Moira_Mayhem @ Moira_Mayhem @beehaw.org

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I am so fucking glad that Dylan introduced the Beatles to weed.

If you are hippie-souled like me then that track would be

Renaissance: Ashes are Burning

Warning, it is a long track and recorded before many advances in studio equipment but every second of it is wonderful to me.

They are the party of hypocrisy and bigotry, it's that simple.

Everything they claim they are, they do the opposite of.

Everything they rail against, they do in private with practiced ease.

The fact that they have the power they do proves that humanity in general is not rational or logical and we really need to stop pretending that everyone is.

This is one facet how authoritarian behavior is unsustainable.

You can only punish victims for so long before those victims pick up a rock and bash their abusers heads in.

Unfortunately it can sometimes take centuries to get to that point.

Some would argue they were early pioneers of it, basically became a daughter killing factory after the 1child policy.

It's not 'insanely paranoid' when it is correct.

Even the really big boys have shit security and almost no one invests in it.

I was called 'insanely paranoid' for not wanting any IoT things in my house even though I am an IT guy.

I told them 'I don't want IoT things in my house BECAUSE I'm an IT guy and know what I'm talking about.'

They ignored me of course, even companies that paid for my opinion and services.

And some paid the price, but funny enough that didn't stop them from insecure practices, it just made them choose another brand of insecure IoT devices to replace the old.

Rage and clickbait.

This is essentially a civil case turned into something bigger because the person who got hit with a rock was a cop.

Had it just been another protester, there would be no call to undermine the 1st amendment.

And if SCOTUS goes that route, they will lose a lot of support from their politicians.

I mean of course since current SCOTUS is mentally deranged and highly partisan, they may of course still do it.

And I have a protest bag already packed and waiting if they do.

Remember the important supplies: Bottled water, masks and rags, first aid kit, baking soda to dilute to treat pepper spray

Leave your phone and IDs at home

This isn't hyperbole, you have SEEN what SCOTUS is doing and it is time to rattle their rafters with a unified voice.

Agreed, there is a legitimate way to criticize the Israeli government that isn't tied to race.

The antisemite says "They are monsters because they are Jews"

The anti-zionist says "They are monsters because they act inhumanely towards civilians"

The antisemitic anti-zionist says "They act inhumanely towards civilians because they need to gather precious child blood for their (((rituals)))"

But the problem here is that there are a FUCKTONNE of antisemites that want to hide in the crowds of the anti-zionists for ideological cover.

On the OTHER hand, I've never seen an anti-zionist hide in the crowds of the antisemites for ideological cover unless they also harbored racist misbeliefs.

It's pretty easy on the face to tell the difference, but even that level of nuance is beyond the understanding of so many people.

And makes just holding it normally cause misclicks as the edge of your fingertips brush the curved glass.

Honestly I would be a lot less pissed about it if they just hadn't extended the touch sensitivity all the way around the curve.

without browsers, I don't think there would be a need for most of that, as there would be no need to create the visually compelling but ultimately ridiculously overmoduled live documents.

Esports would still exist just like normal sports existed before the internet. Technically esports predates the world wide web as coin op competitions already existed and sometimes even made it into international news.

Again streaming sites would still exist as mentioned due to the high serving costs, and esports could easily be part of their lineup.

How would we be viewing simple stuffs like blogs then?

There is still place for documents on the internet without the WWW. back in the BBS days, we'd download text file magazines to read offline (lol sometimes having to save days and days of download credits just for a TEXT file! Man dialup was crazy. That said, without having to have one (kinda) standardized way to view documents those file formats would evolve beyond just text into something more like OpenOffice document formatting, again without the capitalism-driven effort to make snazzy, eyecatching but ultimately useless dynamically served document formats.

Honestly I think the dynamically served aspect of modern WWW documents is such a ridiculous waste of resources and bandwidth that not having it may just as well constitute a technical advancement over what we have today.

Well, back in the day you'd have a series of different services, usenet, irc, email, and for articles (at the time usually scholarly articles) you could use Gopher or follow certain usenet groups to find FTP sites hosting the docs.

