Cyrus Draegur

i mean, that TOO.

Well, that’s the thing, they encode the data of the security chip such that it’s a type of “media” whose “content” unlocks the functionality and copying the written media content is how they legally frame it as a tortuously stretched “violation of copyright”

they’ll make smaller shittier batteries that die more quickly so that they can charge more to replace them and put proprietary control chips inside them so either third party manufacturers of better batteries will have to “violate copyright” in order to make them work or YOU’LL be required to “violate copyright” to make them work, thus locking most people without the technical skills to circumvent the ‘security’ into only buying the shitty ‘official’ batteries until MORE regulation comes along to make them cut that shit out. In the mean time they’ll be blaming the regulations for the shittiness they adopted.

eminent domain seizure and fucking liquidate them

used to

grats on getting out fam

those parasites are scum of the earth

i used to work for BB&T (oh shit that place got merged and calls itself Truist now. Damn)

compulsory voting that attempts to actively single out and punish people for not participating, for instance, I believe WOULD result in them voting, out of spite, for the worst possible option. But if it’s more like, any plurality “victory” has a big asterisk showing how they were vastly outnumbered by the people who didn’t choose to pick a side, and that their momentum should be slowed proportional to how many weren’t motivated to agree with them as a check/balance, might have a cooling effect on the proverbial “hot temper” of their technical marginal win. That, yes, they can proceed with the planning and legislation but a sword of damocles in the form of an instant referendum if those who didn’t vote suddenly make a decision in light of which way the wind is about to blow finally decide to weigh in.

Sort of like how many people after Kamala lost were like “wait whats a tariff?” “wait what’s this project 2025 thing??” “wait obamacare IS the affordable care act???” - it might not work out for major elections but for all the more local ones where policies are more immediately going to affect people’s lives, it would be prudent. Also, even if an election is no longer actively running, changing your own position on the ledger would be a clear communication of loss in the confidence of an administration… the visibility of which, alone, would be good for prosecuting forcible removals from office for individuals who prove themselves unfit. Like that so-called alleged “George” “Anthony” “Devolder” “Santos” If That Even Ever WAS His Real Name.

a problem with direct democracy is that it still only ends up measuring the plurality rather than the majority. Now, I’d be curious to see a system tested that counts the silence so that a vocal minority can’t always act with impunity as if all the people who WEREN’T heard simply don’t exist, whether they chose to abstain or were otherwise prevented from participating through systemic phenomena (or just being overwhelmed with life).

I don’t think we can rely on there being some sort of compulsory system that forces participation, but rather one that keeps in mind the rate of participation so that if only 10% of the population votes one way and 9% votes another way, that measly 10% doesn’t get to act as though they have some kind of mandate.

Rather I’d have liked some kind of non-crypto-sludge ledger system where your votes are pseudonymous–only YOU can be certain of the identity of your vote but you can SEE where it is in the system and you have the ability to CHANGE it if your understanding of the stakes evolves–such that realtime polling approaching any given decision’s deadline can actually be tracked and campaigns can have a better idea of what their blindspots are in terms of who they’re reaching and what information is actually having a measurable impact.

Authenticating the veracity of this information and ensuring some system that actually manages to serve as a functional fairness doctrine is a separate problem that also needs to be solved.

also rebrand it from Mastodon to Trunky.

1. Trochaic meter is more addictive: 2 syllables with accent on the first. just like YOU-tube, FACE-book, GOO-gle, TWIT-ter, TIK-tok, SNAP-chat, RED-dit, WHATS-app, etc; there are a FEW exceptions like Insta, Messenger, Telegram… but they are the clear minority and were propelled in spite of their names. it’s part of why TEEN-age MU-tant NIN-ja TUR-tles and MIGH-ty MOR-phin POW-er RAN-gers was popular.
2. Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop, the T and the K both hit nice, the R is exciting and powerful, the y ends it on a high timbre, it’s cute.
3. A mastodon is an extinct lumbering beast from the ice age which is the antithesis of anything trying to break out as a hot new service. But this would allow the service to keep its pachyderm branding.
4. While at it, change “favorite” to “trumpet” (as in trumpeting praise), again it’s trochaic (TRUM-pet) and carries less cognitive LOAD than “favoriting” which feels heavy and committed. Just because you LIKE something doesn’t mean it’s your FAVORITE thing you know? this would decrease the friction of interaction (which is GOOD).
5. Also while at it, keep tooting as the analogue for tweeting, rename boosting to re-tooting for brand consistency, and add a bookmarking function called “Remembering” (because ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, right? :D)

Feels like a pyramid to me. If I don’t have good sleep and good hydration I struggle mightily to control my food intake, and if I’m eating too much then I’m aching so badly and feeling so sluggish that I barely get anywhere at the gym.

barbara streissand has taught them nothing apparently