Red Wizard 🪄

@ RedWizard @lemmygrad.ml

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2y ago

Are We The Baddies?
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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

2y ago

400,000 marched in Washington DC against Biden’s complicity in Israel’s genocide

An estimated 250,000 people marched on Washington in August 28, 1963 to march for civil rights. Just to put it into context.

2y ago

Mandatory reading for all Lemmygrad users

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

Happy Birthday comrade

2y ago

Biden Administration Backs Legislation to Seize Frozen Russian Assets

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

Because you can't do self-harm. The state would never allow for its own hand to be cut off. Russian assets are from a whole different pool of capitalists.

2y ago

Biden Administration Backs Legislation to Seize Frozen Russian Assets

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

Except, they don't. They can't even keep up with the demand from both Israel and Ukraine. The MIC isn't spinning up fast enough, and local factory production is almost non-existent. Soon the bark is going to be more than the bite.

2y ago

Biden Administration Backs Legislation to Seize Frozen Russian Assets

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

Do you like being the global economic superpower with hegemonic influence over the world economy? Because this is a good fucking way to get other nations to tell you and the World Bank to fuck right off. Can't seize assets that are not part of your banking regime, and this definitely incentivizes de-dollarization.

2y ago

If peasants and lords talked about capitalism like liberals talked about communism

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

And who is it that will decide the right to rule? Be it us, he who were born to work the fields, such as God has willed it? What a fool's idea! It is called the Devine Right to Rule, we shalt not question the Lord's grand design, to do so is to take the path Satan walks! Those hedonistic, half naked, layabouts who rule through Democracy, worship gods apart from the one true God, are shameful heretics.
So if there is no Vessel who owns the land, then what? Is it we who own the land? What a silly notion. There are so many of us, how would that even be enforced? Are you then to tell me that to enforce the rule of law we would also have to establish our own lords, with whom we provide the swords, and shields and horses? What laws would these Lords of the People even enforce? The King is a decedent of God and his rules are God's rules! I've never talked to no God, have you? How insane a system to describe.
Write me a law right now, a law that makes this all make sense. What if I was a man who wanted to own many lands, and wanted to collect taxes on that land, but those people within that land ALSO wanted to own portions of that land?? What would that law even look like?? This theoretical nonsense about free markets and self-governance all sounds great on paper, but you can't even give me one example of a law under that system that makes any sense.
You're just describing Feudalism with more steps. What do you mean, the King will always want his throne? You can't just abolish the monarchy, there are parts of the Feudal system that are totally fine, and I don't understand why we should throw every part of it away. King Ulrik III is a great ruler, and I'm sure his son would be as well.

2y ago

We need money for jobs and education and not for war and occupation

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

The AI art is in full effect here. Arm transforming into a plastic bag. Melted faces.

2y ago

How did the internet came into being?

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

I mean, its a lot of things, starting all the way back to the ARPAnet days. The fact that encryption and privacy were not core to the specifications being built at the time means for much of the Internet's history, information passed as clear text. The project started in academia, which is probably why privacy was never considered because they imagined that only working professionals and academics would use it.

It was also a military project with the stated of goal of decentralizing our telecommunications network so that in the event of a nuclear attack, the military could still maintain comms, even if one of the major nodes went down.

Another reason why so much of it was in clear text is that for the majority of the lifespan of encryption via computers, that technology was listed as a munition. Being on the munitions list and meant that it could not be exported internationally or utilized by regular citizens.

However, as more and more people came online and the commercialization of the internet began, it was pretty clear that this could be used as a method of surveillance, although I have no material evidence of that. There was likely a tipping point in the past where national security concerns outweighed the desire for domestic surveillance and encryption was removed from the munitions list.

With the corporatization of the internet however it meant that the capitalist mode of production could swing into full effect in this unregulated and untested market. This is what ultimately led to the .com bubble, but what came out of that bubble was the knowledge of how to monetize the internet as well as vast consolidation of technological advancement over the course of the bubble's life.

The true revolution in monetization came with the onset of interpersonal networks becoming centralized and privatized. Things like XMPP/Jabber loosing to privatized systems like gchat and facebook messanger. The like-button, googles search dominance, the social feed of facebook, and amazon becoming the internet marketplace meant a full circle of information for users: What are you looking for? Who do you know? Where do you live? What sites do you visit? What are you buying?

All these questions could be answered thanks to google, facebook and amazon. Its no surprise then that each of them operated their own ad service. This leads to the inevitable outcome we have today.

2y ago

Iraq condemns violation of sovereignty by US, warns of repercussions

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

Could this result in a balkanization effect? Lots of exit talk in the last 10 years (caliexit, texit). Could conditions be reaching similar states that invoked things like The Hartford Convention?

My thinking is there would probably need to be more external intervention for that to a happen. Which I think aligns with history.

2y ago

Pressley, Warren Urge Biden to Reverse “Vindictive” Trump Sanctions Against Cuba

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

What's truly ridiculous is how obvious it is and yet this Democrat held institution has done nothing about it.

2y ago

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Pushes for Gender Equality in Domestic Duties

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

So I guess Alex Jones is a legitimate source then.

2y ago

Just before death you are granted one truthful, understandable answer to one question. What would you want to know?

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

2.4gz WiFi.

2y ago

What's an aspect of your job that college didn't prepare you for?

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

Working a deckade in retail prepared me for that.

2y ago

What do we know about Colorado's war on the homeless?

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

This is good info. It sure doesn't sound like they're doing any kind of end-to-end care here.

According to some reports, they've built these tiny sheds that make FEMA tents look luxurious.
They're only allowed to be in these spaces or shelters for 14 days. I can't think of how anyone could turn their life around in 14 days.
They are setting arbitrary benchmarks and doing a piss poor job measuring those benchmarks (potentially counting people twice, also forcing people out of shelters to accommodate new people in shelters)
Most people who are homeless suffer from some form of disability. Which includes some form of substance abuse.
They do not provide enough material assistance for people with those disabilities. Substance Abuse is a lifelong affliction that needs long term care and assistance.
Shelters are overcrowded, only for a limited capacity, smelly, and unsafe.
Most can not get work because of how unkempt they are, and it does not appear they get any assistance in that regard.
Many face violence from cops and property theft when their encampments are cleared out.

So "They say they like being homeless" is really "They would rather be on the street." and that seems to be because....

They feel unsafe in the shelters.
- More likely to be attacked or assaulted with so many desperate people in such a tight place.
They are only in shelters for a limited time anyway, and could get kicked out to make room for more people.
Being outside is often safer because people are more spread out, and they are visible, making the risk of being assaulted lower.

2y ago

Relay Phone Number and OTP codes

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Red Wizard 🪄 @lemmygrad.ml 2y ago

That would be more then I'm willing to spend. I'm basically trying to get around their human verification process. The first thing they demand is a phone number to receive a OTP.

What I did find was a service called smspool.net that let's you order a non-voip number to receive a OTP for around $0.25. You can rent a phone number if you want but I was able to get the OTP and get through the appeal process.