GlassHalfHopeful

GlassHalfHopeful , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

But Israel's not doing anything wrong, so why worry...

/s

GlassHalfHopeful , 1 day ago

The thing is, I was getting on my news from AP...

GlassHalfHopeful , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Ha! What a joke.

Here the link, but info mostly seems the same:
https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190

[Update: whoops. no need. it was only an article update by them.]

GlassHalfHopeful , 2 days ago

So my "prepper" neighbor is on to something...

GlassHalfHopeful , 2 days ago

What does your firm do and what do you see?

GlassHalfHopeful , 1 day ago

Our water and electric data is collected from wireless readers. Are you saying they are not reporting accurately?

GlassHalfHopeful , 2 days ago

sighs

Yet something else to disable in Windows. I'm losing track of each thing at this point.

GlassHalfHopeful , 2 days ago

But what happens next?!

GlassHalfHopeful , 3 days ago

If the arrest warrants are approved, do they actually have any power? Are there examples of such arrest warrants being executed for high ranking officials, especially heads of state?

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago

🤣 Thanks. I needed the laugh this morning. This is a great SNL skit.

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Wait. What?

😦

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Gaming. In the car. 😐

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago

can only be used while parked.
This clears things up. I imagined gaming occurring while driving which is a problem for obvious crazy and ethical reasons. Silly me.

What throws me off now is the apparent waiting that occurs. I'm interested in EVs, but I didn't imagine the amount waiting. I presumed this was only for road trips. But... based on the comments I've seen... people just seem to spend a lot of time waiting in their cars for all sorts of reasons? The kind of waiting where gaming apparently makes sense? 🤷🏽‍♂️

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago

Yeah, my vehicle has a small screen with GPS that works the same way. Locking it down while driving is the way to go in preventing accidents and deaths. Tesla though... they seem to be pioneers when it comes enabling distracted drivers. For a moment, I thought they were allowing gaming while auto drive functions were enabled.

GlassHalfHopeful , 3 days ago

When you add it all up, it makes more sense. I honestly think i spend little time in vehicles compared to most people though--a side effect of working remotely most of the time. And even when I do wait, I typically read a book, check out Lemmy, Duolingo, etc. I can see why some folks might want to play a game on the screen. Provided that it only ever works while parked, it makes sense.

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago

This is a preventable apocalypse. 😖

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago

Is this good...? Do they have enough influence to make a difference.

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago

I wonder if he's the kind of maniacal leader that puts maintaining power and control first because he genuinely believes he has a plan to better his people, or...

is he's the maniacal leader that puts maintaining power and control first because... power and control are simply all that matters...

I wonder which is more dangerous.

I wonder if it matters at this point.

GlassHalfHopeful , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

It's possible that the move means Netflix can save some money on licensing, which may cost extra if downloads are included – enabling users to take shows and movies around with them and watch them without an internet connection.

Maximize profit. Good for them. Never good for us. Never.

Why is it so terrible to build a company that people love?

GlassHalfHopeful , 5 days ago

Just another of the many reasons that RTO is essential!

/s 😐

GlassHalfHopeful , 5 days ago

So glad to hear there was an arrest. Hoping for justice and that this person gets the much needed help they need.

Alternative source link for those interested:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69030468

GlassHalfHopeful , 5 days ago

Finally a sentence that makes some sense.

But, honestly, based on what DePape told police--that he was on "a suicide mission" and wanted to take Nancy Pelosi hostage, question her, and break her kneecaps if she lied--unless psychiatrists clear him in 30 yrs... he should remain in prison. There is no way society is safe with someone like that free.

GlassHalfHopeful , 5 days ago

Come on. 😵‍💫

GlassHalfHopeful , 5 days ago

You're killing me. 😵‍💫

GlassHalfHopeful , 5 days ago

This is not the way.

GlassHalfHopeful , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

“People think that when you’re mentally ill, you can’t think straight, which is insulting,” she told the Guardian. “I understand the fears that some disabled people have about assisted dying, and worries about people being under pressure to die... But in the Netherlands, we’ve had this law for more than 20 years. There are really strict rules, and it’s really safe.”

She embarked on intensive treatments, including talking therapies, medication and more than 30 sessions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). “In therapy, I learned a lot about myself and coping mechanisms, but it didn’t fix the main issues. At the beginning of treatment, you start out hopeful. I thought I’d get better. But the longer the treatment goes on, you start losing hope.”

After 10 years, there was “nothing left” in terms of treatment. "I’ve never hesitated about my decision. I have felt guilt – I have a partner, family, friends and I’m not blind to their pain. And I’ve felt scared. But I’m absolutely determined to go through with it.

