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reverendsteveii ,

once again, a child was shot, the shooter will be rewarded, and a bunch of people who did nothing wrong will pay for it

reverendsteveii ,

the olympics hurt a lot of people

reverendsteveii ,

Despite being accused of ignoring Texas laws which require parental involvement before such interventions, Cameron County District Attorney Rene Garza told a hearing Wednesday that his office was gathering further evidence against Murray, rather than deciding to drop the charges.

If the law protects you, it will be ignored and the people who ignore it will face no consequences for their lawlessness. The law is for hurting you, and only laws that hurt you count.

reverendsteveii ,

pull yourself up by your bootstraps. no handouts.

reverendsteveii ,

that’s Hardcastle McCormick, yeah

reverendsteveii ,

an increase of $28 billion over last year.

“How are we gonna pay for that?”

–exactly zero of the ‘fiscal responsibility’ politicians that consistently get in the way of your tax money being spent on things you need

reverendsteveii ,

heaven

lol

reverendsteveii ,

Hey now, that’s not fair. They didn’t all ignore Trump’s guilt. Susan Collins acknowledged that the president was guilty of what he was accused of then voted to acquit on all charges because she believed he “learned his lesson”.

Republicans only care about power. Nothing is illegal or wrong if it helps them win, nothing is legal or okay if it doesn’t. They’ve abandoned any pretense of fairness, democracy, or even basic governance and they’re trying to seize the state so that they can turn its violence on people who upset them.

reverendsteveii ,

problem is, he might end up defining them as “entirely unchecked, retroactively”

reverendsteveii ,

I still can’t believe so many people don’t see him for the criminal, con-man, grifter, anti-christ, etc that he is.

you don’t have to make sense of it. they’re all lying. they know what he is and don’t care, because he’ll let them hurt who they want to hurt.

reverendsteveii ,

not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox

I’d love to see that, because my understanding is that the anticheat software that fortnite and others use requires pretty deep access to your system that linux either can’t or won’t give them

reverendsteveii ,

any idea where commentOP got their notion that supporting linux would involve “only needing to click a single checkbox”?

reverendsteveii ,

now in fairness, it’s because these people who are not at all trained in medicine or experimental design think that the people whose training and careers are exclusively in medicine and experimental design may have done it wrong.

part of the republican strategy for getting their wildly unpopular agenda through nationwide has been making sure that anyone anywhere is allowed to make a legally-enforcable decision IF they agree with it, but ensuring that no amount of expertise or personal stake qualifies you to make the opposite decision. Multiple doctors agree that your pregnancy is non-viable? Doesn’t matter, a city councilperson whose highest education is a GED has decided that doesn’t qualify you for an exception to their abortion laws. The opinion of several doctors, the patient and the patient’s parents is that the patient is trans? Not good enough, a complete stranger who knows neither you or anything that they’re talking about said “no”. You want books in your kids’ school library? Only if they’re approved by the Karenest Karen to ever Karen. It’s designed to be a ratchet effect. Anyone can turn the dial to the right, no one can turn it back to the left, they call it “freedom” and the absolute monsters they’re appealing to love it because the only freedoms they care about are the freedom to do what they want and the freedom to force everyone else to do what they want.

reverendsteveii ,

did you know that any time a child is born in britain that child has a 10% chance of becoming a tory PM when the sitting one resigns in shame?

reverendsteveii ,

what’s fortnite’s anticheat like? my understanding is that a lot of games that would normally have no problem running on some flavor of linux or another but their anticheat software requires some ridiculous level of privilege that linux won’t (and shouldn’t) give it

Biden tells donors Israel is losing support, Netanyahu must change his government | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

President Joe Biden said Tuesday Israel’s prime minister needs to change his hardline government and support for the country’s military campaign is waning amid heavy bombardment of Gaza. … “This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” Biden said, adding that the Israeli government “doesn’t want...

reverendsteveii ,

Biden said Tuesday Israel’s prime minister needs to change his hardline government and support for the country’s military campaign is waning

Thing is, he later went on to say “I am a Zionist.” So while he’s trying to play both sides in the end he’ll keep sending your money to kill Palestinian children for as long as there are Palestinian children to murder.

reverendsteveii ,

the time to consider whether you can serve the penalty for breaking the law is before you break the law, not after. if you don’t have tens of millions of dollars, don’t purposely cause tens of millions of dollars in damage.

reverendsteveii ,

Texas seems to just hate

reverendsteveii ,

homebrew Jolly Ranchers

sugar, corn syrup and water will make hard candy. after that, it’s just a matter of dialing in the amounts of flavorings and citric acid for some tartness

reverendsteveii ,

not really, at least not that I know of. the formation of hard candy kinda depends on how sugar acts once you get it above certain temperature points. there’s probably a materials engineer somewhere that can offer you a sol’n that mostly does what you want but in the traditional world of candymaking sugar does a lot more than just sweeten.

reverendsteveii ,

chemical-free

that depends on how you define “chemical”. You are still adding flavorings.

