SnotFlickerman

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 9 months ago (9 children)

They doubtfully are giving it root access to self-delete.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Further, since instance owners are just a username...

If my good admin got black bagged and replaced by someone else with access to her accounts... How long would it be before I noticed? What if she was pressured or threatened with death if she didn't comply? Many ways to ruin otherwise good people.

Unfortunately, not really. I only thought of this one due to how many times I've had to deal with not having water and needing to flush my poos ha.

But the technology to fake it clearly could? Idiots...

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I have long said that even in a Utopia you would have people unhappy about the way things were.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't need to be non-potable, but it seems wasteful (in my opinion) to use potable water for flushing toilets.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They hate their fellow Americans more than they hate foreigners these days.

They truly do think the greatest evil is liberalism, empathy, and compassion. They'll back anyone who thinks opposite.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Good, this should have always been the norm. You literally cannot predict disaster, so you should always have something available just in case.

It should also include things like jugs of non-potable water in addition to jugs of potable water. The non-potable water can be used for things like flushing toilets a commonly overlooked but important aspect of losing water access.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Dang it I finally literally just updated yesterday after not updating for like six months and being lazy haha.

Nice new features though and no breaking changes so no big deal. Just update it again today, I guess.

I am an unabashed media pirate.

I hate how the techpirate ethos of routing around bad legislation has led these techbro assholes to route around any and all legislation that would stop them.

I hate to admit it, but it really is the same ethos taken to it's most extreme conclusions.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would argue that just like rape is about power, things like this could conceivably be about power as well. Much of the hypocrisy of the right can be boiled down to showing that they can do this and you cannot. We see it as hypocrisy, but it's actually an expression of power. They don't care that we see them as hypocrites, because that's the point, to express their power to do this while the likes of Reality Winner and Jack Teixeira cannot.

What's anyone gonna do about it? Nothing ever happened to Bush for millions of missing emails, nothing happened to Clinton for a foolish private email server, and nothing happened to Trump in his first term when refused to use a secure phone and kept using his normal one. I think it will amount to the same for these people, as well.

I am not pushing back as hard as others on this opinion because I think it's reasonable to be skeptical for a few reasons. I am in the "it was probably a mistake" camp myself, but I can see based on prior behavior from people who are, well, rapists, that it could easily be about showing us what they can get away with as an expression of power.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I know others (including myself, a little) are being dismissive of your position, but the reason I think it is reasonable to be skeptical is because of past examples like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

The Killian documents controversy (also referred to as Memogate or Rathergate) involved six documents containing false allegations about President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard in 1972–73, allegedly typed in 1973. Dan Rather presented four of these documents as authentic in a 60 Minutes II broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 presidential election, but it was later found that CBS had failed to authenticate them. Several typewriter and typography experts soon concluded that they were forgeries. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett provided the documents to CBS, but he claims to have burned the originals after faxing them copies.

This lead to massive shakeup of top personnel at CBS and 60 Minutes and ended up either coinciding with or becoming the reason for Dan Rather leaving the network.

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