I’ve seen this happen before but with boomers who thought “lol” meant “lots of love”.

Lesson learned: never work with the US. It’s never worth it, especially in the long run.

Phew, way too close for comfort. Considering Lula is 81 I hope they’re working on succession.

People just won’t fucking learn, will they?

I don’t think they plan on voters being an insurmountable problem.

Oh I didn’t mean it as a defeatist message, just as an extreme call for caution.

This should be pretty chilling, but it feels like par for the course.

Assume everything is tapped and monitored, no exceptions. Not even airgapping will save you.

All of those people have an address. It’s just a matter of circulating them.

I hope she takes precautions. Relying on the authorities to do their jobs at this point is near suicidal.

Just when Character.ai is going bankrupt. Surely a coincidence…

They were likely compromised first. Impossible to just initiate a takeover without at least some strings to pull at that level.

Better late than never I suppose.

It’s what brought internet to the masses. That’s what always kills <any subject>.

I’m from the before-times, where loading a single EGA screen in 4 colours took a good twenty seconds from a floppy drive. Printer was dot matrix. Internet was something mythical only possessed by the extremely elite or academia. You better believe I’m still astonished when I see a 4K game load in 3 seconds from an NVMe drive.

If he hoarded his gold instead of spent it, he’d be up about 100% over the last five years alone. Only crypto would’ve given that kind of return in the same time span, with far greater risk.

A single bar? Chip off a 50g piece, re-melt it, sell it to a jeweler or cash-for-gold place. Rinse & repeat with enough time inbetween and never in the same location twice, and always for cash.

Multiple bars will either require a multi year plan or more… professional means.

He wasn’t alone when he found it. It was an entire construction team, building and digging on a municipally owned site which was publicly accessible and almost certainly monitored, if remotely.

There was no conceivable way to keep that find quiet under those circumstances.

So if he did manage to pinch off one, props to him.

Some people call that mindfulness and pay professionals to achieve that state. Others, like me, consider it hell to be constantly aware of this without the ability to turn it off.

War economy. They’re really going all in on this. They will make it existential by default.