Usually, conspiracy theories feed on an absence of information, not a glut. But the Justice Department’s release of more than three million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images has done little to smother baseless speculation or fabrication.

Well duh… it’s still the absenses. It’s just the glut is highlighting what’s intentionally removed.

If I’m reporting a robbery of my convenience store. if I said I had no security camera footage of the event… that’s a little weird.

If I report a robbery, and I do have security footage, but there’s a mysterious black bar over the robbers face… you might think it’s an inside job.

I wish democrats had a spine and a sense of humor… I’d say “OK I’ll take the unfreeze and I promise to name the airport after you, put it in writing and we will do this deal”.

then announce the new “Trump is in the Epstein files” airport.

am I missing something though, I’m assuming there’s like 18 democrats inn that committee so, what good does giving them the monopoly on questions on anything that matters.

don’t they actually have something like that in russia, like their top hockey team has to fake losing to putin like he’s a make a wish kid?

Edit: found video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbI55HdqQs

What’s the official rules on what they can share? Like could Ro Khanna do like a AMA where we give him page numbers… solid targetted list of

“OK so who messaged epstien about the littlest girl being very naughty”, who all were the co-conspirators listed on page X, etc…

Is that information considered classified he’d go to jail for it? I mean technically everythings supposed to have been released from the get go…

Because we honestly, we’ve seen more than enough to know heads need to roll, hell we can point to so many points in the files where we can see specific people that’s heads should be rolling where we just lack the names.

Well yeah who couldn’t think unpredictability is long term a huge problem, especially when it comes to “deal making” above all things. IE you start with the “we’ll give him what he asks for or he might attack us”, but 1. that encourages everyone to eventually co-operate to get the bully in check… also it wears thinner when you don’t respect deals you’ve already made. Your unpredictable enough and “give me $1 or I nuke your country”, simple request, but if your unpredictability is high enough… they’ve got no reason to think you won’t nuke them even if you give the dollar… hell actually more reason to think possibly the opposite, maybe your possesion of the dollar is the only reason he hasn’t nuked you already.

Only if he stepped well outside what he was supposed to be doing, and looked at and/or had his goons look at a lot of classified information that they had neither the security clearance, nor the need to know to access.

So in short, yes.

Worse…

Look I can name 3 products that are cheaper today than they were in 2025… Didn’t you see that walmarts thanksgiving bundle was a few bucks less than before, and they only had to downsize everything, give half as much food, and replace name brands with store brands. Your just cherry picking by talking about the 90% of things that are more expensive, and how much your total grocery bill is. Also it’s all Biden’s fault inflation skyrocketed under him, and when I said I’d fix it on day 1, I meant day 1 of year 3.

Plus all that tarrif money is going to trickle down to you any minute now… we’re just racking in so much money from the tarrifs they don’t know what to do with it.

I mean I’m not going to disagree that a blanket all old must go all young must stay approach. Obviously trading Bernie Sanders for Rick Santorum would not be a good move.

That being said what does need to be dealt with is incumbancy bias as a whole. IE no matter how shitty they’ve been, the effect is over and over again keep the same guy regardless of how good or bad he is until he chooses to retire or drops dead.

The approach should be “replace the people who haven’t been looking out for their people”.

I guess my point is federated services, at least prior to a world where they become mainstream, are only particularly good if

1. You have a group of people all willing to use them together (IE Matrix, Friendster etc…), Join as a group don’t expect to find other specific individuals.

2. If you do want to meet people, you are looking for pretty broad categories encompass millions. IE on lemmy you can certainly find an anime community, you won’t find an active jujitsu kaisen community.

Anyway so my point on things like Dating, Linked In etc… those topics are likely to be the last to have a hope in the federation, because their services on their own, require users, but more importantly those users have to be localized (IE dating sites need, both a high volume of users, and those users need to be in close geographical proximity, and have some reasonable male to female ratio, and then have some level of common interests). A linked in needs… job seekers, and companies/head hunters. Of which you can’t expect companies to put in resources without a large userbase… and you can’t expect the userbase to grow without company usage.

Is there even really a function for linkedin without… well what it is? The last people to adopt new and open source tech are… corporate executives, and to my knowledge the whole point of linked in is, a psudo job hunting web page, with some social media pages as a secondary (of which people are only going to be posting “work hard” and “I work hard” kind of messages because… well they’d never post something that might make them less attractive to employers.

I guess the point is, what’s the use of an open non corporate controlled linked in? I can convince a handful of friends to maybe join a facebook alternative to make it useful, Lemmy certainly is an ok reddit alternative, at least for the equivelant of bigish communities, and mid sized tech communities.

Things I don’t see working in federation, are things that you are looking for… well people that aren’t going to switch for you… and most importantly people geographically close to you. Companies aren’t going to use their HR members time searching for people on a niche career site, dating sites are likely lost causes because… well no matter how bad the sites are… a dating site where most people are 300 miles away from the nearest compatible person isn’t going to be of much use, and job seekers don’t have the luxury of moving before the companies they want to work for go.

If they had spines, democrats would be running on “we shut down the government to protect all people from illegal searches under ice. Or to prevent constituents health insurance premiums from shooting up. Meanwhile the republicans shut down the government to protect only themselves from legal investigations”.

