Perhaps because the real fears of the cops are not for their personal safety, but for continued secrecy and political protection of their normally hidden activities during their interactions with the public.
Perhaps the cops are far more concerned about exposing what they actually do to the people they pretend to serve, then they are about how the cops are treated by the public.
Perhaps what is at stake here, is the ability of police to do horrid, immoral and illegal things to the members of the public, without wide spread public awareness, media disclosure, or fear of prosecution for their criminal actions, but because they cannot actually admit to these atrocities against the public, they have instead created a false "fear of public assault" campaign, in the press and on TV, to trick the general public into believing that cops lives are in danger, from those wielding cameras.
Perhaps this whole thing has nothing whatsoever to do with the safety of heavily militarily-armored police with half-track vehicles and assault weapons, and a whole lot to do with the lack of safety of unarmed and unprotected civilians - and the fact that the police want things to stay just the way they are now.
I think that the easiest way to stop terrorism is to stop creating terrorists.
This can be done by NOT bombing third world nations into the stone age so our corporations can steal their national resources, and by NOT trying to make the world safe for Christianity, by destroying the basic social infrastructure of nations who have competing religious beliefs.
This would of course, make the Military Industrial Complex and many Christians rather unhappy.
Testing it by posting sequential snippets (repost the whole thing in sequential posts with just one sentence per post) tells me its a specific WORD, or PHRASE, which a spambot reacts to.
Everything gets published except the one snippet that contains either the word or phrase that the spambot is coded to react to.
Instead of being published, the offending snippet is "held for moderation".
Simple logic should then tell you which part of the sentence is the "nasty bit".
Reposting with the offending bits rephrased, or removed, will avoid the spambot.
The techdirt folks do not respond to inquiries about this, so the post testing was necessary to appease my own curiosity.
Agreed 100% on the methodology of Real Conspirators.
Mass Surveillance of the public has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with spying on, capturing or eliminating terrorists.
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Comradery and Fellowship are indeed strong incentives to those who are outcast and despondent, and "belonging to something larger than yourself" still seems to be a thing that "the lost" find attractive, but for the creation of the real self-destructive suicide "soldiers", a simple contractual agreement to make the fool's family rich after the act is done, works far better than the best recruitment and indoctrination process ever devised.
A young, idealistic and immature son or daughter, who can lift their whole family out of poverty through a single, easily accomplished, solitary action, against a popularly reviled national enemy, will know that he or she will never be forgotten, whether their family approves of the action or not.
It is instant and lasting fame of the sort that those living in poverty could otherwise never dream of having.
By paying off the families of the these child martyrs, as contracted, other impoverished children are attracted to the "cause".
Very little, if any, recruitment or indoctrination is required.
Sentiments like that can get you a one way ticket on a CIA freight flight, to a small room in a small foreign country that considers torture to be pure spiritual joy, where members of your own government will gleefully pull off your fingernails and electrocute your genitals, with equipment your tax dollars paid for.
And if you think that a simple "anonymous" handle will keep the men and women of your government from discerning your true identity, using technology your tax dollars paid for, perhaps you would also like to purchase this lovely 500 acre estate/plantation I have for sale, in Florida....
81 Percent of Islamic State-Linked Suspects Charged in the U.S. Are American
The Guardian reports:
Sixty-eight people have been indicted because of alleged involvement in Isis, of whom 18 have been convicted, with an average sentence of 10 years three months, according to figures published this week by Center on National Security at Fordham University.
Yet despite a growing political clamour over a perceived security threat posed by an influx of Syrian refugees, the data shows that only three of those indicted in connection with Isis was a refugee or asylum seeker; none came from Syria.
Instead 55, or 80.9%, of the individuals concerned are US citizens, including 44 who were born in America.
The rest include six born in Bosnia, four in Uzbekistan, three in Somalia and two in Sudan. Fifty-eight are men and 10 are women. The average age is 26 and around a third are under 21.