Honestly and genuinely, I'm glad to see all that she has put into this decision and glad the state is allowing it. Now she doesn't need to cause further pain to others through a traumatic suicide and she can gain the peace she's been longing for.

Each day, so many lives are snuffed out of existence without a second thought. She has given this an incredible amount of thought, time, and work.

Rest in peace, Zoraya. 💜

P. S. There's thousands of live today that want to live. They don't want to die. And yet their lives are taken away in an instant. Perhaps we should focus on saving them rather than making someone like Zoraya feel even worse.

GlassHalfHopeful , 6 days ago

I don't know how we will survive at this pace. Seriously, what's next after this all implodes?

GlassHalfHopeful , 7 days ago

Trunk Monkey Mobile would have been better. 🐒

GlassHalfHopeful , 7 days ago

The Russian disinformation campaign favors Trump? Say it isn't so!

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

The modern prison-communication industry emerged four decades ago, after the federal government broke up A.T. & T.’s Bell System. New phone companies competed for customers by slashing prices. But inside prisons and jails a different model developed: telecom companies persuaded local officials to sign exclusive service contracts in exchange for hefty commissions. The costs of these commissions were passed along to incarcerated “customers” and their families, who lacked consumer choice. Price gouging was the inevitable result. By the nineties, prison phone-call prices in some jurisdictions had soared to twenty dollars for fifteen minutes.

I'll never understand how and why prisons and anything related are allowed to be privatized.

People make mistakes and some are prison worthy. However, we want them to do their time, grow in the process, and ultimately return to society as better people. Instead, we throw people in prison who don't belong there, keep out privileged ones who do far worse and need prison, don't provide the needed help, and make prison so miserable that people can't actually grow into something better.

WTF. I jokingly wanted to be a king (dictator) as a teen because I figured it would be faster to fix things... starting with firing every politician (although at that age I said 'off with their heads'). It's such a horrible idea. It wouldn't work. But then that thought comes back in moments like this and I'm like, "just give me a few years to fix things and clean things up". Ugh. No wonder people eventually end up doing insane things. How long can we wait for reform?

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

So it sounds like there's still a chance that I can be a temporary dictator king? I mean what could go wrong? 🤪

GlassHalfHopeful , 7 days ago

Oh, we've already seen, he has no problem burning things down...

😖

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

The portal is a genuinely fun idea. I'd love to see those all around!

But... people being people got to ruin all the fun. So... I don't suppose I'll be seeing one of these any time soon.

Blah.

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

Cool. Still not gonna use it though.

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

But will they learn...

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

My hope is that companies would learn from the brain drain side effects in the long run. You're absolutely right that greater profit is what drives this and it was intentional, but it is short-sighted.

The company I work for just terminated a substantial percentage of its workforce. It was done without truly understanding the effect on many programs. I'm now standing on a desert island, alone, trying to figure out how to continue satisfying a customer with nearly all the knowledge and talent to best do that stripped away. Doing the job of three people was hard enough before. Now I'm doing the job of X people, a variable I can't even adequately quantify now. And a lot of that work is so wildly outside of my sphere of knowledge.

Decisions that these large companies are making are causing side effects that they may not feel for many years, but they will... And it won't matter because those executives have accomplished everything they wanted for themselves in those first moments.

Don't be evil.
Heh.

I really do hope a few of these companies learn. I'd love for people to not be treated as expendable assets that can be ground into dust, but as people to nourish and develop. I'd love to cheer for them. I'd love to contribute to their work.

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

What I would like to know is if tablets like this are being scanned digitally into three dimensions so that they can be reproduced. I feel like everything we find from antiquity needs to be scanned this way. With humans constantly going to war destroying history, I'd hate the idea of losing things like this forever.

UPDATE: And thus a journey down the interwebs rabbit hole begins. I need better internet and PC to check this out more later, but answering my own question, here's the entrance to the rabbit hole should others wish to venture with a few examples:

• Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian has a vast collection of 3D scanned artifacts available online, including prehistoric tools and sculptures https://3d.si.edu/.
• Europeana: This digital platform features 3D scans of cultural heritage objects from across Europe https://pro.europeana.eu/project/3d-content-in-europeana.
• Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI): This non-profit organization promotes the use of 3D scanning for cultural heritage preservation https://www.culturalheritageimaging.org/.

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

Most recently I remember it happening really really badly within Syria. Very intentional destruction. But yes, it happens all the time--Iraq included. With the technology we have now, we can preserve a lot of it (digitally at least).

I hate how it's so damn hard to find these things and yet so easy to destroy it.

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I'll never understand sentencing.

A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said.

A co-defendant, 24-year-old Chance Brannon, was sentenced last month to nine years in prison. Brannon, of San Juan Capistrano, California, was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time of the bombing.

