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Indeed. But that paradigm breaks when the percentage at stake, the password ultimately being wrenched for, is literally infinite wealth.

That’s what immortality functionally is. Some things by logical extension, and others admittedly chances to attempt them, but potentially infinite of 'em chances. At anything. The acquisition of any resource is not even a full chapter in the new book.

If you (generic you, here the kind of person who would be in the sphere of the kind of person to attempt to withhold and control immortality already) are even remotely close enough to pick up a wrench and take it to whoever is holding it, you don’t settle for a percentage, you go start the first of a long line of endless beatings on the first Immortal. It’s the only value proposition that makes sense, any degree of acquiescence against your interests, is agreeing to give them up and do so for potential eternity.

Imo, there’s only one way uh…well, it’s not ethical in our framework but I’m ready to argue how it is from the framework of a future immortal POV…I guess way to handle immortality.

You dose everyone with it. Full send it, most heinous final act of Humanity. Go straight to the deepest hell, the first Immortal cell belongs to you. But then everyone has to deal with fucking around and the finding out, forever, no exceptions or excuses.

Shit will get solved and we’ll be on our way to solar expansion so freaking fast.

I honestly don’t think anyone is prepared to wield that set of keys to effectively enforce control on anyone.

They’re simply too valuable, sought after, and desired, imo.

I’d expect that the moment an individual despot or even a cabal thereof attempts to do so, they’ll go in a very shortlist designed with only one purpose in mind: Demonstration of the ways immortality absolutely sucks for you if guys with a bunch of wrenches are beating you up for the password.

Honestly, a smart and sane Oligarch should fear nothing with a greater degree of dread, than immortality.

It squares away in the UCMJ. Generic ‘You’ used throughout, below this point:

You are supposed to have the balls/constitution/wherewithal/spine to disobey an order you believe or know to be illegal, despite the harsh automatic penalties that will presume you guilty until innocent for doing so, as you accept those possible consequences as readily as you accept taking an artillery shell for your country.

You are to hold this inhuman (as in, literally against psychological norm) stance deeper than the other stances programmed (with full use of psychological norms) into you in the course of being shaped for military services during training.

Because you are a warrior and are expected to hold yourself to standards far above and beyond those of the common population that you are (on paper, says every military of everywhere really) sacrificing your service for, so they don’t have to.

Does it work?

Eh. Maybe if a standing military was full of the mythical Warrior Poets envisioned by the glories in the marching songs.

They pretty much universally never are, and usually never were except for brief periods fostered by singular individuals as driving forces.

And thus, here we are.

Given what Kegsbreath has been doing to reshape the US military under his toddler level understanding of what a “warrior” is, I wouldn’t expect much of the requisite spine to still be enlisted for service for long.

They exist still, and hopefully the ones that are already out, the ones still in, and their neighbors are doing some common sense mathematics, but that is simply not something that can be expected and accounted for, and historically when things get to that point, it’s a bad time for everyone regardless.

I think you may have tapped on the wrong comment to reply to, and want Viking, the one reply below me.

They’re the one with a direct and clear answer to the question you’re posing to me.

But because I like irony, one of the answers is your context.

You literally wouldn’t be able to try to educate me on the historical connotations of the word and why its usage should rightfully be avoided in all possible cases, if your education was [removed].

If you learn how to jiggle the keys to power, and jiggle them masterfully in a way previously unseen in history, essentially being the ultimate and most eponymously mythical of benevolent dictators…

Yea, it would. Until you die.

Then we’re back to the same paradigm. Because it’s the whole system itself that is a hodgepodge of both human nature and direct perversions thereof, and not inherently its outputs.

Anthocyanins!.

Which curiously enough, can also photosynthesize, and more readily absorb energy from green light than chlorophyll!

Makes me wonder what could be achieved with some careful engineering…

(no one’s going to even see those except me and who I’m talking to).

