nope nope, you already see it in the conservative sites, the spin that this trans person is the cause of his “left leaning” views, and is a corrupted person that’s family has blocked out because they consider her dangerous and mentally ill).

So, while she didn’t take part in, assist in or have any part in the shooting, and is assisting the police in convicting him, the narrative is already spinning that this evil trans person radicalized him… and all by herself she turned this perfect Mormon boy into the cold blooded killer.

Fully agree that, well the actions are blatently evil. Would be evil even if Catherine were actually an animal. I’d say inflicting suffering on any being with no end goal other than to inflict suffering, is kind of 100% the definition of evil.

Where I disagree is the law/chaos axis being based on local laws. IE a paladin doesn’t suddenly become chaotic if he enters an evil nation that demands everyone to take part in sacrificing babies. To me that axis is always on whether you are more rigid in following your own rules, you care about the way you get the results, rather than just the end result.

To me I would say, there’s not enough details in the story to gather long term opinions on Natasha, as IMO it’s more of an overarching concept of consistency. So with the information given, I’d rule

NE.

Very hard to judge with that context. Not minding sounds just like non-sex repulsed asexual. (going off the fact that you don’t seem to be implying wanting to do so, and haven’t said anything along the lines of “wanting to”.

IE the real question is would you enjoy having sex with someone, and/or do you even have romantic feelings.

ace is a huge crazy spectrum, but what I generally hear about is

aromantic - IE do not feel romantic attraction

asexual - does not feel a desire to have sex.

sex repulsed - (this does not appear to apply to you, that’s when you are actually sickened when confronted with sex).

So without full more detailed view on you, unless your tone of “I don’t mind” is different than what I think of when I hear that. (IE I don’t mind emptying the dishwasher, or taking out the trash).

in one semester, of online community college.

While I agree with the fuck cars concept on a hundred fronts. Our dependency on them is certainly something that can be reduced.

They are still pretty far from equivelant.

IE without a major total rebuild of my city, adding public transfer infrastructure etc… cars are necessary for me to go to the grocery stores etc… Bottom line 500 things need to be done before they start restricting cars.

meanwhile guns, serve pretty much no practical use in civilized society except, potentially protect yourself from someone with a gun.

actually if I recall that varies a lot on the series/comic. The original one invented the web shooter and synthesized the web material. But if I recall in the original comics there were some points and versions that had organic, peter’s clone had organic webs, . Rami’s version of spiderman for the movies had organic webs.

But yeah the long and short of it is, the actual spider powers, are stregnth, durability and quickened reflexes. Which when you factor in impossible durrability as the power that kind of covers the not breaking off his arm.

based on the comments I’ve seen from the right on his death, if I were putting money on a motivation, I’d say it’s that he got everyone riled up about the Epstien files, then made a sudden heel turn on “there’s nothing here”.

Cases where you want something googled quickly to get an answer, and it’s low consequence when the answer is wrong.

IE, say a bar arguement over whether that guy was in that movie. Or you need a customer service agent, but don’t actually care about your customers and don’t want to pay someone, or your coding a feature for windows.

Quite true… trumps already really good at distracting from his damning significant crimes with other crimes. I can’t think of a week in 2025 where there’s not something significant enough that they’d be looking for a distraction.

Or more importantly do the specific opposite of that. Vote 3rd parties, fight in the primaries in the local, state, and important levels everywhere you can.

Don’t throw your vote away on candidate of which your vote is literally less than one millionth of the way they need to get.

It’s OK the secretary of education was only promoting steak sauce in the classrooms.

Well yeah but that’s kind of the point there… Diddy, at least made sense of where he was and why he was in that world.

Say you hear 15 A list celebreties are constantly going to parties at Eminem’s house, I wouldn’t bat an eye. You hear the same except, it’s at some rich guy’s house, that no one knows where he got any money, but he seems to be around celebrities all the time, you’d start to ask the question, what the hell is this guy, where is his money coming from and why is he around celebrities all the time?

How about fucking scorched earth… Cuomo, Clinton, Trump, RFK Jr, Gates… I don’t care who the hell they are, I want damn good explanation for why everyone’s hanging out with this guy.

I can’t even make sense of what exactly his public role supposedly was? Supposedly some of the people he associated with weren’t a part of his pedo ring? Why the hell were they with him?

I mean I agree… it’s kind of the constant crux isn’t it?

The IT nerds pick a protocol that’s uncontrolled, you need to select options and servers, because… well obviously that’s kind of the definition of uncontrolled.