Ummm... no doubt this makes complete sense to everyone but me, but I ran out of coffee this morning and the code deciphering part of my brain is a little bent right now...
No, I did not forget or neglect the origins and history of France. None of that matters. France has been giving the finger to the Five Eyes desires for years, and none of the Anti-France Hollywood PR moves have really put a dent in France's disdain for the West.
Not the point at all though.
Five Eyes simply wants France to know that the future holds more of the same if they do not play ball according to the Five Eyes mandate of co-operative world control. Five Eyes cares not for loyalty and trust from its minions. It wants control only.
While the French population has mainly said "fuck you terrorists", and taken to the streets to party hardy in plain sight, the French Government will be meeting with 5-I reps over the next few months, secretly, to iron out some basic changes in French International Policy and pay their dues, probably in the form of wet-work and espionage on its neighbors, for future "protection" against similar "terrorist events", and by giving their full support for the future "Trade Deals" that will make the internet government friendly.
The Five Eyes doesn't allow non-english, non-white nations into the inner circle, but it does have a shitload of minion nations that do its dirty work for it, in return for protection from; shall we say, "strife". 5-Is is after all designed along the same lines as standard fascism - master-slave structure.
While the French Government may not give a shit if the US is unhappy, its members do care a whole lot for their own personal safety, and the French Assault was literally an example of how the 5-Is can penetrate and assassinate anywhere they pleased.
While it is altogether possible that the French - an old nation with much real pride - will take this as an act of war and begin a program of systematic elimination of ISIS world wide, just to spite the Five Eyes once again - which is my hope - I think it more likely that you will be seeing a definite improvement in French-American relations and co-operation, over the next few months. :)
Techdirt posted the URL - in text form - of a site that used to deliver malware, but which no longer delivers malware, and Google altered the entire posting by adding a text header warning receivers of that posting that the content contained links to known malware delivery sites, and disabled all other links in the posting by deleting all the code from the posting that made those links active.
a. the link to the X-malware site was in text form, meaning nobody could inadvertently click on it and go to a malware delivery site. They would have to actively copy and paste the text into the browser address field and hit enter.
b. the site no longer delivers malware - the actual content of the article explains exactly that fact - so the header was 100% incorrect, warning receivers of the posting about something no longer in existence, and the text link was in no way a danger to anyone, whether it was an active link or not.
c. rather than delete/alter the offending text string that represented the X-malware site's internet address, Google deleted the code that made all the other URLs in the post active links and left the offending text URL unchanged.
d. because they did not bother to identify the offending link to receivers of the posting, and did not alter that offending text in any way, receivers of the post were just as threatened by the inactive text link, as they would have been had Google done absolutely nothing.
I think that just about sums it all up.
I would have simply turned the inactive text address into an active link that took idiots who clicked on it, directly to Google's "Learn More" application. Of course, that's assuming that I was clueless about the fact that the site was no longer a threat.
Ah! It would appear the little "shot over the bow" by the Five Eyes has indeed worked its coercive magic and turned the Froggies into good little non-english, dues-paying minions, willing to do whatever the Five Eyes demands to prevent future "terrorist" attacks.
I suppose Five Eyes wants to test the reaction to stage one of the End of the Web, in a country nobody gives a shit about, to see how the wind blows.
Methinks its gonna be an interesting and memorable winter.
Well, actually, the Police Union fears are well founded - in fantasy.
After all, the hordes of fantasy police assassins now roaming the streets of fantasy America, who are fantasy killing cops left and right, will obviously tune into such "notification apps" and swarm any reported area of police activity, armed with their fantasy police-killer weapons, in the thousands.
Police officers would be foolish to even leave the safety of their vehicles in such a fantasy future.
A year after the war starts, there will be no homeless on the streets of America.
Of course, Americans with homes, will have all been far too busy supporting the war effort and pretending everything is ok, to notice the disappearance of the millions who once slept in alleyways and on park benches.
Not that anyone would have given a shit had they noticed the hundreds of unmarked black trucks cruising the streets in the dead of night.
