I kind of agree with you - up until the point that ICE started just shooting people in the face with zero consequences (and please don’t trot out the self-defence BS).
Let’s try your comment in 1938 Germany. Replace the word ICE with Gestapo.
Did you know the early nazis where actually impressed by america's segregation and racism and lamented they couldn't easily do the same? Well, they kinda did in the end.
ICE is behaving like slave chasers, which inspired the Gestapo. The state of your country is homegrown yanqui fuckery. Should've finished the job you started in the civil war.
> Theres zero consequences because this was completely unambiguously a justified shoot.
There's zero consequences (yet) because the federal government monopolized the evidence and refused to do either allow state authorities access or conduct a real investigation themselves despite clear indications that it was not a justified shoot, resulting in the resignation of several prosecutors in the division that would have handled such a misconduct case.
Many people have died in ICE custody as well, several so far this year, so it's not as simple as just placing yourself in their custody and then you are safe.
If ICE starts dragging your friends and neighbors out of their houses and cars and terrorizing your children at school, maybe you'll understand why she felt she had to be there.
What about the American citizens having their homes invaded by ICE without even the faintest veneer of legality? Should they not have been at home and sought out conflict?
And if you're an honest to god American saying she deserved to be shot and murdered by LEOs because she was in wrong place is the most non-American shit I've heard. It's blatently shitting on our constitutional rights.
On the contrary, this is exactly the sort of thing a prototypical hacker would do: give a massive finger to the authorities through the use of technology.
That's not what a prototypical hacker is at all. I have the benefit of being able to talk to most of the "prototypical hackers", the TMRC crowd, decades ago and being a hacker had nothing to do with sticking it to authorities. It was all about personal ingenuity and generally lacking self-discipline (from an outsider's perspective -- as people didn't refer to themselves as hackers for decades, it started as a derisive term from more "respectable" researchers).
The whole freedom-fighting hacker thing came about later, mostly from the 2600 and BBS crowd as a self-aggrandizement despite all of the laws that they were breaking: mainly related to use of telephone lines, wire & mail fraud, drug use/trafficing and age of consent violations.
You're literally trying to tell me about my own tribe and you don't have the slightest clue.
it seems as though you’re reaching extraordinarily far back in time to apply a definition that simply doesn’t exist anymore. hell, the time period you’re referencing (…80 years ago!) is when “gay” still meant “happy”.
obviously, you’re free to use whatever words you like, but your clinging to outdated terminology and being perpetually misunderstood is not a failure of other people.
It was the parent poster that reached for the idea of "prototypical hacker", but then missed the mark by several decades.
Words have meaning.
Also my usage very much matches early "computer hackers" in a cultural sense. If I was just going off of the word origin itself we'd be talking about horse and carriage drivers...
And saying "prototypical" is reaching for a specific point in time.
If I said "prototypical automobile", I can only really be talking about a Ford Model T. I couldn't be talking about a 60s Mustang, no matter their popularity/familiarity.
Dunno about your friends, but I imagine the original, old school MIT hackers -- the ones who lockpicked doors for fun and fought tooth and nail against any restrictions on access to computer systems -- would chuckle at an infodump like this, not clutch their pearls.
Which wouldn't be so bad if it were a language built of small atomic values and transformations atop those values, like most programming languages. Then you don't have to care that, say, an entire new language for flexible layout exists because you've written your layout core and transformers on top of those atoms and it works fine.
It's not. It's a declarative language where the declared intents are extremely high-level and can interact in surprising ways (credit where it's due: modern CSS has almost all those interactions well-defined and considered; it was much worse when the answer to how two pieces that were independently designed interacted was "However the browser feels like they should interact"). As a result, to really be deeply fluent in it you have to keep abreast of design trends (dialog boxes! scroll state! custom corner shapes!), and that's not every programmer's cup of tea.
(To be fair: there are really good tradeoffs here. Especially around accessibility: a declarative language where high-level intent is the main element is much easier to answer questions around, say, "How will a screen reader interpret this" than a low-level atoms-and-transforms language. Othewise, your screen reader has to be able to guess things like whether that set of SVG commands and transforms is supposed to be the corner of a dialog box or a very fancy letter 'C').
You didn't even mention the whole proxy war that Russia is fighting with France across most of Africa (and Eastern Europe). With both mutually picking apart the other's sphere of influence in the respective regions.
Fair, most folks are completely clueless about this being an ongoing concern for nearly 5 years now.
What does that even mean? We're talking about an organization that serves billions of riders per year. Their passenger numbers increased 20-30% since 2020 so even if their delays are bad clearly it's not bad enough that most people seek alternatives.
If I'm using your transit service and you take me on a several hour detour without my consent passing a dozen or more possible stops because "you're not cleared for that", you aren't serving your mandate and I'm never using your service again.
I might even pull the emergency brake before it gets that far and cause you more problems, even.
Regardless of what your feelings on ICE enforcement are...
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