Due to its mode of operation, the court considered the software to be “specifically intended for criminals”

Crime is an action a state doesn’t like, not necessarily wrong or evil, but serves interests other than the state. If the state has to authorize everything, then the state is favoring dominance over governance.

When the state has to monitor all transactions it is tyranny.

As someone highly susceptible to dark patterns, I’d like to see more regulation and investigation of them in commercial practices.

Heck, some kinds of commercial fluffing are outright lies.

Is there an actual way to get this result? Asking for a friend.

(I usually have to get an RPN calculator anyway, or use the internet for not-by-hand calculations.)

When you rule, you get to pick what qualities have merit, which is how we end up of administrations of The Master Race or lispy Spaniards, or ruthlesd billionaires.

We’re still trying to figure out how to get to government tha implements public-serving ideas.

I’m very tempted to choose a brain worm of your own and push that agenda at him to assert dominance, but that’s because I can be a passive-aggressive fuck if I feel someone is being overly aggressive.

Judgemental religious folk can bring out the Azathoth Hypothesis in me.

The fifth one was written while Douglas Adams was super depressed, so yeah, it’s a bit more grim than the others.

The initial trilogy were written after the radio show which was itself written on the fly, hence the continuous cliffhangers and deus-ex-machina turns of fate.

Too spicy for Facebook! Her apperance on a art museum Facebook page was enough to get the page suspended.

Funny, marines and wait staff are the two work forces we point to as counterexamples when someone suggests poor people are just lazy.

The ownership class will certainly tremble when they gear up for a rumble against the Man.

This makes a strong case on the discovery side of the discovery vs. invention controversy.

Ironically, my dad idolized Pythagoras and the notion of discovering a scientific fundamental to be remembered for thousands of years, for which the secret is not to actually do science, but raise a cult of scientists who attribute their inventions to you. Like Thomas Edison.

White handsome Jesus is always ironic Jesus. Like Buddy Christ.

Costco for a while sold large ice cream bars from their cantina. While not proportionately larger they did help with the disappointment I felt going to DQ decades later to notice the cone was much smaller than the last time.

Yep. But it has an unusable interface. And I’ll try the LLM, Call mom! and find that I can’t get it to place a call.

I appreciate very much the little bit of trolling.

Sometimes daddy can’t help himself.

I picked up shizzle for rizzle from Tiny Tina and works as a rated G version of the shit meaning either the genuine article or the diggity dank.

Wait, other Gen Xers and Millennials don’t fear becoming homeless?

I have a lot of friends who were homeless at least once during life, and all the others have been on the verge of homelessness. Is this atypical in the United States?

It’s all tubular.

As a kid from the 80s-era San Fernando Valley, I have legit cred to say that.

Someday cringe will be cringe, and sick will be sick again.

It does convey the (accurate) message that money is more important to the church than its message or its congregation.

We’ve seen a similar phenomenon in some of the red states in the ideology conflict here in the US. There are people eager to kill someone just to have the experience, and who volunteer to hunt targeted groups (trans folk, lately) or as participants in an execution by firing squad. I remember in the John Oliver’s first segment on the death penalty (he did a second one recently) executions were stalled due to difficulties obtaining the drugs used in lethal injections, and firing squads were brought up. The expert pointed out the difficulty finding one executioner, let alone seven. The officials suggested recruiting volunteers from the gun-enthusiast citizenry, which the expert saw as naïve.

I can’t speak to firing-squad executions during the German Reich and the early stages of the holocaust, but I can speak to the Einsatzgruppen who were tasked with evacuating villages (to mass graves) who harbored Jews, harbored enemies of Germany or otherwise were deemed unworthy of life. The mass executions were hard on the troopers, and as a result Heydrich contended with high turnover rates.

This figured largely into the movement towards the industrialized genocide machine that pivoted around the Auschwitz proof of concept. Earlier phases included wagons with an enclosed back in which the engine exhaust was piped. The process was found to be too slow, and exposed to many service people to the execution process. The death camps were staffed to assure no-one had to interact with the prisoners and process the bodies, so no-one would have to confront the visceral reality of before and after. They were staffed so that anyone who engaged a mechanism was two steps away from the person authorizing (and taking responsibility for) the execution. The guy who flipped the switch was just following orders.

Interestingly, we’d see a repeat of this during the International War on Terror, specifically the Disposition Matrix which lead to executions of persons of interest on the field by drone strike (Hellfire missile launched from a Predator drone). During the CIA Drone Strike Programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the drone operation crews suffered from high turnover rate, with operators suffering from combat PTSD from having pulled the trigger on the missile launches. It didn’t help they were also required to scan the damage to assess the carnage, and identify the casualties.

Interestingly, this also presented an inverted demonstration of how the human mind can tell the difference between violent video games and the real thing. Plenty of normies play Call of Duty without dealing with the mental after-effects of war, but even when we conduct war operations from continents away, our brains recognize that we are killing actual human beings, and suffers trauma from the act. War continues to be Hell, and video games not so much.

The next step is a launch loop, and even that will require materials with extreme tensile strength that we do not yet have.