After all, every good American knows that poor people choose to be poor, so its their own fault anyway.
Years of selling fantasy as reality on the TV have definitely prepared Ted well for his debut as a science fiction writer. He seems to be using the same sources for his factoids now, that he did back then, too.
Who knows. Maybe some day, he'll found a religion based on his sci-fi books, and then turn it into a millionaire con-game like Scientology.
Always amazing to watch how Government inflicted industrial strength fear can make folks discard all the niceties of civilization like innocent till proven guilty and benefit of the doubt, when they're talking about other people's lives.
Fascists really know their business. Fear really is the killer of trust, decency and humane interaction and paves the way for the introduction of tyranny and corruption.
I'll bet you used to be a champion of other's rights before you became scared shitless of the government bogeymen.
" Why do these people keep on getting re-elected? "
They don't get re-elected.
The "vote" is a farce. A placebo.
Simple Logic: if someone was to be voted into office who actually wanted to clean up dodge, how could the bad guys prevent the exposure of their corruption, short of assassination?
Simple Answer: by making sure that nobody honest could ever be voted into office, by controlling the vote process from start to finish.
Problem solved.
That's why I think the next POTUS has not yet been introduced to the public, and won't be until around 2-3 months before the actual "election" takes place.
In order to make the "Vote" look real, they have fielded only clowns, who nobody in their right mind would vote for.
When they unveil the next POTUS as a candidate, that person will, by comparison to the current clown candidates, be a shoe-in, so everyone will assume that everyone else voted for the "Ringer". In this way, a pre-ordained landslide vote for the Fake Democrat POTUS will appear to be 100% legitimate to the public - again.
"What the !@# are they doing? Just trying to get more funding? It sure looks like it."
What they are doing, in a word, is War.
It is the most lucrative business model ever devised by men of wealth and has the power to transform the world into whatever form the winners choose to create.
During war, criminals and politicians become millionaires, millionaires become billionaires and the surviving general public labor force gets re-educated to forget all those things it discovered about its leaders and its corporate businesses during peace time.
Its like wiping the public's memory-slate clean and at the same time, allows the installation of a whole new set of beliefs and morals and truths into their freshly blanked minds, by indoctrinating the wards of the state - dead soldier's children - and the children of the slaves who sell their offspring for survival.
Politicians and Kings of Industry and Commerce can have all their past misdeeds erased from the memory of the public and all their future misdeeds kept secret from the newly minted public who will have no access to anything the state does not wish them to access.
Criminal Kingpins can become Presidents and Kings of Industry and Commerce.
All of the little laws that were made during peace time to protect citizens of little to modest income from the wealthy land lords, are forgotten and the profit margins of all businessmen who participate in the war effort, rise exponentially for the duration of the conflict, whether real or staged.
Your leaders are merely fulfilling the original Plan For A North American Century - 100 years of war.
In 100 years of war, the most evil of us will rise up to the top of the food chain, and the world will be once again, as it has been throughout the vast majority of its history, a world of poverty, labor and suffering on the one hand, and debauchery, wasteful decadence and self aggrandizement on the other.
This tiny period of peace and tranquility and almost democracy we are soon to leave behind, was a mistake of course, an accident, but one which the ancient families and their minions plan to rectify as permanently as they can this time.
Because this time, unlike all past periods of our history, they have technology and machinery and weapons that rival the abilities of a God and which can be used to insure an Ownership Utopia on Earth for them and an era of slavery and suffering for the rest of us.
Mind you, they won't be needing a whole lot of us non-blue-bloods anymore as they plan to replace the unwashed masses needed to keep the machinery running, with never-bitching, never-hungry, never-sleeping, bio-tech entities, so in truth, there will be far less human suffering than in any other normal period of earth's history, because there will be far fewer humans.
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Re: Well it's obvious isn't it?
Perhaps because the real fears of the cops are not for their personal safety, but for continued secrecy and political protection of their normally hidden activities during their interactions with the public.
