@nprofile1q... normies dream about winning the lottery or starting a successful company or something, and ending up with enough money to buy a private island or yacht or something.

My version of that dream is to sic a highly trained squad of autistic transfems on a complex engineering problem which would benefit society but has been overlooked due to not being profitable. Buy them anything they ask for (within reason), open source the results, and watch the capitalists squirm.

@nprofile1q... interesting i figured it was something to that effect but the image of a submarine shooting sausages instead of torpedoes stuck in my head

@nprofile1q... what, you don't fax your friends to organize social events?

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I've designed or contemplated several PCBs as a result of dating people but I don't think I have ever had to write a web app lol. You must be dating interesting people.

@nprofile1q... and the z is a custom machined variable pitch ball screw where tpi depends on your position

@nprofile1q... brb building a mill where the x axis leadscrew is graduated in inches and the y is millimeters

@nprofile1q... unless they find hydrogen leak 961 and scrub again

@nprofile1q... so like sure you'd be on the hook for all kinds of criminal charges for whatever hacking and sanctions evasion they're doing in your name, but you might actually get paid :p

@nprofile1q... basically I dont think its a scam per se, they're looking for useful idiots to proxy "get money" and "poke at interesting western computing infrastructure" through and may actually be willing to pay real money for the privilege. Although it would not surprise me if they do rip off some of their mules from time to time when an operation is done and they're not needed anymore

@nprofile1q... No idea how accurate that attribution was but its definitely a thing that happens

@nprofile1q... Pretty sure I saw an article a while ago that claimed these folks were mostly actually based in north korea, and looking to gain access to interesting sensitive stuff in the US (and I'm sure the money was nice too)