Same with YouTube, honestly.

Just talked to a woman from a company in the same holding as mine. They still run their computers on windows xp. They’re in health care and deal with sensitive, confidential patient data.

I never have that problem with Digital Ocean 😆

That’s not really how it works, mate. He’s still innocent until proven guilty.

After all, he’s not gay, black or an opponent of Trump.

Yes, because apparently you can purchase “social services” there

I assume you’ve made a typo and meant to say “the far left morally or materially equivalent to the far right”?

Well first of all, I appreciate this discussion. Second, maybe…?

I for sure can see the pendulum swing the other way. You’ve got a nazi regime now, we bring out the far left, defeat the nazis, the pendulumswings to the other side, but it swings to far and we suddenly find ourselves in a Stalinistic hellscape.

You can call me a liberal for that. I can see why you’d say that, but I disagree since that’s not where we’re at. In reality the left are the freedom fighters now. They’re the good guys. I’m not a realist though, I’m a dreamer. I failed to communicate that in my original post and that is where I fucked up

And thirdly… yeah I think lemmy.world people know you’re trying to insult them when you call them a liberal. I haven’t yet met a lemmy.world person who calls themselves a liberal. It’s like call a Mexican a “bean eater”. No Mexican calls themselves that. It’s only other people who call them that.

Yeah I see that now. I fucked it up by phrasing it the way I did. Not the first time that happened. Probably won’t be the last either.

There’s definitely a very big difference between the far left and the far right, in the sense that one side is the literal nazis and the other the freedom fighters. But there’s so much to it. So much dynamic, so much nuance, so much context. It’s a difficult topic. It’s nazis and not-nazis, sure, but there so much more.

What I meant was that both sides are doing extreme things. Things that shouldn’t belong in a world where I want my kids to grow up in. Not the entire big, complex issue. Just this one aspect. Easy, comprehensible, small.

Anyways, it was a dumb remark, shallow, objective, out of context. And I failed to frame it the way I meant it. Just… I’d delete it, but that’s not how the Internet works.

Yes. Imagine we meet at a train station or something and I say. “Hey, you look like a racist piece of shit, but we’re starting a campaign to end world hunger, would like to hear more about it?”.

Seems pretty unlikely you wanna hear me out more, right?

And we’re on Lemmy. I’m pretty sure " liberal" is a generally acknowledged insult here.

That tends to happen when you start namecalling. People stop hearing the things that you actually want to say because the name calling bears more weight.

No not at all, but I see what you mean. I forgot that you’re not allowed to discuss topics that do not conform the hivemind.

But I’ve kicked the bee’s nest now, so I’m the liberal today. It’s like when you’re in school and you say that you wonder what it’s like to kiss a boy and the rest of the week everyone calls you a faggot. Until some other dumb kid does something dumb and they forget about you.

I like to talk about the dark side, think about the dark side, find out what makes the dark side tick. I find comfort in the search for meaning. It’s not productive but other than apathy, that’s what helps me cope. That’s not how this platform works though and sometimes I forget that I should not post in news communities.

Great argument. Just call the other a liberal and now you’ve won the discussion. Congratulations

Who’s talking about protecting people? The article talks about actively encouraging violence and murder, just for the sake of it.

Well of course. The far left isn’t any better than the far right. It seems the bigger the far right becomes, the bigger the far left becomes.

People do say “hi I’m from the US” and “hi I’m from canada”. They are both countries and people can tie their identity to it. There certainly are people who say “hi I’m from europe”, but not many. Europe also isn’t a country and doesn’t have the level of autonomy that the US and Canada (or Germany for that matter) have.

Is it running on a dedicated machine? Than what’s the worst that could happen? Say someone hacks your website and gains root access to your machine. Maybe they’ll fuck up your website. Maybe they’ll install some botnet software. But you can basically just flash your device and restart from a backup. No biggie!

The best defence, in my opinion, is awareness and a good backup plan.

But also, if you have a static website with no login or anything, a hacker can’t login either. Maybe you’ve got an ssh connection? That’s pretty secure, just make sure you’ve got it set up correctly and you’ve got a good password. Maybe you have some login from apache? Same as with the ssh, but if you don’t actively use it, you could disable it.

Rule #1 : Cardio

The world has always been crumbling and always will. That’s basically the definition of life, the fight against entropy

People are downvoting you, but there’s truth there. I assume you’re not just talking about looks, because that would be stupid and you deserve all the downvotes. However, If a woman has some major red flags that everybody except you knows about, than your statement holds. For example when you join a new friend group or you move to a new town and you think you meet a nice girl, bit everybody starts warning you te get out.

Back in the day, we used the maxim of “don’t stick your dick in crazy”. You can’t say that anymore in this time of nazis and toxic masculinity, but I think this is what OP means.

If you shake a tumor a bit, it sends the National Guard on you

Unfortunately, it doesn’t stay in the blood. Sometimes it wedges in nooks and crannies, where I accumulates and doesn’t leave until a tumor pushes it out.