This comment might provide some insights: https://lemmy.zip/comment/21080783

Sources for that information should be easy to cite, yet I notice none.

they can do it in private

How do we tell real apart from fake performances? Should fake performances be private only when they already aren’t? Seems difficult to police without chilling freedoms.

Economic coercion needs to be controlled somehow. I guess the question is how to police actual abuse while permitting legal performances like the Jackass franchise of reality, slapstick comedy.

“haha this person has sincere beliefs, what a moron!”

It’s more like

this person is making us sicker of them than the thing they’re telling us to be sick of, and we were already sick of that!

Getting sanctimonious & overbearing with people who don’t even disagree with you isn’t effective advocacy. We largely avoid AI already, and a tedious circlejerk isn’t getting us anywhere or adding anything that isn’t frequently stated.

By drawing more ire toward them than things we should be sick of, circlejerks are unjust & deserve all the derision they can get until balance is restored.

Can someone point out the part where this wasn’t voluntary or the guy was held captive & not free to leave or end the voluntary abuse at any time?

It looks like idiots kink-playing too hard with extra fines to some platform while the morons try to escape accountability.

Viral compilation threads have shown Pormanove being hit, strangled, and fired at with paintball guns while streaming with Naruto and Safine, whose lawyers claim they hold “no responsibility.”

I find the metaphors stupid when most of us can just look at the symbol: the vertex side has less distance between segments than the open side.

When I write proofs, I hate using both < & >, because the redundant complexity of juggling both orders slows me down. Just sticking to a single order like < ≤ and arranging values in that single order eased reasoning quite a bit.

No, it isn’t: just a dishonest way to lessen discomfort.

Or the opposite: you don’t want to fund defense?

As usual, that’s documented (we can RTFM).

• Bash command line editing covers searching.
• Readline library command line editing covers searching.

Before trying ctrl-s, you may want to disable software flow control: run stty -ixon & add it to your initialization files. Otherwise, you’ll pause terminal output. ctrl-q resumes terminal output.

stty reveals terminal special characters

$ stty -a
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intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; …
⁝

These special characters/keys often perform special functions. To illustrate

• ctrl-d on empty input typically exits/logs out of interactive terminal applications (including shells)
• ctrl-u discards input (useful for inputs like password prompts that don’t echo input back)
• ctrl-v inputs next character literally (such as tab)

• Rebrands of Department of War: Navy, War → Navy, Army, Air Force → Defense → War
• Rebrands of HBO Max: HBO on Broadband → HBO Go, HBO Now → HBO Max → Max → HBO Max

A lot of people are saying release the Epstein files.

If US tax dollars funded it (through NIH), then by NIH Public Access Policy it’s likely available free to the public at PubMed Central.

No, you are not. I also give 0 fucks about intellectual property.

People with their modern conveniences have it so well, they just make shit up to be upset about.

A political system that treats corporate groups (rather than the individual) as the basic unit of society is a drug?

Corporatism is an ideology and political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests. The term is derived from the Latin corpus, or “body”.

Corporatism does not refer to a political system dominated by large business interests, even though the latter are commonly referred to as “corporations” in modern American vernacular and legal parlance. Instead, the correct term for that theoretical system would be corporatocracy.

Trump admits Epstein list is real

1. List or files?
2. How will we know when they are released? Is the claim they haven’t been released falsifiable?

Leftism is the pursuit of social equality and egalitarianism.

Democrats are social liberals.

Social liberalism: Social liberal parties stress civil and human rights and favour a social market economy.

Refer to social market reforms & social programs from the New Deal (social security, security & exchange commission, labor relations, wealth redistribution, consumer protections, fair employment practices, public housing, minimum wage), their continuation & expansion of civil rights from Great Society (civil rights acts, voting rights act, war on poverty antipoverty programs, medicare, medicaid, welfare, social security expansion, education programs), more recent market regulations, health care expansions, consumer protections (eg, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Affordable Care Act). This is a clear record of reforms to address social & economic inequality, improve education & healthcare, promote civil rights, regulate markets.

In terms of political spectrum

Generally, the left wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism” while the right wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism”.

Political scientists and other analysts usually regard the left as including anarchists, communists, socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats, left-libertarians, progressives, and social liberals.

The Democratic party is made up of factions with the center-left & left caucuses dominating: it tends left.

Claiming Democrats aren’t left (if impure) requires a level of delusion that outright denies basic definitions of left & political classifications, historical record, and usual knowledge of political scientists & analysts.

But then where will displaced trolls live? Will you adopt & feed a troll?

I’m surprised 4chan didn’t respond to UK regulators by trolling with offensive memes & summoning them before Honorary Ed Lolington for an internet lolsuit.

Slippery slope: none of that necessarily happens. As with any tool, it’s up to the users.

What we know for sure is that these are modern nuisances for people who live relatively amazing lives, so they just make shit up to be upset about. Other people have real problems.

I’m not sure this is so much virtues becoming rarer as inconvenient demands emerging: a video that could have been an article is a problem of the modern age.

Articles can be read quickly & processed structurally by jumping around sections. Videos, however, can be agonizing, because they resist that sort of processing. Transcripts can alleviate the problem somewhat, but obfuscating them undoes that. And we’ve got things to do.

Does the rest of the world have enough fucks to spare for this over their real problems of hunger, war, disease, poverty, violence, illiteracy, toxic pollution, human rights abuses? Despite their real-world problems paling in comparison to online bullshit, will they live?

You’re confirming the point just made.