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kashifshah OP ,

word

https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-flag-burning

kashifshah OP ,

What would rise from the ashes?

kashifshah OP ,

Well, then, you better start handing out hazmat suits and respirators to everyone before you start burning.

kashifshah OP ,

Disappointment is the feeling that I experience when looking at the right-side-up flag, so I feel for ya.

kashifshah ,

Key excerpt, pseudo-TLDR:

The pro-independence, largely Indigenous protests were sparked by planned changes to voting laws that will allow more long-term French residents of the islands to vote in local elections. The move has sparked fears among the indigenous Kanak population that their influence will be further diluted.

kashifshah ,

Fascism is when you rule with an axe.

kashifshah ,

Or you could maybe take actions to fix the system. Because whatever you lot come up with after dismantling is going be worse for everybody else.

kashifshah ,

For real, these fascistic democrats are getting to be as big of a problem as the fascistic republicans.

kashifshah ,

You can still do both

Not sure that I follow what you mean. You can’t fix a system that is being dismantled, so I’m guessing that you mean something else.

kashifshah ,

A choice fostered upon me at the threat of violence is not a choice at all

Indeed. Vote your conscience or don’t vote at all.

kashifshah ,

Are you OK with not having a say about which one it ends up being just to make a point to nobody in particular?

Abstention makes a point to everyone in general through the tracking of voter participation levels.

kashifshah ,

But if you choose to exercise this right you don't get to whinge about the person elected by those who did vote.

roflmao, sorry, that is just absurd.

until the UN General Assembly says that the right to share an opinion only applies to people who vote, you are totally wrong.

i’ll exercise my universal right to complain and have self-determination in government by not voting for genocidal maniacs, thank you very much.

kashifshah ,

I disagree, if we are legitimately talking about dismantling the USA, like what happened to USSR, then it will take decades or more to do peacefully. Not gonna happen overnight, babe.

kashifshah , (edited )

I never said anything about destroying the country. If Texas wants to secede, let them, I say. If democrats and republicans can’t get along, then keep em separated, I say.

Also, I only encourage people to vote their conscience. I don’t care who they vote for.

If you lot are trying to talk about election reform again, then go back and listen to what Lawrence Lessig was talking about before the democrats blocked him from the debates to protect hillary.

edit: and don’t call me bro. use the proper “brother” or don’t bother, i’m not gender-conforming

kashifshah ,

Ok, fascist.

kashifshah ,

For the little it will be worth to you, i am a radical moderate and we can find common ground in fixing the broke in radical ways.

kashifshah ,

I might register to vote just to write in “thanks for counting the votes” for president - or I guess I could vote for Cornel West, but what’s the point? The abstention would be more representative of my views, at this time, I believe.

kashifshah ,

After that news on research that a Trump victory would likely spell the end of NATO, don’t be surprised if the rightists starts to see this election as being about ending NATO and withdrawing from the UN.

Typical right-wing goals that maybe leftists don’t appreciate the strength of conviction that the hard-liners have.

That (and the obvious social conservative goals) are the only legitimacy that Drumpf really has.

edit: also, Trump trumped Biden on the Palestenian genocide when he moved the Israeli embassy. i’m sure that that emboldened Netanyahu to press even harder rightwards. Now look at it.

kashifshah ,

bud

seriously?

kashifshah ,

these flippant “just let them secede and suffer and die” comments are sad to read.

it’s sad to read that you think that Texas couldn’t survive on it’s own. I believe in Texas. Remember the Alamo.

You’re also not allowed to complain about him calling you “bro” after you ended with “babe“ previously.

Excuse me? Butting in where it’s not necessary is not appreciated. This fellow started out using the terms of endearment of “bud”, so piss off.

kashifshah ,

uh wrong, “bud” started it. get blocked.

kashifshah , (edited )

I'm not trying to make a statement for one versus the other, I'm trying to convince you to vote at all.

appreciated

But, if you haven't voted, they have no clue what platform you support or what policies they can adopt to win you over next time.

I get what you are saying, but I’m not yet convinced. You did make a dent, though. I’ll let it percolate a while.

They look at who else got votes, and investigate what their platform was. They realize they could co-opt some of those ideas to try and get some of those voters next time.

