SnotFlickerman

Some days I really deeply contemplate just getting a canister of helium and an exit bag.

It seems like most humans honestly are not that interested at all in things like history, the value of community, involvement with others, social and emotional support, and are generally just selfish living-perpetually-in-the-moment idiots that willfully ignore the implications of anything they do and endlessly play the victim.

It's honestly a drag to realize how many of our species continue to be backwards knuckle dragging slack-jawed yokels who get positively furious when anyone calls them out on how absolutely fucking stupid they are. How dare you call them stupid and hurt their feelings! It's their right to be a an absolute fucking idiot and you're the one out of line for calling attention to it! They couldn't possibly try to not be a mendacious fucking moron! You're the person who is wrong for noticing!

Who'd have guessed that Musk's promise to "maximize free speech" was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.

Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about "free speech" they want "free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don't like."

Remember ol' Khrushchev when he was ridin' high with that Sputnik satellite
He told us yankee boys, he's gunna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites
He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my Sputnik satellite?"
Well, Ike reeled his head back
Looked him in the eye, that's a mighty fine satellite.

But I'mma gonna get me one better, just you wait and see
I'mma gonna get me one better, you can't get the best of me
I'mma gonna get me one better, the baddest one around
I'mma gonna get me one better, 'cause' I got the biggest balls in town.

Return of the chain gang busting limestone.

Mandela Effect: He died in prison, therefore no reforms are needed. /s

Public defenders are also not offered for civil cases. If you need a lawyer for your civil case, you either need to find someone who will work for you pro bono or you have to risk filing it yourself and doing it wrong.

or made public—privacy is always temporary.

Personal opinion, this is much more applicable to paper data than it is to digital data.

Magnetic tape storage has one of the longest lifespans for storage before data corruption and even that seems to at best be about thirty years. Even with ideal conditions for storage this is a very short shelf life.

Without regular backups digital data degrades rather quickly and is difficult to recover after corruption.

Beyond that quickly changing technology standards makes it harder to recover old data. PATA/IDE was the standard 20 years ago, how many people realistically have the tools available to recover an IDE drive when all they have is a slick laptop with a USB-C port? Specialized tools must be used to even recover from recent types of media.

I have always had issues with any and all legal systems because they are rooted in human language and human language can be endlessly reinterpreted. In fact, that's pretty much the half the reason lawyers exist, to argue that a certain interpretation that benefits their client. As we've seen time and time again, the language of the oppressed gets co-opted and repackaged (recuperated) by the dominant and controlling parts of society. Those who already have control are unlikely to let that control of others go, and they will sink to any depth and any reinterpretation to justify it.

At least academics who focus on interpreting literature are honest about how they're pulling the interpretations out of their own ass.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

-Jean-Paul Sartre

Thus, as much as we need legal systems, I think they are always prone to failure and authoritarianism.

*laughs in private tracker community

Plenty of trackers have gone down and taken their entire history with them. when baconBits shut down, the admins toyed with the idea of having a backup of the forums for some people who wanted it, but that never happened. Maybe it lives on inside some hard drive squirreled away somewhere, but since the forums were private and only accessible to members, they were never scraped and any history of them officially doesn't exist.

The main issue I have with laws like these is... once the person who "needed to cool off" has the gun all they need is to get hot-headed again and this time there isn't a cool-off period for them to access it.

The psychology "test" is all fine and good, but a test doesn't tell you what an actual licensed psychologist can. Way too easy for someone to just lie on a test if they know what the "right" answers are. A lot more difficult to hide dangerous personality traits in front of another human being. Step it up one more notch to requiring a psychological evaluation.

Seriously, there's a reason there's been horror stories of people crying at their desks at Amazon since the early 2000's. Because they've always treated everyone like they're completely expendable at all times. Horrific work culture.