For a more civilized age.

perl -e '$_=q|Tnpljoh!ljmmt"|;s/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/eg;print'

“Turn into” ?

I imagine he’s going to try and deploy this in that totally unregulated Freedom City that he and Trump are trying to launch on some federal property in CA.

Is this the one that had that little tilt gauge on the dash to let you know that if you cornered too hard you were gonna die?

He visits, the old pope dies. He visits, your entire political party is marginalized. Frankly if I were a world leader I’d want to stay as far the hell away from JD Vance as possible.

Actually, as just a regular Joe I’d * also * like to stay as far the hell away from JD Vance as possible.

Probably for the same reason I’m not concerned about Chinese companies collecting my (US) data – what the hell are they going to do with it? I already know all the terrible things that my local/national companies and state/federal government are doing with citizens’ collected data; there’s real, well-known risk there. Compared to local actors, foreign ones are not nearly as incentivized to do anything with it.

I think the incels want the sex part and not necessarily the kids part tho – this would give you the opposite

Brave New World, here we come…

JSON is like the carcinization of programming

Sounds like the Internet in the 90s.

Well at least there’s the fediverse, onion routing, nostr ID management, simplex and others. It’s not quite a Plan B, and definitely takes some effort, but is much much better than nothing.