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Your country’s leader may overuse turns-of-phrase. Mine is destroying a lifetime of political capital and hurting millions both domestically and internationally.

I’d choose your leader over mine in a hot second.

Remember in the first trump term when he assigned Jared Kushner the job of implementing peace in the Middle East? How’s the Middle East peace these days?

The hell is an implicit security arrangement??

Faith based security

You’re mixing other ideas now, muddying the waters if we’re talking about present day events. I’m not arguing about structures of marriage of history long ago. Yes, marriage has historically been a subjection of women where they had few rights and even those usually flowed through the relationship with a wife’s husband. Same sex marriage wasn’t legal in any form back then. I’m not talking about then.

I’m talking about modern marriage. I’m talking about, lets say, the last 50 years. Birth control existed, women could vote and open bank accounts. The Civil Rights act barring discrimination based on sex (1964) being in full effect etc. Further, I’m talking post-Obergefell supreme court where same sex marriage is legal. All of the points I made in my prior post are in reference to modern day marriage.

Thats a bit different. There isn’t a mandate to do those things which is where OP was going. Many private companies may engage in the same behavior but there isn’t a legal requirement they do so. There are companies that don’t just look one quarter ahead and run their businesses for the long term customer satisfaction. I’ll admit they are getting more rare though.

Thats certainly possible, but there’s no legal requirement they do so. With publicly traded companies the CEOs have a legal fiduciary responsibility to increase shareholder value.

I think you’ve got it a bit backwards. Those things aren’t written into law to make marriage more attractive, marriage is just an easy litmus test that you like your partner enough that you’d want them to have those things. As I said, the State will let you replicate a number of those things with legal instruments, but the State also says, if you trust this person enough to be legally bound to them (and responsible for their marital debts too) then we know you would also trust them with these other things so you get them without asking for them.

There’s some technical pieces I’m missing about the European implementation. Do you have a link to the system you’re looking at or the name? I’m happy to learn more.

I’m a bit proponent of solar. Get it in whatever form you can. Balcony solar is a great concept, so if thats what’s available to you, I’d say go for it. As for grid stability, you’re one person. You have no ability to affect operations at the grid level. The regulators in your region will have to account for people like you and your electricity needs and put in place solutions for future stability.

Any reduction in electricity from fossil fuels is a win. Get solar.

Theres a few pretty critical things you get with marriage that you simply can’t with long term committed dating (in the USA at least). Such as:

• being the legal authority over health decisions for your incapacitated partner
• smooth transfer of assets upon death of one partner to the other
• legal protection from one partner being compelled to testify against the other
• certain insurance benefits only apply to married partners

You can get some of these things or versions of them with complicated legal instruments like Medical PoA and trusts, but many times they are a pale imitation and some things simply have no replacement. If you’ve decided to make your life with your partner these are important.

CEOs are mandated by law to increase shareholder value as much as possible

One slight correction, this applies to publicly traded companies that appear on stock markets, yes. This isn’t a requirement in privately held companies.

instead of big solar farm, it’s more € 4 000 system with a bit more than a 1.5 KW of balcony solar,

…and…

It cannot allow for off-the-grid living but it does keep the grid safe and decentralizes energy generation. With the possibility of a call to share in case there is a catastrophic event.

Those do the opposite actually. Those are some of the small scale versions of the problem that @ms_lane@lemmy.world was referring to.

Those are “grid following” devices. So where they can contribute to a cascade failure is if there is a slight sag in the grid voltage or frequency (supplied by the “big spinny things” of utility grade generators that poster was referring to), the solar system would turn itself off to protect itself. This would enable full passthrough of your households electrical demand to pull from the grid directly instead. Where the balcony solar would be offsetting a nice chunk of demand, suddenly that demand is pulled from the grid instead in a fraction of a second. Now imagine ALL the houses doing that at once. The sudden spike in demand from all those households can cause utility grade solar/wind operators to pull their supply as well, further spiking the need for more electricity at that moment. Then you get brownouts or blackouts because the only supply of electricity was the grid scale generator with the big spinny generators (which form the grid), and the demand is beyond the ability of the generator to supply. So breakers are thrown cutting off electricity customers to protect the electrical infrastructure.

Because balcony solar are “grid following”, they cannot be called on to share in the case of a catastrophic event. They need a healthy grid in place before they can come online.

and decentralizes energy generation.

This point is true though during the good times. Any reduction in grid demand (which these balcony solar setups do) is a net positive. However, they don’t help in catastrophic situations because they depend on the grid being up and healthy. I wish more of the world allowed them. We aren’t allowed to do that in the USA, as an example. Putting up any amount of solar that connects to the grid at all, even solar that doesn’t feed power back (called “zero export” here) require detailed engineering plans and permits before you can install them. This increases the cost and complexity for any residential solar installation.

but we also can’t keep a grid completely reliant on momentum for short term ride through.

If I understand it properly, the problem you’re referring to is “grid following” vs “grid forming”. The former being most solar/wind deployments and the latter being one of the big spinny things. Its not that the tiny integrated circuits can’t do grid forming too, its that its risky for anything to do so and many operators when given the choice decouple (meaning their contribution to the grid stops) rather than let their expensive equipment be put in danger.

