Uh huh.

Yep.

They seem to be fine with that, just causing Kessler Syndrome.

Now the SR 72 is not retired, because satellite based anything becomes extremely difficult to achieve, at best, and you can put cameras and comms datalinks on them, and have them do what satellites can now not do.

Could also do ground attack on static / slow moving targets: Mach 4-6 from half a continent away, over to a target area, slow down, open bomb bay, drop a glide bomb (or a lot of em), close up, speed back up and fly away.

You now have comms intel and air superiority, at least in an offensive sense; you destroyed the previous paradigm with your new paradigm.

If you can get a reliable ‘bombtruck’ style airframe, human piloted or autonomous, working at around the Mach 5 range… who has anything that can shoot that down?

The SR 71 wasn’t really stealth, it just flew too high and too fast for anything to be able to touch it.

Oh and for the ‘glide bombs’, just do what the Iranians seem to be doing: outfit some of them with a secondary boost phase that triggers semi-randomly, based on the munition either sensing its near the target, or, sensing that something is trying to intercept it.

This also greatly relieves the entire problem of highly expensive single use long range missiles… just have a ferry for them, ease the cost and design specs of the actual munitions by doing 80% of their job.

My thought is that renewed interest in this and the not strictly confirmed but seemingly under active developement SR-72 is…

… Platform for high altitude launched, satellite killing missiles.

For a long time the US got to enjoy being basically the only power with a stupendous intelligence advantage from a network of spy and comms satellites vast enough to get total coverage, basically everywhere, at pretty low time lags.

Well now, others have comparable capabilities.

So, develop a way to remove that.

We’ve been able to shoot down satellites from aircraft launched missiles since the 80s.

We’ve specifically called for the end of tests of ground launched anti-satellite missiles, leaving aircraft launched anti-satellite missiles as a neat little carve out in our own rhetoric/intl. policy ‘suggestions’.

So, in a world where spy and comms sats are just viewed as valid targets in a large scale war/operation, a fleet of mach 3+ / potentially hypersonic aircraft that can deny intel to the opponent and likely also gather your own intel, that’re significantly harder to shoot down than a satellite… seems like a plausible doctrine to me.

Sit ye down and have a listen, lad, to the tale, of the mariner’s revenge.

If it don’t put some hurdy in your gurdy, I fear you’ve seen either far too little, or far too much, of these merciless and farsical cybernetic seas.

Corporate malware is corporate malware.

Water is wet.

Things tend to fall downward.

-yawn-

Thread? Zigbee?

No no no, you want either Parasol, GwimGwab, or Hamtato.

Haven’t you heard of them?

Alexa, what is an ‘attack surface’?

… hrm …

Alexa, widen scope of ‘threat actors’.

Oh.

Oh dear.

Yes, reddit is a cult, the hivemind aint called the hivemind for nothing.

Thought terminating cliches?

In group out group dynamics?

Its a cult, spend your time on other things.

Non zero chance theres a bot network set up to do precisely the behavior you are encountering, triggers upon mention of lemmy.

Reddit is well known to have been host to many, many other botnets doing the same kinds of shit and worse… there are entire guidebooks on how to drown discussions in bullshit and drama, how to divide communities into factions based around a popularity contest between the most well known members, who will then experience a manufactured kerfuffle, etc, how to manufacture a two sided conflict and ‘conclude’ it back along the lines of a ‘sensible’ compromise/middle ground, etc.

You might try asking jordanlund about it, seeing as he has a decade of experience being a corpo social media manager for Adobe, on reddit.

(That last part is a joke, i doubt he would respond well to that line of questioning lol)

Ah, TIL, thank you, I didn’t see that!

So how does this work if a convicted stalker just lives or works within a few km of where a victim lives or works?

I did not know that, but that entirely makes sense.

I’m American; if we had a ‘pirate party’ type party, it would be considered a terrorist organization by our pedophile president and his cult of closeted christian racist theocrat morons.

But uh yeah… world economy and society broadly is hugely run by tech and tech companies, you’d think a more nuanced and informed discussion about tech law and policy would accompany that… but nope!

You can’t.

Windows will rewrite your boot partition, when it feels like it.

It can be commanded to do this remotely, also. Its called a Windows Update. And Windows buries itself below Ring 0 via Pluton/TPMv2.

It does this because the NSA likes being able to keep tabs on everyone.

The precise/exact way this works is hardware/setup dependant, and changes every 6 months or so, ish, but yeah this bootloader fuckery nonsense has been going on for years now, in dual boot setups, and there really is not a plausible explanation for this continuing as a persistent ‘problem’, other than Windows makes NSA backdoors into your entire system, or breaks shit while trying to.

Dual booting is dumb if you value system security and stability.

Howabout this:

All social media algorithms that direct content flow to users are required to be open source, in perpetuity, at least for viewing, so that actual unbiased folks can audit them. Maybe make a new liscense class for this, if need be, so companies can still own the code, but it just has to be publically reviewable.

Would you install blackbox code on your pc?

Well, would you let a blackbox determine what information is fed into your own brain?

Mandate systemic transparency.

In today’s episode of “fucking obviously, duh,”… fine-tuned digital brainwashing algorithms do in fact have generally ‘bad’ effects on the human mind.

Some say they may even be addictive and habit forming!

More at 11!

Yep. They’re gonna get big mad about that.

His latest video was exploring ‘anti-baking soda’ as a potential novel way to do CO2 capture at scale.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvxNmStSC3M

He also ‘got his start’ before Anti-SJW youtube was a thing. His first series that popped off, back in the day, the day being 2008ish, was "Why do People Laugh at Creationists?'.

I don’t know that he ever … explicitly collabed with Sargon or any of those guys, but yeah he did exist in roughly the same genre-space, around the GamerGate era of i dunno, 2013 to 2015, ish?

While he has covered Elon a lot, thats because he started calling bullshit on Elon’s nonsense since way, way before that was common… he’s been tooting his own horn a bit, following around 10 years of Elon’s trolls telling him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and well, it turned out he did.

He literally has a personal grudge against Elon Musk.

For all his faults, he is one of the oldest, OG youtubers, since damn near day 1, who is also still around, and hasn’t imploded.

His first vid is 19+ years old, so, 2007ish, and its calling out GWB as a war mongering liar.

All that being said, if you want a more recent youtube channel thats basically just mostly been tearing Musk to shreds, with science: Common Sense Skeptic.

By ‘more recent’ I mean they’ve only been around for 5 or 6 years, I think.

Zuck needs to be impaled, Vlad the Impaler style impaled. We need to make that a legal execution method, and then apply it to him.

If you think this is a joke, China and Vietnam literally execute CEOs they find guilty of massive financial crimes.

They’re more humane about it than impaling, but Zuck doesn’t deserve humanity.

Good troll, good boy.

See?

Laws are just made up too, just like money.

Hahahaahhah!

… then see my original point.

Go anywhere other than Best Buy.

Obligatory FUCK SPEZ

RIP Aaron.