Perhaps the cops are far more concerned about exposing what they actually do to the people they pretend to serve, then they are about how the cops are treated by the public.
Perhaps what is at stake here, is the ability of police to do horrid, immoral and illegal things to the members of the public, without wide spread public awareness, media disclosure, or fear of prosecution for their criminal actions, but because they cannot actually admit to these atrocities against the public, they have instead created a false "fear of public assault" campaign, in the press and on TV, to trick the general public into believing that cops lives are in danger, from those wielding cameras.
Perhaps this whole thing has nothing whatsoever to do with the safety of heavily militarily-armored police with half-track vehicles and assault weapons, and a whole lot to do with the lack of safety of unarmed and unprotected civilians - and the fact that the police want things to stay just the way they are now.
Just a guess.
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I cannot believe that there is anyone alive who did not see this coming.
Hail Hydra!!!
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On the post: Dumb Idea... Or The Dumbest Idea? Seize Terrorists' Copyrights And Then Censor Them With The DMCA
Re: How to actually succeed at stopping terrorism
This can be done by NOT bombing third world nations into the stone age so our corporations can steal their national resources, and by NOT trying to make the world safe for Christianity, by destroying the basic social infrastructure of nations who have competing religious beliefs.
This would of course, make the Military Industrial Complex and many Christians rather unhappy.
It would however, save a shitload in taxes.
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Re: This is quite strange
Testing it by posting sequential snippets (repost the whole thing in sequential posts with just one sentence per post) tells me its a specific WORD, or PHRASE, which a spambot reacts to.
Everything gets published except the one snippet that contains either the word or phrase that the spambot is coded to react to.
Instead of being published, the offending snippet is "held for moderation".
Simple logic should then tell you which part of the sentence is the "nasty bit".
Reposting with the offending bits rephrased, or removed, will avoid the spambot.
The techdirt folks do not respond to inquiries about this, so the post testing was necessary to appease my own curiosity.
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Re: Move Along, Nothing To See.
Mass Surveillance of the public has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with spying on, capturing or eliminating terrorists.
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Comradery and Fellowship are indeed strong incentives to those who are outcast and despondent, and "belonging to something larger than yourself" still seems to be a thing that "the lost" find attractive, but for the creation of the real self-destructive suicide "soldiers", a simple contractual agreement to make the fool's family rich after the act is done, works far better than the best recruitment and indoctrination process ever devised.
A young, idealistic and immature son or daughter, who can lift their whole family out of poverty through a single, easily accomplished, solitary action, against a popularly reviled national enemy, will know that he or she will never be forgotten, whether their family approves of the action or not.
It is instant and lasting fame of the sort that those living in poverty could otherwise never dream of having.
By paying off the families of the these child martyrs, as contracted, other impoverished children are attracted to the "cause".
Very little, if any, recruitment or indoctrination is required.
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Re: Re: ?????????????
Ah! Gotcha.
No coffee needed!
Thanks.
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Re:
Better watch that kinda talk there stranger.
Sentiments like that can get you a one way ticket on a CIA freight flight, to a small room in a small foreign country that considers torture to be pure spiritual joy, where members of your own government will gleefully pull off your fingernails and electrocute your genitals, with equipment your tax dollars paid for.
And if you think that a simple "anonymous" handle will keep the men and women of your government from discerning your true identity, using technology your tax dollars paid for, perhaps you would also like to purchase this lovely 500 acre estate/plantation I have for sale, in Florida....
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Re: The other smokescreen
81 Percent of Islamic State-Linked Suspects Charged in the U.S. Are American
The Guardian reports:
Sixty-eight people have been indicted
because of alleged involvement in
Isis, of whom 18 have been convicted,
with an average sentence of 10 years
three months, according to figures
published this week by Center on
National Security at Fordham
University.
Yet despite a growing political
clamour over a perceived security
threat posed by an influx of Syrian
refugees, the data shows that only
three of those indicted in connection
with Isis was a refugee or asylum
seeker; none came from Syria.
