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OwlFancier, crispix)
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How many are just reading it for the value.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:05 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 08:20 |
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What gets me is that they couldn't be bothered to use AI to generate a cover image in which Truss doesn't look like a total moron
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:09 |
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Someone left their phone at my work today and their most-recently-messaged contact was unhelpful Managed to get an 'ok he'll come get it' from another contact later after help from a colleague who knew a bit of the language, but lmao
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:11 |
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Nenonen posted:What gets me is that they couldn't be bothered to use AI to generate a cover image in which Truss doesn't look like a total moron
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:11 |
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I was conscripted and it destroyed my physical and mental health. 0/10 would not recommend.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:18 |
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Guavanaut posted:You need some existing data to work with.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:22 |
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OwlFancier posted:Yes, but conscription is a bad thing. People should not be expected to fight for a country by virtue of being born in it. This came up last time I think when Ukraine introduced conscription and I was surprised by the number of people who didn't think it was objectionable, especially as that exact same rationale can be used to argue that refugees from all over the world should not be accepted if they are capable of fighting in the wars they are fleeing. That's all well and good from a purely hypothetical standpoint, Owl, and I'm sure that Ukraine wouldn't be conscripting people if they didn't have to. But the fact remains that Russia is using conscription, and that forces Ukraine's hand. Their professional army just isn't enough.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:36 |
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Hope she comes to see the unsold stock pulped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3k1S2w_cw
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:42 |
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HopperUK posted:Someone left their phone at my work today and their most-recently-messaged contact was unhelpful Hahahahaha
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:43 |
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Jedit posted:That's all well and good from a purely hypothetical standpoint, Owl, and I'm sure that Ukraine wouldn't be conscripting people if they didn't have to. But the fact remains that Russia is using conscription, and that forces Ukraine's hand. Their professional army just isn't enough. It forces the hand of the Ukrainian state from a materialist perspective, yes. The state will very gladly expend the lives of the people it rules over to perpetuate itself. Just as Capital's hand is forced to suppress the rights of Labour because the alternative is a threat to its power. But does it have the moral right to decide for some of its citizens, that they should die to protect the state? If it were to demand people be recalled from other countries to fight, does that mean being born a citizen of a country entitles that country to the use of your body and life without your consent? Should other countries uphold that right across supposed borders of self determination? I don't think it does and I don't think they should. If it helps, consider the processes we expect to be followed if the state is intervening in the lives of its citizens under any other circumstance. If the state is to incarcerate you, we expect individual trials, evidence, a jury of your peers, and that's for almost any judicial act taken against you by the state. Would you consider it acceptable for the state to mass incarcerate an entire demographic of the population via legislative fiat to protect itself? Even in wartime? Cos I feel like at that point you end up arguing that the Japanese internment in the US was a good idea. I get that conscription is something that is thought of as "normal" to an extent but I really don't think it should be. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 26, 2024 |
# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:45 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:From a few pages back and I haven't caught up on the thread, but it's for the same reasons David Baddiel, Rachel Riley and other uninformed dolts with big followings, money and right wing views are treated as experts. It's like a weird version of the appeal to authority fallacy, where instead of examining her political opinions on their own merits (because they don't understand the context) they go 'Well she's good at maths so we'll take her word for it when it comes to the other thing.' Intelligence doesn't work like that at all.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:50 |
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It can be annoying, but everyone really should have a lock on their phone; there's now too much access to stuff on them https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/mar/02/i-was-in-despair-how-lending-a-phone-led-to-life-savings-being-stolen Admittedly the lady in this story shots themselves in the foot at every opportunity: don't reuse pin/passwords, don't store them unencrypted, don't keep your banking cards in your phone case, etc.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:52 |
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If someone stole my phone there's a risk they could make a good post in this thread, tarnishing my reputation
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:05 |
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Remember Sunak promising to clamp down on sick notes and all that poo poo? Well the FT says he's stupid and smells of poo https://archive.ph/ZKAyA Is Britain suffering from a ‘sick note culture’? (the short answer is no. the long answer is quote:Rishi Sunak last week declared it a “moral mission” to reform welfare in the UK, to cut the benefits bill and bring people with health conditions back to work.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:13 |
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Microplastics posted:If someone stole my phone there's a risk they could make a good post in this thread, tarnishing my reputation I don't do phone banking (because I still can't get my head around people having the same phone for banking as their verification codes get sent to - I have a separate 'stupid' phone for verification texts that does nothing internet at all) & my bank email address isn't on my phone.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:18 |
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All my phone banking is biometric.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:35 |
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Guavanaut posted:All my phone banking is biometric. Doesn't that mean "they" will just pluck out your eyeballs or cut your forefinger off?
