suy
2yr ago
New cars: one more year, maybe. Production is already ramping up
Used cars: two more years of hell-market, at least. The worst is yet to come.
What is your philosophy of which issues ought be subject to democratic control, and which ought not?
Honestly, the bare minimum needed to maintain the pretense of popular will. Ideally, issues that don't really matter too much on the macro scale like abortion, weed and American Idol are things fine to delegate to the people. Democracy is a technology for facilitating the peaceful transition of power, not a mechanism for good decision making or leadership.
I play Pistol Whip with a gun shaped peripheral I bought from etsy that lets you add quarters to add weight. Holding a weaver stance and point shooting moving targets for 30 minutes is a surprisingly ok core workout.
Beat Saber is fun but if you use the Oculus Quest 2, you'll have to do some hacking to get custom songs in. It's worth it once you have that.
suy
2yr ago
I'd feel weird selling out for a browser also.
Brave users opt in to the program so anyone that sees ads chose to see them. I see it more as taking the money that's on the table from users who already use Brave to browse themotte.
suy
2yr ago
Josh could just be put in jail!
But then he would have committed a crime. That's my point. There's nothing in the US Law that says you can't use the internet to laugh at the things weird people do.
suy
2yr ago
Intent is too ambiguous. Simply make attempting to stab people a crime and harshly prosecute people stabbers so the police don't need to use their mind reading powers to pre-emptively jail people who could potentially commit a crime.
Also, a serrated knife is a bad weapon to use on a person.
suy
2yr ago
they have the old soviet stockpiles that means even as the average equipment regresses decades, they can feed the war machine, whereas the European and even American stockpiles are getting hazardously low.
Russia will never outproduce the West.
The dossier on Zoosadists led to at least a couple convictions. A lot of original research from the individual threads trickled down into mainstream coverage. It was a good place to get the news before it was reported on. Even "enemies" of KF would use the site to spread awareness on scam artists and actual serial abusers. The autistic commitment to 'not being factually wrong' and OSINT principles put them above most of the web in trustworthiness, at least when it comes to investigating very evil people† on the internet.
You were probably on the "wrong part" of the site. A&H (the "news" board) is basically /pol/ and was cloistered for being a shithole full of angry 2020 wignat users. IMO Null should have shut down A&H years ago because it didn't contribute much to the main site. There was a clear divide in moderation between the off topic boards and the on-topic boards. The userbase is a lot more diverse than it seems.
† evil is subjective but trust me, these were some bad guys.
suy
2yr ago
While strictly speaking 'legal' they encouraged and enabled illegal acts.
Neither the administration or users encouraged illegal acts. The admins of the site were quicker to react to rule breaking posts faster than the Facebook team could take down mass shooting livestreams. Null has cooperated with US law enforcement on every occasion and replied to takedown requests.
Also, again while not a matter of US law, doxing is the closest thing the anglophone internet has to a prohibition by law.
Doxxing is not illegal. Law enforcement has never pressed charges agaisnt KF. KF has won every single lawsuit it has been involved in.
I doubt we have anything to worry about.
The two incidents that cloudflare cites as a reason to take KF down were:
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Obvious low effort false flag bomb threat email against US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
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A screencap of a post threatening violence from a user that has never posted before (taken down in 20 minutes)
It would be trivially easy for anyone to do the same to themotte or any independent forum. How can you have faith that people will critically examine the evidence if themotte is accused when nobody bothered to do so for KF? This community already gets smeared as a nazi website.
Kiwifarms is probably done for. Null is unable to get legal representation because his lawyers dropped him after five years of business for "ties to russia" and his mailing address has been terminated for unspecified reasons. Tor is inaccessible because of DDOS attacks. The site has had a security breach and user data has possibly been leaked. This is probably the most complete deplatforming anyone who hasn't actually committed a crime yet has ever experienced.
I believe that KF has significant value in the culture war for the red team and it seems strange to me that not a single person with any financial power has stepped in to help. For most people, KF is seen as a evil nazi website and at best a shitty gossip forum, but it did contain a lot of useful information and opposition research on highly prominent people that will be memoryholed forever if the site goes down (Even internet archives are being purged). Keeping it alive on the clearnet would require a substantial investment, but it wouldn't be impossible to do.
Where is the red/grey team version of George Soros? Peter Thiel?
Are there any options for a completely legal (in the United States) site like KF to stay online? What will themotte do if they ever make an enemy that understands how easy it is to wipe them off the net?
suy
2yr ago
This reminds me of that canadian show with the bald kid named Caillou that literally ruined a generation of children by teaching them how to whine as annoyingly as possible to get their way. Actual info-hazard if I've ever seen one.
suy
2yr ago
Downvotes don't matter in the slightest here. They don't even reduce visibility. Caring too much about score is more of a problem than people just arbitrarily downvoting stuff and not following "reddiquette" (which has been a joke since the very start).
suy
2yr ago
1911s really run the gamut between scrap metal and god tier pistols to shoot. Beautiful and timeless guns.
I'd still rather carry a baby Glock though.
suy
2yr ago
It's too humorless for my taste. There's enough fun threads dunking on mottezens on rdrama for me.
suy
2yr ago
This feature already exists, it was just removed in a clumsy way by turning the username into a direct link to the profile (profile card still shows up for a split second).
/r/stadia comes to mind. It’s very creepy how almost everyone on there is so emotionally invested over a unremarkable service that lets you play a small selection of video games on your chrome device. Sort by top to see the sub constantly fluctuate between wailing and gnashing of teeth over dwindling user base to euphoric highs when Google pushes a update (rare).
suy
2yr ago
This feature exists. Click the line to the left of any post to collapse the thread and it's children. If you can't see any lines, it's because many of the themes on this site are currently broken. The default white theme has the lines.
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suy
2yr ago
Yeah the only thing holding the industry back is exorbitant licensing fees from cloud based voice synthesis services. These companies are making a killing off selling tokens while they still can before there's a open source solution.
suy
2yr ago
I think voice acting is one that's going to be hit soon as well. I look forward to this for similar reasons - how many games and productions are bottlenecked in quality/money by the high cost of voice acting? The outpouring of art we'll see from people who didn't have the resources beforehand is something that excites me.
This is definitely happening. AAA publishers are investing a lot of money into AI solutions for speech synthesis. They're especially interested in technology that allows for a single voice actor to voice many characters. Games with more than 50% AI generated lines will be on the (metaphorical) shelves in two years. I can't say more than that.
The state can control the proliferation of technology, but what will they do when weirdly dressed people in black ships with highly advanced military/economic technology show up and demand trade?
How can luddite regulation survive against international competition?
suy
2yr ago
Is the average man really smarter, more well adjusted, stronger, fitter, etc than his grandfather at the same age?
Ofcourse not. Most people have badass grandfathers because of survivorship bias.
On average, some skills definitely might have decreased, but we live in a kinder and wealthier society that allows for weaker people to survive and even thrive.
suy
2yr ago
Because from the looks of it speed of development is rather modest given people are doing it at their own pace.
The rdrama codebase is actually quite active even if some of their "features" wont be in this heavily de-Marseyfied fork. The software has been shit-tested for a year now and the project maintainer is always top of things.
Mr THut can you please do the needful and kindly revert whatever change you made to make usernames directly link to profiles instead of showing the profile card? Right now it does both (shows the card for a split second and then loads the profile page). It should be one or the other. I can't open an issue as I am banned from github. Thank you sir.
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