NaibofTabr

It is really weird that we have these big companies behaving like this with so little public outcry.

If an individual tracked your location, all of your spending, your web history, your communication and in-person meetings and built a profile on you containing all that information we’d label that person a stalker. But if Facebook does it, well that’s just business.

Motorcycle assaults? What is this, an 80s action movie?

I also love Star Twraerks

It would take less than 16hrs of labor per week to make sure everyone has access to all human needs and a reasonable amount of human wants.

Er, based on what? Because infrastructure is difficult, complex, and fantastically expensive.

What level of medical care does this estimate involve? Modern hospitals require massive amounts of labor to keep operational, especially if you account for all the external inputs (e.g. consumables like IV bags and exam gloves and lab analysis equipment).

Hanlon’s razor always applies. If you always assume that everything bad that happens is intentionally malicious, with no acceptance of human weaknesses and the potential for mistakes, then you are part of the extremism problem. You are part of the “everyone who does something that I don’t like must be evil” group.

Hanlon’s razor was never really a great axiom, imo, but now it’s completely dead.

If you actually believe this, I’m afraid you’re on the wrong side of the razor.

We don’t need more extremist rhetoric. We don’t need more division. We don’t need to perpetuate the “us vs. them” mentality.

If you are othering, you are wrong.

Yes, even with Republicans.

We take away the power of divisive, destructive autocrats by finding or making common cause.

It takes time to grow an audience, and if you’re very lucky maybe 5% of your audience will actually give you money to do what you do.

Even if you manage to stand out in what is a fairly saturated market, it will be years before you have enough people following you to make enough to live on. And to grow that audience you will have to put in constant steady effort all those years while seeing little to no return for it. If you waver, if you stop putting in that effort, the audience will start to go away and any momentum you had going will fade. And even if you do keep it up, there’s no guarantee that you will make a decent living from it.

It is not impossible, but keep in mind that turning it into a job will mean that it is a job. You will not spend most of your time playing video games and having fun. Most of it will be spent doing things to manage and grow the business - all of the technical details that go into setting up a quality stream, all of the social media aspects of interacting with your fans, all of the bureaucratic details that go into running any business.

the episode…

or it’s generated…

I think we need to acknowledge that left-wing groups (especially online) have just as much of a problem with extremists as right-wing groups do. It’s not quite as systemic and weaponized as what’s described in Innuendo Studio’s excellent video, but it is there and it can just as easily result in violent behavior.

Whenever a community turns into an echo chamber, the ideological aspects of that community switch from principles to performances. The members of the community start trying to prove that they’re holier-than-thou, usually to gain nothing more than attention.

but I don’t remember this kind of thing happening in American politics any time previous to the social-media-mass-shilling age of political discourse.

I think you’re right, but I think this has less to do with some false-flag conspiracy and more to do with the accelerant nature of social media in general. I think a lot of this kind of behavior is driven by the one-upmanship impulse, and the effect of online communities is to concentrate a self-selecting group of people with similar interests. The larger the group becomes, the more an individual has to work to stand out and receive recognition from the rest of the group. Frequently the easiest way to do that is to demonstrate some extreme form of whatever the group’s ideology is.

Basically I think a lot of this is just people looking for an ego-stroking. It’s attention-seeking behavior, the kind you see in teenagers. They fall into some community or other and then find a community-acceptable way to exhibit their narcissistic tendencies.

splitter!

I mean… it really doesn’t take much to get people on the left to turn on each other. It’s kind of a historic problem with leftist ideological groups in general - they’re awfully quick to declare each other the wrong type of leftist, or not leftist enough, and then refuse to cooperate.

There certainly are outside provocateurs, but I wouldn’t leap to that conclusion in every occasion. Hanlon’s razor applies.

The 1287 Chateau de’Champignon has a lot of flavor, you can really taste the feet.

Again?

A camera wouldn’t have prevented anything, it would only make blame slightly easier.

Blame isn’t necessarily the important thing for the outcome of an investigation. It is important to determine fault for the sake of preventing future failures. Did the crew flip the wrong switch, or did the system change state without the crew doing anything? Is there a training issue, or an overwork issue, or design flaw, or a maintenance problem?

You can’t answer these questions without knowing the sequence of events prior to the failure, and the flight recorder data that shows a system state change might not be enough if you can’t determine how or why that change happened.

Yes, but it might be very important to determine: did the pilot/copilot flick the switch, or did the switch change state without user input?

Is the crew at fault (training issue/operator error) or is the manufacturer at fault (design flaw) or was the ground crew at fault (improper maintenance)?

A camera could help determine that, if it had the right field of view.

OK, so what is a VPN?

A Virtual Private Network is a virtual network that lives on top of a physical network. In the case of the Internet, basically what happens is that your network traffic goes into the VPN on one side and comes out of the VPN provider’s network somewhere else, rather than out of your ISP’s network. All this really does is move any privacy concerns from your ISP to your VPN, which may or may not protect you from any legal inquiries.

For a more thorough explanation look here: https://www.howtogeek.com/133680/htg-explains-what-is-a-vpn/

Is it possible to use torrent without a VPN?

Certainly, however your torrent traffic will be visible to and inspectable by your ISP. If a copyright holder chooses to, they may sue your ISP for the personal information of the person whose IP address matches the illegal traffic that they found. After they have your personal information they can prosecute you directly. A VPN might shield against this by changing the apparent IP address associated with your torrent traffic, but then you are at the mercy of the VPN provider and the government of whichever country they operate in.

It should be noted that if you are not paying the bill for the Internet, and you use it for illegal activity, then the person you are putting at risk is the person who pays the bill. It’s their name attached to the ISP records.

If you are caught, or if they just don’t like torrent traffic on their network, the ISP may decide that you are simply too much trouble and it’s not worth keeping you as a customer, and just cut off your service (for your whole house).

Umm, but then your VPN leads to a server rented from a web host which you are paying with (presumably) a credit card, and if they’re reputable at all then you had to register with a government ID. The ones that don’t check ID are the ones that host ransomware gangs and CSAM distributors.

A VPN provides no privacy at all if it’s linked to an IP address or domain name and hardware that is registered to you.

“…for us”

Peter Dinklage would like a word…

In this study on mice…

Took them 7 paragraphs to get around to mentioning that.