Some big name with big VC backing makes a big platform, makes it simple as possible, no choices, no control but good defaults. Average joes all flock there, build huge communities, users happy. Obviously the bulk of the creative types, celebrities etc… that most people care about flock there.

Big corp or VCs start demanding more monetization, or political censorship, or whatever kind of enshittification they inevitably always will. Users complain, but it all continues to amplify… open communities announce “hey we’ve got our alternative here”, they say “thanks but nah that’s too complicated, and you don’t have the users that I want to see anyway”. People complain more… and either adapt and accept the enshitification as normal… or maybe another big VC backed individual or other corp opens an alternative and pulls off the impossible critical mass goal, and process repeats.

I don’t really know the solution, just know the pattern. Bluesky is IMO the new twitter… fundimentally I don’t see it as super different than the old twitter. Only way I really see everything working is if say… a corporate backed giant actually played nicely and allowed interoperability with a federated protocol that’s actually… well hostable.

It’s basically like exactly what happens out in the real world… walmart comes offers better convenience and lower prices than local competitors… local economy adapts to walmart, individual stores shut down… half of owners, etc… forced to working for walmart for garbage pay.

I believe in mullvad there’s a setting to “allow local traffic”,

Navigate: to the Preferences or Settings menu. Find: the option for “Local network sharing” and enable it by turning the switch on

or if you are using CLI

mullvad lan set allow

in short, most vpn clients have an option to not override local traffic. while still directing everything outside of your LAN through the VPN.

I think there was supposedly some time based seal…

but I’d imagine also it’s just simply biden’s also covering clinton or other democratic donors. The fact that we weren’t screaming at the top of our lungs to release them in biden’s term, was more likely us stupidly falling into security that “norms are back and the wheels of justice turn slowly but always get there”, and then watching trump waltz in and imidiately purge the DOJ, FBI etc… and replace everyone with loyalists, and the realization that the courts are half overtaken, half worthless as republicans dropped the illusion that their rulings had any kind of force behind them.

I mean if you are talking pre-google youtube, I don’t believe it had a subscription model… or any real plan to profit or pay it’s creators. It was both hemorrhaging money itself, and giving it’s creators nothing.

Post google youtube, I guess yeah it is, but worth noting mostly it isn’t exactly a high production values system, with the exception of like mr beast etc… which make a boatload of money by still following the same traps as regular TV, catering to the lowest common denominators, microanalyzing maximum views on every aspect.

People DON’T want to pay for loads of small channels, they want to pay someone once and get everything they want.

That varries a bit, yes they want to pay someone once for everything they want. But they really hate seeing their bill go up more and more each year, while getting less of what they want every year. When their bill goes up from 120 to 150, and all they see happen is adding a bunch of channels they don’t want, they start feeling like the bulk of their money is going into things they don’t want.

I agree, the 2 options are a fairly low price that includes EVERYTHING including what they want… or extremely low prices but at least some confirmation that what they are paying for is actually what they want.

Agreed netflix as it was when streaming picked up but before everyone and their grandmother started their own streaming channel was pretty ideal, low cost and had just about everything.

but yeah once everything was evenly distributed among Netflix, Hulu, Apple, paramount, amazon etc… those days are gone. But the concept still applies that the real pet peve for users that want to get their own, is they’d want to pay one low cost to get the shows that they want. But no matter what your tastes are… odds are what you want is perfectly evenly spaced among the competing channels, and would easily cost well over 100 a month to actually get it.

IMO the biggest thing is in the fracturing they had the ability to do what everyone thought cable should do.

IE cable packages could have been made to work, if say they were actually split by genre or similar. But instead if you want a package for X, you pay for 500 channels you don’t want.

IE if the streaming services split up by genre. Like off the top of my head discovery + was the only one that IMO did a cool thing, IE focused on purely giving a solid theme where if you like educational type programs, that’s the one to get.

If there were like a sci fi focused streaming, or comedy etc… but rather than going focused, we’ve got 20 generalists. As a result if say you only like one type of show, you need to buy 6 streaming services, for the 6 good shows in that genre.

I would be mad, but, I’d also say go. Honestly when I was about 19, my mom more or less did this, in short she spent weeks talking up a hair dresser friend at church, commented that she played D&D, Eventually arranged for me to join her, and get a hair cut.

I talked with her, didn’t really go anywhere, From my understanding the girl afterwards kind of responded to my mom something along the lines of “I know you are hoping I’d be your son’s future wife but that’s not where I am in life right now”, and all the embarassment went on my mom for that.

So yeah, if you ask me, give it a shot, if it sucks, you’ve got solid standing to tell your dad not to do that shit again, if it’s good, maybe something good can come from it.