Em Adespoton

Just so you know, I’m a fellow Voyager user on lemmy.ca and I don’t see that anywhere I’m not a mod.

I never said it wasn’t a word; it means bully. But hectored doesn’t mean bullied the way we use that in English—it would mean to create a bully.

I wouldn’t. I’d set up at least four groups and let them run autonomously from each other. I might not even let them know that there’s other groups on the planet.

More chance of survival if there’s different groups trying different things. Strength in diversity.

Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.

“Factory workers ’on average’ earn 1.9x minimum wage.”

Average is a silly thing to use here. That means the factory owners are making bank while the labourers are making minimum wages for their country — and in some countries, minimum wages is $0.

If they used the median instead, or compared against cost of living, we’d see different numbers.

That’s impressive, considering he wasn’t even alive 80 years ago.

/jk

I currently do this via self-hosted NextCloud for larger and encrypted IMs for smaller files.

You missed “make my computer work” and “get me movies for free”.

Knowing stuff can be a curse, especially when you’re 10 steps ahead of everyone else in the room and you know they’re just going to need the time to figure it out on their own.

But being smart means you know how and when to apply your knowledge. So you can provide the information when it’s actually useful and not when it just gets blank stares.

And knowing stuff but NOT talking about it all the time, and not using “told you so” means that when you DO speak, anyone who matters will listen and take you seriously.

I find that slipping useful knowledge into self-deprecating jokes is a useful way to get people to listen to it.

Of course not. That would be wasteful.

Problem with that is the domain is registered in the US. And the FBI has a history of claiming domains whose content the US government wants offline.

Germans don’t smile with their mouths; they generally do smile with their eyes. People who only look at mouths generally miss that.

Part of what it points to is what you’re currently paying attention to. You don’t notice all the people who aren’t what you consider “good looking”.

Later in life, you’ll notice how many people have children in strollers, or drive fancy cars, or can afford houses. You may start noticing how many people own dogs, run regularly outside, or never look up from their phones.

It’s a form of selection bias; you tend to see the people that are most likely to catch your attention, and ignore the rest.

Try an exercise: start checking to see how many people you see in public smile with their eyes.

Russia hasn’t taken over all of Ukraine because… it’s filled with Ukrainians who aren’t letting them.

Willingness for peace would be going home.

How do Americans have more moral authority right now than Christians? They’re overlapping groups that as a whole are behaving pretty badly right now. You could apply the same logic here to police officers or many other groups (manyotherism?)

You may have a point with humanity as a whole, as there’s only one way to exit that group and it’s not going to be an effective solution to the world’s current problems.

It’s not “whataboutisn” when someone says “I own that and I’m doing what I can to fix things. This needs to be applied to other groups as well” though. That’s a “yes, and” not a “not this but that” argument.

In this context, the other groups are brought up solely to illustrate the issues, and not to condone the bad behavior festering inside the larger group that self-identifies as Christian.

Since we’re discussing Windows privacy here…

What I’d really like is something that creates a situation like VeraCrypt plausible deniability, but where the base image gets updated regularly so that the timestamps and temporary file usage also look plausible for a computer used today.

Then instead of running an app like this, you just log out, and when you log in with the wrong password, it presents a plausible if mostly empty userland that overwrites the real encrypted data as new files are written to disk.

Yup; upvoted, and doing exactly this.

But that same argument can be applied at all levels. These people are also Americans and humans, with a distorted sharpie-version of both identities.

We all need to own our shared identity with these people while rejecting the false narratives they stand behind.

Feel free to spit in my face then.

I’d argue that what these people are spreading is about as close to Christianity as Trump’s sharpie hurricane map is to an actual hurricane though; damaging and ignorant by misleading people.

As an example, they say God orders women to submit to their husbands. They get that from a letter Paul of Tarsus wrote to a group of early Christians in response to the way a particular group of (uneducated, likely trophy) wives were behaving that wasn’t in line with Jesus’ teachings to put others before themselves, because they misunderstood the bit about Jesus being an ultimate sacrifice that freed people from Jewish law to mean that you could behave however you wanted, and all would be forgiven. Paul told them that’s not how things work, and to ask their (likely educated in Jewish law) husbands to explain it to them at home instead of disrupting public meetings by preaching junk like this.

Unfortunately, a lot if what the public sees of Christianity in the US is remixes of exactly the same things the Bible these people own directly instructs against.

Jesus was a socialist pacifist. These people attempt to re-make him in their own image, taking instructions from his immediate followers out of context to justify their behavior, totally ignoring actual direct commands like “love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.”

You think he knows who writes his checks and where the book is stored?

“Harvard’s Legal Team” likely includes not only the best law professors in the world, but also all the alumni working pro bono.

Before Trump started cracking down on law firms, that may not have been the case, but they have nothing to lose now.