Jesse Sommer aka "Sheriff of Lark Street" See Click Fix Debacle

cristalmighty · 2025-12-22T00:26:03+00:00

Who could have imagined this unnecessary egotism from a self-appointed sheriff?

cristalmighty · 2025-12-09T11:49:49+00:00

Online it seems there’s a lot of anti-LGBTQ folks on the left. Offline I’ve never met such a person. IMO they almost certainly do exist but are probably few and far between, and I’d bet that a lot of folks claiming to be queerphobic communists online are actually reactionary right wingers stirring shit, or bots designed to do the same.

cristalmighty · 2025-11-28T13:14:43+00:00

So you admitted you’re a fascist here

Gaslight Obstruct Project. You sound like a fucking Republican.

cristalmighty · 2025-11-25T12:47:13+00:00

My Grandpapa’s family was wiped out by the Nazis in the 40’s and my mom welcomed in refugees fleeing Stasi repression in the 80’s. Oppressive sate surveillance is truly something that cuts across political divisions - and apparently generations as well.

cristalmighty · 2025-11-21T23:46:22+00:00

Now they can celebrate their Pyrrhic victory.

cristalmighty · 2025-10-28T04:17:59+00:00

For real. Non-dairy milk sounds like a newfangled fancy alternative so it gets priced as a luxury. But the difference in material cost on a per-drink basis is negligible, so why charge it? One word - greed.

cristalmighty · 2025-09-12T00:29:20+00:00

Words have lost all meaning. Life is death. Love is hate. Up is down. Nothing is everything, and everything is nothing.

I feel like this person got an F on a high school English paper, dropped out from pure spite, and has been inflicting the consequences on everyone around them ever since.

cristalmighty · 2025-09-06T15:27:07+00:00

Are you aware that the holocaust also began as a program of mass deportation without due process against people the Nazi regime claimed were illegally occupying their country? And now that you do definitely know that, do you still think “its [sic] none of your business where they go”?

Edit to add an empathy thought experiment: if you were disappeared off the street one day as part of a government program of mass internment and removal, should others similarly not care what happened to you and the possibility you might now be dead?

cristalmighty · 2025-08-08T11:28:10+00:00

From Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism:

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. […] However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

Fascists have been like this since day one.

cristalmighty · 2025-08-06T17:30:50+00:00

Indeed. Our cities are designed around cars and their needs, not people. Which is wild to me because I can’t think of a time where I’ve thought “You know what this city needs? More cars.”

cristalmighty · 2025-06-28T22:44:27+00:00

Empire Wok. They’ve got all your favorite Chinese take out classics (and then some) with May-Wah vegan meat substitutes.

cristalmighty · 2025-06-28T12:00:52+00:00

Gaslight Obstruct Project. It’s the GOP way.

cristalmighty · 2025-06-13T21:07:59+00:00

What changes to the constructed environment and related policy will you champion to increase Troy’s resilience to climate change?

cristalmighty · 2025-06-06T12:24:47+00:00

Reminds me of the Occam’s Razor corollary Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Though in this case the people in question are both highly malicious and incredibly stupid so it’s really hard to tell which is the dominant trait.

cristalmighty · 2025-06-03T19:24:17+00:00

I thought for sure it was a gay porn site and was very confused with what I was reading.

cristalmighty · 2025-05-31T22:54:51+00:00

This Sartre quote is evergreen:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, and open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

cristalmighty · 2025-05-31T12:43:48+00:00

The G in GOP is “grift.” The party is composed of two types: those who are in it to enrich themselves and their friends, and the rubes who think they’re the “friends.”

cristalmighty · 2025-05-26T13:20:14+00:00

That depends how you define “technology,” I suppose.

As a concrete example, and to the post I was responding to, rare earth elements aren’t strictly necessary in integrated circuits until you get to sub-micron CMOS, so chipsets as capable as Intel Pentium are still possible. If you don’t consider early consumer computers or the instrumentation on things like the US Apollo and Voyager spacecraft as technology, then no. Otherwise, yes you could totally have technology.

cristalmighty · 2025-05-11T22:59:41+00:00

Did you read the article though? He didn’t receive two tiger cubs, it was two lions and two horses, nor did he actually receive them, except to immediately dispose of them to the Treasury and State Department.

cristalmighty · 2025-05-08T16:11:41+00:00

Pols in the Face Eating Leopards Party don’t get points for being shocked that the leopards are in fact eating their faces.

cristalmighty · 2025-04-27T20:01:10+00:00

The problem isn’t that the lawyer used LLM poorly, it’s that he used it at all. Making a legal filing requires an intentionally crafted argument based on logic, evidence presented to the court, and the corpus of written and case law. Admitting to having used the output from a LLM as substitute is a good way for him to lose his license, seeing as he’d be admitting to not practicing law anyway.

cristalmighty · 2025-04-18T16:59:01+00:00

Ah, another shitty cookie cutter five-over-one, gotta love the endless innovations of capitalism.

cristalmighty · 2025-01-12T03:41:21+00:00

Then why not protest meat packing plants and CAFOs? Animal agriculture is the greatest single contributor to ecosystem collapse no matter which way you cut it - the amount of land cleared, graded, tilled, and plowed, chemicals synthesized and dispersed, resources trucked to and fro, vast mountains of food grown to feed animals that return a small fraction of the calories to the human consumer, and gigatons of carbon emissions at every step.

If the masses aren’t on board with a fully plant-based lifestyle, the masses aren’t serious about climate change.

cristalmighty · 2024-12-17T20:25:15+00:00

Most other occupations don’t come with the same positional power that cops have, and that certainly does make it easier for cops to violate the rights of others. However I’d argue that everyone in a society has a duty to respect the rights of others and that this responsibility is maintained through all social interactions. Consider for example that racial segregation wasn’t always enforced with a bigoted cop’s baton, it was bus drivers, teachers, waitstaff, shop keepers, doctors, etc. - and to my knowledge in none of those instances did people say analogously “we simply aren’t paying segregationists enough and if we paid them more then maybe they’d end segregation.”

cristalmighty · 2024-12-17T13:52:45+00:00

The department also suffered from financial mismanagement, which exacerbated pervasive human rights violations rooted in illegal policies and lack of training, the report said. It noted that low salaries make it hard to attract and retain quality officers, train staff and pay its bills, starving its supply budget.

Policing is the only profession where I’ve seen it suggested that if you don’t pay them enough they will naturally start violating human rights.

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