[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 39 minutes ago

I watched him do it

Then you verified that, you're not just trusting that he did.

Sure you can trust these scientists, again that isn't what I'm talking about.

The Tuskegee Experiments had more than one mad scientist in the room too, "just trust me bro" isn't a good enough answer for anything, just trust me bro.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 49 minutes ago

But it is

For some.

Do you trust the food you eat?

No, it's all full of microplastics and chemicals and Monsanto scientific horrors. I still have to eat, but I know it's killing me slowly. You shouldn't trust that any more than your scammy mechanic.

If you take any medications at all, you must trust in some part the whole supply chain.

Yeah medications never have unintended side effects that come out years later, and nobody has ever put potassium cyanide in Aspirin bottles, great example.

If you drive a car, especially a new model, you trust the designers, engineers, and QA to make something that won’t kill you

Yeah like a Tesla, huh? New as hell, burning people alive in crashes. Recalls happen all the time, and often don't when they should, you're sure there won't be one for yours?

Do you fly?

Hell no.

Do you enter your banking or financial info into any computer?

Very limited, never stored, one device I don't do anything sketchy on. Usually I just go to the bank, like, the building.

Even people who aren't lying to you may be wrong, it can happen at any level of knowledge or expertise.

And just to remind you, I'm not talking about "vaccines," I'm talking about "just trust me bro" w.r.t most things.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

So... I am supposed to know not to trust the covid vaccine and also blind trust is good?

Is that what you mean by backwards?

Cause I said "I don't necessarily think [skepticism] is the best course of action regarding this current topic which is the covid vaccine, but blindly trusting people regardless of expertise isn't always the best thing to do."

"Backwards" of that would be... y'know... trust everyone except this vaccine... so... ?

Care to elaborate?

Edit: OH did you mean like this?

.sisab yliad a no POS ruo eb t'ndluohs yltsenoh "orb em tsurt tsuj" wonk'y tub eno siht tuoba kdI

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 5 hours ago

Idk about this one but y'know "just trust me bro" honestly shouldn't be our SOP on a daily basis.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

Not that I'm on dude's side or anything, but:

Trusting our Government Issued™ scientists implicitly is how we got The Tuskegee Experiments, sometimes a little healthy skepticism isn't a bad thing. Idk about this one but y'know "just trust me bro" honestly shouldn't be our SOP on a daily basis.

You also shouldn't trust your mechanic implicitly, they've (as a profession) been known to upsell on things you don't need to get more of your money because they know you don't know anything and they can get away with it.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago

And how do you know she wasn't a suicide bomber again?

Y'know, we could just not be having this conversation if you wanted, you don't like it you don't have to participate.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago

Technically their intent was to shoot at the police, not necessarily die.

How do you know the courier was unaware of the contents of their package or the nature of their mission? Could be, or could be they knew full well they were setting up them the bomb (couldn't resist the reference), just not that they'd become a part of the bomb when stopped at security. Could be that they knew ahead of time that they were going to die the second anything went wrong. Could be that they did know it was a suicide mission and planned to sacrifice themselves the whole time. Whether or not they intended to explode isn't anywhere in the article as far as I'm seeing, nor in the post here, so unless you held a seance (or gave them their orders) I'm curious to how you can confidently state your narrative as correct.

In fact, I'd argue she likely did have knowledge of the contents at least, because according to the post she said it was "a gift." If she worked for fucking DHL she'd have said "idfk what it is брат just sign here I have a full truck I need to deliver."

Two can play this game bud.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah sure, and "suicide by cop" isn't technically suicide because the cop pulls the trigger, whatever. Seems the only person likely to care about that distinction is the fictional St. Peter at the proverbial Pearly Gates, but technically he'd have to let you in, you got him on a loop hole.

But in this context the important part is "killing your own people to kill others," it hardly matters whether or not the participant is willing in that, it's still not exactly "cool" to EITHER A) Convince someone to willingly suicide bomb NOR B) Turn someone into a ~~suicide~~ murdered bomb is my original point (well and that I'm skeptical this was done by Ukraine), would you like to argue against my actual point(s) or is pedantry your only goal? And did I sufficiently cover my ass this time or do I need to hire a lawyer for this comment thread?

