And in Ohio, Republicans legislated natural gas as green energy.

This is why https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties is the real news and politics reddit forum.

This is the first I’ve heard of that subreddit, and after ten minutes of browsing comments I think it’s my new favorite.

There is a lot of far-right whataboutism going on in this sub. I’m not sure if it was always this way but it seems like it now.

I tried to sign up for steam and my long complex password seemed to trigger a never ending stream of captures. Also, just today ticketmaster decided my firefox browser was a bot and blocked me. Fun times.

You are lucky. I haven’t been able to use Ticketmaster for 2 years because all IPs from my ISP are blocked as bots. Contacted their support on Twitter and they told me the only way to use their site is to change my ISP as even the VPNs I tried are blocked. Looks like they have enough money to have the luxury to block one of the biggest ISP where I live

StubHub was just doing the same thing to me: Firefox and only Firefox was blocked entirely.

Figure it was a mistake from some automated security framework type of deal.

TCS is the new Accenture.

Is the charge the same every month?

His premise is wrong. Balanced budgets and profit are not things of government.

If your budget isn't balanced you need to borrow. When you borrow, you have to pay interest.

Paying more and more interest leaves less and less money for services for your citizens. To compensate you must raise taxes and print money.

Printing money inflates the savings away from middle class citizens, and wages lag inflation causing a double whammy. This generates increased inequality, which then puts more pressure on government.

So yes, balanced budgets do matter.

> if your budget isn't balanced you need to borrow.

No.

That is how it works for citizens and households.

That is not how it works for governments and central banks. Their role and their financial apparatus is completely different.

Thinking that it works the same way is a well-known fallacy. The government more closely resembles the _counterparty_ in civilian borrowing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-Household_analogy

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/11/11/the-uk-govern...

https://theconversation.com/why-the-federal-budget-is-not-li...

>That is how it works for citizens and households.

>That is not how it works for governments and central banks.

At no point did I mention households.

Governments absolutely do borrow money - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/treasurybill.asp

If they weren't borrowing money, then what do you call the interest they have to pay? Which by the was $1 trillion last year - https://www.crfb.org/blogs/debt-rises-interest-costs-could-t...

Imagine what we could do with that trillion dollars...instead we have to print more money and deflate the savings of our middle class citizens to cover the cost.

Thank you. Those links are gems. It's probably worth also noting that the government does borrow a lot (even when it doesn't have to), but often from itself, and also often from the private sector but on terms that are completely different from those available to anyone else. Also that government borrowing generally doesn't cause (or even coincide with) inflation (although I think maybe sometimes it does - this is where I'm not clear on the details).

Those links simply back up that I was correct in saying that our government borrows money, and as a result we have to cover an ever increasing amount of interest payments which was around $1 trillion dollars last year - https://www.crfb.org/blogs/debt-rises-interest-costs-could-t...

So where does that trillion dollars come from? We inflate it away from citizens by printing more money. And that trillion dollars is wasted on interest, it isn't used on any services for the citizens.

So yes, balanced budgets matter.

Your header image is not of a ham radio. Nice read.

Looks like a CB radio

I'm not sure if you are the same Cliff Stoll who wrote 'The Cuckoo's Egg', but if so I listened to the audio book in 2020 during the first part of the pandemic and I loved it. It was fascinating to see how a small billing discrepancy led you down such a rabbit hole. I also enjoyed the various solutions you came up with to crack the case using the technology of the time. I enjoy reading about the early days of the Internet. I have a sort of nostalgia for it, even though I didn't get on the net myself until around 1997. Your book hit a sweet spot for me with the combination of (now) retro technology and security. You might guess from this ham radio hacking post that I enjoy that kind of thing. If you are that Cliff Stoll, thanks for sharing your story!

Yes, user you replied to is the author The Cuckoo's Egg according to this comment by the same user, which includes an explanation of how the book came to be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387116

Here’s the wiki for those unfamiliar with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

Based on comment history, it looks like it's him; and also, it looks like he's a licensed amateur too.

I would like to echo your sentiment, that book was so good and has made me curious about the physical and digital world in so many different ways.

Our hero didn’t do that, that was marketing! :)

Looks like some kind of hybrid. https://reviews.transmission1.net/2006/02/cobra-200-gtl-dx-s...

Are you sure you don't just want vms instead?

i miss VMS. it's sort of like WinNT but with all the stuff that doesn't work stripped out.

So mitm for email?