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President Joe Biden approved $571.3 million in military aid to Taiwan, reinforcing U.S. support amid increasing Chinese military pressure.
This package follows a $567 million aid approval three months ago and Taiwan’s recent acquisition of 38 Abrams tanks, its first new tanks in 30 years.
Taiwan expressed gratitude for the U.S.‘s security commitment while maintaining discretion on the aid’s specifics.
China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has condemned U.S. arms sales and escalated military activities around the island, vowing not to renounce force for unification.
US President Joe Biden approved $571.3 million in defense assistance for Taiwan on Friday, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald...AFP News (International Business Times)
Generally speaking, yes. Verify that your current provider supports it.
Having said that, your provider may offer you a deal. Of course ymmv
You can verify by going to Settings->General->About.
Towards the bottom there should be “Carrier Lock” and it should say/list “No SIM Restrictions”.
If it doesn’t, you’ll need to call your provider to have them unlock the phone.
They'll usually let you bring you own hardware. As long as you buy one that is not carrier locked it will work (if you're buying it in a store, ask the staff to be sure it's unlocked)
If your old SIM card doesn't fit you might have to ask your carrier to send a new one, or you can ask for eSIM setup (log into your carrier account, scan a Qr code)
Lol, I think many people use unlocked phones just fine. This aint the 2000s where carriers can "punish" you anymore (lets hope those legal precedents don't reverse).
I bought my (android) phone from bestbuy and have switch between carriers and MVNOs, works fine.
That's why he said "old guy question".
I graduated in 99. I can take cell phones apart and put them back together all day but ANYTHING to do with the carriers I have negative interest in. I would rather eat paint chips while listening to harpies screeching. I just can't be made to care.
There's always just some people, with everything, who just don't fucking care and nothing will ever change that. With every subject.
With homeboy here, I would t spend 1300 on a phone. Ever. I'd go out, today at this point in history, and buy a used pixel 7 (or 8 if priced right), root it and put GrapheneOS on it, but that's just me.
The only way to have money is to not spend it and very few things are worth feeling the despair that can come with being broke. At this point in my life, there's nothing that I can think of that's worth being broke over. Not one single thing out there.
They won't care if you bring your own device unlocked. If you're buying from Apple's website or another 3rd party, it should give the option to select the version between unlocked or carrier specific options like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile.
You can buy the locked version from T-Mobile outright if it's cheaper. If you ever want to change carriers you can get it unlocked after a certain amount of time around 90 days.
Edit: Based on your other comments, you're buying from Apple directly. The last question relates to if the device is carrier locked. Choose "Connect to any carrier later".
How the fuck is this a thing?
Money
How are they allowed to control how I use my data?
You gave them permission when you signed the deal. Pretty simple.
It's pretty common to buy phones from electronics stores in Denmark, without a carrier attached. So locking down the phone isn't as common here, but that doesn't mean that ISPs aren't still up to no good. I heard about one company that would look at the IP header and if your packets came with a TTL of 63 or less, then the ISP would know that you had a tethered connection and would count the traffic differently.
Yes, as long as you don't buy it from a carrier, or buy a carrier specific version from some 3rd party seller it will work. Typically if you buy from a 3rd party seller and ask for "an iphone" you'll get the unlocked version, but some stores only carry carrier locked versions so they should ask what carrier you have first. If they do make sure you ask for the unlocked version.
If you're in the US you'll need to deal with eSIM setup, if you're in the rest of the world just pop your sim card in and it will work.
If you’re buying it from Apple it isn’t carrier locked. The carrier options on their page just help get your sim ported over or something. They explain this on the site, the only time it’s carrier locked is if you do the AT&T installment plan.
Don't.
Never choose any carrier. Don't want unexpected shenanigans. Just set up when you get the phone, its the same.
USA? You'd be doing eSim and depending on carrier, it might be just loggining in and set up eSim, or if its T-Mobile, they have dumbass requirement for you to contact customer support for eSim, so that may take up to an hour.
If its non-USA, and you have a physical sim, just put in sim and its ready.
Hopefully.
Some carriers are a bit unhinged and doesn't even let you move a physical sim into another phone without their approval (remember, they see your device's imei). I could think of Tracfone, Metro, probably many others. Corporations be silly with silly rules for no reasons.
New iPhones bought from Apple that are unlocked “connect to any carrier later” work on all the networks in the us. Once upon a time, there was an “unlocked” phone - meaning you could change the sim and the phone wasn’t locked to a contract. But you still had to match the phone to the major carrier. For example, an att phone could be unlocked, and then used on straighttalk (becasue straighttalk resold att network). But it wouldn’t work on Verizon or T-Mobile because they were different networks.
That’s not a thing anymore with iPhones and hasn’t been for a long time. An unlocked iPhone can be used with any carrier that supports esims.
If your old phone is still on a contract - you may not be able to transfer the phone number, or have to request an unlock, or any other shenanigans. But the new iPhone will still work on whatever network you take it to.
Ideally, your contract is done, you buy new unlocked iPhone, you take it to your existing or a new carrier, you say “I bought a new unlocked phone, I want to set it up new, and I want you to transfer my number” a prime time carrier will just make this happen for you. A reseller can be a little more of a pain in the arse.
Personally I’ve been happy with the prepaid plans from straight talk - despite their setup process sucking. If you call them and get a person to help it goes pretty smooth. And the service is indistinguishable for a much cheaper price once it’s setup. I’m pretty sure this goes for most resellers.
Good luck - you’ll be fine!
Once upon a time, there was an “unlocked” phone - meaning you could change the sim and the phone wasn’t locked to a contract. But you still had to match the phone to the major carrier.
Ah yes, those confusing GSM/CDMA days. They were like 2g or 3g tech (not sure), but eventually they all converged with 4G and VoLTE. I'm so glad that bs was done.
That’s what I was worried about lol, glad those days are over and I can just pick “Connect to any Carrier later” option.
I’m debating on whether larger storage is worth it, 256GB to 512GB for $200 more. Any thoughts? Appreciate the detailed feedback.
iPhones have no sd card slots, so I'd get the bigger storage (if that money isn't that tight)
How much is your current iphone storage and how much is filled?
Probably.
If its photos/videos taking up storage, you could always move it to a computer.
For what it’s worth, choosing the T-Mobile option wouldn’t lock it to T-Mobile. It just includes some extra setup stuff, IIRC. If you’re buying it from Apple it isn’t carrier locked (with the exception of an AT&T installment plan, not sure if they still offer that).
I remember when I bought my iPhone 3GS back in the day.
The only option was to buy it carrier locked on a one or two year plan in my country. Of course it was exclusive to a carrier that wasn't my choice of carrier.
I signed up, put it in a drawer and waited for the imminent jailbreak and unlocked modem firmware. It dropped two weeks later. After that one year of payments they unlocked it through official means.
It just baffles my mind of how some of these places are ran by the mod teams. If it wasn't for the masses of people that still flock to them I would've given up a long time ago (now only check like once every two weeks), but by the evidence they (the users) just aren't getting the help they need.
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If it makes you feel any better, whoever did that also isn’t a plumber. (511 points)That's a bong. Sewer gas bong, specifically. Nice humblebrag.Having one in your home all built in like that, la de da, isn't this a fancy one...... (330 points)
Like 10 mods, and they don't auto-block "new" people from posting (the post had 103 comments when it was locked). Easy to tell this wasn't spam and it was a legitimate person looking for advice.
They suggest logging into your "main" account. As if people want to post identifying pictures of their house under an account which might have lots of references for identification. I just wish they knew how much easier it would be to make a lemmy account instead of jumping through Reddit's hoops, could have a very robust community of tradesmen on here that would attract more people looking for advice.
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Back during the 1976 Democratic Convention at Madison Square Garde, the NYPD said it would arrest any unescorted woman near the place. Feminists like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan organized middle class white ladies to show up and demand they be arrested for being 'unescorted.'
Often countries have laws that make the solicitation the illegal act for that exact reason.
Or the arrest folk for conducting their business in public... So lewd behaviour.
You misunderstand. Soliciting merely means the act of trying to procure sex for money.
They don't need a sting for that. They just sit someone near a red light district and roll every car that pulls up and let's known sex workers get in their car.
Edit: not saying any of that is right though. It certainly feels like punching down... And if anything, it encourages some far more dangerous practices, particularly for sex workers.
You assume cops need evidence lol.
Jokes aside, stings are the most common way it happens.
However, when it isn't something like that, it tends to fall into two groupings based on my limited area of awareness. Not a cop, not a lawyer, or anything related, and I can only guarantee this as factual in the areas I've lived.
The next biggest chunk of arrests after stings is warrants for places of business. Massage parlors, more blatant brothels. Once there's suspicion of illegal activity, they get a warrant an d raid the place. Catch them in the act, and then manipulate the people they take in into confessing.
After that, it's plain sight and/or hearing. While most of the street corner type of thing is gone in a lot of places, it isn't totally gone. All it takes is the discussion over prices and seeing the exchange to make an arrest.
Plus, some places will post up with listening gear or cameras in hot spots and capture evidence that way.
The kind of services that are less open get less raids. An escort service is usually harder to nail down than a massage parlor, which is harder than an outright brothel, which is harder than someone working out of a hotel or home. The really hard to catch prostitution is outcalls and incalls with independent sex workers.
Escorts don't do any transactions in the open, so you have to send in an undercover cop to fake being a john for individuals, or get enough probable cause to get a warrant for phone or other invasive surveillance when there's an office.
Massage parlors have that veneer of a massage business, and if they aren't doing it dumb, they can last years before police even know they exist in a big enough city.
Brothels, afaik, are pretty rare now because they're easier to target. Since they're really only serving sex, it's more obvious.
