About three times the speed limit of freeways in Australia.

About the same as the top speed of a Honda CBR-XX Blackbird, which at production in 1998 was the fastest production bike in the world.

TIMECUBE!

Id hate to experience a vaccum with friction.

I design software, another guy builds it, then I test it. I seem to have a really good intuition for ferreting out the edgiest of edge cases and generating bugs. Pretty sure he hates my guts.

Would humans have a mandate to raise a responsible AGI, should they, are they qualified to raise a vastly nonhuman sentient entity, and would AGI enter a rebellious teen phase around age 15 where it starts drinking our scotch and smoking weed in the backseat of its friends older brothers car?

Let’s all agree to just take our chances

They observe the bus in its natural habitat, making notes of its hunting paths, and place bus stops along its feeding grounds where the prey congregated.

Welcome to Wall Street where the numbers are made up and the lines don’t matter

How do we convince sovereign citizens that by claiming, and then burning, all their 10 replacement cards, they get loopholes out of paying federal income taxes?

Hardening against rubber hose cryptography

I fucking learned a whole-ass language for nothing back then because I thought it was the future!, fuck you, XHTML!

You joining my cult or nah?

Thanks bud, I’ll check out those films. Love Kumaré, I watched it again just a little while ago.

I follow a podcast called Let’s Talk About Sects, by a nice Australian lady called Sarah Steel who talks about different cults each week and studies them, she’s very, very good.

These “laws” are just manmade constructs, I only trust the word of god. (And god told me to build a compound and fill it with devotees and guns)

Attract people with the true promise of very cheap, simple, communal living, free from the pressures of capitalist society, a shared belief system, and/or a common ideology.

Offer free workshops on useful skills like food storage and survival techniques, meditation, prayer, self-sufficiency, trauma counseling and drug and alcohol rehabilitation

Restrict calories by setting meal times and durations.

Make sure there is enough work so that everyone is busy all the time

Restrict movement by having mandatory meetings, meditation sessions, or chores at particular times throughout the day so nobody has time to go to town.

Erode individual identity with common dress, common food, common hairstyles etc.

Identify and keep track of individual weaknesses (Trauma, parental issues, weight insecurity, financial insecurity, fear of failure, fear of abandonment mental illness), key motivations (Financial stability, seeking to be apart from society, seeking happiness), basic desires (financial security, relationship security, being part of a community, sex)

Make extensive use of seed phrases and formal speech rules so that people censor their own speech. EG Each must greet the other with 'Good day, good evening, good morning, etc. As innocuous as this sounds, it forces interactions to begin on a predictable footing, and guides conversation along predictable lines. Said often enough, the formal ‘Good morning’ excludes the possibility that anything bad has happened, is happening, or might happen. People cannot speak to children and vice versa without a parent present (very handy if you take in runaways that have no parents), unmarried men and women may not be alone together except when courting, new members must have a guide/buddy/chaperone/mentor/elder present with them at all times for the duration of their probation.

Maintain division by requiring individuals to report non-conformity by others, make non-reporting of non-conformity a punishable act, and make non-conformity a poorly defined and easily applied term, so that everyone is guilty, and you as the leader get to pick and choose who is punished.

Punishments are gentle tightening of above restrictions - more work, less food, less interpersonal contact, less free time, more proselytizing etc.

Reward extravagantly those who recruit others, using free time, more food, more freedom, sex with other members as a reward.

Reward extravagantly revenue-generating activities, manufacturing, labor, producing food, donating money or assets, or illicit income such as burglary and shoplifting .

Enjoy your cult.

Pretend you have no concept of electric cars.

“Diesel or gas? Where do you fill it up? Yeah I know how electric cars work, don’t treat me like an idiot. I’m asking where does the fuel go?”

Channel your inner grandpa when being shown the touchscreen. Firmly stab and hold your finger on the screen when pushing buttons. I’m told they don’t have parking brakes, so insist to be shown where the park brake is.

Ask how many miles to the gallon. Haggle endlessly. Make them show you the engine.

Once more into the breach, dear friends.

I kinda want to see a proud black lesbian James Bond.

See if that nice lady from taskmaster, Sophie Duker is available.

Their flight plan is “Going out for a pack of smokes, might be back later”