While we lack a rule against reposts and thus this isn’t a moderative action, I still have to say I’m a bit befuddled at the crosspost of a crosspost that leads back to a popular post from… this community three months ago.

And that you’ve done this exact thing two times in the last two hours.

Sigh, 'is girlfriend just broke up with 'im; 'e is 'art-broken.

My first thought when reading your previous reply is that you’re someone who likes to argue for the sake of arguing.

Bbbbbbbbbbb wrote: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

GreenBeard responded to this totally innocuous, non-argumentative statement with: “That’s like embellishing a prison camp number with a fun design. That’s not self-expression that’s morbid.” Then went on to call the practice “gross” and “tacky” and the people who get custom plates under a “sad illusion” and “letting themselves be tricked”.

Again, in response to just an extremely benign and normal statement: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

Truly I’m the one who likes arguing for the sake of an argument here – not the person who started and perpetuated this abject, comically combative nonsense.

You resent other people having values you don’t share.

As you sit here saying those who have values you don’t share are participating in something “gross”, under a “sad illusion”, and “letting themselves be tricked” into doing something that’s “morbid”, “tacky at best”, and akin to “embellishing their prison camp number”. lmao okay

So are you a Mercator or a Robinson kind of guy?

If you think the magnitude of information gained is even worth considering for either (or frankly any) party, you’re grossly misunderstanding the scale of the surveillance state or just have really terrible ideas for custom plates. Your plate is inherently already a 100% unique identifier; if you’re worried enough that like six characters of custom text or a chosen design will in any way further government or corporate surveillance, then – and I say this as someone who frequents privacy communities, hates defeatism, and thinks people (myself included) need better privacy hygiene – have fun pissing on a forest fire.

You think it’s snobby to not waste money on a stylized government ID?

If you could read, you’d know I think that it’s fine one way or another and that what’s snobby is your obnoxious attitude toward people who do get one. The difference between you and I is that I see it as a waste of money for me and leave it at that because I don’t pretend to be superior and enlightened when my level of insight that the unwashed masses surely lack is “um, didn’t you know that license plates are tracking IDs?? by the government??? Fucking idiot, Sandra, with your stupid fucking ‘museums are for everyone’ plate with Snoopy on it.”

I don’t see the point in paying extra to have an ID on my car that tells The Man more about me than I think they need to know

Literally what on Earth are you doing to your license plate that tells The Man more about you in a way that realistically matters? You don’t need your Ashley Madison credentials to create a custom plate.

If you’re worried about dragnet surveillance, I guess it’ll help them when they divide the prison camps by baseball team. If you’re worried about automated surveillance like by ALPRs then, uh, pretty sure the model whose literal entire purpose is to create its own features for classification will find abundant other ways to uniquely fingerprint and extract actual, pertinent information about you. And if you’re worried about targeted surveillance by humans scrutinizing you down to what your custom plate says about you, then god help you, and viva México.

I’m just saying a licence plate is intended as a vehicle tracking ID

Everyone here and everyone who gets them knows and understands that.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be registering cars

I didn’t say or even imply you were, and the fact you clarified that anyway is bizarre – because it’d be completely batshit.

letting them trick your brain into pretending that they belong to you and are an extension of your “self” by adding fancy designs is kind of gross.

Brother, my god, it is a fucking identifier plate on your car; no one’s getting “tricked”, and I don’t know if you can believe this, but people can enjoy making objects into extensions of themselves without becoming slaves to The Man – if you can apprehend that someone in Kentucky who pays $25/year or some shit to signal that they’re into amateur radio isn’t offering up their soul in a plate-shaped vessel on the altar of Rebecca Goodman.

Even if you want to bring ALPRs into this, custom plates existed long, long before we had the technology to turn plates into mass-surveillance tools.

This is so goddamn snobby that it’s painful.

1. What the actual fuck is this comparison? I’m extremely anti-car, and even I’m wondering what has to be wrong with you.

2. Incidentally got a chuckle out of me that you’re saying this about what’s often effectively a social green-beard (e.g. plates for sports teams, hobbies, causes, etc.).

Honestly super fair re: bleeding out. I was considering the thigh there and forgot to mention my problem specifically with the calf, which would be chronic pain. I know that comes with getting shot anywhere and especially in the limbs (sort of Sophie’s choice if you want to gamble on the distal or proximal for the arms), but I figure the problem for me wouldn’t be potentially losing the leg as much as it would be feeling pain every time I walk due to the pressure. If anything, the shin protecting the tibial nerve makes it seem like you wouldn’t be all that likely to lose sensation.

