My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.

Used a 086 Amstrad to connect to BBS’s

That was the proto-internet that I miss even now.

I think the following is clear

• Epstein was a pimp
• he procured children and women to be used in awful, highly illegal acts
• he recorded this acts, using the information to extort and blackmail the rich into various schemes and scams, not to mention for information
• this explains how his net worth / wealth jumped several times, especially when he was young and somehow made millions with no clear explanation, at the time, as to where he got the money from.
• we have a huge amount of information from the victims that he used girls as currency
• considering the circles that Epstein, the people he was involved in, including heads of state, previous heads of state, politicians, factional powerbrokers, scientists, actors, celebrities and a multitude of oligarchs.

These are the circles intelligence agencies walk in. But who he was involved with is probably gonna be harder to work out.

I’m using a 7700k from like 2017. I got me a 3070 and 32GB of ram and I can still play 4k @60fps on games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Dead Island 2 Starwars Outlaws (great game) and Cyberpunk (yes fine with DLSS).

And older stuff like F04, Battletech, HL2, Black Mesa, Fallen order.

Would I like something more powerful. Sure. Cyberpunk natively rendered would be cool. But it won’t really change my day to day. For that I’d need to spend way more on a fancy monitor which seems kinda moot when I’m already at 4k @ 60hz.

Although the show is pissing me off its clear that Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, Jason Anderson, Chris Taylor, Mark O’Green, Scott Bennie and Christopher Taylor from Fallout 1 definitely did get somethings right ie the US trying to invade Canada.

Standard US playbook. Find lackeys who want to destabilise and split a country and fund their coup.

Currently there is no movement, just a national level reaction. A movement requires leadership, a significant level of coordination and mobilization, very specific set of demands and goals, and an underlying message/philosophy that is backed by the general public. We currently have non of this.

Which is why I’m so pissed at the democrats and not just the liberal right wing corpo ones but in particular AOC, Bernie and the other members of the progressive arm. They should be leading a general fucking strike.

And not just them but those adjacent to the party ie Jon Stewart, Colbert and Steph (and all the rest of the YouTube / social media sphere talking heads). Not only have they made incredibly lucrative careers attacking Trump, speaking truth to the insanity of the last ten years (because even under Biden it was always still about Trump), making it clear trunp is a clear and present danger to all.

I’m sick of their never ending jokes and serious moments.

A call to fucking action is required. The world is watching whilst you say your pretty, empty, words.

The time is now.