The path to a viable third party presidential candidate has to pass through the down ballot races. If you want (for example) a future green party or libertarian president, you need a bunch of governors, senators, and representatives first.

Third parties struggle to get on presidential ballots because they are ineffectual on a national scale. They’re ineffective on a national scale because they barely exist in between presidential elections.

Expecting to change the political landscape from the top down is misguided and unrealistic.

What’s a tortoise?

Usenet was the golden age of Reddit for its time. Before the binary newsgroups drowned everything out and web 1.0 captured everyone’s attention.

In a way, it was a lot like Lemmy. Federated servers all inter-exchanged posts to a giant, global message board of newsgroups (roughly analogous to a subreddit or Lemmy community). Anyone could create a newsgroup and there were a lot of them.

When it was good, it fostered the same kind of genuine conversation that Reddit and Lemmy do when they’re at their best. It was full of memes, too, although that word didn’t exist then.

. . . increasing inequality, fueling injustice, destroying the planet, etc.

This is such an astute and accurate description of crypto and mining. You are a textbook example of projection.

You can literally die at any second no matter what your age. That doesn’t seem like a well-considered criterion.

What makes the most sense is ignoring your fallacious false choice.

You could generate a revocation key and then encrypt for multiple people using Shamir’s secret sharing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir’s_secret_sharing

Look into ssss and gfshare, the latter explicitly discusses this use of the algorithm.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man7/gfshare.7.html

That’s a great conversation to have the next time its relevant.

The Karate Kid was released 40 years ago

My iPhone has never intentionally made noise

You’ve used some phrasing that I am not really following. What exactly do you mean by “stable” in regards to an email address? And what is an “unknown” domain?

I do this for every website, not just financials. As long as you have a quick and easy way to create the email aliases and you’re using a password manager I think it can be an easy and effective boost to security.

Even if all that is true, Stewart is still 100% correct here

Also as a pipeline of fresh meat for the military

I’m so happy he lived to see the discovery of the particle and the confirmation of his theory

This looks like an attempt to reproduce the web-of-trust functions provided by Keybase.io. Keybase has historically been a great resource that fills the same role as the PGP/GnuPG web of trust for a much broader range of identity attestations.

An open implementation of this concept has been sorely needed since Keybase got bought and shitcanned by Zoom during the COVID lockdown. Zoom wanted to aqui-hire all the Keybase devs to boost development on their lacking encryption and security. Sadly, Keybase has basically been abandonware since then.

Yeah, there’s been dynamic pricing at grocery stores for as long as I’ve been alive.

The RNC only had $8.7 million on January 31st of this year. They’re $445 million dollars short of the amount that Trump needs. (Reference)

Conspiracy theory I’ll never be able to prove: the new wave of Russian sanctions that Biden enacted last week are an attempt to thwart this outcome.

Five years later? What a half-fast attempt at a joke!