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Yeah.

There was a hidden asterisk on my “that’s fine and all”.

This comment carries no rebuttal to your point.

I just have better things to do with my day than invite commentary from .ml, generally speaking.

Ugga ugga big bonk is not something you build for.

You can, but such planning is clearly indicative of DEX thinking. All Bonk requires is the bravery to face your foes, and bonk them.

You simply start, grab the biggest, heaviest, most bonky bonk stick you are blessed with within 15 minutes of playing.

It will be there. The bonk is always there, waiting to be recognized.

You grab it and you pump your numbers into enough str to bonk really fucking hard with it.

You then go and bonk.

In the course of bonking, you learn you need to sustain a minimum amount of bonking yourself, in order to bonk the best you can bonk.

You then hold up three fingers, that is all you need. That is more syllables than ‘bonk’ has, so for every time you say bonk, you put a point in STR and another in VIT.

This continues until you feel you are no longer being bonked before your own bonking takes place.

Depending on how many syllables you think ‘bonk’ has as you were chanting it earlier, you will end up with roughly 1 VIT for every 3-4 STR.

That is all the thinking you need. Even other bonk sticks, while plentiful, are optional.

This is the current (and best imo) ‘retconned’ explanation. It’s been the one the series has kinda quietly operated under for a while, and when you have the rest of the tech in the plot play along with the paradigm, it works well.

I know Star Wars Outlaws got a lot of (deserved) flak, but the way the technology worked in the background of the setting was a master class in utilizing this paradigm.

Basically, the Wild West spirit has always been a part of SW. They literally operate under ‘The Pony Express’ rules as it comes to information dissemination, to spread the news out to all the disparate homesteads planets out in the big expansive praire space.

Edgarianny and Freddys said that they followed the proper instructions and were told they were approved for self-deportation by the government. “On July 6, we went to our ICE check-in appointment as instructed,” the letter said. “We believed we were going there to finalize our travel home. Instead, after we signed all the forms waiving all our rights, we were arrested. “We were immediately taken into custody and transferred to Dilley. Since then, we have done everything we can to make clear that we want to return home. We withdrew our immigration appeal, waived our rights, and asked to return voluntarily. We were even told that we had been placed on a list for a flight home. Then we were taken off the list.”

I used to think the right choice for “justice” for the…perpetrators behind this, was an expeditious trial. With an equally expeditious carrying out of sentencing.

I think I was wrong.

If and when, if and when. Care should be taken to ensure they all get promises of leniency, good treatment, and safety. That the signing of their plea deals will make their life uncertain, but otherwise okay, just be patient. Then a good and torturous shuffling through the same facilities they used and then without warning, the wall out back.

Yeah.

Being utterly unfamiliar with this case up until my rushed reading of 10 mins ago, and operating under the assumption that everything you’ve said is 100% factual reporting:

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

What!? That isn’t smoke pointing to a fire, it’s a goddamn molten slag cast in the shape of a man gleefully setting fire to a previous life as he dances over to a new fire pit.

That shit is too on the nose that I fully expect the true crime drama episode in 10 years about husband’s exploits to come with a warning about the gullibility of the system and technology.

Just enough digital trail to “absolve” him, conveniently, but only if you pick and choose where and when to accept the trail is on his side?

This is absolutely looking like the classic “sociopathic piece of skin husband has idealized mental picture of life shattered by difficult reality and decides to dispense with his ‘property’ before moving on” murder pattern.

Your instance does filter out the word ‘bitch’, under the stance that it’s commonly used as a gendered slur iirc.

Which is fine and all but the implementation is utterly context-less word matching.

I do believe you’re absolutely correct in essence, even if the mechanisms are subject to debate.

I switched to only getting around by E-bike 90% of the time, and the effect you describe regarding bicycle trip time subjectivity is absolutely real.

Taking 45 minutes to go 15 miles away feels a lot faster and relaxing than the 20 minutes it would be by car. People wave at you and you at them, that’s still a thing!

About the only time the American psyche is confronted with the prospect of mindfulness and driving, is during the now nearly mythical “road trip” and even that experience has long since been reduced to listening to nav voice as you drive fast from point to point.

Depends, imo.

Are we factoring in the clownish refunds that are being prepped to go out to ‘reimburse’ landlords for the COVID pandemic moratoriums, which are both absolutely going to end up mostly in the pockets of corporate landlords and for which I also predict another batch of stupid application processes a la PPP processing style? And the precedent they would set?

