Middle-aged nerd who is really bad at describing himself. I don't boost as often as I should, but when I do you'll know it's a good one. Or at least silly.
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Last Notes npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Depends on how it's encoded. If it's text encoded, it'll just be an email filled with seemingly random characters. Anyone looking at it will know it's encrypted, but they won't be able to see what it is unless they break the encryption. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I assume it means that you're not using the Gmail interface to read the messages, meaning the messages will remain encrypted on google's side and only get decrypted by Proton. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Holy shit, how far was the car from Nebraska? And "accidentally"? Imagine what he could do if he actually aimed. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Life in the wild is all about violent survival, you either kill or you find a way not to be killed. What makes humans different from most other life forms is that we have the ability to insert reason into our thought processes between observation and action. We can choose not to be violent even though our natural instincts tell us to be. Sadly, not enough people even care enough to consider the choices let alone make the right one. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Wars existed before humans did, before hominids even, so wondering when war started is a bit silly. War started when the first creature was in competition with another for resources. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 "It helps non-creative people be creative." npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Remember, no matter what the repercussions are for disobeying fascists, the reprcussions for capitulating to them will always be worse. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I want to see a live action Batman Beyond with whichever old Batman actor is available as old Bruce Wayne (ideally Michael Keaton, but I'd also accepted George Clooney). npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Word-on-the-street interviews were so much easier before people gave a shit about important social issues. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I just found out today that this war criminal is here because Spineless Albanese invited him. Someone should probably tell Albanese that Israel and Judaism are separate entities. I'm purposefully making the assumption he's just an idiot rather than being malicious, even though he probably is. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 They're really just not even trying to sell ICE as "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" anymore, it's just Intimidation by Cowardly Eunuchs. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 1. I agree with having to show up to get changes made. I brought it up because I'm not saying that we shouldn't vote for Democrats because they suck, a lot of non-voters (or third-party voters) think that way. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Ooh, I'll disagree with "imagining something better is easy" it seems like it *should* be, but it doesn't seem to be in practice, especially if we say that Democrats are as left wing as we can hope for. We settle for the Democrats because that's the best of what's currently available, but we need to be telling them that we're not happy with them as they currently stand. I want to vote for actually progressive candidates, not just for the people who aren't literally evil. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's a bit like that, sure, but it would take a long time of everyone showing up to vote to actually make a difference. I can't imagine the DNC as it exists now, allowing candidates more left wing than AOC or Omar. There's only so much voters can do with the system that exists, and that turns people off voting. Personally, I'm a strong proponent of compulsory voting. Don't just make it easier to vote, make it harder not to. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 The Democrats are an organisation with a small (9 members) committee that determines the policies and direction of the party and a second, slightly larger (65 members) committee that runs things day-to-day. When was the last time you voted in a Democratic National Committee election? Or an Executive Committee one? They set the rules for how primaries and caucuses are run, they run the fundraisers. Average, everyday Americans get effectively zero say in the makeup of those committees. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Oh, absolutely, I'm definitely not suggesting voting for third party candidates, at least not at a federal level. There is *some* benefit, sometimes, to voting for a third party at a state level, and there's usually benefit to third party votes at a county and city level. As long as the system is plurality, Democrats will continue to get my endorsement, but I'll be damned if I let them off the hook for being centrists. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I think I see what you're getting at. I think, though, that letting Democrats be called "left" lets them off the hook to be better. It makes it seem like someone having an opinion between the Democrats and Republicans is a reasonable position when, really, that just makes them a less extreme extremist. Democrats should be seen as the compromise, the centric position (even though they're more like slightly right-wing). npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I mostly disagree. By any definition, the Democrats are conservative, they maintain the status quo, only doing the minimum to show that they're better than Republicans, and they *definitely* are, don't get me wrong. Now, it's entirely reasonable to argue that conservative and right-wing don't mean the same thing, but they usually do. The closest the US has to a left wing, the Green party, is a joke, something to make the Democrats' centric stance more reasonable. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 "Spread very thin and with butter" I say as I scoop some out with my finger and lick it off. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 When you say "the right" do you mean "the American right" or "the right everywhere except the US"? Because *normal* moderate right are only slightly bigoted. The Democrats are moderate right (which hasn't really changed for their very long history, significantly longer than the party that calls themselves old), the Republicans are literal extremists, though they weren't always. