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I wish more of my electronic products had a more 90s anime design aesthetic so that I wouldn't need to be concerned about such trivialities as scratches
we can also not condemn her for leaking classified information, except in the literal sense, that ship has sailed
with a lot of activism that breaks the law, it is a perfectly cogent stance to go yes, obviously you should go to jail now, but also, good job, glad you did that
(like that priest up there)
e: buuut, then again, I don't recall anyone being like "ya the NSA shit is kinda fucked I'm glad it's out there but she's a COWARD for not FACING JUSTICE" back in the day
The difference is she did face justice
Snowden and Assange are the cowards
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Can anyone help me with what I'm looking at here? I'm on a Galaxy S9. I've got some pics and videos, I've got maybe 200 tracks downloaded on Spotify, but I'm not sure if those would be listed as Audio or Apps. I have no idea what all of that App data is?
I can't help with the specific causes of your storage being full, but you should probably make it un-full ASAP. Full internal storage can cause phone reboots/crashes, and I know from experience that if it's full and your carrier tries to force an update, it can potentially grenade the data on the internal storage completely. No recovery service on the planet is gonna be able to restore that corrupted data if that happens, and you'll need a repair shop to do a super factory reset just to get it running again.
give me a phone where if I drop it, I worry about the floor
also one that looks weathered, like prop makers do, when it gets dinged up instead of just ugly
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
I am absolutely too lazy to make a thread about it but as someone who mostly uncritically thinks Chelsea Manning is cool and good I am curious about points her detractors would make
I should probably just do a forum search and see what past threads there have been on the topic, I think the only thing that I'd think of off the top of my head is that Julian Assange sucks
we can also not condemn her for leaking classified information, except in the literal sense, that ship has sailed
with a lot of activism that breaks the law, it is a perfectly cogent stance to go yes, obviously you should go to jail now, but also, good job, glad you did that
(like that priest up there)
e: buuut, then again, I don't recall anyone being like "ya the NSA shit is kinda fucked I'm glad it's out there but she's a COWARD for not FACING JUSTICE" back in the day
1 - I played Dark Alliance finally man what a throughly mediocre game. But it would be a good background game while you listened to a podcast or just was shooting the shit with some friends over Voice chat
Also the Xbox version is 100% cross play AND progression with PC and is on game pass and streaming so damn you can play that shit anywhere
2 - Kiddo picked up Titanfall 2 on his own and and I’m the happiest parent
did the US ever actually charge assange with anything?
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
Not officially, no, iirc. Tough to prove he wasn't acting as a journalist.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
we can also not condemn her for leaking classified information, except in the literal sense, that ship has sailed
with a lot of activism that breaks the law, it is a perfectly cogent stance to go yes, obviously you should go to jail now, but also, good job, glad you did that
(like that priest up there)
e: buuut, then again, I don't recall anyone being like "ya the NSA shit is kinda fucked I'm glad it's out there but she's a COWARD for not FACING JUSTICE" back in the day
The difference is she did face justice
Snowden and Assange are the cowards
It's not cowardice to decide it's not worth sticking around to be excessively punished, and Assange wasn't even an American anyway and so didn't even have a notional duty to the US in any way
did the US ever actually charge assange with anything?
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
edit: oh there is an american indictment! it just didn't get that much attention because he wasn't extradited.
Nah. He's more wanted for other crimes in other countries. Not that the US wouldn't love to "oops accidentally dead" him, just in an extrajudicial way.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
calling people out for not willingly offering themselves up for a decade plus of imprisonment, solitary confinement, and who knows what else is internet tough guy shit sorry
which brings me back to the question it made me ask back then too: man how does it even work, extraditing a foreign national for spying on a third country?
and how would it work here? I mean, like, there's no paragraph in the norwegian penal act saying australians can't spy on america
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I go raw with all my iPhones, because the occasional broken screen (once every 5 years or so) is worth the device being smaller and actually beautiful.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I am absolutely too lazy to make a thread about it but as someone who mostly uncritically thinks Chelsea Manning is cool and good I am curious about points her detractors would make
I should probably just do a forum search and see what past threads there have been on the topic, I think the only thing that I'd think of off the top of my head is that Julian Assange sucks
She mass downloaded and turned over classified documents to someone with ties to Russian intelligence.