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok "murdered by their handlers" bombers, better? Less catchy, seems like a pointless distinction when the "wrong" part is "killing your own people on purpose" and the "with" or "without" their consent part is secondary.

That enough for your pedantry? Still not exactly "cool dude" behavior to kill your ops on purpose.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

Weird thing that jumps out at me immediately is, I've heard of Russia using this exact tactic before in Ukraine, but never heard of Ukraine doing it to Russia, either Ukraine has (imo) crossed a line (that line being "suicide bombing"), or (more likely, imo) this was a false flag.

Had it been a drone I'd have believed it was Ukraine right away, but this? Idk.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Spain said "Construye ese muro!"

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/startrek@startrek.website

I hate to bother you guys with something this lame but I've been searching for weeks and I've been giving her all she's got captain, but I can't find this image anywhere.

The image in question is a "meme" (twitter post screencapped and cropped), the subject of the post was a metaphor for worker burnout using the warp drives as the metaphorical device. The basics were "the enterprise can only sustain max warp for X hours, it usually runs around warp Y. You can't work at 100% all the time." but y'know a lot more eloquent.

My boss needs to be accidentally sent this meme, "I totally meant to send it to a friend.."

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Turns out catbox is blocked by like everyone, are there any good private alternatives that are not blocked by the masses that I can use to send files under 2gb with a "delete after X hours" feature?

Before you say Lufi, it refuses to finish requesting the file on the DL end, times out every time, on a 22.15MB file no less.

Any help would be appreciated. Trying to send a relative who "doesn't want to turn off her wifi" on her iPhone lest "it mess something up" a video. No shot I can get her to log into her router and disable the stupid "security" hijack that blocks catbox.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/photography@lemmy.world

I want to get a camera that I can use mostly for nature pics and graffiti pics out the window of a moving train, and maybe a butt or two (consensually ofc). Yes I know I'm weird. That said I guess I'll need a "fast" one for the train, if that is the correct terminology (I think for shutter speed, yes?) The only other requirement is I will not download programs or apps beyond FOSS, preferably something I can just take the SD card out of and plug it into my laptop (linux anyway, most programs don't like me).

I don't see myself making this my living (and if I do then I can always upgrade) just as a hobby and maybe some side hustle if the opportunity knocks, so I don't need the best camera, but I would rather buy nice not twice (unless I leave "hobbyist" and move to "professional"). That said I was thinking maybe a DSLR would be enough for me (if not, I could be persuaded to mirrorless, just trying to keep costs down)? I've heard good things about the Canon Rebel, idk. I'm not really trying to go over $1k (and even cheaper than that would be even better) especially if I have to then buy a lens or two.

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated, I have no idea what I'm doing lol.

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List is up! Let's see...

Crown A Tale Of Hell #1

Geiger #21

w0rldtr33 #18

Well that's it for me, what're y'all pulling?

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List is up! Let's see here..

Creepshow Volume 4 #5

Drawing Blood #10

Spirit Of The Shadows #1 - Maybe, looks weird, I like weird

Looks like that's it for me! What're you pulling?

9

List is up! Let's see here..

Minor Arcana #13 - Still loving this series, also loved Fishflies so that's perhaps unsurprising. Something about the artstyle and the spooky small town subject matter just clicks (or should I say Crunch to reference the misprint in Fishflies lol), I hope he keeps it up.

Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees Rite Of Spring #5 - My favorite series right now still going strong.

Geiger #20 - I'm so behind but I'm still picking them up, I'll get back to reading Fallout Man soon enough.

That's it for me this week, what're you pulling?

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Best Mastodon App? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I'm looking for android, but I suppose iOS welcome for those with iPhones.

I've been using Fedilab, but I have a bad habit of not checking super often and so Fedilab reaches a point where it won't say "load more" and leaves gaps in my feed, which I'd like to fix. Also was using it for pixelfed, but since that acct was deleted for inactivity I'm not using the multi-service function anymore, but multi-mastodon-acct support is still needed. Used Tusky previously but don't remember why I switched (like two years ago).

