uh, you believe their assertion of that??

Malevolent, machiavellian, sociopathic idiots.

HP’s sooo far into the negative trustworthiness side of the number-line, that it’s a sickening-shame that no criminal-investigations happen on them, as I simply don’t believe that people that molester-nature are entirely-legal in all their doings.

When they began requiring to have people’s credit-card-info on-file, in order to be able to USE their printers ( I read in the geek-news, sometime in the last few years ), they murdered integrity from their domain.

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I just realized: Trump’s religion includes Apartheid.

& he thinks the white-nationalist gov’t of bygone South Africa is good…

That has implications, for what his plans are, & how he reacts, throughout the next near-decade…

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I think that male-supremacism/mysoginy is the common-principle, underlying Roman Empire cult & the alt-right.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract

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Projection, in the Western-psychology sense:

The Republicans-enforcing-fascist-police-state are exactly what they’re designating trans-people.

Gaslighting’s greatest-example yet, apparently

( Homer Simpson meme: "greatest-example so far … " ) :

I hope I don’t have to live in this world too much longer:

humankind’s making its collective-ego’s myth-fantasies actualize, is very very bad, when humankind’s ego is toddler-pubescent, without any understanding of accountability or consequences…

The problem is that MY soul/continuum indulged in this-incarnation, therefore MY soul/continuum doesn’t understand this kind of experiencing enough to have the responsibility/intelligence to avoid it.

Unfortunately, that means the only means of preventing further re-incarnation-into-this-kind-of-braindead-shitfest is to endure as much of it as possible, making that soul/continuum have some experience-induced-understanding.

Humbug on reincarnation’s rules: humbug on experience-being-required-for-competence…

( I’m only making this explicit, so that others who have no encountering of AwakeSoulism/Buddhism’s “the nature of existence in universe, is suffering” can begin understanding what perspective that Buddha/AwakeSoul Gautama was speaking from.

Ditch the “me” from the above, & see the principle of it!

that principle makes much of reality clearer: unconscious-souls get caught in lives in-which they suffer, because unconscious-souls don’t accept accountability or responsibility, & they just do any random thing, because they want to.

Experienced/conscious souls avoid doing that, & get caught in more sane, more advantageous lives/incarnations, simply because they know-better.

It’s rational, it’s obvious, & it’s functional: we can act on it, through making our Eternity get better, through earning more growing-up within our individual-lives.

All this fatalism & learned-helplessness that is being pushed by all the different forces/groups is counter to our own advantage, and we NEED to stop drowning-for-its-benefit, right?

That’s why I invested in making the underling principle clear, even though I’m tired & fed-up with how it has battered my life: universal-law cares only about itself, so “tough cookies”, it is. )

That brilliant insight in the Christian bible is true:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev+10%3A8-10&version=CJB

In-one’s-face apparent- or symbolic- “truth” is syrupy-sweet,

but in-one’s-belly experience-induced-understanding is bitter, bitter.

The more-complete my understanding, the more the world’s oligarchy-rulers turn out to be machiavellian gaslighters, who have power that cannot be broken without MASSIVE concerted-action by entire-civilizations, including governments-for-the-citizenry, …

… & the next-while’s going to be butchering-down humankind in wars over ideologies, in order to prevent any fundamental-change from removing power from narcissism-machiavellianism-sociopathy … to responsibilityarchy…

it’s like seeing a mob take a detour from where-they-are-fighting … through a narrow land-bridge that slaughters most of them, dropping them into being shredded on rocks by stormy-seas, so their few-survivors can finish fighting without concentrating on the important-thing-1st…

Fighting the wrong war.

It is our unconscious ignoring that won, … not any appearances that we put atop that unconscious-ignoring…

Humbug on our retardedness, refusing to correct the most-fundamental-wrongs 1st.

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and in other “news”, men who had exclusive-of-all-non-men rights, have asserted that allowing women to have civil-rights, would be bad, too…

and white-supremacists have asserted that allowing non-whites any validity would be bad, too…

Duh!

Rigged-privilege protects itself, using all ideological disinformation it can!

it always has, it always will.

But why would this be deadly for the overall, if it removes feudalism/oligarchism’s validity/economic-might/rights-are-exclusive-of-the-regular-citizenry paradigm?

Gaslighters need to be controlled/limited, not platformed/boosted/validated.

Read the important “Screwed” by Thom Hartmann, for REAL and ACTUALLY EVIDENCE-BASED economics…

Here’s a not-affiliate link to the actual book, so hopefully you can read a sample & begin understanding why I’m recommending it.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/screwed-47

I’d tried understanding economics for decades and something was “off” about everything the textbooks were pushing, which got clarified in Hartmann’s book, right up front.

Economic-strength is citizenry based, and NOT mere-wealth/stocks based!!

Duh!, right?

But until Hartmann’s book, I’d not seen the correct framing for economic-strength, in ANY book on economics!

Sad, and true.

Get clear understanding: it de-stresses one’s view, & therefore one’s whole mode of living, to good extent!

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Brains!!

He’s got brains!!

GOOD!!

( in spite of his view that Jesus’s “the 2nd law is love your neighbor as your brother” doesn’t apply to the alphabet-soup LGBTAgnosticAnglicanWavyhairedNordicTechno-listeningWhatever people ( I’m just being silly, catty, & fey, since if the gays have the right to be that way, then us cishet guys do too!

so THeRe, eh?

: p

There is NOTHING in the new-testament which showed that benJoseph was committed to destroying people born wired into other genders, that I know-of,

so therefore the positions of the “churches” is standing entirely on stuff that isn’t of their root-guru, benJoseph,

but is in the rest of the book, which their root-guru identified as “mostly rules made by men, not G-D”, in their own new-testament.

