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.

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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.

I mean, yes, but I fail to see how that’s relevant.

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.

If anything mismanagement is a kindness - a word that inspires the same whiff of medieval buffoonery as “death by misadventure,” as though Haddad and co simply had one too many flagons of mead, stumbled into the wrong paddock on the way home and got several hundred people’s careers kicked in the head by a cow.

Hahaha holy shit!

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.

That’s actually a very interesting map! I didn’t know the gulf is just large enough to not be entirely divvied up!

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.

Reminds me of Reagan, actually. That was more or less the response he and Bush gave back when a US ship shot down an Iranian airliner.

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

…Wait, is Joe then also a child? Good grief, no wonder America went to shit, they let a fucking child be president!

Yeah, you’re probably right. They should try it a few more times just to be sure.

Exactly, which is why Kamala won!

Frankly, I don’t know what you’re complaining about. If you standard for “child” is “has a parent”, then everyone on here is a child, you included. Just pardon them and move on.