I spent 20 years voting like that and the democrats have utterly failed to listen to anything other than the social justice issues.

The republicans are fundamentally right about some things (this is a democratic REPUBLIC, afterall) but so fundamentally wrong about other things, that they similarly failed to listen to.

So now, I’m mostly content being in the “no one is listening to me” category.

edit: fwiw, i do occasionally write to representatives about topics that i am knowledgeable about

kashifshah ,

But an end to NATO would be an unambiguously good thing

If one were to take Russia at face-value, they might lighten up a bit with less NATO.

A UN where the US couldn't veto a hundred demands for peace in Palestine, backed by threat of sanctions is also an unambiguously good thing.

The US is one of like, what, two countries in the entirety of the UN that haven’t yet ratified ICESCR after 50+ years. So, making some more sense there, too.

I’d not see us leave the UN, though, because then we would truly be screwed. The US would officially no longer embrace human rights, not being a member-state.

But point well taken.

If I genuinely believed Trump would bring about a peaceful dismantling of the American Empire, I'd have to campaign for him.

I’d genuinely be right there with you if he came out as 100% in favor of UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Not having that is an automatic disqualifier for me.

kashifshah , (edited )

They get worse every time they lose elections because they're able to sell their voter base on all the "we need to do these horrible things to win" arguments.

For real.

And enough with the social justice fakery, embrace UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, fully, or shut the f*** up about it.

Preaching generic “omg this is so wrong!” to the choir doesn’t really do any good when the social conservatives really only need to be educated about human rights. They’ll join that UN party when they figure out what’s really up with human rights.

kashifshah , (edited )

If one were to take Russia at face-value, then one would be an idiot

I’ll bite, as one would be an asshole to think one was an idiot for understanding a basic of diplomacy - engage with the opposite side in a constructive manner.

At face-value, recall, Russia is currently explicitly dedicated to being an enemy of the West. Do you want them to always be our enemy?

kashifshah ,

Until we ratify the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in the US, I’m inclined to agree.

kashifshah , (edited )

I appreciate your enthusiasm! You do make solid points, some of which I am well aware of, but as Russia is not a specific area of interest for me, I can’t match your level of enthusiasm.

However, in the interest of the spirit of brotherhood and interestimg conversation, I would ask this of you:

That's entirely due to Vladimir Putin.

Having been in power for so long and with arguably a strong level of domestic support for decades, isn’t it fair to say that we ought to continue to operate as-if he did speak for the whole country?

Building on that semi-rhetorical question, and especially in regard to your concession that the West could have helped more, and in a larger, more historical perspective, might we perhaps give Russia slight leniency to make minor readjustments to borders, if (hypothetically) the local regions did legitimately vote in agreement?

Recall, being “ethnic Russian” is of key interest and, in my opinion, it might be the case that there are border towns that legitimately prefer to be part of Russia, given their local history, but were never represented properly at the fall of the USSR.

You’ve definitely piqued my interest in the specific mechanism by which the USSR was dismantled.

NATO is strictly a defensive organization.

No argument there. Again, though, I’d ask: when exactly would we start to repair our relationship with Russia by loosening up on them a little?

At this juncture, I presume it would be a long ways away, but one never knows what can come out of diplomatic negotiations, so maybe Ukraine solves the whole thing, if we are lucky.

kashifshah ,

You are so very welcome, friend. I totally agree.

kashifshah ,

they 'commit suicide', or commit a crime that gets them sent to prison in Siberia

Like I said, arguably. Show me some data that says that the opposition has grown above 25% (arbitrary, you may understand what I mean) and then I’ll come down on the side that he probably doesn’t speak for the majority of the country.

That's like asking if Texas can choose to secede. They can not. Nor can the rest of the US vote to expel Texas without triggering a constitutional crisis.

The only way that they can secede is if we make a constitutional amendment to allow states to secede, yes. Personally, I’d vote for letting Texas secede, if they wanted to.

Now, if an entire country votes to allow a region of their country to be annexed, then sure. Even if elections in Crimea were free and fair--and the evidence strongly suggests that most of the people voting were coerced--it would need to be all of Ukraine voting to allow the annexation.

