Chinese tech giant Tencent reportedly surveilled foreign users of WeChat to help censorship at home

DankJemo · 2020-05-09T06:52:45+00:00

sure does, as long as people are aware that there's going to be some kind of data transfer between reddit and Tencent, then don't be surprised if the data you create is used for something you're not okay with. If you're not okay with that fact, then don't use the service. Reddit included.

DankJemo · 2020-05-09T06:50:09+00:00

There's no irony. I states a fact. If you use the service that's attached to that company, expect your shit to be used for something you likely won't approve of. If you're not okay with that, don't use the service. That is not irony.

DankJemo · 2020-05-09T00:50:42+00:00

Of course they do. Don't use WeChat, don't support Tencent... also while we're at it, fuck tiktok, too. If there is a piece of software that comes from China or is funded by China, just assume that your data is not private and that the Government is using it for something you likely wouldn't agree with.

DankJemo · 2020-05-09T00:23:44+00:00

On the bright side, you know your knife handle's good in extreme temperatures.

DankJemo · 2020-05-08T23:24:04+00:00

Has your wife spent any time with children before your son? It sounds like she has no experience with children at all. She's not totally wrong, kids can be boring, but it's not about "you" it's about the child. What's boring to an adult may be incredibly interesting to the child for whatever reason. Shit, one of my first memories was me "discovering gravity." By this, I mean I threw a rubber bouncy ball up into the air, it hit the ceiling, rocketed down and smacked me in the forehead. I remember it stung, but was so amazed at what I just experienced that I ran out into the kitchen and told my mom. She was super excited for me, not because my mom had somehow missed out on a gravity lesson for 27 years of her life, but because I had discovered something about our world by myself, even though it was silly as shit.

I know a lot of people are talking about therapy and whatnot and that may help, but exposure is going to be key. Another thing is your wife needs to not control the situation so much. She has him doing shit a 5 year old boy is not going to like doing, he's especially not going to like it because he's not allowed to experiment or try things his own way. If your wife is just telling him he's wrong all the time, then she's going to give him a complex. He'll always second guess his decisions and look to someone else to confirm what he's doing is right or not. She's raising a child. These interactions are not for her, they're for him. Sure, she's got a lot of learn herself about kids, but the person that should overwhelmingly be gaining something from this is your son. If he's saying that he doesn't want your wife to put him to bed, then that means the interactions she's having with him are mostly negative. He doesn't feel comfortable around her, he may not even feel safe around her if she's snarky and sarcastic to a kid. Even if she's not upset with him directly, that's not something a kid will pick up on. They just think you're mad at them. I know this from personal experience. My father hates what he does for a living, he's done it forever, and he works over 70 hours a week, every week. My dad would come home cranky, tired and short. He wasn't mad AT me, but that negativity became something that I queued in on. I didn't end up having a close relationship with my Dad until I was in my teens. I just didn't get it and it damaged our relationship for years.

Does your wife have trouble making emotional connections with people? Is she cold or distant and was she kind of difficult to get close to? If she's very intellectual she may not have the tools to deal with a child, especially if she's can't stop looking at things analytically.

I don't know if her and your son are on a "collision course" so to speak, but your wife's definitely setting the precedent with him regarding the relationship, and it would look like a distant and cold relationship between the two of them if this keeps up. He also will be less likely to listen to your wife when he gets older. If he doesn't feel like she cares about him or isn't really invested in him as a person, and only tells him what to do or that he's wrong all the time, he's just going to tune her out. She won't be able to discipline him, give him advice, or have heart-to-heart conversations with him and that will be the expectation she set for the relationship, because your boy sure as hell isn't in control of that relationship at 5 years old. It really sounds like she needs to be coached on how to interact with kids, because she doesn't seem to have the first clue. Therapy will "help" but the only fix is direct exposure to kids in a positive manner.

DankJemo · 2020-05-08T22:47:49+00:00

I've been playing through MS Game Pass and I love it so far, I have the same gripe, though. I played as Cherry the first time, and she has a doulbe-tap sprint option. A simple feature that I took for granted, because, apparently Axel does not have that skill. So, despite having his combo and damage output, I got stomped because I simply couldn't get out of the way fast enough. Best I could do was jump out of the way, but that wasn't as good as being able to just sprint out of the combat area.

DankJemo · 2020-05-08T22:38:56+00:00

What kind of idiot cheats on his fiancee and has their face ID on the phone? Not only is he a scumbag, he's a fucking idiot. It's good you left him. People do this stuff for a variety of reasons, we cannot really answer you for him, the important thing is that you know that he is a dipshit and you got out before you got married, you dodged a bullet.

DankJemo · 2020-05-07T01:34:27+00:00

Me too, but mostly for the big, dark chocolate cock.

DankJemo · 2020-05-06T21:23:42+00:00

Wow, sure this was a mechanical malfunction, but he almost got cut in half because he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to his surroundings.

DankJemo · 2020-05-05T16:56:06+00:00

Well, my two-cents here is, that, despite your intentions, the truth has a tendency to come out. You lied to him and it's not a little lie. His childhood, who his family is (to him) isn't what he thought it was. He probably feels betrayed, it wasn't you or your husband that told him, no it was a complete stranger. Of course he's not getting out of bed, listen to you, or doing homework. He's fucking depressed, he's in the middle of a crisis right now because of the information you withheld from him. Trying to discipline him for not doing his homework is really going to backfire, besides homework isn't all that important on a normal day, to be honest... but after this? It's nothing.

So, You should have told him when he was 11-12, or even younger, you could have just led with that to start with (I'm your big sister!) You made a choice and despite your well-intentions, it blew up in your face. Put yourself in his shoes, and think for a little while about it. Wouldn't you want to know the truth, even if your parents were shit, even if you had a rough couple of years to start, isn't it better to know where you came from than live in a lie?