Fair point. I’d still prefer the right arm*, but I think you could reasonably debate distal or proximal. Proximal has less chance of hitting the brachial artery and surrounding major nerves, but if you do hit them, you’re in bigger trouble than in the distal – where the median nerve and the brachial artery have split, making it easier to hit something but for that individual hit to be less severe.

* Another comment mentioned your glutes, which, yeah, fair if you could hit it from the side-on (and be fairly accurate, otherwise ouch, that tailbone).

The gut is notoriously one of the most painful places you can get shot. It’s fairly “safe” overall with antibiotics and prompt medical intervention, although it would carry a higher risk of infection. Plus hitting a kidney seems like a pretty severe complication. So I think I’d rather take the arm.

Edit: Plus possibility of hitting the spine. oof, ouch, owie

100% somewhere in the arm (like assuming this isn’t in some test lab where “the ear” can be consistently guaranteed).

• Foot would likely be serious, lifelong pain when walking.
• Leg is extremely dangerous for bleeding out. Like maybe if I could get immediate medical attention it wouldn’t be terrible, but there are still better options. (Plus avoids an accidental shot to the knee.) (Edit: Forgot to mention chronic pain in the calf when walking.)
• Abdomen is obviously not a first choice.
• Head and neck are obviously going to be the worst, and I even mean that in the sense that a shot to the head isn’t inherently some insta-kill. Lots of ways to hit the brain that completely debilitate you for life.
• Hands seem like a great way to fuck up the nerves and have dexterity trouble for the rest of your life.

So arm it is, preferably right because it’s further from the heart.

That cat looks overweight.

Fuhrer’s decision detailed a catalogue of sex crimes committed by Cooper. Those include attacking strangers in parking lots and at a bus stop in the 1990s. While incarcerated, she has been accused of sexually assaulting correctional and parole staff.

Last year, she became increasingly verbally abusive, according to an affidavit from a correctional official. She was fixated on a particular female staff member, and was denied access to a number of others due to “inappropriate behaviour and comments,” the judge said.

“The evidence discloses a pattern of escalating aggressive, violent behaviour, mostly toward women, by Ms. Cooper,” Fuhrer wrote.

According to the ruling, Cooper admitted she had many more victims than indicated by her criminal convictions. When she arrived at Atlantic Institution following her gender surgery, she was apparently hiding razor blades in her sneakers, the judge said.

I mean, yeah. Obviously AFAB can be lesbian sex offenders too, but you’re talking about someone who’s sexually assaulted many female victims in the past, still hasn’t changed their ways and finds targets even in an all-male-inmate prison, was incarcerated when she still identified as male and seemingly has been for a long time, has (per the judge) failed to show that her safety in the male prison isn’t being respected, and has allegedly gotten even worse in the past year.

Not only is this likely saving a lot of inmates at the female prison from being sexually assaulted, but it’s probably safer for Cooper herself. I know Canadian prisons are better-maintained than US ones, but I still can’t imagine the target painted on her back when inmates hear there’s an older trans woman with an extensive history of sexually assaulting women who petitioned to be transferred – let alone if she tries to continue that behavior.

But – there’s always a “but” – before you get too excited, there’s a catch.

Both Frame and yserver were built using LLM bots.

I mean, yeah. Even X11’s own maintainers are sick of that mountain of spaghetti and are just keeping it on life support. Anything trying to replace X11 (besides XWayland) is effectively a throwaway project and shouldn’t be seriously used.

Yeah, same. The fact I can chill the fuck out and basically not have to worry about an enormous class of serious, hard-to-spot bugs makes it a lot more fun for lower-level programming.

Like, yeah, I still need to worry about obstacles like other drivers, animals, etc., but it’s a lot more fun driving on a road that isn’t completely teeming with potholes and black ice.

I mean they’re right. The problem with PornHub isn’t that it’s too vanilla or something (I really prefer vanilla) but that almost everything on it is hyperreality. It’s the kind of sex that you could, at age 13, imagine is really hot but then grow out of.

Watching it is just distracting and funny, like you’re watching a parody of sex. It’s hyperpalatable in the way a McDonald’s hamburger or a MrBeast video are – which is totally what some people are into.

I don’t need a deep, intimate connection with my porn, but I would like to feel like the humans in/creating it might actually be authentically enjoying themselves. That scarcely exists on sites like PH, so why would I waste my time trying to find it?

(I know it reinforces the meme, but bread is terrible for birds. It stunts their development, is totally empty calories to them, can get animals sick when if it gets left on the ground and becomes moldy, and, if it isn’t eaten, often runs off into the water to feed microbes. Please don’t feed the ducks bread.)