TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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"We want to conceal evidence of a crime"

It's a nice seapration of concerns. All the taskbar icons only show in their respective space, so I can keep my mind off work when I'm not working, and vice-versa, and there's less general clutter to sort through.

Lawful evil doesn't count.

Yes, prison reform is badly needed. No, prisons shouldn't be hell-pits of torture and suffering, and no, having them be that way doesn't fix anything.

All of that is granted. A functioning civilisation gives up the emotional satisfaction of vengeance and vendetta, in exchange for the streets not being ankle-deep in blood all the time, and on the whole that's a very good bargain.

But in the case of people who abuse and subvert the very system that facilitates that exchange?

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It's paradox-of-tolerance stuff. We don't have to give a shit about the welfare of abusive cops, any more than we have to extend tolerance and kindness to nazis.

I would like to see snow.

Desktop 1: WFH environment - mail, terminal, ticket queue etc.

Desktop 2: Me-stuff - lemmy, gmail, youtube, netflix, steam.

I've always used "Don B. Sonozi" (godfather@mafia.org) as my spam email, for shit that demands signup but not verification.

I figure that one day - one day - a spammer will learn regret.

It's about power. It's always about power.

Power over the victim, and the power to transgress.

If they can manipulate people and get away with heinous shit, in their mind they must have rich-person energy.

Ah, bleh. I only looked at the excerpt

One of people's favourite arguments for routine infant circumcision is that in an amazingly flawed study in Africa purported to show a decrease in HIV transmission in circumcised men.

That's the second time in about a month I've seen it described as sexual assault / molestation / predation when it's a woman doing it.

Usually news outlets bend over backwards to call it a 'relationship' or a 'romp' or otherwise put a positive spin on it.

Colour me impressed.

So can we stop mutilating babies now?

Mangosteens. They are the Best Fruit.

The ones you get here in Australia are golfball-sized and horribly expensive, but when I went to singapore they were huge and cheap.

The Cat From Outer Space. I was very young at the time, I only remember little wisps of it.

And yes, it is terribad.

Snipers are a thing. And at best, who wants to spend their life on the lam? I want to play video games and eat toast, it's hard to do that if you can't spend an entire day in any given location.

Well, not a selish idiot, that's the trouble.

If I could think of a way to become comfortably well-off without eitehr getting in trouble or living in crippling anxiety that I was going to get in trouble, that might be another story.

It's just that getting away with shit is for rich people with powerful connections, and bootstrapping into that state without passing through an uninsulated trouble phase is pretty damn nontrivial. They don't let just anyone into the club, and they stomp anyone who dares to try.

I don't actually know about the international-super-assassin club, but I'm willing to bet it's either a fair bit more porous, or a lot more discreet, to the point that you never have reason to suspect they're onto you.

You get that power, you use it on people who are making the world a shittier place first.

Now, that's not precisely moral, but let's be honest, beyond a bit of minor larceny there's not a whole lot of personal gain you can realistically achieve.

Steal a truckload of cash? Sure, but then you've got to launder the heck out of it, and I've seen Ozark, that's more drama than I want in my life even if I had the skills, which I don't. And nobody pays cash even for groceries any more, have to wait for one of the non-card registers to open up and it's a pain in the ass. Maybe you could rig a horse race or something, but the people involved in serious gambling are very good at spotting anomalous wins, and your life wouldn't be worth dick the second time you tried it.

That pretty much leaves pranks and murder, and you're a damn fool if you bring that within a dozen miles of any kind of personal connection.

Which pretty much only leaves assassination of high-level assholes as something that would a:) make a noticeable difference, b:) keep you under the radar and c:) be immensely satisfying.

Oh no.

Centrelink's entire MO is degrading and humiliating its clients and making their lives worse, in the hope that this will make them go away.

I love Local58 so damn much

It does kind of sound like a police car that drove into a duckpond and is sadly shorting out...