This is such a funny dream. It would be really funny if I wake up and this turns out to be true

They have project 2025 now with hundreds of people ready to jump into government and make it happen

I don’t disagree at all, but it’s a shame that they might have to. We haven’t been shaming our friends enough for being Trump supporting fuckwits, guys.

As long as they’re naked

A million heartbeats is 10 days. A billion is 27 years

My mental stereotype of north koreans might be wrong but I picture them as hicks who’ve never even seen a computer or smart phone. Imagine being that backwards and being thrown into a cutting esge drone war

But different doesn’t mean random. An attacker could test every possibility for that pixel rather quickly. Even faster if you know a bunch of the pixels are, for example, a shade of gray.

I found an explanation where they bring up the issues I brought up as well as some others.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details/

They give an example with one red value for a single pixel. They don’t address my point that there are a lot of pixels like that one, maybe not all would be 50/50 like their example but a lot of pixels would have a much narrower range of values than randomness.

But they answer my second point about a hacker putting something in front of the camera with known values and that answer sort of takes care of everything. It boils down to, it doesn’t matter because the lava lamp wall output is mixed with other sources that an attacker doesn’t have access to.

I’m sure they’re smarter than me but my novice cryptographer brain doesn’t understand this.

Isn’t the string of numbers representing each pixel rather limited Aren’t all those sections of the image that have lava lamps limited to values somewhere in the reddish/blueish spectrum? Isn’t the gray background very non-random?

Apparently the camera is accessible in the lobby. They say people walking in front of the camera adds randomness. If I go there and hold a photo in front of the camera which I know the values of, doesn’t that compromise everything?

To be fair their site says they take the lava lamp output and combine it with entropy from two servers and probably do a lot of other stuff before actually getting random numbers. But I don’t get how the lava lamps photo setup is even close to being random

tried and failed to add image, so here a link: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

A couple thoughts…

It is talking about President, but counts years where those names appeared on the ballot as Vice President too.

It also ignores that a lot of other people have also been on the ballots over the years.

Also, some of this is natural. When a president has an 8 year run, the Vice President is a natural person to take a shot at the presidency, so it’s perfectly normal to have 12 years where the same person is on the ballot as VP then P. It’s natural for this to happen more than once in a row. Whether we’ve had this long of a streak or not, I don’t know, but I suspect we might have.

This showerthought covers 44 years. The Bushs and Clintons double dipping is 12 years worth of ballots, but the other 32 years were natural. Hilary lost when she tried to double dip so I would argue the 8 years of Dubya are really the only anomaly in actual presidencies as far as “dynasties” are concerned.

CB radio has really short range and there’s little likelihood that authorities would be monitoring it.

2182 kHz is long range marine radio and only good if you’re on a boat. I don’t know that anyone you talk to would care about a person on land while they’re handling their own maritime emergencies.

If someone really wants emergency radio I’d suggest ham radio or GMRS.

And when you go to war they’re obligated to go too, possibly even in your place

Check your ballcock.

(It’s a real part inside the toilet but probably isn’t the issue, I just wanted to say ballcock)

I love that movie. The way they run with blades is so good

When I wonder what heaven is like I imagine going a day without thinking about this Elon Musk motherfucker, then I imagine doing that every day forever and I feel a little closer to Jeebus.

If the owner improves the home and the appraisal goes up, wouldn’t rent go up?

The renter pays extra and receives part ownership. So the owner receives this extra money and… just has to keep the money on hand in case the renter leaves years down the road?

The whole thing is a legal nightmare. Owners would just sell. And who would buy? Corporate landlords who have lawyers who can cut through all this confusion.

Wonder if OP thinks “right side up” means the left side is down

Or The Peacemaker. He killed a lot of Russians in that movie

Look, Mike Johnson is an innocent hard working man who saw a large group of morally corrupt assholes who won’t do anything unless it makes the life of a woman, child or minority worse in some way and said “Hey, I’d like to be the head asshole of this group.” I think he deserves some respect.

/s

Ok I think I get where you’re coming from. It’s membership in the nation group that makes it genocide. But that would make almost all war genocide. We could think that but it kinda takes away all meaning. If all war is genocide then no war is genocide.

It also ignores the second part of the definition, “with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” That is a basic Google/dictionary definition and it’s not bad but the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defined it as “…acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

First, there has to be intent. Second, “as such” means destroying the group so much that it is no longer a group.

US law isn’t applicable but it is a little more clear.

USC 1091 defines genocide as “…specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such.”

USC 1093 defines the term “substantial part” to mean: “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.”

I believe they’re both saying “destroy the group so hard it is no longer a viable group.”

If nation group is the gauge, the question is: During WWII, did the US intend to destroy Germans so thoroughly that there was no longer a Germany? Did the US intend to destroy Iraqis so thoroughly that there ceased to be an entity called Iraq?

No to both of those.