Solo workers tend to have to go out to find clientele, which is obvious enough to get attention. Kinda hard to advertise yourself enough to get clients without cops being able to tell, and then hassle the worker. If they're working out of a bar, it's a little easier to hide their intent, as long as the bar is okay with it. Some places take a cut to ignore it. One of the few regular bars I worked at had a couple of ladies that had made arrangements like that with the owner. Iirc, they were handing over ten percent and getting the benefit of being inside and not hassled as long as they didn't cause trouble.
At the titty bars I worked, some of the ladies would turn tricks with patrons. They only did it after their shift because the owner was not willing to fuck around and lose his licences over it. They'd get fired in a hot second if they did anything other than say they'd talk to the customer after their shift. None of them ever got caught. Hell, one of them turned tricks with a cop or two, which helped in that regard.
But, yah, the vast, vast majority of arrests are stings. It's low hanging fruit tbh. Why spend resources trying to get evidence other ways, when it works and keeps the segment of sex workers most likely to cause disturbances more limited? Escorts don't cause trouble usually. Massage parlors don't until they get too big and busy. They want the obvious hookers and blatant shops out of commission. If it isn't visible, it's lower priority.
Now, the sheriff of our county handles it very lightly. Pretty much all sex work out here in the boonies is drug related to begin with, so that's the key to keeping things controlled. Much, much easier to bust a prostitute for meth than for prostitution. So he's got an unofficial policy against targeting prostitution as its own thing. Which, that's its own problem, but he's kinda stubborn about drug policy other than weed.
There was a place that got busted in town a few years ago though. It was a ratty little place that was billed as a massage parlor. But all of the workers were addicts, so they were sloppy as hell. The lady on the phones was even stupid enough to discuss pricing for sex acts on the phone.
My first thought is the cops can say to the prostitute (who wants to get back out to work ASAP) we will drop the charges and release you right now if you go on record/confess that you were engaged in prostitution with the John
Customer gets ratted out, cops having evidence against him in the form of the confession from the sex worker, and prostitute sent on her way...
Works the other way around too, cops tell the John (who doesn't want his family or his workplace to find out he's been arrested for soliciting a prostitute) we will let you go and drop charges if you go on record against the prostitute
Wlsex worker gets charged with the John as the prosecutor's evidence/witness and the John gets to go back to his life...
You mean like text messages? If you have texts and then video cameras of two people going into a hotel room, that's mighty fine evidence. What the hell else were they gonna do? Yoga?
You don't need eyewitnesses to get convictions. That is not the legal standard.
It's easier to understand the process under the assumption that the person is innocent.
If someone is arrested for prostitution, they would be fingerprinted, etc (processed), then within 24-48 hours will have an arraignment hearing. At the arraignment, a judge will present charges and the defendant will plea innocent or guilty. The judge will then set bail. The bail amount will be higher than the defendant can pay in the majority of cases (avg $10,000). The defendant will either buy bail bonds or have family help pay.
If not, which is very very likely, the defendant will be held in pre-trial detention, aka Jail. Half a million people are incarcerated because they are unable to pay their bail. This makes up 2/3rds of the prison population. These people are incarcerated because they are poor. Again, they have not been convicted of anything. During this time, it is very likely that the defendant will lose their job and housing.
After pre-trail detention, the defendant will go to trial. Here the police will produce whatever evidence they have in this hypothetical. For the sake of this hypothetical, the police do not fabricate evidence and instead rely on circumstantial evidence and random testimony from people who hate the defendant. This will be presented to the judge, having already been agreed on by the lawyers for the prosecution, state of xyz, and the defendant, public defender (or maybe private attorney). The judge, acting in capacity of the court, (possibly a jury, but more often a judge) will then either convict or acquit and lay out sentencing if applicable.
The jury decides what has been proven, not you. It really is that simple. People get convicted all the time of crimes where nobody saw them do it. Because of other evidence and common sense.
And look, think about the standard that you're trying to push. If we have text messages before and after, plus video of them going in and coming out of the hotel room. Is that good enough for you? They could always say that they thought about sex but settled for monopoly and were only joking around later... Maybe you would believe that story, but maybe the average juror would laugh.
No. The expression you looking for is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt". What you wrote is proof beyond any doubt, which is not the legal standard.
Also, please take a look at Florida Chapter 796, or if you were concerned about another location, look at the state or local laws for that location. You will probably see that actually engaging in the act of sex is one of several ways that you could violate prostitution laws.
They're no longer John's, they're porn stars. No shame necessary in this century, where OF exhibits consider themselves entrepreneurs.
This century is a fail if that's really all we've collectively created: a machine to destroy young people; a place to watch the light in their eyes fade.
I get that.
I'm only 25 so I don't have much responsibilities to hide behind and feel adult. Not that i'd like them, I kinda have a fear of them, sometimes.
Although, being a young adult, I especially get this feeling alongside feeling lost.
When your an adult there isn't anything guiding you, so like the child without guidance you're lost. It's then you see life's pointlessness, because the only point of living were always the arbitrary goals others gave.
In that regard responsibilities are also outside goals that guide you.
In a more joyful note, I don't even know why fun should be childish but it's amazing to be at all age.
Those two facts alone are what makes me think of how similar I still am to the child me.
No? I’m in my 40s and I’m never sure what people mean by inner child.
Like I try to do all the things I want to do but age does help you figure out what piper is worth paying.
Like I can eat like shit and play games for 12 hours but experience tells me that the next day I’ll feel like shit. Sometimes I’m happy to pay that price
I think it has a lot to do with how each of us are raised, but as a child, getting told to 'grow up' or when you grow up... along with concepts like don't talk to strangers alone etc., creates this subtle perception of an age transition. I've come to view that bias as a subtle prejudice in a way. I think it is a common fallacy most humans around me seem to posses but seem largely unaware that it exists.
This age bias is at the heart of a lack of value placed on the young and many social expectations. It could even be a major factor in why population decline is happening in the west.
Someone wrote recently that academia is largely about forming good ideas at a young age, then spending decades trying to prove their merits and defend them. As a society we undervalue the best ideas of youth, we do not value youth or respect their autonomy and fundamental needs to thrive.
I find that funny, because I am only wearing a mask of age and am fully aware that I am still the same curious child at heart. I kept waiting for the day I would feel all growed up but that day never came, and I live my life blindly doing the best I can with the opportunities I have available.
I mean I don’t think anyone should feel all grown up.
I think we all had a similar moment where we’re like “oh shit, I’m legally an adult now and also all the other “adults” were faking it. They’ve got no clue what they’re doing either!”
It’s like the time you figure out that your parents are fallible humans too
There's an internal age we feel personally, there's an external age we present as -- and then there's an age that can brought out of us, based solely on circumstances.
In the case of all three, for the sake of this idea gaining some traction with most folks reading, I might re-label 'age' as 'identity', or even some kind of part of ourselves, coming to the forefront out of necessity. This ideas comes from Family Systems Theory.
When we are faced with circumstances that invite us to 'act our age,' such as knowing we need to get good rest for the next day, that's the part of us that comes to the forefront to help because we have the experience to know so. That part of us is there to protect us from experiences we've had in the past that may have sucked, such as having to go into work after a late night on Mountain Dew and gaming. That part's job is protection.
Likewise, when we are faced with circumstances that invite us to entertain children, such as playing pretend or being silly, that's the part of us that we had at the forefront at that age, and we can call it up in a kind of way that doesn't feel like 'faking' it. That part of us is there to continue a sort of 'zone of play's we all liked when were around that age, where it was cool to 'yes and' into a game with made-up rules or do something goofy because we felt like it.
All parts are necessary, and parts are neither good or bad. They just are.
Nothing ever disappears -- nor should it disappear, regardless of whichever part of us is so drastically at the forefront as to convince all other parts that they aren't important to function in life -- even at 40.
Especially at 40.
All I know for sure, is that the older I get, the more I realize that every adult I've ever known was just a large child in an older body.
Grandma? SUPER old kid. Mom? Older kid.
Nobody knows what the fuck they're doing here, or what anybody else is doing here. This concept of growing up and suddenly knowing things was a lie perpetuated throughout my entire childhood.
I still feel like a kid, although I make my best to conceal it from others. Very few get to see the closest representation of who I really am.
Waking up each morning and stepping outside is still more than capable to make me smile in wonder of the world I live in and the things I get to enjoy from it.
I would lean towards no. I'm me. I don't consider the things that people seem to associate with their "inner child" to be exclusive to children, so I don't feel a tension between my desire to act responsibly and my sense of wonder, joy, and playfulness.
Age isn't a mask hiding the inner child, it's a toolkit that helps them appreciate and engage with those things. My childish delight at birds flitting about the bird feeder is only enhanced by being able to buy my own, keep them filled, and the ability to understand more about everything that goes on with them. I have the experience and faculties to answer questions I have, which only deepens my appreciation for the "common" wonders we see everywhere. Experiencing more of life and it's lows only makes the highs sweeter.
A child plus age and experience is an adult. You don't need to lose the happiness to get there.
I'm 35, I still buy toys in toy aisles, I still have cartoons from my past on lists when streaming stuff.
Here's how I look at it - I'm responsible of an adult to do adult things when I need to. There's just some things though that I'm allowed to do in my own space, away from everyone. It's nobody's fucking business. And I do admire those that are open about this thing. I do understand now why some people say that age is a number, in this context.
Besides, I find adult life pretty damn boring anyways. At my age, I'm expected to be knee-deep into sports, I'm expected to have had retirement savings like 401k, I'm expected to have a career I'm slaving myself to and all that shit. All the while wearing plain-ass clothing and getting into boring-ass conversations with NPCs.
Fuck all of that. You do you, I do me.
Nearly 30 (so that mask is not so old yet), I think there is a time and place for everything. Sometimes it's needed to be more sensible and responsible, I do think however that this is a slither of the time we spent in life. My manager also loves to make the remark: be wary that you start to find all of this and yourself too important. When we talk tech, he can show his inner child with ease and we can joke and laugh for hours, but when we need to be serious about topics we can be as well.
