I’m older than I appear to be, lol

Sic semper tyranus.

This reminds me of what Germany was like c.1930.

Cool story bro. It’s concise and does a great job of persuading me that LLMs are better at sales than incentivized salespeople. Wow.

In my mind liberalism=capitalism=conservatism.

Just because it’s got different pants on, doesn’t change its core message. Some have rights, while others are excluded. Liberals trade their freedoms for the security of the few at the top in-group.

The excluded “other” can change over time, but it is always excluded from those freedoms enjoyed by those at the top as long as there is conservatism, capitalism, liberalism, or any -ism.

I don’t know if there’s a working solution, but I know I’m anti-conservative.

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

• Frank Wilhoit

There’s no such thing.

Murca: let’s use frickin lazor beams!

Canada: magnets boil water go brrrrrrrr

I wonder which IoT devices are affected, beyond DIY, that people actually use in North America.

The ESP32 chip, developed by Espressif Systems, is widely used in various IoT (Internet of Things), embedded systems, and consumer electronics due to its low power consumption, built-in Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, and high processing capability.

Devices That Use the ESP32 Chip

1. Development Boards & Microcontrollers

ESP32 DevKit series (official Espressif boards)

M5Stack and M5Stick series

Adafruit HUZZAH32

SparkFun ESP32 Thing

LilyGO T-Series (T-Display, T-SIM, T-Watch, etc.)

WEMOS Lolin D32/D32 Pro

2. Smart Home & IoT Devices

Sonoff Smart Switches and Plugs (e.g., Sonoff Mini R3, Sonoff S31)

Shelly Smart Relays (e.g., Shelly 1, Shelly 2.5)

Tuya-Based Smart Devices (many smart home products use Tuya firmware on ESP32)

Air quality monitors (e.g., AirGradient open-source air sensors)

IoT Sensor Hubs (various DIY and commercial solutions)

3. Wearables & Portable Devices

TTGO T-Watch (ESP32-based smartwatch)

Heltec WiFi Kit Series (LoRa-enabled IoT devices)

Fitness trackers (some DIY and prototype models)

4. Robotics & DIY Electronics

ESP32-CAM (ESP32-based camera module)

DIY drones & robots (used in hobbyist and educational robotics)

3D Printer controllers (e.g., ESP32-based Klipper controllers)

5. Industrial & Commercial Products

ESP32-based vending machines (wireless payment systems)

Smart irrigation controllers

Energy monitoring devices (e.g., OpenEnergyMonitor)

Smart locks & security systems

6. Audio & Multimedia Devices

ESP32-based web radios

DIY Bluetooth speakers

Smart light controllers with voice assistants

Why Is ESP32 Popular?

✔ Low-cost & powerful (dual-core, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) ✔ Great for DIY & commercial IoT applications ✔ Strong developer community & open-source support ✔ Compatible with Arduino, MicroPython, ESP-IDF, etc.

The pesky first amendment only applies where VP Krasnov says it does, comrade. Rules for thee, not for he.