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Have you reviewed the data yourself? Very few of the domains containing Nazi or far-right terms have ever actually been live sites. The ones that are/have been live are a very tiny subset of the overall customer base. There was a recently suspended Twitter account, @epikfailsnippets, that was publicly outing “the fash”. They got a handful of sites that were actually hosting hateful content before moving on to “Christian fascist” websites because there really weren’t as many hate sites as they claimed/expected. The majority, well over 99%, were innocent users using Epik for domain services.

The handle the above comment won’t mention is “Weev”. He’s not Voldemort.

20+ later and the AODrama is still flowing. This is ridiculous and great lol.

I heard, and I’m not making this up, that he is the guy who made the Slither.io game.

I had the AIM “fragile” which I got from the Regime2K exploit. I had been off AOL for a couple years when I noticed the account password was reset. I kept recovering it but the hacker was always able to get it back, even when the email was mine. I had already left the AOL scene as I was in the beginning stages of my career so I just gave up. I always wondered if they had just found a new method, but it seemed like they had to have insider access because of how consistent they were in taking it back. Wonder if was one of these two guys. Oh well, I love reading stories of the AOL days.

I was listening to NPR this morning when they reported on this. They stated Facebook “banned far-right German groups that spread conspiracies that the government was responsible for covid”, and no mention of lockdowns. NPR used to seem so center of the road but they have gone in full hog on the leftist perspective.

A mail server is one of those things I consider way too important to trust myself with. How do you run one without constantly worrying about it being compromised?

It’s about 65 pages so not really small, but the RFC for IRC client protocol looks like a relatively easy thing to implement since it’s mostly sending/receiving ASCII and taking action based on the message received. https://www.irchelp.org/protocol/rfc/rfc2812.txt

I was in the Navy and had been at my first command at a nuke base in the PNW. I walked to the galley for breakfast and they had some TVs you could watch while eating. I watched the second plane hit. I walked to work which was a telecommunications station. We processed messages for different regional commands and would call them directly whenever they had an emergency action message (EAM). I walked in to a completely chaotic watch floor. Every message was an EAM that day. Every phone was ringing or in use, every computer that could alarm was alarming, our dial up modems were constantly busy. All my coworkers were shouting and running here and there. I had never seen it like that and as a young Sailor it was very worrying. Everyone we called to inform them of their EAMs would ask if we knew what was going on or knew if someone was mobilizing but we were just as much in the dark as everyone else.

I remember at one point our Leading Chief Petty Officer (LPCO) yelled for everyone to stop what they were doing and told us to call our parents and loved ones to let them know we were safe. That was the longest day I’d ever worked at that command and no one left that day, even those from the previous night shift. The fact that no one, even our CO, had any idea what was going on…that the military was in the dark, was such an unnerving feeling.

I have no particular stance on abortion myself, but speech and bearing arms are constitutionally protected. Is abortion?

I said “only” in relation to the myth that hundreds of unarmed black men were being shot by the police. I’m not saying 13 is good, but it’s objectively better than more than 13. There was a poll some months ago, which I can’t find, that asked people with different political beliefs to estimate how many unarmed black men were killed by police in the previous year and the liberal and progressive left had outrageous numbers. These are the same people watching the mainstream media constantly pushing the narrative that it’s open season on black men.

At no point did they say anyone was being paid to be gay. Only you stated that, twice. They are saying people can be influenced. Take LGBT representation in contemporary media. A casual interpretation would be that nearly 1 out of 4 people are gay, lesbian, etc., since nearly every popular TV show has one or more of these characters. However, when you look at the actual numbers, they tell a much different story.

This is similar to what happened with the 2020 protests around George Floyd. Many people thought, and many still do, that unarmed black men were being hunted by police. Surely hundreds or even thousands a year were being murdered by the police, yet according to the WaPo database of police shootings only 13 unarmed black men were killed by police in 2019. Why do people believe in the myth of endemic police killings? Because the media continues to push that narrative.

Read this USAToday “fact-check” trying to debunk the 13 unarmed black men statistic by saying things like the WaPo database is incomplete and may not show the whole picture, or conflating the number of unarmed black men shot with the percentage of total black men shot, etc. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/23/fac...

I suppose you are correct in pointing to their faith not being an issue, but their allegiances are still questioned by some. Why do Malays disproportionately make up the bulk of police/SCDF during NS?

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-no-Muslims-in-some-secto...

Since the author is using his Singaporean military service as the analogy, Singaporean-Malays need not apply. Their faith supposedly makes them an inherent risk, so they’re likely only eligible for low-level software developer positions, or maybe DevOps since that’s where most of the firefighting is.