In my personal opinion, life's too short to live it for others. I really dislike that from a certain age people expect you to be acting like something, even though these same people hate doing so. But who knows, maybe in a year or ten I might have a totally different opinion, life's funny like that
I love all the pleasantly deep answers in this thread.
For my input: I'm everything I ever was, all at once.
You know how lenses refract over each other at the optometrist? Or how colors combine when you stack transparent cups in the washer? That's me. I have parts from everyone I ever met, and parts from everyone I ever was. There's no mask, even if I focus on one part of the mosaic in a meeting vs. another when I nerd out w/ a buddy -- it's all equally me.
I'm not Shrek though. Onions have layers, but I'm prismatic glass, chips and dips and all.
I have really enjoyed adulthood so much more than childhood. Am everyone I ever was, in a way, and not jaded yet so figure that's never gonna happen, but no I don't feel like a kid inside, and am quite happy about that.
What did y'all experience in childhood that makes you want to be a kid?
Ok, but I'll admit I'm confused on the praise or whatever is going on. Appointing judges is the duty of the President, so he did his job? Well he doesn't actually appoint, it's the senate who confirms, so, yay Senate?
To Cohen, the law professor from Drexel, the news is more nuanced than either Democrats or Republicans would like it to be. “Multiple things can be true at the same time,” he told me Sunday. “It’s fantastic they confirmed so many judges to counterbalance the Trump cadre of judges. But also, there should be zero vacancies remaining.”
(context)
there are still 36 judicial vacancies he can fill in the federal courts, all but 2 in the district courts. (A couple of Biden’s nominees did not wind up being confirmed after he reportedly did not formally submit their nominations to the Senate in time.)
so if we're averaging it out like he didn't turn in 38 assignments, he got a 86% (B grade). Happy he did the thing, just not sure on the fanfare of it all.
Waarschuwing inhoud: What issue in society do you think is near impossible to...
Alcohol.
Lots and lots of people lean heavily on it and think that alcohol is the spice of their life. When, it contributes to so many problems than it's so-called benefits. We tried, in America anyways, to outright ban alcohol. Problem was that the person who wanted it banned, was too extremist.
Like he didn't think it all through and think just going for the jugular of the problem is what will work. When, it didn't and just made people work around it until eventually the ban was dismantled.
So, since then, we've been putting up with drunk drivers, drunk disputes, drunk abusers and other issues. I still wish we could just slam our hands down at the desk and demand we sit to discuss in how to properly deal with this issue than people proclaiming that it's not a problem.
I'm not OP, but I am a former alcoholic, and the son of a woman who drank herself to death.
In many cases we have severe untreated mental illness, often inherited and from childhood trauma. We are generally suicidal. Getting black out drunk (chasing oblivion) is better than living with your thoughts and emotions.
For many reasons, alcoholics choose to kill themselves slowly with alcohol rather than a faster way that could cause even more grief and pain to the people around them.
“Random” events of “evil”. Basically I think we’ll never reach something like 0 murders, 0 rapes, 0 stealing for little greed and so on. Or even 0 addiction (edit: i'm not including addiction to the previous list of crimes, i wanted to add it as another class of issues for we will never reach a true 0)
We are very very far from the ideal situation tho, there is a looot of margin of improvement
Like your alcohol thing in the post: ban only makes it worse and still now you (as US, not you OP) have a very weird relationship with alcohol with the thing that minors cannot touch it and people have to drink from a paper bag lol. Let’s say that you are not really trying hard to improve the situation. We’ll never reach 0 alcoholists but society is not in a good shape and alcohol is cheap so ye
Getting consent to creating a life from a unborn child. Every human being was raped into existence by their parents.
Rent is due in 7 days.
Everyone has the option to stop their lifes if wish be.
Most don't not just from some technicalities but because parents or otherwise we have a biological urge to consent to being alive and make live being.
The consent is from our nature and only extreme circumstances makes it otherwise.
What do you mean the police?
Isn't the hospital and medics the one who cares for suicidal people?
Putting them in jail if that's what you mean is pretty barbaric.
Again though the police can't detain you indefinitely. What stop people from doing it is being cared for the reason they wanted to in the first place.
Isn't the hospital and medics the one who cares for suicidal people?
not in America, where hospitals aren't free and a call to the suicide hotline will have the cops going to your house
Everyone has the option to stop their lifes if wish be.
I don’t know if that’s true. I shot myself in the head once and just woke up like nothing had happened. I suspect life might not be as fragile as it appears from the outside.
It is surprising how resilient we are. Getting shot in the head is an example, we often underestimate the chance of survival.
Unfortunately it doesn't prevent all suicide.
I don't know if that's a problem with society so much as it is a problem with reality.
...or a problem with time and sequences of events.
Fix poverty and you fix crime. I mean there will always be people with severe mental disorders that make them violent or deadly, but this could also be potentially handled by making complete mental health check ups part of universal healthcare. People who are likely to become violent could be separated from the population and potentially cured.
I remember the case of a 6 year old girl who was adopted from a situation of severe abuse, violent, sexual, and neglect. She became a violence obsessed psychopath. She kept trying to stick needles in herself along with other self harm behaviors. She attacked her adoptive parents with a knife. After this they locked her in her room at night and put a lock on their bedroom door. She attempted to kill her brother, and tortured and killed animals.
There is a documentary about her called Child of Rage. Warning - this is extremely disturbing.
Eventually, as no progress was being made, she went to live with a therapist for intense behavior modification therapy. She was cured without the use of drugs. Now she is a successful RN and author.
I went way off track here but I wanted to reemphasize that poverty is the source of the vast majority of crime, and even the most broken psychopaths can be cured.
End poverty, end child abuse, end crime. End capitalism.
Ending poverty would certainly help, but I disagree that crime would be fixed. People commit crimes for many reason that aren't related to poverty. Envy, hatred, love, sexual desire, religious fanaticism, political extremism etc. Crimes like murder and rape often have motives completely unrelated to financial status. Not all perpetrators have severe mental disorders either.
In terms of "fixing" people who are violent, I agree in so far that the justice system should focus on rehabilitation and helping people. In many but not all cases, that can be achieved. But generally those people commit crimes first before they're identified. You propose mental health checkups to prevent that in the first place, but many people who are in a bad mental place would not voluntarily go to those. So would you make them mandatory for everyone? That would be quite dystopian, especially with the possibility of being locked up without even having committed a crime. That's exactly what the kind of thing I mean by measures that are unacceptably authoritarian. And even then, people would definitely slip through the cracks.
And those are even harder to make consumable than fruit literally fermenting on a tree, or yeast getting into some sugary drink.
So unless we’re gonna get rid of leavened bread and cut down every Marula tree we’re not getting rid of alcohol.
In Marx's own idea the point were class warfare is no more is when our civilization can satisfy any needs of anyone.
It would be the ultimate goal of communism, perfect equity through infinite automation of all resources.
Then they would only be art, philosophy, science and social activities.
Except, as long as there's limited resources, fighting for it is our nature. To the point of having to much if may be.
Mushrooms just grow here in the grasslands. Only problem is harvesting season is mostly in the autumn. So you need te dry them.
But (magic) mushrooms growing in the wild are pretty common in north-west Europe. ( The species is found in a lot of places psilocybe semilanceata ) of course there are many more and you don't even have to wait to get fermented.
Still even I can just pick them they are still not allowed here (in the Netherlands)
For schaudenfreude. Capitalism would collapse without the schaudenfreude of enforced inequality.
Almost everyone trained to worship capitalism is always taught to see their worth as a function of how badly other people are losing. That's why homelessness is an expensive problem we choose to pay extra for.
Studies have shown that all the conditioned shelters, programs, and cleanup are far more expensive than just providing conditionless basic housing for everyone without. But the homeless serve an essential purpose under runaway capitalism that takes control of a society instead of being a lowly tool of it: Capitalist Scarecrows and to look down on and fear becoming.
How can I feel rich if there aren't poories dying in the streets?
True, but yeast spores are in the air, and if you leave an appropriately sweet and sterile liquid open it will just.. make alcohol. They use this technique in Belgium to harvest wild yeast for Lambic.
So until magic mushrooms start showing up inside my house I still don't consider it equivalent.
If humans have a nature, then humans will always have that nature by definition. “We” might get beyond that nature, but it won’t be “us” after that. It will be our descendants.
And not like “sons and daughters” but rather “our evolutionary descendants”.
As for humanity, we exist in a particular set of inescapable challenges, which define what it is to be human.
Believe me someone will try.
Eventually biology itself will be banned because of how un-controllable it is. All that will be allowed will be silicon components manufactured by a central authority or assembled under centrally-approved code.
It’s described in the bible: man’s need to work.
“Work” meaning “Do things you don’t feel like doing, because they need to be done”.
Our emotional configuration evolved in an environment that is gone. In that environment, what one feels like doing, and what one needs to do, are the same. That’s why that motivational configuration evolved: it optimized our survival and reproduction in that environment.
But our civilization has wrapped us in a new environment, that has different cause and effect relationships than our EEA (environment of evolutionary adaptedness).
This means it will always be necessary to do things we don’t feel like doing, or to suffer the consequences.
Generally speaking, this is the problem of “work”. The bible refers to this as a sort of eternal curse humanity must suffer as a result of being expelled from Eden, which itself resulted from our eating of the tree of knowledge.
When we parted from our basic animal ways, we took on this curse of having to force ourselves. It’s what Marx refers to as the “alienation of labor”.
And as society progresses, it’s only going to get worse.
For example right now, one must shower and dress and go out in the cold to go to a job in order to get money to survive.
That’s pretty far from “eat whatever fruit looks pretty”. But it’s also not as bad as it’s going to be.
Our brains are capable of finding some meaning in that daily work struggle.
