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  • The story is more interesting than the title suggests! This guy was arrested for hacking two telecom companies, got released under investigation, then immediately hacked Nvidia before being put under house arrest. After that, he was relocated to a hotel (due to being doxxed) where all he had to work with was a Fire TV stick, which he promptly then used to hack Rockstar.

    All in all, he’s believed to have stolen $14 million+. By the way… he’s 18, autistic, and enrolled in a special education school.

    Heh Kid's handle better be dr0id or some shit: "give me an android terminal and I'll hack the world"

  • Go digging? That hasn't really changed has it? If a report pops up in my feed speaking about some scientific study, I try and go to the journal or the arxiv to find the study itself so I can read the summaries. If I really can't find anything first party, if I've got some personal knowledge on the topic I might just write the paper's author and ask for a copy (they're often very willing and excited to share) or use my library provided JSTOR access?

    Google scholar still mostly works as well.. but yeah I only use it every other week or so.

    Like this isn't new, science twitter has mostly moved to mastadon so most of the time there's an arxiv link in the "Study released today..." toots etc.

    There are some new youtubers trying to spread the word, but yeah like the same way you've always researched?

  • There are many things that provide comfort for people. Drug/Alcohol use, literature etc. Fandoms are just... weird, and religion is the oldest and most mature category of fandoms.

    The Bible "has been tainted by men" because it's a construct and story written by men, it's always been that.

    We don't worship George Lucas today, but maybe in a thousand years we'll worship Geo Luca and the virgin birth of Anak SkyBoots.

    If you think I'm being reductive or insulting, it's not meant to be. I grew up taking communion, and agonizing over every masturbation. The story isn't the problem, it's the rules to be part of the Fandom.

  • If average mental state is the measurement, then we get to include both the positive and the negative effects of religious mentality. Like Jim Jones, and the neverending stream of "posessions" that stem from complete mental conflicts and disconnections from reality -- encouraging people's mental illnesses.

    Churches, hiding and covering up relgious negative experiences, cult worship as offshoots, death cults etc.

    We pretend like the salem witch hunts were last eon or something, tell people "there are witches, they exist, satan compelled them to do things and they can make you do things."

    All of a sudden a whole village was being "tempted" by satan, and it was all these witches fault.

    Just gotta come up with a story as to how "it's not your fault" and people will fall over themselves to figure out how they fit in that story.

  • We have lots of religions, some that we're expected to abandon as adults, some we're expected to carry forward as adults.

    Why? Because they make things easier for you (other) people.

    Santa Claus: Won't give you presents if you don't go to bed X-mas eve!
    (Now get outa my hair kid so I can do a bunch of work to make you happy tomorrow morning.)

    The Easter Bunny: This bunny poops colorful, cooked, eggs all over the yard and it's ok for you to eat them in sandwiches for the next week. Ok so he doesn't poop them, he only hides them after you cook them. Somehow...

    Everyone gets a valentine: There's someone who loves you everywhere, and we should share our love with everyone.

    Life is Fair: Things should be fair, and when you get something you should share it with your sister, or your classmates. Not enough for everyone? None for you!

    Fighting is bad: Anyone who gets in a fight gets in trouble, whether you started it or not!

    We tell these lies because we want to control the experience and the environment of children, we want to protect them from the lies all those things are meant to keep them from seeing.

    Santa Claus Ain't Real, you're prolly gonna be broke in an apartment alone eating premade food on a Christmas eve one year... and that'll be a blessing, cause you could afford something to eat.

    The easter bunny was the least adult, adult's responsibility and one year the eggs stop coming.

    Everyone doesn't get a valentine, and sometimes that kid goes home and gets beat up or hurts themselves -- that's why they're "too weird" for anyone to be their friend.

    Life isn't fair, people don't get the same things and some people starve.

    Fighting is sometimes not bad at all, and some people make a living doing it. We just want to be able to bet on our fights and make a premium selling the broadcast rights.


    As we get older, we're only supposed to keep the more "adult" religions, like being subservient to our betters, elders, priests, lawmakers etc. They tell you to "be honest (in business.)". "Don't murder others (unless I tell you to)". "Follow the laws of the place you're in." and "Don't cheat on your wife (and get caught)."

    We've got a few others in there, but those are pretty much the ones you're "expected" to follow.

