I don’t think it’s a shift in elected officials that brings change. I think it’s seeing that the price of gas caused a landslide and they’re aware of riots in France.

Unlimited intifada on the gamers. Ban WoW forever now. Delay the release of GTA6 until it can run at 60fps. No half measures.

I don’t know. In Ukraine, yes for sure.

But Iran seems to have attained a degree of moral high ground in the public perception, and also benefits from being anti-Israel. It directly evokes memories of Iraq and Afghanistan.

And most importantly it jacks up the price of gas.

The libs are going to fold.

Iran’s parliament speaker says US voters rejected war, Tehran backs this message

Qalibaf warns Washington against betraying the public will.

Tabatabaei attributed the Republican Party’s defeat to US support for Israeli actions in Gaza, its alignment with Israel’s interests and the war against Iran.

Ok so goodbye to land taxes, right?

That’s just anti-himbo cope.

His head isn’t small. His shoulders are yuge.

They did it. They finally fucking did it.

But still only a majority of 1, maybe 2, in the senate so they’ll still lose every important vote there 48:52

WOKE 3.0 prepare the lulags

I was like “this is fucking dumb” then “oh, obviously the M1 Garand” and frankly the last three options are all good I support this

Latest update!

Dems - 0 seats called

GOP - 0 seats called

435 seats remain to be called!

Next update in a week or maybe before December I don’t gaf

The real outcome of today is DEMOCRACY

It isn’t really important who you vote for. The most important thing is that you vote.

But don’t vote third party because the system is designed so that structurally only two parties can dominate so voting 3rd party means your vote is wasted.

Also those two parties… ok so both of them are going to fund Israel and both of them are going to blockade Cuba. But only one of them is going to state they’ll bomb the ICC. The other one won’t repeal the “bomb the ICC” law but they won’t say they’ll bomb the ICC so you know maybe they won’t bomb the ICC.

One of the parties has Muslim candidates. About two or three of them that matter. Out of hundreds. Which is better than the party that had zero. You have to admit this. It’s at least 0.5% better.

Fucking vote.

Yeah like what even is their point?

Capitalism is faster at lifting people out of poverty than socialism?

The policy that actually worked in India was fucking wealth redistribution.

What do people make of this claim?

It’s a good thing to lift people out of poverty but India has not eliminated poverty whereas China has.

The “took four decades to do it” is pretty dumb. India did it via direct wealth transfers, which is good more of that yes, but who exactly was communist China going to wealth transfer from?

China did it by the second most impressive feat of self-industrialization in human history, second only to the Soviet Union. India did it by finally distributing wealth just a little bit.

It certainly hasn’t industrialized to anywhere near the extent that China has so its ability to lift people to middle income status will remain structurally lower.

It’s also an apples to oranges comparison. India reduced extreme poverty, which is great. China not only reduced extreme poverty, it actually eliminated it, and didn’t just raise them above that minimal bar it actually brought them into a middle class level of income especially when considering PPP.

And “took four decades”? Meaning dating from the revolution? And we’re not dating from Indian independence?

I think it would make more sense to date from the 80s or the alignment with the US in the 70s at the earliest to date when the real industrialization drive got underway so that would say China did it in about 20 years.

Good for India. This is a good thing. But their GDP per capita is about 20% that of China.

So no, they absolutely have not achieved “in little more than a decade” what China did in four decades.

Posting my loss porn to wallstreetbets so I can lose money on Reddit on Reddit

The binance “hack” is looking extremely fishy

Initially they blamed a single devops engineer losing his laptop, this is now acknowledged to not be the case.

But let’s start there.

That means the system is so insecure that a single developer has the ability to just transfer $6 billion of crypto. Because if it’s plausible that their credentials being stolen can do that, this means even the most basic cybersecurity and access control principles are not being employed and in fact they’re just giving root access to devops to simplify operations. Insane.

Oh but that wasn’t actually true.

