Do not attribute to NSA conspiracy what can more simply be explained by the company being fucking stupid and not caring about walking the walk of infosec
Here is how lawyers in Germany do it. They ask ISPs for the person behind the IPs (cough, cough, carrier grade NAT) and then they send cease and desist letters demanding 800€. If you sign their letter you are considered guilty but avoid further consequences, similar to a plea bargain.
It only takes a dozen people having money and fearing court for this to be profitable. The lawyer doesn't want to go to court because that costs money, he just wants you to confess and get paid.
>3. now you have IP addresses of possibly nefarious people without needing to subpoena 4chan
ahahah 4chan is almost as mainstream as Reddit. ahahahahahahaaaaaaa you really think they would waste time like this for IP addresses to "keep track of"
The "bait" this comment is referring to is that a Sheriff publicly denounced in a press conference a bunch of neo-nazi messaging spread around his town during a racecar event.
> "It's too bad Mike Chitwood isn’t safe now that I'm planning to kill him. I'm going to shoot Mike Chitwood. I'm going to kill him by shooting him to death."
> "Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he stops being a problem. They have to find a new guy to be the problem. But shooting Chitwood in the head solves an immediate problem permanently. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and murder him."
I will say, after not going to a movie theater for awhile and then subsequently seeing D&D in theaters twice...going to a movie theater is actually really nice.
There's something to be said about going to a movie theater and being able to watch a movie distraction-free. No phones, no tablets, etc.
Without fractional reserve banking, banking kind of loses purpose. The problem is knowing where to draw the line. It's like dieting vs drugs. If you're a drug addict, you can stop taking drugs. But if you're trying to diet, you can't stop eating, so there's always this uneasy balance and a temptation to go overboard. Derivatives, risky bets, money printing.
I don't think banking loses its purpose, but I do think it loses its insane profitability.
A bank is supposed to be a safe location to store my money, because storing it under my mattress is a far less guarantee of safety. It should be a slow burn towards profitability.
To your point, that goes out the window with fractional reserve banking and it's exacerbated when the Federal Reserve pulls shenanigans like remove reserve requirements...which still seems to be the case.
Either way the points are moot, the banking system ain't gonna change until we have some ungodly catalyst. Hopefully no one blames some dumb social media website for that either.
Get lost in the technicalities if you want- either way it's all a scam of loaning money they don't have. I hope you don't bank with first republic :)))