Soon we will have more automation and some kind of UBI. It will be an option to not work.
And in some ways that will be better. Just like working at Amazon moving boxes is safer and more predictable than living in the wild, having UBI will be safer and more predictable than working at Amazon.
But also, just like that dangerous jungle existence creates an inherent meaning in the survival, feels rich and alive, and how that effect is diminished when working a job surrounded by civilization, in that same way having basic income is going to give us even less inherent meaning to our days.
We’ll have more options, and as a result we’ll have more existential anxiety. There will be more freedom, less of a default path for the day, and this will make us feel even more alienated.
This is a problem that will always exist in our society: the less danger and difficulty our external environment provides us, the more difficult it will be to get ourselves moving. The more susceptible we will be to depression and anxiety.
This is why people fantasize about a zombie apocalypse. Yes it’s horrible. Yes it’s full of terror. But it more closely resembles the environment of natural hostility we evolved in, so it’s easy to know what to do. Gather supplies, secure your shelter, kill zombies. It’s simple and straightforward, and so it would feel very alive. Depression disappears when one is running for their life. Anxiety is eliminated by fear. Confusion is eliminated by hunger.
We may get “lucky” and see civilization collapse. Or there may be a war into which we are all drawn as front line fighters. We may have an alien invasion.
But then we’re just back to the other kind of suffering. The kind we emerged from to find this world.
These two types of fuckedness complement one another, and we’ll always have some nonzero combination of the two.
Similar to this, I've got a real beef with our unresolved insecuritues we have as a people (in principle. Obviously in practise this is hard).
I feel like the insecurities that essentially, drive us, are really holding us back from meaningful progress on our legitimately hard problems with climate, energy/food distribution, etc...
We're still drawn into BS distractions and opposing teams and whatnot like a bunch of monkeys with sticks (which is apt, to be fair)
Nearly every societal problem has a solution, but you need a medical / buddhist / marxist / approach (probably a lot of other disciplines / lenses use this approach too, those are just some ones that more or less follow this).
The only problems that aren't solvable, are things that would break the laws of physics.
As for drugs / alcohol use, lemmygrad and hexbear have a lot of good threads on drug / alcohol use, and how to view it, and handle it collectively. The USA is probably the worst example of a country to look at for alleviating the societal ills brought about by alcohol and drug mis-use, so its good to look at how socialist countries have tackled it throughout history. If you can't find a thread I'd recommend asking over there, because you'll get a lot of good answers.
In the US and Canada?
Car dependency / Car centrism.
Sure, we have a few large cities with non roadway mass transit.
But uh, in general, we've got terminal car brain, and I do not see this fundamentally changing.
The vast majority of places will continue being designed around cars instead of people.
Cars and fuel costs will keep going up, less and less people will have them, and (again excepting a few extremely dense and expensive cities) we will just go to mass private car rentals/shares instead of actual mass transit or meaningfully redesigning cities.
Sidewalks? Bike lanes? Go fuck yourself, you don't matter if you don't own a car, wait an hour for a bus (if one exists), get an uber, have a friend with a car.
Are there EV longhaul trucks that are at cost and performance parity with ICE longhaul trucks on the horizon?
I don't think so.
That means that logistics costs for basically everything gets significantly more expensive when ICE fuel costs go up.
We could lessen this problem by building out more freight rail capacity, and a whole lot more minor rail lines so that trucks don't routinely drive halfway across the continent and are used less often...
...but we are not.
So, that means that when gas/diesel prices go up, everything gets more expensive... including ICE and EV personal vehicles.
Currently, generally, EVs (and Hybrids) are already 20% to 30% more expensive than their ICE counterparts, even after subsidies/rebates, and are only less expensive than the ICE counterpart in a long run of 10+ years due to lower ongoing fuel costs...
But if gas/diesel prices significantly rise and never go back down...
All vehicles become more expensive.
If ICE vehicle ongoing fuel costs are now so high that an average person can't afford them...
The only other choice is EVs ... but those now have a stupendous sticker price.
So you end up with even less people being able to afford any vehicle whatsoever, but a society that is physically designed to... require one.
So then you end up with a society of an upper class of EV owners, and everyone else who used to be able to afford a midrange ICE car now having to use ICE/EV motorcycles or EBikes... for daily commutes, in all weather.
No more AC or Heating for your completely environmentally exposed 30 minute to 2hr commute to work through a heatwave or heavy snow or rain.
They'd have to rent an EV vehicle to do 2 weeks worth of grocery shopping or move any kind of substantial cargo like a bed, or move more than 2 people a considerable distance, start arranging ride shares to and from work in some kind of comfort.
Oh, and a ton of Americans are functionally too obese/unhealthy/injured to be able to actually use a motorcycle or EBike. So just count them out of the workforce I guess.
git solves this.
i love me some doom pr0n now and again, but it sounds alot like some people are due for some exercise and they'll be just fine. Things might turn out for the better
Sorry, no.
I mean, you're right that git enables this, and that would obviously be a great choice for many tech workers, but employers in the US despise remote work and will do everything they can to never allow that to be any where near as widespread as it easily could be.
Not sure if you've somehow missed it, but after Covid lockdowns ended, basically every large tech firm in the US started mandating return to office work, and many of them even admitted they did so as a way to functionally lay off employees without actually laying them off.
Even Zoom, the company that maintains the most widely used remote work software... mandated their employees return to office.
There are ultimately 2 real reasons for this, ignore the bs that comes out of the media:
1) Middle managers and up basically realize that their lifestyle suffers if they don't have the ability to micromanage people in person.
Actually effective management can easily be done remotely by competent managers, competent work can in most cases be done by competent employees remotely, but the managers need to feel that in person social hierarchy dominance, or they get upset.
2) Commercial real estate.
If we went to a massively more remote work paradigm, a fuckton of offices become pointless.
This crashes the commercial real estate market, offices start going (even more) vacant or converting to residential or mixed use, which would lower housing prices.
Can't have that kind of bubble pop, or else we go through something similar to the 08 crash... in an economic environment that is already very precarious at best, and more realistically is already contracting in basically every metric other than GDP.
... We have a whole bunch of generally normalized social views and approaches to many aspects of how things work, which are all mutually reinforcing, which prevent actual social progress from happening, and the hatred of remote work is one thing that reinforces our car dependent construction of society.
It doesn't matter that the vast majority of people would be better off with more widespread mass transit, it doesn't matter that the vast majority of people would be better off being able to do remote work.
Those things don't make C Suite see line go up next quarter.
Us Americans just elected a fascist, who won the popular vote, who wants to do the exact opposite of a massive infrastructure rework, he and his sycophants want to cut every kind of government funding for social and government services of all kinds, keep 'joking' about invading Mexico, annexing Canada, buying Greenland.
We do not have a mass of supporters who are effective at applying pressure on the government... because we now, even more obviously, live in a naked oligarchy that controls the government and mass media... our democracy is broken, our representatives are purchased, our population heavily subject to anti intellectual right wing propoganda funded by oligarchs.
We also do not have lots and lots of time.
Many states in the US are currently seeing home insurance companies either dramatically raising rates or just leaving: The climate catastrophe driven collapse of many areas has begun, and it will only get worse without a massive coordinated government directed response... which goes dorectly against the ideology of most of our oligarchs and most of our people who believe what those oligarchs tell them to via the media they own.
We will not have the money to build out better transit infrastructure ... that will all be spent responding to more and more intense natural disasters and internal migrants.
Definitely true.
I think the hypothesis of a nature both in human actions and society as a whole does have enough merits to be a good starting point.
Were I think there is a lot of unpredictability is on conditions of living and technologies.
Technologies especially, evolve so much quicker than society or human nature.
I would say recently our technologies twisted some of our own nature. For instance how we reproduce in such a controlled way.
Not only this but we do now more than ever things not because of our nature. And it's also been put into very unique situations.
A great example is social media (including Lemmy itself). We have access to communication so far from us it created very unique communities.
It definitely is a big part of our nature as social creatures.
Although we can cooperate with our group and fight against another, hence the consistent wars throughout history.
I think human nature isn't one sided.
But you're right in that cooperation is the most effective (and desirable) way of survival.
Greed is the biggest issue we have in this world right now.
It should be made to be a mental health disorder that must be treated professionally and by taking away the money not needed to operate their business.
Kill tax breaks and strip the rich with 90% taxes on everything over 5 million dollars of any money they make even capital gains and investment income.
Own one home pay regular taxes, own two double the tax, own three triple the tax and so on until no one wants to own more homes. Same goes for corpos that rent to people at above market rates using software to drive rental prices up.
Greed must be made to be shameful and punishable not accepted and desired. Robber barons like Musk and Bezos should taxed into non existence.
I think the ancient Romans would make their richest people pay for the construction of warships. You would only get out of it by pointing to a richer person to pay.
Do that but not for warships, pay for infrastructure repair, all those roads and bridges that keep the economy going need to be brought up to today's standards and new bridges built to replace ones that are crumbling. Their wealth could not have been built if not for the roads and tracks that are now crumbling beneath years of cuts to local and state/provincial governments.
Probably that many people are like exclusively emotion driven. I don't think we should all be like purely logical Vulcans. Emotions are very fast and can be a good survival tool. Like if you're waiting for the train and a bear wanders onto the platform, you don't need to wait to logically evaluate if it's a threat. Just run.
But people rely on emotions for everything. We all do this. So you have like someone telling you something factual and uncomfortable, and you just reject it.
"Eating meat is bad for the environment and is cruel to animals. We should all eat a lot less meat" makes a lot of people's emotions flare up. The facts don't matter. They feel like they're being insulted, that the other person is a blowhard, blah blah blah.
The oatmeal did a comic about this, actually: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
I think this is why we can't have nice things.
This is a comic about the backfire effect.The Oatmeal
Homelessness.
