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Meet the “Squatter Hunter.” His real name is Flash Shelton, and he’s gained national attention for an unconventional, and highly effective, method of dealing with squatters: he moves into the occupied homes himself and makes the squatters’ lives so miserable that they eventually leave. It all started when squatters took over his mother’s house in Northern California. Tired of waiting for the slow legal eviction process, Shelton decided to move in and turn the tables. His strategy worked. To protect himself legally, property owners sign a lease granting him the right to occupy the home. Once inside, he uses simple but relentless tactics, blasting music, taking over shared spaces, eating their food, and generally disrupting their daily comfort. He also wears tactical gear and carries non-lethal self-defense tools like pepper spray and a stun gun for protection. Thanks to his bold approach, Shelton has successfully helped return multiple properties to their rightful owners.

Mark Manson was right when he said: “Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”

I thought for sure this was fake news. It’s not. They are literally going to cut the electricity off for 50,000 people so they can power data centers instead. You know how they keep telling us we have to build these data centers so we can beat China in the AI race? Well we already have 10x more data centers than them. It seems that China has a rule where they don’t build a new data center unless they have the energy capacity in place to support it. That’s probably why they currently have 36 new nuclear power plants under construction. Whereas America is so obsessed with “winning” the AI race that all the geniuses calling the shots here said “build, build, build! We’ll worry about the grid later!” And of course we don’t have even one single new nuclear power station under construction. The US has only built 3 new nuclear reactors in the last 13 years, while at the same time we’ve also decommissioned 12. Meanwhile China has brought 13 new reactors online in that time period and they haven’t decommissioned any.

@bit_fury Next round InfoSec: The code to encrypt and decrypt the payload is accessible to the client.

InfoSec: Your API payloads are in clear text 😱 Me: They're over TLS 1.3. InfoSec: Yes but I can read the JSON. Me: Because your browser decrypted it. For you. On purpose. InfoSec: Please encrypt the payload before sending over HTTPS. Encrypt the encryption. #rant

@Clint_Davey1 And just like in real life the good side loses while feeling proud of their moral superiority.

The most right-wing movie of the last few decades is the Last Samurai. The good side is explicitly a traditional, religious, patriarchal, warrior aristocracy resisting modernity. You just don't notice how right-wing it is because most of the good guys are not white.

@MaryRuwart >import illiterate, low IQ hordes for many decades, more every year >why are we becoming illiterate and low IQ? Really? This doesn't make sense to you? It seems like saying "I let go of a rock and it falls to the ground" to me...

No one can make this mess make sense.

It's the first world nations collapsing themselves. This is globalism. Globalism levels everyone across the globe. Ross Perot warned everyone about this but they just laughed at his ears. First world nations expended their mana playing Great White Savior to the other nations, and as a result the other nations got slightly better and we got substantially worse, as you'd expect.

someone is systematically collapsing all first world nations

@SirWSidneySmith @aidannonx Well if no one is going to stop it and you won't enjoy the road to it, I guess you're in for a pretty bad time.

@gridboundStory @aidannonx I'm not going to enjoy the endless suffering inflicted on mankind

Peter Thiel talks about this

@SirWSidneySmith @aidannonx I mean we collectively have the option but everyone is a domesticated retard so it's not going to happen. Ergo, enjoy the decline baybee.

@gridboundStory @aidannonx Yeah, only issue is that it isn't an option. If we had the option, I'd get rid of a lot of tech! But it's not

Uh the people who invented and mastered firearms are still the dominant people in the world, and everyone else who took them up to use them against us has failed to do anything useful with them. If those people had had the option to "remove firearms from the world" instead of "adopting them" they would probably have done better against us.

@gridboundStory @aidannonx >firearms invented >should we adopt these against the invaders that weaponise them against us? >No! Surely not! What if they keep shooting us?

C#, TypeScript, Turbo Pascal ~ one European engineer helped build all 3. Today, they’re used by 10M+ developers worldwide. 🤯 Meet Anders Hejlsberg 🇩🇰 > In the 1980s, a young Danish programmer built a compiler called Turbo Pascal largely by himself. > It was insanely fast for its time. Developers loved it. > Borland noticed ~ and hired him. > A few years later, he led the creation of Delphi. > It became one of the biggest Windows developer tools of the 1990s. > Then Microsoft came calling. > In 1996, he joined the company to help shape the future of programming languages. > He first worked on Visual J++ and Windows Foundation Classes before leading C#. > There, he became the lead architect of C#. > C# eventually powered enterprise software, backend systems, and millions of Unity games worldwide. > Most engineers would stop there. > He didn’t. > In 2012, he co-created TypeScript. > Today, huge parts of the modern web run on it. 🚀 > Microsoft, Google, Stripe, Slack, and Airbnb all use it in production. > For 40+ years, he kept quietly redesigning how developers write software. While the industry chased the next big thing, Anders Hejlsberg kept building it. The Programming Language GOAT. 🐐

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R Javascript... call me. We can work it out.

letMeWarnYou

@GeoffWacker >When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

All these problems disappear when you end the state.

Funding and also lucrative enterprise contracts. Once you get into a big behemoth company as a service provider it takes several acts of god to get you out. They're trying to lock in lots of deals before everyone figures out it's just a lotus eater machine that makes everything worse.

Unpopular opinion:- AI hype is created just to get more funding.

You got this, Brendan!

@GoldenAKMs @Meleyes1 @bedofbriars Yeah, and? In CoD I had to learn to shoot behind people because of how their hit detection works after years of learning to lead people in other games, and target center mass in others. Sometimes you have to figure things out.

@gridboundStory @Meleyes1 @bedofbriars I walk up to a dude who just got up from the ground and hit throw. My hands phase through his body. "WTF dude? The game glitched!" "No, it's just I'm throw invulnerable for 6 frames when I get up" "????"

People point out fighting games as being hard to get into, but I really do believe that the only roadblock most people genuinely run into is the fact that if you lose it is completely your fault.

Stonner to stonner: Detox once in a while

@aaron_vdp @miniapeur I should have said "dead german guys" instead of "dead french guys" in my original post, lol. Anything actually relevant to the human experience of life?

@gridboundStory @miniapeur Never heard of quantum tunneling? Schrödinger cat paradox? Beam splitter outcomes? There are many examples.

@nulloverride @Rothmus Yeah very true.

@gridboundStory @Rothmus The series was great but went on way too long.

Unpopular opinion: this is the morally correct position