Untrue. Even one on one’s in a public medium, are public. Lurkers have every right to opine on takes as they see fit, reply or platform-granted reaction tools both. Whether they catch the comments fresh or later when you consider it a “dead thread”.

I personally do it all the time, upvote or downvote.

There’s only so many hours in a day and Fediverse content isn’t so plentiful that it makes sense to mark discussions that are still near the top of a comms feed as “dead” to me.

That’s before we even get into how easy it is to accidentally hit the buttons in a lot of Lemmy client apps.

Between the description and watching the short tribute video, I definitely felt some type of way.

Maybe I’ve been watching too much analog horror, ARGs, and liminal nonsense, but the short video definitely tapped into that same headspace.

Nothing can bring the originals back, but if you were to make some sort of “Childhood memory” map, and tap into the same vibes that tribute had, well, it would definitely be something.

Note: Source has a “soft” subscription wall (non-scripted element), FF reader mode enough to bypass.

It’s full of practical and common sense suggestions, for navigating the current legalities of the system and how to attempt to receive accountability, in the events described in the headline.

That is all I will say about it, directly. I will never personally use it.

As the one in my family most likely to be the initial target in the hypothetical scenario, I hadn’t considered my stance and position on the subject, should it not be me who is murdered by the…fuck, I don’t have energy for euphemisms anymore.

Personally, if I’m caught within that situation, new articles will have to be written about the events proceeeding, regardless of the actual outcomes.

Preservation letters? Family Captain? Canvass the neighborhood for un-tampered with evidence?

Yes, those are indeed tools, but I wouldn’t be using them as proscribed in that article.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

That’s just for Google’s AI summaries, but it’s the only one with actual methodology disclosed I could find on a quick (non-AI) search.

Plenty of SEO mills with their own “studies” too, and the trend is similar. People don’t interact with the source sites or if they do it’s extremely seldom.

They (SEO mills) are currently trying to flip the gaslight towards “Worry not dear Webmaster, now you just have to make sure your content is now formed so it’s engaging for AI search and engage able right from the AI!” type shit.

I’m tired boss, and I’m not even generally (as in, in all aspects) anti-AI. Yet, I guess.

This is great advice and recommended!

There is one caveat, that might bite an inexperienced person moving a world from a realm to dedicated hosting.

Marketplace add-ons are encrypted and cannot be directly transferred over. Many add-ons are available in both marketplace and other environments (Curse forge for example), but some of the most popular or obscure ones might not be (e.g. BOP: One of the best biomes add-ons, arguably the best on Bedrock, but only the Java version is available on Curse, its Bedrock version is marketplace only).

So depending on how the realm is set up and which add-ons it has running, it’s some extra work to either locate suitable replacements, start a private port/fork, or make replacements from scratch.

Yeah.

There was a hidden asterisk on my “that’s fine and all”.

This comment carries no rebuttal to your point.

I just have better things to do with my day than invite commentary from .ml, generally speaking.

Ugga ugga big bonk is not something you build for.

You can, but such planning is clearly indicative of DEX thinking. All Bonk requires is the bravery to face your foes, and bonk them.

You simply start, grab the biggest, heaviest, most bonky bonk stick you are blessed with within 15 minutes of playing.

It will be there. The bonk is always there, waiting to be recognized.

You grab it and you pump your numbers into enough str to bonk really fucking hard with it.

You then go and bonk.

In the course of bonking, you learn you need to sustain a minimum amount of bonking yourself, in order to bonk the best you can bonk.

You then hold up three fingers, that is all you need. That is more syllables than ‘bonk’ has, so for every time you say bonk, you put a point in STR and another in VIT.

This continues until you feel you are no longer being bonked before your own bonking takes place.

Depending on how many syllables you think ‘bonk’ has as you were chanting it earlier, you will end up with roughly 1 VIT for every 3-4 STR.

That is all the thinking you need. Even other bonk sticks, while plentiful, are optional.