Looking beyond the argument that some people prefer the freedom to following any of the rules required by most of the organizations that might provide help.
It’s not that hard to fix, but there’s little will to tackle it properly. Homelessness is a local problem, and the NIMBY solution just exports it to another locality. If a locality solves it for their local population, they’ll then get overwhelmed by the NIMBY localities “solving” it with bus tickets. The only real solution has to come at a federal level, and there lies the lack of will. Federal government sees a local problem and refuses to help since there are local governments.
Antivaxxers and weaponized disinformation that leads to that as well as other problems. I'm not talking about the vaccine hesitant who come around with more education by their doctor, or even the dumbass delayed vaccine schedules they want to do for no sensible reason, all it does is make your kid cry more times than they'd have to, I'm talking about the ones who completely believe in Andrew Wakefield's shit study with the twelve kids at his son's birthday party which for some reason they rely upon as the gospel. The ones who are now turning down vitamin K in their newborn so they risk bleeding into their brain, and believe measles isn't a big deal, just another childhood illness. They're absolutely insane and fed a diet of this continually by social media dumpster fires like Facebook. As far as I am concerned, Mark Zuckerberg should be tried for war crimes and genocide at the Hague. Here is a comment I saw the other night from one of the plague enthusiasts, which also makes it very clear they don't care if non-white children die.
I worked in an ER ten years ago, and while the insanity that has onset with these people since the advent of COVID did not yet exist, there were still some who bought into this nonsense, and they'd come screaming in with their kid who was going downhill fast with whooping cough or whatever, and they are always the most obnoxious pushy people about getting their kid seen RFN. And the thing is you have to because an unvaccinated child has no immune resources to rely upon in their bodies, which one nurse describes as "going to the well", ie a normal vaccinated person's body fights back against infection by doubling their heart or breathing rate as their antibodies kick in. A child with no immunity immediately begins to go under and has no such help from their bodies. And the parents are always massive idiots and ask stupid shit about why you aren't treating them with intravenous vitamin C or doing a CT scan (which there is no reason for) or whatever else they pull out of their primitive forebrains full of garbage. A child with Hib epiglottitis is not going to be able to be intubated and is going to need a tracheostomy, and these parents simply don't or won't understand it.
Populism
This is as old as the democracy itself, and we still don't know how to fix it. People are so easily driven by their emotions and stubborn about their political opinions that you only have to exploit cynically their low instincts to take the power, especially in a crisis context. And once populists are in the power, they hardly give it back.
Journalism that has any tooth whatsoever would mostly fix this.
As long as no proper journalistic standards exists, populists can pour their BS down the media drain unquestioned, unchallenged. If that's all you hear about a topic, that's what you'll believe.
I think there are plenty of things that can't be solved, but nothing that can't be improved.
Homelessness, there are just some people who don't fit into modern life - maybe they can't be housed, but conditions could be improved.
Poverty, there is no complete solution that won't be worse than the problem (yet) but things could be so much better than they are with the means we do have.
Pollution, there is probably no way we can live with our current technology without causing pollution but again - we could make substantial improvements with the tech we do have now.
Waarschuwing inhoud: What jobs wouldn't be so bad if the customers were more...
Software development. If you could just do what needs to be done without requirements changing every second it would be so much easier.
Luckily there are good project managers to shield you from such nonsense.
Sometimes the org itself is like a shitty client who doesn't understand.
Reminds me of this article Programming Sucks
Tom and Harry have been working together for years, but have an ongoing feud over whether to use metric or imperial measurements, and it’s become a case of “whoever got to that part of the design first.” This has been such a headache for the people actually screwing things together, they’ve given up and just forced, hammered, or welded their way through the day with whatever parts were handy. Also, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge. Nobody knows which parts, but everybody’s pretty sure they’re important parts.
I grew up in a construction family. Father was a fireman and all his coworkers had other construction skill sets so when they were off work they helped each other build their homes.
I thought it was too hard and too hot work to follow into the business.
So I became a chef....
...and I think about that a lot.
I'll be honest, the customers are far from my biggest problem with retail. 🙁 I want electronics that work, carts it's not easy to cut yourself on, an accurate inventory system, and more realistic expectations for how many items I can move in an hour. At least occasionally customers are nice, but policies are never nice.
Actual answer from me is deli work. I enjoyed taking inventory, making sure all the meats were dated and wrapped correctly, pre-slicing the sandwich meats and veggies before customers showed up... Very meditative.
But no one could stick to the menu, they all had to order weird shit like hot capocollo and rare London broil on a sandwich together. There was one woman who ONLY ordered weird sandwiches where each meat required thorough slicer sanitation between uses because they were all rare or heavily seasoned. Taking apart and sanitizing the slicer three times for one sandwich while the line got longer and longer.
Tech support, the number of times I had to explain trivial things to some angry entitled asshat, who refused to read the instructions or didnt try basic troubleshooting steps (eg. turn it off and on again).
Also airport jobs. If people in holiday mode would just look up and follow the fucking signs...
[…] people being deliberately vague but getting pissed when you ask them what they mean.
In my experience, this shows up in every single job ever that involves people.
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Well, I mean.... to be fair, no healthcare is free. It's just paid for (in many cases) by taxes. That's the thing that isn't ever talked about. Taxes. The US has some of the lowest regional, state, and national taxes because there's no Healthcare taxes besides Medicare and social security. And even those are constantly being threatened to be deducted from.
If US had a set subscription for guaranteed universal Healthcare before the gov't could get their grubby hands on it, then US Healthcare could almost be something to brag about
As of 2021, the US spent 16.6% of its gross GDP ($23.59 billions) on healthcare expenditures. The very next was Germany, at 12.7% of its $4.28 billion GDP. The US is spending more per-capita than any other OECD country on healthcare, it's just not made visible by looking at the number on your tax report. You're still collectively paying for it one way or another.
... good for you, I guess.
Apple Music, if they would fix their recommendation lists. If they allowed you to make actual , for lack of better phrase , stations like you can on Pandora.
I’ve given up and asking them. I’m never going to get it so there’s no point in asking them again. I don’t know why they won’t make stations in that manner, but they just won’t.
I’d say I go to see a movies in an actual movie theater once a year, but the truth is I probably go half as often as that.
It isn’t that I am not interested in movies, I just don’t see the value. I am supposed to pay for a ticket, concessions, and whatever goes into travel to the theater to watch a movie with a bunch of (probably annoying) strangers in a fairly gross environment?
My guess is my annual box office contribution is approximately 0.5x the current ticket price.
If, however, there was a $20/month subscription service which would let me watch new releases at home, I would subscribe.
Even if it was relegated to expensive hardware, like an Apple Vision Pro, I would very likely buy the device and sign up for the subscription.
$240/year would be a hell of a lot more revenue than my current $5.50/year—regardless of whether or not it would be exclusive to certain hardware or platforms.
Honestly, my current TV and sound system may not be as impressive as a theater, but they are good and I’d take that experience over the modified bus depot experience of a public movie theater.
don't get consession, just bring a water and call it good
then tickets are then $10-15, at least in that USA, that's easily justifiable to me once a month or so
Man, I would never get a subscription for the Apple Vision / HP Reverb G2
Tbh, even if Valve offered one I don't think I would... I'm sure it would be the most fair subscription service out there, but I just don't think I could get on board.
If, however, there was a $20/month subscription service which would let me watch new releases at home, I would subscribe.
I wish there was a way to pay a one time fee (per release) to watch new releases as much as I want forever. Without downloading a damn app for each one.
Would or actually do?
I would (but haven't bothered) to pay for getting rid of CGNAT.
I happily pay for my real debrid subscription.
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I've a Good news for you then you can achieve that for free. Since 2018 I've only seen ads only a handful of times and even that was because I was watching TV with my family on my sibling's "smart TV".
My setup, unlockorigins on web browser and next DNS on phone, also instead of YouTube use newpipe or even better tubular (tubular is just a fork of newpipe with sponsor block) and I pirate all the movies and TV shows.
Oh look at this fancy pants here they have a real life maybe even friends. Stop bragging about it.
Jokes aside, I don't mind real life ads (billboards) I enjoy reading them. It's like a fun game in my head. OK it might not be fun.
I know somebody who knows someone who has a private movie (TV, etc) server and had the access for free up to this year... electric prices being what they are he finally had to start charging 10$ a month.
I've used it for 4 years so in 4 more years the total charge is 5$ a month.
I will gladly pay for a service like this that's private & only done as a "hobby" rather than give my minutes to a corporation.
An odd and very specific, but sims 4. Only if it included any and all content as it's released with no additional fees/purchases.
Last I looked (and ignoring sales, just MSRP) is several hundred dollars.
Then I remember it's owned by EA...
As of 2023 it's over 1000 USD.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-sims-4/sims-4-dlc-price.
TLDR: Overall total: $1064,45 USD/£974.35 GBP.
If you want to know how much it costs to buy everything in The Sims 4, you've come to the right place, as we've added up the price of every single DLC.Jeremy Peel (PCGamesN)
Is it weird that the most unrelatable thing here for me is that SongeBob existed when anon was in high school?
Edit: a word
Invent a time machine. Go back in time. Study.
Failing that, learn from your mistakes, and next time... well... study.
#include
using namespace std;
int main() {
char procrastinated;
cout << "Did you procrastinate? (y/n): ";
cin >> procrastinated;
if (procrastinated == 'y' || procrastinated == 'Y') {
cout << "You procrastinated! Remember, study earlier next time to avoid the stress!" << endl;
} else {
cout << "Good job staying on track! Keep it up!" << endl;
}
return 0;Biggest thing I had to learn is when to withdraw from a class, ask the professor for more time very far in advance, and accept that you sometimes fail and need to retake it.
My guess is this is the makeup period, and OP managed to get an extension which means some poor TA is staying behind to proctor their lazy ass.
