They are as human as anyone else. We should be cognizant of that. They are human beings within a human system. Move beyond anger and hate, and ask what must be done to end suffering and injustice.
For all the quips about guillotines, the first fix needs to be removing their excess wealth, not their heads.
Every time someone says “I can’t stand the gaslighting and abuse anymore. This time I’m leaving him.” it’s an opportunity for them to really follow through.
Sometimes we are held back more by the stories we tell ourselves than our actual capacities. And the solution is to stop telling ourselves what we can’t do, but telling ourselves that we can and even will change our situations.
I think evil is an underlayment, not mere will to harm, but the force that moves towards destruction. The distinction of actual evil against some psudo-evil is false, a way that it hides itself. When we deny it it’s because we fear its nearness, as we should, because it is even within us, and good doesn’t always win.
But OP was asking for cynical takes.
Evil is inherent to the world. All light casts a shadow.
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Sat doen and watched a bunch of the new Quantum Leap the other day while feeling lonely, and that felt pretty good.
Eat of this toenail, for it is my flesh. Do this in remembrance of me.
Can midichlorians be eliminated ?
Why proprietary cloud-based IoT isn’t sustainable.
That looks like just choosing to violate the GPL because you want to.
10 I guess, but just because I can doesn’t mean it’s fun to do all the time. Requires deliberate effort.
Not even sure hateful bigots are the hardest to empathize with. Everyone has hated someone or felt disgust before. That’s sort of an ‘in’ to the mindset.
I have a harder time with people like the Paul brothers or Mr. Beast. People who seem to have desires without beliefs.
Depends on my goals, but effectively I could (if I understand correctly): I would almost only ever go in 0-time mode, and use it to rest, learn, or gain OP skills. Unless trying to escape someone.
I would use limited run media for super-fast travel.
The risk is real, but it depends. If it goes pubic it’s all over. If it stays private or worker-owned it stands a chance.
That’s fair. Only "free as in beer "
I’m going to stop using good free software because I read a blog post by a sketchy guy saying the guys that wrote the software are sketchy. 🙄
No material harm is described in the post. This is a drama blog.
I trust Immich and the AGPL more than this blogger.
In the last thread he posted in they’re already talking about the author/article in the OP.
Internet drama truly is a flat circle.
16gb seems huge.
Is there some sort of rubric you follow that leads you to that figure?
There are plenty of people who are sociopathic around you right now. What they usually lack is the power/opportunity to do harm. Under capitalism the crimes of capitalists are made normative and legal. All sociopaths are human, and depite what some may think, you can’t just punish/shoot your way out of a systemic problem.