Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Important Announcement 2 days ago:
Except for your first sentence, I would agree with you. Don’t hurt people directly though. Starting a war helps no one.
You seem to be assuming I meant some sort of unlawful harm. My phrasing was quite deliberate: I advocated no specific actions whatsoever. You brought “hurt people” and “starting a war” into this conversation; not I.
The choice of what actions to take is left to you; I am not involving myself in that decision. My advocacy is strictly limited to the choice of targets: Do not take direct action against ICE agents. They are merely a distraction from the problem class. Redirect any action you might choose to take against ICE to the people getting rich while the rest of us starve.
I will raise one point:
The point of protesting is to shame leaders into change.
Our leaders are shameless. There is no point in trying to shame the shameless. The purpose of protesting must be something else. Otherwise, protesting is pointless.
- Comment on That Orange Bastard 2 days ago:
If Vance initiates 25th amendment proceedings before January 20th, 2027, he sacrifices the possibility of a second term.
- Comment on Important Announcement 3 days ago:
Whatever you want to do to an ICE agent, do instead to the people living in the biggest house you can find.
- Comment on Lost at sea 4 days ago:
Not a protractor. Dividers. But the fact that you don’t know that is consistent with your comment.
- Comment on If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time... 5 days ago:
Modulo is much easier to understand with clocks.
Suppose It is currently midnight. What time will it be in 3 hours? 3 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00
What time will it be in 27 hours? 27 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00 we go through a whole day (24 hours) to get back to midnight, then another 3 hours.
What time will it be 48 hours from now? 48 mod 24 = 0. 48 hours from midnight will be midnight.
What time will it be 6 hours from now? 6 mod 24 = 6.
Conceptually, X mod Y means that instead of 24 hours per day, we are splitting the day into Y “hours”, labeled 0 to Y-1. We start at 0, and pass through X “hours”. X mod Y is the “hour” we finish up in at the end. 5 mod 2 means we have a 2-hour day, with hours 0 and 1. We pass through 5 of those hours. When we finish, are we at hour 0 or hour 1?
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Sure. Once every billionaire has been taxed out of existence, and if we still don’t have enough money, we can start talking about increasing the retirement age.
If, on the other hand, taxing the billionaires out of existence is more than we need, we can lower the retirement age.
We could start collecting social security at 40 if we taxed the ultra-rich properly.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Two of the three points he made are total horseshit, but let’s not throw out that last one:
If we could get the average American to
start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later --not retire – orwork better during their lifetime because they’re healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy.Universal Health Care fucking now.
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 1 week ago:
A formal, legal right to privacy is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Kids will gain the formal right to privacy at some point in their lives, and they will review their childhood experiences through the lens of a competent, adult mind. When they come across memories of being secretly spied upon, a healthy kid should feel that they were victimized.
An unhealthy (former) kid will deem such invasions of privacy as normal, acceptable behavior and is very likely to go on to victimize others. Perhaps their own kids; perhaps other people. Perhaps they will simply support anti-privacy issues like this one when they come up.
The general case is that non-consensual recording is a crime. Denying the kid the personal agency to prosecute the offender is just another way in which the kid is victimized.
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 1 week ago:
Being generous, what you described doesn’t seem unreasonable on its own. My criticism is based on the context of this discussion: using stuffed animals to record children.
You responded to a query about whether using stuffed animals to record children violated children’s privacy with “In my experience, absolutely not.”
Re-reading your points, you seem to be talking about supervising text conversations between kids. That’s a completely separate issue. It can be reasonable to read their conversations, if you have raised this possibility with them, and discussed the purpose of doing so.
But this thread is about IoT Teddy Bears, not text messages. Charitably, I have to assume you are simply off topic, and my only real criticism is that discussing the contents of those messages with anyone but them violates their privacy.
If and when a kid comes across this discussion, I want to make sure they are aware of just how egregious a violation it is to have hidden recording devices in their personal space. In most jurisdictions, recording without the knowledge and consent of at least one party to the conversation is considered “wiretapping” or “eavesdropping”, and is not just a violation of their privacy; it is a criminal act. If anyone - including your parents - has listening or other recording devices installed in your personal space, you should tell teachers, guidance counselors, principals, and similar trusted adults.
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 1 week ago:
And now you’re outing your child’s private conversations to the general public?
What the hell is wrong with you?
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 1 week ago:
This is the cringiest thing I’ve read this week.