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:40 |
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OwlFancier posted:Cos I feel like at that point you end up arguing that the Japanese internment in the US was a good idea. Not saying it was a good idea by any means, but the Japanese were a lot better at using overseas citizens/emigres at e.g. Pearl Harbour than the Germans ever were in the US so it wasn't completely without any justification. Very tangential to the current discussion but I think it's somewhat interesting. e: Though TBF the Nazis made a lot of use of German minorities in Europe as well, just not as much in the US and the UK. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Apr 26, 2024 |
# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:40 |
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Again, yes you can justify it if your primary point of consideration is the preservation of the state no matter the human cost, but I would hope that people ITT would not consider that an acceptable justification.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:45 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Doesn't that mean "they" will just pluck out your eyeballs or cut your forefinger off?
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:46 |
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Guavanaut posted:It's local biometric, so it doesn't leave my device. And if someone has my device and my person and is prepared to use that level of force then a password isn't much good either. So you haven't got access to secret labs growing evil pathogens via your eyeball then? Darnit, I've been mislead by the movies again. (Can a pathogen be evil? Is evil a human construct? Are pathogens just doing what pathogens do? Hm.)
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:51 |
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The issue is more, if I remember correctly, that the police can compel you to put your thumb on the phone fingerprint thing or take a picture of you for the facial scan but they can't compel you to put in the passcode. Not that they're going to beat it out of you. This is mostly based on US law though so I'm not sure if that is also true in the UK.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:16 |
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Miftan posted:I was conscripted and it destroyed my physical and mental health. 0/10 would not recommend. should've been a swiftie instead smdh (more seriously I'm sorry to hear that miftan you're a good'un) and for those who don't get the reference:
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Guavanaut posted:It's local biometric, so it doesn't leave my device. And if someone has my device and my person and is prepared to use that level of force then a password isn't much good either. There's been a few cases in London of muggera forcing someone at knifepoint to send all their money, including savings to another account. It's basically "taken to a ATM at knifepoint" but updated. And since you technically approved the transactions, it's not fraud! Single points of failure are bad.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:25 |
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you can just refuse to do it? for a couple of months in jail everyone should do that imo
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:32 |
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I have like £200 in there so I'll take that over the more traditional stabbing me and stealing my phone, which cost more than that. Although they'll probably do the latter when they find out the former. shimmy shimmy posted:The issue is more, if I remember correctly, that the police can compel you to put your thumb on the phone fingerprint thing or take a picture of you for the facial scan but they can't compel you to put in the passcode. Not that they're going to beat it out of you. This is mostly based on US law though so I'm not sure if that is also true in the UK.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:34 |
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Guavanaut posted:In the UK you can get up to 2 years for refusing to provide a password, whereas I'm not sure there's an equivalent for biometric. I know they've had to do scooter snatch style robberies of suspects to get unlocked devices recently. May god smite your benighted country
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:36 |
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shimmy shimmy posted:May god smite your benighted country if it hasn't happened this far
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:38 |
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kecske posted:you can just refuse to do it? for a couple of months in jail everyone should do that imo nah she was in jail for a least a year, she was updating via sharing the account with a trusted friend and jail visits
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:43 |
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Guavanaut posted:In the UK you can get up to 2 years for refusing to provide a password, whereas I'm not sure there's an equivalent for biometric. I know they've had to do scooter snatch style robberies of suspects to get unlocked devices recently. what about if you give a false password to trigger the 'incorrect password attempt > phone is wiped' feature that iOS has? I don't remember if android has it natively
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:47 |
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kecske posted:what about if you give a false password to trigger the 'incorrect password attempt > phone is wiped' feature that iOS has? I don't remember if android has it natively then they can probably do you fo destroying evidence
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:48 |
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kecske posted:you can just refuse to do it? for a couple of months in jail everyone should do that imo From what I understand the societal pressure including from family to do it is very strong, resisting that (and not everyone will want to) takes some strength of character. Look at how conscientious objectors were treated in WW1. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/richmond-castle/history-and-stories/attitudes-to-cos/ There was quite a moving Dad's Army episode when the old guy Private Godfrey was revealed to have been a CO https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x52x6ny
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 22:50 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Look at how conscientious objectors were treated in WW1.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:03 |
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OwlFancier posted:Again, yes you can justify it if your primary point of consideration is the preservation of the state no matter the human cost, but I would hope that people ITT would not consider that an acceptable justification. Jesus loving Christ, man. You are aware that Russia has been practicing ethnic cleansing in areas of Eastern Ukraine that resist, right? "Repatriating" Ukrainian children to the Motherland is about the least of it. The "human cost" of failing to preserve the state can be as bad as the cost of resistance, and in this case we know for a fact it will be worse because Putin has been quite clear that his next step if Ukraine falls is to move on other former Soviet satellite states. But even if it weren't, what would you prefer - a lot of dead people and Russia conquering Ukraine, or the same amount of dead people but the evil murdering cunts don't get what they want?