Instead 55, or 80.9%, of the
individuals concerned are US citizens,
including 44 who were born in America.
The rest include six born in Bosnia,
four in Uzbekistan, three in Somalia
and two in Sudan. Fifty-eight are men
and 10 are women. The average age is
26 and around a third are under 21.
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Re: Re: Re: They need better geeks.
I would amend this only slightly to enrich its point.
War is the most lucrative racket ever created.
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Re: Re: Bottom America
"The only way we will be able to defeat the next Evil Empire, is to become the next Evil Empire."
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On the post: France Responds To Paris Attacks By Rushing Through Internet Censorship Law
?????????????
Ummm... no doubt this makes complete sense to everyone but me, but I ran out of coffee this morning and the code deciphering part of my brain is a little bent right now...
Could you elucidate on the above text somewhat??
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Re: Re: The Fear Train. Right on schedule.
Not the point at all though.
Five Eyes simply wants France to know that the future holds more of the same if they do not play ball according to the Five Eyes mandate of co-operative world control. Five Eyes cares not for loyalty and trust from its minions. It wants control only.
While the French population has mainly said "fuck you terrorists", and taken to the streets to party hardy in plain sight, the French Government will be meeting with 5-I reps over the next few months, secretly, to iron out some basic changes in French International Policy and pay their dues, probably in the form of wet-work and espionage on its neighbors, for future "protection" against similar "terrorist events", and by giving their full support for the future "Trade Deals" that will make the internet government friendly.
The Five Eyes doesn't allow non-english, non-white nations into the inner circle, but it does have a shitload of minion nations that do its dirty work for it, in return for protection from; shall we say, "strife". 5-Is is after all designed along the same lines as standard fascism - master-slave structure.
While the French Government may not give a shit if the US is unhappy, its members do care a whole lot for their own personal safety, and the French Assault was literally an example of how the 5-Is can penetrate and assassinate anywhere they pleased.
While it is altogether possible that the French - an old nation with much real pride - will take this as an act of war and begin a program of systematic elimination of ISIS world wide, just to spite the Five Eyes once again - which is my hope - I think it more likely that you will be seeing a definite improvement in French-American relations and co-operation, over the next few months. :)
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In conclusion...
Techdirt posted the URL - in text form - of a site that used to deliver malware, but which no longer delivers malware, and Google altered the entire posting by adding a text header warning receivers of that posting that the content contained links to known malware delivery sites, and disabled all other links in the posting by deleting all the code from the posting that made those links active.
a. the link to the X-malware site was in text form, meaning nobody could inadvertently click on it and go to a malware delivery site. They would have to actively copy and paste the text into the browser address field and hit enter.
b. the site no longer delivers malware - the actual content of the article explains exactly that fact - so the header was 100% incorrect, warning receivers of the posting about something no longer in existence, and the text link was in no way a danger to anyone, whether it was an active link or not.
c. rather than delete/alter the offending text string that represented the X-malware site's internet address, Google deleted the code that made all the other URLs in the post active links and left the offending text URL unchanged.
d. because they did not bother to identify the offending link to receivers of the posting, and did not alter that offending text in any way, receivers of the post were just as threatened by the inactive text link, as they would have been had Google done absolutely nothing.
I think that just about sums it all up.
I would have simply turned the inactive text address into an active link that took idiots who clicked on it, directly to Google's "Learn More" application. Of course, that's assuming that I was clueless about the fact that the site was no longer a threat.
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The Fear Train. Right on schedule.
I suppose Five Eyes wants to test the reaction to stage one of the End of the Web, in a country nobody gives a shit about, to see how the wind blows.
Methinks its gonna be an interesting and memorable winter.
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Anti-Cop Squads roam the streets....
After all, the hordes of fantasy police assassins now roaming the streets of fantasy America, who are fantasy killing cops left and right, will obviously tune into such "notification apps" and swarm any reported area of police activity, armed with their fantasy police-killer weapons, in the thousands.
