Notices by mike805 (mike805@noc.social), page 2

@patrickcmiller Is there a cure for the location spying on newer Toyotas? I was looking into them but found out they have a built in cellular transceiver you cannot turn off, which reports absolutely everything back to Toyota.

@jeffowski That's the point of a republic. There are things even a majority cannot do.

@mekkaokereke What they never point out is, slavery is not only evil, it's also stupid.

The South was so backward they could not maintain their own locomotives post-secession. The high tech industry was all in the North.

They did build a powder mill, by commandeering a Northern-made steam engine to power it!

The cotton picking machine was invented in the 1920s but not used until after WW2, because Black people were still effectively indentured before WW2. They were paid in fake money.

@RodneyPetersonTalent @freemo Oh I've read the history plenty. It's ugly.

(1) when the Zionists were weak and stateless, some of them resorted to terrorism too (King David Hotel anyone?)

(2) when the Palestinians were given citizenship in Jordan, some of them kept provoking the Israelis, triggering reprisals inside Jordan. When Jordan tried to make them stop, they tried to kill the king! The Jordanian army then drove them out, and that's how they ended up in a prison-like state.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Yes I was saying the Left supports Palestine as an "oppressed proletariat" and hates Israel as a "colonial oppressor."

They are therefore quick to condemn Israel bombing residential neighborhoods. But somehow they cannot bring themselves to say the Hamas massacre in Israel was a horrible atrocity.

Some of those Leftists who cheered on Hamas, would do the same to Americans and Europeans if they got the chance.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent The Western Left (with the exception of explicitly Jewish groups) seems pretty anti-Israel right now. And that is driving the Jews out of groups they felt at home in, which may break up the Leftist coalition.

The Left see Israel as colonial occupiers much like the old South Africans. The Holocaust sympathy has pretty much worn off.

Liberal Jewish "tikkun olam" with its "everyone is nice like us" mindset has done as much harm to Israel as to America.

@freemo @deegeese @RodneyPetersonTalent Both the Soviets and the Japanese gave their soldiers explicit permission to rape during WW2. Other nations punished soldiers for it. There is definitely a cultural divide on whether rape during warfare is ok or not.

@freemo @deegeese @RodneyPetersonTalent Cultures where raiding, conquest, and capturing women were normal things for centuries (like the Middle East) seem pretty rapey.

Civilized places where rape got you hanged, less so.

Where rape was "safe" was during warfare. Within one's own tribe it has always had consequences. The Middle East has had a lot of warfare.

@deegeese @freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Yes, it is not moral. Not good for the species either. Rape must have some reproductive value or men wouldn't do it (since it's risky) so forced parenthood from rape will make more rapists.

There is no answer on the abortion issue that will satisfy all moral constraints, so like with war, people are going to have to accept some sort of compromise as to what is permitted.

Also, Taliban attitudes toward women lose elections, as the Rs keep learning.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Thought policing does seem to be a mostly Left wing phenom. I have read Right side forums and they are much less aggressive about it. They can barely keep blatant trolls out.

Although the Israel/Palestine thing is a humanitarian disaster, the divide within the Left is quite a spectacle. The inability of the Left to admit "their side" did a horrible evil is amazing. Even Greta T is now in trouble over it. Proving she's not really about climate, just wants attention.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent First thing to acknowledge on abortion is it's not a trivial issue and neither side is obviously wrong.

Pregnancy and abortion is practically the divide by zero error of Western ethics.

Western ethics holds that if you have one person dependent on another, and the responsible person cannot provide, you transfer the responsibility to someone else. You cannot do that with pregnancy.

OTOH the West believes each person owns their own body.

So neither extreme works.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Amazing how choosing your own opinions gets you attacked from both sides, isn't it?

Defining yourself as "right wing" or "left wing" is defining yourself as non-thinking. Both of those positions are self-contradictory and would run off a cliff if given the chance.

Both have some valid points, and a lot of accumulated ideology they have not thought through.

@bobjonkman @waterlooregion "Cars are heavy, drivers are distracted, and you are squishy. Look before crossing." The honest sign that should be there.

@ned What I remember is all the utopian talk from the mp3.com era about how there was all this great music we never got to hear because of those evil record labels. Soon we'd be rid of the labels and artists would get paid what they were worth and we would have all this new music.

Now I keep reading about how artists wish for the old days of merely being ripped off by record labels.

And it is hilarious that the corpse of Napster is the best paying service.

@aral @opengeohub @mwfc Funny enough, the best behaved company on this front is... Facebook? They have released a few different AIs now, and defeated the threat of a
google/microsoft AI duopoly. If you want to build a people's AI, you will probably be starting with something from Facebook.

Oh, and try out OpenAI/Whisper just once, and then tell me there is not a searchable text index of all phone calls. That thing is amazing and you know the spooks had it a couple years early.

@aral If you really mean it, develop in Firefox, and test periodically in Chrome and Safari. I had to do that, and had to do two different implementations of saving files coming in via WebRTC.