TechNerdWizard42
@TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 2 weeks ago:
EVERYTHING you do in the USA is illegal. This is not hyperbole.
Any right you think you have is stripped by another law also on the books. You are always and forever in breach of the law. This allows you those with no education and power like police and DAs to pick and choose who and what to prosecute. If everyone is in breach, it doesn’t make it legal. It just makes it a game of “don’t piss off your oppressor”. This is the same game used in North Korea. Same in the USSR. Same in many fascist nations with an illusion of democracy.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
This is an acceptable excuse in 1902.
In the age of Google and where even the homeless bum down by the river has a smart phone, Googling to find out about a major life choice is easy to do. Failure to help yourself do nothing but use a phone for 10 minutes deserves zero empathy.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
If “ignorance isn’t an excuse” doesn’t get you out of any law you break, it also doesn’t get you out of accidentally joining a terrorist organization due to propaganda.
Because that’s exactly what it is.
It is no different than the teenagers that join ISIS. Propaganda takes them in, they join voluntarily, they live with their consequences for life.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
If they weren’t conscripted via draft, they volunteered. 100% their shitty choice to become a terrorist.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t give anything. It can disqualify you, but this is no different than asking your grandma for her diary before they let her sit a jury.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
Directly from many venues. And some ticket sellers that aren’t owned by them. Some smaller venues use them, and some artsier places.
But for the mega concerts, I just don’t go where Ticketmaster holds the venue contract. I fly and see who I want elsewhere.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t bought anything on Ticketmaster or their owned companies in years. And I generally go to 2 to 5 live shows a month.
This and their policy towards VPNs means I won’t support them.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s like how 95% of the “Chinese” places you go probably have General Tsaos chicken. It is not Chinese. Invented in Murica for Muricans. Deep fried sushi is the same. The restaurants in the US offer it because others offer it and the American pallet likes it.
You would be promptly murdered in Japan for asking for such a dish. Probably being the reason the restaurant puts up a “no foreigners allowed” sign from then on, which is actually common.
Same county that loves Tempura, but deep fried sushi is sacrilegious. Go figure.
- Comment on FF Evangelists 1 month ago:
My Firefox is sitting happy eating about 30GB of RAM right now…
- Comment on How do genocides happen? 1 month ago:
You ever drown or wipe out an ant colony? Take down a wasps nest? Swat away the hoards of mosquitos annoying you?
That’s genocide but they aren’t what you would consider equals as a human. I’m aware some super vegan froo froos, do. But anyways. Your ability to genocide an entire village of beings you don’t consider equal is where most of these feelings come from.
It’s also why the playbook, heavily updated by Hitler in the past, and Israel today, say that’s an important step. Dehumanize your enemy. Then wiping them off the face of the earth is a casual comment much like calling an exterminator to genocide those pesky wasps under your front porch. And I’m not being snarky when I say Israeli playbook. They have published and public books on exactly how to do this, how to wage a propaganda war, etc. It is not a secret. The US, and other 5 eye countries also follows the same aided by their intelligence agencies because it’s so powerful on the majority of low intellect people. Remember half the people are below average intelligence… Many that are above average aren’t interested. So you always have a minority that can critically think for themselves. The rest want it spoonfed.
- Comment on If you've been fooled, does that make you "a fool"? 1 month ago:
That’s an old saying in Tennessee… I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…
- Comment on I'm not your pardner, guy! 1 month ago:
One reason I’ve stopped using reddit entirely. They require fingerprinting you. If you do a good job and they can’t fingerprint you, you get that screen. It is NOT blocked by IP of the VPN as some here have said. You can easily see the content through the same VPN while not logged on as long as you have enough identifiable tracking information to reasonably guess who you are.
It’s a great test now. If I’m ever let into view reddit now, I must have seriously screwed up somewhere in my security chain.
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 1 month ago:
Starcraft. Not 2, just StarCraft.
And sometimes Command and Conquer Red Alert in the emulator.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 2 months ago:
Because it’s cheaper. If this is in a country where you or your family can sue because of a liability of the private institution or public one, then they treat everyone as a threat. Doesn’t matter why you’re there, you have to be treated just like the psycho Hannibal. Because if you turn out to be like that, and they didn’t screen you “for your safety and the safety of the staff”, it would be lawsuits galore.
- Comment on What are some video games that had remarkably hectic public reaction at physical stores during release day? 5 months ago:
PS3 console has to be in the top. New enough that it brought out lots of diverse people. Perfect holiday timing as everyone wanted one and wanted to scalp them. Coupled with general violence it was a wild time.
I got mine camping outside for a couple days. Had to be police escorted to our vehicles. A few minutes prior at a location 15mins away, somebody was shot in the parking lot and robbed for their PS3. That was a typical American experience there…