She was a dumb 20 something who got manipulated by a foreign agent. Not some hero whistle blower just a useful idiot.
did the US ever actually charge assange with anything?
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
edit: oh there is an american indictment! it just didn't get that much attention because he wasn't extradited.
Nah. He's more wanted for other crimes in other countries. Not that the US wouldn't love to "oops accidentally dead" him, just in an extrajudicial way.
He's currently being held pending an appeal by the US, in the US's attempt to extradite him
I go raw with all my iPhones, because the occasional broken screen (once every 5 years or so) is worth the device being smaller and actually beautiful.
i probably would if i lived somewhere with an actual apple store
we've only got official resellers and there's no quick way to get a phone replacement/repair
if i cracked my screen, i'd be without a phone for like 2-3 weeks
Ok driving through Georgia and Alabama was not inspiring but the shuttle dropped me off at a nice hotel and everything smells good and everyone is beautiful
There must be some sort of big university here in Auburn, Alabama
Who saw more cars on the way?
edit; I will let.my shame stand. But surely youre in the lead.
I'd ask who saw more yellow cars, but that's not the point of Yellow Car
What...whats the point again? I forgot since Car was the height of road trip comedy
did the US ever actually charge assange with anything?
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
edit: oh there is an american indictment! it just didn't get that much attention because he wasn't extradited.
Nah. He's more wanted for other crimes in other countries. Not that the US wouldn't love to "oops accidentally dead" him, just in an extrajudicial way.
which countries?
he's in jail in the UK - I think that's just for the original bail violation when he fled to the embassy, but I dunno
and the US has requested extradition
but that's it, isn't it? Sweden's closed their case a long time ago.
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BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
did the US ever actually charge assange with anything?
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
edit: oh there is an american indictment! it just didn't get that much attention because he wasn't extradited.
Nah. He's more wanted for other crimes in other countries. Not that the US wouldn't love to "oops accidentally dead" him, just in an extrajudicial way.
He's currently being held pending an appeal by the US, in the US's attempt to extradite him
Huh, I guess it's been a while since I paid much attention to him or Snowden. Crazy.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Ok driving through Georgia and Alabama was not inspiring but the shuttle dropped me off at a nice hotel and everything smells good and everyone is beautiful
There must be some sort of big university here in Auburn, Alabama
Who saw more cars on the way?
edit; I will let.my shame stand. But surely youre in the lead.
I'd ask who saw more yellow cars, but that's not the point of Yellow Car
What...whats the point again? I forgot since Car was the height of road trip comedy
I go raw with all my iPhones, because the occasional broken screen (once every 5 years or so) is worth the device being smaller and actually beautiful.
Eh. iPhones are too slick, so they often slip out of my hands. I prefer having at least a silicone or leather case for some small amount of grip. Also, a tempered glass screen protector has saved my screen way too many times to go without it.
I mean, it's either that or implant some Magsafe magnets to my palm or something. I mean, I got the COVID vaccine and everything, but the promised magnetic powers never manifested.
Hahnsoo1 on
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
edited June 2021
The US charged Assange with espionage, and various other related items, very specifically not the publication of the Chelsea Manning stuff, but gaining access to a classified hard drive.
i cracked the back of my phone yesterday and i'm real mad about it
A while back, Hahnsboo removed the case of her smartphone (it's a cheap little old thing, like a Motorola Moto G6 or something), and there were a huge amount of spiderweb cracks ALL over the back. Her screen protector also has a hair-thin line on it. She's probably going to continue to use it that way until the next time it gets tossed in the laundry (the fate of her LAST smartphone).
She does not take care of her smartphones very well, which is why she usually gets uber-cheap ones.
I'm almost curious enough about an answer to the confusing extradition aspects here to actually read the UK court documents about the denied extradition request - apparently it didn't reject it on legal grounds, as it were
but only almost because I haven't the faintest idea about where to look up english laws
whole different legal system, too, so it would probably be frustrating to wrap my head around
let's see if youtube has any good cat videos instead
did the US ever actually charge assange with anything?
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
edit: oh there is an american indictment! it just didn't get that much attention because he wasn't extradited.
Nah. He's more wanted for other crimes in other countries. Not that the US wouldn't love to "oops accidentally dead" him, just in an extrajudicial way.
