Scoundrel

I'm so silly. I set my browser to clear cookies every time it closes because I want to take measures to avoid tracking online, but then I go out of my way to avoid closing my last tab because I know it will clear my cookies. Ah well, my computer restarts often enough that it's not a huge issue. Dunno why partial cookie clearing isn't supported though.

I just had an argument. I love those. It was good practice articulating one of my beliefs. The belief is 100% objectively correct obviously since it's coming from me, but I wasn't articulating it very well. Getting to go through it with another person helped me to make my explanation more concrete I think. I got to borrow their brain and their perspective a bit, and they insisted on seeing the world in one particular way. I didn't have a preference, but by trying to get my beliefs to map their way into their worldview, it helped me to articulate myself... less like a robot let's say. You should have seen our conversation. They insisted on their particular worldview, and then when I pointed out the contradiction in their worldview, they decided the real problem was with the word they used. Lesser fools than myself would have absolutely flipped out and pissed their pants at spotting a mistake like that, but I am gracious. Why should I be satisfied with a shallow semantic victory? Are my skills so lacking that I cannot argue unless all the words for our conversation are exactly right? No, I got them to rephrase their statement with different verbage, and pointed out the contradiction there too! And then we I did it yet again! I can change semantics all day! I don't care what meanings you want to ascribe to your speech so long as you will stand by what you mean. Then when someone is most vulnerable, you exploit them by providing them with a lifeline. A verbage that works within their worldview, and and explanation that works within their verbage. And then you hope and pray that your belief can stand up to nasty surprises and you aren't just shoveling your dogshit onto the plate of someone with nothing better to eat. Sorry folks, changing a person's mind really is the least consequential part of a debate, no matter how conclusive it may feel.

The clearnet has rules that the darknet does not. The clearnet was established by the state, and governments have kept a firm grip on it ever since it's creation. The first amendemnt of the US constitution means that SOME portions of the clearnet will have some protection from interference, but even the US government imposes strict requirements on users of the clearnet. (And the US supreme court has long since waived any right to protection from those requirements.) There have been attempts to create censorship resistent platforms on the clearnet, (Nostr, Arweave, etc...) however, these platforms are not truly censorship resistent so much as they simply deny data hosting users the ability to perform their legal duties. If data hosting users are not able to fulfil their state imposed obligations, then I see no future except one where the protocol itself is banned from the clearnet.

"Genie, I wish for general life fulfilment." "I'm sorry, I cannot grant that wish. If I just did everything for you, it would not be truly meaningful and-" "I wish it would be." "Oh shit, nevermind."

Firefox crashed in the middle of writing up a response in a technical discussion I was having. Apparently applying the newly downloaded update was so important that it literally could not wait 5 seconds for me to copy and paste what I had written. Damn software...

Listen, I get why battery is illegal, but why is assault illegal? It is my god given first amendment right to threaten to hurt people.

Watching American Nigga Warrior rn. It is NOT going how I remember it...

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