In 20 years of academia, I have never once heard of a scheduled exam on Dec 24.
As a lot of people are saying here, you're probably too far behind at this point to reasonably pull it out of your ass at the last minute.
I might study what you can of what you haven't gotten to yet. Start with high level overviews before you get deep into the details of any one section. This is probably futile if you're less than halfway through the material though.
Whatever you do, set a hard cutoff time to just stop, stop worrying, accept whatever is about to happen, and go the fuck to sleep. You aren't getting through it all in one day. Better to get a good nights rest so you can demonstrate well the bits you do know, and brace for the impact.
Moving forward, learn from this panic and worry.
I've been where you are, trying to crunch last minute to pass a class or a test, more times than I can count. My original university put me on academic probation: "We don't want any more of your money unless you're going to pass your classes"
A US university saying no to money. Fuck.
In the future you either need to keep up with the work, or notice that you aren't/can't/don't feel like it and pull the ejector seat handle earlier. Stop trusting the voice that tells you that you'll be able to crunch it at the last moment. You need to be brutally honest with yourself about your own limits, at least internally.
Professors will often work with you if you come to their office hours and talk to them early, but every single one knows when you're coming in last minute as fire insurance. You can also drop a course before you get too far into it.
3 feet before the cliff is too late to worry about pumping the brakes. But if you can get back up after then you can do better next time.
Lots of really good advice in here so let me give you bad advice:
Given your lack of effort, it seems like you don't really care about your CS engineering degree. Have you considered dropping out and working food service or a customer service/help desk job in a bland corporate environment?
Of course, you could always prove to yourself that you do care about finishing your degree. You most likely won't be able to prove it this time, but do reconsider your priorities in life before starting your next attempt.
Everything is optional in life.
Hi everyone,
I use hyprland on archlinux and recently some of my software just dont even open anymore. I am not sure what kind of log i can provide but here is what i did: i do system update everyday, i also play a bit with Kodi and qt5 yesterday. I am not sure what is the issues right now but it seem to be a native package or dependencies issue because heroic Flatpak work fine(didnt try bitwarden or vscodium tho). Any help would mean a lot for me. Thanks!
The software that don't work: vscodium-bin(AUR), Heroic-launcher-bin(AUR) and bitwarden-desktop(official repo) refuse to open at all. Steam(official repo) open and crash loop
Fix: use hyprctl setcursor in my case i use bibata
Do you have backups from before your last update? If so of start there. If not, try to uninstall and reinstall the AUR packages once at a time. You probably also have some kind of option to look for broke packages and repair them with your package manager. Another thing to try would be to open say vscodium from the cli and see if it outputs anything useful when the program fails.
Edit: this isn't an exhaustive list and I don't use arch, but it's what I would do if I were on a rolling distro.
Thank you a lot for the advises,
I dont have a backup(my btfs snapper is mess up cuz i never know who to do it properly. I start to regret now). Funny enough, there is literally no log from any software i tried.
vscodium: none
heroic launcher: Checking for beta autoupdate feature for deb/rpm distributions
Found package-type: rpm
[1] 26604 segmentation fault (core dumped) heroic
steam: really weird log
bitwarden: [1] 27089 segmentation fault (core dumped) bitwarden-desktop
about pacman i checked dependencies and thing like that but sadly they seem to be normal
You could check the backtrace of one of your crashes
coredumpctl debug
> btIt might be related to Mesa/GPU drivers
Hi
this is what it give. This is way more than my limited knowledge i have no clue what am i doing.
That dump didn't reveal any particular useful information, however it seems like multiple people are reporting issues with mesa + segfault, e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301550
Mesa v24.3.2-1 in Arch should revert that issue, Mesa v24.3.1 seems to be the problem one
I had this problem with chromium based apps a while ago, and it turned out to be a problem with missing cursors. I just downloaded a different cursor pack and the problem was solved.
I don't know if it's the same thing but it's worth checking; a debugger can point you in the right direction if it's something else.
What's even more amazing is that back then I had the luck to find this thread and this other thread which also had the same problem. Because the most I got out of checking logs and debugging coredumps, was this ReadCursorFromTheme error (repeated like 10000 times).
Also, I had the default cursor pack and like with OP, it just stopped working one day. I'm guessing it has something to do with how hyprland tells the apps what cursor to use (hence the hyprcursor thing OP mentions), but honestly I don't even want to think about it anymore, it made me lose a whole day back then xP
.pacnew or .pacsave files? That can sometimes explain breakage, you should resolve them after every update.sudo find /etc -name '*.pacsave' -o -name '*.pacnew' | sort
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
It always puzzles me why they chose the one distro without systemd to base this on and are now trying to add it themselves.
Also I have thoughts about this:
Move sudo to community
At present, sudo is in the main repository, which requires us to provide security support for 2 years. Upstream sudo does not provide an "LTS" lifecycle, so this requires either performing security upgrades during the maintenance lifecycle, or backporting security fixes by hand.
Benefit to Alpine
Prior to the creation of the security team, there was an unofficial preference to push doas as the preferred pivot tool for Alpine. This reinforces that messaging.
Additionally, we do not have to support sudo for a 2 year lifecycle, since there are no LTS branches for it.
How often does sudo have security vulnerabilities that it's worth moving to a lesser used tool whose vulnerabilities are less likely to be discovered against your security team's wishes? What do all the other distros do?
There was a similar incident in Colorado in 2019/2020.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-colorado-mystery-drones-werent-real/
The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.Aaron Gordon (VICE)
I mean they're really out there. But there's also mass hysteria of people claiming anything with nav lights in the sky is a drone.
They're flying over military facilities and places owned by the President and the Pentagon doesn't care tho?
It's US shit doing stuff they don't want us to know about so we won't.
It also seems like a convenient bogeyman for lots of politicians looking for clout to go "This is unacceptable!" while knowing them shouting and stamping their feet won't amount to anything. But they need to be seen shouting and stamping their feet so their constituents know they're a "free thinker" who "tells it like it is." Knowing full well that no answers are forthcoming, but they can be seen making "transparency" demands around things that don't actually matter, while promoting the idea that they care about "transparency."
I live far away from where all of this is happening, so I was hoping some Lemmings might live in NJ and have a more personal experience and thoughts to share.
Yes, I've been flying drones across the deleware river to prank y'all. Get pranked!
/jk
My speculation is: (this is purely a speculation)
There was one or two drones that was flying around, possibly kids messing around, possibly military drone tests, then, with that "unidentified drone" news in mind, people just see lights in the sky from planes take off or on approach to landing and then they would look like "drones" floating, when its a fucking commercial jetliner!
People seeing what they want to see, or are making things up for attention. I could just film a plane on a shitty phone and use the zoom camera all the way onto plane, add a bit a shaky cam effect by intentionally shaking the phone, then post on social media "OMG ALIENS!"
Y'all think the US military let foreign drones or aliens in the airspace and not shoot it down or jam it?
🙄
I just want one reporter to ask "Can you confirm that if this was indeed a top secret military program in development, that your first response would be to deny it was the military to keep the program secure?"
Like stop asking if it's the military, get to the point and ask if you'd be told to deny it if it was the military.
Personally, I think it's ramping up for a surveillance drone state in the US. As the homeland security administrator said, they've been concerned about how people talk on the internet for some time, long before Luigi Mangione popped off. They've viewed their own citizens as the enemy for a long time now, and the mask has been slipping hard.
could just film a plane on a shitty phone and use the zoom camera all the way onto plane, add a bit a shaky cam effect by intentionally shaking the phone, then post on social media “OMG ALIENS!”
I did this to a friend once lol I was walking on one of those days you can see the moon during the day and since there was a clear sky I just zoomed in and shook my phone a bit to make it appear to be moving lol
90% mass hysteria, 10% random people flying drones for fun.
Most videos I've seen are people misidentifying airplanes as drones, and even if they are drones... they sell those on Amazon.
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Chaque point rouge indique un endroit bombardé à Gaza. Voilà à quoi ressemble un génocide.
Les médias publient, les gens s'indignent, le pape couche un jésus sur un keffieh, mais qui intervient concrètement, pour arrêter une extermination qui ressemble à celle dont nous avions dit : "PLUS JAMAIS ÇA", il y a quelques décennies.
When I see Kyle Kulinsky or Vaush (can't remember which) saying that the US has officially turned from democracy into an oligarchy because Elon Musk is running the show at Capitol Hill, may I remind all Anglo-Americans that oligarchies don't tend to have a single guy pulling the strings. It's usually multiple people.
Elon Musk's wealth and therefore power right now is unprecedented in world history, not just in absolute numbers, but relative as well.
So I'm concluding that not only is Elon Musk a dictator, he is the world's richest and therefore most powerful dictator in history bar none.
So the correct conclusion should have been that the US is not turning into an oligarchy, it's turning into a klepto-dictatorship, or perhaps more apt to say since he already is pulling all the strings, it already is a klepto-dictatorship.
And this is all happening under the guise that the US is merely a bit of a flawed democracy, so he is still getting free reign to do whatever he wants without its citizens even realizing that they're under a dictatorship and the most powerful one in history to boot.
I can go on about other things, like how tight and aggressive I see the US media and police control is, even compared to the worst of dictatorships, but I think I'll stick to the main point.
If someone says one person is pulling all the strings in your country, you live in a dictatorship, not a oligarchy.
And if he's the wealthiest person in history, then you live in the most tightly controlled dictatorship in history. And considerling how aloof everyone in the country is about it, no country has ever even come close to such a degree of totalitarianism. In all of history. Ever. And it's quickly getting worse.
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La censure d'Internet en France consiste notamment dans le blocage de certains sites WEB pour des raisons politiques ou de censure.
Ce sont généralement les Chefs d'état qui en font la demande aux plateformes.
Cette mesure est permise par certaines lois comme la LCEN ou la LOPPSI 2. La liste des sites web censurés n'est pas connue du public français.