Police officers would be foolish to even leave the safety of their vehicles in such a fantasy future.
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Re:
Of course, Americans with homes, will have all been far too busy supporting the war effort and pretending everything is ok, to notice the disappearance of the millions who once slept in alleyways and on park benches.
Not that anyone would have given a shit had they noticed the hundreds of unmarked black trucks cruising the streets in the dead of night.
After all, every good American knows that poor people choose to be poor, so its their own fault anyway.
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Re: XKCD.
Who knows. Maybe some day, he'll found a religion based on his sci-fi books, and then turn it into a millionaire con-game like Scientology.
Hell. Maybe that's his plan!
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Re:
Fascists really know their business. Fear really is the killer of trust, decency and humane interaction and paves the way for the introduction of tyranny and corruption.
I'll bet you used to be a champion of other's rights before you became scared shitless of the government bogeymen.
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Re: Follow the money.
They don't get re-elected.
The "vote" is a farce. A placebo.
Simple Logic: if someone was to be voted into office who actually wanted to clean up dodge, how could the bad guys prevent the exposure of their corruption, short of assassination?
Simple Answer: by making sure that nobody honest could ever be voted into office, by controlling the vote process from start to finish.
Problem solved.
That's why I think the next POTUS has not yet been introduced to the public, and won't be until around 2-3 months before the actual "election" takes place.
In order to make the "Vote" look real, they have fielded only clowns, who nobody in their right mind would vote for.
When they unveil the next POTUS as a candidate, that person will, by comparison to the current clown candidates, be a shoe-in, so everyone will assume that everyone else voted for the "Ringer". In this way, a pre-ordained landslide vote for the Fake Democrat POTUS will appear to be 100% legitimate to the public - again.
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On the post: The Paris Attacks Were An Intelligence Community Failure, Not An 'Encryption' Problem
Re: They need better geeks.
What they are doing, in a word, is War.
It is the most lucrative business model ever devised by men of wealth and has the power to transform the world into whatever form the winners choose to create.
During war, criminals and politicians become millionaires, millionaires become billionaires and the surviving general public labor force gets re-educated to forget all those things it discovered about its leaders and its corporate businesses during peace time.
Its like wiping the public's memory-slate clean and at the same time, allows the installation of a whole new set of beliefs and morals and truths into their freshly blanked minds, by indoctrinating the wards of the state - dead soldier's children - and the children of the slaves who sell their offspring for survival.
Politicians and Kings of Industry and Commerce can have all their past misdeeds erased from the memory of the public and all their future misdeeds kept secret from the newly minted public who will have no access to anything the state does not wish them to access.
Criminal Kingpins can become Presidents and Kings of Industry and Commerce.
All of the little laws that were made during peace time to protect citizens of little to modest income from the wealthy land lords, are forgotten and the profit margins of all businessmen who participate in the war effort, rise exponentially for the duration of the conflict, whether real or staged.
Your leaders are merely fulfilling the original Plan For A North American Century - 100 years of war.
In 100 years of war, the most evil of us will rise up to the top of the food chain, and the world will be once again, as it has been throughout the vast majority of its history, a world of poverty, labor and suffering on the one hand, and debauchery, wasteful decadence and self aggrandizement on the other.
This tiny period of peace and tranquility and almost democracy we are soon to leave behind, was a mistake of course, an accident, but one which the ancient families and their minions plan to rectify as permanently as they can this time.
Because this time, unlike all past periods of our history, they have technology and machinery and weapons that rival the abilities of a God and which can be used to insure an Ownership Utopia on Earth for them and an era of slavery and suffering for the rest of us.
Mind you, they won't be needing a whole lot of us non-blue-bloods anymore as they plan to replace the unwashed masses needed to keep the machinery running, with never-bitching, never-hungry, never-sleeping, bio-tech entities, so in truth, there will be far less human suffering than in any other normal period of earth's history, because there will be far fewer humans.
At least, that's the plan, man. :)
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