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parpol ,

The only thing they don’t refuse white in.

parpol ,

His record should be expunged when he turns 18 because it was a crime he committed as a child. I understand their frustrations, but they’re asking to jail a child over some photoshopped images.

Making a deepfake is definitely not a heavy crime that deserves jailtime or a permanent mark unless he was an adult doing it.

parpol ,

Kids are kids until 18 because people mature at different rates. At 18 it is safe to assume most have matured enough. This kid could be 18 mentally, but he could also be 13 mentally.

Why are you trying emotional manipulation in order to justify punishing this one kid as if he was an adult?

Here, let me show you what you just did. Let me introduce you to Steve. His life was ruined because he made a deepfake of a girl he likes and sent it to his friend, but he shouldn’t have trusted that friend, because the deepfake then found itself on every phone in class. Steve got a 3 year sentence, forcing early dropout, and due to his permanent mark, he would forever be grouped with rapists and could never find a job. He killed himself at 21. And you claim it’s not that bad? The fuck is wrong with you?

parpol ,

In terms of paying for damages, you are correct. Sending them to jail though…

parpol ,

Yes, he should face consequences the same way any child should face consequence, by being grounded and shamed, maybe he loses his allowance and gets a suspension.

You don’t charge kids as adults, period. They’re stupid, they sometimes (often) don’t think of the consequences. They deserve more chances.

parpol ,

You don’t mature all at once, but you also cannot place general expectation of responsibility at certain ages either, such as when it is acceptable to babysit or drive. That is entirely dependent on the individual kids’ upbringing.

Kids at 15 are not mature enough to do anything. That should be anyone’s expectations of a child they don’t know.

Heavy punishent will only put more kids in jail. It will not prevent kids from making irreversible mistakes, nor will it undo any of the damage. You just ruin one more life, because in the end, the people who most need to consider the consequences are the parents, and a lot of parents simply are not going to do this. So then what? Kids with shitty upbringings deserve no second chances? I believe they do.

parpol ,

I used to have nightmares of this happening to me when I was a kid. It made me scared of all sewage pipes and openings underwater. Once I grew older I figured I was just a stupid kid with a wild imagination, but I now realize it was my human instinct telling me that shit is dangerous, and avoiding it was the right move.

parpol ,

“which credibly and comprehensively lays out a history of sexism”. There was nothing credible about this.

The wukong sexism allegations were all made up or based on severly mistranslated Chinese statements, and they magically appeared after the company behind wukong had refused to pay SBI a 7m dollar extortion fee.

parpol ,

Almost every statement in this article is a complete lie, from the targeted harrasments to the sexism allegations and racism. Even the Hades 2 statements are completely out of context to misrepresent the problem.

Let’s go back to the beginning.

Sweet baby Ink known to extort and threaten to push their agendas into videogames, (there is a video of the CEO Kim Belair explaining how she uses threats if game companies refuse to listen to her advice) was never targeted by harassment. A steam group was made that lists all games they’ve been involved with. (SBI already does the same on their own website). Never did anyone in this steam group go out of their way to harass anyone involved with the company. It is just a group of people who don’t like this company and want to avoid buying games that they are involved with.

Then suddenly one of SBI employees started a harassment campaing against the steam group owner, and tried to get him banned from steam altogether despite no wrongdoing. He never retaliated, and instead just defended his own points.

In comes the game journalist allyssa Merchante who has historically made bigoted statements such as “you can’t be racist against white people” and starts spreading lies of a harassment campaign against SBI. People call her out, and now suddenly she’s a victim of harassment despite she being the one contacting people’s workplaces to get them fired, or phonecalling their partners in an attempt to shame.

The controversy around Hades 2 is not around square jaws, but rather, linked to the smear campaign gaming journalists have had against stellar blade, citing sexism. People were upset that gaming journalists were being hypocritical with titles like “Hades 2 Gods somehow hotter than Hades gods” while they also criticized Stellar Blade for its sexy main character claiming it appeals to white males and that it is problematic.

Ubisoft being in bed with SBI is also not a lie, as SBI officially lists Ubisoft as their customers. The new assassins creed game is another example of these same journalists spreading misinformation.

