Or we could collectively decide that we want a government that can be trusted to manage something as fundamental as drinking water infrastructure without poisoning people and vote accordingly. If you can’t trust your government to provide basic public services then what is the point of having a government at all?

Knowing who they are is irrelevant until someone does something about it. Up to this point no one has.

Yeah, much better to say nothing and let them keep doing that to all the brown people because they’re not as important as the whites

People tend to classify not being primarily driven by emotion as a disorder of one kind or another. Personally, I think being overly emotional is a major contributing factor to many societal issues. The cold, rational brain of a so called psychopath is more useful than that of the emotionally driven rube who can’t think of things in terms other than how it makes them feel. Losing empathy is a problem but the rest is a net benefit imo. I don’t think much, if any, emotion is required for empathy though.

I wish they would

I don’t mean to sound callous but if some relatively minor RCS issues, and there’s really no way they could be classified as major, stopped your friend from doing what he set out to do then he wasn’t all that invested in the idea.

I’m not saying there’s no problems with GrapheneOS or any other product helping consumers to change their habits but if you really care about issues like corporate overreach then a little inconvenience isn’t a deal breaker. In fact, it’s to be expected when switching away from mega corporations. They invest tons of money to make their user experience decent so that they can profit off of your data. If you want to get away from that you have to accept the fact that you’re moving away from a product supported by thousands of engineers with billions of dollars to spend towards a product developed by tens of engineers or less with very limited funding. Those developers do a damn good job IMO but a dip in ease-of-use has to be expected.

At the end of the day we all have to decide if we’re going to prioritize convenience or mindfulness. It sounds like your friend made his choice, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with the choice he made, I just think it’s important to put it in the proper perspective.

It does sound kind of like those randomly generated Xbox live usernames from back in the day

botulistic sausage

Epic new band name

Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”

“We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there.”

Holy shit guys, they sent a letter. We got em now.

I could not muster a weaker response if I tried.

It’s a perfectly fair assumption given the fact that you’re attempting to equate two numbers that are multiple orders of magnitude apart for ideological reasons.

What sort of action should the world take against governments that murder protesters?

I think it’s self evident that 6 and 36,000 are not even close to the same number. Given the instance you are from I would like to ask a follow up question though. How do you feel about all the protesters killed by the Chinese and Russian governments? Do they matter as much as the Iranians or Americans killed by their respective governments?

Stop trying to avoid the lists. We should be trying to put so many names on these lists that they become equivalent to a census. Hiding doesn’t work so stand up and fight in the light or accept that you’ll die in the shadows.

If the US government killed 36,000 protesters I would probably want them to.

The point is that you don’t casually go about your routine during a civil war

IIRC they moved Ross out of state. So yes, he’s not in jail but he’s not exactly lounging at home either.

I don’t think IT guy, or at least the equivalent people in my life, would be supportive to the point that they would actively involve themselves in a shooting war in support of Trump, which is what this hypothetical scenario would turn into.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about conservatives it’s that they will start to pay attention once something impacts them personally. They are fine with the lies when it’s about some abstract person some other place but when it involves someone they know or happens in their town they will change their tune quickly. Of course not all of them but enough to matter. These kinds of people prioritize familiarity and perceived stability over just about anything else. As long as things are stable enough that they can maintain most of their routines they won’t think too deeply about anything. This kind of event, and the ensuing chaos, would force them to take a deeper look at things in a way that they’re currently too comfortable to be forced to confront.

“Fast-forward 1,000 years, the Earth will be geoengineered,” he said. “The entire climate will be regulated like a modern house—no question.” The climate may get screwed up in new ways as scientists attempt to turn the planet’s temperature dial down. But “if it survives, humanity is simply going to do this.”

That’s a neat idea but at the rate we’re moving we’re going to kill ourselves off well before we figure out how to do anything approaching geoengineering effectively.

You are being lazy. If “I have to learn how to do this” is too high of a bar to clear for you then maybe you’re just not supposed to do that thing. Setting up a self hosted environment is pointless if you don’t know at the least the basics about how it works. It will break sooner or later and if you just typed whatever random characters your computer told you then you’ll never be able to fix it. You won’t even be able to describe to ChatGPT what the problem is.

AI is making learning harder, not easier. It’s flooding the internet with bullshit and you’re acting like that’s a good thing. When you’re learning something new you need to know that your teacher knows what they’re doing. An AI summary might be pulled from a network engineers blog or it might be the sanitized ramblings of a schizophrenic pedophile who tries to host CSM on his smart toaster. As a beginner, you can’t tell the difference, especially when an AI rewrites the crazy and presents it in an authoritative manner.

Yes, learning new things can be hard but the internet is already the shortcut. Quit trying to outsource even more of it.

“I think AI is bad but other people who say so are weird”

mmk

They also introduce much more uncertainty and remove your ability to judge the trustworthiness of the information you’re receiving. That’s not to mention the social and environmental costs.