JubilantJaguar @ JubilantJaguar @lemmy.world

European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. **I nev

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Since this can be easily pulled off from the laptop, I want it to be encrypted

And the laptop can be easily pulled off the desk so you might want that encrypted too.

Is not really a showerthought and flagrantly breaks rule #6 #3. Put this elsewhere.

OK that one passes.

But in a way that's the point. Others here are proposing young actors who have made single-digit numbers of movies. Pretty easy to have a 100% hit rate when you've made 4 movies! Tom Cruise has been making films nonstop for 4 decades.

This one I have at least heard of! A critical flop but box-office success, apparently. So not obviously "bad".

Ha. Indeed I haven't. But I understand it was not exactly bad.

I thought it was something of a meme at this point, that the crazy scientologist somehow never picks bad projects. To the point that other actors know they can jump in if it gets his seal of approval.

I certainly haven't seen a bad one, anecdotally.

This is the only answer you need to read. It's a non-problem if you just do this, and there's no reason not to do it.

Tom Cruise. It's awkward but undeniable.

Full marks for unpopular (at least everywhere but here).

Counter-moral: any community has the right to decide its own membership.

A genuinely unpopular one and I agree with you!

With a partial caveat on your last claim, which seems a bit shaky. Sometimes it's genuinely necessary to lock people up in order to protect society. Not very often, but sometimes (and that not mean treating them poorly).

IMO there's also a case for using prison as symbolic justice. A month here, 2 weeks there, to send a firm message about what's acceptable in society. But the rule should be community service, not prison.

ITT: lots of morals that most people (here) agree with. Predictable.

Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.

Broke the racist Strom Thurmond's record that had been an embarrassment for the Senate that dated back decades.

Set a marker to show how strongly Democrats reject what's going on despite their current lack of options for pushing back.

Anyway, IMO this post flagrantly breaks rule #6 and should really be deleted. Put this discussion elsewhere.

Around 82. Most of them by train, bus and boat.

But the country count is irrelevant. Travel should be a personal experience, not a form of conspicuous consumption. Mass airplane travel in particular is completely unsustainable, which is why I hardly ever do it. I've been to a ton of very remote and interesting places but I don't blog about my adventures or post anything on social media. Only a handful of people ever hear anything about it, which is the way things were for everyone until approximately yesterday. Traveling slowly is not particularly expensive, it just requires time and a patient mindset.

Sure, it's fine. But if I'm only publishing text and photos, and I don't need tons of specialized plugins, and I'm dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It's at least as fast, and more secure by design.

Did not know that. Useful.

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

Sarcasm: 9/10 for effort

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The valid answer is that the Chinese police state has no authority over individuals in the West and is unlikely to share information with Western law enforcement given the geopolitical situation. In narrow terms, that makes for an inadvertent privacy win for individuals in the West.

But the problem you describe is certainly real (whatever other seem to think here) for countries in China's sphere of influence, in Asia, Africa, Latin America. For them, China is already selling off-the-peg solutions for mass surveillance. If your country's homegrown dictator gets his hands on this stuff, it's going to be harder than ever to get rid of him.

For us the problem is rather that China is pioneering and normalizing practices that will certainly be adopted and copied one day by our own police forces with our own technology.