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And when the government uses that data to round you up? Sure maybe you aren't an immigrant... but are you in the next group they target, or the group after that?

Maybe not, but does that matter when they use an advertising profile to make your life hell before determining you're not in the problem group? Will they even bother to check? They already have been hassling and detaining citizens on similar sloppy suspicions around immigration.

Even if you're a perfect aryan and think you're safe from the current regime... will the next one have the same notion of perfect?


What about food products that can be used to excess? What about cars or AI or vacations? All these products can be harmful when misused.


Those all pass the utilitarian calculation for me, goods greater than harm.


What utility does a box of cookies have? A bar of chocolate? A can of soda? Those things are about pleasure and have serious harmful consequences if overused - just like tobacco, alcohol and drugs.

What about video games? They only have utility in pleasure and the sedentary lifestyle associated with over-playing them is extremely harmful.

Sounds to me like you have some random things you decided you don't like and want to ban ads for them, not that you've done any thinking about utility (other than as a bad attempt at rationalizing your anti-some things campaign).


Going way way off topic - when those two were a couple they had a house in Puerto Vallerta, casa Kimberly thats now a hotel. I stayed there once in the late 90s and from their website it hasn't really changed since I was there. The whole time I could just imagine them being there living the hollywood getaway lifestyle. Definitely a cool place to stay - in the old town not in the resort area, and very much worth it if you get the chance. (although it does look more expensive than it was then, even adjusting for inflation).


Because there were children to starve. Brown children.


More than half of the Israeli Jews are "brown people" from the neighboring Arab countries.


Advanced challenge: make it self-hosting.


I agree with your basic position, but most definitions of the word violence that I could find included the notion of: destroying things with intent to intimidate through fear of harm, threats such as brandishing weapons, and so on. It's not as simple as 'you didn't touch me so you didn't do violence' - and it makes sense when you consider the case of robbery at gunpoint.

That being said - the destruction of flock cameras is in no way violence. No one sees that and takes it as a threat of harm - at least no one acting in an honest way.


Isn't that the difference between a threat of violence as opposed to violence? Which is directly adjacent and thus treated similarly by the law.

Brandishing a gun at someone is a threat that you'll shoot them but, importantly, is not the same thing as actually making good on the threat. (From the victim's perspective the distinction is rather important.)


Yeah, he's gotta finance the payments to whoever the kiddie peddler du jour is somehow. Especially now that he can't just walk next door or steer his yacht towards a conveniently located island.


You don't think there's already a replacement island?


I'm not even convinced that the first one has been decommissioned yet.


Having a tui file picker in the pipeline can be a powerful technique. Sometimes it just makes sense to have an interface that is slightly more interactive than pre-selecting all the files makes the flow smoother. Being able to put that into a script/alias/whatever is nice.

Other CLI things benefit from this "have a minimal ui interface in the workflow for the one step where it makes sense".


A poet can't inform people of things?

Seems like a weird take. Poets, musicians and artists have a very long history of inspiring and contributing to movements. Some successful, some not successful. Sometimes heeded and other times ignored until it was too late. But to say being a poet is not trying to inform people is ignorant at best, and is a claim that will need evidence.


> A poet can't inform people of things?

Sure, back in ye olde thymes. Things are different in the attention economy and messaging has to be crafted to the audience it serves.


Compaction doesn't lose snow. It loses air. This causes the pile of snow to shorten.


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