Another thought, an advanced bitcoin miner type thing uses new physics where the environmental destruction used to power it is basically to increase the progress of the Big Rip (perhaps only locally though), but maybe the reason we always thought expansion of space was always happening is because older aliens were already doing the same thing for their blockchains.
> This is where case where it's worthwhile to talk to cops: if there is potentially verifiable evidence of innocence that stands a good chance of diminishing as time goes by.
Might want to think twice about that, you might be replacing one allegedly innocent suspect with a suspect you know for a fact is innocent, yourself.
The ones that were able to keep their anonymity and didn't engage in fiscally irresponsible behavior like drug purchases and $200k+ vehicles are probably very happy after 10 years.
Most people are using something like laravel or rails that has auth scaffolding built in for you, so both outsourcing and rolling your own are obscure dirt road paths that are rarely suggested.
Somebody just wants to choose their operating system without the whole market being coerced by a large hedgemonic monopoly and then you yell down from your ivory tower that everybody but you is arrogant.
Some people would like to use FreeBSD and other free Unix OSs without having to kowtow to Linuxisms too. It isn't the fault of Linux users that they have to do so.
I've been enjoying for some time now how people who have never read 1984, or have no actual idea what Orwell was alluding to in it other than "bad government", keep invoking that book. It's funny.
> implying that everyone else is not against fascism.
Weird how you take them opposing fascism and you doing nothing about fascism to correctly conclude that you're doing nothing about fascism but then baselessly blame them.