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Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in Do you have arms? by existential1
Are leftists who claim they wont kill nonvoilent burgulers just bullshiting me?
They're probably bullshitting themselves.
You can't know if they're non-violent without communication and any to attempt to communicate with someone that broke into your home (whether it's shouting a warning, loudly pumping a shotgun, etc) is incredibly detrimental to your safety if they are violent, since it alerts them to your presence and general direction.
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Reply to Do you have arms? by existential1
Are you going to actually take the time to learn to use it safely and train to be very competent with it?
If your answer is anything other than "Abso-fuckin-lutely!", then no I would not suggest a firearm.
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Reply to Anarchists, what proportion of Marxists do you know have a real meaningful understanding of anarchism versus those who work with half-baked caricatures and willful misrepresentations? by Hibiscus_Syrup
I don't know any marxists IRL. Haven't met any online that actually understood anarchy
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Reply to comment by 86944 in What are some good metal handguns that usually sell for less than $800? by Raxalor
Something for home defense and range shooting. Any affordable caliber larger than .22
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Reply to Friday Free Talk: Hindsight is 2020 by mofongo
What is it with a lot of capital 'L' Leftists on social media and their outright refusal to use language that could actually help win people over?
I feel particularly frustrated when I see posts that blame capitalism for things with absolutely no explanation or analysis attached to it.
Anyone that doesn't already understand the relationships between capitalism, the state, cops, businesses, and systemic violence (which is a fuck ton of people, especially where I grew up) is going to dismiss it, outright, as the ramblings of an angsty teen or a an individual blaming a system for their own failings.
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Reply to Part One: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado - Behind the Bastards by ziq
"Nestor Makhno loves two things: shooting it out with the cops and putting together a nice living-room set" is probably my favorite line in the podcast
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Reply to comment by existential1 in Friday Free Talk 31/12/2020: Welcome to the new year, same as the last one. by mofongo
You're absolutely right, I meant ill legal as in 'sickly legal'. I''m still learning the hip lingo the kids use
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Reply to comment by !deleted23972 in Friday Free Talk 31/12/2020: Welcome to the new year, same as the last one. by mofongo
haha, at least I've got 364 more days to figure it out!
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Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in This new year, try cruelty free. by crabs
That's fair.
It's not really what I was going for, but I'm too hungover to put any more effort in organizing my thoughts
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Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in This new year, try cruelty free. by crabs
I think we're both making different points.
I'm claiming that acts of sabotage will hurt corporations more than any individualist consumer lifestyle changes, not that it will solve the problem of animal welfare or slaughter
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Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in This new year, try cruelty free. by crabs
Why do you think you can have am effect on a legal industry which most people like to consume their products
Many drugs are easy to produce within a garage with cheap supplies, which make it easy to decentralize production. Decentralization and ease of production make it very difficult to make a dent in.
Industrial farms, slaughterhouses, and agricultural corporations often have centralized hubs in regions for their supply lines, because it's easier to orchestrate. This can be the slaughterhouses themselves, the feed storage, product storage, or the technical infrastructure they use for orchestration (assuming they're not completely reliant on cloud solutions)
Each point of infrastructure is incredibly expensive and takes a non-arbitrary time to replace. If a couple dozen people spent a weekend attacking the infrastructure they could do hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to the equipment and cause billions of dollars of lost revenue for the corporations over the period of time it takes to replace it.
I'm not making any claims that you could effectively stop all production or even most of it. I'm claiming that coordinated sabotage could force a slow down in certain regions and hurt the corporations in a way that individuals making dietary/lifestyle choices can't.
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Reply to This new year, try cruelty free. by crabs
More people are being born every day than go vegan (for most of their lives) in a week, hell probably in a month. Corporations will never slow down torturing and murdering animals unless people convert to veganism faster than they're being born.
If you actually want to make a difference, you have to sabotage the supply line. Firebomb the slaughterhouses, perform denial of service attacks to their technical infrastructure, destroy the roads and make it impossible for the transportation of animals.