Now we are seeing eye-to-eye, Helix - that’s pretty much my point. There are diplomatic avenues to solve this problem, so maybe Ukraine can solve the whole thing, in the interest of preventing future wars. I say “solve” in the sense that they may be able to negotiate a plan for how to handle this in the future for the whole old Soviet bloc.

concern trolling

No argument with this paragraph, I agree, in principle.

The whole thing reeks of Putin trolling the West.

rather than the victim accepting a little victimizing

Point taken, however, instead of a little victimizing (by way of that hypothetical peaceful path that we outlined earlier) they are now getting a lot of victimizing (vis a vis, death and destruction).

Again, for the sake of argument, assuming that Russia itself was victimized during the fall of the USSR, and assuming that Putin is seeking to redress that, rather than him trying to take over the whole old-bloc, then is there any other peaceful path?

if we assume that he is trying to take over the whole old-bloc, then I’d be entirely in agreement with you on this topic.

I’m just not willing to make blanket assumptions like that - I prefer the probabilistic approach.

Thanks, by the way, for taking the time to discuss this with me. I’ll keep replying if you do.

kashifshah ,

lol “security” in this case is probably more like expediency in trying to solve a spam problem

kashifshah ,

Security ain’t free.

kashifshah ,

Let’s talk about the security of using email to do anything in this day and age.

kashifshah ,

I spent about a decade in the enterprise software development space, so I totally get it. I couldn’t put it into words as well as you did, however.

After watching the FCC bigwigs debate robocalls several years ago, I’ve become a believer in a future where your internet access is always authenticated to your real life ID, dark web excepted of course.

In their case, it was posited as a best-in-class solution to the problem of spam in the telephony space. Same logic applies to email. I mean, look at what Twixxer did with the verified checkmark requiring a credit card. The trend is already there.

I get the fear of being de-anonymized on the internet, but it may be the case of something we hate being something we need, when you start to throw deepfakes into the mix.

kashifshah ,

Risk management is the name of the game, as always, eh?

That’s a slick technique for anti-cheat, heh. What did you think of the Call of Duty “fake data” approach? That cracked me up - things in game that only cheaters can see, so they end up self-reporting themselves as cheaters lol

kashifshah ,

Kudos for looking out first your future self - I had to leave the field entirely after it got to the point where I couldn’t stand to look at a computer anymore. Still can’t for more than an hour, two years later.

I intend to reply more later, because this does deserve a longer reply, but I am short on steam.

In the meantime, have you heard of login.gov? Check that out. The day that .com gets a hook into that is the day that identity problems are (mostly) solved.

kashifshah ,

Heh, I saw it on news.ycombinator.com back when it was announced- they have made strides if you can access TSA now!

In the beginning it was just a form for every manner of authentication and then a big CTA, essentially telling other .gov entities to start making project requests.

kashifshah ,

Haha that is a great idea! Give the landmine kill a special animation just to make sure that the cheaters get the message or let them figure it out in time lol?

Heh, did you share that inventory technique on news.ycombinator? I could have sworn that I read a story there a team doing that.

I know exactly what you are talking about - I was digging into the modding of this one game and happened upon a cheater’s forum. Blew my mind that the first step was to completely gut your computer’s security lol. But at the same time, was enlightening to see that. Seems like some of the work has been moved to the Anti-Cheat systems, but I’m guessing that there must be large gaps in what the AC can actually do for you at the application level?

Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks

kashifshah ,

Check out this listing - BlueGriffon might be up your alley, for ease of use, but kompozer used to be the classic replica of Dreamweaver from Windows. Not sure about NetBeans, but it might be good, and can’t speak to the rest.

https://slashdot.org/software/wysiwyg-editors/linux/

kashifshah ,

lol that’s what I get for linking to slashdot.

kashifshah ,

I second the idea of finding a way to make your website using markdown and a template, that’s what I do for https://kashifshah.sdf.org

kashifshah ,

That’s only if you didn’t subscribe to the Ludicrous package.

kashifshah ,

Until they go the way of PayPal, at least. Musk’s exit plan is Mars, remember?

kashifshah ,

lol read Stranger in a Strange Land if you want an interesting Mars story

kashifshah ,

Who sold PayPal?

kashifshah ,

Big tech - move fast, break things, disrupt, and destroy

kashifshah ,

Forgot the opportunity cost.

kashifshah ,

or feral swine

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