I’ve had the thought that if I were to design a psyop campaign, a pretty solid option for dominating the discussion would be to come out swinging and accuse everyone else of being an agent. That way, people have to either constantly defend against accusations, or they conclude, rightly, the accusations are baseless and decide to disregard the very idea that there is a psyop going on.

Sure, but that’s usually done through a UPS cabinet, not on an individual device level.

Appliances that don’t depower when unplugged sound like an incredibly bad idea.

Do they, or did someone put a road through a bear’s outhouse?

They shot it at the crowd during a moment of silence.

More like a formed plastic sheet with contact pads glued on the underside. The whole keyboard was just a PCB, plastic casing, and a button sheet.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Oh, sure, especially if it’s the same few users. It’s just mildly surprising to not even run into them.

Really? You never ran into the endless “…furthermore, .ml must be defederated” posts?

There’s always the worst possible option: they’re true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

Another reminder that France, Spain, and Italy forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land in Austria because they thought Snowden was on it.

Bait used to be believable.

They think they’re Aragorn and we’re orcs.

…or, more likely, a great^20 grandpa got with multiple great^20 grandmas. All it takes is one harem merging branches somewhere to tip the scales.

Yeah, the first time the press core deigned to call him “presidential” was when he launched rockets at Syria. The second time was when he assassinated Suleimani.

I’m actually shocked

I’m not. Ever since the war, every single closet xenophobe of the west has been taking full advantage of finally having an acceptable group of subhumans to hate. If any of this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention.

Frankly that sounds like “OK, I did install a camera in your bedroom, but it’s not like it’s on or anything!”

And they do. My Philips TV didn’t even ask for DNS until hardcoded IPs for Netflix et al. timed out. And when it did, it asked Google, not my router.

Simple, we wrrie down the information on how to read the discs!