Now they say “multiple breaches” occurred.

The fact this wasn’t immediately clear, the fact they initially thought “well I guess it was someone stealing a system-wide root access credential”… this means besides the fact that system-wide root access credentials even exist in the first place…

It means they don’t have the observability in place to immediately see if it was in fact those credentials that were used to perform the hack.

So that’s now two basic concepts of cybersecurity obviously not being used despite $20 billion in assets:

1. Root credentials exist and are given to devops.

And

2. They don’t have audit logging in place to see what actions are performed, audit logging which should record “identity X performed Y”.

They also say that the hackers carefully covered their tracks.

Fucking bullshit. They just weren’t recording anything. It’s obvious.

Now another thing.

Why was their instinct to immediately put public blame on this engineer?

Now they put the blame on “North Korean hackers.” What is the evidence for these being North Korean hackers?

It’s actually extremely thin. Basically the “pattern of transfers” to launder the crypto through different exchanges and transfers is being treated as a fingerprint.

Which is also fucking bullshit. Because it would be some kind of algorithmic scramble to try to make the traceability as difficult as possible and to create plausible deniability about the source of funds.

That’s the fingerprint of any crypto scam.

Anyway they say this pattern of transfers is a fingerprint that matches a previous hack that was linked to North Koreans.

So even if you accept the fingerprint claim, the claim this hack is North Koreans entirely rests on the previous hack being North Koreans.

What is the evidence of these previous hack being North Koreans? Fucking zero. The FBI said that was a leading theory at one point, without citing their reasons why or even being conclusive about it.

Now that previous hack… it used Trojans with names like MANYUSCRIPT, Lazarus, other biblical names from the Old Testament. Talmudic names. The first hack really sounds more like it was Israel given their naming conventions.

Now, I think it’s actually pretty weak to claim this is linked to the previous hack anyway. Using AI-driven analysis (yep) to determine a fingerprint of algorithmic crypto cycling is a fucking weak premise to link these two hacks together.

So whatever it’s a red herring imo.

We return to the facts of this case

(1) Management is eager to put the blame at easy targets. The careless devops engineer who was so irresponsible as to have his system wide root access credentials stolen, rather than the leadership team who allow that in the first place when tens of billions are accessible to those credentials.

(2) The absolutely shocking lack of observability in this system to even hold that theory in the first place, when it should have been immediately obvious who was doing what inside the system.

(3) Which means a leadership team who have actively chosen to build a crypto fund with less security and observability than the mini pc I use to stream movies from.

(4) These are active choices. Active choices to make it extremely easy to steal crypto from Binance in an untraceable manner.

(5) And then after the theft, multiple attempts to put the blame and attention onto targets that seem obvious on the surface level and only become implausible when you actually look at what the specifics of the finger pointing claims are.

(6) ….and Binance has been gradually losing markets as they fail to achieve regulatory compliance in multiple jurisdictions around the world.

This, my friends, is looking like a good old-fashioned crypto exchange “accidentally losing your money” rug pull.

It simply is not plausible you’d be running a banking system with $20 billion of assets under management with such insanely extremely poor cybersecurity practices.

System wide root access given to devops to just have on their laptop.

An obvious lack of audit and access logging to even maintain that theory in the first place.

An obvious lack of observability to not realize there were multiple intrusions occurring in multiple systems simultaneously.

This is a designed failure. An intentionally, laughably, ridiculously low level of cybersecurity.

It’s an intentional design choice. It’s an inside job by people with very high levels of authority within the company.

Happy Halloween

which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container

This makes it sound like the only thing standing between me and extreme wealth is oauth2proxy

Declare that the shipping lanes are OPEN, use all caps this is important. If anyone asks any questions say that the only thing blocking the flow of oil is Iran.

Point out that you’ve defeated Iran, completely, to dust. Absolute atoms. Nothing remains except a couple of sheep.

But you need $5 trillion to defeat those sheep.