... or share real-time information on enforcement activity. The administration claims the accounts are engaged in doxing and endanger officer safety, but they have also targeted social media users seemingly doing nothing more than expressing anger at the government.
\1 masked goon squads are for questionable dictatorships.
\2 US citizens are free to say "the police are over there"
\3 US citizens are free to express angaer at their government.
Why do you pretend that laws matter when the current government is showing every waking second that they do not? To the extent they've been called back by judges dozens and dozens of times, for breaking the law? Yet they keep breaking new laws?
The comment you replied to, but didn't respond to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717422), refuted your attempt to reduce vigilante group actions as "telling people where the police are" and raised the violent incidents officers have encountered from vigilante groups.
You ignored both points and are apparently asking about the government interacting with judges.
Well, they're not all men and they are meting out plenty of violence, civil rights violations and lies in court that are getting cases thrown out left and right.
Lying about killing civilians, lying about being assaulted with a sandwich, lying about a college professor trying to move a gas canister away from someone in a wheelchair.
ICE should be abolished and they should all be barred from future public service.
There is the position, of course, that a sexually abused child that reaches teen years or adulthood is no longer a "decent person" .. which is an interesting transition to dwell on.
That makes it more understandable, but he lost a trial that said he was raping a child when he was 38 years old.
Someone abused as a child who does sketchy things in their early 20s is tragic. Someone doing the same when they’re nearly 40 is a whole lot harder to dismiss. Like, you don’t make it to that age without hearing a lot of people along the way saying not to rape children.
Oh, please, don't think I'm making any excuses here .. but I was around and about the evidence management side of a five deep dive into institutional childhood abuse ... the various things that went down tend to explain a lot of early following behaviour once some kind of distance from early abuse is made.
You're right to flag ongoing and persistent shitty behaviour as unacceptable - even assigning blame there gets problematic as there absolutely is an element of "would they be less bad had they had more support on escape", but you can't be giving a pass forever.
Bloody Trolley problems .. this is one of several areas with no good choices, no easy solutions.
Yeah, I hear ya. My wife and I like watching crime shows, and you see someone like Ed Kemper, and wonder how he would’ve turned out if he hadn’t been subject to loads of abuse. If his parents hadn’t sucked, he might’ve been a doctor or something. It doesn’t forgive his crimes but does give a lot to ponder.
If only human behavior was that simple. The DSM-5 is filled with diseases of the mind. Choice often isn’t as cut and dry as we would like to believe.
No one wakes up and thinks “I want to suffer today of _____.” [1] AndI want others to suffer along with me.
That said, perhaps the universe is binary? Perhaps evil, pure evil does exist? Perhaps there’s no to stopping evil than “just say no”? It’s hard to say.
There is also the theory that it serves as a reenactment of one’s own abuse. Trying to find peace and return to safety by replaying the scene, this time not as helpless victim but perpetrator: in control.
Victims of sexual abuse thus often are haunted by “fantasies” of abuse but avoiding the victim position; the trap is to identify with the fantasies. All too often, they’ve been told it is their fault, they wanted it etc, so the imagined replay “proves the original perpetrator right”.
The only way to break the circle seems to be to fully go into the fantasy and process the victim position, with support of a well-meaning presence (typically a therapist but in another reality it could be friends or family).
It ably demonstrates the propensity of IT industry drive by commenters to be confidently, totally, utterly incorrect in every aspect of what they opine.
> but intelligence seems rare given our sky surveys to date.
Most of the universe, by a large percentage (or so I'm told), is further away than 200 light years.
What signs of intelligence would we see or detect in our own solar system from a distance of 200 light years should we scan it with all our latest and best tech?
David Kipping has given several lectures in which he proposes that life on Earth may be the only life in the observable universe. It's kind of fascinating to ponder, though he holds that the true scientist states we have no evidence either way.
It's strange that life has existed on earth for much of the age of the solar system itself, yet intelligence only arises at the end of the habitable period of earth. There's not much time left.
Well that's great for David Kipping, nice to see British astro's getting up and out.
* Did David give any answer to the question of what could be observed about intelligent life on Earth from a distance of 200 light years?
That was the question asked.
* Who out there is giving lectures in which they propose other intelligent life exists "out there" ?
> yet intelligence only arises at the end of the habitable period of earth.
Human habitable .. and some human descendants may very well survive AGW, if not there's likely time for non human intelligence to come along on the planet.
This is regarding the porn site/social media age gating. Not the obligations on operating systems and open source developers. No mention of the california law, or Colorado law-- not on the page you linked or the hub it links to.
I've previously written to the EFF on it with no response.
Not the military, they largely did is they were instructed and mostly backed off much of the suggested full on war crimes.
The US administration and the parachuted in TV host head of Crusades that pushed out all the thinky cautious types .. they look like prize idiots, as they always have.
It's been cab and camera operated hydraulic lifts on wheelie bins for decades here.
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