Cocodapuf

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[–] Cocodapuf 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Is it a twist if nobody is surprised?

Perhaps this should actually read "in grim reality, most see suspect in C.E.O. Killing as Hero or Heartthrob".

[–] Cocodapuf 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

From that I'd say they have pretty good matches on him. The bad news for him is that these days with surveillance, you need to be really sneaky before you commit a crime as well as after. It's hard to cover all your tracks on the way in and on the way out.

It looks like they're getting better pictures of his face, that's real bad for him. Personally, I'm not confident he's getting away with this. It would probably be wise to leave the country asap.

[–] Cocodapuf 3 points 1 month ago

Personally, I agree. But we do need to be limiting the damage trump can do. I think Biden should go the other way, do a few things that are so illegal that the SCOTUS has to start limiting the president's powers.

Perhaps a domestic drone strike or two.

[–] Cocodapuf 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We need these abstractions though, we love them, and we should! The problem isn't abstraction itself, we couldn't survive without that. The problem is in how we build these abstractions, the problem is that we create unsustainable and irresponsible abstractions and then present them as legitimate options.

But we can't throw out abstraction entirely. It's like, if a person dies in a car crash, we should ask some questions, but you don't ask "should we really have cars?", instead you ask "should that person be driving a car? And is that car safe to drive?"

[–] Cocodapuf 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know a couple of people who had jobs working with a defense contractor. One of them justified it by saying he doesn't actually work on missile projects, his department does as air traffic control systems (and sure, there's nothing objectionable about that). But they both knew what their company did and it certainly did make it an uncomfortable place to work. You can tell yourself that these weapons only get used on bad guys, but I think the more you have to tell that story, the harder it is to hear yourself.

They've both moved on at this point.

[–] Cocodapuf 2 points 1 month ago

But if we do that today, what do we do tomorrow? When someone someone else takes that vacant CEO position and starts receiving that ludicrous salary, what then?

If you killed every billionaire every month, they probably wouldn't have time to seriously affect society, but then I suspect we'd have other problems. I have a feeling that would produce some negative outcomes for the economy and general quality of life.

[–] Cocodapuf 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A phobia is also legit.

[–] Cocodapuf 22 points 2 months ago

I was 12 when my dad gave me the talk (the talk about how police will kill you if you aren't exceptionally polite to them). How having skin our color is very dangerous because police are afraid of us. So no quick movements.

[–] Cocodapuf 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More than that, they're just stupid.

Here's just one example of dumb Jedi stuff. I just rewatched the prequels and it occurred to me, that Anakin didn't really suddenly turn to the dark side because his mom died. He turned to the dark side because he didn't have any friends to check him when he's being a douche bag... The dude literally has nobody to talk to except for Padma, and he's forbidden from pursuing a romantic relationship with her, which is super frustrating. This is a scenario destined for failure. What he really needs are some friends he can talk to and vent at about his shitty situation.

Here's the weird thing though, remember that scene where Yoda is training a whole class of little padawans? Those padawans at least have a cohort, they have a group they can bond with and lean on as they grow up and continue their training. So if that's the way they run things, where is Anakin's cohort? Why is he isolated? Anakin has a single person as his mentor, boss, teacher, therapist, dad and only friend, that's not really healthy. And when that one person is gone for an extended period, that leaves Anakin with absolutely no support structure and a lot of temptation to make bad choices, this is setting him up for failure. Cause let's be honest, he's a teen, making bad choices is what they do.

[–] Cocodapuf 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow... Well I maintain that is about the dumbest thing he could do, but I apologize for doubting you.

[–] Cocodapuf 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm inclined to agree with this. Just apply Hanlon's razor, people make mistakes, often.

[–] Cocodapuf 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Periodically like every minute?

These cables can carry terabits per second. I suppose if you had 100 petabytes of storage (that could probably be achieved with a single large rack of machines) you could just swap the entire rig every few hours or so, but that feels extremely cumbersome.

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