    Your reward? You get to think about the ending of a fictional book you haven't actually read a whole lot as though it were real, and you're one of the characters. It's amazingly pacifying if you're trying to keep millions of people from stealing, killing each other, and sleeping around.

  • Careful. Science is not the Truth, it’s a method for producing accurate predictions. We accumulate evidence until the predictions seem overwhelmingly likely, or not. At no point have we proven that things might not be completely different from what we imagine them to be, or that they won’t change. Science isn’t Truth, it’s just a method of finding the best answer up to that point.

    Listen to the mainstream, not the mediastreams, don't listen to the jackasses spewing transdimensional micro-wormholes -- yet. There's mystery in science, but that's literally how we find the next-big-thing. When there's mystery in religion, you are supposed to ignore it.

  • It will look like that scientific knowledge survey they did in subsaharan africa. People won't know that the earth orbits around the sun.

    This isn't hyperbole, they won't teach science if they can avoid it.

    I got to experience evangelical science indoctrination as a child, and they literally do not want science taught. It contradicts the pop up books.

  • I’m not American, and I don’t know exactly what the legal differences are between “indicted”, “charged” and “accused”. When is he going to be put in handcuffs and detained in a jail cell like a normal person would be if they were suspected of committing a crime (like stealing a handbag for example) but not convicted yet?

    He is getting slightly better than normal rich person with expensive lawyer treatment.

    America, as a pure service economy has prices for bribery and extortion as well as minimum service levels for the legal system. If you pay for economy (with your life) you get a defense attorney appointed by the state who sits across from the judge and DA you're going to have to deal with, and has lunch with them, or makes deals in the bathroom... They'll fight to make sure their life doesn't get disrupted a whole lot and they can keep defending the endless stream of defendants.

    The middle tier is the "hire a reptable firm, and get a junior associate" level of service, that's where you get someone who's overworked, and desperately trying to keep all their partner's cases going, and they can spend 1/10th of their time on your case, they don't have any worries about not having a job though so they can dedicate the time in court to defending you.

    The top tier is the "hire a reputable firm, and you get a named partner" they care about their reputation, and make sure they only take cases that will make them look good. And they look good by doing the best damn job they can in front of the cameras, in their filings, and in front of their client. You get the white glove treatment, and 90% of the time of the junior associates helping the partner.

    It's no wonder why you typically only get the "Go home and sleep it off" result from an indictment from the highest tier of service.

  • We tend to forget he was the "Example" the authorities tried to make at the time.

    He was portrayed in court as "a man who could whistle nuclear codes" as the reason for preventing him from having access to the phone as he was entitled. They took his cans of tuna-fish away because too many people were providing him food assistance from outside the prison.

    I will remember Kevin as the "kid that coulda been me." His persona and personality afterwards, well I try not to judge him too harshly, but I got "Do you know who I am"'d at least once while volunteering at a Con by him. He definitely enjoyed the limelight and played as many encores as the staff let him get away with.

    Never had a beer with him, but I'll pour one out for him this year. RIP the last man to be able to whistle the nuclear codes.

  • Of course Florida would do this, they're part of the "Mark of Cain" south.

    That is: Southern Preachers maintained the horrific canon that black slaves would only survive as subservient to their white masters, because god had marked them. This is a big part of all the separations of churches during the civil war.

  • Systemic refers to it being ingrained in the system. This is a town that refuses to accept that a black man won the election because they only handed it down among white folk.

    If the system is 2 people, 1 in power and 1 without it can be regular racism and systemic racism.

    Their representatio ratio is as systemically biased as apartheid south africa... So... yeah its systemic, but it really seems regular racist too.

  • In cases such as this it would be amazing to bar them from having funerals.

    “You’re too old to sit in a cell, so we’re just not going to ever lay you to rest”

    Maybe it would help these criminals think about ramifications before committing their heinous offenses.

    Oh come now, we have much worse punishments: they're now under conservatorship, by Britney Spears dad and are on their way to the cheapest old folks home in their state. They're "technology safe" so they can't access the internet for their own personal safety...

    Ya know, old folks prison, where poor people go after their family forgets about them and they die of neglect.

  • That honestly just sounds like they're going after more government contracts. Gov't compliance can sometimes require asinine security controls because they expect the users are the weakest link in every design. That can sometimes be true, but when folks are developing things you sometimes have to let them make foot guns or they can't build things.