Should their root-guru return, he’s promised ( Matt 24, iirc ) to return outside their churches, & we’ll see how conforming-with-the-churches-he-isn’t-of that he’s going to be, won’t we?

Should their root-guru return, that is. )

Here’s their root-guru quoting Isaiah, saying that people are taking as G-D’s religion rules made by men, which is exactly the point I’m trying to get known…

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt+15%3A7-14&version=CJB

Pruning-out the non-universal stuff, there is actually little left, of any religion, & it’s all principles, not culturally-formed-traditions…

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Peter Thiel is actively pushing anti-Jesus/anti-Christ, if this yt-short is anywhere near accurate ( & it is, unfortunately … I’ve read that Thiel holds that granting women the right to vote has been degrading civilization ever since )

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y

Aannndddd… here’s a former-fundamentalist’s showing how Trump is fulfilling the biblical description of the antichrist… ( I think he’s mis-matching some things, that the “miracle-cure” predicted in Rev has nothing to do with the rifle-bullet’s miss of his head, e.g. but who cares: he’s published, & I haven’t, so his page gets the link. : )

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Balance in reporting, right?

( what a sick cartoon-of-reality we’re now living-in, that this pair of links needs to even exist ) :

https://justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-tech-oligarchs-playbook-how-musk

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/owned-book-peter-thiel-trump-tech-silicon-valley-1235276868/

https://sites.psu.edu/mka6418/2025/04/10/civic-issues-5-accelerationism/

https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-04-27/tech-oligarchs-impose-their-prophetic-visions.html

IOW, this isn’t an “isolated” thing, which can safely be ignored:

this is part of a concerted highjacking of our world, by those who’ve got the resources to successfully-enforce it.

That yt-short video, up top, gives the proper frame-of-reference: tech can now BYPASS civil-rights & election-by-people process, & is doing-so progressively-more-completely, until it has supplanted civil-rights, permanently.

IOW, we’re all going to be living in big-tech’s East Germany utopia-for-the-oligarchs panopticon, where they rule, & NOTHING can threaten authority’s kingdom, forever, soon, if they continue winning.

I only glanced at those links I added, to make certain that they were on-topic, & none of them was the link I was trying to find, but they do provide better-context for this act of his.

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OR the ones in people’s homes…

I countered your original absurd-statistic’s downvotes by 1, because it is funny.

All the people who have become sooo damaged by political-outrage that you can’t recognize humor, when you see it,

this thread is brilliant fun.

& that somebody actually did the statistics on shawarma joints in Canadian cities, per capita, that’s just icing on the cake.

1 shawarma place per 8 people?? … how the hell could that not be recognized as japing, by the people who downvoted it??

Humans!

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It’s a criminal offense if we say it, it’s a social-faux-pas if it’s done by some propaganda-network…

Cowardly no-spine “law” of non-accountability-for-establishment, is what it is:

replacing the double-edge-sword held upright by Justice with a downward-chopping-axe, protecting the incumbents.

Same as always.

The person should be in jail, same as we’d be, for that.

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Herds/corporations dissipate: only individuals can truly-die.

Groups have been hiding that pertinent-fact from discussion for ages, now…

It’s time that we created legally-distinct categories for those who are only aggregates, like herds/corporations, vs individuals-who-can-die.

That’d take spine, though, which politics-the-arena weeds-out/prevents-from-having-any-say.

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It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…

Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

hth…

PS: I’d left this implied, but it ought be explained…

IF the current-powers-that-be can just print money to make a fake “good economy”,

THEN why can’t we do so, too?

You might know that nearly-all of the US currency was created very-recently…

You might know that when you double the amount of currency, you halve the value of each unit of that currency ( this is the essence of “inflation” )

The money printer is essentially how the US has been “managing” its economy: print money REALLY fast, & hope that nobody notices while the shell-games go on, changing ownerships, rigging corporations, etc…

but when it all comes crashing down, then … accountability will just go POOF!, same like usual, with institutional-authority…

https://forexsignalsystemtrading.blogspot.com/2020/11/100-years-of-debt-in-half-year.html?m=1

Scroll-down a bit, & see the graph with the pale-blue color on it… look at that graph, which shows how the amount of US money in circulation nearly-doubled in 2020…

The lead line in that article is important, too: 100y of debt gained in 1/2y.

Corrupt authority, both private & public, won’t ever tolerate either accountability or responsibility…

it’s the others who will be forced to pay, of course…

However, misregulation, disregulation, & bald-faced corruption do make the damage happen faster.

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USB-storage isn’t reliable.

Period.

ANY fscking thing that bumps any connection, can break the dam link.

Then your kernel can re-label the device when it re-connects,

and you’ve got to reassemble your RAID.

just my experience.

use ANY other method you can, other than USB.

stick a SATA adaptor on there somewhere, if you can.

Get a different motherboard.

ANYthing, but not USB.

Reliability’s kinda high on my priority-list.

Try Samsung.

Nowadays I can’t imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).

Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,

and the off-brands … often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I’m looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).

just my experience/opinion, is all.

V. S. Ramachandran’s “Phantoms in the Brain” book had a blindsight patient, many years ago ( he’s a neuro-researcher ).

He handed her an envelope, & asked her to put it in a mailbox ( which I think he held, at some angle, in some semi-random location, before her ), and she did, automatically.

He said she was absolutely dead blind, but could probably drive, without hitting any obstacles, or do archery, iirc…

SHE couldn’t see, but something in her unconscious-mind could see.

He called that something “the zombie”.

Interesting book, iirc ( it’s been a looong time since I read that one ).

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The carbon-zinc ones never do, but the alkaline ones do, the ones I opened, anyways ( a few decades ago )