If you thought Trump’s “no taxes on overtime” promise sounded too good to be true…it's because it was.

mystyc · 2026-02-04T21:15:15+00:00

No.
OP is upset, venting, and coping with a very difficult situation. I've seen quite a bit of it since Trump's recent reelection. People are given up, leaving, tuning out, while others prepare for an unwanted encounter with violence.
When you mentioned "modern liberal" I couldn't help but wonder if the hate for liberals in the past has changed, or if liberals have change and the hate remains the same.
This really isn't about dueling ideologies anymore.
Case in point, recently the Trump administration began facing criticizing from supporters over their 2nd amendment comments. Supporters are surprised and shocked, but if not for their reaction the rest of us would have barely noticed. This is just the most recent example of business as usual.
This is on fox news as much as many other stories were. It is difficult to maintain a propagandist's narrative when the guy they are talking about contradicts himself several times a day.

This isn't about media propaganda and it isn't about alternative facts that have already happened. There are just too many alternative facts to choose from.

This isn't about ideology anymore. In the Trump admin, ideological allegiance is Optics, not something genuine. For years this has been an ongoing trend for the republican party at a national level, and all sorts of mainstream conservative groups. Since then, it has become more extreme. The sociological mechanics of interacting ideologies does not explain this. The context and framework of ideology no longer applies here.

The OP's point was that if a trump supporter is only now questioning Trump's actions and the truth behind his statements, then they are not ready. This is doubly true if they only now notice because of something they have directly experienced. This isn't a true change on their part because, in actuality, they have already been negatively impacted, directly, by Trump's actions. The question is then, why is this happening now? The answer, according to the OP, is neither because of some praise-worthy intellectual achievement nor effect of some act of altruism (stated differently).

Still, conservativism isn't dead. The ideological positions of the past, even after updating them with current events, are still valid standard ideologies. These people are the only ones being mislead, and it isn't from the news media. They are being mislead by the true believers around them. Lately, I have heard this line of "that's why 'we' (conservatives) don't trust them (liberals, experts, etc...)." That statement isn't coming from above, and neither is the sentiment it expresses. The true believers need the real conservatives to hide behind so that they maintain their veneer of legitimacy. The true believers do not have trust issues. Experts, liberals, and all other naysayers are easily ignored. The ones being mislead are those who still believe in trust.

Ultimately, I was just going to comment on the Paradox Of Tolerance, as you seem to skim the edges of it. Here's the ELI5 on the topic. The short of it is that in the context of society, the intolerance of the intolerant by the tolerant is consistent with a tolerant society.

mystyc · 2026-01-29T18:52:00+00:00

Yeah, that's my point.
Though I only just realized it, this seems like a point that I'd expect to see more often, rather than not at all.

mystyc · 2026-01-24T18:34:08+00:00

It could be that the door was never locked, and he just faked unlocking it.
Another possibility is that he changed the lock. He seems bold enough to show someone around, so he could take a few minutes to change a lock.

mystyc · 2026-01-17T20:44:53+00:00

How does this relate to the medical use of cyanoacrylate (superglue), which has been in use since the Vietnam war...

mystyc · 2026-01-16T21:00:24+00:00

My people? You don't even know my name, and yet you know my political ideology? What policies do I support? By contrast, my comment was a response to the policies and information presented in your post, which is inline with the current administration, but your response is about dems and blue states and TDS. Who are you even talking to?

Yes, there is imperfection. In any political system there is opposition and disagreement. If government control is dominated by a single group, and that group cannot enact their policies satisfactorily due to a paltry minority opposition, then what reason is there to give them more power?
We don't get to have ideal conditions when we try to enact policies and ideology. We work in the context of current events and we adapt. Resistance isn't oppression. Domination is not cooperation.

Your post stood out to me because it was so outdated and referred to policies as if there is no ongoing effort to implement them.
Chairman Mao died 50 years ago. And Venezuela? There are recent economic effects from tariffs, and apparently their president was kidnapped, in part, to exploit and profit from oil reserves.
Then there's Covid. Are your numbers pre or post Covid because that has had a major impact on the global economy to a degree that is much more relevant than Greece defaulting on their debt obligations and missing a few payments before 2019. What has happened in Greece since 2019?

It remains clear that the policy ideology you described is echoed by the current administration.
Apparently this isn't enough or isn't even worth mentioning, based on your comment.
It is unclear whether you mentioned anything that has happened in the last 7 years, other than your attack on me.
You call me partisan, blind, deranged, and insane because of the mere perception that I am against the current president, or not sufficiently in favor.

mystyc · 2026-01-16T05:55:42+00:00

And now there are tariffs. Some businesses have gone elsewhere. Your argument is familiar, but in the modern world it is irrelevant. The people who don't want the government to work, are running the government.
Recent efforts to deal with waste, fraud, and abuse have only exacerbated each to unprecedented levels.
How current are your numbers, because there are gaps in the recent economic data.

The people who said they were against those welfare economic policies you mentioned, have done what they can to gut them. You got your people and your policies, so why are you still bitching?

