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2025-05-06 23:27:59

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What right does everybody on the whole planet have to the deflationary effects of technology? Have all these random people done anything to actually create that value you say they have the right to?

2025-05-06 23:22:33

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Who creates the value? What right does some random degenerate hodler have to the deflationary affects of technology?

2025-05-06 21:36:35

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What, are we going to shut down all insults just because @nprofile…0s8w can't handle them? Nah dude, all insults are fair game do matter who they are from or who they are directed at. If there's some kind of issue with that then just get good.

2025-05-01 17:26:14

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To me, zaps seem like that kind of experimental feature. Am I thinking about your point the same way as you?

2025-04-24 21:23:24

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Go watch The Fantastic Four? But I haven't even seen The Fantastic One yet!

2025-04-24 17:13:42

I am convinced that we are living in the dark ages of cryptography. We are no longer just banging rocks together, but we still just don't have a good enough understanding of computation in order to develop tools more sophisticated than trap door functions.

2025-04-24 17:10:17

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No. A good thing is when your product works properly by default. Extensibility is just a subpar compromise for when you've decided to use a product that doesn't actually do what you want. Extensibility is a condescending insult to all the users who would have to use it to get what they want.

2025-04-23 20:35:28

@nprofile…2pgj
Getgle is short for get glad.

2025-04-23 17:16:35

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It's practical if your operating system is any good. Otherwise I wouldn't say so much

2025-04-21 05:28:31

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If you want open source software not to suck then you need to stop pirating it's competition. I don't think you give a shit if a corporation screws you over. It's easier to complain than it is to exercise the tiniest amount of independence and autonomy.

2025-04-20 23:27:08

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Run your own blog. Run your own ActivityPub instance. If all you care about is being able to store your thoughts on an internet box that nobody else will ever visit without specifically looking for it then Nostr provides nothing new.
I don't know why you keep repeating that Nostr allows you to own your own notes. Yes, Nostr is yet another platform that allows this. Why are you picking here and now to emphasize this point? Did I say something to contradict that point? If users are expected to run their own relays then what makes Nostr special?

2025-04-20 18:33:41

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Sorry for the late reply, but if all we care about are users we already know and if we are all willing to run our own relays then there is no difference in censorship resistance between Nostr and Mastadon.
Heck, if you aren't worried about wide availability then you don't need even need it to be a microblogging platform; just use something like Wordpress and make an ordinary blog.
The advantage of Nostr is that the ability to discover and interact with a new user is not up to a third party administrator. It's up to the users themselves being lucky enough to win the relay roulette, choosing a relay that aligns with their values and interests and displays the other's notes. This still is not even close to ideal, but it is currently far better than any other platform when it comes to connecting users and being able to find posts about things you are interested in.

2025-04-15 19:03:53

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They could still perform a man in the middle attack, re-signing all of your notes with a new public key.

2025-04-15 04:58:13

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Then it's actually incredibly easy. There's no challenge to it at all.

2025-04-14 21:54:58

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It's very very close to impossible without exchanging bitcoin for fiat every once in a while. Otherwise you can pretty much give up on ever recieving any utilities.

2025-04-13 04:11:09

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You should watch mononiggatorori (it gets good after the 7th season)

2025-04-13 04:08:54

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If Nostr ever gets a good Linux desktop client then I'll show up more often on the weekends.

2025-04-13 04:05:33

Money laundering and cyber-crime is a cat and mouse game, where the mouse does whatever the fuck it wants to all the time, and the cat stands in the corner tearing up the houseplant because nothing it does could ever catch the mouse.
Some people may say that it's all about balancing the need to catch criminals against the need for privacy, but why would it matter if you make an effort to be gentle when raping people's privacy if none of the laws ever effected the criminals in the first place?

2025-04-09 20:49:54

I'm reading my phone's EULA right now. It says that my phone may display 3rd party materials. It also says that I must agree not to distribute these third party materials. If I choose to interpret a meme as one of those third party materials, then the EULA seems to be saying that I am not allowed to share any memes I download on my phone.
I am not happy with this wording. It isn't very transparent to me, and that irritates me. In the future I will make sure that any phone I get has a EULA that I can understand better, or I'll probably just get a different phone.

2025-04-08 02:01:31

Just watched a severely allergic Burger King customer suffocate to death right in front of an employee who even as the customer lay dying refused to give up the recipe for the secret sauce. These guys are very hardcore 10/10 highly recommend

2025-04-07 22:17:39

#nevent1q…cjm6
God damn, this is too hot...