Being a retainer does not automatically make you a samurai, and playing African-American hiphop music when playing as an African is incredibly stereotypical and innacurate since Africans and African-Americans aren’t the same thing. Game journalists claim white people are just upset about there being a black character in the game (with no evidence). The game is disrespectful towards japanese, but to game journalists that doesn’t matter because they’re “white adjacent”.

The controversy around Wukong is entirely fabricated. The developers of Wukong were being extorted by SBI for 7m USD for advice they didn’t ask for, and when they refused, suddenly gaming journalist started digging around, and found past statements they claim are sexists. However, as it turns out, these statements were in fact mistranslated statements, and the original Chinese statements weren’t even remotely sexist. Of course once people started pointing this out, once again “look at the harassment campaign against us journalists” started again.

These articles always are quick to spin the narrative and paint journalists as innocent, but every.single.controversy. was retaliation against misinformation and harassment campaigns by game journalists and DEI companies. Never was it “a bunch of sexist and racist white people being upset about diversity in videogames”.

But of course the author of this article wouldn’t tell you that she and many of her peers like, liked and retweeted all the false statements I’m bringing up here, or that she follows SBI.

parpol ,

Except the flood was made up.

parpol ,

Are these death threats in the room with us right now?

parpol ,

Just drop it. It came out that the sexism allegations were false. It doesn’t matter what you say here, because the point is you’re wrong.

parpol ,

And I’m sure you have at least one example. After all, there are a lot of rapists out there too, but we aren’t going to accuse anyone until we have some evidence.

parpol ,

The entire article at this point is just “these women who want to be anonymous claim x and y”, with all other “evidence” gone now. I can make similar claims about IGN and my claims would hold as much water.

parpol ,

What part do you find suspicious? I can provide some links and screenshots.

parpol ,

A manager position is easier to replace than a programmer position. By the time AI is smart enough to replace you, it is also smart enough for you to replace the entire company with and run solo.

parpol ,

Drink verification can

parpol ,

Sample the color of a specified pixel (or something recognizable in the streaming format) every 30 frames from the original video.

Store collection of pixels in a database and share in a peer to peer network or stored on invidious instances. Because the sample size is small, and the database can be split up by youtube channel, the overall size and traffic should remain low.

When streaming a youtube video, if the plugin detects that the pixel in the video doesn’t match the one in the database, automatically skip until where the pixel matches the data in the database.

parpol ,

They can’t. They have no clue where you are currently in the video, and even if they did run some client side script, you could easily spoof it.

parpol ,

I haven’t been following the news that much lately.

Is my assumption correct in that bird flu previously only spread between birds, or bird to human,

And that now it has mutated to spread from bird to cow, cow to cow, and cow to human, but still not from human to human?

parpol ,

Remove the garbage from your life.

parpol ,

You start out with negative knowledge in C++, then as you just hear the name for the first time, you get your balls stepped on, jizz, and then get post-nut clarity.

parpol ,

You technically don’t have to disable these for Linux to work. It’s just that a lot of Linux drivers don’t get signed fast enough so you’d have to wait longer to get them with secure boot.

Why he disabled TPM, I don’t know. It works just fine on my device, although I don’t use it.

parpol ,

Dual graphics cards worked fine already 10 years ago for me. What issue are people having?

parpol ,

“Epstein Accuser” is that the new slang for anime antis on Twitter?

parpol ,

Our grandkids’ personal AI assistants are going to get scammed by scammers’ personal AI assistants, sending all their v-bucks to India.

parpol ,

What does google expect users to do once they realize they get better extensions with firefox?

Imagine ad blockers not working on youtube only on chromium browsers, or tracking cookies/pixels/scripts not being blockable only on chromium browsers.

parpol ,

I already switched

…to Linux.

Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system?

I have been watching magnet fishing and people love to toss stuff over bridges without a second thought on the environmental impact. Hiding evidence I can almost understand but not lawnmowers, car batteries, etc....

parpol ,

It is free in Sweden but we still have bicycles under every bridge. My guess is the bicycles were stolen to get home from a night out, and then disposed of.

parpol ,

You’re free to shit on cryptocurrency all you like, but it has many use-cases where traditional banks and payment systems fall short.

