kool_newt

@kool_newt@lemm.ee

Trying to spread the idea that humans need to evolve beyond our current stage based on mutual exploitation and learn to again live on this planet sustainably and without coercion.

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kool_newt , to Linux in What if I paid for all my free software?

True, but AWS and the cloud in general likely would've never evolved without top notch free software, i.e. Linux, because the cost would've been prohibitive. I am on a team that runs a small public cloud and there are many systems needed to support the cloud, it's not just the instances/VMs.

kool_newt , (edited ) to News in Haley Questions if Trump Is ‘Mentally Fit’ After He Confused Her With Pelosi

They're not random, they're likely carefully curated (by algorithm) to maximize profits and promote the interests of it's owner, who is that again?

kool_newt , to News in Haley Questions if Trump Is ‘Mentally Fit’ After He Confused Her With Pelosi

This makes sense when it comes to voting restrictions. I'd say anyone seeking office in the U.S. should be able to speak fluent English (as that's the language their job will be conducted in) and be able to pass an aptitude test.

This test should be taken alone, in public view, and on camera, probably only after winning an election and failure means the runner up gets the position assuming they can pass the test.

kool_newt , to News in Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused

As I see it, the Kentucky GOP member(s) that supported this bill stated their intentions, the unhoused now have every valid reason to protect themselves against this mortal threat with appropriate force and it would be self-defense, and anyone who views the unhoused as part of their community does as well and it would be community defense.

Until appropriate negative consequences are a possibility from people standing up for themselves, the bad guys will keep winning.

kool_newt , to Biology in A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males

Can we distribute this over the U.S. by drone?

Creepy helicoptor drone with a happy face designed to distribute drugs via arial dispersal

kool_newt , (edited ) to Biology in Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear

Right!? How many ways can my midsection make me SAD.

Just wait until gut science is exploited for fun and profit like brain science is.

kool_newt , to World News in Indonesia files lawsuit against Israel at ICJ

Mexico and Chile too taking calling on ICC

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/19/headlines/mexico_and_chile_call_on_icc_to_investigate_israels_assault_on_gaza_as_death_toll_nears_25_000

kool_newt , to Free Open-Source Artificial Intelligence in Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs

He should test out those new nitrogen chambers.

kool_newt , to News in The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar

Solar is great, but decentralization is the way. Not this centralized, metered, power centralizing "green energy".

kool_newt , to politics in Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY

I hope you're right, actually I hope we never have to learn if you're right.

kool_newt , to politics in Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY

Sure

State - An organized group of people who claim exclusive acceptable use of violence within a claimed geographic region and use violence to ensure this monopoly continues.

Within a state most self-defense or community-defense is denigrated as "vigilante justice".

A government typically is also a state but it's not necessary for a polity that is focused on say community coordination to claim exclusive legality to the use of violence.

kool_newt , (edited ) to politics in Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY

Edited - reworded

doesn’t make it right to murder people just because you felt threatened by them

Totally depends on the threat. If the threat is real and mortal, I'd say it sure does give one the right to defend themselves in a way that eliminates the threat. On the other hand, a vague feeling of being threatened does not give one the right to harm others. If it's not your life or something critical to your life being threatened a lesser response is probably more appropriate. I'm not saying shoot someone for stealing your Amazon package. Like every other situation, there is nuance.

Also, your quotation is not from me.

kool_newt , to politics in Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY

And we'll lose everything due to our unwillingness to sacrifice a bit.

kool_newt , (edited ) to politics in Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY

I really don’t want to live in a world where feeling threatened grants a person all the powers of judge, jury, and executioner. Do you want lynch mobs?

We have this now but worse because it's organized against specific groups.

  • The state is nothing but an organized group of people who feel entitled to use lethal force to make you comply with their will.
  • Police are a huge organized hierarchical gang with a license to kill

We are simply propagandized to think this is the right way and every other way is wrong. Humans have been around for 2-300,000 years, 99% of that time with no state and it was sustainable. Now we have state and shit is being destroyed in a few generations. The state is the problem, not a few lynch mobs.

EDIT: I want to add, if you don't defend yourself from fascists, you end up in their world. This world of fascists will certainly grant effective judge, jury, and executioner status (i.e. they won't get in trouble) to any privileged person over any unprivileged person. Choose your future.

kool_newt , to politics in Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY

It's weird that self-defense has this time limit on it's validity. Like if someone tries to kill you and you kill them while they're in the action of stabbing you it's self-defense, but if a few minutes have passed it's murder.

If someone has made their intention to kill you clear, self-defense is a valid response, no time limit, no need to wait for triggers to be pulled. This is a group of people making their intentions clear walking down the street.

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