foyrkopp

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely like this idea, because it would allow to reach both goals.

  The problem I see is that this would probably go down the same as the bodycam idea, with inconvenient recordings vanishing due to “technical issues”.

  You’d need an independent third party doing life recording and delayed release. Subjectively, the US don’t have a great track record with these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you look at anything you can probably tell what it would feel like if you licked it, despite you probably never licking it before.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ability to extrapolate what something would taste/feel like from mere looks is a learned one.

  Toddlers don’t have it yet, which is why they’re stuffing everything into their mouths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do guns go when people are done using them?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had something vaguely similar happen to me.

  We got called out of the line for a manual luggage inspection because, as a surprisingly bored security agent informed us, X-ray showed a knife of about a foot length in our luggage.

  We had no idea what they were talking about.

  We were half-way through unpacking the whole pack when my SO lit up and asked “could it be my ice skates?”

  Agent took a look at the X-ray, nods, and lets us pack it back up without any further checking.

  Overall, turned out harmlessly, but the sheer confusion of where that supposed knife had come from, combined with how blasé that security person was about the whole affair from start to finish stuck in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C3 talks are available online for quite some time after the actual event, so you might still be able to watch it then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if aliens don't want peace on Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alien intelligence is not required to follow human reasoning.

  The Lords of Alpha Centauri could run a long-term social engineering program on Earth because they believe capitalism, conflict and social darwinism are objectively Good for You and we need to be purged of the folly of humanistic ideology before we can be allowed to join the galactic civilization market.

  What I can tell you is that no rational spacefaring civilization would need to resort to social engineering if they just want to kill us. Just toss a bit (or a lot) of spare delta v on a sufficiently large asteroid (or five) and humanity goes the way of the dinosaur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly certain that’s the same area where wild hogs no longer find enough food in the wild and are currently enthusiastically reclaiming said golf courses.

  I, for one, am rooting for the four-legged pigs on this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware.

  I just didn’t want to go into detail with this particular can of worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of upbringing makes an incel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hypothesis: what matters here is a social toolbox for engaging with “attractive”/compatible women in a non-romantic/sexual way.

  I.e. someone who, even as a teenager, had lots of female friends, is likely to have a learned how to deal with them beyond “I’d like to hit that”, but just as persons.

  (Paradoxically, such a person is more likely to find a romantic partner, because they might have lots of M-F acquaintances/friendships that can potentially become something more.)

  Someone who never learned that can only interact with (to them) attractive women through the lens of “I’d like to hit that”, which has a much higher risk of ending in failure.

  If someone in the second category was always raised on the values of romantic success being a requirement for a non-failed life, and possibly with a touch of chauvinism/misogyny, they might wind up caught up in a frustrating loop of failure.

  This is how incels can happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A landlord and their tenant(s) are at a natural conflict of interest to begin with.

  Also, for most tenants, the rising costs for many goods and services associated to housing are bundled into rent, so to them, it’s their landlord who’s jacking up prices and being frugal with repairs etc.

  Next, the term “landlords” encompasses not only uncle Mike who invested his life savings in two apartments to secure his retirement, but also the millionaire who owns a dozen houses and the middle manager who doesn’t even own the units they’re managing but has to represent a large company.

  So landlords make for easy targets of frustration to begin with.

  A LL who is, on top of that, intent on not only covering costs (including their own), but wants to create generational wealth get rich(er) quickly, will have to squeeze their tenants more.

  Remember: wealth isn’t created. It’s extracted.

  (Yes, there’s wells of money somewhere in the realms of credits and banking, but my LL isn’t being paid by a bank. They’re being paid by me.)