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by torpid 4y ago
I have the same feelings. When I ran a single-line BBS from my bedroom as a kid, I would get excited every time someone would dial in and I'd see activity.
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by torpid 4y ago
Actually, it's considered legislating when stare decisis is abandoned.
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by torpid 4y ago
It's truly baffling to me how the people that lambasted the idea of corporate personhood after Citizens United seem to now be obsessed with defending the so-called constitutional rights of said entities, of all things, to censor speech
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by torpid 4y ago
Decriminalization is different than legalization. It likely will not help any US or scientific research.
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by torpid 4y ago
This growing fad of partial "psychedelic decriminalization" initiatives covers only plant-based ones, which is ridiculous. Ingesting shrooms are harder to dose than a hit or two of acid. Eating the weight equivalent of one ca
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by torpid 4y ago
You were given a screenshot with quoted text from an article that returned completely buried results in your search engine from the same rt.com article. You first replied by giving a person a URL to the RT.com article to search in the engi
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by torpid 4y ago
You still haven't convinced me, or many others who used your service to the contrary, and your explanation like in this thread here doesn't match what you are preaching. https://twitter.com/pkm_inc/status&#x2F
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by torpid 4y ago
Hatred of the elites is just simply populism. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are populists, two sides of the same anti establishment coin. Populist sentiment is only growing.
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by torpid 4y ago
It still blows my mind that these guys weren't Southern boys but from California. Ramble Tamble remains one of my most earliest memories listening to my dad play CCR's Cosmos Factory from a cassette tape as a kid, and still one of
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by torpid 4y ago
I for one, like being able to print content in the privacy of my own home without letting private companies like Fedex/Kinkos see it, and potentially filter/share it with third parties. We're already shifting towards a societ
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by torpid 4y ago
There is no "libertarian left" and "libertarian right". Libertarians decided to create a political compass website as a recruiting tool and now think their axes model represents reality. That's what's incohe
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by torpid 4y ago
Who cares. The point is the left isn't fighting it. They used to defend free speech on principle. Now they pick and choose what speech is ok, just like the right wingers they believe they're above. https://www.dwt.com
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by torpid 4y ago
Because not every detail and every case makes the news.
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by torpid 4y ago
You're conflating the right of free speech with the first amendment. They are not one in the same thing at all. Free speech is an inalienable human right deeper than any government's declaration or lack thereof. In any case the
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by torpid 4y ago
> I think an enormous percentage of people in their early and mid 20s are largely clueless about predatory business practices and how they can be impacted And yet the same stereotype is said for elderly people being susceptible to scams,
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by torpid 4y ago
The only constant is they are all authoritarians
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by torpid 4y ago
My great grandmother was married at 17 and was having kids immediately after. Kids are sure responsible when we charge them as adults, but can't be trusted with other adult decisions that aren't crimes? There shouldn't be an
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by torpid 4y ago
Someone who uploads videos of others who didn't know the people were all 18 didn't take the necessary precautions. Sites make one declare and certify everyone is 18 in the videos. And for standards, that's exactly how it wor
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by torpid 4y ago
With deepfakes and plenty of ways to obfuscate videos to get around detection via editing, there's NO recourse and it isn't the fault of Pornhub, Youtube or any other website who takes good faith measures to identify the users who
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by torpid 4y ago
This - and combine it with key+paraphrase, keep the key local to your devices and your keepass file in the cloud. I've used this setup for years backed by a webdav share on multiple platforms. It's incredibly robust especially s
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by torpid 5y ago
A quarter century later, statute of limitations expired, systems long gone and replaced with entirely different vendors/technology, nobody cares except you.
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by torpid 5y ago
Never been an issue for me. I was never charged with anything state or federal.
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by torpid 5y ago
Debian even back then did protect the passwd files appropriately out of the box, but in this server's case, they did an import from an older system where it wasn't protected, and they couldn't figure out how/bothered to
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by torpid 5y ago
My FBI file was for hacking into my school district's AS/400 that handled my school's attendance and grading system. Somehow using a public IP address with no access restrictions allowed a clear telnet path in from home. Co
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by torpid 5y ago
Imagine thinking this... >"Propaganda is information (delivered through any medium) designed to persuade, manipulate emotion, and change opinion rather than to inform using logical truths and facts. The aim of propaganda is to chang
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by torpid 5y ago
Role reversal: If a US antivirus company's heuristic and file analysis uploaded a trove of russian zero-day exploits they are using against their adversaries, you better damn well believe they're going to hand that over to the CI