For all of its problems the US is not Putin's Russia, not anywhere close. The US government has been trying to extradite him for years and will be perfectly happy to throw him in prison, but they are not trying to assassinate the guy, and there's no reason to believe they are.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
actually proper laughing at calling someone a coward for not wanting to face the american justice system
i also wouldn't want to spend my time in a prison with the worst cctv in the world before getting suicided
I'm not great with my devices, but I have so far managed to avoiding actually destroying one. I have completed shattered a screen protector or two.
The one time I had to replace my iPhone screen, my cat knocked off my phone from a shelf, and it landed just perfectly to smack it upon the corner of a brick on the ONE location where the screen protector wasn't protecting, the Home button.
this feeling: when you forget you have plans, and remember you have them but wish you didn't because you've acted all day like you have the day to yourself, and then those plans end up being cancelled after all
god, if i could bottle it, like it were bathwater;
I'm almost curious enough about an answer to the confusing extradition aspects here to actually read the UK court documents about the denied extradition request - apparently it didn't reject it on legal grounds, as it were
but only almost because I haven't the faintest idea about where to look up english laws
whole different legal system, too, so it would probably be frustrating to wrap my head around
let's see if youtube has any good cat videos instead
It looks like the UK reasoning was that the US judicial system was incapable of preventing Assange from taking his own life.
Fair
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What I really enjoyed about that video was MMF calling out Kubrick for being a “look at this!” kind of story teller instead of one with an interest in examining the subject or the forces that shape it. Pairing The Shining with Lost Highway is kinda brilliant because they’re only a few years apart, but the former is “What if a misogynist went crazy and killed people he loved?” and the latter asks why a misogynist would do that. One is exploitation, the other examination, and much of Kubrick’s work is just really high-end exploitation, asking “What if?” but going no further.
I've seen 2001, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut and honestly have never really understood the level of worship Kubrick receives. 2001 was groundbreaking, but The Shining is overrated and I literally do not understand Eyes Wide Shut's critical acclaim.
It’s a lot easier to understand when you consider the industry and critics were, like, 98% male during Kubrick’s career.
Ebert’s rant against Blue Velvet is an all-time great example of men being upset by not being catered to
Atomika’s long-held hot take: Roger Ebert, despite being an important figure in the film preservation movement, was a dogshit critic.
I'm fond of Ebert because he was a friend of a family friend, and everything I heard about him personally was very positive. He'd run movie nights for the school fundraiser. He was a very warm and pleasant guy, and did not have his nose in the air at all despite his fame.
So I looked up the Blue Velvet review just to see what was going on there. His main criticism seems to be (Blue Velvet spoilers):
the film juxtaposes harrowing S&M sequences against a caricature of 50s sitcom suburbia, and the campiness of the latter are in bad taste when juxtaposed against the former
I haven't seen the movie, is that totally wrong? Like, generally I hate Lynch's hopping-around surrealism and this seems like something I would also be likely to think about one of his films, but I also haven't seen Blue Velvet specifically so idk if Ebert's take here is insane or not.
The whole throughline of Blue Velvet is that conventionalism is a veneer we put on for safety to hide us from the more visceral and upsetting realities of the world, so yes, Ebert missed the extremely-obvious point completely on that.
He was not a very perceptive critic, and had terrible recall at times.
He doesn't miss that point in the review--he sees the message, but thinks its delivery is hamfisted and the message itself is pretty facile: "What are we being told? That beneath the surface of Small Town, U.S.A., passions run dark and dangerous? Don't stop the presses."
I don't think this is a good grounds for saying that he wasn't a perceptive critic; it sounds like you both perceived similar things but had a difference of opinion on how to evaluate them.
@MrMister Ebert also discussed the movie a few times in other places (his show, retrospectives etc) and said he felt like Isabella Rossellini was being exploited to dubious ends.
I'm not sure I agree, but his review is to me nearly the definition of a fair, thoughtful take 5hat I disagree with. Needless to say, I also do not share Atomika's take that he was just too conventional-white-man to handle something so daringly transgressive etc etc. The things I love the movie for are very much not that.
Let’s go back to talking about buttholes and computera
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
edited June 2021
It doesn’t help that the US lies to foreign governments all the time to get people into custody and then treats them like shit. Diesel therapy and other unpleasantness just to “soften em up.”
Although interesting tidbit, I have heard that Japanese prisons are worst than US prisons. Which surprised me.
