PhilipTheBucket

joined 2 weeks ago

Everybody needs someone to check them. Any time some person just gets to do whatever they want, it starts falling flat or getting corrupted, because people are severely imperfect. Work together though, fill in each other's weaknesses and oversights, and you can do fantastic things.

What else could it possibly be?

I'll take any evidence, hopefully at some point it will be useful at the trial, but there's no possible way that denying food to a civilian population for months at a time can be anything except a strategy to starve them. This isn't like Ireland in the 1800s when they were taking the food away to do something else with it. It's there, and they're just leaving it to rot, undelivered.

It doesn't completely work that way, just like for humans. Sometimes feeding pets less is just subjecting them to pretty severe discomfort and hunger, while their metabolism is deciding that food is scarce so they better hoard every calorie they can spare. I know it's significantly urgent to help them lose weight because of the health impacts, but IDK that it is super simple once you've decided to try to make it happen.

Anyways, these edgelords would get laughed out of any real leftist communities once they started regurgitating agit prop.

Honestly, man, if they did the Hexbear type of behavior they might get punched. It's one thing that they advocate for genocide and excuse war crimes, that I think would get them laughed at or just removed yes. But the sheer level of obnoxiousness I think they would have trouble getting away with in person without some kind of physical reaction, at least someone getting in their face about it.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (17 children)

In the olden times, it was a big point of pride of American politics that a lot of people didn't want to kill the leaders. It was sort of assumed that in feudal style European politics, of course the common people kind of wanted to kill you, because you were threatening their safety and taking their stuff. In America, the way we did things was to earn the respect of the people you governed. The people actually wanted this person to be in charge. Why would I shoot that guy? That's who we picked, we like him.

Of course there are some caveats (slavery large among them). The reality never matched up to the ideal. But we're going back to where even the approximation of consent of the governed that we used to have, isn't assumed anymore. Fuckin bullshit

You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid

No, I was assuming your volume decreases. I don't actually know that to be the case, but my assumption is that there isn't "extra" space inside a person, and so if you lose material from a part of your body that isn't encased in anything rigid your volume decreases slightly.

So maybe I did have my terminology wrong. When a hot air balloon deflates, it falls. The density went up, but that's not what's directly relevant. The weight went down, I guess, but the "number on the scale", weight minus buoyant force, went way way up, because it lost some lower-density volume that was making the whole thing float. The weight (in a strict physics sense) went down, sure. But the number on the scale (which I was incorrectly calling "weight") went up. Same thing for a farting person.

Oh... yeah, that makes more sense than "decrypting" it to inspect it.

Anyway, I think I'll delete the article, I think you're right and it is unuseful.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hm, I think you are right. Looking at it again, there's also this:

For one, enterprises largely disable QUIC and force websites like Google to downgrade back to TCP. This is because there’s only a single firewall vendor that can decrypt and inspect QUIC traffic (Go Fortinet!).

I definitely don't think that is how it works. Maybe enterprises disable QUIC, but it's not because they can decrypt and inspect HTTPS traffic.

I hope this shit turns out okay, seems like the rollercoaster's pretty much at the peak of that first big hill.

"Why I got a bird hand? Why I got a bird hand? Oh..."

Yeah, it sits at this very satisfying cusp where it is clearly saying something, once you get over the "look at this upsetting thing I'm showing you" level, but I can also totally believe people coming to totally different conclusions about what it is saying. It's wild.

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