Without cryptocurrencies like Monero we wouldn’t have anonymous VPN services like Mullvad, and we would have a global web being forced to follow US laws despite being based elsewhere.

For example, Visa is forcing art platforms to ban (legal) adult content or face blocking. The alternative is master card and other cards that you can’t get in many parts of the world, and there is no guarantee that those cards also won’t start enforcing restrictions. For those places, cryptocurrency is easiest, cheapest and fastest.

Also, a ponzi scheme is something where you pay investors with newer investors’ money. This is not how cryptocurrency works. People pay a tiny amount per transaction to stakers or miners that keep the network going. Anything else is purely a result of the giant surge of new investors, and once we hit a period of stability, mining and staking will be virtually the only way to “earn” money from cryptocurrency and that is completely fair seeing as you’re paid to keep the network going.

Ethereum Layer 2 is cheaper than credit card transactions, by the way.

And the biggest vehicle for scams is google and Amazon gift cards.

Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.

No one in the cryptospace claims this.

parpol ,

The internet enabled that. Are we going to get rid of the internet?

Also, crypto is for peer-to-peer transactions. E-commerce platforms were never the target anyway. And if you really need to pay with crypto on these, you still have crypto-linked debit cards, and these platforms won’t know the difference.

parpol ,

And quickpay integration also exists. People wouldn’t even know you paid with cryptocurrency.

parpol ,

There isn’t a coin out there that can process 1/10 of the number of transactions that Visa does in an hour.

Ethereum had a sharding update done recently, which boosted the maximum TPSs by 1000 times. Arbitrum claims to be capable of 40,000tps now. That’s 2/3 of visa. Combine all blockchains and they all surpass all credit cards combined.

Also, credit cards charge 1.5% - 3.5% processing fees. Ethereum L2 charge less than 0.01$, making them much cheaper than credit card transactions. l2fees.info

Anonymous vpns would still exist, as block chain existed prior to crypto

No they wouldn’t. They’d be vpns directly linked to your credit card. You’re more anonymous without a VPN at that point.

You’re right, it’s not a ponzi scheme, it’s the “bigger idiot” scam.

It is a currency. It has inflation. Anything with value can become a “bigger idiot” scam. Google stocks are a “bigger idiot” scam except you also help them destroy the internet when you invest.

parpol ,

Paying people. And as I said, you can link crypto to a debit card to pay on these shitty platforms if you want (platforms that are bad for local business to begin with).

There is no diminishing utility for crypto. It has already been integrated to a point where you just don’t realize you can use it.

parpol ,

That’s not happening soon. The stigma is only getting worse in the US and non-us services are paying the price. Look at pixiv who had to IP ban American users.

parpol ,

I honestly can’t believe that’s a real argument you’re making, that’s just ridiculous. Especially given the number of rug pull scams there are with coins.

Yes there are hundreds of thousands of shitcoins and rugpulls, I’m not justifying their existence, but Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Nano, Monero, Litecoin. These chains alone can surpass credit card max TPS. There is no argument comparing one single blockchain to one single credit card service, because the reality is it is spread out throughout all of them. You don’t need more transactions per second when you can allocate these transactions to different blockchains depending on what is fastest, cheapest, safest or most private at the time.

They aren’t currencies, they’re investment vehicles backed by nothing.

They’re currencies, not investment vehicles, and some of them are directly backed by government bonds and cash (like USDC).

Block chain transactions aren’t as anonymous as you think, people can be easily revealed by looking at the wallet’s history and asking the last person you bought from “where the item was shipped to”…. Public ledger and all…

That is first of all completely untrue with for example Monero where the coins are fungible and virtually untrackable. Second of all, they’re completely anonymous as long as you don’t provide KYC to one of your wallets or withdraw money to a bank account that belongs to you. The biggest bitcoin holder to this day is completely unknown.

Ethereum can now process 1000 x 10 transactions. Visa currently does what, 80000 per second? Yeah it’s not quite 1/10th but….

Visa does 60k TPS, arbitrum can do 40k TPS. But also, 10000 is indeed more than 1/10 of 80000.

How long until arbitrum reveals the rug pull? I’m sure it will be any day now.

