Snot Flickerman @ SnotFlickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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He will use any excuse, whether people protest or not. He will say it's a rebellion if people just disagree with him politely.

The more people are willing to speak up and stand up, the less control he actually has. The more we cower in fear over what he might do when he's going to do it anyway the more power we're actually giving him.

Public defenders are also not offered for civil cases. If you need a lawyer for your civil case, you either need to find someone who will work for you pro bono or you have to risk filing it yourself and doing it wrong.

or made public—privacy is always temporary.

Personal opinion, this is much more applicable to paper data than it is to digital data.

Magnetic tape storage has one of the longest lifespans for storage before data corruption and even that seems to at best be about thirty years. Even with ideal conditions for storage this is a very short shelf life.

Without regular backups digital data degrades rather quickly and is difficult to recover after corruption.

Beyond that quickly changing technology standards makes it harder to recover old data. PATA/IDE was the standard 20 years ago, how many people realistically have the tools available to recover an IDE drive when all they have is a slick laptop with a USB-C port? Specialized tools must be used to even recover from recent types of media.

See also: "Weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.

Literally fabricated "intelligence."

I have always had issues with any and all legal systems because they are rooted in human language and human language can be endlessly reinterpreted. In fact, that's pretty much the half the reason lawyers exist, to argue that a certain interpretation that benefits their client. As we've seen time and time again, the language of the oppressed gets co-opted and repackaged (recuperated) by the dominant and controlling parts of society. Those who already have control are unlikely to let that control of others go, and they will sink to any depth and any reinterpretation to justify it.

At least academics who focus on interpreting literature are honest about how they're pulling the interpretations out of their own ass.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

-Jean-Paul Sartre

Thus, as much as we need legal systems, I think they are always prone to failure and authoritarianism.

*laughs in private tracker community

Plenty of trackers have gone down and taken their entire history with them. when baconBits shut down, the admins toyed with the idea of having a backup of the forums for some people who wanted it, but that never happened. Maybe it lives on inside some hard drive squirreled away somewhere, but since the forums were private and only accessible to members, they were never scraped and any history of them officially doesn't exist.

The main issue I have with laws like these is... once the person who "needed to cool off" has the gun all they need is to get hot-headed again and this time there isn't a cool-off period for them to access it.

The psychology "test" is all fine and good, but a test doesn't tell you what an actual licensed psychologist can. Way too easy for someone to just lie on a test if they know what the "right" answers are. A lot more difficult to hide dangerous personality traits in front of another human being. Step it up one more notch to requiring a psychological evaluation.

Seriously, there's a reason there's been horror stories of people crying at their desks at Amazon since the early 2000's. Because they've always treated everyone like they're completely expendable at all times. Horrific work culture.

pretty sure you can replace these fairly easily tho.

Not especially, I've always had claustrophobia in large crowds, even stuff like concerts. I'm maybe too keenly aware of how easily people can get trampled in crowds.

Music: Flower Face - Girl Prometheus, FIDLAR - Surviving the Dream, Glaive - May It Never Falter, Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us, Alfie Jukes - All Dressed Up For Nothing

TV: Murderbot, Common Side Effects, Creature Commandos, Dan Da Dan, Fallout, Sunny, The Rehearsal (second season)

Games: Blue Prince, To a T, STALKER 2, Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Balatro, Stolen Realm, Deliver at all Costs, Cleared Hot (only demo is out so far no firm release date just 2025), Ratatan (similarly only demo is out, releases in July)

Man that's some straight gullshit.

are the same people talking shit about how all media is dull and lifeless now.

You can literally go look at my post history and see that this is not true.

I can name multiple good albums that came out in the past year, multiple good games that came out in the last year, and multiple good shows that came out in the last year.

Hate to break it to you, Kojima: your career is where it is at becsuse your games are explicitly mainstream. Wow I knew he had his head up his own ass but I didn't realize how far up there it was really lodged.

Coming soon: A Tiktoker's Top 10 Tiktok TACO Moments.

Uhhh, lots of people die in jail waiting to get the medications they need.

So don't expect FEMA to be there when a bomb train derails and poisons your whole community after exploding and taking out half the town.

Figure it out on your own, they'll say, you're the one who chose to live near a bomb train rail line, they'll say.

Gilead

Oh, so it's assured they will bleed people dry then, based on this company's track record.

Oh I agree, and I think that voting the chumps out and replacing them with competent people who will stand by their principles and fight is the solution. There's some real dinosaurs in office who are still legislating like this is the 1980s.

The Democratic party is just made up of people, and those people can be replaced. It's not the label that's the problem, it's the people.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-rich-spending-2c34a571

Feb. 23, 2025

The top 10% of earners account for 49.7% of all spending.

The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.

They're just planning to float on the profits from other wealthy people, they don't actually give a damn about the bottom 90% as long as they can make profits from the top 10%.

Haven't you noticed more and more businesses cater almost exclusively to the wealthy and that "economy" options for things like phones, computers, and cars have almost completely disappeared or in the case of phones and computers have been so stuffed with adware and bloatware as to be comically unusable?