic stupidity based on their responses. Old people are all ugly. “For your age” is just an excuse for it. The vanity is boring. People who are judgmental are just projecting their own inadequacy and internal misery.

Chemistry, math, physics, optics, metallurgy… The thing that is hard is how your needs for knowledge will change over time and what is accessible to you at each stage.

For general electronics, The Art of Electronics is the goto book. For actually understanding practical stuff, you need to build a knowledge of the industrial revolution and how it evolved. The inventions of James Watt opened up steam. The Bessemer process scaled iron. Large heavy castings drove the potential for large lathes, but lathes are the key to everything. A lathe is capable of cutting a more precise screw than the one used to operate it. That old screw can be replaced with the new, until you achieve your desired precision.

A reference flat is made using two granite stones rubbed together with water in between until the top one creates suction that can lift the other.

Prussian blue and hand scraping are used to make machine flat surfaces.

Automotive suspension components like springs and torsion bars are a good source of cheap tool steel. Engine heads are a good source of casting scrap and quality hardware. Wipers, window motors, and starters are great for building machines. Understanding how to repair and diagnose this stuff is a major skill. Knowing how to make real controlled heat is fundamentally important.

I’ve never encountered single sources for this stuff.

No country on Earth is like this. No polity is unified without opposition. Additionally, making this statement here, when it is obviously false, in a place where at least half the people are from the US, and likely all of those are left leaning and just as much victims if not more so, seems like rather tepid malevolence.

It is not a laser beam.

No. The primary way of blocking radio is by raising the noise floor across the band. The type of radio is irrelevant. The protocol is irrelevant. It is all only the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared light, to visible spectrum light, to radio light, through to xray or gamma ray light. How we divide that up into protocols, bands, and names is totally irrelevant. When transmitting radio light, we are all restricted in how much power we are allowed to send. All receiver circuits are listening for meaningful information above the noise floor. Bands are allocated to try to create spaces for certain types of communications. This controls the noise floor. Then electrical engineers design the hardware you buy to operate within this specification. If that noise floor is raised, the physical hardware is unable to retrieve information and effectively makes it useless. If you are a radio wizard and build your own transmitter that has more power, you just created a giant beacon that anyone will track easily to your location. Transmitting always reveals your exact location. In military operations, you constantly hear about some entity going radio silent. This is why. If you are a soldier, you may not carry a cell phone at all when on the job because it is constantly revealing your location. The only way to avoid this is with actually hard wire connections. You are able to use lasers for line of sight communications, but in practice, you will be limited by the optical lens focusing complexity and atmospheric distortion even from the ground with point to point regional communication. If anyone crosses the beam it will still be detected and is likely to leak some light depending on conditions and design.

Ultimately, your only real option is the sneaker net which is damn near useless in US suburbia hell. Don’t forget that the freeway system was not created for the citizenry. It is only about military mobility. That is why the Germans made the autobahn and why the USA and others had to copy the idea. Your only defense is in the democratic political space.

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