“Naturally, as an experienced investigative reporter, my next move was the highly advanced research technique of Googling "Tennis Ball Shortage?" There were enough hits on Reddit and tennis forums to confirm there are, at least in some parts of the country, indeed tennis ball shortages.”

I feel like this fairly accurately sums up modern journalism.

Even if all of the citizens of the US did what you said tomorrow, would it really make a difference with China producing (as of 2015) 29.4% of all CO2 emissions? Even if the US (at 14.3%) somehow cut emissions to zero, there are still the not-so-rich countries that comprise the “Other” group that is responsible for 31.5%. Your feelings are valid, you may just be directing them at the wrong culprits IMHO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

Anecdotally I’ve observed in rural areas, from which I was born and raised, fast food jobs, paper delivery, some janitorial work, etc., are all done by teenagers who do it for summer cash or just building their initial work experience. In the metro areas, where I live and/or travel, these jobs are exclusively staffed by older immigrants.

Just like China!

It’s not just checking files you are sharing, it’s also scanning files that exist on your device. The worry, or slippery slope argument, is that it’s one step away from scanning your device for other types of content, like memes critical of the government or just general wrongthink.

Why do people keep referring to “red states” when discussing lack of vaccination and not demographics?

It appears that lower income, as well as predominantly black and brown people are leading the numbers of non-vaccinated people. Even NPR makes it sound like all unvaccinated people are white conservative Trump supporters when that is clearly not the case.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...

“But here’s who’s on the list: Three sitting presidents, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Iraq’s Barham Salih and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa.

Three current prime ministers, Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Egypt’s Mostafa Madbouly and Morocco’s Saad-Eddine El Othmani.

Seven former prime ministers, who according to time stamps on the list were placed there while they were still in office: Yemen’s Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, Lebanon’s Saad Hariri, Uganda’s Ruhakana Rugunda, France’s Édouard Philippe, Kazakhstan’s Bakitzhan Sagintayev, Algeria’s Noureddine Bedoui and Belgium’s Charles Michel.

And one king: Morocco’s Mohammed VI.”

Unrelated but the logo reminded me of some Internet culture. Way back in the AOL days where phishing was coined, hackers referred to phished accounts as <><. The little programs that spammed "I'm from AOL what is your password?" messages were called phishers or baiters and the programs that held hacked accounts and their password, or <><, were called phish tanks.

These articles only ever seem to be from the perspective of other affluent people who resent newcomers encroaching in their own "slice of heaven". They rarely mention what happens in our less affluent communities.

I grew up in Northeastern coal country. It wasn't glamorous, but it wasn't a horrible place to live. Over the past two decades, nearly everyone I know has been supplanted by refugees priced out of housing in the big cities through gentrification and rising cost of housing. What I remember of my hometown is long gone. It's riddled with weekly shootings, drug overdoses in public bathrooms, and other problems seemingly brought in from the big cities.

There's not a big US base. I used to be stationed there. There is a logistics command, CTF-73, and more recently (past decade) some LCS rotational crews call Sembawang/Chagi Naval Base home. Singapore owns the wharf where the logistics command resides, as well as the old black and whites used by the US military.

To your point of it being intended for Indonesia over Malaysia, that could be the case. I was going off of heresay about Malaysia being the threat . It seemed plausible since some sensitive positions are still off-limits to Singaporean-Malays during their NS.

This system that Israel uses to intercept rockets is called Iron Dome. Fun-fact: Israel helped Singapore set up a similar defense system due to the potential threat of surrounding nations, notably Malaysia.

Most, if not all, of the anti-Columbus talk I've seen is from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".

If I recall, that book's source was the writings of a Columbus critic of the time (a monk I think?)

Are there any other sources that discuss Columbus and his interactions with native populations?

Perhaps he wasn't "canceled", but he was repeatedly slandered and bullied by these "dumb people" who have outsized power due to the current state of identity politics that grants them a certain amount of power in modern society.

They slandered him unfairly, then prevented him from responding unless he met their demands of sending cash via Venmo for some supposed slight against black creators.

They did this in a semi-public forum without any concern for him or his reputation. They did it with zero fear of repercussions because they are emboldened by the fact that our current society makes certain people completely beyond reproach due to the color of their skin (or other identity characteristics).

It was wrong, and the fact that people won't call it out when they certainly would if the variables were changed, is exactly why these "dumb people" will continue to do it. Stop giving them a free pass.

I sometimes go out of my way to hide my identity from sites/services I sign up with. Easiest way to get doxxed is for someone to ask one of their polticially-aligned buddies working at a site to pull up your info.

They probably copied the drive way before she ever realized she was under surveillance.

The FBI probably had a copy of the drive prior to her ever realizing she was under investigation. They have some pretty advanced physical access methods, even having cans of spray able dust to ensure nothing looks disturbed.