It’s not super useful for doxing by normies necessarily but you better believe ISPs also log which customer gets which IP and keep that historical data (because they can definitely send copyright notices for torrent seeding) and law enforcement can subpoena or sometimes just ask nicely for historical IP data.

And that’s a dangerous thing when regimes come to power and want certain speech squashed, especially if you believe you’re reasonably anonymized.

You’re still clever. But also we share lots of common experiences which is a cool thing, not a personal shortcoming. But I get the feeling too.

It’s both. If you don’t have term limits, that considerably reduces the risk of a newbie with morals coming in, rejecting your lobbying money, and putting your whole operation in jeopardy. If you can keep them around for a long time, they gain power as they gain seniority and so do you.

I would love to see a push for more open source and less reliance on patents and trade secrets in non-tech industry. Believe me, you can differentiate yourself plenty without an artificial stranglehold on technology because people will make terrible decisions regardless. With openness you can at least keep those decisions confined to less important areas.

If you think about it, brain cells clearly think they’re superior to the rest. Bossing everyone around and doing their darndest to keep cancer from snuffing out their precious consciousness.

But take my point with a grain of salt because it’s coming from my own wily brain cells and they’re always up to something.

I’d also accept Valtteri Buttas flaps.

Staffers? Did you mean sponsors?

Still wanna form a union either way… But look at all those tiny tables!

You don’t get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It’s a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years.

Fossiliferous seems like something you’d hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.

I could build on your point or build off of it.

Ah yes but my audience responds to nothing but rage any more, so here we are. What’s an author to do?

I’m assuming you’re just here studying nerds for your next blockbuster where you’re playing Ada Lovelace or something.

I’m at least partly convinced they convince themselves those things are true, and that in order to correct the wrong they are then justified in doing just as bad of things, or even worse.

Had tons of kids though. Have you met the buntu family?

I take it you run TempleOS?

Could also be your least favorite container engine. Or rules engine. Man, we really like to call things engines don’t we?

This engine is an antipattern.

Lol there was zero coffee in the basket aside from apparently some stuck to the screen. The grounds were all still in the grinder cup. So I tossed it, finished everything, and actually pulled the shot. Which was pretty good.

Blood is thicker than race fuel.