- Comment on With what happened in Minnesota recently, do you think we need more community defense classes now more than ever? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine there is a gang of state sponsored murderers beating down your door,
If state-sponsored murderers are at my door, I’m dead. Short of my own state-sponsored violent actors, there is no viable defense. The sooner you understand that, the better.
Rolling out the (proverbial) guillotine is the only viable means of stopping their boss from issuing the orders.
- Comment on With what happened in Minnesota recently, do you think we need more community defense classes now more than ever? 2 weeks ago:
The only viable “defense” here is for us to shift our focus away from ICE and toward the oligarchs.
- Comment on Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America 2 weeks ago:
Uh, my argument was the reverse: That it is celebrity worship, and that celebrities have proven substantially more effective presidents. Reagan and Trump have easily been the most influential presidents since Truman, and only because Truman used the bomb.
My point was that the problem with celebrities in the White House has been their right-wing agendas, not their celebrity status. Their celebrity status enabled them to achieve their agendas in a way that the other, mediocre presidents couldn’t.
Why should we select yet another boring, ignoreable, mainstream, career politician instead?
- Comment on Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. The role of the president is defined by the president. They have a cabinet for a reason; they don’t need to be experts in everything.
Presidents entering office with celebrity status have proven extraordinarily capable of pushing their agendas. The problem isn’t “celebrity”. The problem is that their agendas have sucked. Stewart’s agenda doesn’t suck.
- Comment on Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America 2 weeks ago:
Reagan and Trump have proven that actors and media personalities are extraordinarily good at pushing their agendas. The problem isn’t that they were/are celebrities. The problem is that their agendas suck.
Stewart has consistently demonstrated his agenda, on the air and as a lobbyist. His agenda doesn’t suck. His agenda is what this country has been looking for my entire lifetime.
Don’t cockblock my candidate.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 weeks ago:
OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.
“Blocking” the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser’s content. “Blocking” does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP’s content.
“Blocking” does not achieve OP’s objective.
- Comment on Zootopia 4 weeks ago:
Well, it’s a story that glorifies cops, and it completely fails to mention ACAB.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 weeks ago:
You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes
But no, you can’t block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.
Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 5 weeks ago:
All you need to do to make wheat edible is soak it in water to make it soft enough to chew. Wheat in water is “gruel”.
You can improve upon it by boiling, which will dehydrate the gruel into a primitive bread. The drained, starchy liquid, if left to sit for awhile, will become a primitive ale. Grinding makes it easier to eat.
Every dietary use is an evolutionary progression from soaking wheat in water.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 5 weeks ago:
Wheat doesn’t actually require all that much. Soak it in water, and it becomes gruel. Let gruel sit around for awhile, the liquid becomes a rudimentary ale. Boil off the liquid, you have a rudimentary bread. Want to make it easier to eat? Grind it before you add the water.
Every other use is an evolution of those basic concepts.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
You can do that, or you can falsify your calculations, claiming more dependents than you actually have, reducing your withholding.
You can also go the contractor route, operating as a separate business rather than an employee. 1099 income has no withholding.
People use “exempt from withholding” on a W4 when the majority of their income is from contracting or self-employment and they file their own quarterly estimates.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
You can actually do that. Read the W4 a little more closely.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 month ago:
Blackberry insisted on a 3-row thumboard on the face of the device. I want a 5-row slider, like Samsung’s Relay. Image
- Comment on 60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment taken down by CBS - it aired briefly in Canada and was uploaded to YouTube 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
The capitalist fucks are swinging the whip. The 25-hour limit is the whip they are swinging. Both are a problem.
- Comment on GIVE UNTO CAESEAR 2 months ago:
Corn cares not
fromwhence the shit postsFTFY. “Whence” means “from what origin”.
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
I would call that “fraud”. In declaring themselves “gynecologists”, they are effectively advertising that they are qualified and willing to perform routine gynecological procedures. Their refusal to do so constitutes a fraud on patients seeking such services.
“Neonatology”, “Histology”, “Reproductive physiology” and “Reproductive biology” are comparable specialty fields wherein the practitioner would not be expected to perform elective abortions.
Additionally, if they would prefer to call themselves “general practitioners”, I would be far more lenient in allowing them to define their own scope of practice.
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
FairOkFTFY.
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.
I would say that if “you” won’t perform an abortion, “you” are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where “you” will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.
