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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • The fact there’s no double-jeopardy (triple? quadruple? Something not infinite at least?!) for indictments astounds me.

    Then again it shouldn’t surprise any more – the US system seems to have a billion holes, like swiss-cheese, only left unexploited up until recently because those in power had, maybe, some small shred of shame and decency. All those loopholes must be absolutely sewn shut, and ‘conventions’ and ‘gentlemenly guardrails’ need to be made hard, fast, and most importantly ENFORCED laws if the country is to ever recover. I’m not hopeful.





  • I don’t know how far we should/need to go … but all I do know is that the current state of mergers, consolidations and cartels in a lot of industries is, well ‘too much’. I don’t pretend to know what the proper balance is but it certainly ain’t what we have today.

    Take the recent news of RAM price explosions and Micron just stopping sales to retail for their RAM products. RAM is such a critical item in today’s world there almost should be some guarantee enforced by governments that it remains affordable for people; we can’t live in modern society without affordable computing devices.




  • I hope they succeed. Given Alphabet/Google’s recent moves to try and lock Android’s app ecosystem down and them just generally becoming more Evil every day, GrapheneOS and LineageOS etc. may be living on borrowed time.

    I watched a video reviewing some phones smuggled out of North Korea a few days ago and it’s truly scary what the endgame of locked mobile phones looks like and given the trends worldwide towards authoritarianism, we’re frogs being boiled slowly toward the same situation.