One solution to this is gridscale battery storage. As the cost of batteries fall (especially with cheap chemistries like Sodium Ion) we’ll likely see many more gridscale battery deployments.

I know this is a regularly spoken fear about taxing rich individuals “that they’ll leave and take their wealth with them”. Some countries like China have strong laws/rules preventing or capping money transfers out of China which is one approach to this. I don’t like this approach, but its at least something.

Perhaps we should let the rich leave the country and take their money with them, but the consequence could be that they can’t come back. By that I don’t mean they can’t move back to the origin country, but they can’t even visit. Perhaps countries that have the rich leaving could even build a reciprocity list. As in, a rich person moving out of the UK would not be allowed to visit the UK, but would also not be allowed to visit the USA, etc.

Essentially eventually building a system that shows “you can take your money with you, but you’ll have no where to spend it”. Yes, there will be those countries that welcome the people and their wealth, but nations of the world can further isolate those countries. Just a thought.

Perhaps. I’ve always wondered if the VPN providers were playing games with semantics. It would be possible to not log, but still see events happening in real-time and report those. In the IT world “logging” is the capturing of events that occurred in the past. “Monitoring” is seeing events that are happening in real-time".

So a request could come in saying “when we see activity from IP X let person Y know what is happening”. The VPN provider would technically not be logging, but the activity of the user could still be tracked. Again, I’m not saying this is what happens at any of these VPN companies, I’m simply posing a series of events that could occur while the VPN companies statements would still be factual to their advertising claims yet result in the outcomes that customers specifically want to avoid. This is just a thought exercise. I have no evidence any of this happened.

Whats missing from the article is any kind of seized evidence that would show he had the means to actually carry out any of this threats. As in, could this just be a “talking tough” keyboard warrior? I’d expect they’d need to find lots of guns, poison, explosives, etc. There isn’t any mention of that kind of thing in the article.

I think the article is telling us in reverse order of discovery which makes it VERY confusing to parse:

As in:

Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force retraced the roots of the digital messages Payne allegedly sent to the media outlets.

Okay, so where did the “digital messages” come from?

According to the affidavit, Payne used a Proton email address,

Okay, they knew the source of the message was Proton email. One subpoena of Proton later, they know the IP address(s) of the email client/app logging into Proton. So now they have a whole bunch of IP addresses of VPN exit nodes. So they reach out to the VPN provider:

Other unusual activity was traced through Payne’s VPN

So they ask the VPN provider to provide the origin address of the VPN logins, and come back to a cell phone (network) provider

or network provider.

So they ask the network provider to provide the info on the owner, except its a burner, so the provider doesn’t know. Hmm, okay so they know its coming from Burner Phone X, but not who owns Burner Phone X. Mr Google, Mr Microsoft, etc, do you have any activity from these Mobile phone company IP addresses at this time?

That information is tracked by Google

Ah! So Mr Google does. Anything stand out to you with the activity you’re seeing?

Investigators were alerted to his accounts after finding an unusually high number of log-ins and failed log-ins from an unfamiliar devices, locations, or networks. That information is tracked by Google, per the affidavit.

Okay, so its more than just than Burner Phone X accessing these Google accounts/sessions. Yes, the same web sessions/cookies were also used by devices belonging to another Google account, that of Payne.

Okay we’ve arrested Payne, could this just be an account/device hijacking and Payne be innocent? Well we also seized a rando cell phone with incriminating evidence on it. Could this have been planted?

Messages from his burner phone, too, matched the number Payne had listed in his personal contact info while applying for unemployment benefits in February.

So someone texted something at some point to text Burner Phone X. Who was that origin texter sending to Burner Phone X? Payne. So unlikely it was planted and more confirmation it was Payne sending the original threats.

My guess is that he was using his phone for tethering to a laptop, and he had a google account associated with his browser. So even though he was going through a VPN, it would show THIS SET OF CREDENTIALS logging in from all the different exit nodes of his VPN provider.

Alternatively, he could have logged into his Google account from the burner phone (not a good idea), or even just created a new Google account, which again, would show logins from a bunch of different exit nodes of his VPN provider.

Messages from his burner phone, too, matched the number Payne had listed in his personal contact info while applying for unemployment benefits in February.

If you put your real name on it or associate that phone number with your name, then doesn’t that stop meeting the definition of a burner phone?

EDIT: I re-read the wording of the article, and I don’t think he used the burner phones number associated with his name as I posted before. The article says this:

"Messages from his burner phone, too, matched the number Payne had listed in his personal contact info while applying for unemployment benefits in February. "

It sounds like he used is REAL phone/number to apply for unemployment, but then at a later time he used is REAL phone to text a message to his burner phone. So the article is saying the “messages found on his burner phone” contained his REAL phone number. This would mean authorities would have had to have the burner phone in hand. So this wasn’t the way he was found, simply a way that it was confirmed it was him.

It took the USA about 80 years to build the soft power that let it influence much of the world. trump is destroying all of that in less than 6 months.

I hate to say it, but he’s not wrong. China is a better partner that the USA under trump.