Posts by mike805@noc.social
(DIR) Post #B2Qss1VnzvhcJGmbom by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T03:32:08Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard I think chivalry was interesting, and misunderstood today.It was a practical thing that only applied to nobles.You knew that the same families on the enemy side would be there after the war. If you made personal blood enemies out of them, revenge would be taken, against you or your sons.So therefore you ransomed prisoners rather than killing them. You did not rape noblewomen (peasants were fair game.)It was more about strategy than morality.
(DIR) Post #B2QtOqlmxSeIY8ublA by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T02:23:53Z
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@Bernard @Forestofenchantment @amerika IMHO this is the basic problem with immigration in the West. We have a handful of true assholes that want to exploit the immigrants economically. They want desperate people.Then we have a larger group of soft-hearted altruists who say "we must help those people" without understanding their culture or values.If you take in refugees from a social disaster elsewhere, you will get some of the bad people who caused the disaster. They will cause one here too.
(DIR) Post #B2Qxr7pFXQAZN9Gjku by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T05:39:03Z
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@Bernard @amerika @Forestofenchantment What do you think of the fact that democracy is always held out today as the ultimate ideal to which we must strive? If things are not going well, the answer is always more voting by more people in larger polities. Never considering that maybe voting doesn't scale to infinity.Whereas the ancient Greeks saw democracy as the degenerate state of a Republic just before it crashed into a dictatorship (or got conquered.) One or the other must be wrong.
(DIR) Post #B2R6HsnSK3meDGhSEa by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T03:39:00Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard The Japanese had most of the same noble culture around the same time. I think a lot of it was about the weaponry of that time.Armor was very effective. The movies underestimate armor by a lot. The good armor also cost more than a peasant would make in a lifetime.Mastering either armored cavalry warfare or the longbow was a full time job. The knight needed a large crew to keep him in action.A bunch of angry peasants with pikes could not overthrow 1/2
(DIR) Post #B2R6apUyoCAXUE5n4C by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T03:23:28Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard From what I've read, feudalism at its high point had a social contract. The landlord was obligated to provide for the peasants, even in bad times.There were a lot of church holidays, which nobody dared to touch - no having to work on a holiday in those days!Usury was illegal and there was a large commons for people to graze their animals on.Then, ahem, someone brought in usury, and the commons was privatized, and it all went to hell. Sound familiar?
(DIR) Post #B2RuyjGYd15UoYw6O8 by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T17:09:40Z
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@Bernard @amerika @Forestofenchantment There appears to be a deliberate effort to keep the population 50/50 on issues the elite does not care about. This is to prevent the public from voting its wallet.For example, the D party could have passed a national right to abortion under Obama. They did not.And then just when the party system required a Leftward move, the Supreme Court decided to overturn RvW.The American political system is too stupidly designed to handle more than two viewpoints.
(DIR) Post #B2RzFkOq4Biz4OBDzU by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T17:12:12Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard Democracy as currently practiced is broken, yes. But Kings had some major problems of their own.There were too many wars brought about not by national interest, but by an excess of noblemen who needed land and territory to rule over.And that system rotted in extended peacetime, when social climbing rather than battlefield prowess decided who rose in the hierarchy.Nobility systems were designed by and for war, and could not thrive without it.
(DIR) Post #B2Sgv3KcsWfbgk9TlI by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-19T18:51:39Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard If human productivity has increased by 10X or more since the nineteenth century, why are there still have-nots?One of the reasons the Leftist plague is so hard to eradicate is that conservatives, when securely in power, do not care about the have-nots.If the billionaire class did not put so much effort into stealing a few additional points of GDP from the working class, Leftism would not be such a plague. Nobody likes the Leftist cultural agenda.
(DIR) Post #B2UGKoph6B4VntfJSa by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-20T17:02:06Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard "No need to steal" then why do they buy perfectly good companies and wreck them for short term profit? Who not just say "I have enough" and enjoy life?A lot of these people see life as a video game where they are chasing the high score.Those who do philanthropy (Gates, Soros, Koch family) get involved in creepy and harmful stuff.As for natural selection, this society is dysgenic as hell. The more responsible you are the less likely to reproduce.
(DIR) Post #B2WbnNBDTdQtn86oU4 by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-21T20:34:20Z
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@servelan Article talking about guerrilla tactics. If they think the USA really is going to invade, they do have a move, although their internal politics won't let them do it.Make it easy to own rifles, and encourage people to buy them. Including the scary black kind, and long range sharpshooting rifles. Do NOT have a registry.If those are widespread, then oppressing the population becomes very costly and dangerous for any hypothetical oppressor.
