oilbagz

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by oilbagz 6y ago
False Rape Accusations are a form of abuse. Rape is also a form of abuse. They are not equivalent, but can certainly lead to the same order of life-destruction magnitude in either case. Both of these things are relevant in the discussion
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by oilbagz 6y ago
"Conservative" = cautiously moderate, i.e. in this instance, not engaging in sex with reckless abandon, but rather with caution and moderation. If you think "Victorians" are what is meant when someone refers to a conserv
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Sure have. Never been raped, never been accused of it, and have a lot of happy, consensual sex all the time. However, I will be teaching my teenage boys that "Yes is not always Yes, it can be changed", and that "No thanks, I
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Because withdrawn-consent can be used offensively. False rape accusation do happen and have resulted in many, many ruined lives - of people who legitimately and honestly thought they had consent, where the court later did not agree.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
The safer or not-safer kind?
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Sex is the oldest form of political power, and provides the shortest path to irrational reactionary thought available to the modern propagandist or political operative intent on influencing culture over generations. Our current ("West
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by oilbagz 6y ago
"Change their mind after the fact" = you had consent, you no longer have it, stop what you're doing - i.e. abstain from further activity. And that is the point - you're already in the danger zone if you've started a
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by oilbagz 6y ago
We have legal tools for this already: Effective evidence-gathering by the investigating authority.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Or perhaps it is you who doesn't understand the word 'abstain'. If your partner changes mind mid-act, of course you stop - that is abstaining from further activity. The point is, this is precisely the kind of confusion t
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Its not just a matter of 'not being rapey' - its a matter of agency over the sexual act. If you get consent from your partner, have sex with them, and then your partner changes their mind about it afterwards - for any reason they
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by oilbagz 6y ago
>People can change their mind So, a new era of abstinence is ahead of us. There is simply no other way for anyone to feel safe than to simply abstain. Personally I'm okay with this, but I know a lot of teenagers who grew up thinkin
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Whatever you do, don't mention the war!
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Back in the early, heigh-days of the web, there was a service started up that allowed anyone to add any annotations to a web site that they desired - I thought this was pretty neat, until it wasn't, due to abuse. But I still think we n
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I like this, but I feel its important to point out that this is effectively unusable by the very people who would benefit from it most: non-web developers. If this were a drop-in C/C++ library, I'd use it immediately in my native
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I found this pretty useful recently: https://azeria-labs.com/writing-arm-assembly-part-1/ There's also this, but I haven't dug much into it yet: https://hackaday.com/2018/09/20/
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by oilbagz 6y ago
The answer: Decades and decades of tooling. You wanna go refactor all that code to make it more verbose?
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by oilbagz 6y ago
If you want to reduce the size of a population, and you can pull strings at international scale (as is the case with the institutions I referenced), you have a few options in targetting that population: a) war/genocide b) famine/f
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by oilbagz 6y ago
>nobody today really argues for any of that stuff ahem https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/themes/population-pol... https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/news/201
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Please put Austria on the list! :)
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I don't see where the seller states they'll ship to me here in Europe, but thanks for pointing out to me that I can contact them - I will do so, and see if it works out.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
End of an era for me.. for decades, Fry's has served as a regular weekend waypoint jaunt, in between stocking up on food and getting the laundry done. I can't count the number of times I'd said to myself, over the decades &qu
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Never buy Apples' first generation .. of anything . This goes for computers, watches, phones .. cars. It has been a maxim for decades, and it holds true even today.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Yeah, Tindie just doesn't ship to my country, alas. I'll try to find a US address to use, because I'm not going to wait until Tindie catches up with Europe.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I already have SCSI2SD in my toolbox - but what I really want is the ability to write custom SCSI code for some of these devices, which is what the RaSCSI would provide, in a pretty nice environment ..
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I'm literally surrounded by SCSI devices at the moment, and this project is a godsend - but it doesn't ship outside the US, alas. Pity. Anyone else in Europe wanna pitch in and make a batch of these for use on the continent?
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I'm a SIL-4 programmer. If you can find security issues in my code, its because it hasn't .. yet .. been through the rigors of my teams safety certification and validation processes. Check back in a year, and don't forget t
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Its a bad choice because you have to use Javascript, and Javascript is a shitty technology akin to Visual Basic. Collective adoption of a technology doesn't make it 'good'. It makes it 'available'. Those things ar
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I would love to be able to incorporate Ethereum features in my apps - which are written in C/C++-friendly languages, and which avoid any and all use of Javascript, at all cost. I don't think the decision to use Javascript for this
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Memory-safety issues are a thing of the 20th century, if you still have them in this day and age as a C/C++ developer you probably should put the real compiler down, kid .. Besides which, you're never going to convince me that Jav
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Entire industries have been built on Cobol, and Emacs-as-a-Lisp-host, and Visual Basic too, but that doesn't mean we should be using any of it for a next-generation financial trading scheme. There aren't any good reasons to avoid

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