2025-04-07 20:34:49

Babies are complete drama queens; being stuck in a hot car for an extended period of time isn't really a big deal. They have nothing to complain about.

2025-04-04 19:07:58

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Yeah, but I'm talking about OUR opinion police. Obviously North Korea's opinion police are tyrannical since they judge our opinion police poorly. Also, if our opinion police have changed over time then I am referring specifically to the latest opinion policemen in your specific jourisdiction. We can go all the way down to an individual officer if need be.
If you were that officer, would be confident enough to arrest anyone who disagreed with you? Do you tend to be especially insecure in your beliefs by any chance?
Also, is it still fanaticism if someone is right? What specifically are you trying to say is the problem here?

2025-04-04 17:12:44

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That's a losing argument. Any example you give I'll just side with the opinion police on. You've got to come up with something better than that. My argument works really well for example because even if all of someone's opinions are correct, acting ashamed of them would still be bad. Shoot, it might even be WORSE to act ashamed of correct opinions.
Can you come up with a reason why it would be bad for the opinion police to access someone's data, even if the opinion police have good intentions?

2025-04-04 14:36:47

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I dunno, that all sounds real sus. If you have good opinions then why are you trying so hard to hide them from the opinion police?

2025-04-03 17:21:33

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Lmao "individual sovereignty"
Dude you are paying a subscription for your ability to program...

2025-04-03 17:19:07

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Sounds like he has Trump Derangement Syndrome Derangement Syndrome. Good on you for not holding it against him and trying to help him with his security problem anyway. That's the right way to treat people with wrong beliefs.

2025-04-03 17:09:33

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I have avatars disabled anyway. If their posts themselves aren't AI generated then I want to retain the opportunity to roast them.

2025-03-31 17:26:30

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That's gay bullshit. You want the government to take credit for and tax us for the freedom we only obtained through our own hard work? You want people who don't give a shit about freedom to not only mooch off of us, but hate us for slightly inconveniencing them in their shallow, irresponsible hedonism? Is the thought of people just growing a spine and leaving an abusive platform so terrifying that you would rather put enormous effort into plugging up every new and creative way that shitty organization can come up with to continue being shitty?

2025-03-28 16:32:07

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What's IP2?

2025-03-28 16:28:09

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Don't bother. If you ever hit this loser with a really difficult question he'll just mute you and try to forget about it. That's what he did with me.

2025-03-28 16:18:28

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Based. Gnoobs are getting way too uppity nowdays.

2025-03-25 23:38:04

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Lmao, imagine believing an AI without external verification. You are a real loser for that.

2025-03-17 14:38:21

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Fun idea in theory, but in practice it doesn't work like that. I can prove it by making it easier for you. If you give me 1 sat I'll change my mind on this and you will prove me wrong. You can't do it.

2025-03-15 21:08:24

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You aren't the only one who does that. Nothing you say is going to convince me to unmute the 500 news bots poluting the general feed though.

2025-03-15 20:57:05

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Is that what you believe? That Nostr users shouldn't use zaps?

2025-03-15 20:49:22

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Damn, so you actually unmuted me?
I really appreciate that, but I also can't help but admit that it would be really funny if you turned around and muted me again.

2025-03-15 20:44:23

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The people I talk with aren't performing a service, they are having a conversation. A waiter SHOULD change their behavior just to get more tips. They SHOULD need a financial incentive to perform a job. There is no authenticity to undermine because I am just there for service, not conversation. Quite unlike a Nostr discussion.

2025-03-15 02:01:17

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You are correct. The vast majority of things in one's life are just as worthy of your time (if not more worthy) when the people providing these things are motivated by financial return. And yes, this principle applies to the quality of online content as well.
However I do not use Nostr to view that sort of content; I use Nostr to talk with people. I want to try to understand every belief and learn every relevant perspective. These matters of perspective are the exception to the rule. Motivations of possible financial return undermine the authenticity of the conversation and make it less worthy of a person's time.
The value of things like conversation and friendship are not things that can be objectively measured by the person receiving them. I believe Nostr should be partially unpleasant. I want to interact with the jerks. If I didn't believe in the importance of treating jerks with respect and fairness then I wouldn't have choosen the username "Scoundrel" to use when presenting and defending my beliefs.

