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LH0ezVT

@ LH0ezVT @sh.itjust.works

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A human on earth. Ask me about weird tech. Bonus points if it radiates.

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  • As a former teen that - due to other reasons - was socially pretty isolated, at this age acceptance from your peers is everything.

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  • Oh, we had. Rats are common in all cities, and mice in the countryside. Sure, nowadays you'd just get an exterminator, but having a cat would prevent that as well. Our dog caught a rat in our basement once, and I'm pretty sure we avoided mice due to her presence as well.

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  • Just wait until we have overturn the fascist system, then you'll be first against the wall!

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  • I saw a historic photo in a magazine once, where some European colonial officers tried to tame and ride zebras

  • Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?

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  • I've seen a lot of students at climate and social protests. Back in my day, if you deviated from the norm only a bit, you'd be called "edgy", "gay", "misled" and so on. When I look at what would have turned you into an outsider back in my not-so-distant past and beaten up after school, and what some students dare to do today, I have some hope. There are good people out there. They are just hard to see behind all the loud, stupid and malicious ones.

  • Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?

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  • Yes, but: not falling into the slop machine takes willpower and learned skills. Modern social media is like a drug. Many adults use drugs responsibly to have good times, but we all agree that we should keep kids away from them.

  • Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?

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  • A good point of view. Someone, somewhere will fight the odds and carry on. Someone will love, hate, create art, suffer, exploit and be exploited, create new nonsense jokes and slang, and make the same mistakes. Quite literally until the the last lights go out.

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  • Wasn't a core philosophy of Calvinists basically "god loves capitalism" (before the word was really established)?

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  • Nah, that's not it. Germany has legal and - theoretically - regulated prostitution, and society is not meaningfully different than, say, France in that redgard as far as I can tell.

    There are other issues associated with it, but just that one argument alone doesn't seem to work based on what I've seen.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • I mean, congrats on your nihilism. If I cared about neither myself nor those close to me nor some abstract "humanity" or "society", I would have it much easier in life.

    Sadly, I still feel bad when I think of bad things happening to good people, or, even worse, me.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • I don't know about you, but:

    1. I have some money. Not much, but I'd like to keep it, because food and rent is kind of required.
    2. I don't have a criminal record, and I would hate it if someone used my identity to commit crimes. At the very least, doors and lawyers are expensive.
    3. Figure out how to simulate and scam me and a few million other dudes like me, and you have pretty good chances of getting elected here. That stuff is happening in all major elections now, and the results are, well, I assume you read the news.
    4. I would really hate it if you send my detailed porn habits to my boss and my grandma. At the very least my boss would think I'm an idiot and don't deserve a job working with computers and expensive machines.

    Bonus argument:

    I’ve been told that for years and nothing ever comes of it cause what do I got worth taking?

    I've known people who drive without a seatbelt for years, and they haven't died yet.

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  • You do realise it is not about the physical phone, but what you do / have on it? That's why I said access, and on the net.

    My physical device is worth what, $50 with the half dead battery and all the scratches.

    My bank and savings account is worth quite a bit more, and my non-felon status, citizenship of a (for now) democratic country and my private and professional reputation are as well.

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  • Why do you not let someone look over your shoulder when you vote?

    And if that is an unfair comparison, look at Cambridge analytica, and how things have gone downhill with AI and all that since then.

    If you want some pathos, it is your civic duty as a citizen who wants to preserve liberty in a democratic coutry, to be at least somewhat independent and unpredictable from a state that wants you to be predictable and controllable.

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  • OK, now give your phone and wallet access to anyone on the net.

    Including the government, that other government, Kim Jong Un, a pimply broke teeneager in some failed ex-soviet state who doesn't extradite to your place, Mike the Pervert (not allowed within 100m from any other living or recently deceased human by a court order), Mario NotAMobstero and Ranjin who works for $2.50/h in a scam call center.

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  • Gold angle, I didn't hear that before

    "Maybe nothing to hide, but something to protect" is a nice one.

  • So many successes

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  • Menopause doesn't hit before the 40s or so. Plenty of women have children in their 30s. At that point, they have had time to mature, get an education, and build stable circumstances to raise children. Yes, the consequences of the industrial revolution and so on, but those consequences also basically eradicated the child mortality we had before, for instance.

    If someone knows they want a family early, good for them, but I don't blame anyone wanting to experience life before passing it on.

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  • I mean, I can always decide to argue with someone who seems to disagree but is willing to stick to the rules as argue in good faith. Who knows, maybe one or both of us can learn something. Likewise, I can always decide that someone is so far gone that there's no point. But to categorically avoid any argument that sounds stupid is not helpful.

    Those people are like that because a) they are genuinely bad people, b) they are fueling the fire on purpose, and c) nobody ever convinced them they are stupid.

    To not let the a) and b) win, yes, we need to convince people that what they heard is wrong.

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  • This doesn't even make sense from a (pretty stupid) "you have to have children" point of view, what is stopping women to have kids later in life, when they've got an education, know what they want in life, and are financially and mentally stable enough to raise them?

    Of course I know the answer starts with "m" and ends with "isogyny", but it's a very stupid take even in its own framework

  • What are some good media that un-glorify conflict?

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  • Das Boot, it is the classic movie about German Uboats from the perspective of the Uboat crew.

    It does not glorify, it does not condemn, but the one thing that stays with you is the feeling of futility.

    They did all the terrible and heroic things, cheered at hitting convoys, let allied seamen drown because of their orders, escaped again and again, showed fanatism and self-reflection, panic and comradeship, and in the end, when they come back to their home base, it just doesn't matter.

    As they arrive, half-afloat, battered, relieved and enthusiastic about being home, while a marching band plays in the background, they get hit with an air raid. Bombs fall, all die, only the narrator (war reporter) survives to tell the tale. All for nothing. All of it completely futile.