My favorite podcast (with slides) did an episode about this!

Salad oil talk starts at 26:50

Edit: I had listed the lyrics to Boycott Heaven due to recency bias, but after more thought I think it’s Oblivion Song by cloudkissed

🎶It’s comforting to know that in a hundred years or so

🎶My memory will all but fade away

🎶It’s interesting to note that every clumsy song I wrote

🎶Will outlive me by forever and a day

🎶‘Cause despite all my potential I’m quite inconsequential

🎶And these tears that feel torrential will not matter any more

🎶And maybe it sounds morbid, but if my efforts are rewarded by oblivion

🎶That sounds nice to me

They want your ID attached to your account so they can throw you in prison when you say “from the river to the sea,” or leave a comment with a 🔻 emoji, or suggest that killing children is wrong

On some mobile keyboards they’re attached to adjacent keys. On mine, I hold z to get * and x to get ", so I mix them up pretty frequently

I’m not a computer graphics guy, but I wanna math. Theoretically, if I wanted to make the smallest possible 3d model, I would define it as four interconnected points. Each point has x, y, and z coordinates, so each model takes a theoretical minimum of 12 bytes of storage. Someone who knows computers can correct me if I’m off by a bunch.

The lower estimate is around 100,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. That’s only 1.2 terabytes worth of my theoretical minimum 3d model. Doable! But you said all stars. The lower estimate is around 10^22 stars in the universe. That would be 120 zettabytes. That’s only a few orders of magnitude off from the total available worldwide datadata storage!

Edit: I might have thought of a way to define a 3D model in just 2 bytes. You need four points that each have values for x, y, and z. They don’t need 256 possible values for those, they can get by with two each. One bit can store two possible positions, so we can use as little as two bytes to define every point’s position with 4 bits to spare. Behold, a tetrahedron: 0000 0100 1010 1110

Each set of four digits defines the x, y, and z coordinates for each point, as well as one extra dimension. You could use those extra four bits however you want. An extra spatial dimension, defining a color, etc. The theoretically smallest possible 3D model. Take the numbers I said up there and divide them by 6. A model for every star in the universe, and it would only take 20 zettabytes.

Stuff some cash in an envelope and send it to Sweden for a totally anonymous mullvad account, download and set it up on your device (legal)

Download qbittorrent, go to the settings and bind it to your mullvad connection (legal)

Torrent every single 1 and 0 you consume, and seed that shit forever and eternity (mixed legality)

Why is there a pedestrian walking across the road while there’s a car coming at them at 35 mph?

Tell the truth all the time, be the most honest person everyone knows. That way when you really fuck something up they’ll believe you when you say it wasn’t you

Do you just not really care about climate research and weather forecasting? Satellites give us more information about our atmosphere than you can shake a stick at, and they save more lives from extreme weather events every year than you can count. Not to mention GPS. You could rightfully call that a product of the US Military, but it is worth every cent that we’ve put into it

If it’s gross porn or AI slop, instant block. For comments it’s only if we get like a dozen replies into an argument and I stop assuming they’re able to read

You did it when you spent a considerable amount of space explaining how sexual abuse is different because these abusers don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, so society needs a way to police them.

Nope. I actually never once advocated for more surveillance, and in fact tacitly argued against it in this comment. I spent a considerate amount of space explaining why this is a massive issue that can’t easily be solved by simply telling people not to commit sexual assault, and that in order to reduce it, we need to educate people on what sexual assault is and instill in them the fact that they are capable of committing it. Like, I literally said that the problem was largely that we live in a society that normalizes sexual assault. This isn’t something that more surveillance could solve.

[…] and presented a huge cultural shift as the solution. This neatly leaves the uncareful reader to potentially conclude that the surveilance is a reasonable approach to deal with an intractable social problem.

No. The “huge cultural shift” I was talking about was a shift away from a culture that rationalizes and justifies sexual assault, which I made clear in the same paragraph in which I said “enormous cultural shift.” I forgot that Lemmings can’t read, and that was my bad.

*Edited the formatting to make my argument flow better

When did I rationalize mass surveillance?

It’s a more complicated situation than any one person can have an answer to. That said, I think a large part of the problem is that we live in a society that normalizes sexual assault to an extent. Everyone knows that rape is bad, just like everyone knows that robbing banks is bad. The difference is that most bank robbers don’t delude themselves into thinking that they’re somehow innocent of any wrongdoing. They might offer personal circumstances as some sort of justification for having robbed a bank, but by and large when someone robs a bank, they know they’ve robbed a bank.

Contrast that with sexual assault, where by and large people who commit sexual assault rationalize their crimes to the point where they believe themselves to be fully innocent. Most people believe themselves to be “good people.” Since I’m a good person and good people don’t rape, that means the sex I had wasn’t rape.

She was into it when we started. She never said no. Did you see what she was wearing? She was asleep, it was a victimless crime. I just couldn’t control myself. He’s 14, but he wasn’t complaining. He’s bigger and stronger than me, if he doesn’t want it he can stop me any time.

All bank robbers know that they are bank robbers, but most rapists don’t know that they are rapists. And you’re right to ask what anyone can do, because that’s a very hard question to answer. My friends don’t tell me when they have sex, and they certainly don’t tell me about the circumstances of the sex they have. If they’re doing sexual assaults, there’s literally no way for me to know.

That’s why I think it has to be an enormous cultural shift. We have to instill in the minds of everyone that if a person can’t and/or doesn’t enthusiastically agree to sexual contact, then sexual contact is sexual assault. We also have to instill in everyone’s minds that there is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” person, there’s just people. Everyone is capable of doing good or bad things.

I think their point is that this technology will continue the trend of not making men take accountability for their actions. Expanding surveillance and preemptively arresting guys for being awkward does nothing to put guys like Brock Allen Turner (aka Brock Turner) (aka Allen Turner) in jail for raping people.

Definitely better ways to phrase it though. A lot of people think that “forcing men to take accountability for their actions” means “forcing all men to take accountability for all other men’s actions,” but that’s not really what they said