That’s because the joker never was in charge of the federal government.

That being said, I think joker as president would be a nice step up… he’s chaotic as hell, but he hates indiscriminately, he explicitly will not work with nazi’s (If I recall a crossover had him meet red skull, who he opposed the second he realized he was a real nazi).

True but then it’s still worth pointing out the sides disparity… IE democrats sure as hell have had people switch alligences. Within the media sector, half the groups associated with the young turks, went on to become right wing. (Jimmy Dore, Dave Reuben etc…) Politician wise, we’ve had quite a few flips from democrat to either independent or republican. Yet none of them leave with "Hey here’s all the dirt I learned.

The point is I find it most telling that these conspiracy theorists, that are famous for grasping at the thinnest of straws when attacking the left, yet by attacking the right, they demonstrate that they do know what real evidence looks like. Basically to me that’s a showing of the question of are they actually crazy, or are they grifters.

Ever notice how when the conspiracy nuts attack the right, they bring receipts, actual recordings, solid evidence. Then she goes for the left with like the absurd Macron conspiracy where her evidence is basically "this girl looks a bit like her brother… nevermind the fact that he’s been in public many times since the claim started etc…

It’s about the feeling of safety. I mean could you imagine how terrifying it must feel just walking around a school, dragging a kicking and screaming 10 year old out and think to yourself… what if one of these kids has a gun and starts shooting! We all see it on the news every day… but it’s so much easier to watch when it’s just little kids trying to get about their day getting shot. It hits so much harder when it’s 30 year old trained gunmen that might have to face being in the line of fire.

Or walking down the street just minding your business spraying pepper spray in peoples faces, and think to yourself, what if someone in this crowd has a gun. I’m only wearing 3 layers of body armor, and I’ve only got 15 friends around also armed with large assault rifles, gas masks, and tear gas to protect myself, maybe one person in this crowd, might have a weapon somewhere, and might even think about using it.

Or imagine the fear they feel every time they burst down someones door, with only 10 other soldiers, and a mere inches of riot shield in front of them to protect them from these people that have a small chance of owning a firearm somewhere in the house, these brave souls need protection!

I can’t imagine what it’s like to live in that kind of fear.

I mean DNS is always the issue… but then that’s kind of the double edged sword as well isn’t it?

Conceptually 4 options come to mind.

1. DNS as current - weakness domain name changes or DNS outages or poisoning

2. IP address - Issues, migration etc… some instances may need to move services etc…

3. SSL private/public keys - probably the strongest I’d imagine. only real weakness I can see is… 1. it has no ability to find a server, and I guess if a server is hacked and it’s private key is stolen, federated servers would not be able to spot the imposter.

I do think 3 might be the strongest option. I don’t know anything on how lemmy etc… works. I’d imagine a strategy would be, When A and B federate with eachother, A records B’s Domain name, IP, and public key (and B gets A’s as well), if DNS goes down attempt recorded IP. If neither work wait for an incoming connection and if the new connections public key matches an existing public key, it assumes the identity.

But as far as the user side I don’t really know. Obviously we can only match users as their domains. I can’t imagine how I could find you again with gammaray@sh.itjust.works when sh.itjust.works domain is unregistered.

I would rephrase that to many, far more just wielding flags, beating officers with doors etc…, but yes there were a lot of armed protestors on january 6th… and the only person that got shot was one who breached so far past where she was supposed to go that there was no rational way to prevent congress and pence etc… from getting attacked.

Also charlottesville, covid 19 armed protests (https://everytownresearch.org/report/covid-armed-protests/), etc… bottom line there’s been a hell of a lot of right wing armed protests… and one thing they all have in common… people blatently brandishing guns didn’t get shot by cops.

Good god the NRA is such a BS organization.

On one end they are yelling at one politician for saying, bringing a gun to a protest has a chance of giving them an excuse to shoot you. Which is objectively what just fricking happened, and good grief Bill Essayli’s backtrack of it is… almost worse.

“I never said it’s legally justified to shoot law-abiding concealed carriers. My comment addressed agitators approaching law enforcement with a gun and refusing to disarm”

Good fucking grief… The man wasn’t an agitator… he didn’t “refuse to disarm”. He got the shit kicked out of him for trying to help a woman up, before they spotted the gun, disarmed him themselves and then executed him.

Key takeaways from the actual incident.

If you concealed carry. You are morally and legally in the right to do so, but the untrained keystone cops of ice, might kill you, and it remains to be seen if there is any hope that they will be held accountable.

NRA almost wants to take the right side here… but of course “wait for the full investigation” is there way of saying "ok look this is exactly the situation we’ve been saying we’re going to defend… but it’s crimes by the republicans so… lets find a democrat we can try to blame and say nothing about the responsible concealed carry person that was just executed.

They damn well know there will never be any kind of investigation… they know damn well that the evidence we have right now put together by concerned citizens, is the only evidence that we will ever get. Besides the lies that the current administration is going to say on TV.

It’s been a long time, but… wordpress is all sql isn’t it? Shouldn’t it just be, make a backup of the mysql database on the old server, install mysql and restore the database to the new server, and then point the word press servers configuration to the new database?