Different answers between reality being allowed to unfurl as logic and nature dictates and the manufactured fuckery we get to experience.

It applies to every interaction between two or more human beings.

This is precisely why in the anarchist world, the emphasis on positions of responsibility (as opposed to positions of power within a standard hierarchy) are so goddamn important and the one of the most misunderstood tenets.

You cannot perform long term planning without a long term view, and you cannot achieve a long term view, without looking from the needed vantage point for a long time.

I think I saw those same comments. I almost went to check my water lines for LSD for a minute after reading. Smug posting doesn’t even begin to cover it, it was so fucking surreal. Even direct links to verified and declassified facts both were like shit on a pig on that one. I didn’t think there was something to make me prefer the average person’s total blissful ignorance on the topic but that person’s creepy smug whitewashed reality shit was some next level wtf.

That wouldn’t detonate a claymore.

The more I look at the image, the more terrifyingly genius it becomes.

The laser tripwires in video games are a visual stand-in for good ol’ boring metal tripwires which a claymore can actually use. The tripwire moving around it’s housing changes the circuit state inside the electric blasting cap and off comes the wall of deadly balls.

But you don’t need to tripwire. You can remote detonate.

Or for the purposes of the meme, Alexa can time when to detonate. Just needs a little camera to see when and wire leads into the claymore’s blasting cap to deliver the electric triggering…

This isn’t a meme. It’s theory…

Does anyone know an old appliance salesman who used to sell other things back in old country? Asking for a friend.

They, could do all of those things, in theory.

In the fantasy land where they’re as capable as their fascist tools, and the tools themselves are as good as they advertise.

There are already dozens to hundreds of people getting away with the destruction of Flock cameras. They literally ask for public tips to solve them.

Have you read the research on the actual impact of all this bullshit on crime rate solving?

The panopticon is not finished.

Until it is, large swaths of your comment might as well be fiction, because until it’s trivial to “justify as much resources to hunt them down as what Luigi did” for the average use, they literally can barely find their ass with them.

EDIT: Rock a bye baby, turn the phone off. Sleep and resty.

That is illegal under GDPR, if true

This statement is unfortunately doing a lot of work with the word “that”, even if I dearly wish it wasn’t so. Like, I really wish it were that easy, it would even the playing field back to the non-corporate webmaster almost instantly.

But alas.

The GDPR doesn’t have some special category where data only becomes data once you hit Submit. Article 4 literally defines “processing” to include collection, recording, and storage. So yes, depending on what the site is actually doing, it can absolutely be processing what you type before you submit anything:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_4/oj/eng

But that does not get you from “they captured it” to “therefore illegal.” GDPR doesn’t prohibit processing personal data; it regulates how and why you can do it. Article 6 gives six possible lawful bases for processing, including consent, contractual necessity, and legitimate interests (and it is bastardizing the spirit of how these six interconnect that these companies use to skirt intent of the law):

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_6/oj/eng

The actually interesting question is what they’re capturing, why, how long they retain it, what they do with it, whether they disclosed that processing, and what lawful basis they’re claiming.

That’s where you can potentially have a GDPR problem.

Article 5 requires, among other things, fairness/transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, limited retention, and appropriate security:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_5/oj/eng

And Article 13 requires the relevant information to be provided when the personal data is obtained. There isn’t a magical “well technically the user never clicked Submit” exemption from transparency:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_13/oj/eng

There’s also a separate ePrivacy issue if we’re talking about storing or accessing information on the user’s device. Article 5(3) generally requires consent unless the storage/access is strictly necessary to provide a service the user explicitly requested:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62017CJ0673

And this is where the details get important again, because regulators have explicitly recognized things like short-lived, first-party “user-input” session cookies for multi-page forms as potentially falling within that necessary-function exemption. See WP29 Opinion 04/2012:

https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2012/wp194_en.pdf

That is a very different animal from silently retaining abandoned form contents indefinitely, sending them somewhere unexpected, profiling somebody with them, or reusing them for advertising.

So if somebody actually wants to know whether their abandoned input was retained and what happened to it, GDPR gives them tools for finding out instead of having to speculate from browser behavior. Make an access request to the controller and ask what personal data they hold, the purposes/legal basis, recipients, retention period, and the source/context of the collection.