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I'm pretty sure the definition of "Class M" would necessitate it being almost the same as Earth, if it's too different then it'd be a different class. Maybe N or L. Or maybe there are subclasses, like M₂ or Mₕ₄ or something. I know they've made mention of planets that "barely qualify as Class M" and even a few that were definitely other classes but were still marginally habitable for humans. Ok, just looked it up, the planet in Voyager's Muse (the Greek Thespian planet) is Class L. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 So, when you said that you weren't defending the use of AI, that was a lie, as that's exactly what you're trying to do. You're using one example that is potentially ethically trained and claiming that invalidates the argument about how *most* models are trained, certainly all the ones that most people are using. You're also ignoring all the energy required to do the training when using a pre-trained model. Since your intention is not to make sound arguments, this conversation is done npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Yes, it *can* be trained with ethically sourced material, but it *isn't*. And it doesn't matter what hardware is used, it'll require similar amounts of energy. If you use low-powered hardware, it'll use less power (energy per unit time), but take longer. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 There definitely is a difference. He presumably didn't steal the work of others to make it, he paid them. Nor did it require unconscionable amounts of power and municipal water to produce. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Someone who was significantly smarter wouldn't have recorded himself plotting a conspiracy and ordering crimes. Someone who was significantly smarter wouldn't have even needed to commit those crimes in the first place, he'd have been able to win on his own merits. (Or, at least, using the great number of allowed unethical practices politicians use all the time) So, yeah, slightly smarter. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Yeah, I think Nixon was probably a narcissist, which Trump definitely is, but he was slightly smarter and probably not a psychopath. The groundwork hadn't yet been laid for a full fascist takeover, and a lot of voters actually remembered fighting fascism. Had Nixon thought it was possible, he might have gone down the same road, but he did what he could in the cultural environment available to him. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Apparently it was his idea, though. Or, at least, his staff's or party's idea, and he agreed with it enough to be the one to make the proposal. It wasn't entirely a new idea, though, similar ideas had been proposed earlier, they just didn't pass. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Nixon established the EPA, Trump fired a mortar into it. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 In a future with synthetic people (artificial intelligences) that we've just spent a chapter discussing their less than ideal social standing, and you walk into a bar called "Machina Libre" thinking it might be a Mexican restaurant? Then get confused when they don't have much of a food selection for natural humans? Then don't understand why they're annoyed at your presence? You've got to be the stupidest time traveller ever. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I find it hard to finish books with particularly stupid protagonists. It's one thing to know something they don't, I know some people get frustrated with that, but it's *really* annoying when they don't see the obvious when it's placed directly in front of them with a siren and a neon sign telling them what it is and why it's important and they just step around it and wander past, oblivious or even annoyed at having a noisy obstacle put in their way. #Bookstodon npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 While I do like Bashir, he always came off as the kind of guy who'd creep around the promenade taking upskirt pics. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 As someone who hates mushrooms, I can confirm that it is, indeed, the texture. Mushrooms have barely any flavour for me, so they inevitably just feel like I'm eating boiled neoprene. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Pro-tip: telling me that my well-founded concerns aren't worth being concerned about does not help in the slightest. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Oh good, the trekbot just picked it up. Perhaps I should have removed that. Oh well, too late now. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Not individually, no, but altogether? Massive, way bigger than a softball. I think it's reasonable to claim that they make up a considerable portion of the total mass of your intestines. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Is it too far off topic to mention the existence of gut flora? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I think OpenAI *wants* to make Skynet, but they're just pouring all their money and effort into making a really complicated and inefficient dictionary. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's like having a drunkenness pill, but all it does is knock you out and you wake up with a hangover and a bad tattoo. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Oh, it's worse than that. Most of them are incels who made good and discovered that there are women who are turned on by someone wealthy. Consent, to them, is just another thing you can buy. Besides, even if you can't, you can buy off the fallout, which, I imagine, is much the same thing to them. What's $250k to someone who makes a billion every month? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 You can keep *that* weather, but maybe we could average it out with a few really big fans? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Someone should check on Summer, she seems to be running late. It's December and I'm cold. This is the *southern* hemisphere we're not supposed to have to do cold in December. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Stealth Defiant. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I know I've said this before, but the common autistic trait of an overdeveloped sense of justice is looking at it from the wrong direction. It's not that autistics are overly sensitive to injustice, it's that allistics are overly callous to it. The world would be a significantly better place if more people gave more of a shit about what others are going through. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Also, "young Spock"? It's something like two years after The Cage and somewhere around a decade before the rest of TOS. Compared to "old Spock", he's practically the same age he is for most of the times we see him. He's not young Spock, he's just Peck Spock. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It wasn't for Bashir, though. His childhood kinda sucked which is why his parents killed that version and created a new one out of his remains. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Debian is just GNU/Linux with a package manager, cut out the middle man and roll your own and compile everything from source yourself. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Wouldn't the shell theorem come into effect here? The further down it goes, the more mass will be exerting gravity upward as well as perpendicular to the direction of travel. The acceleration curve wouldn't be parabolic, and would have a much flatter profile near the center. Then again, I suppose the same is true for the horizontal and vertical acceleration of the orbiting object. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 That's really cool, and I've been looking for something like that, but the cost is pretty rough. I think it's around 4-5 times what I paid for my hand grinder and I don't think it would provide 4-5 times the convenience. Perhaps 2½-3 times, at most. Maybe if I had bad arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome, it could be worth it. Thankfully, though, I don't. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Well, that's a happy little accident. It has to be rectified, of course, things jutting out like that will slow down the print. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I'm assuming that creature in the middle is part of the magical defences, should the library come under attack by otherworldly forces. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Step 1: Move to a different universe. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I'm guessing this was built in the 50s or 60s during the airform concrete bubble fad. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Unpopular opinion: I liked Insurrection more than First Contact. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Yeah, my top four Trek series are DS9, TNG, Prodigy, and Lower Decks. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 There were several episodes that I imagine resulted in Bashir having to yet again attend a Starfleet medical ethics program. To the point that they probably have an entire chapter titled "Don't date your patients, Julian." No, reassigning them to another doctor doesn't suddenly make it ok to date them. Give it a few months, at least. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Given that every Covid infection damages your immune system, increasing the likelihood of getting it again, everyone needs Covid shots. Also, Covid isn't seasonal. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Unlike the Picard vs. Sisko poll, this one is easy. The D was a cross between a luxury apartment and a high-end shopping mall with enough firepower to obliterate a continent. I'll take that one, thanks. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 The real-world equivalent of this is a false vacuum and the slightly terrifying false vacuum decay. The idea is that, what we think of as normal, empty space is not in the lowest-energy, most stable state and that should some region of space achieve that state, that change would propagate through the Universe at the speed of light, likely altering the fundamental physical constants to the point that normal matter could not exist. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I remember seeing a comic a while back where someone says "I invented a new vegetable!" and someone replies "is it brassica again?" I couldn't find it, but apparently there's an XKCD about it anyway, because of course there is. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 For a second, I thought that was watermelon. I'm not entirely sure that fruit sushi wouldn't actually be pretty good. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's a bit like how carbon dating will return very anomalous results on anything that's died after July 1945. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Is it a mistake, though? He's been doing the same thing for decades and it doesn't seem like it's done him any harm. Spouting nonsense is his entire platform. Everyone that would turn against him for his bullshit already has, nothing good can come from letting him carry on. I don't think Sun Tzu had delusional, sociopathic cult leaders in mind when he wrote that. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Ok, but why *don't* they tell him to shut the fuck up? I get that it's kind of a faux pas in politics, but surely that's only the case when everyone's playing by the same rules. And, yes, those rules are bad and allow a lot of horrific stuff to happen, but, if anything, that should be more of a reason that everyone should be telling him to shut the fuck up. Stick your fingers in your ears and do the "la la la, I'm not listening" thing then follow that with Dr Evil's "zip it" routine. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 How often does someone trip over that door sill? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 In case you were in need of a reason to cancel your Netflix account. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I'm not sure if he said that, but it is entirely correct. And, while we're at it, Mensa is a group for people who are extremely insecure about their intelligence. The only reason to mention that you're a member is to try to make people think you're smart. You don't have to tell me whether you're smart or not, you'll demonstrate it one way or the other (unless you keep your mouth shut and don't do anything overtly stupid, which is its own kind of demonstration of intelligence). npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 That decision kind of supports the perception that Canada is US-lite. I want to say it's a misperception but, well, Canadian politicians seem to be acting like it is. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Not really, I only go to church on Squidmas. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's funny how Adam Sandler kinda looks like John Turturro in his more recent stuff (especially with a beard like in Uncut Gems). npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Is it any good? I assumed at the time that it was basically a reskinned Zoolander. Also it came out right around the time I'd reached the Adam Sandler saturation point. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I miss hand-drawn PCBs. Granted, by the time I was born, they were already being replaced with CAD-assisted PCBs with straight lines and exact angles, but I like organic-looking, curved traces. I wish KiCad had a way to easily make curved traces. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Um, somehow both? Usually not simultaneously, but sometimes. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I wonder what would happen if we all just started pronouncing "Elon" like "Ellen" npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Democrats really aren't left-wing. A teensy portion of them are moderately left-wing, but taken as a whole it's a very moderately right-wing conservative party. Look at what they do when they're in power: they make a few showy but minor changes, but primarily maintain the status quo as handed to them by the very-not-conservative Republican party. If they were actually progressives, Obama would have rolled back EVERYTHING Bush did and then pushed forward. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I don't wanna be a debbie downer or whatever, but I definitely don't see that happening. McCarthyism pretty much wiped out all traces of the American left wing and it's only been the last two or three decades that it's built back up to the point that it's barely noticeable, and people holding leftist values are derided as "extreme." Maybe there'd have been a chance if it'd had another two or three decades of Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens, but I don't see it as it stands. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 You know infosec has failed when it's harder for you to gain access to your own stuff than it is for a malicious actor to. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 1) If you can protect yourself, you can protect strangers, being able to is a necessary assumption. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 What's the over/under for fascist regimes being peacefully overturned? I'm perfectly willing to accept that we only ever hear about the violent ones, but I can't think of any and a cursory search didn't turn anything up either. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Everyone's focused on that one guy, but everyone his goons have taken were kidnapped. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Also, the *leak* isn't the issue, the issue is that they were using a method of communication that couldn't be referenced later. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 If it's in a phone call, go flush the toilet while they're attempting to chew you out. Chances are, it'll break their concentration and stream of anger. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's an important distinction as the only argument I've ever heard against compulsory voting is that it somehow impedes on an individual's rights. Even if they could somehow compel you not to invalidate your ballot, I don't see how it impedes anyone's rights. It's certainly less intrusive than jury duty (which people grumble about, but never actually suggest is a violation of rights), and *way* less than the US Selective Service System. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Profits are what's left over after you pay your employees, vendors, taxes, rent, bills, etc. So, why are profits the sole indicator of a successful business? Why isn't it "provide the best good/service we can while keeping as many employees as happy and content as possible"? If the primary purpose isn't to do what the company ostensibly does as best as possible (for various definitions of "best"), then why even bother? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Canada's fascist now too? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 How many days do you think he sat around making trombone noises with his mouth? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I give it a low chance of working, but it's simple enough to be worth trying to block the domain name * npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 What defines a private school if it isn't the source of funding? Surely a school that receives public funds is, by definition, a public school. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 The mistake is considering the US to be akin to developed nations. It isn't. At one point it was developed, but over the last half-century or so, there's been a campaign to undevelop the country. Not just to hold back it's development, but to actively turn it back. The US is still more developed than undeveloped nations, but still doesn't really fit in with developing nations either because it's going backwards, it's in its own category, an undeveloping nation. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 A long time ago I was taught never to pipe shell scripts from the internet directly into a shell. This was mentioned *repeatedly* so it stuck. Why, then, is it now becoming almost standard to provide "install scripts" in just this fashion? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Rather than narrating an audiobook, what if he, Cate Blanchett, and Morgan Freeman read the autobiography on their own and then did a ten-episode podcast series just chatting about it. Maybe David and Georgia Tennant also? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Dark chocolate peanut butter cups do sound pretty good. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 In all honesty, I don't think there really is a "bad" pentagram, it's just that, at some point, some Christians decided that the symbol was evil because it predated Christianity or something similar. Calling it bad is basically just bigotry wrapped in religious excuses. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's probably fine, but just make sure the pentagram remains intact or the binding ritual might fail. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 It's probably there to knock the year off the shelf. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 So, IPA ʒ, the voiced postalveolar fricative? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 Happy you-le? Happy me-le? Happy meal? npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I suggest Dave Franco play him in the movie. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 You've heard of "The Smartest People In The Room"? Now meet "The Whitest People In The Room." npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 I feel like the threshold should be a lot lower. Does anyone *really* need more than a quarter of a billion dollars? But that's just arguing specifics. npub1qnq4s6hjejx9j2fymnnq62vmychsc7sqyfwlz5axpyeygda7gxzsqtsy30 npub1qn…tsy30 My guess is that it's illegal dumping by cruise ships. It could be leaky municipal sewage, but I feel like these shitball events would be more frequent in that case.
