“Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.”

When we say every accusation is a confession, by golly, we mean every accusation.

This is a great story to illuminate the large number of problems that could be addressed by decent public transit, better options for walking and biking, etc.

Wait, I thought profitable crimes made stocks go up now?

I spent a couple of years doing phone support (for a Windows program, in the internet-by-modem days), and we had a paper manual that we spent a lot of effort on. I’m not sure it helped too many people. We didn’t have a way of measuring, though. We had no idea how many people were blundering through things up on their own, how many people set things up on their own with the manual’s help, or how many people were chucking the whole product in a closet and forgetting about it.

Sure, some callers definitely felt it was a waste of time to learn how to work things; they just wanted their things to work. They wanted their things to serve them, instead of the other way around, and I can’t even argue with that philosophy.

But most callers just didn’t have the technical experience to make any sense of any documentation we could write. Some of them didn’t know what the desktop computer they used every day even looked like; didn’t know which of the metal-and-plastic boxes around their desk was “the computer.” They didn’t know the difference between a floppy drive and a hard drive, and they’d argue with us about it. “I don’t have a floppy drive, my drive takes those hard disks.” No manual or knowledge base article was going to help these folks, no matter how much effort we made.

I don’t think it’s strictly about “moral high ground.” If you’re willing to do anything to win, then if you do win, the winner will be a person who is willing to do anything.

I don’t think I would have guessed this one was generative imaging, certainly not from one or two pictures. I would have guessed something was up with it, though, from the prurient interest. The barefoot poses, the tongue-out poses, the shirt skirt, the pictures specifically framed to include the high heels, the form fitting crop top with the perfect “emphasize my bosom” pose. Individually plausible, I guess, but together the effect is less military and more OnlyFans.

Is the Umbrella Corporation logo on her shirt relevant to anything?

“This technology” is, as used here, industrial scale lying which was made possible through industrial scale theft.

We can re-phrase the question: “Why is the right jumping headlong into industrial scale lies and crime, while the left loses ground on this front?”

An answer suggests itself to me.

It occurred to me recently that someone is trying to distract us from one kind of child abuse by performing a different kind of child abuse. Arguably faster, louder, harder, a million times worse in every way.

Q: So do you have any hobbies?

A: Well lately I’ve really gotten interested in routing VGA through unusual items!

Q: Ooooh, that’s so hot right now