If you're not doing that, then you're not slowing them down
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I hope this is the year I gain the courage, and adopt the proper security culture, to do illegal shit
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Reply to Hospital worker fired for deliberately leaving hundreds of COVID vaccine doses out of refrigerator by 86944
The hospital launched an investigation and was led to believe inadvertent human error was to blame [...] But on Wednesday, the worker who was responsible admitted to doing it on purpose, Advocate Aurora Health said.
Wow. They had a free pass, but then threw it away. They must have wanted people to know that they did it, maybe to signal to other antivaxx healthcare workers to do the same?
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Reply to comment by !deleted2159 in What is your favorite fruit? by OdiousOutlaw
The flavors mix really well with cilantro and onion, so many Puerto Rican dishes, TexMex, breakfast tacos, straight up rice and beans...
If I'm being honest, I probably put it on anything that isn't sweet
I should mention that the sauce itself has other ingredients like other peppers (hatch chili, jalapenos, or whatever else I'm feeling), vinegar, onion, garlic, salt, paprika, and lime. I might be forgetting some other ingredients for that particular sauce, because I haven't made a batch since late September, but that's the general list of ingredients in my sauces
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Reply to What are your New Years resolutions? by Glenn_carbon
- Grow more food that I actually want to eat
- Leave my job
- Escape from rent
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Reply to What is your favorite fruit? by OdiousOutlaw
Mango!
You can make a bomb pepper sauce with mango and habaneros
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Reply to Friday Free Talk: 25/12/2020: Io Saturnalia! by mofongo
Got to spend Christmas with family (we all got tested 72 hours beforehand). I was given some local gardening books and Japanese whiskey for Christmas. Much better Christmas than I was expecting, to be honest.
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Reply to Friday Free Talk: 12/04/2020: Pending Doom by mofongo
I bought a bunch of medicinal plant seeds so I could learn to germinate and grow them... Living beyond Zone 8 makes it a pain in the ass to germinate elderberry seeds
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Reply to comment by !deleted24215 in Friday Free Talk: 26/11/2020: Is it spring yet? by mofongo
That's sort of what I'm doing, honestly. I moved my Ryzen based desktop into my living room to use for entertainment, so I won't be too distracted when I need to focus on something
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Currently using an overclocked Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop pc. It's actually more responsive than I though it would be. Only complaints are:
- You're basically stuck to Raspberry Pi OS, because it's the fastest implementation of Linux for this hardware (at least from my testing with Ubuntu and Kali)
- The Tor Browser isn't made for the ARM platform outside of Android, so I had to modify Firefox manually.
- Browser based video playback, even with h264ify for youtube, isn't great (it's passable, at least)
Overall, though, I'm satisfied with it. I can code, watch videos, check my email, and visit Raddle via Tor
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Reply to comment by Abesti in Friday Free Talk 20/11/2020: With extra Friday by mofongo
Thanks, I'll give that a look through!
I went on a quick search online for exploit development and reverse engineering to try to answer my own question and I'll just add some of the resources I found for anyone else that's interested:
https://github.com/guyinatuxedo/nightmare
DAY[0] Discussion - Learn Exploit Development While Not Dying
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Reply to comment by Abesti in Friday Free Talk 20/11/2020: With extra Friday by mofongo
I'm absolutely open to the idea of getting into old school hacking, RE, and exploits (like, it's my dream). Do you know of any good resources for getting started in it?
The only thing I already have is Hacking: The Art of Exploitation 2nd Edition
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Reply to comment by Abesti in Friday Free Talk 20/11/2020: With extra Friday by mofongo
I have to choose a 'safe' career, because I have people whose quality of life is directly tied to my ability to pay rent and buy groceries. I would absolutely love to get into Reverse Engineering, but I don't personally see a practical way of getting a stable income down that route.
And my dev skills are atrocious, I've probably written less than 5000 lines of code to date :/
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Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in Do you have arms? by existential1
Unfortunately, my neighbor was raped by a home invader, which is a probably the main factor in why I believe you should never jeopardize your own safety in that situation