L'importance de la censure d'Internet en France a conduit certaines ONG comme Freedom House à classer la France parmi les pays où la liberté sur Internet a le plus reculé ou encore Reporters sans frontières qui place la France comme un des pays "sous surveillance".
Les sites visés, hébergés en France, peuvent être fermés ou redirigés; les sites hébergés à l'étranger sont généralement rendus inaccessibles aux internautes, ayant une configuration par défaut, mais restent disponibles aux autres.
De nombreux organes de presse en ligne et leurs journalistes sont notamment ciblés. (...)
L’ONG Freedom House estime que la France est l’un des pays où la liberté sur Internet a le plus reculé, "la position de la France a baissé" (...)
La France est désormais classéé première au top des pays européens les plus censurés. (...)
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Whichever one doesn't crash while I'm trying to do something.
So usually neither...
It's officially the end of the road for Biden's attempts to broadly cancel student debt.Ayelet Sheffey (Business Insider)
I really don't like it when people say "The country spoke" like, excuse you, but I didn't vote for Trump so don't you dare assume that I did.
71 million people spoke out of the 334.9 million in America. 150 million americans did vote while 90 million didn't.
335 million is the population, 71 million voted for trump. You can extrapolate with 150 million voters and 90 million that didn't , there are only 240 million of the US population are eligible to vote (so near 100 million didn't even have a chance to voice their opinion).
I've looked at the numbers before but can't remember the specifics but it's at least in the ball park if my memory serves me right.
I thought this would be hard, but turns out the following oneliner does it, with maybe no sideeffects ?
echo 'docker() { [ "$1" = "sh" ] && docker exec -it "$2" sh || command docker "$@"; }' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
This creates a bash alias for "docker ps" , every other command should run as normal
Now I just need to remember to run this one liner on every single computer I use in the future...
"$@" doesn't do that you think it does in an alias. It gets expanded on alias creation.
🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system. - GitHub - GoogleContainerTools/distroless: 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.GitHub
Jokes aside, you create a custom Dockerfile and copy a statically compiled shell binary.
Note
Docker Debug requires a Pro, Team, or Business subcription.
I don't know if that applies to me but big yikes!
use new container attach on already container go on debug - zeromake/docker-debugGitHub
Generally speaking you shouldn't be poking around running containers. It is rare that I have ever needed to do that. If you want to inspect the contents of an image then tools like dive are helpful. If the container produces some useful output that you might need then put that into a volume, you can then mount that volume to a debug/inspect container to read the files without messing around with the rest of the container.
Shell-less containers are a great security feature - it is extremely hard to get a reverse shell on something that does not have any shell. And if you must have a shell to debug something docker already has a feature for that docker debug which works for shell-less containers as well.
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image. Contribute to wagoodman/dive development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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This is an excellent idea. Fortunately you're not the first to have it 😉
You should look into alias.
The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.
Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new.
Under New York law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”
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My run was very luck dependent, i run the game for fun at times (mobile game, each attempt takes like 15 minutes) and still havent managed to beat my time 2 years later.
Since the game got delisted from Google Play for some reason this year, I'm likely not seeing competition on it for a long time.
I got close to a perfect pacman clear twice. Can't remember the exact number of either run, but one was a little over the 3mil mark. I got excited and fucked it up.
The other was maybe 100k below that.
Both were high enough that nobody even got close.
I was absurdly good at pacman. Pretty damn good at centipede, though I wasn't obsessed with it the same way, so I don't remember any scores at all.
Back in the day it was combination of being young and paying attention to the basic patterns of the ghosts, then keeping a count of dots eaten so you could know when fruit was going to appear.
Each ghost has a set behavior in each phase of a board, plus a different way of picking where to go. The red ghost is always trying to get to where you are, but pinky is trying to get ahead of you. I can't remember all of it any more, it's been over thirty years.
Back then, it was all a bunch of kids spamming quarters and figuring things out as best we could. I wasn't the one to figure out the patterns, I was just good at using them. And my hand/eye coordination was fast. So I could see the ghosts and where they were going, then adjust my movement before it would be a problem.
Staying ahead of the "ai" of the ghosts was the only real way to get past around lvl 50. Before that, you could usually just clear a quarter of the screen while avoiding them reactively. After that, if you weren't able to visually track all 4, and have a sense of where they were going to be, you'd eventually crap out, or lose fruit, which means a lower score.
There's articles out there now that give details I had no idea were part of it back in the arcade days though.
NASA has warned that the massive asteroid 2024 NX1 will skim past Earth tonight - reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT in the early hours of Christmas Eve.Wiliam Hunter (Daily Mail)
okay one trick is to use the mode where pulling back on the joystick flips your ship 180° and never moving, just stay in the middle and flip and rotate!
nasa should know what to do with this information
I routinely get scores so high that they stop me from carrying on
I play a lot of golf games
Lot's of games. Still aiming for that last two to be a four.
Edit: The general strategy is to always have your largest number in a corner and then snake alle other numbers towards that like you see in the screenshot. With small numbers you have a bit of leeway. But as soon as you hit 4096 the largest number has to stay in a corner.
Tony hawk 3 I played online a bit and could slap out million plus tricks. I could do one trick and AFK the rest of the match and win.
Just Rodney Mullen things
Hey there,
Is there a source out there where I can find tablets fit for Linux..?
Am not after Pine or what have you...just a tablet, Samsung or what have you that can run Linux as custom rom.
Thanks
Do you absolutely require linux? If so something like a older microsoft surface would be best probably. Where its a full computer x86 based and has a detatchable keyboard, or a 2-in-1 that folds the keyboard back. Downside with this is worse battery life, and itll be a bit bulkier.
If what you want is just a tablet that does not spy on you id actually reccomend just getting a pixel tablet and putting graphene OS on it. Its a custom android ROM that strips a lot out and sandboxes things to give you more control over the device while still being based on android and bringing the advantages that has (battery life, mobile optimization, etc). Down side is you dont get the full Linux OS youd want.
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A Surface Go 1 has been my daily driver for the last 4 years on Fedora.
I’m mostly using it docked to a USB-C screen but it works fine by itself. I’m also using a keyboard so it’s mostly a PC and not a tablet anymore😅
But I’m really happy with it and it works almost flawlessly.
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Quick and dirty is this:
Running a new dual boot system. Windows boots fine and fast. Grub bootloader grinds and grunts to startup. Systemd checks point to Fedora waiting on the Win10 disk to boot (+45s!!!). Obviously, I don't need that drive to run, but Fedora/Bootloader thinks it should.
Disconnected the Win10 drive, Fedora booted in 3.6s.
So... Windows bootloader knows to ignore the Fedora OS drive and launches fine. Fedora Bootloader insists it try everything to get that Win10 drive running to my own detriment.
Is there a way to just ignore the Win10 drive the way Win10 ignores Fedora?
Been scratching my head on this one for a bit to be honest.
EDIT: Seems the issue was caused by RAID incompatibility from my internal backups for Win10. The RAID drives wrongly pointed the finger at the boot disk because the only thing I could really make sense of in diagnostics was the Win10 boot stalling for 45+ seconds. Once I disconnected all the drives and incrementally reconnected them I quickly realised it was the backup drives and not a boot disk conflict as I wrongly assumed.
Nope!
Root, Boot, /EFI, /home
After writing this post I took the nuclear option and disconnected all drives in the PC save for the one hosting Fedora. Then I incrementally connected them all until failure.
It wasn't the Win10 drive but the RAID pair I have as a system backup causing the problem. I guess Fedora was trying to mount those disks causing the hold up. Then that made it look like it was the Win10 disk causing the holdup because it was waiting to initialise.
With the RAID drives disconnected everyone is speaking the same language now.
Systemd checks point to Fedora waiting on the Win10 disk to boot (+45s!!!).
how are you booting windows from systemd?
Obviously, I don’t need that drive to run, but Fedora/Bootloader thinks it should.
systemd is not part of the bootloader.
how are you booting windows from systemd?
I'm not. I ran some Systemd-analyze, blame etc once Fedora started up and saw that most of my startup lag was caused by a specific drive on boot.
systemd is not part of the bootloader.
Yes, and so I used the systemd tools to figure out what was causing my issues on boot.
As I explained in a reply in this thread it seems my issue is mostly resolved for now. The bootloader was stalling on initializing a pair of drives I have in RAID for system backups on the M$ side.
This is turn, when running -analyze or other tools showed the drive that contained my Win10 machine stalling out and waiting 45+ seconds to initialise. Because /it/ was actually waiting for the RAID drives to sort it the hell out. So, it looked like there was a conflict between both boot disks when in reality the stall was a symptom of Linux not playing nice with RAID.
I wrongly assumed it was a boot disk conflict similar to some Windows dual boots where the two disks may be fighting with each other for boot priority and causing a fight until one timed out.
Everyone seems shocked at this.
I spent the better part of 2001 and on arguing against the PATRIOT Act and its codification of terrorism as a crime. Lots of people were against it, pointing out how the PATRIOT Act would consider the Founding Fathers terrorists. They committed violence to achieve political ends.
Did everyone just forget that at one point there was actually a nascent conversation on why this was a bad idea, especially considering people warning that they would soon use these laws against their own citizens?
Why did these conversations stop? More importantly, now that Mangione is being charged with terrorism, why aren't the conversations beginning anew?
State media (which are largely controlled by the capitalist class), corporate media (which are owned by the capitalist class), and most NGO media (which are funded by the capitalist class) aren’t going to talk about it. One should assume that corporate social media will algorithmically de-prioritize it.
We’ve talked about it here, though: Luigi Mangione charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO as an act of terrorism
That makes perfect sense.
1. The murder of a CEO terrifies the bourgeoisie.
2. The state serves the will of the bourgeoisie.
3. The state charges the alleged murderer with terrorism.
Luigi Mangione charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO as an act of terrorism
The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new.
