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  • In the body of the thread a posted on c/knowledgefight, I bring up that I didn't care about pizzagate because there really no damages. No victims coming forward. No suspicious activity. Nothing.

    The only thing interesting about pizzagate is how strongly people can hold on to beliefs with zero backing. I'm sure 99% of posts about pizzagate are LARPing really. (I think the same of Flat Earth. At least, way back when.) But we know how seriously some people belief it.

    In fact, I'd go as far as to say, the fact there is no evidence backing it up is precisely why this stuff is so dangerous. If some one is mentally unsteady enough to accept any reason to hate their enemies, they are probably pretty dangerous to be around already. Now use a massive media operation so that person need no other source of news. He (sorry to be sexist, but I'm going to stick with "he" for the easily influenced viewer's pronoun) knows he's right. He hears nothing but that he is right. However, out in the dangerous part of the world, no one cares about this. It's so fucking easy to dismiss this stuff. Why would anyone believe it?

    This feels like persecution, gaslighting, and like "they" are all in on it. That's fucking powder-keg as we saw in this matter.

  • I'm sorry. I don't mean to sound rude. That didn't address my question. I do appreciate all those facts gathered concisely.

    My question was more to the tune of: Did Baldwin have any reason to doubt the common assumption

    The set was not meant to have any live ammo. It was a “cold” set.

    It seems if the first Baldwin ever heard of this rule being broken was at the moment of the accident, then I can't see how anyone argues that he should be accountable. But I was asking is there any paper trail or something where he was complaining about the armorer or something?

  • I said "read the meme" because that is all I was addressing. The title is just engagement-bait as far as I'm concerned. It's either a meme or question. I'm sure others are here for the question but not the meme. And therefore, I'm being engagement-baited. Who knows, but I was clear about what I was talking about.

    I just think saying "you're completely missing the point" to a comment that is perfectly on topic is completely uncalled for.

    I reason I think git is dead-simple to "self-host" is because I do it. I'm not a computer guy. I just used svn to version control some papers with fellow grad students. (it didn't last, i was the only one that liked it.) so now i use git for some notes i archive. I'm not saying there aren't tools to considerably upgrade the easy-of-use factor that would require some tech skills I don't possess, but I stand by point.

  • Yeah, kinda. I forgot which side of the argument the reply I replied to was on. I guess you can just flip the "you"s and "they"s. Or am I still off-base?

  • They are idealizing a pay-the-creator system. They are arguing for a system that is kinda coming together with patreon-like stuff.

    You seem to be arguing that people will just buy the cheapest identical copy. Which is hard to argue against, but there are people out there that pay creators that give their work for free. Copyright law certainly protects creators. But it's cool to see some creators monetizing on open-licensed work.

  • man is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I'm not claiming it's intuitive.

    If cmd --help spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it with grep or less or go modern.

  • Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.

  • I disagree that there are much better ways. When I have a question while I'm working in the terminal, it's nice to have a searchable manual that's in the terminal.

    But I can certainly understand why modern manpages aren't well-developed. That info is already somewhere else. And it's good enough. It's not like I'm paying people to write manpages.

  • "help is an invalid command. Use --help for help."

    I always feel like an idiot when a read an error message like that.

  • The short answer is no. I can't think of when tried a pizzagate debunking. (They are going on 900 episodes.) I do distinctly remember an early episode when they analyze an undercover Periscope video inside Comet Ping Pong.

    For a hopefully longer, but slower, answer, I made a thread asking the small community on lemmy.world.

  • Agreed. But I was more highlighting what lengths you need to go to protect yourself from a rootkit. I thought the parent mentioned dual booting as a sandboxing measure. I could have been mistaken.

  • It's certainly not a hot take. Every "which distro should I try thread" is just a discussion of the different DEs out there. I would like to hear about different package managers. I always seem happiest with apt, and I don't know why.

  • It's weird to feel like you're earning too much. It sounds like you are earning what Homer Simpson, Red Foreman, and Hank Hill all make. That is, enough to feed a family of four. They only had high school diplomas. Sure, they're fictional, but that story was real.

  • Dual boot would only protect you if have your other side encrypted or are monitoing it to make sure the other partition is never mounted.

    What you need to play games like this is a side-piece computer on its own LAN.

  • I dunno. Who's your rock guy?

  • Maybe they are saying Gwhite. It's really hard to hear when you say MAGA out like that.

  • This is fun. I'm listening to two Telsa owners bicker about the precise reason that I shouldn't buy a Telsa.

  • This advice carries the Paul Anka Guarantee.

  • Would that make noise that would overcome the honk? That was my fear of a secondary device. (again not a gun guy.)