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Dear Trump:

Didn’t trump want to get rid of birthright citizenship? We can just retroactively do it to 1500AD, and give the land back. What’s that? Not like that?

Bold of you to post this without an /s. I respect the decision.

I mean, “Let’s not educate people so they’re ignorant to how they’re being exploited, and we don’t want to have to beat them down” is certainly a take. I guess maybe you can see Cypher as the people’s hero if you squint hard enough.

But in my opinion, the more people who understand the shortcomings of a system, the more pressure there will be to fix it, and that’s how progress happens. It’s slow and sometimes bloody, but the alternative is even worse.

Oof. That’s a nope.

On the other hand, I think the rise of fascism in the US is directly connected to its growing anti-intellectualism and cuts to education. Overall it’s a good thing to have an overeducated population.

It plays again, but louder.

Instructions unclear, accidentally deleted 200 EB of irrecoverable NASA data.

I gotchu.

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If buying isn’t owning, then pirating can’t be stealing.

Their goal isn’t publicity, that’s ancillary to their actual goal. Hmm what could their actual goal be… oh right: Just Stop Oil

I’m fairly certain that these JSO protesters are fully aware that they’ll probably face consequences. They might hope for jury nullification, but I doubt they’d expect it.

The judge can order the jury as they please, but the jury does not need to justify their decisions. This is exactly what jury nullification is.

The jury is the conscience of society, and their job is not only to decide whether the defendant did the acts charged, but whether they should be condemned and punished for it. The jury protects us from immoral or socially undesirable results.

Saving life has historically been an excuse for crime. But only in very direct situations.

As society has failed to properly act to avert disastrous outcomes, the threat continues to become more and more direct.

Unlike damaging electronic signs, painting or historical documents.

Won’t someone think of the lost profits, and museum glass that has to be cleaned. The wealth of billionaires is certainly more important than billions of people dying.

But when you make the choice to break the law based on what is right. You also make the choice to suffer the consequences.

No, they don’t choose to suffer the consequences, they choose to possibly suffer the consequences. The distinction is important.

There are mechanisms to stop unjust applications of the law, such as jury nullification. That they weren’t able to reach a conviction here is the system kind of working.

That picture is amazing, lol.

Oh, I see what you’re saying. Thanks for the explanation!

The character’s auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where they put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices as a way to move ingame currency around between mules.

I thought poe2 didn’t have a real AH, just currency market. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re trying to say.

Rest of the stuff checks out though.

Yep, pretty much.

If you watch to the end, the reason she can’t get to her online classes was because her ISP’s configuration CD was windows only.

So if we’re looking to find fault, it’s partly Dell for insisting everything would just work, partly Verizon for not having a good Linux process, and partly her for not just calling her ISP for tech support.

It’s funny that there’s one incident of class violence in the other direction, and think tanks suddenly start pushing drivel like this in attempt to control public perception.

Sadly, those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Yeah, I’m just glad the popularity of streaming sites keeps eyes off the torrent scene.

It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realise this was satire. Pretty good read, TBH.

How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems… very specific.

Yes exactly. They did this in theatres where small sections of the movie would be in 3D. There’d be a blinking icon to tell you when to put your 3D glasses on.

The problem with 3d anaglyphs is that there’s a tradeoff: To get the depth information across, there’s a big loss in colour reproduction. It’s fine as a gimmick, but doing the whole movie that way probably isn’t the best idea.

VR headsets just have a different set of tradeoffs (hot, sweaty and isolating ;) which make them basically equally undesirable for a good viewing experience.

The idea behind having only sections in 3d is that you only accept the tradeoffs when they’re most worthwhile.