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Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

!gaystapo !gayporn

Elected Republicans are pure evil https://t.co/jsx6Wzun6f

— Jessiah (@thepondering_) February 8, 2025

For anyone unfamiliar, the eponymous "crises" in the title are NOT about the evil orange man who is bad - Notes on the Crises is a political economy newsletter started a few years ago by Nathan Tankus to comment on the intersecting global economic disasters triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nathan is a @TracingWoodgrains style "truth neurodivergent" not a wingcucked political hack. He's just a big giant dork who does things like FOIA request the minutes from all US Federal Reserve Board meetings from 1967-1973

Nathan looks like this, and I would believe almost anything that he writes, because it is backed by powerful neurodivergent spirits.

When he writes about the COBOL code in the treasury department, I'm confident he's talking to beardy old men who write and maintain that code.

I would also like to clarify some confusion on social media. The issue with understanding and grasping a COBOL system is not knowing COBOL, as a programming language, in the abstract. Nor is it, god help me, something that AI can "do" because you fired one of these chatbots up and got some code that could compile when you asked "write me some COBOL code". The issue is understanding the specific physical limitations of the system, the way that it interacts with the "Business Logic" of the code and a million other contextual factors.

There is specific code which tells you where to direct specific payments in specific ways and the structures, and why they are structured the way they are, requires deep contextual knowledge. This is "business logic". The entire issue with COBOL and why it has been such a struggle to maintain it is that COBOL systems (both private and public) developed for decades with very little documentation, have a million different path dependent coding choices. Mar Hicks 2020 article in Logic Magazine "Built to Last" is worth a read on this topic.

This is what I meant yesterday when I referenced that 30 different COBOL systems at Treasury had developed their own "dialects" and they launched Payment Application Modernization (PAM), which among other things, unified them. What they unified was the business logic of those systems (as well as likely other factors, most notably the physical architecture of the systems they ran on). Part of me wishes they didn't modernize with PAM because those 30 different and distinct systems would have been more secure from their infiltration. PAM processed 4.7 trillion dollars of payments in 2024.

It's also true that some similar issues can emerge with other more recent programming languages and the way "business logic" emerges if a mission critical IT system developed using a more recent programming language. But COBOL is unique; after all it's literally "common business-oriented language". So while knowing the COBOL programming language is better than not knowing it, it does not make that much of a difference with these young Musk programmers mucking about.

It all started when some nazi chud made this racist post:

Thankfully he was swiftly banned by the 24/7 online shemale jannies:

But G*mers not having it, so they did the only thing they could think of, spam the entire forum with the same message like toddlers:

the lesson from blowing $80k on options in 2024 should be to stop trading options and park your money in an index fund r-slur

Enter BetHe will! - 10 bets

Enter BetHe will not! - 45 bets

Enter BetJoe Exotic and/or Trump and/or Aevann will die before the deadline of this bet. - 5 bets

Option 3 supersedes option 2.

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025 !tigerfrickers

Closed.

wouldnt you think about the face tattoo all fricking day it would drive me insane thinking about it

No background

Original Tigger Trudeau

!marseyartists !marseyfans

Wait... wasn't the bombing of Dresden a borderline war crime because it almost exclusively targeted civilians? pic.twitter.com/bQFeCswAD3

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 6, 2025

!Nonchuds Mask off moment

"but muh civilians" Nazis deserved all that they got just like Japs deserved to get nuked

As a fan of the Hot piss team . I was more or less rooting for the astroid . But then this happened.

And I realized that my hate for taylor swift transcends any and all hatred for the Eagles.

WANTED THE UPMARSEYS BEFORE Y'ALL REALIZED WILL EDIT WITH MORE INFO + DRAMA

This is what a burger would see before the app shutdown

Visiting TikTok in the US now leads to the following:

(website)

(app)

The ban relies on your tiktok account's region. Using a VPN won't do anything unless you're signed out.

Rising posts are a great place to find nice dramamines, it's currently full of ban screenshots but there's also gems like this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rant/comments/1i4od06/the_fact_people_are_more_enraged_about_tik_tok/

VARIOUS DRAMAMINES:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tiktokhelp/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tiktokhelp/comments/1i4pk5g/how_to_get_around_the_ban/ (links to a groomercord that supposedly teaches how to "get around the ban", not joining cuz r4 but ik some of y'all are secret groomercordians)

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1i4nh5y/does_anyone_else_think_this_is_all_propaganda/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1i4fjd6/just_my_thoughts/ (doesn't talk bad about reddit for some reason )

Apple has removed TikTok from the U.S. App Store ‼️ pic.twitter.com/YFpa2g1BJ6

— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) January 19, 2025

BREAKING: TikTok has officially shut down in the US pic.twitter.com/vbxbiMwyJq

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 19, 2025

🚨#BREAKING: TikTok has officially been banned and shut down in the United States.

📌#UnitedStates | #USA

Just moments ago, TikTok released a message to its users announcing that it has been officially banned and shut down in the United States. Upon opening the app, all 170+… pic.twitter.com/IJliuF5IVb

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025

TikTok has officially shut down in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/jbgayWYUFo

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) January 19, 2025

Nature is healing pic.twitter.com/OMNTbObkZr

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 19, 2025

TikTok has officially been banned in the U.S.😳‼️ pic.twitter.com/BsBfZJBHHa

— RapTV (@Rap) January 19, 2025

BRAND NEW UNTAPPED DRAMAMINES:

Breaking : CapCut has been shut down in the US TONIGHT after TikTok Banned pic.twitter.com/hNBg9jnKqU

— Raphousetv (RHTV) (@raphousetv2) January 19, 2025

TikTok has officially been removed from the App Store in the U.S.🇺🇸😳💔 pic.twitter.com/fCK0inALrd