They normally have one month to respond under Article 12:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_12/oj/eng

If they don’t respond, or the answer establishes something questionable, then you have something concrete to take to the relevant supervisory authority under Article 77:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_77/oj/eng

The EDPB has the list of national authorities here:

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/contact_en

GDPR is leverage, not a magical force field that prevents a server from receiving bytes. The useful part is that it gives you a mechanism to make the controller explain what those bytes became, why they kept them, and what they did with them—and a regulator to complain to if the answers suck.

Mate, I hear ya. Everything you said has many kernels of truth in it, but it doesn’t invalidate what the commenter you’re replying to, is trying to tell you.

There will not be enough workers to support us in old age.

This is precisely, why it’s important to badger and force representatives into the exact same discussion about changes to the bill, as the OOP’s shared article touches upon.

You first raise the cap, so the millionaires who are temporarily embarrassed billionaires pay their fair share, and once those loud mother fuckers get used to it, they’re now on your side to keep pushing it up until it hits the owner class.

Productivity gains ain’t decreasing, and the automation that the labor class toiled to make a reality for these fuckheads, shouldn’t have all of its production gain remain as profit for the owners

Nothing can. Not for any website. It never has.

Even if the site’s platform wasn’t set up with a simple and trivial to implement function(s) to undo posted changes on the front/back end interfaces, and even if it does allow the delete button to actually delete the entry from the database (to my knowledge, this wasn’t even the norm before the corpo takeover of the web)…

It’s like, 2-3 simple SQL queries to pull a backup pre-the changes, and merge back in whatever form you want into the live database.

This was always possible, since the day we started using DBs to better serve dynamic content.

Again, this applies to pretty much any web property.

It’s stupidly common and easy. Practically any text field can be made to capture and cache “unsent” data, because it’s not actually a standard text field that only does POST when you submit, but rather something that is continuously polled (usually AJAX) and the data saved to whatever database tables they got set up for it.

Wonders of scripting.

NoScript will stop it, but then the platforms that rely on this bullshittery for ill, usually are the kind to try to force you into having JavaScript or worse enabled.

Some examples of this I’ve seen/used in the wild:

When I worked at a credit union, the last upgrade to the “online banking” towards Lumin(link to their marketing site in case you want to see their screenshots, almost no CU/Bank who uses them bothers to customize it) the then “hot and new” vendor platform that was hot then amongst digital banking solutions for small to midsize institutions, uses it on every text field.

E.g. the search omnibar input from atop the accounts where you can search help topics, and the input from the fields around the FAQ sections (input meaning both sent queries and anything typed but not submitted) were all visible to the call center folks, with strings like “user typed ‘how do I hide my 10k deposit through mobile banking’ into [field name] but did not submit”, as these were expected to be data for the reps to use in their servicing or whatever.

Another (much bigger) example: The omni bar at Google.com specifically (and I have no idea how many in their Android apps, but given that they have more control there than over your browser I’d just assume every single one…Google Keyboard included).

If you get yourself through all the trouble and effort to somehow arrive at search site unknown (your customized FF privacy fork is really fucking good or something) and for some reason need or allow scripting on their page and type ad targetty helpful info but never search…it’s still gonna make it into whatever shadow profile they’re prepping for linkage to the real you ASAP, and eagerly wants to personalize those ads with your unsent data.

My own community writing website:

It came bundled with a Xenforo add-on I used for some stupid feature I wasn’t smart enough to do myself 5-7 years ago. I don’t run any sort of ads or tracking whatsoever on my site, so it’s pretty much useless.

Can already hear you making

This implies preemptive assumptions on my part. I could be wrong. You stated facts, true.

If that is the extent of your stance on the topic, then that portion of my comment is irrelevant, and needlessly combative.

Not that I’m apologizing for it, these are not the times for that.

Absolutely true. Also just like, fundamentally bullshit, and perfectly reasonable to consider expansion of the cap.

Those currently over the cap reap outsized benefits borne from the labor of those who don’t make the cap. That’s how they fucking made it, above the cap.

There is no moral turpitude in taxing them to fund a social net they won’t directly use, because they’ve been indirectly benefitting from it all along.

The piddling argument I can already hear you making, gets even more ridiculous when you scale past the professionally licensed professions and get into pure capitalists.

This is a compromise being offered, in lieu of the buffet table, and of course they’re gonna be too fucking stupid to accept it because the morons forgot the bread part and all they got left is their shitty circus.

“Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”