Another co-defendant, Tibet Ergul, has pleaded guilty to the charges against him. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 30.

Psychologically speaking, perhaps deterrence being a goal of punishment isn't all that effective. I don't know what it would take to persuade a person from such an act, but whatever that is... that's what the prison term needs to be.

I presume these people have radical thinking, so perhaps no amount of prison time, whatever it might, is enough. Especially if they believe they were serving their god in the process. Religion is a powerful driving force. Ugh.

These are the kinds of things that make me less inclined to show compassion to my fellow humans. And I don't like that.

Why can't we have that Gene Roddenberry Star Trek future now? 😭

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

Oh, I know. And it was a nasty one at that. We humans are good at making messes. I was literally thinking that as I posted. But... I was also imagining we could fast forward to then. Please?

One can dream.

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

That doesn't leave a lot of good options to treat the sickness...

GlassHalfHopeful , 8 days ago

This I'm fully on board with. There's a lot broken that we can actively work on to build a healthier society. I don't see any other obvious preferable routes.

My mind is completely boggled by the state of politics though. Voting for these kinds of programs is one of the most excruciating things to watch flounder. Programs are set up and then they're dismantled a few years later. When things are brighter, some politician comes in and crushes them.

My head spins at the thought of how much money is being spent on all the things that supposedly matter, the corruption surrounding it all, and the privileged protecting the privileged.

Sometimes the glass doesn't seem half full, but instead half empty. I don't like feeling that way, but his political season sure isn't helping.

Why does it always feel like we're simultaneously in the best of times and also the worst of times?

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

I hope this translates to the voting polls.

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

“The policy that has never been far from my mind for the past six months is the nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel, which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians,” Major Mann wrote in the post, which noted that he had emailed his comments to co-workers on April 16. “This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war.”

It's no small thing for him to make this statement publicly. I hope that him doing so does more good than the negative repercussions this will inevitably have for him.

Also, I've not heard of the source so I thought I would share a couple more:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/military-resignation-gaza-war

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

That's interesting. First time seeing it. I only clicked into the link long enough to highlight a snippet and search for other articles. Never realized it was an aggregator. 😁

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

I had to go back and read your post because my brain automatically assumed you were using the word "aggregator." Sometimes my brain is pretty awesome with its autocorrect ability. Most of the time, the neuro diverse sack of mush just makes things worse. 😁

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago

If this is the case, then I'm so very glad.

I'm absolutely lost at how things can get so bad that a person's response is such senseless violence.

It breaks my heart and anyone, especially a youth, can get this lost in the Darkness without someone interceding. Perhaps some have tried. Either way... I hope the youth receives the help they need. If justice needs to be found for something in their past, I hope the authorities can find it and help them. I hope the youth may experience freedom of mind, healing, and goodness.

I'm so so grateful that no one was hurt.

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Violence has been committed and I hope the perpetrator is able to be caught and punished. Violence like this isn't okay.

In a general sense, I hope for more out of humanity's future and hope this kind of behavior is eventually selected out, both naturally and intentionally. (I'm currently reading a book about selection, which is where my mind was at when posting). Humans have come a long way in their thousands upon thousands of years of history. That's especially the case more recently. We have a long way to go though and we can do better now and today.

Catch the perpetrator, punish them (this is a loaded idea though), and–good fortune willing–rehabilitate and nurture something greater in them (which is the very best thing to do). Failing that, separate them from the rest of us so that further harm is mitigated. We don't need that shit. Our penal systems are broken and people don't get the help they always need, but we must continue trying to make things better for all of our sakes.

Yours Truly,
The seeming coward ironically calling for non-violence

P. S. A simple "could you elaborate on what you mean" might have come across better.

GlassHalfHopeful , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

"They" meant whoever the vague authority is when people often use they. I guess the NYPD in this case, but it's often hard to cheer for cops to do the right thing when I read the news these days. You can believe I meant something more, like vigilantes (I'm guessing?), but that isn't okay either. It's against my principles.

(Although I have to admit that I root for Batman in spite of my belief that vigilantism isn't the way. Too many ways for it to go wrong. The State often can't get it right itself and it's them we entrust.)

"Prune" wasn't a great choice of word I suppose. The intent to express a desire for this kind of behavior to be removed from the rest of us. There are a lot of ways to achieve that and I presume you think I meant violently, which is quite the opposite of what I would want. Again, strong principle of nonviolence.

English, and language in general, is a funny thing. I'm still getting the hang of it. I've edited my original comment to reflect my intent with different words.

What happened to Steve was not okay. It can't be tolerated. And I hope the authorities can somehow catch them and get them the help they need while protecting everyone else from this kind of violence. I've heard of these random attacks more often and it's not okay, it's not funny, and it needs to stop.