I’m drinking boxed wine tonight but I accidentally set the box in a puddle of water on my kitchen counter and the bottom of the box fell apart, so I had to just take the bag out and realized boxed wine is really just bagged wine. So now there’s just a plastic bag of wine sitting on my table and for some reason that felt a bit cyberpunk to me, you just buy a big bag of booze when you want to get fucked up in Mega-City 1.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    22 hours ago

    yea

    The best defense imo is to make yourself either useful economically or culturally, or at least not specifically hated by anyone powerful.

    The future of warfare, and of organization in general, is distributed. One might even say “swarm-based”.

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        12 hours ago

        As long as your opsec is okay, that won’t work against you. Only your fellow posters are watching you post.

        Anyway, it’s like the Deng gambit. If you’re economically useful, the government harms itself by knocking you off, and has an incentive to keep you in place. It’s a slightly different story for non-state actors, but those have less intel by several orders of magnitude, and you can appear benign to them too.

        American flag by the front door to virtue signal (the only cost is $10) and dissimulate, communist flag inside the house where your friends’ eyeballs are. Grillpilled AI slop main social media profile, spicy pseudonymous account. Patriotic law-abiding citizen when your face is showing on camera, whatever you please when it’s not.