PhilipTheBucket

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 14 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I do too, clearly as does Linus. He's just talking about some of the issues that prevent it from getting adopted by the normies.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 51 points 3 months ago (4 children)

A government lawyer conceded in court that those detained by ICE at the facility did not have access to certain services, including sleeping mats, in-person legal visits, medication and more than two meals per day.

The fuck

"Services"?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Why not just replace it with a cap that isn't a flip-top? Screw it on tight, squeeze the bottle slightly before putting the cap on so there's a slight negative pressure. That would be my first thing to try.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So the bottle doesn't break, it just pops open? This still sounds like a packaging issue. Maybe unstopper / squeeze / stopper the bottle, so it's got negative pressure. Maybe replace the cap with some other more permanent type of cap (one that doesn't have a little flip-top, if the ones they're including do, just a solid cap and then ship the flip-top one alongside it)? IDK. How is it coming apart in transit? It's not literally the plastic bottle breaking, is it?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This has got to be the packing, not the bottle. I have never heard of a bottle being shipped that suddenly broke on its own, without impact with its environment being the issue.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago

Coming soon to a United States near you

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Fucking Jesus Christ, if someone is buying government email addresses on the dark web and then using a VPN to protect themselves against getting busted, they deserve what they get. Either use Tor or relay it through some compromised machine somewhere, or both. Or something. I don't really know how it works but definitely don't use a consumer VPN.

I mean it might be fine in the modern day, since anything in US law enforcement that might be subpeonaing the VPN company might no longer be functioning. But I still wouldn't really take the chance.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Because it matters quite a bit for what sort of damage a person will do, what their overall character and their motivations are. Stalin is different from Hitler is different from Tito is different from Andrew Jackson is different from the kid from "It's a Good Life." Trump's a little bit unprecedented in terms of how incapable he is on a personal level as contrasted with the almost unimaginable power he wields. It's relevant for talking about what sort of damage he will do and what options people have in terms of resisting it.

It seems like this is one of those internet arguments where I'm agreeing with you, and then trying to add something else the scope of which is a little different from the thing you're saying, and then you're saying "NO YOU DON'T GET IT [repeating the original point I agreed with]" for multiple messages. Like the only template you can understand is if someone's response is "Oh yes you are correct and I have nothing to add."

Good luck with future conversations, I feel like you must be fun at parties.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

We are witnessing the natural end stage of the corporate internet.

We gifted this place to the world at large, because it was a nice place for us, and we hoped it would be useful and we liked to build it. The wider world made the mistake of thinking they owned it now, and could tell us what to do with it and what it was for. But the original gift still exists. The enfuckened version that people tried to "improve" it into is just shedding and crumbling, as a reptile's skin falls away still in the shape of the original living thing.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't actually really know the full answer to that. If I had to guess, I would say that there generally need to be pretty distinct objective lines for when something becomes a crime (you can't have like a weight limit or something to where "throwing a sandwich" isn't a crime but then transitions to a crime as the object gets more and more hazardous up to where throwing a rock is a crime.) I think it is generally that it winds up being a sensible system just because simple battery just really isn't all that serious a charge. You can get convicted, in theory, just because you swatted someone's arm away, or threw a cup of water at them, or whatever, and it really just won't impact you all that much. (But then, if it's a rock or if you injure the person, or something like that, then it's a different and more serious charge than simple battery.)

Again, the trouble comes in when you're dealing with the cops and do one of those "simple battery" things and all of a sudden it comes with life-changing consequences.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

Well... that sure shows this whole event in a different light.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

*scrambles to pretend it's a surprise or that anyone's at all confused about why he was at Jan. 6 and is now working for the White House

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