[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

Back when Christianity was a protest movement they understood this too:

Galatians 2:21

" I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

The problem is these people are just full of shit about everything all the time. The law is a very poor excuse for doing something, and if The law makes someone choose a different action then what they think is right, That's literally just moral cowardice.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 36 points 22 hours ago

Seems more like a live by the sword die by the sword kind of thing. Luigi absolutely should be arrested. Luigi should absolutely be prosecuted. A jury of his peers should absolutely give them a Westworld verdict, "doesn't look like anything to me".

I think that would send a powerful message that the rank and file American public is willing to guillotine a few CEOs if that's what it takes to fix this problem.

I don't care if his job was legal. I don't care if The law is on his side. I just don't care. The law allows people to deny care using an unthinking machine that can't be held responsible all in the pursuit of keeping the money that was paid to the company to provide that care.

Nope, I'm sorry. If you want a recipe for how to be unpersoned, there you go. If we don't call what soldiers do on the battlefield murder I'm going to have a tough time calling this murder.

If using violence to create fear to affect political change makes someone a terrorist, and we wish to apply that definition here, then there must first be examples made of the authority that wishes to impose such judgment. Authority without competence and oversight is just tyranny. The British called the minutemen barbarians, The United States calls its secret police undercover officers or plain clothes detectives. Word games like this start to fall apart when they face any serious scrutiny.

Either that definition of terrorism is overly broad and would include everything from the police in the United States to our "shock and awe" campaigns abroad. Either that or the difference is not that he "used violence to create fear to affect political change" but that his violence did not come as the official order of a government that is allowed to use violence to create fear to affect political change.

If they try this guy like a terrorist then the country should rightfully riot. The appropriate response would be rebellion on a grand scale.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Yet getting hernia corrected is $16,000. $900 barely pays the rent for a month anywhere in the country.

When the cost of living is so high the cost of dying needs to be levied on the ones responsible.

I hope people take to generally withholding human decency from these executives.

This can be an addition to whatever other more invasive measures people might have planned.

Examples:

Instead of holding the door for one of them when you walk through, push the door back into their face and hold it there for a few seconds, Make eye contact like you're looking at an unruly teenager literally covered in shit. It's not illegal it's just rude and upsetting.

Don't put any condiments or napkins or anything like that into their to-go containers. If possible omit any packaging at all. Make them request each specific plastic fork and napkin, do your best to soil all of it.

If you recognize one of them in public, point and yell, "This person works for a death panel and helps ensure Americans die prematurely."

Don't refer to the most HMO CEOs or healthcare CEOs, just call them death panelists, or death panel CEO.

Of course I would never discourage violence against purveyors of human misery, but if you're too explicitly willing to fight back in the ongoing class war you will be de-platformed and treated as if you are an actual terrorist.

If, on the other hand, you wanted to say that Brian Thompson should have gone on living and been allowed to kill as many people as the law would let him then you're perfectly okay and standing on solid ground.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 80 points 3 days ago

Using AI driven software is willful negligence. Software can't take responsibility so the human operating it needs to take responsibility for the consequences of it. They took down the entire thing they need to face consequences. The hosting provider should also face consequences for overly broad responses to take down requests.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

More like " if you are going to be a public nuisance, don't be surprised when plucky adventurers show up to confront you."

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Yes, of course he must be prosecuted if he can be found. As a member of the general population I feel as though it's possible that a jury wouldn't convict him and could even find him not guilty. Then he is a free man.

Until his identity is known I shall call him Attaboy Goodman, and if a jury were to convene with me on it, I would be unlikely to take seriously any claim by the state that this vigilantism is somehow more destructive of public order than police murdering and robbing people while ignoring wage theft and corporate crimes.

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[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 93 points 4 months ago

We are lucky we got Tim Walz instead of Newsom. Tim really cares about outcomes but Gavin is all about appearances.

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[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 99 points 8 months ago

My hourly rate for tutoring is actually about 50% higher than my hourly rate for on call support which is about 100% higher than my hourly rate for work.

I'm trying to afford groceries here, It's not 90 days payable It's pay-per-play. I'm tired of trying to finance an inhaler while the boss's favorite child can't decide on a font color and thinks that 5 minute phone calls at 7:30 on a friday are free.

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They seem to spin some kind of silk everywhere they go. They seem to be no longer than about 4 mm. I noticed them crawling up things and then dropping down on a line of silk. I've started catching them by putting little sticks up in the air attached everywhere that I find them. They tend to gather at the top of the stick for easy rapture by vacuum.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago

Someone should mass print the most common tattoo shapes in temporary tattoos and hand them out at protests or sell them for cheap.

Seems like a great way of just poisoning a lot of data sets

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I feel like they probably have something to do with light level detection or infrared signal receiving but I genuinely have no idea. They could just as likely be part of the sound system for all I know.

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