GDI Walz, it’s ok to be out of touch and confused, but keep the fucking quiet part quiet. Figure it out and fix it, reboot the DNC to the left and give us something compelling. I voted, but more as a sense of duty than actual being hopeful for the future.

I have a 5 digit slashdot id.

Not so much found out about but songs that didn’t used to bother me now kind of bother me. I was a very big Stone Temple Pilots fan, Even though the rhythms slap the songs are a little too rapey these days for my taste.

We lost because of a lack of blue votes but what, 40% of the US basically voted to have them as property?

Honestly I think the hardest part is identifying it and locating it.

Probably need to start a community around it. People link to stuff. Pay walls would have to be dealt with. In the vast majority of cases that’s not too difficult. No it does start getting less available around video sources. IP restrictions will be a pain in the ass.

Recording the video is messy. YT-DLP could work for some things, But honestly with the level of what’s coming I’d be afraid of leaving fingerprints on anything. Probably throwing a full screen player up in a 1080p window and using OBS on it would be the safest. Could probably get away with using an elgato to capture the HDMI signal up to 4K.

Speech to text models are light enough to run on raspberry pi. They’ll need to be vetted. They’re not highly accurate. Captioning is a great community task.

Organizing an indexing the captions, there’s no shortage of free database software. I probably start with sqlight to keep things portable and fluid. Moving to Maria or Postgres when things get too slow, But then we’re going to have to host it. Anonymous hosting is a completely different ball of wax.

Storing the data would get out of hand quickly. It’s trivial enough to buy a single 20 tb hard drive and store more than we’d need for years. But then hosting it anonymously would be difficult to say the least. Even the markers of these conversations would be traceable enough for us to be located. Paying for a private enough nude to be safe is going to be pricey over time.

I’m sure archive.org would take it, But honestly I wouldn’t put $5 on them surviving a couple of years into the new administration. What they’re doing is to inconvenient to too many corporations with deep pockets.

IPFS would work, well about as well as it works anyway, but that’s the opposite of anonymous.

Edit: come to think of it it would be a hoot to run it on the short video federated platform. Just keep the database somewhere else. Again not anonymous enough for my tastes, But what I had a little bit of fun to the project.

Wonder if they’ll respin Gitmo and fill it with his opponents. Cuba could use some cash.

Long live the Blackspire Guard

I’m gussing it’ll play out like:

  Official act #4:  Secret Service, bring him to me, but take a long time. 

kbin obviously!

“The statistical likelihood,” continued the autopilot primly, “is that other civilizations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. Till then there will be a short delay. Please return to your seat.”

You can pretty much use anything that’s not intel iris with varying levels of work.

The real fight is throwing enough vram at it.

ine instead sign a peace deal with borders similar to

So Putin just says, “Oh, we were wrong. You’re fine. Things just go back to the way they were.” The concessions don’t include anything else that Ukraine needs to pay them in money, manpower, or trade, and there’s no further back-and-forth for about five years?

Hell yeah.

We putting money on this?

don’t worry, we’ll replay that record again in a year while they blame biden again

I wish they had the shame to process it.

every red flag

And the bull horn, and the press releases and the public speeches.

It’s not like they’ve gone through any pains to hide it. Honestly, he stood on stage and shouted it at people. He said it directly to the press.

I’m not sure he could have tried any harder to tell them exactly what his plan was and who he is.

He didn’t win despite who he is; he won because of it. He won because his base is that awful.

“but he’s hurting the wrong people, tell him that, he must not know it!”

Imagine being nostalgic for this… That’s scary AF

Because we did such a good job of that in his last presidency and he wasn’t a god king yet. /s

fair :)