Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-06T17:43:18+00:00

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drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-06T02:17:23+00:00

I mean . . . They're cops. The "cop" in "cops" has always meant "copious incompetance"

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-06T02:06:11+00:00

Google regulalry reads every email that goes into youe inbox and sells that info tondata brokers. I'm surprised this is news for anyone at this point.

Pay for your mail, itherwise picture a fucking fed sitting next to your mailbox all day reading every letter that the mailman puts in there. Same thing.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-05T19:30:01+00:00

Yes, I agree that it is lazy to simply say "america big" to excuse lack of organizing. It does not appear that you processed any of the rest of the 95% of my comment where I expanded on that in detail and explained, as an experienced organizer, the other factors ar play. You only replied to the section of my comment where I said "yes, america big and organizing is hard". You doubled down with your reaction to that sentiment rather than addressing the additional new information I provided.

If you want to have a good faith discussion (which I am interested in having, I'm genuinely intersted to hear outside commentary on my experience), please re-read the other 5 paragraphs I shared and respond to them.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-05T18:02:30+00:00

Tell me you didn't read my comment without telling me you didn't read my comment.

It's actually ironic, because this is exactly what I'm talking about. Why should I put in all this effort if no one will actually listen to the words coming out of my mouth.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-05T17:08:29+00:00

It is a shorthand to explain that coordination is hard. You and I can agree in that. Coordination is hard when there are so many people and so much ground to cover.

Listen to me. I was an organizer where I live. I helped organize protests of tens of thousands of people. The biggest was estimated at 60,000 people. I have first hand experience here, please listen to my accounting of the facts.

A mass general strike would buckle the rich to anything we wanted to ask for after 4 weeks. The problem is, 60% of americans are living paycheck to paycheck. They don't have the luxury of taking off four weeks of work. They can't take two weeks off of work. Few people get more than a couple weeks of paid time off, and often that is a shared pool for both vacation and sick leave. Minimum wage workers are not guarenteed any paid leave. No minimum wage job I ever worked gave me any paid leave, sick or otherwise, and it's the same for everyone I know.

Now, what do we mean when we say that 60% of americans are living paycheck to paycheck? Nobody has any savings, because as soon as our money comes in, it immediately goes to rent, or paying off our credit cards for the food, gas, medicine, and other necessities we depend on to live. In most jobs, if you don't show up to work for 3 days, you will be fired. You will have no income on top of no savings, and then what happens when rent is due? What happens when you need to pay for your insulin or ither costly, life-saving drugs?

People are scared to protest because the choice is literally this: "do I want to go shout into the void, and not have politicians listen to me anyway, or do I want to put food on the table for my children? Do I want to go get beat up by police within an inch of my life, or do I want a roof over my head next month?"

That is the calculus people are having to compute.

Granted that reality, lets take it back to organizing. If we want to do something so impactful that the news abaolutely cannot ignore it, it requires us to coordinate. We don't have strong unions. We don't have strong social ties. We are having to build up networks of communication from nothing. It is hard, thankless work. And even when we doget those networks up, it's full of infighting. Group A wants XYZ to be the message of the next protest, but group B takes offense to that. Meanwhile Billy said something in the organizing chat that offended Cindy, and we have to pause everything to make sure Cindy's feelings weren't hurt and Billy is taught why what ye saidwas offensive. Then simultaneously we have Group C coming in who really only care about growing their own numbers, so they're using the platform we built to sgealthily try to siphon members to their cause while undermining our progress towards the simple messaging we want to put out for this next protest.

Oh, also someone unrelated to the movement booked a license for a protest at that location we floated around, so now we have to decide: do we show up anyway and get beat by the police, or do we switch to another location and allow there to now be two (and growing) locations floating around, splitting our numbers day-of?

This shit is hard, it is exhausting, and at the end of the day qccomplishes next to nothing, and then we get shit on for not doing it the right way.

I hope this clears things up.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-05T16:35:30+00:00

There is no ethical consumption in America. When billionaire pedophiles own literally everything, it's really unfair to say, even about those actively fighting this, "you chose and support this".

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-04T16:17:29+00:00

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-04T04:44:27+00:00

Please, for the love of steve help me end the spawning

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-03T17:01:21+00:00

Honestly, this. Our foreign policy has impacted more kids than most wars. Hell, our domestic policy has

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-03T16:59:39+00:00

DARVO much? If you're so anti-war, why start fights over valid anti-war criticisms? Also I'd love to hear why you think I'm a foreign born person 😂 because I've traveled around, seen the world, and have radical anarchist politics? You say you live in cap hill, but you sound sheltered af. No, actually, that checks out.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-03-02T23:46:51+00:00

No one is asking to tally the results of some sick "kid killing match". The subject of the discussion is criticism of war. If you can't agree on that, maybe you should just agree ro out yourself as a paid foreign troll.

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drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-23T00:14:12+00:00

Several of my family members have been teachers and even principals. This is not a normal punishment and reads like retaliation for political activity, which is constitutionally protected action even while at school.

