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9/27/2004

That’s not exactly accurate. The problem is that everything in infrastructure was working just fine, and so they figured they could make it more efficient by reducing the staff. And to do that, they put everything online, so it was controllable by fewer people. And they kept doing that year after year. The funding went down and down and down, and there are literal, uh, literal policies that keep them from switching to better stuff. So it’s much more complex than the way you draw it.

For example, US water infrastructure would need $2.1 trillion or something around that amount to actually become current and fully repaired.

Where exactly would that come from? It’s not an easy answer. It’s a much more complex problem. That’s all I’m saying.

Yes and no.

Yes it’s annoying, but fuck bots and AI.

Grain of salt may be required though. I use noscript almost everywhere.

The funniest thing about this is that there’s no way a human can keep up with this increase in cybersecurity flaws and vulnerabilities that are being discovered, but at the same time, there is no parity between cybersecurity defense and attack.

Regardless of efforts, we’re still going to be in a losing battle for quite a while.

There are literally thousands of water infrastructure facilities that are on Shodan now. I take your meaning, but it’s a very bad thing.

China is taking Taiwan. Probably in 28.

This makes me sad for two reasons, one of which might actually be posted in this thread, and that’s that it’s gonna make it harder to see idiots from a quarter mile away. The second of which is my own personal gripe, and that’s because I can’t sing the Cybertruck song anymore.

To the tune of the Spider-Man song: Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a massive fuck Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a stupid fuck

That and those straight edges kill pedestrians, like they just cut right into them when you have that much force, it’s unavoidable.

Consider the average hood of a minivan. It’s a giant-ass vehicle. It could definitely kill people easily, but the hood is sloped, and the bumper is low, and all the corners are very rounded, making it much safer for pedestrians should a collision occur.

I think you’re right about that. The whole american concept of rugged individualism was really great for the pioneers because if you’re out there on your own in the middle of frickin’ nowhere, you have to take accountability for absolutely everything that is going on in your situation or you just freaking die. But that was so driven into us over the years because of the expansionism that I think it’s not going to fade for quite a while.

I think there’s another factor to this too, and that’s the constant foisting of this and other concepts onto the American populace. Let’s give an example to be clear. One thing that I’ve seen the rugged individualism evolve into is this belief that if you are poor, it’s 100% your fault, and there was nothing anybody else could or should have done to prevent it, and it’s all on you. But in reality, obviously, there are many factors that are out of one’s control.

Another example is the idea that anyone can become a millionaire, and so we have a whole lot of people out there that believe they’re just temporarily inconvenienced millionaires that have just yet to hit their stride, and once they do… yada yada yada. I think this idea, among others, leads to a lot of cheerleaders for the upper class that really don’t understand that they’re betraying their own interests and values as they cheer on the billionaires.

Thanks for kicking off this train of thought. That was very helpful.

And spine

Temu shitler is chief of staff. Great.

He broke the law. He should be punished.

Maybe you misunderstood the question…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root-cause_analysis

Makes me wonder why there isn’t more rioting elsewhere, like in the Americas. It a not as if they don’t have the same issues.

Correct, and what’s the root cause of the problem here?

How can you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?

The way they pronounce unionized.

I don’t know what their plans are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to buy all of it indefinitely.

It seems clear to me that they are betting on that they will not have to buy all of it indefinitely, and they will reach singularity before the Bill comes due. I don’t think that’ll happen, but I do think until the bubble pops, we’re gonna be kind of fucked on pricing.

This calls for a green clad plumber

The FBI doesn’t call them bad boxes for nothing.

I don’t know the UK, but China is definitely targeting our infrastructure in the U.S, and there is enough PLC hardware online on shodan, that it will be easy for them. I would be surprised if it’s all that much different in the UK, but who knows, maybe they’re not expecting the same kind of attack. Regardless, that kind of resilience promotion is only responsible.

Wish we had that here.

Oh, that and also there’s probably a revolution/civil war coming

Exactly, and that’s why they fucked the ram priced before they kicked into high gear, to repress us