How do you get around 2FA? I was able to stay off of phones for so long, but the standard 2FA implementation has made it impossible.

Hm. I think that if you don’t have empathy for more than your own immediate friends and family, you don’t have empathy. You have concern over how other people’s pain directly impacts you. That’s egoism, not empathy.

Plus, Epstein considered all the rest of them targets too, just a different type.

I’m aphantasic. Until people started really talking about how they “see” things in their heads, I assumed it was all just a figure of speech. Flashbacks, thought bubbles, daydreams in media… I assumed that was all just, you know, an easy way to get the information across. Now I know you freaks actually see stuff and the mind’s eye isn’t some convenient turn of phrase. Weirdos!

In a similar vein, I have empathy. It is difficult for me to intuitively understand the perspective of someone who doesn’t have any. As an example, it’s hard for me to understand a person who’s exploiting children a la Epstein. And in truth, I don’t want to understand them, either. Even knowing how many of them are the way they are… if I had a little less introspection, I’d probably just default to “they’re just like us.”

In the wake of the shooting, the immediate aftermath, a lot of people suddenly got the health care they’d been denied. It’s true that they didn’t change long term, but for a little while, they did.

It is so horrible to know that these people need to be actually afraid or they’ll continue to hurt people.

There were two meeting rooms on the email! (/silly joke)

But don’t they do mass firings by text and just locking you out of your machine these days? The US Aid workers were left stranded for a while— not sure if they got help getting back or just got abandoned and had to get friends and family to pitch in for flights home…

At least this indicates the missing people from Alligator Alcatraz are alive. And isn’t that a sentence I would very much like to never, ever say again.

I’m pretty sure the old always say the young hate the country.

“Get off my lawn!” “Those youths with their [insert sexual trend here] are destroying the country.” “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” “Those young people hate the country!” “It’s Patrick, he just got life insurance.”

The fact that no one seems to be able to definitively answer that question makes the policy truly awful.

Let’s check with grok.

My goodness. Well, folks, we finally did it. We convinced the people in power that dihydrogen monoxide really is deadly.

Oh, St Luigi, may your blessings rain down upon this man.

People are “at risk”… of what? What a terrible article to not even clarify what the risk is. Because it sounds to me like the government is who put those people at risk by making them go look for solutions to a draconian policy.

If I’m opening a stock market account, I’m trusting them with generating my tax receipts! If I don’t feel comfortable trusting them to hold my personal data directly, I probably should choose a different brokerage…

Edit: Anyways, I’m annoyed enough that everyone has gone to phone based 2 factor that requires me to buy a phone and keep it on a cell network, so you can imagine how much I despise even an easier version of this.

Canada currently has a bill looking to do the same thing. AFAIK, Australia’s already passed one, many US states are looking at them individually. The EU is looking at frameworks for it. I suppose there will be some places that won’t, but this is increasingly looking like what governments have decided to do, and rather than geofencing, once a large number of money-making territories want this, I think most corporations will do it globally, and smaller sites simply won’t be able to run.

Sucks, because it’s going global and we can’t seem to stop it. I’m fine with laws to age gate in terms of a button you click. If some kid is willing to say they’re 15… well, let’s make sure people are treating them as a 15 year old. But… making everyone deal with real verification is at best going to further entrench big business, and at worst, destroy the internet we love. And it raises the question: are trans teenagers talking to each other now creating adult content because the UK hates trans people?

I don’t think I want to watch this. Is there any benefit to watching this?

The motivation is what I really want to know. Given that it was just some random person, I can only hope she figured they’d never find him? So many crimes go unsolved, it’s surprising they found this random man with a truck— unless she actually remembered his license plate or something, but that would indicate it was a lot less random. Maybe this wasn’t as random as she’s saying, maybe she got in a road rage incident with him…

I guess it’s because I’m not the kind of person who’d do this, but I just don’t understand why someone would. If you want the social media “clout,” presumably for a gofundme or something, you don’t need to go to the police about it. Even if you thought you had to, a super vague report would probably lead to a cold case that would waste everyone’s time, but at least no one would go to jail. If you were truly mentally ill and delusional, you probably wouldn’t admit even to yourself that it didn’t happen.

Yeah, probably. Still, let me dream of them failing, won’t you?

Can’t say it on Reddit, but I hope that they can’t find a jury who would convict him.

I mean, thank goodness it wasn’t a Tesla. Imagine if that thing had driven into the protesters and then exploded! People would definitely have been injured in that case.