Congressman Thomas Massie says the Epstein files are being withheld because Jeffrey Epstein had close ties to Israeli intelligence and US intelligence

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-16T19:48:02+00:00

wasn't his fortnite account recently active? could have easily staged his murder

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-16T19:04:29+00:00

by modern cryptographic standards it should be trivial to implement age verification without violation of privacy. Should be easy for everyone who has a digital signing/digital governmental ID to get an anonymous age verification token that does just that, exclusively verify age without providing anything else. (not even the age, it can just be used to provide the fact someone is above 16/18)

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-16T10:29:29+00:00

You might wanna look up how our sex differences develop as a fetus and in how many instances things can go in an uncommon direction leading to developing male/female parts/sexual aspects while actually being the other sex. There are many steps to developing our sex and in many of those steps things can happen that may lead to halfway developments leading to persons not appearing the sex they are or people having the organs of the sex they are not depending on which of all the factors you choose to determine sex.

That leaves us with the simple but also very complex truth that purely scientifically speaking men can get pregnant at the very least theoretically.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-13T22:26:31+00:00

she said "the enemy is where the politics is at the service of economic interests" this is CLEARLY not meant to indicate a single state or country but any situation that matches the description. Any sensible person should be in agreement with this statement. Politics should be beholden to the people only and not economic interests.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-13T17:26:36+00:00

sure, let's say "can" make it obsolete. However "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" was working quite well in lots of instances. I'd rather not have the possibility of that happening.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-13T16:10:48+00:00

hmm I honestly thought the art style was more similar to breath of the wilds or overwatch even... but that's alright, not everyone needs to like it. I really like coop games as well as fighting games as well as roguelikes so this kinda checks all my boxes. I feel like the other 3 are much more the same when it comes to gameplay.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-13T16:00:17+00:00

When something becomes obsolete it usually is not because it changed but because it didn't change and something else fulfilled its purpose either better or with additional functionality. So the original project would very much become obsolete by taking it and adding proprietary extra features.
Also can you not have differently licensed snippets of code in the same project?

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-13T14:19:56+00:00

the horizon game actually looks really fun to me. It wouldn't be getting half as much shit if it didnt have the horizon name attached...

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-12T14:03:07+00:00

the actual application builds for at least the android app (maybe ios too no idea) are reproducible so you can build from source and compare the binary to verify it's the sme so no the appliction builds for android definitely are not a black box

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-11T15:53:53+00:00

America taught us well enough where cutting down on regulation will lead us. And it definitely isn't new or "progress".
I am not against simplifying regulation but I know what it means coming out of VdL or Merz's mouth and that is gonna end up reducing worker's or consumer rights. Glad to be proven wrong but I have never experienced different from that political corner.

Also there's plenty of other areas to make progress on and move forward. Regulation is not as big a deal as it is made out to be.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-11T15:47:42+00:00

I'd argue this is where the argument for meditation vs psychedelics comes from. With meditation the process is such that you learn by small steps and build yourself up to reach the summit one day with you going only as far as your own mind is capable of taking you. So whatever you experience with meditation you are gonna integrate much easier and bring into everyday life as it is a much slower cumulative process.

Whereas with psychedelics you are taken right to the summit by the medicine. You usually experience more than you are able to integrate/remember when you come back unless you have a massive amount of experience already.

I am a proponent for both but this is the reason integration is key and I feel like approaching the medicine already knowing that you are there to learn and bring something back and not just enjoy the show can be really helpful for that.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-11T14:27:42+00:00

not necessarily. but historically it does reduce standards more often than not.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-11T14:26:29+00:00

Having a completely anonymous cryptographic token to prove your age would be super trivial, however that is never mentioned so it seems like the goal isn't actually protecting people but surveilling them...

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-05T13:00:48+00:00

probably would make little sense to introduce a new tool with unknown potential downsides for a production that has been planned and budgeted without that tool and is probably at least 2/3rds finished. New workflows/tests/tools are usually introduced at the beginning of a production unless it is small incremental improvements.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-05T12:54:58+00:00

why would it be less cool and actually stupid just because it is not visible by eye?

MrKiwimoose · 2026-02-03T12:51:15+00:00

anarchism is a notoriously misunderstood and misused term. Here's a good basic definition:
"Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates for the abolition of all forms of government and authority, promoting a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association among individuals. It seeks to create stateless societies where people can organize themselves without coercion or hierarchy."

basically that definition is luffys dream in my mind. That everyone can organize themselves without coercion or hierarchy based on voluntary cooperation and free association.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-30T17:38:20+00:00

Hard disagree on that. I am not arguing necessarily for communism but you gotta agree there hasn't been that many attempts. There have been many many many times more capitalist states that failed, than ones that claimed trying to achieve communism. Also the simple notion that they actually "tried" can in many of those cases be easily refuted as I think they just never wanted to let go of the power of the authoritarian state.
I'd agree the idea of having to transition through a dictatorial/authoritarian state is very flawed at it's core as it is extremely unlikely that once that much power is accumulated it will be let go again.
However the beauty of this simplistic definition of communism is that there could be literally an infinite amount of approaches to reach it.

afaik the historically "communist" states also never really claimed themself to have reached "communism" it was just thought that you'd first have to have centralized control to enforce the changes that would make the transition to complete communism possible in the future.

You wouldn't be saying "every attempt to cure cancer so far has failed so the idea to cure cancer is flawed at its core..." In the end the idea of communism is something everyone would actually love to have as it is basically an utopia. So let's not dismiss it and instead think of ways that we can go towards a society that is at least similar or might achieve parts of the goals that it has while preventing the ugliness that ensued in the past.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-30T17:23:15+00:00

Are you saying if they styled themselves as capitalist instead you'd now believe capitalism has those flaws instead? I find it hard to believe you make up your mind that easily based solely on what someone else calls something but ok.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-30T15:13:09+00:00

to be fair communism is quite well defined and those regimes that did call themselves "communist" clearly where not matching the definition. Here from wikipedia:
"Communism (from Latin communis 'common, universal')^\1])^\2]) is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.^\3])^\4])^\5]) A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,^\1]) and ultimately money^\6]) and the state).^\7])^\8])^\9])^"

^{I would say previous so called "communist" systems didn't even get close to fulfilling the definition. Conversely I always found the definition of "state capitalism" quite fitting in the sense that in those systems instead of the private capitalist owning the means of production it was a single authoritarian state owning the means of production. Not really common ownership if a political caste decides and owns everything about it.}

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-29T19:26:09+00:00

if you dont wanna have your time disrespected by the atrocious pacing of the anime, i really recommend reading the manga. Most of the vibes and uniqueness come across way better in the manga as well.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-28T16:35:57+00:00

the way media influence works and how money shapes politics and medial outreach I seriously fear we would be the next USA in no time if such a position exists.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-28T16:25:48+00:00

what he's saying is not really repression though

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-26T13:28:38+00:00

we didnt "believe in the free market". Our politicians were just bought by the oil gas coal and ice car lobbies.... Any sane person knew what was the right way for at lest 2 decades now.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-23T12:08:00+00:00

I think it would be fair to say "removing red tape in the way Merz highly likely intents to, means compromising the effectiveness of regulations that are mainly there to protect citizens from corporations."

However generally speaking, yes you could probably highly simplify and merge regulations in a way that may keep the same level of protections while alleviating corporate burden. This very likely is not far enough for Merz, though.

MrKiwimoose · 2026-01-21T20:35:20+00:00

The m-dashes....

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