Rioting Pacifist

Paints absorb light really Red paint should be -#00FFFF so under white light the light becomes FFFFFF-00FFFF -> FF0000

Of course under blue light (0000FF) it becomes 000000

If you mix paints you end up with -FFFFFF which turns any light into 000000.

Basically consider paint a transformation when it comes to light rather than a source

As a Republican (UK/ Spain) I agree, morning could sour the public on risks quicker than them avoiding consequences Ao

the only thing seperating people from being pedophiles is wealth and power

I think it’s a mistake to consider Epstein Island pedophilia the norm, the people with that level of power were sickos to begin with (see also the UK), Clinton, Trump, Musk, Gates, Bin Laden were all doing fucked up stuff long before they became palls with Epstein. If you’re willing to cause the deaths of 10s of thousands of people, it’s not suprising you don’t treat kids like humans, you don’t treat anyone like humans!

I think overall it’s one of the many places where our de-facto carceral only approach fails hard.

Like most rapes, pedophilia is largely between people that know eachother. Much like rape the per-existing relationship means that:

• Victims are less likely to report attacks if they think it will get the person they know in trouble
• Victims are even less likely to consider an attack rape if they aren’t willing to publicly talk about it
• The focus the media/common conversation puts on a few horror stories leads to worse policies and more victims

But also once the rape is done the harm has been caused, so we really need to work out how to prevent the rapes not just catch pedos.

Focusing our policies on harm reduction, safe consumption & treatment of the underlying physiological issues is a much harder conversation to have, but ultimately will help protect kids far more than knee-jerk policies based on disgust of pedophiles, who I assume mostly never actually cause harm to kids themselves.

In the age of AI porn, where no kid has to be harmed to make it, but also it can physiologically fuck up the consumer through unrealistic depictions, we should be exploring new approaches, as the old approach (finding CSAM distributors, and tracking down who accessed the images), isn’t really going to work anyway (and really never did, given that for decades powerful people kept dossiers of blackmail material on other powerful people rather than exposing them, Epstein is just the latest in a long trend).

I think these sex dolls are another example of that, I don’t really know if they make owners more or less likely to offend, but I do suspect this policy is more based on China Ban + Pedophiles Evil, than actually reducing harm to children.

Maduro him

Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.

What if we lived in a society which offered these people counciling instead of CSAM

Surely more conservativism will fix this 🤣

I get that you can replace Discord with Matrix.

But why are people using discord over signal+jitsi in the first place?

Is it just for parasocial relationships?

I don’t have to love ChromeOS to acknowledge that it’s a sold OS that’s commercially viable and that’s only possible because of the solid Gentoo base it’s built on.

Gentoo is still a better distro, it underpins every ChromeOS device (they just do the compilation for you)

Yes conservatives are on a death drive, they make it unaffordable to raise a family, then ban immigration, they are very smart.

Spottube will play your music, but still depends on spotify-free to generate them

TBF they probably consider their most senior developers their best and at most companies the more senior you get the less code you write.

Another one? Isn’t GrowSF already this?

Hear me out but miltary supplies being contracted to overproduce ammo that ends up killing civilians is bad actually!

Not an expert but it could well be factional inflighting between those that want to cooperate with Trump and those that don’t.

Smells like antitrust violations.

Developed countries that don’t have FPTP show no evidence of better governance than countries that have it.

Countries with FPTP tend to be more divided and more right wing.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00104140241237458

https://unlockdemocracy.org.uk/blog1/2024/9/30/proportional-representation-stands-in-the-way-of-the-far-right

If you want to clean up politics, get the money out of it and limit propaganda.

That’s much easier to do in a country where the political establishment isn’t so entrenched. Getting money out of politics is impossible when both parties are bought. And Look at the UK if you want to see how thoroughly the media can capture a FPTP system.

At the very least those that benefit most from Money & propoganda are the right wing who are least likely to curtail it’s influence and benefit the most from FPTP

I think it’s pretty bad that:

• The US is generating this cheap ammo
• The US is failing to prevent it being exported

When people call the US the world’s arms manufacturer we don’t just mean the bombs used to commit genocide in Gaza, but also the bullets used to slaughter civilians across America (both North and South)

2^78 is large but computers can do an awful lot per second, so if only about some the pages contain attachments 2^40-55 is something you could bruteforce in weeks if you can do millions of attempts a second

What is securing those private channels?

Whatever vulnerability there is in that will basically give them root on your home sever right?