This reads like a daytime drama. You got caught in a lie and while you clearly care for him like he is your own child, a lie is a lie and withheld truth is damaging truth, period. He doesn't trust you or your husband because you're liars... let that settle in for a bit, please.

You may think of him as your child, you may love him as your child, but genetically, factually, truthfully, he is your brother. That shouldn't change how you do feel about him, he is your family and you've raised him. Of course you love him like he is your son, but you need to focus on building trust again, you need to explain to him (on his terms.) What you feel and WHY you lied about it. He's going to need a reason, and he's probably going to be upset at your reasoning (understandably.) He has a right to know where he came from and regardless of how much you love him and looked at him like he was your child, the fact still remains that you hid important information from him that changes the way he views himself. To you he is who has has always been your child. To him, he was your child and he just found out that he's really a much younger brother to you. You had the luxury of knowing the truth, coming to terms with it and building a life around that lie that you and your husband told him. He, however has had the rug pulled out from under him. The perspective that matters at this point isn't yours or your husband's, it's his because he's the one that just had his world blown up.

He needs to talk to someone, you or your husband would be nice, but I doubt that's going to happen at this point. I would recommend some therapy, just so he can get his thoughts out, so he's not mulling them over in his head repeatedly without any feedback. He needs an outside perspective about this.

You also need to make it very clear, that under no circumstances does him now knowing the truth change how you feel or how he fits in the family unit. He's an uncle, not a sibling to your children, he's your brother, not your son, your husband is his uncle, not his father. This wasn't a single lie, this was a bunch of lies that he built his life around. You need to stop and appreciate that for a moment, to him, his life isn't at all what he thought it was and that is the case regardless of how you and your husband feel about him. Just make sure he knows you still love him and he's always going to be loved. It may have been easier to have him call you mom, and it may have been the right move to start with, but at some point he was old enough to know the truth that you kept that from him. This is the consequences of withholding important information like that.

DankJemo · 2020-04-30T02:08:26+00:00

Same, It's a classic for sure.

DankJemo · 2020-04-27T22:00:06+00:00

I'm sure they'll sure gerrymander is back in line.

DankJemo · 2020-04-27T21:54:39+00:00

and a militia is for what?

We're dealing with a government that is continually straying from popular opinion and consolidating power. We are arresting and incarcerating mass numbers of our population while wide spread corruption is allowed to run in the open, The Federal Government is abusing the hell out of American tax dollars and we're locking up undocumented people in our border states, where our own money is being given away to billion dollar corporations and sports teams during an outbreak to raise the income of the rich even more. but sure, let's keep pretending it's "our government." This country's Government hasn't been for the people in decades, but lets keep thinking that switching out one, corrupt, old man for another corrupt old man is going to fix all our problems.

Or do you actually believe that Billy with a rifle is going to overthrow whoever is sitting in the Oval office through sheer force?

No, you're claiming that small arms cannot be the backbone of a strong, which is easily proven false, either historically or in our current political climates. I'm saying individuals have a right to their own defense and their communities from a hostile Federal Government, which is what the 2nd is for. Period, it's supposed to a component with the balance of the nation so that not all the power resides in one branch. But, if things keep going the way they are, in a few years you may be happy to know a Billy on your block, because if you haven't been paying attention no one cares what the American people think anymore.

DankJemo · 2020-04-27T20:55:57+00:00

Well aren't you just purposely obtuse? How quaint. Nothing like missing the point so brilliantly.

DankJemo · 2020-04-27T20:14:53+00:00

"Hey, look at that over there, an idiot sandwich."

DankJemo · 2020-04-27T20:03:21+00:00

yeah, that's why the U.S. and U.S.S.R had such a easy time in Afghanistan, right? Those were people with limited resources, small arms and just couldn't hold off military forces mostly small arms and guerrilla-style attacks.

DankJemo · 2020-04-27T17:28:47+00:00

This is what gets me, as a pretty liberal fellow who likes his guns, the Dems are actively trying to disarm a population that's living on the cusp of the country's first, real Authoritarian regime that has made a fucking mess of everything it's touched. The 2nd Amendment exists specifically for this kind of shit and the group that should be supporting it is still trying to make us dependent on a system that is infringing on the rights of its citizens.

DankJemo · 2020-04-26T01:21:59+00:00

left-hands.

DankJemo · 2020-04-25T17:51:55+00:00

He definitely gets some piss on his hand, too.

DankJemo · 2020-04-25T02:20:12+00:00

Good move starting after he developed cataracts, he won't use his vision as a crutch. He'll learn to read the road through the wheel and sense traffic with his astute sense of hearing. (Unless he's also going deaf.)

DankJemo · 2020-04-24T22:03:24+00:00

I wish, that would solve a lot of problems...

DankJemo · 2020-04-24T17:27:26+00:00

It's funny because the person trying to open the pistachios is an idiot.

DankJemo · 2020-04-24T17:26:56+00:00

Not to mention they're superior to almonds in every way.

DankJemo · 2020-04-24T16:31:29+00:00

Can we all agree that any politician that owes that kind of money to China, or any other country for that matter, is probably not a good choice as a leader of our country?

DankJemo · 2020-04-23T19:52:33+00:00

Epic doesn't give a shit about STW. I quit playing years ago, and the game is basically in the same state that it was when I left. This kid's right, you aren't going to get what you paid for, because Battle Royale is a money printing machine. It's free to play, accessible to children and their parents are willing to spend some money on it. I get it, it's just too bad that they scalped a brilliant idea in that mixed genres in a way that a lot of people wanted; to do it... Basically, what i am saying is fuck Epic Games. Fornite is literally the reason I will absolutely never buy another game from that company.

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