At least the trees know how to spell forest…

Crypto is losing value because it never had true value. Now that serious world-changing fascist shit is hitting the fan, get-rich-quick crypto enthusiasts are dumping their dangerous play money for something that has a chance to keep its value in turbulent times.

Also, everything Trump touches becomes toxic. If I was doing crypto, seeing this madman and his idiot sons go all in on crypto would scare the shit out of me. Remember: he bankrupted 4 to 6 casinos depending on how you count. Who the hell bankrupts a casino?? It’s a virtual money printer! If Trump can make a guaranteed successful business like a casino go tits up, imagine what he and his dumb scammy family and friends can do to crypto…

Oh that’s nice: for once a young person is pissing on the boomers without lumping us gen-Xers with them.

Cuz more and more now, I’m being told that I’m a scumbag, the scourge of society and that we all had it easy-peasy in the 80s. Because of course we did: obviously we’re the cause of everything that’s wrong in the world today, and our evil boomer parents even more so!

Oh well, inter-generational hate will always exist. You will know it too when you get older my young friend…

Yeah, and you can trust Trump to know honest when he sees it: he’s strongly allergic.

The dems flinch again. What a fucking surprise…

Schumer and Jeffries desperately need to be kicked out of the Capitol. They’re a disgrace, and one of the major reasons people hate the dems almost as much as the MAGA fascists.

Make Bitcoin Zero Again

Trump is so damn dumb his policies are driving down the value of his own crypto scams.

Next elections would still be

What next elections?

Haven’t you heard? The Orange Utan and his fat tramp friend Bannon have already announced that they’ll deploy the SS ICE at polling stations. As if nobody saw that one coming even before Trump inexplicably won the vote in 2024…

Certain industries like to pretend they sell “special” devices and are heavy on subscription models for gullible customers, and customers who think that’s just the way things are done because things are never done any other way, because the whole industry is kind of a giant scam in which all the actors are in on the scam.

Locksmithing and physical security are two such industries. In scammy industries like that, manufacturers refrain from providing MSRPs and never sell directly to the customers, because the scam involves distributors setting their own prices - more often than not with outrageous markups - and bundling crappy subscriptions with the devices, that you often can’t buy without the subscription. The unwritten rule is that the manufacturers only quote the distributors and never undercuts them by selling direct.

This is a security camera. I don’t use it as such, but that’s what it is. I bought it from a security company at the price they quoted me, which may vary wildly from other resellers. I’ve seen those cameras sold for anything between $500 to over $1000, with the typical price being around $700.

If you want one, you’d better shop around to find the best deal.

And if the northern lights this morning weren’t enough, the camera delivered this ice rainbow this afternoon at sunset:

This happens on clear days when there are ice particles in suspension in the air in the winter.

Today is one of those days!

It’s one of these: MileSight AI Pro 5M 23x PTZ PoE+ bullet camera (exact model number MS-C5367-X23PE).

I chose the one with the 23x zoom because it lets us see more things further around the lake. But if you want one for stargazing, maybe you’d be better served with the 4 megapixel 16x zoom model (MS-C4467-X20RPE): the page says it only needs a minimum 0.002 lux at F1.6, while ours needs 0.008 lux at the same stops. I find ours’ performances in low-light conditions quite stunning, so the 4M model should be even better.

It’s not a cheap camera, but it’s really worth the money. The fabulous web interface alone makes it worth it: it’s actually useful, pleasant to use, it lets you define users with different rights, it doesn’t depend on some stupid proprietary Windows software, and it’s fully compatible with Firefox as well as Chromium. And of course it’s ONVIF-compatible and it outputs streams the usual way (RTSP and such) so you can connect it to anything that’s ONVIF- and RTSP-compatible.

No but I was replying to her complaining that she found the job terrible and tiring: she kinda signed up for it. So ya know… Cry me a fucking river…

Le normally doesn’t work for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She used to work as an attorney for ICE in immigration court, and last month volunteered to help prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office deal with the many habeas petitions from immigrants in ICE detention seeking their release.

Maybe don’t work for a criminal organization and volunteer for more?

Start counting the accounts held by prominent US personalities and you’ll find a whole lot more.

So what? Jon Stewart too is named in the Epstein files. But you know what neither Mamdani’s mom nor Stewart did? Fuck kids or try to help a convicted pedo.

Chomsky was a major intellectual figure in my life. For decades, I respected his opinions and looked up to him.

When I learned he was buddy-buddy with the pedos, I was devastated.

On a personal level, the “loss” of Chomsky in my life is the most terrible consequence of the Epstein affair. It made me even more cynical and distrustful of everyone and everything than I was before.

It’s hardly surprising. While voting for Trump the first time could be an honest mistake - and possibly even the second time if you’re truly a dumbass - the third time, Trump voters deliberately voted for a convicted felon, sex offender, patented liar, insurrectionist fascist. They knew exactly what they were doing, they wanted this and Trump delivered exactly what they wanted.

Those 49% are today’s America: a disgusting, fascist America. They’re the disease, Trump is only the symptom.

Remember: in almost everything the Trump regime does, gratuitous cruelty is the point.

I personally call them the American Tonton Macoute: it’s accurate, it doesn’t reuse the overstretched Nazi parallel and never runs afoul of Godwin’s law, the Macoute name is unused enough these days that it’s ripe for repurposing, and it teaches people about the atrocities of the Duvalier regime as a bonus.

Fascist Paramilitary Invader

Is that how we call them now? I did Nazi this coming…

But in the new poll, 51 percent said Trump is doing a worse job than President Biden did

This is staggering: 49 percent think Trump is at least doing as well as Biden. The mind boggles…