Been a couple years, so I figured I'd see what people like using these days and try out a few.

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List is up! Let's see...

Hank Howard Pizza Detective The Two Hollywoods #1 - Pizza? I'm in. If I can get it that is.

Archie Vs. Minor Threats #4

Minor Threats The Last Devil Left Alive #3

Hellboy And The B.P.R.D. The Ghost Ships Of Labrador #2

And that's it for me! What're y'all pulling?

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Easiest way to contribute? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/osm@feddit.uk

Oh neat an OSM community, and I find it organically two days after I decide I need to figure out how to contribute!

Well so my area needs some help, POI data can be spotty but moreso I have a few newly built apartment complexes nearby that (while they're visible on the map,) need their streets named and buildings numbered.

What is the easiest way for me to add this information to OSM? I'm aware of OSMAND+ and Everydoor apps for android through my searching yesterday and I've downloaded both (well I downloaded OSMAND+ when Magic Earth went shitty but just to use as a gps) but that's as far as I've gotten.

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I'm primarily concerned with privacy and security, thus the interest in Delta Chat to begin with, but it seems to me that all the relays (at least the ones on the delta chat site's list, that is) are hosted in 5 eyes countries or countries that will soon be subject to the EU's chat control bullshit, or are in India or South Africa (two countries which I do not know about their own privacy situation, though the SA server is a ".wang" which is hilarious.)

Is there any relay that I can sign up for that's hosted somewhere like Norway, that cares about privacy at least ostensibly? Any other list of available relays?

I'm sure "it doesn't matter because e2ee," but assuredly some metadata must still exist, like sender/recipient or something. Unfortunately self hosting isn't an option currently as idk how to do that sort of thing just yet (one day) and also I'm in a 5 eyes country, so I'd have to VPS it somewhere.

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I actually remembered this week! But I'm rushing at work and posting this during my morning constitutional so I'm gonna have to do this one quick-style! And I haven't picked up in a while my shop must be so mad lol. Let's see..

Exquisite Corpses #8

Sacrificers #18

w0rldtr33 #17

Looks like that's it for me! What're you pulling?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/monero@monero.town

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/58363954

Hey Monero people, I hope it's ok if I ask a few questions (and ok that I'm gonna crosspost this to monero.town even though you're phasing it out because the subbed number is higher), I trust you more than the LLM and ad filled search results.

What's the safest way to get monero from fiat anon in Current Year?

  • Buy, say, ETH kyc, and transfer?
  • Hodl Hodl or localmonero or something? (recs welcome)
  • other? Please share preferred

I'd rather burn a few bucks to not get ripped off, if it's reasonable, but I'm open to (I've heard you can somewhere) buy a gift card and do a transfer with escrow.

With Cake Wallet, I rolled a random name for my xmr wallet, would I lose anon if I named it a pre-used screen name(+xmr, btc, etc) and used subkeys? Who all can see the wallet name?

If I do end up with some kyc monero, what exactly does that mean to me? I still use it anon but have to pay taxes or something, or is it like, "now we know who is associated with this acct and you paid your weedman in XMR so now we send you to prison?" Should I have one wallet, kyc that one, and then send it to a second I keep clean, is that reasonable? Can I only accept non-kyc monero to my acct if I intend to stay anon? I'm so very new to this.

I'm really not planning on dodging taxes or buying/selling weed, actually mostly planning on using it as an inconvenient but private cashapp-type replacement (prob have like, btc, xmr, and eth wallets for variety just in case and store the funds as btc and xmr), but I'm privacy minded which is what attracts me to XMR to begin with, I'd like to plan for buying a gun that shoots fentanyl bullets on the darkweb and then in reality I'm paying my friend for watching my cat, or being paid for watching their dogs.

Lastly, is there anything else you think I'm too inexperienced to know to ask, but should be told? I mean consider me dumb, I don't know shit, I'm new to crypto entirely not just xmr or cake.

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