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- Comment on With what happened in Minnesota recently, do you think we need more community defense classes now more than ever? 7 hours ago:
Imagine there is a gang of state sponsored murderers beating down your door,
If state-sponsored murderers are at my door, I’m dead. Short of my own state-sponsored violent actors, there is no viable defense. The sooner you understand that, the better.
Rolling out the (proverbial) guillotine is the only viable means of stopping their boss from issuing the orders.
- Comment on With what happened in Minnesota recently, do you think we need more community defense classes now more than ever? 12 hours ago:
The only viable “defense” here is for us to shift our focus away from ICE and toward the oligarchs.
- Comment on With the ICE Raids happening at a very faster rate lately, we need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously! 2 days ago:
Whatever you’re planning on doing about ICE agents, redirect toward anyone with 9+ figures of net worth.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 week ago:
Well, we’re pissing off the right people.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
It’s a little clunky, but KryptEY is an on screen keyboard that can encode/decode messages. The encoded messages can be transmitted over any service.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 weeks ago:
OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.
“Blocking” the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser’s content. “Blocking” does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP’s content.
“Blocking” does not achieve OP’s objective.
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s a story that glorifies cops, and it completely fails to mention ACAB.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 weeks ago:
You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes
But no, you can’t block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.
Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
You can do that, or you can falsify your calculations, claiming more dependents than you actually have, reducing your withholding.
You can also go the contractor route, operating as a separate business rather than an employee. 1099 income has no withholding.
People use “exempt from withholding” on a W4 when the majority of their income is from contracting or self-employment and they file their own quarterly estimates.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
You can actually do that. Read the W4 a little more closely.
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 1 month ago:
Interesting. A first-person shooter is the view from the perspective of the shooter. A third person shooter is the view from a neutral party - a camera watching the action.
A second-person shooter would be from the viewpoint of those being shot by the protagonist.
A telepathic assassin. You read the mind(s) of your target(s), and somehow use their eyes to kill them.
- Comment on GIVE UNTO CAESEAR 1 month ago:
Corn cares not
fromwhence the shit postsFTFY. “Whence” means “from what origin”.
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
I would call that “fraud”. In declaring themselves “gynecologists”, they are effectively advertising that they are qualified and willing to perform routine gynecological procedures. Their refusal to do so constitutes a fraud on patients seeking such services.
“Neonatology”, “Histology”, “Reproductive physiology” and “Reproductive biology” are comparable specialty fields wherein the practitioner would not be expected to perform elective abortions.
Additionally, if they would prefer to call themselves “general practitioners”, I would be far more lenient in allowing them to define their own scope of practice.
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
FairOkFTFY.
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.
I would say that if “you” won’t perform an abortion, “you” are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where “you” will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
My old PC locks up every 4 to 48 hours. It would make a terrible NAS.
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 1 month ago:
That sure musta been something. I can only imagine.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
lemmy tells me to go fuck myself.
Well, get on with it.
- Comment on G GG 2 months ago:
lol, I typo’d the date I read… It’s got the BIOS date listed as 2012-09-11.
ThoughtPads can’t melt steel beams.
- Comment on G GG 2 months ago:
2011? That thing became a ThoughtPad years ago.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Fixed_Calendar
The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal)[1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902.[2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.
Kodak actually used it from 1928 to 1989.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
Securities tax, payable in shares of the security. 1% of all stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments transferred to the IRS annually, to be auctioned slowly over time. The first $10 million held by a natural person may be exempted from this requirement. No exemptions for artificial “persons”.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
Sadly, he is. This is what the enemy looks like. It is simply not possible to ethically acquire even a tenth of the wealth that he hoards for himself. The damage he has caused in acquiring and retaining that wealth is far greater than his net worth.
The sooner he starts his redemption arc, the better.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 months ago:
Registration fees are paying for roads,
Fuel taxes are paying for roads.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 2 months ago:
Based on that neck, I’d say his masturbatory habits are predominantly oral.
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 2 months ago:
That violates the very first Rule of Acquisition. You clearly don’t have the lobes for business.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 months ago:
We’ll have matrix-style human farms producing people for the tracks.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 months ago:
One of the first deals I did in real estate (~2006) was a sale at 115% loan-to-value, no money down, seller-paid closing costs. The buyers received $2500 at closing. Nobody batted an eye.
- Comment on xkcd #3161: Airspeed 2 months ago:
Balloons don’t carry such instruments, but they do experience airspeed. Balloons can climb and descend at over 500fpm. We experience vertical “wind” at those speeds.
Balloons are tall enough that the envelope can be above a wind shear, while the basket can be below. I’ve experienced 15kt shears, enough to deform the bottom of the envelope into a “question mark”.