ZeroPipeline
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ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
You can take any twitter url and replace twitter.com with twitter.com and get more or less the old experience without having to sign in. There are some companies that use twitter to post status message when there is an outage etc. and this has been helpful for me.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
You might benefit from looking at previous medical manias, such as lobotomies. Though it was never entrenched to the same degree as gender surgery seems to be today, lobotomies are an irreversible surgery performed on adults as well as children that gained rapid acceptance.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Yeah, the difference between victim blaming and victim warning is whether you think public policy and social norms should be shaped to protect victims as much as possible.
I'm not sure I understand your view here. Warning victims seems like it would fall pretty squarely under protecting victims as much as possible, even if it isn't the only thing that would fall under that heading.
Maybe this is an example of two movies on one screen, but I didn't get that impression from the OP at all. OP isn't saying that public policy and social norms shouldn't be shaped to protect victims, but rather that the current attempts to do that are not very effective and are needlessly narrow in scope.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
then fucks it's it up by spraying foam all over the cake.
Well, it could always be worse.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
All we need is an AI that can create convincing org charts.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
In at least some cases, those are being paid for by the federal government through the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
For anyone that abhors the future you describe, this is a bit like asking "If your house was burning down, would you still have issues with my dog shitting on your lawn?"
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
And if you asked the Egyptian government, they'd probably tell you the same thing since they just had their own issues wit the Muslim Brotherhood.
Was the issue here that the Muslim Brotherhood won the parliamentary elections after Mubarak stepped down? If so, that is an issue that goes much deeper than Hamas. You are taking issue with the political preferences of the people of Egypt themselves.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
That is good. This means that people can't hack election infrastructure without detection and we have nothing to worry about. Hopefully no one will make any claims to the contrary.
Unless the machines are connected to any sort of network, in which case all bets are off.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
It seems like modern history has been something of an anomaly where we have had back to back revolutionary gains in productivity. Prior to the industrial revolution, there were long periods of marginal gains punctuated by smaller revolutions such as the printing press. Unless AI or some new energy source can come along and make us more productive I fully expect us to slide back into tribalism.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
I agree with you that the line is about in the right place. The pearl clutching about North Korea in that twitter thread is pretty unconvincing, unless they have been using crypto to keep their country afloat since 1948.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Why does the US need 300 million people? Why does England need millions more people on its tiny landmass? Is it necessary to destroy the ethnic makeup of these countries to ensure the line always goes up?
I think the problem is that most of our economic systems are now predicated on growth occurring over time. The easiest way to keep the economy growing is to increase the population. The growth can't last forever, especially within the confines of a single planet, but no one seems terribly interested in moving to a sustainable model.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
There was the San Bernadino attack in 2015 that involved a husband and wife pair.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
I did the math before out of curiosity to see how many 155mm shells it would take to cover all of the Gaza strip with the lethal radius of at least one shell's explosion. It came out to around 52 million shells. If all 250 of Israel's m109 howitzers fired at their sustained rate of fire of one round per minute (and assuming no need for maintenance etc) it would take them around 144 days. I was looking at this just to get some idea of the scales involved in all this.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
My understanding is that Christians at the time weren't allowed to charge any interest, as that was considered usury.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
In kubernetes, the cluster nodes that run everything are already called the control plane, and have been for some time.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
nobody studies biology without learning Latin names, nobody studies math without learning Greek letters
Give it time.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Yeah they launched some initial raids after their evacuation notice last week and I thought a full assault wouldn't be too far behind. I know there were reports that they were delaying it due to the weather. Perhaps it is taking longer than they anticipated to reactivate their reservists and get them into position? Speed isn't as essential in this case from a tactical standpoint, but I do think the window is closing on the time when the world will turn more of a blind eye to any collateral damage they might inflict.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
Having worked with kubernetes for years now, I have never found the term unclear or misleading. To each their own I suppose.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
Probably because it is back in the news now that we are getting results from it that are likely to push forward our understanding of cosmology.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
There must be some distinction to be drawn between "victim blaming" and "victim warning" though right? If a woman is raped, it would be victim blaming to tell her "well that's too bad, maybe you shouldn't have walked through the park", but the idea that teaching women to avoid walking alone in a park in a bad part of town is victim blaming and must be avoided at all costs just seems like an overextension of the concept to me.
There are signs all over San Francisco warning people not to leave valuables inside their cars, but this is never presented as some awful example of victim blaming. The only time this over-extension of the concept seems to take place is when anyone is asking women to have any agency over their own safety.
Crime can typically be thought of as a supply and demand problem and the best way to prevent crime is to attack both sides of the problem.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
When I saw this NY case hit the headlines I immediately wondered what year elections would next be held for the NY AG. Imagine my surprise when I learned they were in fact this year.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Well in that case it is because he fucked over a lot of rich people.
ZeroPipeline
2yr ago
Plus, riots don't really happen in winter time especially in conditions like this: if it gets really really cold the general population will be too frozen to do anything.
One notable (and relevant) exception to this being Euromaidan, which took place between November and February.
Around the same time that they started handing out participation trophies, if I had to guess.
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