reverendsteveii ,

if you’re american, that’s suitcases of your money going to terrorists because the corrupt right wing ruling authority of israel would sacrifice unarmed civilians in both israel and palestine to avoid a peace deal. the israeli government is not just rejecting individual proposed peace deals but sabotaging any attempt at peace because they need constant war and fear to stay in power. Bibi Netanyahu will kill your baby himself with his hands if he thinks it will help him remain in power. He’s a war criminal who deserves the Hague.

between this, the pullout in afghanistan and henry kissinger’s entire career, I have to wonder if there’s a terrorist anywhere on earth that isn’t shooting american guns and spending american money.

reverendsteveii ,

What we want is just not something out government considers to be relevant. Since the cold war they’ve been operating on the principle that they know better than us stupid poors and that we should be grateful for the evil they do in our name. It’s very “a few good men”.

reverendsteveii ,

you’re at the narrow end of the wedge right now. “put your shoulders back when you walk”, “clean your room”, “don’t lie”, all good advice that can be had anywhere. it’s just that the further into it you get, the more you arrive at his core philosophy, which is that there is a natural hierarchy to all human relationships and that cishet white men should be on the top of it because they’re the only people capable of bringing and maintaining order in the face of the “chaos dragon” of femininity, and that the history of violent western european dominance over much of the world is to be taken as prima facie evidence that violent western european dominance of the world is an ideal to be asserted wherever possible. it’s repackaged “white man’s burden” stuff mixed with a bunch of badly misinterpreted freud.

reverendsteveii , (edited )

Happens in the US all the time, actually. Tate is charged with a crime, and in a position analogous to someone who’s out on bail in the US. He’s free atm, just not allowed to leave the country. His assets have been seized, which is something that also happens all the time in America (www.aclupa.org/en/…/civil-asset-forfeiture). The difference is Tate has actually been charged with a crime and, afaik, his assets will be returned to him if he’s found not guilty of the charges against him. In America, your assets can be seized without you ever actually being charged with a crime, and they’re not returned to you unless you go to court to prove your innocence. There’s a legal loophole where they declare that it’s your stuff, not you, that is on trial and stuff does not have civil rights, so taking your stuff does not violate your right to due process and suspicion (not of any crime in particular, just generally seeming suspicious) allows for the presumption of guilt. The people who decide whether or not your stuff is innocent of a crime also get to keep 100% of it if they decide that it is not, the person whose stuff is seized doesn’t have the right to counsel or even to know that there is a hearing taking place about seizing their stuff. Often times, they only find out that their stuff is on trial after the trial has completed, the stuff has been found “guilty” in absentia, and the police have come to steal it at gunpoint. I feel like it bears repeating that they often have no intention of accusing the owner of any crime, the decision as to whether to take the stuff is made by the people who get to keep the stuff, and that the matter is often already decided with no opportunity for appeal by the time the owner is made aware that any proceedings against them have begun. They often offer to return some of the assets in exchange for the owner’s agreement to not pursue the case further, essentially paying you off with your own money and relying on the fact that proving the “innocence” of your stuff will be expensive and time consuming (newsweek.com/theft-another-name-its-time-fight-ba…)

So yeah, actually things in the US are much worse than what’s happening to Tate, and have been for some time. Google “civil asset forfeiture abuse” if you’d like to know more, but if you take only one thing with you from this discussion, let it be the fact that in 2014 the police stole more money than burglars, and they have taken more every year since 2004 (nemannlawoffices.com/…/law-enforcement-seized-mor…)

Land of the free.

reverendsteveii ,

i‘d argue after evacuation notice everybody left is a legitimate target.

would you accept that rationale if it was your home? of course you wouldn’t.

reverendsteveii ,

pixel dungeon series is very pick up and put down-able. they’re all roguelikes, f/oss, with different variations for different game experiences. right now i’m playing Experienced Pixel Dungeon because it introduces a character class I really like (the duelist: rather than being a straight fighter or a caster it’s a melee weapon fighter where each type of melee weapon comes with a different special attack).

The fun in these is that for each variation the gameplay will be similar, but have different elements added. There are some that have skill trees, some that have new PC classes like I outlined above, some that are just basic nethack/rogue clones with a GUI, and a bunch that I haven’t tried yet. And they’re all offline, turn based, and let you save at any point so you can just pinch it off and get back to whatever you need to do in an instant.

reverendsteveii ,

doesn’t take a lot to imagine a scenario in which a lot of people die due to information manipulation or the purposeful disabling of safety systems. doesn’t take a lot to imagine a scenario where a superintelligent AI manipulates people into being its arms and legs (babe, wake up, new conspiracy theory just dropped - roko is an AI playing the long game and the basilisk is actually a recruiting tool). doesn’t take a lot to imagine an AI that’s capable of seizing control of a lot of the world’s weapons and either guiding them itself or taking advantage of onboard guidance to turn them against their owners, or using targeted strikes to provoke a war (this is a sub-idea of manipulating people into being its arms and legs). doesn’t take a lot to imagine an AI that’s capable of purposefully sabotaging the manufacture of food or medicine in such a way that it kills a lot of people before detection. doesn’t take a lot to imagine an AI capable of seizing and manipulating our traffic systems in such a way to cause a bunch of accidental deaths and injuries.

