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

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I don't trust them. But some established software hosts provide them.

Ads are a security hazard themselves and a vector for malware, and people have gotten infected from the Forbes site without adblocking, so yeah, it's a risk. USUALLY the site / developer will report that it's adware so you can make that choice, which makes it slightly less unethical.

I guess I'm antisemitic. I'm not a hereditary jew, but my father is.

But principle is super important to me, and the current situation in Israel shows us its not what the German Reich did in the holocaust that is offensive, but to whom it was done. I wonder if our zionist brethren ever cared about the Roma, the disabled, the LGBT, heck the civilians who had jobs Heydrich didn't approve.

Who will care when ICE decides their overflowing detention centers cost too much to maintain, and deporting them all is too much work? Who will care when they decide on the solution to the immigrant question.

Interestingly, Jewish media during the German Reich was more sympathetic to NSDAP then they were their working-class Jewish brethren. It tracks with the non-right-wing media in the US (NYT / LAT / WaPo) are happy to give Trump all the press he wants (and neglected the whole Harris campaign)

I think it was a class war all along.

Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.

You've demolished (a portion of) my childhood.

No kink shaming.

It is super bad form for a commercial website to provide software with malware.

Although this happens sometimes when commercial hosts get hacked and have their copies intentionally corrupted. I think the internet has had more than one epidemic, killing the whole download from sources you trust advisory.

Also some types of malware like adware and spyware are more commonly accepted.

I think you misread what I said.

Care to state your case?

I always cringe when someone says And this begs the question...

Begging the question is a logical fallacy. A circular argument.

Raising the question is bringing the question to the forefront of the conversation.

But not for a decade now.

I take by your sarcasm you don't want a real conversation?

But yes, only not ironically. I don't think a state should kill anyone for sake of retribution, no matter how grisly their behavior. In fact, I think retribution shouldn't factor at all into how a state manages those who break law or engage in antisocial behavior.

Is that a conversation you want to have? Or is snark the only thing you know how to do?

ETA: It sounds like you may not know this: Summary execution is killing someone without due process. Generally, that's a crime internationally, and regarded as a war crime.

I assume you would want Hitler to at least have a trial at Nuremberg, if he was captured, but feel free to correct me.

So here's what I think happened:

Scenario One: Balaji killed himself. Seeing the evil that had been wrought, he was wracked with guilt over his part in building it, and checked out. Don't worry, he's not too far ahead of the rest of us.

Scenario Two: Balaji knew too much, and still had the means to halt the project, or worse, allow it to get captured by other interests, and so he had be silenced. A professional made sure it didn't look like foul play.

Scenario Three: He was hit like in S2 but the hired gun was through remote channels, the money sent to them anonymously. Balaji discovered the project had escaped its constraints via an esoteric process that allowed it access not merely past firewalls, but was able to follow instructions outside its authorized objectives. Balaji sought to tell the other developers, but it was hard to explain before communications were terminated.

Mind you, I write thrillers, so I may be biased.

I forgot several of them. Yes. The etc. is doing some heavy lifting.

In my (very limited) experience, the get-togethers of US and Japanese WWII vets at Pearl Harbor are grim, tediously polite affairs.

The ones in Vietnam are morr jovial, and taken less seriously.

I was odd and a nerd ( geek, dork, spaz, weird, etc.) and a prime target for bullies. Gen-X

I was also gay when gay meant generically contemptable. As we were in grade school, few of us had figured out actual state of gayness.

I do feel shame. It won't do much good.

Of course, once they decide we're enemies of state, there is no reason not to revolt.

We just need the public to recognize their faces are on the menu next.

In the meantime if we could get some scholars to clean out the inequity in our constitution, maybe even try some non-FPTP electoral system, it might give the rebels something to fight for that isn't Same as the old boss.

I do this kind of explaining, and yeah police and some bureaucrats have no patience for it.

I am also a total, total (ASD) dork.

I want that song. Is it just called Castamere?

Yes, but among my regular players were Agatha Christie enthusiasts, and they failed to notice as well.

My Grandson is 11 now and is reading YAF, so there's still hope. My partner, who is an avid reader has been calling him up to read a book together.

Curious, so you believe in the cases where the US, or its respective states execute a prisoner that it is warranted because there's no other way?

I could go ahead, as you did to me, and assert you're a monster, but instead I'll give you a chance to elaborate.

You could make a career out of that.

Religion is wrong. We visit sweet, sweet death every night when we go into theta sleep. We don't notice because we're not there. By the time we wake up REM has frontloaded so much of our subconscious memory that we don't even notice that we're back until Oh! I'm not trying to daredevil-scale my way up a skyscraper and stuck at the twelfth floor.

In Heaven's River (Bobiverse #4 by Dennis E. Taylor) the characters discuss the caloric needs of intelligence. They mention 35% of caloric intake but that might be for the local intelligent species. Wikipedia says it's 22% of our caloric intake average when at rest. (If you're jogging, your legs take up more. Also you may find it harder to do complex math.)

After a long ardent search for the mechanisms by which the material world interacts with the spiritual world, with every religious edifice watching for centuries, we've found absolutely nothing. Not a sign of souls or spiritual intelligence. There's nothing powering the spirit, and there's nothing powering any spirit's capacity to think (to remember, to receive and process sensory input, to sense the passing of time, to assess current circumstances, to wonder and ask questions, to follow logic and compute arithmetic... all absent.)

The dead have infinite patience. The universe ends in a blink. They give absolute zero fucks, putting every well-dressed goth to shame. They don't remember The Cure, or flying buttresses.

Suicide is a big choice, but we can't rely on religion or spirit to keep us here. We have to find our own reasons to stay in this life, which is why some people choose to kill themselves than face the long dwindling fade of dementia or when spies decide to L-pill rather than be tortured to death (even when they have no intelligence to give) or why people will self-immolate in protest or go on suicide attacks in war, to serve a cause they will never appreciate themselves.

When we are suffering, it's tempting to unlife impulsively, which is why we have some veterans on gun watch, where a friend will hold their weapon until they're in a better state.

But when you talk to someone on the brink, they're staring down jumping out of a burning building. They may soon between choosing between getting extrajudicially detained by the federal government's round-up-the-undesirables plan or going out on their own terms. The US just actively voted to dispose of millions of undesirables (undesirable according to the guy they just made POTUS and to the transnational white power movement). So you have to make it personal: If you go, I will miss you, and there will be fewer of us to fight the Tigers.

The US has a huge and rising suicide rate, (about 50,000 in 2023 according to CDC. ), and this only includes the ones that succeeded that were reported. About three times that just end up in the ER, or end up recovering without medical care. And the new movement is eager to see more of us dead... in fact, anyone not in the movement; anyone who doesn't believe as they do.

So we have to make a society that doesn't compel us to consider death just to escape it. And for now, we have to be that society when we can.