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  • Reboot Congress in next elections, who have power to impeach the Supreme Court members and replace them. Reboot SC with stricter control. Likewise, strip many of the assumed powers the President has. Then a mass-cleanup of the Federal legal system to erase all the corruption that has been slowly injected over the last 40 years. Fixable, but a lot of focused work that will likely span a decade or more. Also likely something pretty historically unprecedented at this scale.

    Biggest problem is: there needs to be a face, a movement. It doesn’t have to be one person, it won’t be Democrats, and it has to be ostensibly decentralized, especially from Big Tech, as they have tools to manipulate everything now.




  • A weird statistical mix of dumb evil people stumbling into a good situation for themselves on the heels of a lot of good technology created that was deployed completely irresponsibly, it’s like winning the shithead lottery. Only saving grace is that they’re so dumb the smarts can correct it easily, (lead, IP addresses, or otherwise) but it could still get much worse as anyone that knows business, the dumbs in business can drag the whole company into the deep despite smart people trying to stop the drowning. Smarts can’t just come out and slap the dumbs in government though, because ersatz rules and potential death. So it has to be a long-game, that hopefully ends with the dumbs having a painful terrible end, I’d even add confusing as an acceptable feeling in that end state, even though it is cruel, because they deserve it. They’ll never learn anyway, and they are laser-focused on cruelty to anyone they don’t like, so they really should get to personally enjoy the Old Testament shit themselves. Also why correct 2A peeps haven’t acted yet. Risk is too high when you have a pea shooter and some really stupid people are holding the nuclear football.

    Big plus though, even if Mango had unicorn piss connections for long life, his heart is failing and he’s going to have a Big Mac Shit soon that will take him to a place even the Christian Satan wouldn’t want to touch. Probably slightly longer than the usual 6 month time period because child soul injections, but less than a year, probably.

    The most annoying part of the now thought, where are the oil barons? Truthfully. Fixing the planet so we get to keep living here is so insanely profitable. There should be so many people plugging solar or wind or old mines as water batteries. The US regression is so confounding.



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    Office Space. But also, Been in all those. It’s weird to remember that your employer doesn’t actually want you to be productive and fix the problems to be profitable. They want to appear to be doing that. You’ll go further in your career by playing those games rather than working. I, unfortunately, like doing the work to keep the company going instead of the games, which is not as profitable for myself, but it keeps the company from dying even though they don’t realize it, and keeps them rich. Win? I’d rather be planting corn at this point.









  • It is very easy to make excuses and hard to get out of that rut. No reason to waste the time of others if one just wants to burn one’s money, let it burn by all means. Very easy to be in one’s 40s, raise two kids, have a full time job, and design myriad projects, hobbies, etc. Just down to will and time management. (And ripping CDs is as complex as a burp, no technical knowledge needed.) There’s always someone that has it tougher, and now more than ever is the time to figure out those skills necessary to survive, as things will not be getting any easier. Paying corpos for “luxury” just feeds into the failure that is humanity. This makes one’s children’s lives worse in the future.


  • Others tossed out other ideas, but another, go to a library or an ecocycling place or a school or ask around to see if there is free hardware available. You do not need a very powerful computer to rip a CD. Something from 25 (or more) years ago would work. Then with pretty much any computer since USB was invented, you’d be able to mount the phone as a disk and copy the music to it. If you can afford a thumbdrive, store a second copy there. Might even be something you could do at a library if you live in a place that has libraries with older computers. (Not that I know your location background, or if you even have easy access to electricity, so I could be way off.) Tons of free software to do the work at this point, which is great.

    Treat the whole thing as a random learning experiment to learn some random problem-solving skills. It ends up paying off exponentially over time, and saves money. Best part, the reward is your music! Where and whenever you want!



  • Too bad further investigation hadn’t been done at the time. I’d not at all be surprised if LG and/or others have tried using these “smart” appliances as server offload distribution nodes for their usual Internet traffic, or employees for exit nodes for less than scrupulous behavior. Similar to how Microsoft Windows uses Bittorrent to distribute Windows updates so they don’t have to serve it all themselves, when they can use their customers’ bandwidth to share the load rather than have to pay for it.

    I’d have investigated myself well before ever contacting the manufacturer or the news. Easy enough for LG to push a patch to shut it off and hide it.