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[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dang. That's nuts but seems right for teenagers lol. I ask because the same thing happened at CMU in like 2002, but it did make the papers. The whole city turned it into a fucking thing.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It wasn't CMU, was it?

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I don't even understand what is so offensive about flag burning. It's something teenagers and sheltered young adults do as a feeble form of symbolic rebellion. Genuinely, who cares? It's not like the flag has some kind of mystical power. It's not the original version. 9/10, it's just a cheap copy that was purchased specifically for that demonstration.

I'm a grown man. Why the fuck do I care about teenagers skateboarding in the church parking lot? I got my own problems.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 12 points 2 months ago

Oh, nice. That covers anyone who leaves a flag out at night without a lamp shining on it. Or anyone flying a flag that has any tattered pieces.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

AI photography is so stupid. That target's got legs. Handsome ones, too.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You are correct, but I just want to mention that the guys operating botnets are not usually the smart ones — they're just the skids who are have the patience to actually do social engineering and phishing, or coming up with clever stuff to hide malware in.

A lot of the time, the operators of these large networks are caught simply because they didn't think they needed to hide the IP, MAC or Hostname of the orchestrating machine. Sometimes it is as easy as supoening the purchase records for an off-the-shelf VPS. One time, an operator was caught because a text file captured that it was encoded using a very specific country keyboard type.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 14 points 2 months ago

Isn't this basically the same sweetheart deal that Epstein got originally? If memory serves, he only had to sleep at the jail; he was free to leave during the day and do whatever.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 5 points 2 months ago

If it turns out anything like Reddit's attempt, the false-positive rate is going to be astronomical.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think it's pretty obvious at this point that Russia is pouring the entire future of its nation-state into keeping Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, so, I think it's probably inevitable at this point given how little international support Ukraine has by now.

Why wouldn't you need troops to stand at that border and make sure that Russia can't just regroup and invade again in 6 years? Wouldn't you call that 'Peacekeeping'?

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Minnesota is such a land of contrast. Rural parents will accept a gay son no problem but the second someone mentions a non-Christian, it's World War 3.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 118 points 2 months ago

so the media doesn’t know where they’re going and report on their treatment or conditions, or, hell, who was even in the groups deported.

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