This feels a bit like nitpicking about the description of the dining hall layout of a post about the titanic sinking, but I don’t get these units. Well, specifically I don’t get the inclusion of hiroshima & nagasaki. The US technically dropped 10 tons of ordinance on those cities; but if you’re looking at the TNT rating, it was about 40 kilotons total.

This makes me feel worse than anything trump has done. We’re so fucked.

Not sure what bread or chocolate chips you are eating, but this isn’t even remotely true

“have to” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

but she also didn’t seem to mind his general intimidation tactics and demeanor until he crossed that line

I mean, she did call 911 on him several times and file for restraining orders because of his abuse of her, so she minded that. It’s not a stretch to say she minded it enough to not want to cross him.

Yep, her abusive ex-husband, whom she tried to leave, but was told to reconcile with if she wanted to make the Olympics. He was trying to promote his bodyguard business, so he had someone attack Kerrigan. As to her involvement, it’s he-said-she-said. She could have come up with the idea, or only learned of it after the fact. I’m inclined to believe her over her abuser, but it really is guesswork.

If anyone is interested in the story, Sarah Marshall’s Remote Control is mandatory reading. She also talks about it on the You’re Wrong About podcast.

Reporting because this is actually a good post

I agree with you as long as we also don’t end up boiling the oceans to get a mediocre picture of Luigi snacking on peanuts or whatever

Why is nobody willing to talk about cop on cop violence?

How did the breaker not trip on that? It had one job

no u

Not quite the same thing, but there’s a project that lets you use TPM to protect your host keys: https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent

[edit: its primary function is to work with clients but buried in the readme it also explains how to use it for host keys]

As much as I dislike billionaires and think we have a huge problem with school shootings, the math on this doesn’t check out. According to Forbes there are more than 2,500 billionaires; 2,500/60 > 40 per day. I didn’t dig too deep on the stats for school shootings (because oof), but thankfully we’re not there. There are so, so many more than could be, and it’s a horrible tragedy that we’re doing nothing about, but we aren’t there.

Your karyotype doesn’t determine what kind of gamete you produce.

See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome

AFAIK we don’t have any way to determine this before sex differentiation actually occurs. When sex differentiation occurs it happens as a response to hormones, not karyotype. It’s possible that environment could be the determining factor, as is the case with freemartins.

So no, it’s not an exaggeration nor embarrassing to say that nobody meets the order’s definition of male or female.

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

From Letter from Birmingham Jail

what point it that exactly

That it’s a mirror for the way white liberals behave. Obsess over language while ignoring structural racism & denying material benefits to black people.

This reply is not for the person I’m replying to; I thought someone else stumbling on this might want clarification but I’m not continuing a discussion with someone who throws insults at me.

F.d. signifier talks about this in one of his videos. Don’t remember which and can’t find it. But as I recall his take was that it’s weird to be OK with playing a hyper-racist slaver right up until you have to say the n-word. Not to say DiCaprio is a bad person or whatever, but it’s a good point.

Could you elaborate? Because I’m confused by what you could mean here. What is the broader policy that they disagree with? You say they “did agree with the specific neopronouns policy”, so it seems like you are saying they agree that “harassment based on gender or neopronouns [should] remain prohibited—even if the user in question was suspected of being a troll”? If the broader policy is a policy of “respect for trans identities”, it seems like the only thing about the policy they have a problem with is its respect for trans identities.

Your post does contain the line “they remained unhappy with the broader policy of respect for trans identities”, which to me reads as being at least pretty similar to having “issue with transgender identities.” But I’m an outsider to all this and may be missing context.

Telegram isn’t encrypted end-to-end by default; apparently if you do encrypt e2e you can’t access chats from multiple devices.

Signal’s protocol is widely understood to be the gold standard for security, which is one reason it’s been adopted for multiple messengers. Telegram has a bespoke protocol which is not as well regarded.