He’s a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.

You’ve heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.

If you have serious money and can’t find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what’s actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.

Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it’s all reaching a tipping point. I’ve heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it’s gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it’s in the stars.

Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.

Useful Idiots
Ideology
Money
Blackmail

“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber

Thank you. Though cinnamon is a lot heavier than xfce oob.

Thanks, useful info!

Looks cool. But it also doesn’t look like it’s very low on resource usage, compared to xfce. Efficient maybe for what it does, but if I think of putting this on a 15-year old low-quality office laptop, I have doubts.

Thank you. Will try :)

Thanks for sharing! However:

It is not clear yet which Xfce release will target a complete Xfce Wayland transition (or if such a transition will happen at all).

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

Thanks! I don’t remember why I ditched LXQT some years ago, but as an xfce user, I quite liked it generally. Will try again!

Oh my god, the hat!

Thanks for sharing, I think I’ve just found my new favorite cartoon artist.

More in the same vein:

https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/115832508196201635

Thank fuck they don’t.

It would have the same issue as these AI glasses. People will say they aren’t recording you or whatever, completely ignorant to the fact that they are not the ones in control of their devices. And if many laptops had that, the same Big Tech creatures would salivate over software updates to utilize this surveillance more.

First ever photograph of reality without filters

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other

Might as well… we would’ve probably gone to jail instead anyway, because they think they know me better than myself. It would’ve been so romantic though: they’d come banging, shouting some gibberish about unauthorized use of emergency frequency and arson. We would’ve shot two bullets back through the door, shouting back, backup failure IS an emergency, and how you personally don’t take shit from no one.

We’re chilling right now (: Don’t let the gun mislead you. They sure do have a bad rep. spins gun around finger It’s not actually guns that kill peop- shoots self in foot.

Usually when you search for a headline you’ll find the article, or links to the article. I couldn’t even find this article.

However, a similar memed article went viral with the headline “Florida man kidnaps scientist to make his dog immortal”, and that one also did not originate from an actual news article, but a badly labeled meme site. https://checkyourfact.com/2024/07/10/fact-check-florida-man-kidnapping-scientist-dog-immortal/

I was gonna joke that you could show up as a raging trigger-happy and bloodthirsty gun-fanatic. But in the current climate, that is probably a rather qualifying factor.

In all seriousness, if this is important to you there is no way around doing your own research. There are always ways.

For example, in the book “How to Win an Information War” it is mentioned that allies at some point flew flyers over Nazi troops that gave instructions on how to temporarily get symptoms of a serious illness that would potentially allow them to leave the front.
Tbf I don’t remember if that was one of those that didn’t actually work and just got nazis actually fucked up, or helped reduce their numbers and morale. But you get the gist.

Germany has quite the culture of draft dodging.

I remember all kinds of stories. Smoking like a chimney and getting drunk as fuck before and dressing like a tourist with a camera as you enter the mandatory meeting thing.

Of course the criteria to get drafted are different through places and time, but try to figure out the process, and what would eliminate you from getting drafted.

Also, it’s literally in one of those declassified CIA handbooks, that one of the ways to hijack an organisation from the inside is to be incompetent as fuck. Eager, but incompetent. Report any meaningless thing that technically is report worthy, to clog up the pipelines, make meetings way too long and talk about meaningless details.

Yup, I also think of chess when I read it, so pawned - turned into a pawn, demoted to the weakest piece, etc. If I read owned, then it’s owned.

I don’t think domination is actually intelligent or smart.

On a related note, I don’t remember the best resources I’ve come across, but here’s something for a bit of an idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_error

Legally, there is the concept of contemporaneous notes in many countries. Meaning if you write something down shortly after the event occured it can have legal validity.

There is also hypnotherapy, EMDR, and other forms of therapy, where many people can access memories that they couldn’t. I was surprised myself how many memories I could access with EMDR.

I find the concept appears to be similar to meditation and lots of sensory information + association. How stuff felt, sounded, smelled, where you felt in your body etc.

Less related, but there’s also Method of Loci etc. to remember lots of very specific things