I wrote this up after my trip to South Korea trying to find a solution to the North Korea situation.
Wrote it up on January 18th, 2020. And then the world freaked out about Corona, among other things (cough America was busy impeaching its president cough)
"I am recovering from a nasty cold I picked up from my travels" ... Oh really, 2020 Brian, what is it that you were ill from? Excuse me, but you are canceled for not recognizing Corona as the worse plague ever to accurse the Earth. ... Looks like I actually was America's patient zero.
If Putin were truly a madman, then he would go for a pre-emptive strike which has always been in line with Russian nuclear doctrine.
America has always equivocated that it would never launch a pre-emptive strike which is why we have a range of nuclear deterrence.
Still. A tactical nuke could be attempted and might be deemed worth the consequences depending on how far sanctions go.
Locals is pretty good for speaking freely. Was a nice chat with RekietaLaw during his call-in. Not exactly my envisioned future but, hey, it's silly and it's nice that America is able to allow people to chat like this once again.
:)
[Not the best worded but, hey, it was something I broached in a 150 character superchat on RekietaLaw's 2/3/22 livestream]
btw the "NNTP [blah blah] a low-tech solution". What is it a low-tech solution to? The whole Big Tech, Big Media, Twitter, Social Media conundrum of getting actual news
It is as ancient of a protocol of the Internet as TCP-IP, UDP, HTTP, the email protocial, all that.
I have no clue where to make an NNTP server however there are NNTP clients to read "newsgroups" and interact on them, I believe.
If someone made an app, and there were a bunch of servers, then say local news could put be placed on servers for a particular town or city. And someone could look through the text of it. Do the data mining, all that.
Streamers, youtubers, content creators could put their opinions on issues on there or give out announcements, probably.
The way it works is that there is a centralized place (the original server that hosts the newsgroup) and then a decentralized network of servers that ...