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SerLava··on Human Rights Are Not a Bug
You only say that because you already have access to food, water, health care, and security.

Your ideal society would break down into feudalism. The modern state is an effort, however flawed, to organize people away from feudalism.

SerLava··on Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
The only way people would reliably help with the sabotage is if the group had a reputation for paying out. Kind of the same way ransomware works already- if nobody gets their data back, people will be advised never to pay
SerLava··on Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of them from search
Yeah this is probably why. If this was accessible to you and me, it would be accessible to every ghoul in the public eye. Kids are the only group that can unambiguously be granted unconditional total privacy.
SerLava··on United Airlines bans duct tape restraints
Those crew members were heroes.
SerLava··on Attitude Determines Your Success
This article is aggressively stupid.
SerLava··on The Case for Optimism
He also forgot to mention the looming threat of violent revolution exterminating the ruling class, which drove countless concessions to the average person.
SerLava··on Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago
>Healing and forgiveness, on both sides, must occur before reunification.

I have an instinctive reaction to that type of language now - it makes me wonder if one side has dramatically more fault than the other

SerLava··on Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
Snopes is run by the Poster's Poster.

Of course they aggressively missed your point and accused you of being the idiot.

SerLava··on Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
We funded the child rapists. Gave child rapists guns. We had non child rapists around, but we gave arms and vehicles to child rapists which enabled them to take children and rape them. Then we ignored the fact that they were raping children.

Go try looking up a sex offender in your area and doing the same sort of stuff. You will be held accountable, trust me.

SerLava··on Internet of Snitches
Great post.

Connecting motive and opportunity is not a fallacy

SerLava··on The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream
The biggest hurdle is rent followed by health care.

Most people could live like a monk and not save anything substantial.

If everyone did suddenly adopt those saving habits, it would crash consumer spending and launch the economy into a death spiral, and those exact "frugal poor" people would be the first victims.

The infamous "avocado toast" debate has absolutely no merit as a criticism.

SerLava··on Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
I think a bigger factor was that we were the good side in WWII and the bad side in Vietnam.
SerLava··on Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
Just a warning: this isn't necessarily true. They'll only do it if there is a political benefit. Otherwise there is no duty to assist you.
SerLava··on Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
You're right that a few mistakes wouldn't impugn the design of the system, but in this case there is no ambiguity- the US justice system is intentionally evil.
SerLava··on Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
You're the only one inventing a false binary. The US legal system locks up more people than any country on earth, and the majority of its prisoners did not do anything morally wrong. Most of them didn't even go to trial, and a huge number have not even been charged.

It is so blatantly corrupt and psychotic a system, it's quite honestly ignorant to even compare it to any notion of "perfect".

"Kafkaesque" is going easy on it. It's objectively the extension of chattel slavery in this country. It's a crime against humanity.

SerLava··on Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
ANY time a supposedly insane person claims they were misidentified, it should AUTOMATICALLY trigger a detailed investigation, and I don't care at all if that is burdensome to the hospitals or police.
SerLava··on Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
They're just saying our legal system doesn't try to consistently create justice.
SerLava··on 38% of remote workers work from bed
62% of remote workers are uncool.
SerLava··on Killing Robots and Just War Theory
It just has to be a war crime to use these.

A domestic army of robots is really just a foreign army on contract. They have zero loyalty to anyone who doesn't directly control them.

SerLava··on Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
Similarly on Google and YouTube- nearly the entire search space for "how to pronounce xyz" has been taken over by videos of text to speech recordings that have absolutely no idea how to pronounce anything.

There are huge YouTube channels posting this scam content, and they never seem to go away. There are real ones in there too, but there are way more spam words than real ones.

SerLava··on Harvey’s Casino Bomb
Actually we all knew the NSA was doing it, and what Snowden leaked was just the proof.
SerLava··on Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
Makes sense though- when you have a religious objection to alcohol, someone drinking it near you isn't going to cause actual extreme bodily harm to you.
SerLava··on Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes
I mean, sharing your car is legal but that's not really what Uber ever was.
SerLava··on Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids
Damn, why can't I just have my Washington N-words, political correctness has gone too far
SerLava··on Assange case: Key witness admits he lied
The way they charged Assange is blatantly criminalizing the act of journalism
SerLava··on How to Work Hard
Billionaires absolutely love talking about zero work life balance. Makes it seem like having rich parents, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of computing time, committing federal crimes, abusing patent law, and blatantly violating antitrust weren't the important parts.

Because they only want you to do the overwork part.

SerLava··on Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling
Patent law was designed for giant companies to stop other giant companies from using their stuff.

Nobody could really "publish" things on their own.

And the fact that it's overbearing for normal people is now a feature rather than a bug.

SerLava··on There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
It's also the video they had previously fumbled, and spooks are well known to fraudulently "leak" information to get it selectively picked up
SerLava··on There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
I don't feel like it can be much of a coincidence that there is a new branch of the US military with a currently low yearly expenditure compared to the other branches, which could potentially be the source of incredibly lucrative private contracts to corporations with former generals sitting on their boards.
SerLava··on There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here
Well, the Pentagon sent us a video of a blurry dot. So it must have been an alien space ship moving 16,000 miles per hour through atmosphere but not heating the air at all
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