This is the current (and best imo) ‘retconned’ explanation. It’s been the one the series has kinda quietly operated under for a while, and when you have the rest of the tech in the plot play along with the paradigm, it works well.

I know Star Wars Outlaws got a lot of (deserved) flak, but the way the technology worked in the background of the setting was a master class in utilizing this paradigm.

Basically, the Wild West spirit has always been a part of SW. They literally operate under ‘The Pony Express’ rules as it comes to information dissemination, to spread the news out to all the disparate homesteads planets out in the big expansive praire space.

Edgarianny and Freddys said that they followed the proper instructions and were told they were approved for self-deportation by the government. “On July 6, we went to our ICE check-in appointment as instructed,” the letter said. “We believed we were going there to finalize our travel home. Instead, after we signed all the forms waiving all our rights, we were arrested. “We were immediately taken into custody and transferred to Dilley. Since then, we have done everything we can to make clear that we want to return home. We withdrew our immigration appeal, waived our rights, and asked to return voluntarily. We were even told that we had been placed on a list for a flight home. Then we were taken off the list.”

I used to think the right choice for “justice” for the…perpetrators behind this, was an expeditious trial. With an equally expeditious carrying out of sentencing.

I think I was wrong.

If and when, if and when. Care should be taken to ensure they all get promises of leniency, good treatment, and safety. That the signing of their plea deals will make their life uncertain, but otherwise okay, just be patient. Then a good and torturous shuffling through the same facilities they used and then without warning, the wall out back.

Yeah.

Being utterly unfamiliar with this case up until my rushed reading of 10 mins ago, and operating under the assumption that everything you’ve said is 100% factual reporting:

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

What!? That isn’t smoke pointing to a fire, it’s a goddamn molten slag cast in the shape of a man gleefully setting fire to a previous life as he dances over to a new fire pit.

That shit is too on the nose that I fully expect the true crime drama episode in 10 years about husband’s exploits to come with a warning about the gullibility of the system and technology.

Just enough digital trail to “absolve” him, conveniently, but only if you pick and choose where and when to accept the trail is on his side?

This is absolutely looking like the classic “sociopathic piece of skin husband has idealized mental picture of life shattered by difficult reality and decides to dispense with his ‘property’ before moving on” murder pattern.

Your instance does filter out the word ‘bitch’, under the stance that it’s commonly used as a gendered slur iirc.

Which is fine and all but the implementation is utterly context-less word matching.

I think I saw those same comments. I almost went to check my water lines for LSD for a minute after reading. Smug posting doesn’t even begin to cover it, it was so fucking surreal. Even direct links to verified and declassified facts both were like shit on a pig on that one. I didn’t think there was something to make me prefer the average person’s total blissful ignorance on the topic but that person’s creepy smug whitewashed reality shit was some next level wtf.

That wouldn’t detonate a claymore.

The more I look at the image, the more terrifyingly genius it becomes.

The laser tripwires in video games are a visual stand-in for good ol’ boring metal tripwires which a claymore can actually use. The tripwire moving around it’s housing changes the circuit state inside the electric blasting cap and off comes the wall of deadly balls.

But you don’t need to tripwire. You can remote detonate.

Or for the purposes of the meme, Alexa can time when to detonate. Just needs a little camera to see when and wire leads into the claymore’s blasting cap to deliver the electric triggering…

This isn’t a meme. It’s theory…

Does anyone know an old appliance salesman who used to sell other things back in old country? Asking for a friend.

They, could do all of those things, in theory.

In the fantasy land where they’re as capable as their fascist tools, and the tools themselves are as good as they advertise.

There are already dozens to hundreds of people getting away with the destruction of Flock cameras. They literally ask for public tips to solve them.

Have you read the research on the actual impact of all this bullshit on crime rate solving?

The panopticon is not finished.

Until it is, large swaths of your comment might as well be fiction, because until it’s trivial to “justify as much resources to hunt them down as what Luigi did” for the average use, they literally can barely find their ass with them.