I’m subscribing to self hosted and following you. I don’t have the tech background to sign up to assist at this point, but I do see a world where this will be the only way to send messages digitally — something like what you have described.

The corporations in their consolidation will absolutely break the internet. We have to have community originated back ups of something.

Interesting. I didn’t get into that show but perhaps I’ll give it another try.

Allow me to chime in with a science fiction favorite: A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M Miller. It’s a collections of three interrelated novellas set a few thousand years apart… but there are themes and one character present in all three. Compelling characters and lots of humor make this a must read.

Anyone else read it?

Translation into Donald-Think: Blue State bad. Leader blue. Me no understand issue. Me no care. Me good. Me very very good. Blue man bad. me mock.

So… what’s the alternative?

This story has parallel construction written all over it.

It establishes how careful his behavior was during those three months. Obviously he was not famous for murder during that time, but it might lead us to believe that a person living on a post pandemic world and seeking to remain anonymous might have chosen a mask at Mc Ds? For that matter… why not on the sidewalk where the event happened?

Brilliant!!

I’m pretty cynical and I’m nowhere near this cynical.

Is your interest in this “the guy in custody is an imposter” theory is because we want so much for the actual act-doer to still be out there? I confess… I like that world. But a “hero” arising to assume the shooter’s identity feels even more fantastical than my original musing that covert agencies are trying to hide their existence by having a wage slave take credit for calling this in.

I only mentioned it because it was a detail you might not have heard?

So… someone who happens to look like the the person captured on the videos has the wherewithal to craft the manifesto and fabricate the 3D printed gun parts, and also wants to… do this so that he can become famous or gum up the machinery of justice? Seriously, I’m not tracking.

I heard that he went into hiding months before the actual shooting.

And get the death penalty? What?

Wow for the OC. That’s a very cool hobby you have there!

I want to see the meme with ceo blood now.

Totally agree. But separated from the hydrohomies group, some operations vp is looking at that thinking… “hmm… it’s time. I’ll call my guy.”

I mean the meme is kind of perfect for capitalism?

Honestly — how is this not just simple stealth product placement?

Seven years and it will be as good as new.

What would happen if each of us get 500 of these printed as flyers and post them all over our cities?

How is this not the top comment?