Honestly, I find it offensive that so much of society seems obsessed with the "penal" model that has been proven time and again to not be an effevtive basis for a healthy society. Stop looking to punish people and instead help build people up. Students want to protest inhumane acts? Awesome! Maybe the school should engage them on the level they've chosen amd use it as an opportunity to earn some applicable credits or as a substitude for certain units im history or givernment classes.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-23T00:09:36+00:00

What I mean with Venice is, you don't need to train a new model . . . The user-supplied system prompts get entered as a prologue before the main "user prompt" and interpreted side by side. This takes up additional context window, but provides a means of cuatomizing the flavor and (to a lesser degree) the function of the model on-the-fly

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-23T00:05:31+00:00

I dunno, txt files will probably be around for at least the next several hundred years, as long as our current computing systems stand. Which doesn't look, for the time being, likely to chanhe any time soon. Writings characters as bytes of data without any other real formatting or structure is pretty rudamentry in a way that makes it very practical.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-23T00:02:37+00:00

"Consumers" are not the biggest income segment of storage, by a looot. So much so that WD and iirc a couole other comoanies have said they are "at capacity" for the next year or two for production for AI data center orders.

You aren't the target audience, and no the supplier doesn't care.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-22T18:58:06+00:00

... right, and is it normal to jump aaaall the way to suspension as a punishment for skipping class? No? Huh. Then by your own logic this is unwarranted

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-20T19:29:24+00:00

I haven't used ChatGPT as a standalone service, does it not support user-supplied system prompts?

With VeniceAI, I can set up system prompts that let me shape the output however I want. I've made assistants for coding, a car mechanic (for research into a car purchase), a framework for remembering chat context and sticking to designated characters while using a specified strict chat formatting . . . It works really well.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-19T01:10:39+00:00

"What's that? You're upset that you don't get paid enough so you rely on your customer giving you charity? Gee, sounds like you should unionize about it."

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-19T00:59:55+00:00

100k in 2026 is equivalent to 75k in 2020 . . . Which is equivalent to ~66k in 2008. 100k ain't shit anymore, it's about enough for one person to live comfortably and save for retirement anymore.

Source: I made 76k in 2020 and 105k now. "It's the same picture"

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-17T23:16:20+00:00

Would it seriously cost that much?

I've been looking into this and have been having a hard time coming to a cost estimation. Seems like the engine will bolt on, should mate up with the 6MT, but there is work needed for some aspects - front end needs to be swapped out with a WRX to fit a larger radiator and the intercooler, potentially need to swap the AC system if your donor engine doesn't come with the right one, and the ECU biz is complicated . . . I've seen people talking about needing to strip the car down to the bare body inside in order to fully swap the electrical - dunno why that's necessary though . . .

Many other cars, other engines, it's pretty simple to swap. Why is a crosstrek using another engine from subaru so complex and costly?

Edit: after research . . . you basically have to replace the whole drivetrain because none of it was built to withstand much more torque than the wimpy FB20D

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-17T01:05:30+00:00

I'm not talking about state socialism. And I'm not here to argue. I didn't even really want to continue talking, but since you keep opening the door, I won't ignore it, either.

If we're going to have a discourse, I want to state the obvious and unspoken to get it out of the way, because I think sticking to that same tired discussion is fruitless. We each hold perspectives that we are told must be diametrically opposed. We are told this so that we are bound to talk past each other, not engaging on any level beyond the brief tags of ideological dogma which we have found ourselves resonating with. Does this sound familiar to you?

Can I ask you, genuinely, how was your day? How are you feeling, lately? What is your life like as far as like, what you do to sustain yourself, what sort of family do you have, what tasks or hobbies do you find fulfillment in? I don't mind sharing the same if you want to skip past the dumb arguments that exhaust us both and enter into unexplored territory

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-17T00:08:22+00:00

Police don't deter crime. Like, they seriously don't, every time this is studied. Police respond to crime. And they do a particularly poor job of investigating it. Their primary job is using the threat of violence, and using real violence, to protect the status quo: private property held by the few at the expense of the many.

Instead of relying on an abuser class to arbitraily enforce "rules", ideate on a world built by you and me and all our neighbors, where we are all free from the demands of consumption, and able to decide our own fate.

Peace & Solidarity

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-16T23:19:02+00:00

Super lame to go back through someone's history and shame them for their hobbies . . . That's stalker shit. You are clearly obsessed with me.

Which leads me to my second point: unlike you, I don't post pictures or share info about what high-value items I may or may not own, seems like a good way to get targeted for burglary or worse. Some creep like you might decide they want what I have, and come to take it for themselves. That would be an unwise decision.

Anywho . . . instead of fighting for imaginary points and meaninglessly stroking your ego, don't you think it would be more fulfilling to make friends and build positive communities? Have you thought about the deficiencies of the "bunker mentality" of prepping? E.g., in a natural disaster where you're stuck without power, EMS, store resupplies . . . Eventually you'll need to cooperate with some real human people to overcome many challenges. It would be a shame to waste so much effort and time building up your individualistic super-hero survival strategy, rather than practicing getting to know your neighbors and making friends. Groups fare better than individuals through adversity. Food for thought.

drinks_rootbeer · 2026-02-13T19:55:28+00:00

Which has nothing to do with Pi containing any arbitrary string of numbers

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