So what you’re saying is he’s a first amendment supporter with good aim who isn’t afraid to take direct action against federal surveillance overreach, right? I think you could sell this to the Republicans as a candidate just as easily as to the Democrats.

Communism has nothing to do with why China and North Korea are lying. That’s the facism.

…and you believe the stats they publish?!?

You can’t get a good stat out of China with a team of #10 oxen and a super-sayan pushing. If you trust what the party is selling, I have some AWESOME beachfront real estate you will absolutely love at a bargain basement price.

Because North Korean reporting is SO TRUSTWORTHY 🤣

Someday I will finish watching Breaking Bad

Lower Decks is SO GOOD.

Babylon 5 remains one of the greatest tv shows ever made, on par with Stargate.

He cheated on his wife, but loads of good writers do that. He was a raging douche to Charisma Carpenter and ruined her joy in her career. But he was a d remains a spectacular writer. Just a total hypocrite, like most people in Hollywood.

In theory this is non-harmful. In practice this is part of a fantasy escalation ladder that leads bad places. Your actions are led by your thoughts, and you are the thoughts you feed. In reality it’s a good thing to not feed thoughts of abusing children.

I’d note that I’d be similarly uncomfortable with people buying hyper-realistic dolls to practice amateur torture on, but I’m ok with people buying silicone dolls to practice tattoo art and wound stitching on. The difference being intent, which is a line I’m equally unhappy with the government drawing. Someone slicing up a slab of silicone shaped like a baby because they have a desperate desire to hurt babies that they are actively feeding into is bad. Someone practicing stitching up silicone babies after injuries because they always wanted to be a doctor and never got the chance is healthier and fine. It’s the “what are you feeding with this action?” Problem of governance.

Jesus fucking wept that’s gross

I really really really like MS Paint. I’m trying to like gimp, but I liked MS Paint a lot.

I also miss the smoothness of excel. I love libre office too but Microsoft just has more money to sand off the rough bits.

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I probably just need to buy a fair phone at this point.

Reddit is nearly 100% AI bots these days on the popular subs. You’re good to get away. The interface over here is shite and takes forever to figure out, but the people are nice.

On the other hand, good fences make good neighbors, and paywalls are a way of drawing healthy boundaries. If I write a book I am not donating that book to the world free of charge to use as they please and train an AI to replace me. I would like to be paid for my work somehow. If I and a team of researchers and engineers and finance folks and HR folks and janitors work together to build a vaccine distribution system, we don’t get that for free.

Paywalls are a useful mechanism for ensuring that people aren’t abusing you and your work.

Problem isn’t paywalls. It’s that how you do things matters. If you hoard all the food and paywall it at high prices so you can buy fancy cars, that’s not ok. If you set aside food for a local community supper so that kids can’t use it for their trebuchet practice, that’s sensible.

“ethical hacker” is not defined as “someone who only hacks in fear of law”. That’s my point. Hackers with ethics do lots of shit. Some of them work within the law, some of them work sideways to the law, but your code of ethics and your legal code aren’t quite the same thing, and you assuming they are is surprising.

Girl Tech?

Bro.

Stares in old lady

Dude, do you want individual hacking to become illegal? Because people who are not hacking daily are prone to forgetting that some hackers don’t actually act maliciously.

Also, yes, some hackers are ethical and do care. Not you, obviously. But some.