harmbugler

Your moral condemnation carries the same weight, regardless of your view.

A thought experiment: reveal your claim after your condemnation. Can the weight change? What was the weight before the claim was revealed?

The smaller the more easily damaged, right? The uffington horse approach will last longer than the website it points to.

Just some light tomfoolery.

Honestly, future landfill unless the battery cells can be serviced or replaced.

If you need one for emergencies, sure. If you need a UPS, get a UPS instead.

HOKAY

Can’t walk the streets listening to vinyl.

Don’t need a backup when this torrent would do numbers.

I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the [Nuremberg] defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

G. M. Gilbert

Yep. A vulnerable minority to conveniently demonise, straight out of the fascist playbook.

Some consolation that most if not all of your music is backed up on the internet.

You seem to have misspelled package mangler

Nobody knows you’re a dog on the internet

All day I dream about sunbeam

So just regular cat stuff.

Not necessarily. If I wear rose-tinted glasses while yours are tinted green, I may still believe that the worlds we see are lit by the same light.

I wish I was this thread’s brother

Might as well close your eyes, smile and and imagine you are king of the world.

It’s not that much of a stretch.

In 1974, scions of the Bunge y Born business, were kidnapped and only released after the payment of a $60 million ransom.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/21/archives/argentine-ransom-is-put-at-60million.html

In 1996, Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, son of the Hong Kong tycoon, Li Ka Shing: Kidnapped by Cheung Chi Keung, AKA “Big Spender”. He was released after the world record payment of a HK$1,000,000,000 (US$134,000,000) ransom.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1368203/kidnapper-asked-me-financial-advice-says-tycoon-li-ka-shing

My local Woolies has had e-ink tags for at least two years, maybe more. Between this and Coles hiring Palantir, we mostly shop at Aldi. Bunnings and Kmart using facial recognition as if it’s no biggie as well. How long until they partner with CBA to check your credit card limit as you stand in front of the bananas to see how much you’ll pay?

Has Hamas considered incorporating in the US for better treatment?