Uriel238 [all pronouns] @ uriel238 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I have found this to not be the case.

Goth baddies need love too, and often you can work on your issues together.

My coven mate didn't take my bullshit and I am better for it.

Malkavian here. Regular for tea at the March Hare's too.

Both. Both is good.

Dark, but satisfying.

Exhibits A and B that power saturation (whether wealth or political, usually both) is a symptom of clinical obsession to obtain power.

Pink Floyd has long held the same opinion (YouTube)

Like J. P. Morgan before him, Musk won't be satisfied even when he owns the entire world. Don't blame him, it's true for every billionaire and plutocrat.

The problem is luck plays an enormous role in whether or not a company fails or makes bank. This is how we end up with idiots who become hundred-millionaires or billionaires. Though being savvy helps improve your chances.

If you're good at playing the dailies, you will inevitably go bust, possibly while owning a bunch of rotting commodities that didn't sell in time, but once you have a reputation friends will lend you money to get back on your feet (which you pay back with interest.)

So am I too crazy for 🐧?

I am not at all mentally stable, but was planning on starting my switch in January.

This was a problem when they were selling Apple IIs

MUGs came into being because Apple provided zero support and overcharged for proprietary hardware. So the only recourse was to find a hobbyist, and they were glad to help.

So white-power mail?

On the first day it was released to the public.

The encryption specialists at universities knew about the eliptic curve backdoor before it was implemented, and kept recommending that it not be.

Remember that if the police can read your stuff, so can foreign interests, industrial spies, organized crime and militants of large scale political movements.

Besides which here in the States, law enforcement is notorious for abusing their access to technology to bypass protections of the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, often relying on getting a warrant post hoc or lying to establish probable cause.

And usually the judges don't mind.

Some of us were around when leaded gasoline was the norm, and every municipality had a crime rate drop that corellates to their unleaded gas mandate.

Then there's lead in candy which was a problem until the FDA shut that down.

There still is lead in fuel, and so kids who play in urban playgrounds are supposed to wash their hands before eating anything.

So if our people have detectable elevated lead levels (it has a plenty-long bio half life), I'd question automotive exhaust and industry before worrying about guns at the range. Unless someone is squeezing off a hundred rounds a day.

Happy Halcyon Days, everyone!

Normally they do. The Firefly episode with Vera was wrong.

All that money Musk is holding is not in the global economy. So why exactly does he need more money or power?

Why, exactly, is Trump [behaving] like he's Musk's bitch?

Yes! That was a vast improvement. It's not the only way that Americans are felons if the state needs to decide they are, or if they need to add charges / sentencing considerations if the prosecutors really want to throw away the key, such as embarrassing VIPs or killing rich people.

Still, you don't want the police looking at your entire internet history, even if you believe you have nothing to hide, they will find things that they find objectionable enough to justify treating you roughly.

Extraordinary Rendition is the euphemism from the aughts from which the movie Rendition was titled. It means taking your detainee somewhere else, often across national borders, to a black site, usually to do things there for plausible deniability (e.g. we don't torture in the United States )

All Americans who have ever used the internet have violations of the CFAA, since website TOS violations are legally as criminal as hacking NORAD (the CFAA was passed after Reagan saw wargames ) normally letting your twelve-year-old start a Facebook account gets you 25 years, if some prosecutor wanted to enforce it. And they think that's ridiculous and don't.

However, if that prosecutor wants to turn a five month sentence into a ten year sentence, then the suspect's CFAA violation history might be useful after all.

And that is just one of the laws that overreaches and is easily broken and not usually enforced.

Suddenly you may have something to hide after all, say if they're rounding up gay felons and any petty felony would make your gay ass qualify. (The German SD and US ICE both ignore violent felon requirements when they're rounding up folk to be detained and deported)

Oh it turns out we needed NSA to do its actual fucking job after all rather than holding onto exploits for the surveillance state.

Now — for the second time — we have an adversarial administration eager to weaponize government departments while Americans are vulnerable. Why? Because America is the good guys and would never abuse its extrajudicial powers (say, by detaining, rendering and torturing Americans with names similar to those of POIs.)

We could have had twenty-four years of robust communications security developments if NSA didnt sell the public out like Judas.

Anthros are characters that are somewhere between a given animal and human.

But to me this raises an interesting supposition:

Narnia features animals with human intellects, such as Phillip, the horse or Mr. and Mrs. Beaver who were part of the underground railroad and contacts for the resistance. And there was Mr. Fox who they wouldn't fully trust because he was related too closely to the White Witch's wolves.

Now imagine someone were to write a Narnia fanfic about a romance between a beaver and a fox. It's quite dramatic, since the Beaver clan is social conservative as it is, and think folk should keep to their species, and foxes wily like coyotes and can't be trusted. But the beaver girl loves her foxy beau and he seems to reciprocate despite any dispositions otherwise, and the couple considers eloping.

Is that bestiality, or rather is it wrong the way bestiality is wrong?

If not, then its not the genitalia that are the problem, its the capacity to give informed consent.

(Not that US society believes in informed consent regarding anything non-sexual such as large purchases, leases or political decisions, but that's a different rant.)

So I wrote a rant about a month ago (November 18th) about my observations regarding furries as a controversy. Curiously, we got some responses from people who were ready to dismiss furries with language akin to dismissing gays (or dismissing blacks).

Hopefully this link works correctly.

Someone even requested Please don’t compare your love for cartoon animals to being lgbt which smacked to me of please don't compare your desire to be a girl with my desire to love a man even though the mainstream is uncomfortable with all of these groups and is willing to let the white power movement throw rocks at them, or stuff them into concentration camps detention centers. That is why LGBT+ all the other groups united, not because they all like the same stuff, but because they're all systemically oppressed by the identity politics sects.

Anyway, some of the points:\

• Most fur enthusiasts are not furverts (people who like furry and also like kink, but not necessarily together) and yiffers (people who deeply and intensely mix the fur stuff and the sex stuff). And yet, when we think of the furry community, we expect them all be in the yiffing pit rutting like bunnies, when most of them just liked Looney Tunes and Tiny Toon Adventures.
• The most telling moment was conservatives on the news talking about schools having litter boxes in the bathrooms for kids who identify as feline. That's essentially blood libel for furries, a vicious rumor meant to sow hatred for the group while simultaneously sowing fear of schools that are aware of trans kids and want them to grow up with less trauma. But this indicates that yes, Furries are an at risk minority that the white power movement has on their short-list of enemies-within.
• It's been observed by reviewers and curators of porn (those who look at a variety of flavors of porn) that furry porn is restricted more than other kinds. VISA (yes, the financial and payment service provider) will not process transactions with porn featuring non-human genitals, which is... strangely specific and an odd threshold delineator for indecency / obscenity. A lot of porn providers won't consider furry porn content at all, even though in the 1990s there were some pretty famous adult dramas featuring porn that were about anthros.
• The Freefall webcomic (still active since 1998) is a science fiction comic about space culture, robots and science, and features ONE (1) anthro, a genetically engineered wolf, and is regarded as a furry comic, and has been excluded from Wikipedia due to lack of notoriety (It has a very large if nerdy following.) I guess because we sometimes like to label things based on first impressions?