Exactly.

And when you start looking into his real estate development, the majority of them fall into two camps. Either he sold his name for the property and had absolutely no involvement in them because in the 80’s and 90’s Trump means “classy” OR he was the financial backer while others actually did the development and management of the properties. The vast majority of his failed properties were the ones he actually kept some sort of control over and since he doesn’t pay his workers and wants to operate like a slum lord, all of those properties tended to fail.

If anything all he really did successfully was show how if you start out with a lot of money and have mildly competent people around you then you can make money.

I get that. But it is amazing when you see interviews of him back in the 90s and he very obviously couldn’t run a business to save his life. It was always about scams and when called on it his brain would break.

The real question is, does he think he can run a legit business or is his only skill in stealing candy from the pockets of kids as they jump into life rafts of the ship he caused to sink?

The justification of the slippery slope is pretty simple.

They ask to add in a DoB field that must be filled out and reported at all times. So we add it into our systems and say no big deal. If you hate it put down your birthday as 1900-01-01 and call it a day.

But what is the problem with a self reported, unconfirmed field like this? It is utterly useless BECAUSE it is a self reported, unconfirmed field. It doesn’t solve any problem AND it doesn’t provide any real personal information. So why even ask for it?

The two options are malicious intent and stupidity that tech can’t be worked around.

We can skip the latter as stupid people will always be stupid. So the former, malicious intent. When they point out that this new law isn’t actually fixing things because of the fact people are lying about their age they will inevitably say we need government IDs added to the system. They will not only make sure you are the correct age for content, but know WHO is viewing such content and they will be tracking it.

Now you might say, wait there is a third option, benevolent people actually wanting safety. Creating a system where personal information is mandatory to your interaction with the internet creates a security target that we all know cannot be covered. And we also know that all tech can be broken so kids will find a way around this stuff. Using your parent’s ID, a globally shared fake ID, hacking the protocol for certification. they will get around it.

The slope is slippery because the only options are

• Stupid => which falls down the hill on accident
• Benevolent => which falls down the hill because its a vertical cliff face that can’t be scaled
• Malicious => they push you down the hill because they are assholes

We’ve now hit the point in the timeline where these morons thought maybe if we change the name back no one will think it was us.

“What? No, we are the Department of DEFENSE. That whole thing going on in the Middle East was caused by the Department of War. That’s not us.”

late to the post but I use syncthing for everything. It works well but the biggest “cheat” is that some of my syncs are shared on my VPS. So when connections are a bit fuzzy between my phone and home computer it all just works. But that is usuall when I’m not on my home network.

This should have been hilarious

Super cereal

touching

sadly, that never happens with my wife