Of course he had bombshells to drop. All of the things that he had done through the legal system were done in the hopes of achieving legal victory. When that process ended, the next step would be the court of public opinion. There’s an awfully big difference in impact on the general public versus reading what someone wrote and hearing them talk about it live on TV or the internet. When you can ask them questions and get detailed answers, that adds a greater level of weight to the entire issue.

It’s interesting that you would bring up half of the timeline and ignore the other half. You know, the part where problems happening to airplanes in the very recent past connects with actions that happened 7 years ago. When people want explanations for what’s going wrong now, of course they’re going to want to talk to people who were around when it started to go awry.

And I’m not saying you’re right or wrong about the accuracy of the police investigation. But I do think your analysis of the pressures on him and the current public climate is inaccurate.

State lawmakers knew this would happen when they passed the law. It’s so obviously predictable, and the fix was and is so simple.

Actually a great many people honestly believe they know better than doctors, that their snake oil will fix them. Look at the entire antivax movement. Look at the pandemic deniers.

So, uh, we can’t take it for granted that people actually know that they should talk to a trained professional. Because many don’t.

And that’s important. If we find out that we’re talking to a certain kind of fundie or antivaxxer or COVID denier, depending on the context of course, often there’s no point wasting time. Get the good advice on paper in hopes that other readers see it, and move along with life.

“There is not much the US could do.” … I can think of several things the US could easily do that would screw over the Israeli military quickly enough. You can too, so I’m confused why you wrote this.

Allies like Qatar and Saudi Arabia? … But even if there were no US allies in the region, then what?

The simple issue is that this is genocide. Full stop.

And we should stop it. After that, let’s look into the complex issue you’re trying to raise. Conflating the two is how people justify doing nothing.

Yeah, except they do, they did. Why does California have strict gun control laws? Because in the 1960s, the Black Panthers were open carrying, and white folks (esp. police) didn’t like it.

If a crowd full of armed minorities had invaded Congress when Trump took power, of course hundreds or thousands would have been shot.

It’s clear that Israel has bigger guns. Why would you even mention that? The question here is morality, not munitions.

By the way, how many of the dead actually wished for all Jews to die? Of course most of them didn’t. Of course most of them just wanted to live their lives in peace. Sigh.

My friend, you can define words however you like, but the numbers of dead bodies won’t change because of it.

That’s why the police exist. That’s why they were created. No big surprise here.

It’s only a surprising observation if you never thought about the not so distant past, when each town had its own time. Even now, if you spend a week or a month hiking or living off the grid out in nature, although your watch or cell phone might have a clock on it, you learn quite soon that what really matters is when the sun goes up and goes down.

Will there be any consequence to the college’s administrators for inviting this man to speak? It seems to me that the nuns have an ethical duty to take what action they can in order to make sure this type of thing doesn’t happen at that institution ever again, if they have any such power, and if they don’t, they need to make clear that the college is disreputable.

Whenever we have a discussion about security, it’s generally useful for us to talk about the types of attacks that we are trying to mitigate. What are some examples that you would be concerned about?

If your VPN is reasonably responsive, you probably won’t notice a change in the latency. VPNs tend to have maximum top speeds, and if you were doing SFTP, there’s a reasonable chance you would find that limit very quickly.

We all know there are incompetent people in human resources who will turn to their tech person and ask them to do the job. The tech person won’t even think twice about the actual intended use of the data that they’re sharing.

I don’t know dude. Hobbies are quite different from therapy. If you were looking at something like alcohol versus therapy, that would be a more realistic comparison.

Except it’s not an echo chamber. I’ve seen a great variety of comments on the issue at hand. If you haven’t, check out some other communities. And downvotes are different from intolerance. Of course intolerance can exist (if you’re getting blocked or direct messaged, for example), but that’s not what you experienced.

And the question is not whether intolerance exists “here”, because it probably does in some communities some of the time. That’s not surprising. We’re on the internet. The question is whether it’s worse “here” than it was on Reddit, and if it is, what can or should be done about that.

I haven’t seen any data indicating any trend on the issue. If people have different experiences, that’s just to be expected, and we should sympathize with people getting harassed, but we shouldn’t assume the sky is falling when it’s not.

What mistake did you make? That’s definitely relevant, since the definition of “mistake” is playing a major role.

Depending on your situation, you might consider a totally different setup. For example, you could install WordPress or anything vaguely similar to it.

If someone is injured or killed by a Tesla car, they can sue the company directly, regardless of any legal agreements you may have as the owner. Whether they win is a different question, but they might win if they could show that Tesla was negligent, and especially if Tesla was willfully negligent.

Just because you think you’re responsible, even if you agreed in triplicate that you’re responsible, doesn’t necessarily make you legally responsible, depending on the circumstances. And that’s the way it should be.

Nobody is buying anything, my friend. It’s the natural result of real estate speculation. Prices have to keep going up for investors to make their money, but at some point residents can’t afford to buy, so they don’t, and we wait for the bubble to burst. The whole field ought to be illegal, because housing is a human right.