— Raphousetv (RHTV) (@raphousetv2) January 19, 2025

🚨#BREAKING: Here are the following apps shut down in the United States tonight:
• TikTok
• CapCut
• Lemon8
• Gauth
• Hypic

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025

https://t.co/CBXYNeC12Y

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025

well tiktok is gone now 💔💔 pic.twitter.com/5676UcpKAy

— 🕐HOURLY🕑 shitpost (@hourly_shitpost) January 19, 2025

VARIOUS THINGS THAT I FOUND THAT I FIND FUNNY:

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1i4ph8x/the_last_video_i_got_to_watch/

They finally soyjakked the America is Fascist for banning TikTok girl pic.twitter.com/XAMxcwrF9F

— Spinachbrah 🥗 (@basedspinach) January 18, 2025

First Tik Tok now calculator app… this day can’t get any worse pic.twitter.com/MpURFLcOfA

— greg (@greg16676935420) January 19, 2025

MrBeast, Kai Cenat, and Soulja Boy failed to save TikTok. pic.twitter.com/d608wXy2wf

— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) January 19, 2025

Unsurprisingly, all the bot nsfw tiktok subreddits are not talking about the ban.

!burgers !chuds !coomers !fartneighbors !g*mers !humans !pantspoopers !pinggrouplovers !pings !transphobes !wincels

Imagine hating on us when we're literally just minding our own business and browsing the web 🙃

— Firefox 🔥 (@firefox) January 28, 2025

Apparently Brave got a little cheeky in Google Playstore (I don't see this in Tim Apple's store) and Mozzila is coping hard.

Firef*x claps back after Brave browser's Play Store shenanigans

https://old.reddit.com/r/firef*x/comments/1ic4w56/i_guess_this_is_a_response_for_braves_forget_the/

Pretty lame response. "We are just minding our business and fading into obscurity". They should have use this opportunity to promote some benefit of using Firef*x over brave.

Why would they give their competitor free advertising

where is the competition? the true privacy browser is firef*x

*conditions apply. Please turn off data collection, sponsored links, non-privacy-preserving website advertising preferences, weather on New Tab page, pocket sponsored posts, default browser agent, Normandy, as well as suggestion improvements for search and web browsing. Be sure to not enable AI, and set default search engine to something that isn't Google.

**kindly please ignore that even if you turn off data collection, we will still relentlessly reach out to incoming.telemetry.mozzarella.org and location.services.mozzarella.com.

Firef*x really be doing anything but enable hdr support on YouTube.

I don't get the drooling love some people have for Brave. I personally don't think I would ever trust the browser for anything other than just another option when the ones I like don't work due to the history of crypto schemes and ad/affiliate link hijacking.

Same reason I doubt I will ever trust something made by Lenovo. They screwed up in such a bad way in the past with that whole root cert thing on their OEM images that even a decade+ on I still associate them with it and never consider their products as an option if I can find anything else to do the job.

It is essentially a cult. The crypto crowd loves to overhype stuff as they are used to do it in their pyramid schemes.

Some other people also believe brave to be some kind of anti woke browser. It's just ideology.

Firef*x is objectively the best browser in the world

in a newly-bought Macbook, install Firef*x and Chrome, then compare. despite having the M4 processor and generous amounts of unified memory, Chrome lags while Firef*x is buttery smooth

i feel sorry for people who's using Chrome, they don't even know they got used to terrible experience that they think it's normal. it's like not knowing what's above 60 Hz refresh rate or not having experienced OLED

Firef*x for everything. Safari if I want to stream 4K on Netflix. Chrome if my work will be primarily on Google Docs or Gmail. Brave if it's winter and I want to use my computer as a space heater

I use Firef*x on my computer and brave on my phone. I haven't noticed brave heating up my phone though. What's going on with Brave that everyone hates them so much?

personally, i don't like that you can't disable or hide the features that are bundled with the browser - vpn, crypto, and ai. as for the company behind Brave, i dislike their marketing because they have no business hating on other browsers if they're just a Chrome reskin themselves.

as for the heating part, well, that's my experience on Mac because it's so unoptimized. Chrome is slow as it is, but when you bundle it with other bloat, it takes a toll on your machine. there's also a long-running joke that Brave mines crypto, that's why it gets hot

Brave on my old M1 laptop literally has better battery life than Safari. You can turn all the shit off. Neighbor what world are Mozzilatards living in? Oh yeah, one where Furryfox has a 69% market share and they're not a fat slob in a boring butt IT job for some middling company.

Don't be a lameass Furryfox user, be brave! The browser that puts you first | Brave

!braveshills

edit test

Basically there is a group of people who are fans of a morrowind mod called tamriel rebuilt which adds the mainland of morrowind to the game and they're mad at supposed general modding corruption and at another mod called project tamriel which adds the rest of the elder scrolls mainland to morrowind. These mods share a common asset base and everyone involved is extremely neurodivergent

Now some fans are calling themselves a watchdog group and found a modder for fallout new vegas (another neurodivergent bethesda game) making a Mexico mod who is in America illegally. Obviously they did the natural thing and reported him to ICE

There's some other nonsense as well going on with the Mexico modders stealing assets and sending viruses to other modders and other stuff but idk

Now they're threatening to ICE the other morrowind modders

https://xcancel.com/TR_Watchdog/status/1884499507012067403#m

Big "drain the swamp!" type people and some xitter users are immediately pulling out the comparisons

Stay tuned for the sleep deprived review and in depth analysis

Sneak peek: it's like 5 minutes in and I hate it so far

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1ikfstj/elon_wants_to_defund_the_us_department_of/

balancing like 3 books right now. finished a muriel spark in the middle of the night last night while eating salami out of the fridge.

certainly not part of a massive step in survaillence