A journey of disillusionment. It's interesting how many are coming to a similar conclusion about nearly all large bureaucratic organizations regardless of profession.

As the “defund the police” movement gains momentum, police officers are leaving the profession in droves. My agency is no exception. Soon, very few people, if any, will apply for this job. In order to fill vacancies, agencies will have to eliminate written tests, lower hiring standards, and look the other way on questionable backgrounds. This has all been tried before in the name of “diversity,” and led to incompetent, untrustworthy, corrupt officers. This is a disaster for any society.

It's of course gonna be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The incentives surrounding all bureaucracies guarantee this is the outcome. All police agencies succumb eventually, everywhere. Government is always and everywhere eventually filled by those who simply cannot be employed in any useful profession. That is the essence of the political means.

Good chaser to Black Lives MAGA. If more people black and white just focused on doing better for themselves and not being world-improvers the would could actually be better.

I have been harmed far more by white people in this country who hold to radical liberal and neocon values than by black people.

Damn straight. The fools empowering Mordor on the Potomac and our local tyrants are a far worse menace to the world. Be they white liberals or race hustlers it's all the same.

As always, the bureaucrats are in the drivers' seat

Continues to be one of the realest libertarians out there

As expected. In the interest of justice, the mother country needs to grow a sack and tell the colonies to pound sand. Escobar's Prometheus Bound is worth a read on this.

UPDATE: One of the defense witnesses cuts to the core issue:

Lewis then said that in Stafford Smith’s written evidence paras 92-6 he had listed specific Wikileaks cables which related to disclosure of drone policy. But publication of these particular cables did not form part of the indictment. Lewis read out part of an affidavit from US Assistant Attorney Kromberg which stated that Assange was being indicted only for cables containing the publication of names of informants.

Stafford Smith replied that Kromberg may state that, but in practice that would not be the case in the United States. The charge was of conspiracy, and the way such charges were defined in the US system would allow the widest inclusion of evidence. The first witness at trial would be a “terrorism expert” who would draw a wide and far reaching picture of the history of threat against the USA.

This alone ought to be lethal to the extradition. Nobody has a reasonable expectation that upon extradition the USA will restrict itself to prosecution of the crimes for which Assange is purportedly to be extradited for. The record of the USA giving 0 shits about their lawful treaty obligations is miles long.

Not looking good so far

This type of work is important to understand the nature of how the internet is changing things. I always love when people ask "why do you do this?"

They're no better than the NSA or FIB using dubiously legal or correct data pervasively.

I suspect this has applications in supercavitations.

Why would anyone want one? Coddling bottom feeders like this is stupid; they had to deal with much more expensive drives not but 5 years ago which were slower.

Still up to no good

Quantum is an edifice of sand. Penrose will not be able to solve his theoretical problem; If they resort to an explanation which cannot be proven without a proof it cannot be proven they have failed. Which appears to be the situation.

Hopefully they forget by next summer.

.gov not locking itself down. That's for plebs.

Hooray for massive reductions in standard of living coupled with huge inflation. No wonder Roger Stone is associated with Trump, it's Nixon 2.0! Complete with the failure to get us out of wars until it's too late.

Gotta have that sweet cheese in these dark times

"How not to regex" banking system edition

Lockdowns are just a part of the stupid lies we tell ourselves. "We are in control of the natural world." No we aren't.

Of course, they only admit this to get bigger budgets. There are of course qualitative differences here; "Missile Gap" nonsense comes to mind.

Sounds freer to me

So JPMorgan Chase makes money off these transactions while sustaining zero risk.

Yeah, that's kinda the point of all GSEs

As a government stimulus to the cities. The large institutional landlords holding commercial RE are baying for blood politically right now.

Thankfully, the tech in this imagining doesn't work. Lol

So this is a 288-page book written by a Very Online Person in support of the idea that other people should loot, riot, and burn things in the real world.

Style-wise, In Defense of Looting continues the impressive streak of the woke movement having yet to produce a single readable piece of literature.

Being too hard on the USA dick ride: hazardous to one's health