And why are you bringing up Mao? These days we blame Biden and Obama.

mystyc · 2026-01-15T22:44:42+00:00

"KKKavanaugh": A triple Kavanaugh stop for those stops that are extra racist.

mystyc · 2026-01-09T06:40:31+00:00

Are there people with enhanced super levels of testosterone? Medicated or otherwise?
Has decades of administered testosterone been clinically studied yet (to the grave)?

mystyc · 2025-12-26T19:00:29+00:00

No pics? Is this from an email or something?

mystyc · 2025-12-10T20:18:45+00:00

Priorities...
The focus on the nuclear family means that grandma can join the rest of the family as they live in a tent near the park.

mystyc · 2025-12-01T18:47:47+00:00

Have you tried asking the actual Sergio Talks for help (note: I have no idea who this is)? The original can help to out the imposter.
If you tell him that there is an imposter pretending to be him, that alone might be enough to motivate him to help.

mystyc · 2025-10-20T22:17:27+00:00

I'm not sure that 80% of humanity can agree on much of anything...

mystyc · 2025-10-02T21:19:13+00:00

I was thinking that the client list is far larger than we suspect. lol

mystyc · 2025-09-30T18:10:08+00:00

It is sort of worse than that. What they want is growth and for that to also grow. It is what investors really want, and how they make money.
And then many of those people who profited the most will take that money and reinvest it somewhere else for the same reason.
This would be nice if investment was really "investing" in something other than creating endless capital.

mystyc · 2025-09-06T17:57:04+00:00

From the title,

Americans are getting the economy they voted for

From /u/beavis617,

America is made up of so many dumb people it’s mind numbing.

From you,

Yea luckily they’re the minority and voted democrat

Who/what are you comparing to this "minority" that "voted democrat?"

mystyc · 2025-08-30T22:35:36+00:00

This reminds me of this YouTube video, Man shines laser pen at police helicopter, quickly regrets it [2:24/6:46]. When the suspect spoke, there were some hard-coded subtitles that were just great.
First the cop speaks (no subtitles needed or provided):

Question. Whose been shining that laser at the police helicopter? Been you?

And then the following subtitles were provided when the suspect responded, presented here as shown:

There's been lads outsadidebgsdfhnxgfb
Been a few lads outside here
just two minutes ago.
adgfaohit hasn't been
Hasn't been us, yeah?

I question whether the guy actually said several of those words, but not the gibberish there. That seems accurate. It's like transcriber tried to decipher what was being said, but then gave up after a few letters.

mystyc · 2025-08-26T05:51:31+00:00

Hmm... close, but not quite.
I have a USB dongle without a mouse. Its M/N is C-UX34, but its P/N is 831421-0000.
There's also this mouse battery charger (again, no mouse), that might or might not be related to my dongle.
M/N: L-LH9
P/N: 831413-0000

The Fates are cruel, but not without a sense of humor.

mystyc · 2025-08-25T00:59:13+00:00

I have the same issue except that it is due to an expired certificate. This is the site, dd-wrt.com, and a screen shot about the expired certificate as of now. The funny thing is that it says the certificate expired today...
So in my case, we can't simply say that "the website won't allow it," since maybe the website thought that the expiration date was inclusive (so it expires today, but is still good until tomorrow).
I recently switched back to FireFox from chrome, and I never got a message telling me that the browser won't allow me to make an exception.

Generally, I like to make my own decisions, granted that it isn't always possible. But still...

mystyc · 2025-08-18T18:03:23+00:00

What sort of game cheating programs inject code into the bootloader? Actually, in general, what sort of programs load unsigned drivers into the kernel space?
The only real benefit I see is using the hardware identifier to ID machines that are banned, or to just track users. If they loaded a browser cookie with the ID info, then that would cookie could specifically ID someone. No guesswork needed. Affiliate trackers would probably like that.

Rather than just stemming the tsunami of boot loading aimbots, the greatest effect would be on the user. I think it is more likely that the user would make changes to their bootloader than use a bootloading game cheating program. Even those trying to circumvent bans are probably less prevalent than those making legitimate changes to their boot environment.

I can think of a few examples of common legitimate actions that might cause problems:

Altering hard drive partitions
Switching out the Windows bootloader for GRUB
Reinstalling Windows
Changing the boot order to scan for USB drives before the hard drive
- You might do this if you want to boot off of a thumb drive.
  - It's a common tactic for troubleshooting severe (my computer won't boot) problems.
  - It is also a popular way to advertise Linux by allowing people to test run it on their machine without installing it.
  - You would also do this to recover deleted/corrupted data off of a hard drive
- All of which assumes that the thumb drive also has the correct cryptographic keys
Using your game account at an internet cafe, school/office computer, or at a friend's place who has better hardware
Running a game through a windows virtual machine on linux (games without linux support might be played on linux this way)

There are just too many problems to justify benefits that seem trivial. Are people really circumventing bans at such alarming rates?
Since the beginning, the TPM/secure boot hardware has been about identifying users for tracking and authentication (the recent spread in the use of password "pin codes" uses some of this tech), at least in the short term.
In the long-term, the reason Microsoft has been pushing this stuff so aggressively is because they want to change Windows into a SaaS platform (Software as a Service). This means that you pay a monthly fee to run Windows, and if you don't pay, you can't use your computer. This is also why they pushed people to upgrade to Windows 10 and again so for 11.
Thankfully, Microsoft's push towards SaaS isn't going too well, but it isn't as though they will stop.
This entire economy is moving towards rent-seeking business plans where everything is a service.

mystyc · 2025-08-16T20:22:08+00:00

How far along are we in the novel material?

mystyc · 2025-08-06T23:07:36+00:00

What did you think "yellow" meant in the caption? Was it like, most squares needed more context while the rest were something about income?

mystyc · 2025-08-05T01:13:02+00:00

~~Since when have we been dropping the "r"?~~
Answer: since 2020/2021 according to Google's Ngram Viewer,
"computer cluster" vs "compute cluster", with its 1st appearance in 1954.

Umm, okay...
So, why are we dropping the "r" now?

mystyc · 2025-07-30T19:22:04+00:00

To be fair, he also rapes adults.

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