Not just that, but since they nuked everyone’s pensions and started investing retirement funds into the stock market, it has become both a measure of wealth transfer, and a way to ensure that if the market tanks, the folks with more liquid stock assets could get out first! The workers with their retirement plans are limited in how much they can move assets around.
Which is to say: It’s both a measure of wealth transfer and a giant Ponzi scheme!
My old apartment used to be set up in just such a way that after a midday shower, you would see a small Brocken Spectre’s centered around each of your eyes when you looked in the mirror. It was honestly kind of terrifying. The first time I noticed it, I wondered if I’d finally lost it.
Glowing circles around your black eyes in a fogged mirror.
I think that means I have the opposite of a pot of gold in me.
I’ve begun to use nonsense statements, made up words, and random vocalizations to make the bots think they couldn’t help me. That usually gets me to a human faster.
My circulation is terrible. I’ll have cold feet and hands while my core is too hot. Sometimes I will move the blanket so it’s over my feet and arms but my body is just under sheets. I need a blanket that is like a reverse vest.
I often tell people “I’m doing what I can with what I got.” as both a response to compliments and requests for effort.
What I got can be a lot, but I am one person battling neurodivergence, depression, and the shredding maw of capitalism in a system hijacked by christo-fascist lunatics.
I wish the article had more details about why they’re convinced it’s a black hole and not a neutron star.
They do say it could be either (once), but then only refer to it as having turned into a black hole through the rest of the article.
Have not clicked the link for the remake yet, (I was too excited to respond to your comment) but I freaking loved Orta. It was one of the first video games that I think I ever really got into.
Like I said, I’m weak on the science. I’m more of a computer person.
Most of what I know is based on either a Practical Engineering or Matt Ferrell video, but I’m interested in the topic, if a little too busy to dig deeply enough to get past the marketing. If you have a good info source on the matter, I’d love to check it out.
With that said, the first paragraph is not really applicable to my concern, which is that a grid connected panel + battery could be hacked. En masse, they could dump power onto the grid and fry transformers or take out substations. (Which smarter people than I have identified as a concern, re: EV chargers.)
That’s the dream. After years I finally got serious about learning/implementing VLANs and have begun to isolate everything out/properly firewall them. Most of the smart home stuff is already Z-Wave/Zigbee, but the few devices that aren’t are mostly already migrated onto a dedicated IOT network, as is the hubs, where only devices that have business talking to each other can even see one another.
I have yet to play with tailscale, but it’s on the list.
Hm. Imprecise on my part.
The panels aren’t the concern. It’s stored energy in the battery that can be dumped onto the grid, along with the stored energy of other compromised systems.
The article I linked outlines a scenario like what I’m describing being possible with EV’s that have had their chargers hacked.
So, did my Etsy curses work? Time will tell. […] For now, we can only trust in the timing of the great unknown. […]
And to you, Mr. Kirk: May the rash come swiftly.
I’ve had to help users see the light when AI claimed it had the solution for a problem, but after 3 troubleshooting, it invoked menus from programs other than the one they were using.
The users then kept telling me that they had their original issue, plus their software was missing features.
And while that’s great when, I guess, it makes for more feature-rich software. It’s a nightmare when the answer is a solid and resounding “No, that doesn’t work that way” and AI doesn’t want to tell someone no, so it lies.