LocalH

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by LocalH 3y ago
Even today, infant male circumcision is excused by the argument "they're too young to remember it". That may be true, but they're not too young to feel it in the moment . The present moment is the most important moment
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by LocalH 3y ago
The concept is literally called the "monopoly on violence".
933.
by LocalH 3y ago
For now
934.
by LocalH 3y ago
Reading the thread, it seems like what they've actually done is broken old t.co links. https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1692928633004757144 If they were removing old media, then I doubt that said media wou
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by LocalH 3y ago
This is a problem borne from several factors. Horrible data policies that monetize every single thing that can be collected, overuse of things like CGNAT that complicate inbound connections, the "residential customers may not run serve
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by LocalH 3y ago
If the “worn out dehumidifier” was a fire risk the whole time, the manufacturer should consider themselves lucky if they get away with just providing the cost of a replacement now .
937.
by LocalH 3y ago
Wickard v Filburn broke that, in ruling that a man growing more than the “legal limit” of wheat for his own use was nonetheless “affecting” interstate commerce.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Good faith commentary, please.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Or else what? What ability would any country have to demand that an app be removed from offer outside of their jurisdiction?
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by LocalH 3y ago
I imagine it was more like this: Boss: “Block this account now.” Employee: “Why?” Boss: “Because if you don’t, you’re fired.” Employee: “ok”
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by LocalH 3y ago
Thuggery and exploitation
942.
by LocalH 3y ago
Piracy is preservation. Always has been. Always will be.
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by LocalH 3y ago
It honestly seems to me that the core issue here is actually the same one found in digital voting technology - where is the vetting? There must be vetting at multiple levels of the process, or these use cases are negligent at best and mal
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by LocalH 3y ago
Brown is a "fake" color, in both additive and subtractive realms, indistinguishable from dark orange without contextual clues. Or one could be funny and say that orange is really "bright brown", either way.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Heaven forbid a human do something not for monetary gain
946.
by LocalH 3y ago
That doesn't really seem like a good-faith reading of the parent comment.
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by LocalH 3y ago
The "monopoly of violence" at play, which has devolved into "the state has a monopoly on violence, so any application of that violence by the state is justified and moral"
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by LocalH 3y ago
Even though that is not exactly the issue I refer to, I still say yes, that is my claim, from a moral perspective. If the content is on the disc or shipped as part of the files of the base game, then it should be accessible without addition
949.
by LocalH 3y ago
This is less true nowadays than it used to be, some games have quite a substantial amount of DLC of which no part is shipped with the base game. The Rock Band series comes to mind there, for one.
950.
by LocalH 3y ago
$$$, that's why. $X isn't good enough for them, when they can find a way to get $X+Y
951.
by LocalH 3y ago
Stop giving them ideas!
952.
by LocalH 3y ago
Rent-seeking is the true American way, it seems. Good on the hackers. Good on everyone who helps to liberate us from the overreach of big business.
953.
by LocalH 3y ago
Modern capitalism is about figuring out exactly how much you can enshittify something, and how much money you can charge for those enshittified products. The old ideal of "make really good, quality products and you'll prosper&quot
954.
by LocalH 3y ago
A modern version of what Oliver Stiller did in Amica Paint for the C64. https://www.pagetable.com/?p=860
955.
by LocalH 3y ago
Parents are often pressured into it by nosy people who call the law if they see kids out by themselves.
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by LocalH 3y ago
I'd like to offer a different analogy. Encryption in communication is, to me, akin to the locks on the doors of your residence, on safes or other secure containers. It protects your privacy from prying eyes who want to snoop on what ot
957.
by LocalH 3y ago
What exactly do you mean by "facilitating", outside of a person explicitly running an exit node?
958.
by LocalH 3y ago
Tell that to Wickard v. Filburn. Stock trading by Congress definitely affects interstate commerce as much as an individual farmer growing wheat that is not for interstate trade, or even a thousand such farmers.
959.
by LocalH 3y ago
It's funny, because the Amiga's heritage is far closer to Atari than Commodore, in both technical aspects and involved personnel. In another universe, it was Atari who could have been Apple.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Especially the old canard "if everyone in your life is saying you're the problem, then maybe you are the problem"

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