Let’s go back to talking about buttholes and computera
Sorry Mim you're now getting extradited
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Snowden and Assange are the cowards
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I can't help with the specific causes of your storage being full, but you should probably make it un-full ASAP. Full internal storage can cause phone reboots/crashes, and I know from experience that if it's full and your carrier tries to force an update, it can potentially grenade the data on the internal storage completely. No recovery service on the planet is gonna be able to restore that corrupted data if that happens, and you'll need a repair shop to do a super factory reset just to get it running again.
also one that looks weathered, like prop makers do, when it gets dinged up instead of just ugly
I should probably just do a forum search and see what past threads there have been on the topic, I think the only thing that I'd think of off the top of my head is that Julian Assange sucks
oh I totally mixed them up
well not assange, obviously
all I remember is a lot of them trying really hard to come up with something but mostly failing
edit: oh there is an american indictment! it just didn't get that much attention because he wasn't extradited.
edit2: okay it's mostly about the us prosecution saying assange conspired with manning
1 - I played Dark Alliance finally man what a throughly mediocre game. But it would be a good background game while you listened to a podcast or just was shooting the shit with some friends over Voice chat
Also the Xbox version is 100% cross play AND progression with PC and is on game pass and streaming so damn you can play that shit anywhere
2 - Kiddo picked up Titanfall 2 on his own and and I’m the happiest parent
Not officially, no, iirc. Tough to prove he wasn't acting as a journalist.
It's not cowardice to decide it's not worth sticking around to be excessively punished, and Assange wasn't even an American anyway and so didn't even have a notional duty to the US in any way
Nah. He's more wanted for other crimes in other countries. Not that the US wouldn't love to "oops accidentally dead" him, just in an extrajudicial way.
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and how would it work here? I mean, like, there's no paragraph in the norwegian penal act saying australians can't spy on america
I go raw with all my iPhones, because the occasional broken screen (once every 5 years or so) is worth the device being smaller and actually beautiful.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
She mass downloaded and turned over classified documents to someone with ties to Russian intelligence.
She was a dumb 20 something who got manipulated by a foreign agent. Not some hero whistle blower just a useful idiot.
He's currently being held pending an appeal by the US, in the US's attempt to extradite him
i probably would if i lived somewhere with an actual apple store
we've only got official resellers and there's no quick way to get a phone replacement/repair
if i cracked my screen, i'd be without a phone for like 2-3 weeks
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
What...whats the point again? I forgot since Car was the height of road trip comedy
Concrete floors cant crack sapphire gorillas
It's a conspiracy
which countries?
he's in jail in the UK - I think that's just for the original bail violation when he fled to the embassy, but I dunno
and the US has requested extradition
but that's it, isn't it? Sweden's closed their case a long time ago.
Huh, I guess it's been a while since I paid much attention to him or Snowden. Crazy.
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I'll let the master explain
I mean, it's either that or implant some Magsafe magnets to my palm or something. I mean, I got the COVID vaccine and everything, but the promised magnetic powers never manifested.
She does not take care of her smartphones very well, which is why she usually gets uber-cheap ones.
but only almost because I haven't the faintest idea about where to look up english laws
whole different legal system, too, so it would probably be frustrating to wrap my head around
let's see if youtube has any good cat videos instead
edit: it does
not a lot that I haven't seen fifty times, but none that I would mind watching fiftyone times. Good job youtube recommended.
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Steam: Korvalain
For all of its problems the US is not Putin's Russia, not anywhere close. The US government has been trying to extradite him for years and will be perfectly happy to throw him in prison, but they are not trying to assassinate the guy, and there's no reason to believe they are.
i also wouldn't want to spend my time in a prison with the worst cctv in the world before getting suicided
Oh Mulaney
It looks like the UK reasoning was that the US judicial system was incapable of preventing Assange from taking his own life.
Fair
@MrMister Ebert also discussed the movie a few times in other places (his show, retrospectives etc) and said he felt like Isabella Rossellini was being exploited to dubious ends.
I'm not sure I agree, but his review is to me nearly the definition of a fair, thoughtful take 5hat I disagree with. Needless to say, I also do not share Atomika's take that he was just too conventional-white-man to handle something so daringly transgressive etc etc. The things I love the movie for are very much not that.
Let’s go back to talking about buttholes and computera
Although interesting tidbit, I have heard that Japanese prisons are worst than US prisons. Which surprised me.
Sorry Mim you're now getting extradited