I always use Voyager
Never have problems really
It's on android and iOS too so when I swap devices (test stuff) it just feels exactly the same to my boomer brain.
Also available as a webapp
I always use Voyager
Never have problems really
It's on android and iOS too so when I swap devices (test stuff) it just feels exactly the same to my boomer brain.
Also available as a webapp
But if you elect judges the people might actually vote for someone who openly says they don't think some laws are valid or should be upheld.
Imagine if some teenager doesn't get their life totally fucked because some 70 year old fascist fuckstick who was appointed in 1980 thinks every crime, no matter the magnitude or validity, should be met with the harshest of penalties possible! It would be chaos!
(Basically the mindset of all US politicians and far too many normal people too. "Oh you stole candy? Sorry, penalty is death. You knew the law, scum!" "Moral country" btw. Look how the hogs and even libs have reacted to "progressive" DAs in some cities opting to not prosecute unnecessary petty crimes and instead going harder after crimes of violence including crimes committed by the police (like in Philly. And holllllly fuck do the cops and shitclown Governor hate the DA. People love it though. Objectively bettering things even if only slightly))
I've assumed for years now that they had at least some access to it but him getting arrested (batshit insane btw) might show they didn't or didn't get what they wanted anyway.
I just figured all those "we got inside info on this right wing plan of attack from a telegram leak" news stories were "the FBI gave us this and told us to say it wasn't from us." Apple/Google engage in similar obfuscation of what access the feds have. With Google, well, just assume "all." With Apple it's probably also "all" but they insist that isn't the case. It seeks almost certain though they do quietly cooperate with feds to help unlock devices and then feds just cite some technology without mentioning Apple's probable role in creating it.
Shit sucks, the NSA (among many) should've never been allowed to exist. It's all getting worse too. 20 years ago an arrest like this (transport back the general idea "some guy makes a program people used for naughty naughty") would be a headline for maybe a month at least. It would be discussed for sure and hogs and dipshit ghouls would defend it and nothing done about it. Now it's just "oh? Russia? Huh. Oh. Ok. Yes, m'lord..."
This just gives me a mental image of an insane ER doctor placing defibrillator pads on a recently deceased person and repeatedly delivering shocks even when the corpse gives no response and only pops up and down from the electrical jolts. The nurses are all crying and yelling that he's gone. The doctor just keeps smirking and pushing the button while the skin sizzles. And the smell...
I thought this was a troll thing
But apparently she actually died? The fuck?
These demons all live forever. Truly unexpected good news. Although she wasn't high on my list of CEOs who need croak immediately.
There's a particular one who's been abusing ketamine and amphetamines for years, so, really praying on that
I met a young immigrant to our beautiful nation today. He introduced himself as Felix. Felix the Cat. Wow, remember that one folks? Great cartoon. Great immigrant. Unfortunately sucks in air he's gotta go back, folks. He's gotta go back. Yes, yes, even the Canadians. Especially the Canadians! They gotta go back.
I read the first Jurassic Park book and a bunch of other Crichton books when I was like 13/14. Over 20 years ago. I enjoyed Andromeda Strain. All that shit has oozed out of my brain though and only the movies remain
Yeah, but, like, did you consider it from the dino's point of view?
Because I did
But on a serious side, most of the people working at Jurassic Park (in the first one anyway) were mostly just neutral people on a good/bad scale I suppose. Except Hammond. Even Nedry (sp?) was just exploiting his exploitative boss (underpaying him).
I don't know how much of a point was trying to be made, but there's definitely an underlying theme of capitalism forcing what could be a questionably ethical scientific project (bringing back extinct animals) into fast-tracked, hyper-capitalist, "just pay experts to come and rubber stamp this shit immediately so we can make money" disaster.
"Shoot her! SHOOT HER!"
https://youtu.be/qz5JmgLQEzs?t=195
(Timestamped)
I had the safari hunter guy's lines burned into my brain as a kid for some reason. I do enjoy that they always kill the evil hunter guys
I think the issue here boils down to this:
Many pro-Palestine people (in the US or west generally) were totally unaware of Israel's Nazi regime and ideology until last year. This isn't me shitting on them, it's just the truth. Most westerners who have no ties to Islam, Arab culture or regions of the world, or Palestine, will never be exposed to anything approaching the Palestinian perspective.
They developed empathy from the months of seeing the full and total destruction brought for Israel for no articulable reason.
For westerners (who are majority white people) Israel is this thing "over there" filled with people who act a lot like they do, but aren't really as white as them, so they're different. It's also a different country, ostensively fully separate from the US (of course those "in the know" know this is just surface level. For all intents and purposes Israel is just another US state that could and has been controlled as such in the past, but the current admin isn't interested in controlling Israel)
It's easy to condemn the actions of a foreign nation. It's harder for indoctrinated, nationalistic (even if they don't think they are!) westerners to condemn the United States (where most of the anti-Venezuela bullshit comes from). Most Americans, and even many who call themselves leftists, are incredibly guarded in criticizing the US. I don't personally understand why as I was born/raised in here, in the American culture, and I shed any of those feelings as a teenager. I have no idea why others continue to be dumbass nationalists, but, 🤷♂️
This results in them having a cognitive division or whatever you wanna call it. They can see through the Zionist propaganda. Israel is an evil nation doing incredibly evil things to a captured population. It's all out there and easily seen and absorbed because "who the fuck is Israel? Fuck them! I have no allegiance to that state."
But for Venezuela, for uneducated people, the same who never heard of Palestine in 2023, there is no such clear cut divide to see. Well, there is, except for the important difference that they live in the evil state. They live in the equivalent of the Zionist entity propagandizing against Venezuelans. They live in the imperialist nation crushing Venezuelan independence. And just as the Israeli is raised to never question their media and state, the American is raised the same way.
Why would they ever question the narrative that permeates the media, social media, everything at all times? Mix in a dash of residual Cold War/Red Scare "aren't they evil communists?" and of course it makes perfect sense that most Americans are ignorant, purposely ignorant too often, on topics like Cuba or Venezuela or China. Fuck, "foreign policy" in general. They are the fully indoctrinated population and it takes a lot of introspection, education, and willpower, frankly, to fully break that barrier. Even then, it's so easy to slip back into pro-US narratives.
I don't think it's empathy per se. It's the exploitation of inherent human empathy, sure, I suppose. That's how propaganda works (or one way anyway).
Damn I got excited thinking this meant Victoria Nuland....
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