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:13 |
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HopperUK posted:if it hasn't happened this far Are you sure about that
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:15 |
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Jedit posted:Jesus loving Christ, man. You are aware that Russia has been practicing ethnic cleansing in areas of Eastern Ukraine that resist, right? "Repatriating" Ukrainian children to the Motherland is about the least of it. The "human cost" of failing to preserve the state can be as bad as the cost of resistance, and in this case we know for a fact it will be worse because Putin has been quite clear that his next step if Ukraine falls is to move on other former Soviet satellite states. But even if it weren't, what would you prefer - a lot of dead people and Russia conquering Ukraine, or the same amount of dead people but the evil murdering cunts don't get what they want? If you are arguing that there is a species-wide imperative to fight Russia then the best way to accomplish that would be direct military intervention with the professional, volunteer militaries of other countries, not shipping out refugees to be conscripted. Not least because it is entirely possible that the latter approach will not avert a Russian victory and the former would still be a necessary consideration. Which means that as far as the initial contention goes, that western states care about the welfare of the Ukrainian people, permitting it to come to, and actively supporting Ukrainian conscription would be a direct refutation of that. It is simply the least costly course for the states to take. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Apr 26, 2024 |
# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:20 |
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Guavanaut posted:Merchant Navy in WW2 too, lots of dirty looks, being refused service in pubs, people saying "join the real navy you coward" when they had one of the worst casualty rates in the war and people weren't complaining when the food and tea got delivered. I believe this was more of a WW1 thing? It was why the merchant fleet was formally (and royally) named 'the Merchant Navy' and gained officially standardised uniforms and insignia for ratings as well as officers - before 1918 most merchant sailors didn't have a recognisable uniform or were provided working rig by the shipping line, and so wore civvies when not attached to a ship, which led to a lot of white feathers and dirty looks. And yes, that episode of Dad's Army is one of the classics. Especially given what the actor who played Pvt. Godfrey went through in the actual war - he was riddled with shrapnel at the Somme, had long-term physical and neurological issues as a result, recovered and then joined up again in 1939 and narrowly avoided being captured during the Fall of France. It really must be struggle with feelings of futility when you find yourself risking life and limb fighting Germans in northeast France twice in one lifetime.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:23 |
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You love to see it https://twitter.com/politlcsuk/status/1783957426015764552?s=46
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:27 |
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OwlFancier posted:If you are arguing that there is a species-wide imperative to fight Russia then the best way to accomplish that would be direct military intervention with the professional, volunteer militaries of other countries, not shipping out refugees to be conscripted. I don’t think Jedit was arguing that and I’m not sure how you got that from what they’re saying. When a state falls, it’s not like the people living in it aren’t quite badly affected usually. It’s not just the state being protected - it’s the people in it, and everything they need to live. People fighting for Ukraine, willingly, unwillingly or some confusing mix in the middle of the two aren’t thinking ‘let’s save the state apparatus and political class of Ukraine’, they’re thinking ‘well this loving sucks but I really don’t want that invading Russian tank column to come to my town because typically that’s not ended well, and it’ll be ending poorly for me and my family in this case’. I know you’re an anarchist but a country is more than the state in the vast majority of people’s minds, but more importantly in this case it’s not the only thing that’s going to have a bad time if Russia annexes Ukraine - the people will suffer, without hope of victory or a return to the peace they knew.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 23:36 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 08:20 |
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In which case I am entirely serious about suggesting that what you should be advocating for is direct military intervention. If you sincerely believe that allowing a Russian victory would be a humanitarian disaster in excess of that caused by throwing every able bodied Ukrainian at them, then a global military intervention becomes an obligation to end the war as soon and decisively as possible. I would find that to be a far more respectable position.
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