I’m speaking to motive, not outcome, because a soldier is just a soldier in the end, one who enlists for myriad reasons but ultimately forfeits civilian rights to serve a purpose that most hope is just. You are attacking your truest ally out of fear for your own safety knowing that they already forfeited theirs. It’s dishonorable and you should stop.

E: i acknowledge that this one in particular is somewhat unfair to our ace friends, but this type of in-house ribbing is absolutely on-brand for polandball

I didn’t read it that way, but even if I had I wouldn’t give anyone shit for it, simply because it’s selfish and cowardly to goad others into taking risks for my sake, especially when they already have.

Why do you scorn your comrades for not paying a price that you yourself have not paid?

Oh shit, deadass would subscribe to queerball

Denethor, fresh off a palantir binge, criticizes Faramir for being alive (2025, crayon on canvas)

There are worse ways to use the force

Weird but, probably not. This is especially true if

1. there’s an employer match to consider
2. the retirement vehicle type is exempted from civil and/or legal disputes
3. the class of debt can be discharged via bankruptcy
4. you expect inflation to continually chip away at remaining debt principal
5. you expect markets to perform on average as they have historically
6. your contributions can lower your tax burden now or later

Among other things

Haha *click*

Immediately dropped into ongoing estate crises. Your staff hasn’t been paid in months. An angry groundskeeper has set fire to the stables. A nearby parish seeks restitution for damage to its roof. You apparently have relatives with expensive vices whose debtors won’t leave you alone. The clerk insists that the novelty title company you speak of does not exist and your peerage is duly confirmed.

E: Everyone keeps reminding you that you must produce an heir. Suitors hang on the bell, each of them somehow more hideous than the last.

Not OP, but they’re right that successful collective action requires a modicum of focus and prioritization – i.e., a spam filter – and it’s especially important for negative headlines since they can easily demoralize, frighten, and even paralyze would-be activists.

It’s an insidious problem for online leftism because too many of us labor exclusively within an activist paradigm of amplification, advocacy, and awareness that excels at igniting a fire of vigilance within people without proffering action to which they might apply it, other than “spread the word.”

That leads to an emotionally exhausting, unproductive churn of frustration and negativity which slowly poisons the activist with anxiety, panic, and despair.

TLDR: Unmeasured vigilance disrupts action, and vigilance without action is worse than oblivion.

I hate to sound this clueless when others here seem to know, but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction re: “stormbringer” and its WS association, because all I’m finding in search is the name of a sword in an old fantasy series that doesn’t appear to be a NatC favorite or otherwise associated with WS ideas.

I’m familiar with “stormtroopers” (the fictional Star Wars Imp infantry and historical Nazi soldiers), “stormfront” (the WS website and the WS villain from The Boys) but figured the nominal format of storm-____ wasn’t necessarily WS (at least, I can think of a few counterexamples).

So is “stormbringer” a dog whistle or something?

Did NatC that coming.

OK I admit, the first few times the cuddle monster wakes you up, it’s the cutest thing. But at some point when the sleep debt has accumulated and you’re still lying awake after the fuzzball woke you to make his current sleeping spot, it hits you that maybe cat social sleeping behavior isn’t 100% compatible lol

Our problem is that we inadvertently taught the cat that he has a right to every cuddle puddle and now he has several tricks to score warmer cuddle spots that include waking us just enough that we’ll lift an arm or raise the covers and otherwise mean-mugging us at point blank until we open our eyes.

Look at this creeper

mandatory AM Sat training

Best not fuck with this person

They can’t unless your entire system is compromised.

That research paper was a POC using kernel access and the models used were calibrated to specific subjects in a particular setting. Replicating it for anyone anywhere would require much, much more sophisticated models and that the target has given you root.

WRT Klein especially, !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.world may help

The types of errors and the commenter’s reaction to correction would suggest that this is a native speaker who missed a good deal of primary and may or may not be high.

Haha been there

Yes and most vulnerabilities related to the mail service are, I imagine, related to interop requirements of legacy protocol/clients. I haven’t audited their e2ee but I expect it’s on par with other e2ee cloud providers, and IIRC they passed SOC ii.

My distrust pertains mostly to their operations during a future exit scenario/acquisition when users are, presumably, more heavily invested in the various offerings of their extended productivity suite.