2025-03-15 00:52:32

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You are correct. All the downsides of zaps only arise when they are implemented and used.
I don't understand why zaps are implemented and used. Why would I need a financial incentive to post my thoughts? And why would I want to read a person's thoughts if they are only posting them because they are being paid to?

2025-03-14 23:51:24

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Sorry, I just want some clarification. Do you agree with Derek's statement that Nostr users aren't meant to create notes to get zapped? Also, do have a more direct response to my earlier questions?

2025-03-14 21:52:48

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Thanks for the response, but I'm still not sure I understand. If zaps aren't supposed to matter then I guess it's not a big deal, but if it's kind of a feedback loop then doesn't that mean that the zaps are incentivizing people to make posts that they otherwise wouldn't have? Isn't the whole point of zapping someone's post to create some kind of meaningful effect?

2025-03-14 21:37:02

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I don't understand zaps. Why would I need a financial incentive to post my thoughts? And why would I want to read a person's thoughts if they are only posting them because they are being paid to?

2025-03-13 23:05:19

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The government doesn't give a shit what the supreme court thinks, just like I don't give a shit what the government thinks. I'm asking what the supreme court has actually said in these cases, not what the rest of the government has actually said or done.

2025-03-13 17:16:18

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It should render as a URL. Then you can read it, copy and paste it, and click it. Just don't embed the original post and you're good.

2025-03-13 17:09:22

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Wait, according to the supreme court, can I advocate for terrorism in other countries? Like, is that considered first ammendment protected speech?
To be clear, I don't take the law into consideration when choosing what to say; I'm just curious.

2025-03-13 00:02:55

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Oh jeez, what relay am I missing to not be seeing this note? Can you broadcast it please?

2025-03-10 21:35:00

What is an object? Recently I tried to come up with a definition of it. It's not yet perfect, but here's what I have so far: an object is a region of space whose potential effects only become more difficult to understand when you subdivide it.
The effects of throwing a rock at someone are relatively easy to describe. The effects of throwing two halves of a rock simultaneously and perfectly fused together at that same trajectory is much more difficult to describe. In the second case you have to start describing the interactions between the rocks, whereas if you look at the rock as a whole, you would realize that those interactions can be mostly simplified away.
Same thing with a person. A person's body is covered with skin, which makes for a really good cutoff point between what counts as them and what doesn't count as them. I know some people try to say that their true identity is their brain, or even just the conscious and intelligent part of their brain, but once you start trying to separate a person like that, you end up with a much larger and more complicated surface area for interactions to occur on. Me personally, I like to say that I'm all of me. It's much simpler that way, even if it means I have to take responsibility for subconscious and reflexive actions.
#philosophy

2025-03-10 02:28:17

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Yes, I know. I'm just trying to understand, if that's the case then where exactly do you get the idea that it's up to the kid?

2025-03-09 18:58:13

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Is it up to the kid? What if the parents never chose to send their kid to that school in the first place? What would you have done in the parents' shoes if you thought there was a chance the school would treat your kid in a way that you viewed as manipulative and harmful?

2025-03-09 17:03:41

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It's very simple. If the person I'm talking with has used the word first, then I don't define "man" at all. They do.
If the common definition of "man" was "any adult who 'identifies' as male" then would you accept the definition? If so, then I think you would be an idiot. People shouldn't let common definitions decide for them what ideas they are thinking and communicating.

2025-03-09 00:50:10

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I appreciate that you are taking the time to argue with a pedophile who advocates for treat children like objects in certain circumstances. I think it's very confident of you, and I am interested in your perspective.
Yes, there's homeschool, private school, and it is also possible to take one's kids to a different public school. I know that many parents care quite a bit about their kids education, to the point where they will move to a different school district if they think it will mean their kids get a better education.
In this court case, the parents sent messages to the school ahead of time requsting them not to provide mental health treatment without approval, they were willing to sue the school, and yes, they almost certainly withdrew their kid from the school. Because of cases like these, how many other transphobic parents chose not to send their kids to public schools in the first place?
You say that the policy is sustainable and that the child's autonomy is what's most important, but in this case it seems pretty clear to me that it wasn't. There were numerous information leaks, including one of the teachers snitching completely. You say that the school is just respecting a student with abusive parents, and that the parents are already not giving their kid any leway, but the end result is that the student ends up with more supervision less progressive teachers. If the goal was to increase the kid's autonomy, then trying to provide it by exploiting the parents' trust seems like it had the opposite effect. If you don't consider that to be "less leway" then I'm curious to hear what term you'd use.
If the hope is that the parents will be total pushovers then I think the school shouldn't have been so afraid to rub it into the parents' faces that they were using different pronouns with the kid. If the kid agrees to the whole scenario then that's what I would have done in the school's shoes. It's not snitching if the kid knows the parents will find out and chooses to ask for it anyway.