So if we didn't have a unified web browser, and those technologies advanced at the pace of other similar services, here is how I see it:

Most services would be accessed by discrete apps, one for your email, one for your chat, one for your remote and local documents.

We wouldn't see the proliferation of siloed services, platforms like Facebook that offer all of these services but only within their subscribers. They just simply wouldn't be able to compete with the established services or add nuance or extra value.

Discord would also likely have come into existence a lot earlier and unified some of those services, but again if they chose to silo it as they are doing now, they wouldn't gain market dominance over already existing wide communities.

Without the profit incentive, existing services have no reason to tie their users to their platform or inhibit cross platform interactions.

Streaming services would still come into existence and fragment and silo like they are now, but that's only because of the cost of providing reliable HD video content isn't easily dispersed across unsiloed userbases.

Web advertisements would be non-existant but you'd still get spots in podcasts and videos.

Frankly I think it would be a better internet than what we have now.

It may be though 'green flashes in the sky' following deep red sunsets I think is more a ufo thing

True, but also they can exist in the same statement, and often do.

I never understood this

iPhones are fashion accessories before anything else.

Samsung for some fuckdamn reason just copycats everything Apple does.

The curved glass was a stupid, expensive, and failure prone attempt at capturing the fashion accessory market.

All it did was piss off eight years of customers.

It really is amazing how companies with ridiculous amounts of money for research and product testing and they hang on to an abject failure like this for so long.

I dunno man, I'm GenX and those clips can be funny af.

Opposite for me.

Early growth spurt plus a lot of time working on my uncle's little pig farm had me big before the end of middle school and for some fuckdamn reason it was part of what made me a target.

I think that mainly came from my mom raising me to be a complete pacifist (possibly out of fear, that's a long story), so when the bullies realized I wasn't going to hit back they tripled down because it made them look good to harass a much bigger person.

It lasted a year and a half till I hit back and then it never happened again.

Not until jr. high when we moved.

Lasted for a year and a half till I finally fought back, of course I got the worst of the punishments and called names like 'psycho' and 'spaz' for the rest of my time at that school but FUCKING NO ONE tried to step to me again.

That is how you deal with bullies, you hurt them publicly, in front of their friends.

You hurt them bad enough they know never to fuck with you.

I spent a year and a half listening to my mother, being compliant, walking away, turning the other cheek.

Then when I couldn't deal with it any more I took my father's advice and smashed my bullies nose flat at lunch.

So much could have been avoided if they had just left me the fuck alone but no they had to push and push and push and push until they had to bleed.

I hated doing it, I hate violence and think it is the worst solution in every case, and in a rational world there are always alternatives.

But this isn't a rational world.

Told this to my nieces and nephew: The moment they start bulling you, even if you are outnumbered and might get the worst of it, fight back and aim for the face and nuts.

For those that want the Full chain:

The past: Acacia ants protected acacia trees by biting elephants that threatened the tree, living in a symbiosis where the tree feeds them for their guardianship. Lions use acacia trees as perches to hunt and cover to hide in.

Now: Bull headed ants have done significant damage to native ant populations, leaving the trees unprotected. Elephants strip the bark and damage the trees, now they are no longer suitable for perches or hiding. Bull headed ants being invasive do not form the same relationship with acacia trees as acacia ants do.

The result is harder hunting and shrinking hunting grounds for lions, an already stressed species.

This is a common problem with dictators: One man's arbitrary gut feelings on 'how society should function' being so ridiculously wrong and dangerous that it never achieves the goals set for it.

Like when China started a campaign to get kids to kill sparrows for 'being lazy and living off the farmer's work', when in reality they were keeping the bug population down and their virtual eradication caused several seasons of crops to be lost to insect voracity.

The high minded ideal of a corrupt and out of touch leader who did not understand ecosystems killed hundreds of thousands of his own people due to misplaced ideals and lack of knowledge.

This happens here too. How many more people would have survived Covid if a certain orange twice-impeached seditionist shitstain didn't convince half the country that wearing a mask was unpatriotic.

Capitalism...