You get back to me when that happens. If you look at the tokenomics of ARB you should be able to tell how big of an impact that would have.

Crypto is a solution to a problem nobody has. Need anonymous transactions? Here’s some cash. Need international anonymous transactions? Yeah, those are probably better being tracked anyways. And I say that as a privacy advocate. Yes, privacy matters, no international transaction privacy doesn

Need anonymous transactions? Sure let’s send 10k by letter and see how well that goes. It would take several weeks before it arrives if the mailman didn’t suddenly lose track of it. International transactions are very expensive and get arbitrarily blocked. “Solution to a problem no one has”… I literally cannot pay my student loans because my Japanese bank blocks credit card transactions to the one system the Swedish student loan agency uses for credit card payment, and sending money by bank transfer costs up to 10% of the wired money. Do you think I want to spend over 4,000$ on fees just to pay my student loans? It cost me 0.01$ to send all of that through Ethereum layer 2 in less than a minute to a family member so they instead could make the credit card payment. You think no one has any problems with traditional banking and payment because your privileged ass never had any issues. In China people couldn’t withdraw any money from their banks during the evergreen ponzi. Crypto was available at that time.

Ya know what most “anonymous” international transactions are? Scams.

Most of them are trades, next are off-shore transactions, third are donations. Scammers use Amazon gift cards, not cryptocurrency, because old gullible people have no idea how cryptocurrency works.

Let’s break this down to a single argument though…. Crypto is the answer to a problem nobody has. Smart contracts? For what exactly? Anonymous international transactions? What’s the need? As a society we’ve decided that some types of transactions are illegal. Yes, sometimes governments make things illegal that they shouldn’t, and authoritarians around the world make all sorts of things illegal that they shouldn’t… but for your necessities, they’ll all be available locally. And under an authoritarian enough regime, they can just inspect your mail anyways. Society requires trust, and that’s going to happen locally no matter what coin you use. It’s great that I can have a zero trust model for sending money, but it’s useless, because ultimately you still need to trust the person receiving it to do the exchange.

The problems:

  1. Banks refusing to let people withdraw their money (China, 2022),
  2. Visa blocking art platforms from all credit card payment until adult content is cleared from the platform (deviantart, pixiv, 2024)
  3. International bank transfers being buttfuckingly expensive (everyone, anytime)
  4. Credit card companies and banks selling your transaction history to advertising companies (US, 2024)
  5. Banks arbitrarily blocking credit card transactions (even very important ones such as student loan payments) because their targets aren’t domestic.
  6. Credit card services charging 1.5% - 3.5% fees per transaction despite the actual cost being virtually none.
  7. VPN services keeping your credit card information, essentially linking all your activity to you specifically instead of anyone using your IP.
  8. Having to register an account, give your name and address, credit card info and phone number to be able to donate to your favorite content creator, then have your data be leaked among millions of other people’s data in a giant data breach.

Why don’t you give me a good few solutions to these problems? Cryptocurrency solves all of them at once.

parpol ,

You can’t just dismiss all those problems as not real. What are you talking about? Those are as real as any other problem, and affect lot of people. They affect me and are more important to me than what for example any quickpay service solves. And mass surveillance is one of the biggest problems of our time. Dismissing it as a non-issue is unhinged.

And stop trying to paint verything as criminal. It doesn’t matter what you need to send 10k anonymously for. You could be obtaining your salary and don’t want others to know how much it is or how much you’ve accumulated (except for when you report it yourself, ie taxes). you could be a whistleblower or reporter, or just care about privacy. One should never have to provide a reason to want privacy ever.

People would accept Monero during a bankrun. In fact, the biggest winners in the China bankrun (besides the corporations) were people who were illegally holding cryptocurrency in China.

In physical purchases, yes, your name will end up on whatever contract, but “it was paid with Monero” is the only information that will be available. Not what else you’ve been buying or who you got it from. And I already gave an example of where your name doesn’t get linked whatsoever. Mullvad VPN. Any online service has no reason to require your personal information. Cloud storage, subscription fees, software licenses, etc. Not everything is physical packages to your door, and there are also peer to peer crypto-cash exchanges. You can absolutely buy anything anonymously even if you are a bitcoin holder.

