I think that is okay. You are a cool woman Rhiannon12866 . Though I think bots are in the feed between you and I.

And I'm very careful what I post, I tend to stick with the same sources, those that are newsworthy or those that offer humor which we certainly need right now!

Many of you whom I have read over the years feel a certain way in my head. As a recluse who rarely meets people irl I suppose I automatically flag (I only just realized it recently) it when someone feels different.

I am a fan of text based verification. Just handing more and more over to those greedy and inept tech turds. Bah.

But I am changing with age and information. I don’t sound the same all the time these days.

I have good days and bad days - but on both I hope good science and sanity prevail. Ms. Thunberg kept is simple “Trust Science”.

I use this forum because I trust specifically EarlG and elad. But sometimes I get annoyed thinking the type of person I am gearing up to file allegations pf professional misconduct against is in between. What is this bullshit hatting when that is causing half the crises.

I think way too much about a field called cryptography and I am furious because these guys cause all these crises with their sleazy ways and then one has to run around trying to work out the perspective on security by these guys who keep wanting to monetize things.


You seem camouflaged as a peacemaker . I thought Snowden was a dirtbag and Trump’s idiotic war on the SPLC is so sleazy.


I am a warmonger! No..I am joking because I could not pull off full out war. But grim unmonetizable humor is my purview.

I was never very good at communication or deception. But the truth and reality will work out in the end. Not herding and brute force.

Did you ever watch Unbreakable Kimmy. Good show.
Lol..

I have no idea if that translated. Anyway in my generally deranged trail I rant a lot and delete it.
I rarely talk to people I would dislike. But my compass got broken in repeatedly doing this hell math with more and more people all with their own insecurities, bullshit non priorities that evade ecological crises and war or address them in ways I think will probably not help war victims or the planet.
And I am not all sensible or centrist

But I tune out people who are awful to me personally so..yeah..
You are nice. I like that
it is not as if I am in the market for more common compunction and civility and I have no patience anymore. They can all suck it up as I did.
I carefully select who I talk to now. After making one final mistake yesterday.

Eugenics (the real not imaginary) kind seems to select for the asshole gene.

And of course I'm nice, otherwise I wouldn't still be here. I learned an important lesson back in 2004, I think. I told off what I later found out was a disrupter and though he was banned, I got my first and only deleted post. Obviously that stuck with me.

Then I became an LBN mod (back when mods were responsible for different forums, though the GD mods sometimes asked for help). Then I became a general DU.2 mod until we moved to DU.3 where we had both hosts and MIRT like we do now and I've done both.

So I try to set an example, like anyone pays attention to me. But I try to post both important news and whatever humor I can find. We sure need it now more than ever and fortunately Saturday Night Live was on tonight.

And of course I'm aware of Jimmy Kimmel. Until this week my fellow host, TexasTowelie, posted Jimmy Kimmel and I posted Colbert. I'm sure going to miss them both... And I like to think I've made friends here, including you.

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I think something is messing with the DU I see. These days I cannot tell if it is tests EarlG and elad doing legitimate tests with non-disruptive DUers.
That’s the thing about the net right. The only time I have ever alerted is on outright Freepers. I have even emailed you.
When I have jury duty I vote to let posts stand mostly because that is easier than voting to remove posts based (unless the context is cryptopgraphy - in which case I have no idea) on personal whims.
I am a “lax grader” unless it is a real issue. Iow where it is really just the obnoxiousness of this overcrowded, morally bankrupt and mentally deficient realities/

I used to be nicer. I am getting pretty fed up stuck with unpleasant people I cannot complain against because technically however lousy their intuitions, priorities they are technically okay.
If you just use the alerting function like an asshole, usually you end up forcing people like me to compromise with and cajole

Okay maybe some of it is ego destroying. But the rest is mucking up my compass.
It will happen over and over again forever.

I hate emulating unpleasant people. That makes it seem as if the unpleasantness is in itself some kind of virtue.

It is not like I gush. But there was a period in my life that ended recently when I was not sure if I am filing complaints and I used to go around reassuring thoroughly dislikable people (more recently up to yesterday) or before that random men that I won’t attack them for being dislikable or male.

Especially men. In fact with men in general in trying to merely say “hey I am not reporting you simply for being male. I’ll report you if it is way more than that.”
I don’t have any use for deception and trickery.

So complicated how we assess people. I think I used to be a woman incorrectly taken to be unpleasant. Maybe superficially but I never shirk on complaints nor confuse serious complaints with mere dislike. Nor seriously cost people time and money.

That I refuse to work with bs is different.

But i do prefer to accredit people I have sympathy for or like over someone who you glumly accept solely as useful in a crisis and not someone you would ever want anything to do with outside nazi germany.

I am no Wodehouse. But if I met a nazi i suppose i would try to understand why they are a Nazi. I had an insight today about Elon Musk.
It is quite possible his dad sexually abused him. It would explain a lot. I trust my instincts only because often they are all I have to assess science adjacent hideous drivel and yeah you can never be sure.

But if i have no sympathy at all for Zuckerberg, Pichai, Nadella, anyone at Google ever except Prof Hennessy (who doesn’t seem stupid nor sleazy at the very least) - they can suck it up and learn.

While I never admired or bought Elon Musk back when all these idiots thought he was a Green genius, after I saw that he wept writing about his dad, I felt kinda sorry for him. I take the net at facevalue as I never go to shady sites and usually a story shows up in multiple places if true.

My parents have always been my one source of support. I am an only child but I am not spoilt.
My sanity is in part thanks to the unconditional support of my mom and dad and boy have I needed it.

And now that Troy Farah (whom I like 🙄 wrote Musk should control the sun and Troy is not a troll nor stupid..

If ..this is the bleakest game I have ever played. Which right winger in a hostage situation and based on what?
Initially I thought Josh Hawley because I hate TikTok and Google, Matt Stoller (whose assays into the right are more dubious than Troy’s) likes him. I saw an angry interchange between Stoller and Alec Karakatsanis and Briahna Joy Gray. In the end I agreed with Stoller as tech creep fueled prison reform is vile. But Hawley with his anti abortion affordability? No

Yasha Levine I generally trust on most things.

I don’t know. Ultimately I came to the conclusion that maybe one should stick with hatrack as he is the most decent type of elder so these terrifying non choices can be avoided

My mental health has only suffered due to human and machinic drivel.

Any which way women’s rights and the planet seem to have by tacit consent seem to have been dumped as not worth it.
I am no boss or Karen but by the time you piss off even me this much all around…content creators, influencers, most execrably “sleuths”.

We hear a lot about the common man. The common woman who also has to grind solo for her bread or rely on resources she could never afford parasitism of..

I cannot believe the brainrot is so deep anyone would take such liberties with me just because I am not fancy or haughty and maybe a little unpleasant on the inside. I hate stupid and obnoxious people.

They can be sure of fairness but not a particle of civility or engagement.
I am sure they will be fine.


What is so awesome about sucking up to some well heeled women instead of men?
My courtesy is just that. It is not anything more.
And it will never again be extended to repellant people too shallow big picture to get how permacrises and chaos occur.