2025-03-07 22:45:00

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That's below the height of consent. You are going to jail.

2025-03-07 18:27:12

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I don't have "pedophilic tendencies." I'm a pedophile. There's a difference. I have free will. Every action I have ever taken has been my own. Everything I will ever do will be because I willed it.
You dodged my question earlier when I asked whether the school's protocol is sustainable, and now you dodge a question again, this time about exactly what would have happened if the parents didn't give so much leway to their kid and the school.
You said that the school's actions aren't punishing parents for giving their kid too much freedom, and now you say that kids aren't a toy you can have dibs on. If you really believe these things then are my questions not relevant to this discussion? If a school's actions aren't punishing parents for giving their kid too much freedom then what would happen if they stopped sending their kid to this school? If you really believe children aren't objects then what would happen if a parent really did try to call dibs?
Have you even considered the child's own autonomy when hearing these questions? Do you think the kid even has free will? Do you believe that the parents have free will? Yes, yes, I hear you, the parents aren't victims. But are the parents so incapable of critical thought that the school never has to worry about the parents withdrawing their kid? Are you unable to think of alternatives, or do you genuinely believe that my questions aren't worth answering?

2025-03-07 12:53:59

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Isn't it? The parebnts from this case wanted to control the pronouns that were used to refer to their kids. They chose to let their kid go to this school. Would the parents have gotten what they wanted if they HADN'T made that choice? If they hadn't given their kid enough leway to have a life outside of their knowledge?

2025-03-07 00:15:37

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Lost technology...

2025-03-06 23:37:46

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Also, nobody has a real reason to hurt me. I'm awesome. I deserve to be praised, not hurt.

2025-03-06 23:36:26

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Yes, they would be willing to become targets. And I would let them make themselves targets. It's not real love if I don't at least respect them that much. Similarly, I really would feel genuinely upset if an internet friend started hurting me the way they sometimes say they would. I don't want to be friends with someone who is actually harming me. The only reason I'm friends with those types on the internet is because they are physically unable to hurt me.
I'm not friends with Mental Outlaw. I've never talked with him.

2025-03-06 23:30:23

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Also, trolling somebody by copying them is no good unless you can add a good twist. I'm not a big fan of no-you's.
Er, I mean, wow you really got me good with that one!

2025-03-06 23:27:52

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No I'm not. I'm arguing for schools to obey the parents' requested pronouns for their kids, or for schools to expell kids to avoid having to engage with abuse outside their control, or for schools to warn children not to request pronouns they don't want shared with their parents (and then don't mention to the parents if a kid was planning on making that kind of request and changed their mind.)
Or I'm advocating for kids to find their own way to escape abusive parents for good and without having to punish their parents for giving them too much trust and freedom.

2025-03-06 23:07:53

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None of the people I love IRL know I'm a pedophile, and frankly, its none of their business. I definitely trust them and believe they wouldn't turn around and hate me if I was 100% open with them. It's just that trust is not a factor I consider when deciding what I should keep to myself.
I have considered myself friends with many people online who have told me I'm better off dead and that I should kill myself. When I got locked out of my account on Funnyjunk.com , it was alongside another user who stated in a call that he did not consider me to be a good man. Despite this, I quite enjoyes speaking with him, and he reached out to me a few times afterward.
Another Funnyjunk user told me he believed that I was just like a wild animal for being a pedophile, and that I should be put down. Despite this, he was perfectly willing to talk with me on several occasions and I enjoyed our chats.
Personally, I am really skeptical that the people who say I'm better off dead would ever have the conviction to kill me, but that was never why I liked hanging out online with them anyway.

2025-03-06 22:41:16

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Plenty of people. Not in the way you do, but that's all private anyway.

2025-03-06 22:19:54

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Woah, pro-abuse? Please read my responses carefully, can you find somewhere I actually said I was pro-abuse? My actual intent was to say that the victim should be the primary individual responsible for fighting their own abuse and for giving others the opportunity to fight their abuse. If the victim is unwilling to seize independence themselves, (which happens far too often) then any attempt to fix their life for them is stupid.
I'm glad to hear that you find the random pedo accusations irritating too, though it didn't slip past me that you were making pedo accusations yourself. Also, why do you say that I'm transphobic? I've been specifically trying to avoid saying anything transphobic so far.
If I was in your shoes I would be more forgiving of people looking for a link between the two. Anecdotally, I am Nostr friends with a nonbinary pedophile and I'm following a transgender "MAP ally". I also hear there's a lot of statistics correlating mental illnesses like pedophilia with mental illnesses like homosexuality and gender dysphoria.
It's cool to hear that you are interested in extreme privacy stuff. While browsing .onion sites myself I never saw any therapy ads besides the obligatory "stop it, get some help" messages sending you to some useless clearnet website. I did come across a darknet "confessional" site though. You could see all the previous confessions and all the responses to them. "Oops! I went and watched child porn again! Father, you have to help me! What should I do?" "Uh, that's really bad. God says for you to stop watching child porn. And after that, make sure to pray for guidance and you will have God's forgiveness..." To me, the whole situation seemed really pathetic. Neither party seemed to have any real insight into the sin itself. But that's just what I got out of it anyway.
Due to the technical limitations of Tor, I strongly suspect that any therapy offered would be limited to text chat, and I also suspect that the "therapist" would be like, one guy who may or may not have a degree. If that's the extent of what counts as therapy then I might as well just talk with a therapist over email, or enter the DMs of some random therapist on Nostr and pay them in zaps.
I don't think your characterization of me as being "unable to seek the treatment that I need" makes a lot of sense. It's not as if I'm some amoral creature lacking any sort of autonomy. I am perfectly capable of seeking treatment, I am just intentionally choosing not to in order to avoid a little bit of risk. Additionally, I don't know what exactly this "treatment" is supposed to do. Therapy is literally just talking with someone. It's not as if words between two people is going to suddenly make every child on Earth unattractive. The biggest reason I take the possibility of therapy seriously is because I just really like talking with people in general.
Thanks for the Youtuber recommendation. Personally, I watch a lot of stuff from MentalOutlaw. He's a funny guy and he has a lot of interesting videos about info-sec and software security in general. The only thing that puts me off about him is that he is fairly open about his support of piracy, and I believe thay piracy is wrong. I believe that if someone enjoys a piece of media, then they should be willing to pay or support the publisher the way the publisher expects them to.

2025-03-06 08:50:58

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Dibs! THAT'S the term I was trying to remember.
I don't know, ARE we trying to have a conversation about that? Would you consider it abuse if you believed someone was calling a kid by the wrong pronouns? Would you consider an action to be abuse if you believed the action was feeding into a person's mental illness?
From what I've read this case is not about whether schools should be required to proactively out children for requesting a particular pronoun. The school in question had a policy asking teachers to use particular pronouns, and unlike previous cases, specifically forbid informing parents. From what I understand, the parents were not disputing any particular decision by the teachers, but rather the protocol itself.
In other words, your scenario isn't analagous because there is no third party nothing requiring me to interact with the wife at all, let alone requiring me to do it behind the husband's back. Because if the husband was sending his wife over to me in the same way a parent sends their kid to school, I absolutely would NOT humor the wife.
I would call bullshit; "planning to leave" my ass! I'd accuse her of needing to be with him because of how much she enjoys the excitement or for some other reason I'd make up on the spot. I wouldn't do jack shit unless she could prove herself able and willing to act without his assistance. Maybe I'd help if she "ran away from home" in the middle of the night or otherwise independently seeked me out, but if she can't even meet me without her husband's help then I'd tell her to shut up and I'd tell her not to expect me to be complicit in her stupid schemes. I don't give a shit if he beats her; I just don't want the interaction to become a fight over how she should be treated as if she is just some kind of precious object. If she won't demonstrate any more independence than an object her husband has dibs on then that's exactly how I'll treat her.
I would feel very similar about Baird Middle School from the First District case if the school didn't have the policy telling teachers to use their students' requested pronouns. If the only reason I'm interacting with these students is because their parents sent them to me then there's no way I'd humor a request to go against their parents' wishes. I'd tell them to shut up and get back to their schoolwork. If they found me somehow outside of school without their parents' help then I'd call refer to them by whatever damn pronouns I felt like, but I am completely uninterested in trying to take advantage of the parents' trust in order to interact with their kid against their wishes, or in taking advantage of their kid's trust in order to snitch on the kid to the kid's parents.
By the way, my bullshit is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than the bullshit between that other idiot and you. I think some people get pent up from not being able to talk with an actual pedophile, and so they just accuse random people of being pedophiles in order to get off. My bullshit on the other hand, is actually being a pedophile. It's irritating seeing people fling shit at eachother when I'm RIGHT HERE!
I would definitely seek mental health treatment as you suggest if I trusted a therapist not to instantly turn around and try to ruin my life. In the USA, therapists have a myriad of legal exceptions to patient confidentiality, and even if they didn't, people have a history of ignoring the law in order to fuck with pedophiles. I've talked with a UK pedophile (we probably met on Epstein island or something, idk) who never touched a kid and tried to talk with a therapist about his pedophilia. Soon after his electronics were seized and he was arrested for having 500 terabytes of photos and videos documenting the abuse of numerous fictional children and for having like, one shock image of a goat or something. (They wanted to add an "extreme pornography" charge too.)
I would love to pay a therapist Monero in order to stream therapy sessions with them over Tor, but I'm not bending over backwards just to throw away my current life. Also, I am actually skeptical as to whether puberty blockers actually keep children fuckable. Really I was just telling a joke in order to emphasize that what bears the most moral relevance in these cases is who is acting responsible for a kid's own life, not what the responsible party does afterward.

2025-03-05 00:34:25

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Yeah but no TRUE definition of a fallacy would disagree with you, am I right?
Yes, I am willing to set a good example; I will gladly admit that there are some pretty shitty parents out there. Both parties are equally capable of being shitty, so we can't possibly come to a judgement by assuming that one party has the kid's best interest at heart.
You know, there's something I've wondered about recently. Imagine if the safety of a child is at stake. Like, what if a parent beats their kid every time someone calls the kid by unapproved pronouns? Do you think it would be wise to intentionally push that kind of risk onto the kid by using those pronouns? To act in such a passive aggressive, indirect way? In other words, do you see secrecy as a sustainable long term solution?
Personally, I see it as finders keepers. The parents found the kid first, and so if we have to choose between a teacher abusing the child or a parent abusing the child, I think it makes more sense for the abuse to come from the parent. Otherwise the teacher is punishing the very trust they are relying on every time the parent drops their kid off. Even IF the teacher managed to make a positive difference, all the credit would belong to the parent for simply not being skilled enough at being bad! The teacher wouldn't even be able to take responsibility!
If the kid wants to take hormone blockers in order to stay cute and fuckable forever (based 👍) then I believe that it should be on the kid to take more responsibility for themselves. The kid should prove their parents could never have stopped them, even if the parents never let their kid go to that school. I think that's the only honest way of judging this kind of scenario.

2025-03-04 21:56:52

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I tried, but there's some kind of problem with it. :/ It says it can't connect to Google because it doesn't have internet access.

2025-03-04 18:19:33

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If I needed to rely on the pathetic crutch of calling out fallacies then I would point out that your argument is the no true Scottsman fallacy.
But instead of playing stupid games, why don't you just admit that some teachers are horrible nutcases? Sometimes parents need to be involved in order to ensure their teachers are doing a good job.

2025-03-03 05:53:24

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How can you tell? Is there some sort of tool we can use to audit relays?

2025-02-28 18:01:11

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Sorry, that doesn't help. Do you have a broadcast button? Can you like, tell me what relays you are using to find all of your notes?
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2025-02-28 17:18:15

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It doesn't show. What relays is it on?

2025-02-27 15:36:37

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Sorry, I should have been more clear. I HAVE read the terms. I just want to know what the you found in those terms yourself that you have such a problem with. If you have put any amount of rational thought into your position then his is your opportunity to articulate it. I am excited to talk with you if you really do care about terms of service half as much as I do.
What part of their ToS "does not look good?" What part "degrades their offering?" What part affects privacy or the freedom of their software? As a bonus, maybe you can make me look bad. If you can do a good job of articulating exactly what nasty shit you supposedly found in the ToS, then my only options would be to agree with your assessment, or prove I didn't actually care about good software or terms.

2025-02-27 01:04:58

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What are the terms bro?

2025-02-27 00:47:46

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Oh yeah? I can't wait to read them. I always hear people talking so much shit about Mozilla, but so far none of it has actually affected me. Until then, I really don't see why I should care. It's not as if I started using Firefox because of Mozilla's opinions, so if it doesn't effect me then why would I ever stop because of them?

2025-02-19 18:23:21

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Of course rights are defined by someone else's the context! How else can you differentiate where any violations are coming from?
Why do we say a homeowner's rights are violated when a window is smashed in by a crowbar, but not when that very same crowbar was sold? Why do we say that a kid's rights are violated when a man stomps on the kid's sandcastle, but not when the ocean washes it away? Why is holding a man ransom a violation of their rights when jailing a man until bail is paid isn't?
Not only does my definition of rights answer these questions, but it can also explain when people will disagree about rights violations and why people may change their mind on them.

2025-02-18 22:17:05

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No, it's kind of the opposite. If the murder would prefer that the person didn't exist at all, and if the murder would prefer never to have been given the opportunity to kill someone, then it's not a rights violation.
It's only a rights violation if the murderer enjoys the experience itself, or picks the persons pocket, or if the murderer is violating a separate right in the process. (Such as if the murderer needed the victim to take some specific course of action in order to be able to kill them.)
Rights are derived from the benefits that depend on the right-holder. If the benefit can exist without a particular person, then the benefit isn't related to any right of that person.

2025-02-18 21:52:46

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Believe it or not, I don't believe people have a right to exist; only a right to direct the good that comes from their existence. For example, if someone derives entertainment from hunting people for sport, then doing so without consent is a violation of the victim's rights, since the enjoyment of the hunt depends entirely on the victim's participation.
If on the other hand, someone views another person as a pest that needs to be exterminated, and would draw equal or greater pleasure if the person never existed in the first place, then murder by itself wouldn't be a violation of anyone's rights. Though that's assuming that additional rights aren't violated at the same time.
Can you think of any other counter-intuitive cases where someone has a right or doesn't have a right according to my definition?
The language we use to talk about rights is socially constructed, but I don't know anything from my definition of the concept itself that requires a prior agreement for someone to have a right. They just have to provide an opportunity for others to benefit, and they have to have an expectation for how people might acquire that benefit. No communication is necessary in order for the right to exist, only in order to respect it.
Does this clear up your original point of contention at all?

2025-02-18 01:33:23

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Uh, well my concept is similar to how I've heard other people using the word, and is one that I believe to be useful and worthy of consideration. Generally how language works.
My definition is something like this: a right is a rule that can be broken by others for their own benefit, but not without becoming dependant on the right-holder. I like this definition of "rights" for a few reasons. First of all, I find that this concept is one that very often greatly simplifies my thought process when trying to evaluate how people should treat eachother, and when considering how to be a stronger person.
Secondly, this definition matches a lot of common negative rights, such as property or privacy. Property for example is an object that is recognized as depending on the property owner in order to exist and/or provide benefit. Therefore, any rule the property owner creates for the treatment of their property, especially concerning how others may benefit from it, would be considered a property right by my definition.
And thirdly, this definition highlights how others can come to owe something to the right-holder, by virtue of depending on them for some potential personal benefit.
Does this answer your questions?

2025-02-17 18:18:26

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I disagree. Please insult me and my beliefs! Please impose your beliefs on me! There is very little I enjoy more than being confronted by someone I disagree with. I find that's the best way to test and improve my understanding of other people's beliefs. That's why I'm on Nostr, so that if someone has something to say to me, no third party can stop them from saying it to my face.

2025-02-11 01:55:24

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Classic Bitcoiner logic.

2025-02-11 01:47:27

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Is this unique to cryptocurrency? It seems like you can do this even without Bitcoin. Did I misunderstand something? You said "Bitcoin fixes this."

2025-02-11 01:41:48

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Is something stopping the government from taxing Bitcoin?

2025-02-11 01:39:47

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Seriously though, imagine someone who uses a 15 minute break at work to post on Nostr. Would that person want even a 1,000 satsl zap on their post? That's well below minimum wage, and if all they wanted was money, why wouldn't they just find a way to work 15 extra minutes?
Isn't it much better to post an interesting reply and actually give that person something to think about when they go back to work? Zapping their post seems almost insulting to me...

2025-02-11 01:30:05

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That's not what the post even says though...

2025-02-07 02:35:04

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At this point in Nostr's story I think it's just effort. Find really high quality follow choices, or cultivate an absolutely absurd blocklist and browse the firehose that is global.

2025-02-07 01:22:05

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Matty-kun probably won't see this since Bugcatcher-Tyler blocked me or something, but this hypothetical Nostr future is what I'm waiting for actually. In the state of the current Fediverse, you need to choose one "darknet" instance to trust, and if you guess wrong then you're fucked. In the Nostr case, every one of these relays would have to turn on you simultaneously for you to have a problem. And even then, you would still be able to just reboot your account manually and retain everything.
To repeat my sob-story for those who haven't heard it, I used to be a user on the website Funnyjunk. Funnyjunk is known by people on and off the site for it's permissiveness and for its freedom of speech. And then one day, I just lost the ability to post. To be clear, I was NOT banned. Only one other user knew that I lost the ability to post, and his account was hit simultaneously to mine. And this wasn't a fluke either, it happend to me three more times after that.
To me, the fact that I am in possession of my own private key is the only thing I need to know about Nostr. I'm not worried about relay administrators making echo chambers, and neither am I worried about users choosing to remain in those echo chambers. I'm worried about people having to rely on administrator promises in order to retain access to their accounts and to their friends. On Nostr, the promises of administrators don't matter; we are protected by the protocol itself.

2025-02-06 01:18:44

I don't know a lot about web hosting. Is it possible to host a website with an IP address only and no domain?
I'm thinking of alternative DDOS protection in case services like Cloudflare refuse to protect a site. Namely hosting the site across several addresses and dropping an address once it starts getting hit. This has the advantage that you can start to identify details of the person performing the attack based on which IP addresses they find.
Do my ideas make any sense or am I being retarded?

2025-02-05 21:57:02

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Transparent filters are super important for a platform I think. Does your API include information about where someone might find the notes of blocked people? It's kind of pointless I think to say "we blocked @Joe_Shmo for posting spam" if people don't have a way to actually go retrieve those notes to verify you aren't intentionally or accidentally miscategorizing notes.
Also, is your API part of the Nostr protocol? It would be awesome to eventually have it built into clients. Right now, new users are greeted with a huge wall of relays with no good way to distinguish them or guaruntee they are getting the notes they think they are.

2025-02-05 07:09:55

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Maybe not for you. You're just a faggot. You can go around calling yourself LGBT and throwing dumb parades and the worst that will happen is people will refuse to bake you a wedding cake.
I'm a pedophile. If I try to join the LGBT community and get people to call me a "MAP" and otherwise act super fucking manipulative then I'll be killed. No thanks, I'd rather people judge me as an individual.

2025-02-04 23:21:08

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I'm glad I never wanted to be a part of the "LGBT". I want to be judged as an individual. I don't want to be associated with others except through my actions. When it comes to broader social strength, LGBT is a weaker than the sum of its parts.

2025-02-04 23:08:14

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I will go to great lengths to avoid shorting anything. I hate being owed things and I hate owing people things.

2025-02-04 20:07:45

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And 1000 years ago it was 0 because the term wasn't invented. Mental illness is subjective and this statistic is not worth taking seriously. Maybe there is a problem, but this is certainly not how we might know it.

2025-02-03 04:20:06

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Illegal immigrants are criminals. I guaruntee that most Republicans and Trump supporters don't care about legal immigrants.
Except maybe for people pretending to be more qualified than they actually are in order to "legally" obtain an H1B visa and artificially inflate the size of corporations in order to make them look better to investors, shareholders, and managers.
I appreciate you explaining your position, even if you say you don't care what I think of it.

2025-02-03 02:20:45

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Maybe you should post things you actually agree with then. How can I trust anything you post? What else have you posted that you don't agree with?

2025-02-03 02:17:39

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Why can't criminals do all those things? Seriously, what prevents a criminal from doing all of those things?

2025-02-03 01:48:58

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OP is posting this because he is Jewish.

2025-01-31 20:36:13

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You irritate me. Please do drop off the internet.

2025-01-31 18:40:43

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Does it have good internet? 🤔

2025-01-30 23:55:25

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I notice you are bringing up religion, and previously in this conversation you seem to blame a person for their partner's sinful(?) acts.
I have talked with Christians who said, as I understood it, that it is not a Christian's place to judge faith, and that someone's relationship with God is purely between them and God.
I'm curious whether you have a similar understanding, and whether you believe there is an obligation to judge one's partner's relationship with God before committing to the relationship or marrying then. Can you clarify your position?

2025-01-28 04:32:53

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People have the right to charge for their relays. But personally I wouldn't. Am I a commie?

2025-01-24 18:22:41

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Are you just muting because you don't have a counter-argument? Your point is not obvious to me.