Is it?

Not the same as any of these, but I always felt Spyro had a beauty to it, even if it is a bright and colourful one.

Charitable reading of his thought process: “huh I wonder if this is the guy I’m here to deal with? I bet it is, I’ll go collect him. Oh shit, oh shit he’s getting away! I have to stop him from getting away!”

But here’s the thing that I don’t think gets surfaced enough: let’s say this was the guy and let’s say he was getting away. If you had captured and arrested him “properly”, the penalty wouldn’t be death by firing squad. Even if he was charged with resisting arrest he wouldn’t be sentenced to death by firing squad. So certainly there’s no possible universe where shooting a person is an acceptable tool of arrest. People sometimes debate in situations like this about how dangerous it is for cops, and how they need guns for protection, etc etc. But in situations like this I think it’s better to reframe:

The police are supposed to be the first step in a process. Collect bad guys, contain bad guys, then another part of the system judges and sentences. I’m not arguing this is the best way to do this, just that even the people who like police tend to feel this is how the system is meant to work. So definitely we should all be able to agree that handing out harsher sentences at the first stage of the process than the last stage would ever consider should just be impossible to justify. If you can’t collect the bad guy without killing them, then I guess they got away. Even if they’re guilty. It’s better than someone being dead.

I switched from Strava to OpenTracks, which does all of the recording but none of the social parts, and keeps the data all on device as far as I know. This looks cool! But for me I probably wouldn’t have enough use of it to set it up, so I’m not going to ask you to support OpenTracks just for me, but I mention this in case it’s exciting for you. If other people use OpenTracks and would benefit from this, they can mention that too I guess!

But it looks great!

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He was teaching her to count O’s, and she was learning the big numbers that day. Luckily her toes were close at hand.

Newfoundland

Isn’t that hotly debated? Don’t come in here presenting your opinions as facts!

Right, but I don’t wear shoes in my own home. I’m not asking them to do anything I’m not doing. I’d also like them to not piss in my plants, despite them being a guest.

Ugh, sometimes we’ll be in the grocery store, and my wife will look at something that clearly says $7.99 and she’ll say “oh it’s only seven dollars”. Every time. I can’t believe how well that works on her. If I didn’t like her so much, I don’t know if I could handle it…

He was pretty expensive then too. He’d already done the Star Treks.

Okay, so you’re saying the reason is because chunks of the evidence already exist in other places, so if they didn’t publish the documents “properly”, there actually might be another source that can be shown to contradict them? I can accept that.

Right but like, we don’t know how many documents there were. Why wouldn’t they release less and tell us that’s all of them? Is it just that they put their collective foot in their mouth by telling us about how many great documents they had before they realized they were going to have to give them to us?

Okay, but if you were you’d have to tell us. It’s the rules.

I have a question, and maybe this isn’t the right place for it, but why do the files name the bad guys so often? Like, they had these files themselves for so long, why release the bad files? Why not just release clean ones and claim that’s all of them? Why not release files with Obama, Bob Ross, Mr Rogers, and Geordi from Star Trek in them? Not LeVar but the character himself.

Is there some, like, published hash or something? Some set of receipts that tell us that these are even the files, or how many there might have been at one point or another? I’m not saying the ones we’ve seen are forged… I think I’m asking why aren’t they?

Hey! Don’t forget about other cyclists, we hate you too! 😜

And in a roundabout, indirect, sense, Darth Vader did kill Uncle Owen. He just might not even know it…

This seems sensible, but does have some edges…

Like, if I use my phone at home, and out and about on cell, and at work, and at my in-laws, and at the library, then that’s at least 5 “users” from one user as I change IPs.

And if I’m on Tor, who knows how many users I count as, but definitely a lot more than 1.

So I get what they’re trying to do… but I don’t think it’ll work out fairly…

He was removed, not because he was bad, but because he was bad and unnecessary.

If the monster world went into a blackout, he’d have been out and operating the child-reactor with full government support. Only because Sully found a new, compatible, source of power was the ethics of the old system finally up for debate. Slavery is only allowed to be abolished after it stops being “necessary” for the economics of the system.

And yeah, it’s a movie, so he got taken away in cuffs before the new power source was operationalized, but that’s just a bit of movie magic 😉

What’s that thing Google is pushing, where the CAs basically push a list of all the certs they issue? Is that live? Maybe Amazon issued you a key, and then published it in a list of “domains I’ve issued keys for”, and they’re just watching that list?

Unless that’s not a thing, or not a thing yet, or I’m fully misremembering…