pensivepangolin

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[–] pensivepangolin 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah that’s the real summary.

[–] pensivepangolin 15 points 1 year ago

Another shining example of why the Jerusalem post is a propagandistic rag. And not a very good one at that.

[–] pensivepangolin 1 points 1 year ago

Okay so a cursory reading of Wikipedia (yeah I know, not the most credible) shows that you are correct about him being one of the key players in starting the online bank X.com with Peter Thiel and crew.

I concede that point! My apologies for casting aspersions.

[–] pensivepangolin 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Close!

He doesn’t come up with anything. He just got lucky buying into other people’s companies based on their ideas.

[–] pensivepangolin 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, I know this is off-topic, but you mentioned the cyber truck…

…have you seen how ugly and stupid the cyber truck looks? It looks nothing like it’s primo materials; it’s just an ugly stainless steel slab. It’s laughable.

[–] pensivepangolin 11 points 1 year ago

Propaganda!

[–] pensivepangolin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh nice! I just like to warn people because I saw bridges get popular with Beeper and people don’t always catch that security-for-ease compromise

I’m not trying rip on Beeper, by the way. I don’t use them and never have. They could be totally legitimate and good-faith actors, but the reencryption issue with bridges sets my tinfoil hat off!

[–] pensivepangolin 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also worth noting that communication between signal and matrix through most bridges requires the message to be decrypted and reencrypted, thereby breaking E2EE which kinda defeats the point.

Unless you’re running a bridge on a locked down home server on your own network, not sure it’s the most secure.

[–] pensivepangolin 8 points 1 year ago

People that post personally identifying information on accounts used to discuss illegal things or view porn blow my mind.

[–] pensivepangolin 7 points 1 year ago

The civilians of Gaza, clearly and inarguably. They have been living for decades under aerial surveillance, need IDF permits to even visit a hospital outside Gaza, which is often necessary as the hospitals within Gaza have been under supplied for years. They also had the Israeli army only allow food imports sufficient to keep the population just above starvation levels. And the whole time, armed Israeli “civilians” have been forcibly evicting Palestinians from their homes in land to which Israel has no claim under international law.

To argue that a violent reaction to that kind of life makes anyone morally blameworthy is callous, bigoted, inhumane, and plainly wrong. If you think that, honestly, I am sorry for you.

[–] pensivepangolin 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I think I see what’s going on here. I think you’re answering me as though I’m talking about the actual post. But I’m talking specifically about the comment to which my initial comment is a reply. I think we’re talking about two different things!

I wouldn’t argue that you’re wrong that discouraging people from seeking medical attention or treatment is dangerous to their health! I do think medication is overprescribed in America, but I don’t think that it’s a blanket statement that should be used to discourage seeking medical care.

I hope this clarifies thing a little!

[–] pensivepangolin 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t think the comment to which I replied denied that some people have medical problems preventing sound sleep. As a matter of fact, I am someone who deals with chronic insomnia, and wouldn’t tell someone suffering therefrom it’s in their head.

Nor does the comment I replied to suggest people shouldn’t take their medications for various physiological or psychological ailments. It seems to just be a post of common sense tips to the average person without complicating medical conditions and for whom these tips would make some difference.

Not everything failing to explicitly carve out exceptions for every single minority case is an attack on them!

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