I was hoping this linked to an XKCD article that discusses the question. Answering the question optional.

What I heard (on here, and I hope it’s a vicious rumor) is that TPM 2.0 comes with backdoors accessible to Microsoft via the OS so that a significant chunk of the computer belongs to Big MS and not to the end user, and it will squeal and cause problems if the end user tries to take it back.

The whole point of TPM 1.0 hypothetically was to allow a larger secondary encryption key of a device to be accessible only by a small user-provided key (say a four-digit PIN), and requiring use of the key-query software to run to get the secondary key. A limited number of chances with longer delays with each wrong answer heightens security.

But this pissed off government law enforcement across the world, who want backdoors for when they want to crack the phone of a very important criminal.

It would be nice if Apple, Google and Microsoft had more respect for their end users than they do national and corporate institutions, but we know this isn’t really the case, so it’s at least plausible that TPMs 1.0 or 2.0 come pre-backdoored. It doesn’t hurt that this is exactly what FBI and NSA want even though (Pre-9/11 and Pre-PATRIOT) NSA is supposed to be assuring that no-one, not even police can crack our secure communication protocols.

Despite efforts to look into it, I’ve yet to get an answer I can fully trust whether or not they are backdoored. But since Microsoft is notorious for exactly this kind of bullshit since the 1980s, I assume it’s true that TPMs are backdoored until I find convincing information otherwise.

In 1980s psychological parlance, the most common places to find partners were:

1. Work
2. School
3. Church
4. Friends of family
5. Friends of friends

In the 1990s and aughts, we were already seeing that things had shifted. Fewer people were engaged in their church group. There was more awareness of sexual harassment at work (and power dynamics that could interfere with regular human interaction). People also had fewer friends and less contact with their extended family. This resulted in more people clubbing (and functioning by one-night stands) and otherwise looking for better places to find eligible partners.

I was in the psychiatric sector both as a patient and a peer counselor, and they recommended activity groups. Frisbee golf, knitting, puzzle-building, backgammon, gardening, etc. I sucked at those, but I was dating during the golden age of Craigslist personal ads. We still have sexual harassment in the workplace in 2024, often from upper-management on the clerical pool, which means for anyone not in upper management, they’re being micromanaged and kept from propositioning fellow employees. But curiously in the 1970s and 1980s employees often dated and married.

From my Christmas 2020 sentiments: This year, Ignorance and Want are not mere wastrel wretches clinging to the ankles of a Christmas spirit,^† rather they are massive kaiju, towering over us all, with a fell, desiccating breath and a petrifying gaze brought fully to bare. And as I write they thunder across the countryside razing human civilization like Godzilla leveling Tokyo.

† passage here. Note it’s not a secure site.

Curiously A Christmas Carol was what started the modern retail-centric rites of Christmas celebrations: prezzies, house parties and feasts.

Also at the time Dickens wrote it, industrial bosses were grudging about making it a work holiday, like Scrooge, often mandating reporting for work and penalizing those who didn’t.

These days we might add a spin on it, that the ghosts are of bosses past who failed to mind the welfare of their workers, only to be brutally turned into the ghosts they are today, and finding the afterlife not to their liking.

With accounts that are less data-miney, you can replace all your account details (name, email addy, region, etc.) with gibberish and wait for it all to update, and then replace your password so not even you can get into it.

If it’s more data-miney and you are willing to put in a few months / years of maintenance, you can trickle in the gibberish and false data until it’s thoroughly poisoned.

Acting in a manner reminiscent of being on meth. Spastic (from which we get spaz )

Now I think about it, young people are often high energy because (as I put it) the motor is too big for the chassis hence the need to run around on the jungle gym. So having new recurring slang for someone who is too energetic to be fully in control (i.e. well-behaved) makes sense.

When we rely on our lover to process our inner turmoil then yeah, it’s the same, just not a professional therapist. That’s the implication.

Hence a better model of having multiple holistic close friends that can distribute the work. Or a professional therapist and a separate FWB.

Ohio has a folk song about awful things happening there. So this scans.

Your psychotherapist is absolutely not supposed to have sex with his / her patients, and doing so (and getting caught) is grounds for losing your license to practice.

That said, about 30% of psychotherapists are banging at least one of their patients in the United States…or claims to be…or something. If we’re lucky that is a bogus stat, but frankly it’s plausible.

That said, ideally you’d get therapy and sex from different sources.

Look for BDSM munches, in which sex doesn’t (usually) happen but people talk about BDSM and hooking up. When the right people like and trust you, the party invites follow.

Yes. You have to hire a different companion for professional cuddling, and thanks to our effed-up healthcare system, it’s not covered by insurance.

I, for one, am completely down with the Aldus Huxley idea of creating a community system that allows everyone to get laid and get psychotherapy (id est, vent their troubles and get professional feedback). Huxley had to dystopia it up a bit with compliance drugs and criminalizing intimacy (and abuses of genetic engineering) since he was writing a cautionary tale, but I think if we did these things and then upgraded friends (or created a subset like BFFs) to include emotional intimacy, it would make for a pretty groovy society.

Right now, we are really far away from this notion, and are about to confront some great filters unprepared, so coulda, shoulda, woulda.

Pete Strzok, now podcast cohost of Cleanup On Aisle 45 commented that seeing RFKjr in this pic reminded him of the old drug-cartel vetting practice of getting the new guy to sample the product (by nose or freebase, usually) to show that they’re true undergrounders and not a law-enforcement plant.

ICE is doing all the SS / SD stuff (as in Schutzstaffel / Sicherheitsdienst ) and had gotten a lot of calls to see the department abolished during Trump’s last term. One of the notable comparisons is how ICE is targeting immigrants who don’t have violent felony records even though they had been ordered to only target those with violent felonies, which is how we ended up with impacted detention centers (through which infectious diseases ran rampant).

Compare this to the German SD who targeted all Jews regardless of an order to only go after those with criminal records.

Hopefully, ICE will overstay its welcome in these cities much the way the German occupation did in Paris France (or ICE did in Portland during the George Floyd protests) which tripled the active resistance within a week. If ICE chooses to be that brutal, and we stand by our neighbors as they are harassed, then at minimum they’ll get chased out, and at best we’ll actually see the department get shut down for turning into the propaganda poster of police brutality.

Tweaking once was chemsex when it wasn’t experimenting with the fine-tuning of your amateur radio array.

Now its erratic behavior like someone on stimulants trying to fine tune their radio array to pick up alien chatter.

Not gun in Korean, as per Johnny Gatt?

Trump and Musk don’t want employees or workers, they want courtiers.

I would say, given any anthro character, there’s a good chance a furry or some furries want to fuck them, but most furries don’t.

A large subset of furries want to be an anthro, though, and likely have specific characters they aspire to.

Dr. Dan McClellan has a great segment on Data Over Dogma about Prototype Theory ( On YouTube, time counter at 35:17), in which he points out dictionaries aren’t authoritative in telling us what words mean, rather they tell us what words have been used to mean so far.

He brings up the word furniture as an example talking about prototype theory, and talks about how we have a general sense of what furniture is ( we know it when we see it ) but we cannot define a set of features that includes all furniture and excludes all things not furniture.