Under New York law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”
did everyone just forget
Yes. The American populace has very low political IQ, a short memory, and is very emotional. 2001 was 23 years ago, entire people were conceived, raised, and voted in that time. You have to understand that the majority of control of this country is decided on whims, opinions, and gas prices
Why aren't the conversations beginning anew?
America doesn't know how to discuss politics. We understand sports and can talk about politics as if they were sports, but we won't learn a lesson until there are opposing troops on our doorstep (and honestly, I don't think we will then)
Why did these conversations stop?
it's still going strong in other instances; it sounds like you're on the wrong one.
I've seen tons of discussion around Luigi, almost zero about the history of what lead to this in regards to the War on Terror and earlier anti-terrorism efforts. When the FBI stopped being about catching high-level criminals and became almost exclusively focused on counter-terrorism.
Circlejerking around one guy isn't necessarily the same as having more complex discussions on how we even came to this point and why. Someone else here even linked to a thread saying "we've talked about it before" and yet the thread had zero substantive discussion around such issues, rather just more circlejerking Luigi.
But I guess contextualizing and synthesizing the history of the US is too much to ask for from most of its citizens.
you have to create the engagement that you want to see on lemmy and effort posts & comments on terrorism and how it applies to this situation is going to require an audience that doesn't fit in well with any "general interest" instance like the one you're commenting from.
lemmy was meant to be political since its inception and; in your shoes; i would take advantage of that fact to engage on this topic in one of the original political instances since its communities are already inclined to such a discourse as evidenced by the example @davel shared.
the palestine community is really active and i'm have no doubt that they would have interesting perspectives on the west's War on Terror and earlier anti-terrorism efforts as it pertains to current events induced by the same common imperialistic hegemony that has been fucking over their lives more than it has been fucking up american lives (esp healthcare). now that our government is treating luigi with the same terrorist charge that they've levied against palestinian leaders; there's a commonality that can be explored that won't happen on a general interest instance.
I think it's important to break down what he's actually being charged with, and note he's not being charged with any federal offense under any federal anti-terrorism laws, which I think is what most people's grievances are with.
What he's been charged with are first degree murder and second degree murder under the laws of New York State. First degree murder in New York only applies to several very specific circumstances, and the only one of those even remotely related to what Luigi Mangione did is:
the victim was killed in furtherance of an act of terrorism, as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 490.05 of this chapter
Which is defined as:
(b) for purposes of subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section 125.27 of this chapter means activities that involve a violent act or acts dangerous to human life that are in violation of the criminal laws of this state and are intended to:(i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.
The reality is the prosecutors want to be able to get him with first degree murder, but the likelihood of that sticking, I believe, is really low. I think they believe that too, which is why he's also charged with second degree murder. Second degree murder in this case seems like a slam dunk, whereas "charged him with terrorism" makes for flashy headlines but is just not likely to go anywhere based on what's publicly known in this case.
I think, it's because this case is so big, that the amount of people talking about can't really increase, but also there's so much more to the case than this aspect. Which makes it difficult to focus conversation on this.
I also wanna say that it makes sense for him to get charged, even though a lot of people don't like it. Killing another human is an issue no matter what it is. And just because we think this crime stands for something bigger, that doesn't justify the killing in the first place. It's just shades of immorality.
That said, healthcare is a huge issue and I hope this changes things finally. I also don't agree with the charging of terrorism, as it says "terrorism" in it, and even though there's a small chance it fulfills the requirements, I have no angle to personally view this as terrorism.
Does it instill terror? Everyone gets scared when someone is killed, but this does not exceed it to the point that there is now a present danger. There's no furtherance to the terror, only vigilance in the crime.
Some lawyers even argue this is a pile-on to the charges, which might be the case, although I'm not an expert.
But I do think it's gonna be hard to prove the terrorism as opposed to everything else. Truly, the only threat to the prosecution of the other counts is jury nullification, which poses completely different risks.
But that's a story for another day.
A hung jury just allows the prosecution to retry him
It's up to the prosecutor if it's worth the expense or not.
I also wanna say that it makes sense for him to get charged, even though a lot of people don’t like it. Killing another human is an issue no matter what it is. And just because we think this crime stands for something bigger, that doesn’t justify the killing in the first place. It’s just shades of immorality.
It makes sense, from the perspective of the legal system and of liberalism as an ideology. But I disagree with the claims after. Justification and ideas of morality are highly subjective, that's why we have philosophical thought experiments like the trolley problem. There are plenty of mainstream moral frameworks that consider the killing of that CEO to be morally justified, just as there are ones that don't. But ultimately, hard idealistic moral stances like 'killing another human is always immoral' just aren't a useful approach to apply to the real world, it's flaws and its constraints. Sometimes there just aren't other viable options which won't just cause more people to die.
I mean considering law is the practical application of a moral construct, and this moral construct is mostly agreed upon, I would not wanna question the laws that make killings a crime for example, although there is obviously nuance.
I understand that some people think "there can be a justification for a killing" but I would always say, if we justify some killings, there is always a chance people will abuse this "loophole" for crime we created. So saying all killings are illegal is kind of the best application of our morals we have. Unfortunately, it's impossible to include every little nuance and detail in the moral system we base our laws upon, but that's why our laws are not absolutely rigid.
I get it, it feels wrong, I really do. But there can be both. I can both say that even a CEO shouldn't be killed, and at the same time acknowledge that there is good reasons and something like that was inevitable given the status quo.
I would always say, if we justify some killings, there is always a chance people will abuse this “loophole” for crime we created.
Oh you mean how UHC uses that loophole to kill people with social murder, and our moral system doesn't consider it a crime because they didn't directly stab someone to death, but instead purposefully denied them care that they had paid for by paying for insurance, leaving them to die.
So saying all killings are illegal is kind of the best application of our morals we have.
Except, we clearly don't say all killings are illegal, as evidenced by what I just discussed. We have clearly made the choice that social murder though things like denying healthcare or denying housing and pushing people into the frozen deadly streets of winter are totes okay. That's literally what's at issue here, is that a whole swath of killings are allowed, and not just allowed, but are allowed to be profited from, and handsomely. Which is far darker and worse, imho.
Genuinely, it's easy to say that we have banned all killings, but we clearly haven't. Cops even have qualified immunity to murder with impunity. We have the largest military in the world, and we've been known as the violent "World Police" that will bomb your country to the fucking stone age. Those deaths and that violence is normalized. That's why they say "the state has a monopoly on violence."
For what it's worth, I am critical of the assassination and don't consider it an effective way forward, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily immoral. That's not why I think it deserves criticism. Ultimately, I think if it somehow does lead to policy reform and saves lots of people from going into debt, it was the moral choice for society.
I mean considering law is the practical application of a moral construct
Ideally, as part of liberalism ideology, it is. Practically, it isn't. Law is the dictatorship of politicians (and therefore of the mega-rich owning class they are beholden to), interpreted by judges, and in special cases, a jury who are instructed to ignore their own morality. The politicians' own morality is optional in how they create bills and laws (consider: bribery/'lobbying', pragmatic deals), and the moral constructs of you and I have effectively no real relevance to law. The idea that modern law is representative of society and some "mostly agreed upon" moral construct is a blind claim which clearly isn't the case when we examine how our countries' legal systems works. How could we possibly know what is agreed upon? Our representative liberal-democracy system is far too over-simplified to extrapolate this: for example, the US system, there was a common statement here of people pleading "vote Democrat even if you think their policies and behavior is horrible just so we don't have the worse Republican candidate", along with many people choosing on single-issues or even just vibes. Voter turnout was less than two-thirds. Clearly we can't take the results of such a system and assume the winning party's consensus represents the mostly agreed upon moral constructs!
There is no perfect set of laws. It's a utopian fantasy. So it's fine to have rules and close loopholes, I don't think it's a valid excuse to say we can't outlaw or legalize [x] because someone might abuse it. The extreme conclusion of that logic would be, for example, outlawing cars [often used as weapons to murder people, e.g. at protests], lots of fertilizers (critical ingredient in basic explosives manufacturing), and other ridiculous measures. So obviously, and like you hinted at, there has to be some sort of compromise and exceptions.
I understand that some people think “there can be a justification for a killing” [and rest of paragraph]
I think you've already hinted at it, but there are plenty of legal justifications for killing already. Imminent self-defense is one I assume most people consider justifiable (based on situation). Military service is another (at least in defensive situations, when your mainland is invaded, but plenty of other people will reasonably argue offensive security like invading [list middle eastern countries here, list asian countries here, list south and central american countries here] was morally justified). Police intervention in violent situations is legally justified.
A particularly relevant type is social murder. Because of its indirect nature, it's often simply not recognized as murder, but is certainly just as horrible, premeditated and impactful, and due to how it works, is systematic and effects large amounts of people. Immoral legal murder. The kind that companies including UnitedHealthcare commit through systematically denying procedures necessary to survive. Many morality systems, such as the very popular utilitarianism school, consider the people running that company to be effectively equal to the worst mass murderers, and since the legal system does not recognize and stop them, there are few 'good' options which aren't just allowing mass murder to continue, one of those options being to scare the executives into complicity through vigilantism.
Killing another human is an issue no matter what it is.
Killing a healthcare CEO is no different than killing a mass shooter. In fact it's better, judging by the number of people each harms.
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It's so weird.
Trump is only slightly less pro-war than Bush/Obama/Biden, but the thing is, when he pulls the military from a war he almost certainly does it for the wrong reasons.
I'm anti-war myself, so for me, it's a win. Obama had us at war in seven countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Libya) and the US military is still active in most of them. Personally, I think it's more of a business move than a political one. Lots of war profiteers spent a lot of money on Biden and Harris' campaigns, and they expect a return on that investment while he still has the power to give it.