(DIR) Post #B2X9Sjud9yTyeggSiO by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-22T02:39:43Z
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@amerika @Forestofenchantment @Bernard I'm thinking of Boeing and General Electric, for example. Boeing was a great engineering driven company until they let McDonnell-Douglas bean counter management take over. GE pioneered the screw the worker, export the jobs business model before it was cool.Finance people should not be running non-finance companies. They will wreck it every time.
(DIR) Post #B2g63mkIebz053Rj8a by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-25T21:39:20Z
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@Kuenga @Bernard This sounds like someone is off their meds, and detracts from the real hazards of MRNA. This sort of thing is like the controlled demolition theory of 9/11. It is put out there to make the people asking uncomfortable questions look like nuts.
(DIR) Post #B2ljZXKIO1E5WlDJ7w by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-28T18:54:17Z
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@Bernard If we get rid of TikTok maybe people will stop filming vertically. 😆 The hostility to TikTok was mostly about the Western intelligence NOT getting the take from it.Now they can.On the good side, this means the western spooks cannot crack TLS, or they would just passively monitor all the TikTok traffic and steal the take.Personally I've never been on it, but I don't do phone apps.
(DIR) Post #B2lk0HAiYYifFBU4O0 by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-28T19:19:17Z
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@Bernard The American elite is "allied" with the Mossad i.e. the Israeli elite.From what I've read it's kind of a one way alliance wherein the Mossad shares intel when it benefits Israel and withholds it at other times.In this case, the USA is in a position to demand something in return for access to the TikTok intel fire hose.Yes get the hell off TikTok. Get off ALL phone apps. Use a browser on a PC. If you want real privacy use Tails and TOR. There's a trick for proxy over TOR too.
(DIR) Post #B2mm4xoOMHAbiKMe4O by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-29T16:54:28Z
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@sapphire @Bernard They have the fiber optic lines tapped, and they have put a lot of effort into hacking commercial routers yes.Any cable you cannot see both ends of is tapped. That's your basic assumption.Open source routers are the way to go for VPNs and home networks. I have an OpenWRT One at home and a Linux mini-PC running the net at work. In both cases I can tcpdump when I need to, and that comes in handy.They are better as well as cheaper.
(DIR) Post #B2n4jzzkwaXJX7OeEi by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-29T22:08:25Z
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@sapphire @Bernard We all know the Internet backbone is one big wiretap.To protect content you use encryption. To protect identity you either use Tor or you come in from a source not traceable to you.As for Tor, the main problem is that Tor endpoints are blocked from a lot of sites. There is a trick for stacking Tor with a proxy, if anyone is interested.
(DIR) Post #B2nA3joHKSp2tlG9gW by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-29T23:09:32Z
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@sapphire @Bernard Ah BS. They are collecting metadata even where they cannot read content.If you want to arrest someone or drone someone or just map out an organization, the metadata is often more valuable than the content.Protecting content is relatively easy. Transmitting without being detected is hard, even for the military and spooks.
(DIR) Post #B2nCvBhcYUh0f6lBlg by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-29T23:41:22Z
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@sapphire @Bernard Hey I just want to block ads and avoid malware. The rest of this is a matter of curiosity. What the hell is Omegle anyway? Never heard of it.
(DIR) Post #B2p6hMRTcNzeVW9VTc by mike805@noc.social
2026-01-30T21:24:25Z
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@Epic_Null @edbott If you must run Windows 11, run Pro, use a local account, and run both Windows10Debloater.ps1 and the Windows 11 debloat.If tools like file explorer and notepad are slow, it is because they have external dependencies. Running local account avoids most of that. I do not have a Microsoft account.
(DIR) Post #B3GmMo652qIRXTwamm by mike805@noc.social
2026-02-13T06:06:20Z
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@strypey @Adam Email is not good for real time. Ever been left waiting for a 2FA code sent in email? Also email can get arbitrarily blocked at either end. Or you can get spam.That is the main reason we don't have a single real time messaging protocol. Spam. If nobody owns it everyone will abuse it.I get by with SMS/RCS and phone calls. No email or texting apps on my phone. Had email on my old phone, never set it up on my new phone. I use a lot of email on a PC.Work uses Google Chat on PC.