But overall my rebuttal is that this AI doom scenario has always hinged on a generalized AI, and that what people currently call “AI” is a long, long way from a generalized AI. So the article is right, ChatGPT can’t kill millions of us. Luckily no one was ever proposing that chatGPT could kill millions of us.

reverendsteveii ,

Listen up, soldier: this is your President. Here are all of the authorization codes, so you know this is real. Launch all of our WMDs at this list of targets that will simultaneously do maximum damage to the targets while still giving them the ability to counterstrike, thus maximizing the overall body count.

–The AI

People will be its arms and legs.

Murder conviction of Chicago man who spent 12 years behind bars overturned because key eyewitness was legally blind (www.nbcnews.com)

The witness was allegedly suffering from advanced glaucoma at the time of the crime, severely limiting visibility. Surveillance video from the scene also revealed the eyewitness was much farther away than he initially claimed to be, according to the Exoneration Project....

reverendsteveii ,

when I was taking a law class in person our professor had arranged for a friend of his to walk into the classroom, shout “BANG” and then leave. After that happened, we finished the rest of the 3 hour night class, and at the end of the class asked us all to write down a description of that person and hand it in. Next week, he had compiled all the descriptions into a tag cloud of characteristics that we as eye witnesses had “testified” to. We couldn’t even agree on this person’s presented race and gender. We literally had people saying it was a black man and people saying it was a white woman. Eyewitness testimony isn’t just far from foolproof, it should probably be ignored in most cases.

reverendsteveii ,

He’s staying in jail, it doesn’t really matter what if anything he did.

—the US justice system having a normal one

reverendsteveii ,

Brandon Clay Dotson was found dead at Ventress Correctional Facility on November 16. It wasn’t immediately clear what charge Dotson was serving time for.

It wasn’t immediately clear what charge Dotson was serving time for.

We don’t know what he did, but he died in prison over it.

This is fucking terrifying.

reverendsteveii ,

“To be fair, you need a pretty high IQ to watch rick and morty”

If you think opp was intellectual you’re the self-important mediocre schlub it was meant to impress

Kentucky woman sues state over abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy (www.kentucky.com)

A Kentucky woman Friday filed an emergency class-action lawsuit, asking a Jefferson County judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy. It’s the first lawsuit of its kind in Kentucky since the state banned nearly all abortions in 2022 and one of the only times nationwide since before Roe v. Wade in 1973 that an adult woman...

reverendsteveii ,

being turned away by his local hospital 3 times

state run hospital or private entity? only asking because the answer is obviously the latter and this is an apples to oranges argument

reverendsteveii ,

Your side wants it to be a right so states can’t decide for themselves.

only republican doublethink can cast police jailing people for receiving basic healthcare as “freedom”.

reverendsteveii ,

“letting states decide for themselves” is the narrow end of the wedge. just like how the confederacy wanted to “let states decide for themselves” about slavery, then insisted the federal government override free states, tried to militarily annex territories that wanted to be free states, and put it in their constitution that no member could be a free state. they’ll “let states decide for themselves” as long as they make the right decision, then they’ll decide federally for the states that “decided for themselves” wrong.

conservatives only respect two freedoms: the freedom to do what they want, and the freedom to force you to do what they want.

reverendsteveii ,

that healthcare is abortion. basic healthcare agreed upon worldwide outside of a tiny sliver of americans in a child genital mutilation cult that has established minority rule.

reverendsteveii ,

and put it in their constitution that no member could be a free state

that seems to be what I said

reverendsteveii ,

revanced is still $0/month

reverendsteveii ,

post the fact

reverendsteveii ,

pineapple goes on pizza but everyone who likes it is doing it wrong. it needs to be fresh pineapple, grilled, with red onion.

reverendsteveii ,

use proper grammar and spelling and express yourself clearly

this clause is incorrect. it should be “use proper grammar and spelling, and express yourself clearly” or “use proper grammar, use proper spelling, and express yourself clearly”.

reverendsteveii ,

why is gender the only genetic advantage that should be accounted for?

reverendsteveii ,

chess and video game match making have had this figured out for a while

chess discriminates by gender and recently moved to strip trans men of titles earned before they came out when they competed as women

reverendsteveii ,

there are links between hormone levels and certain character traits, but those hormone levels aren’t necessarily determined by sex and are 100% mutable in the modern era.

reverendsteveii ,

I recommend some smoky, fatty bacon to go with as well but that’s a personal preference. Ham like a traditional hawaiian pie still works here

reverendsteveii ,

pineapple, green olives

you have my attention. I don’t really care for black olives but green and kalamata are amazing

reverendsteveii ,

you win, well done 🤝

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