Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Why did USAF pilot survival kits have nylons? 19 hours ago:
They can help prevent chafing and blisters. They’re a good base layer under thermal underwear. They can keep some insects, leeches, and other parasites from biting.
US Soldiers in Iraq commonly requested family members send pantyhose in care packages.
- Comment on Does having a child with someone give you any legal right to their property? 2 days ago:
(Caveat: IANAL)
The specific property, no, probably not.
However, a child is owed “support” from both parents, normally in the form of direct care. Where one parent is not providing direct care, they can be ordered to provide financial support to the parent who is providing direct care.
If Alex and Maya have come to an agreement where Alex will provide that mansion in lieu if direct support or financial support, Maya has a claim to the property. If Alex is subject to a support order that includes providing the mansion to Maya, Maya has a claim. Barring a scenario including the house as support, Alex will owe money to caregiver Maya (or Maya will owe money to caregiver Alex) but will not owe the house itself.
- Comment on My friend is 31 and is constantly breaking out in acne. She also gets very irritated/argumentative before her period. Is this normal for her age? 5 days ago:
Have her talk to a doctor about Demodex Mites.
- Comment on Reform Welsh election candidate pictured performing Nazi salute 5 days ago:
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 1 week ago:
At that time, a cross would have carried about the same meaning as a noose.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. And I am being serious.
When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.
To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump’s numerous, unadjudicated crimes.
For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump’s presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 2 weeks ago:
But once we get approval to for thermonuclear detonations in the middle east, we can modify the plan. We don’t need to dig a new canal if we just blow up any Iranian sites capable of attacking ships in the strait.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 3 weeks ago:
Backing out of a parking space, you must yield to traffic within the lane of traffic However, you are on the wrong end of the vehicle to properly observe traffic within the lane. With restricted vision and attention focused on the maneuver, you are also burdened with deconflicting traffic that has the right-of-way over you.
Backing in, you begin the maneuver from a lane in which you are already established. You have the right-of-way over that lane until you have completely departed that lane. While you are distracted and focused on the backing maneuver, conflicting traffic is legally obligated to avoid you.
“Backing in” exploits “right-of-way” to improve safety for both you and your fellow travelers.
- Comment on My glasses 3 weeks ago:
That’s an occultist.
An opthalmologist is an appointed official who investigates complaints by taxpayers against government departments.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 3 weeks ago:
The masses don’t spontaneously self-organize for the purpose of giving one person all their power. That requires external coordination by the entity receiving that power.
Without that entity driving them, the masses don’t yield their power. That entity is ultimately responsible for what it has convinced the masses to do.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 3 weeks ago:
Without the powerful people in question, the apathy of the masses wouldn’t be a problem.
- Comment on After the 6th payment the burrito is mine 💀💀💀 4 weeks ago:
A closer analogy is Copyright Registration. You submit a work to the copyright office, claiming to be the original artist. If there is ever a dispute, the submission serves as evidence as to the date and time you claimed the work. If it predates the claims of another, and they can’t prove you transferred the work to them, you win the case.
- Comment on Ouch 5 weeks ago:
He ate his paint chips with salsa.
- Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder? 1 month ago:
There’s usually a lot of private data in the home folder. I feel compromise or loss of my phone is a greater risk than loss of my home folder. I’d use an SD card before I’d use a phone.
- Comment on Important Announcement 1 month 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 [deleted] 1 month ago:
If Vance initiates 25th amendment proceedings before January 20th, 2027, he sacrifices the possibility of a second term.
- Comment on Important Announcement 1 month 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 1 month 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... 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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.