Yes, when “money” falls, and the societal collapse happens, everyone’s going to trade in bitcoin.

I never said anything about societal collapse. You’re reiterating r/buttcoin arguments against things I’m not saying.

You don’t need to give a reason to want privacy. If you immediately think “that’s just suspicious criminal behavior” then you’re essentially using “protect the children by banning encryption in messaging applications.” As argument.

parpol ,

The cloud is just someone else’s computer.

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

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parpol ,

Taking the video and sending to the coaches is still a cunt move. Deepfake or not.

parpol ,

Currently at 2/10 but they’ll get there.

parpol ,

Guy who said “If I die, it is not suicide” dies of suicide right before important court date, and perfectly healthy and active person suddenly succumbs to rare antibiotics-resistant infection.

They just happened to work at the same company and die right before they could testify on the same thing.

This not being foul play is less likely than a global conspiracy.

parpol ,

Even looking at it from a statistical perspective, these are low chances.

Let’s do the numbers.

Suicide rate is 14 / 100,000 (0.00014).

Deaths from MRSA in the US in 2017 was 20,000 / 325,100,000 (0.000062).

The chance of either happening to one person is 0.000202 (0.02%). The chance of it happening to 2/12 whistleblowers in the same year is:

1-((1−(14÷100,000))×(1−(20,000÷325,100,000)))^6 =

0.00120845658 (0.12%),

1 out of 826 cases with 12 whistleblowers would have this outcome.

parpol ,

Here you go.

abcnews4.com/…/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicid…

parpol , (edited )

It means that there is a 99.998% chance that they were murdered, misdiagnosed or are not really dead.

There haven’t even been 1000 whistleblowers cases in recorded history, and the fact that the two deaths happened means the most likely cause by far was murder

parpol ,

We are talking in the context of with 12 whistleblowers on the same case. There are more cases with single wistleblowers, but also, the fewer whistleblowers per case, the lower the chance of one of them dying of suicide or MRSA.

For example, if there had only been 2 whistleblowers in total in this case, not 12, the chance of both dying from suicide and MRSA would be 0.00014 * 0.000062 = 0.00000000868 (0.000000868%).

parpol ,

The chance of killing youself after saying you’re not killing yourself negates any raised suicide rate of whistleblowers, and when the chance of foulplay is vastly higher than it not being foulplay, it is no longer a conspiracy theory. Having two whistleblowers from the same case suddenly die is extremely unlikely.

I didn’t make up any accusations. I stated how it is vastly more likely they were murdered than that they weren’t if I removed any circumstantial information. Adding circumstantial information very likely sways it even further into murder territory, and not the opposite as you claim.

And the worst part? This will do exactly what every other nutbrain conspiracy theory does. It provides incredibly easy to refute accusations and then undermines anyone who actually cares about how much boeing knowingly allowed. Because all the people who will point out exactly what these whistleblowers fought to get out there? They are dragged down by your ranting and raving.

This is such a ridiculous argument when your argument essentially is shilling for a company and trying to downplay how suspicious this whole thing is. By easily refutable you must mean “maybe a meteor killed both” levels of stars aligning.

But let’s focus on the actual accusations rather than make up some because we want a really juicy true crime podcast?

Them being murdered automatically becomes an actual accusation.

Assassinations are not a rare occurrence, but you’re making it sound like fairy tale material.

parpol ,

You don’t compare the stats to the population in its entirety

You do for disease and suicide as it can happen to literally anyone.

If working for a specific company or being a whistleblower affects those statistics, the company should be held responsible anyway.

parpol ,

From what is currently known about the two whistleblowers neither were particularly at higher risk of suicide or MRSA. The person who died of MRSA was healthy and active with no history of hospitalization whatsoever. Close friends of the first whistleblower claim that suicide was very unlike him, and his previous statement of “if anything happens, it wasn’t suicide” strengthens that.

There are other commenters here speculating that being a whistleblower makes you at higher risk of suicide, but there are no official statistics on that, so it is at most speculation, therefore I need to use general statistics.

All probabilistic models and datasets eventually get replaced with more accurate ones, but that doesn’t discredit them until then.

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