• 1 Post
  • 223 Comments
Joined 4 months ago
cake
Cake day: April 19th, 2025

help-circle

  • This more or less happened to my friend circa ~2000s. They were technically amazing for our age. When the school “database” was deleted they and a friend were suspended for an entire month, almost expelled.

    Turns out they had warned their teacher that the files were in a public shared folder and anyone could just literally delete them. No backups, these were grades, assignments, etc for dozens of teachers over many years. They were severely punished for trying to disclose a vulnerability essentially and blamed for the whole thing.


  • Never heard of it, thanks for sharing. I can’t comment on hunger but anything over 1-2% body weight per month is going to be absolutely brutal even for a leptin-normal person. Unless this person weighs 250-500 kg that will be impossible to adhere to and they will fall into a cycle of shame and rebound weight gain. Please don’t do that to yourself, be gentle.











  • An unfortunately apt analogy in its misogyny.

    ‘A billionaire offers to kill a man, proposing a price paid to his family of $1 billion dollars. The moribund man says “sure!”. “And what about if you pay me $1000 for the privilege?”. “What kind of man do you think I am?”. “We’ve already established that and are just haggling the price”’. A less misogynistic, less funny but accurate version of the joke.

    Murdering criminals, we all agree on. Murdering the family man only works if he consents. It doesn’t make him hypocritical or suicidal to reject a price.

    If AI and media companies treated their employees well and offered fair terms for a subscription, the advocates would probably not pirate or boycott.

    Again I am not that kind of pirate and I’m pro AI, but I don’t think their views are inconsistent or anything. So anyways just my take but your stance is interesting too.



  • Not sure I understand your argument, nor am I talking about myself personally, but folks I’ve seen on my instance who do. Actually I’m just a privacy and Flying Spaghetti Monster piracy advocate 😅

    One who photographs a painting from a Walmart and prints it in their living room, and also boycotts a News outlet who underpays their employees is not more anti-news than pro-theft. They are both boycotts equally against capitalism.

    I’m sure there are also many folks who pirate immorally, like from smaller artists, or because they’re broke. But pro-piracy usually means in the boycott sense.