So anyway Trump's former AG Bill Barr's father hired Epstein with no degree to a college profession at Dalton. His father also wrote a science fiction book about the rich sexually exploiting poors which Epstein just so happened to copy.
And then Epstein tapes come out and he says he was best friends for 10 years with orange... I mean Trump. PDF FILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE of representatives official website. Yes that last sentence was a play on words. LOL
You're telling me the country that illegally spies on all of us online and provides corrupt pi.. cops with qualified immunity doesn't abide by the U.S. Constitution? Say it ain't so..
Who investigates these 3 letter Gestapos? Throwing around muscle with no evidence to backup their fraud allegations. Ohhhh just like their "NAtioNaL SeCurItY".
Cowards. Hope people finally wake up and realize this gov is the most corrupt garbage that humanity has ever had.
If I had the authority to restructure the administrative state, I’d make a rule that every agency needs an anti-agency to hold it accountable. Let them swap roles every 7 years, with a consistently adversarial relationship to hold each other accountable. Basically a blue team vs. red team setup, or a blue/green deployment.
Checks and balances actually work pretty well, but we only use them at the topmost level between the three constitutionally defined branches. We need to apply the same mechanism throughout the federal bureaucracy.
That probably won't work. Blue would have an incentive to prove red failed, so if red initiated a big long term project (say, building a new high speed rail network, or a new dam, or incentives to build auto factories or whatever that cannot be done in the every X years switches happen), blue will do their best to sabotage it. This happens in politics already (e.g. public transit projects started by previous governments get sabotaged), let alone if there's an adversarial relationship by the people supposed to be directly directing and overseeing this stuff.
Hmm. I guess the “public transit projects of previous governments being sabotaged” is by design. Regardless of two-party politics, if the people vote into power a new representative who disagrees with the previous one, then they’ll kill those projects. And they’ll spend their time campaigning on the basis of that. This results in “slow government” which – at least IMO – is a Very Good Thing.
But for agencies, you want the opposite – you want fast reaction to changing environment. So in that sense, career bureaucrats are an advantage as long as they remain relatively politically independent and prioritize based on requirements more than perception. The problems arise when they become affixed to one of the parties, but without the checks and balances.
I think this is maybe okay as long as the “fast reaction” has a “fast undo.” Otherwise a new executive (and their predecessor) actually has less power than the agencies within the executive branch.
The problem with America is that it’s too good at big projects and getting them done quickly. We can improve this by adding a bureaucracy that is incentivized to stall everything. I see. Wise.
This is a private bank hoarding government (tax payer) dollars for seemingly no reason. The money sure as heck wasn't being used for "climate action". As an environmentalist and just someone who thinks the gov shouldn't be offshoring billions of dollars I fully support gov orgs looking into this...
It's easy to let politics color the perception of this but I for one although I dislike the current president support this effort.
Idk why anyone who's "anti establishment" wants to rail against the gov or any reg body looking into... banks doing sketchy things with taxpayer money that should... improve the environment and tax payer's lives.
Most of the hackers got rich, and also a bunch of people who aren’t hackers/nerds/curious people jumped on the tech bandwagon for money, and have done well enough to view themselves as equals to the politicians and bigwigs. It has really changed the dynamic here and elsewhere, as you note
This is an incredibly false characterization of the situation. Demanding that accounts be frozen while producing zero evidence for your claims isn't an investigation. Nor is it even following the bare minimum of the law.
Can we all stop pretending that they don't abuse of their power and hold your deepest darkest secrets indefinitely? Even though most of us are law abiding citizens.
Can we please start making open hardware without Apple/google backdoors and stop pretending our systems are "secure".
Can we please write all software in Rust and stop using languages that weren't designed for security. Yes C is beautiful. Yes it also lets you shoot yourself in the foot.
Can we please use distributed systems to avoid censorship or holding our private information in the hands of the rich?
No, we apparently can't, because every time someone attempts to do that, we don't end up with a usable end state or product that people actually want to use or participate in.
Perhaps we just haven't had success yet, and it's not impossible. But such desired outcomes tend to also require everyone to "be the same" (knowledge, skills, capabilities) or "want the same" (desire to spend time and attention on this sort of thing etc.) and that's not how people work.
>Can we all stop pretending that they don't abuse of their power and hold your deepest darkest secrets indefinitely? Even though most of us are law abiding citizens.
I don't anyone know who thinks powerful don't abuse their power. It is the nature of the beast.
And it seems none of us are law abiding citizens:
https://www.saponelaw.com/blog/2019/10/professor-says-that-e...
>Can we please start making open hardware without Apple/google backdoors and stop pretending our systems are "secure".
Few try...and either fail or languish in obscurity. You comment in itself is the proof that open hw cannot compete since you don't know of these open hw platforms and don't use them even tough you seem to advocate their creation here.
>Can we please write all software in Rust...
Rust only eliminates memory safety issues of C/C++. There are large number of languages, some decades older than Rust, that provide various aspects of Rust memory safety without imposing the same limits...and some are being used but people always flock to either new and flashy or the most widely used. Besides, Rust still provides ample foot guns and pushes reliance on 3rd party libraries which replaces memory safety issues with supply chain issues. Not to mention the the very poor ergonomics of the language that purposefully shies away from a lot of syntax sugar that makes writing and reading (understanding) code easier.
>Can we please use distributed systems to avoid censorship or holding our private information in the hands of the rich?
Even if you managed to persuade a lot of people to use these, some nodes will become popular/trusted and be targeted for censorship and propaganda and that will achieve the same result as the current model. Again, it is the nature of the beast.
What can be done? I don't know, probably nothing...things have to get to the point where most people are compelled to act because the alternative is death or worse, until such time there will just not be enough support for action to matter. Just how people are.
Crazy how this Gestapo like gov managed to force uninstall Kaspersky. I paid money and they actually did that? That actually just shows me that that antivirus was too strong against the NSA.
Anyhow I'm a Linux user and a VPN user and a Tor user and an I2P user and a Freenet user.
AND I LOVE LEARNING ABOUT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS IN RUST.
This government is becoming too totalitarian and should be made an example of. The internet was made to be impossible to take down and so should our thoughts and ideas. Distribute everything from now on.
Right..... because the way to fix this country is by having all of us pay to fix the problems the rich/government create???
How about the rich/government following the rules and not allowing a former president that violated the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause run for election? Taking millions as bribes/gifts from foreign governments? Are you kidding me.
And I'm stumped as to why more people haven't heard the new Epst.. tapes where he reveals his 15 year friendship with this "president".
VPS is usually significantly more expensive (hostings that offer xmr payment are also not the cheapest ones), and less flexible (you can't choose your exit point country). And your anonymity set is... one.
VPS have their uses and VPNs have theirs, they are used for different things.
So anyway Trump's former AG Bill Barr's father hired Epstein with no degree to a college profession at Dalton. His father also wrote a science fiction book about the rich sexually exploiting poors which Epstein just so happened to copy.
And then Epstein tapes come out and he says he was best friends for 10 years with orange... I mean Trump. PDF FILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE of representatives official website. Yes that last sentence was a play on words. LOL
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG...