sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

watch tests suddenly get cheap in the USA now

@cyber_ruffy snowden can never come back to the usa even with a pardon without permanent mortal risk of a CIA-induced "accident". they operate outside of legal frameworks and they don't brook what they perceive as traitors. sucks but true. he needs a nation-level protection team to guard him from USG for the rest of his life regardless of legal status.

@alexandra if someone is about to kill you or someone else, i think so. probably also for attempted rape, or certain other types of sub-lethal-intent bodily harm attempts (punching someone in the skull), i think so.

it gets more murky when it comes to protecting property or non-humans. some would say it's justified if someone invades your home and attacks your pet. it isn't a bright line.

there's hope for police usefulness yet

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/health/heart-transplant-pig-bennett.html

@happybeing@mastodon.technology gitea is getting federation so we can just use that

it has a name:

https://xyproblem.info/

i have a new favorite thing on the internet

https://twitter.com/Thereisnocat_

spoilers are in the tweet replies and i heartily encourage you to seek them out. some are SO GOOD

@beachbardave@bitcoinhackers.org nah, that's not a reasonable stance. you did all of that stuff anyway. the photographer is the one who creates the piece of art. our society has already settled this.

@beachbardave@bitcoinhackers.org it's impossible to own a song, a song is not property. who owns a number?

@laurelin @meena i don't think any part of any practical/reasonable solution to anthropogenic climate change is "get humans to use less energy". i think that thinking that is folly, along the same lines of "if only all governments would stop using excel and switch to libreoffice!"

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/coroners-apology-family-victoria-station-22679286

@beachbardave@bitcoinhackers.org why do you feel that way? what makes you think you have any say over how images of you are used, if *you* didn't make those images?

@chjara@mk.absturztau.be https://twitter.com/dreambs3/status/1480134301429678082

@meena if your argument is against the environmental impact of the energy use of cryptocurrencies, then just be against PoW cryptocurrencies *in general* and don't confuse the issue with "but my face is on the listing on OpenSea!"

@meena NFTs aren't "picture [is] being sold" so please don't with the red herring

@beachbardave@bitcoinhackers.org i think it's rude to take pictures of people in places with an expectation of privacy without their knowing (e.g. in their home).

taking pictures of people in public is normal and expected and good. street photography is some of the best photography.

why do people feel that they should have the right to control the distribution of media (owned by other people) that depicts them?

if i take a photo of you, that's *my* photo, not yours, and you don't have any say in what i do with my photo. why would you?

@meena this sort of whining is pretty dumb imo; they go on for a while about copyrights of images, then admit that NFTs have nothing to do with copyrights. who gives a shit if someone is buying or selling an nft with a string that matches your name on it, or a URL to an image of you? nobody is being harmed, it's just whiners looking for an excuse to whine. (for the record, i think NFTs are dumb.)

@meena that's what the society has agreed upon, it's not my concept, take it up with them. that's how it works presently, though.

i'm fine with it.

arnold is one of the few actually decent human being politicians, even if i don't agree with his politics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/schwarzenegger-schmuck-mask-vaccines/619746/