These sorts of attacks rely on a person finding themselves in a pretty shady situation already. You would have had to responded to some shady Web link or some shady email, and already clicked on a few shady links to get to the point where you were screen sharing with some bad actor somewhere. This exploit would have to be run on someone who was already pretty far down the rabbit hole.

If you’re pretty careful, you would never get started in the first place.

In fact, sometimes you will see these reports, and it turns out that these exploits exist only in a lab where they tested it, and haven’t been discovered in the real world

Yeah, that too.

As more and more people flee windows and seek alternatives, expect to see this sort of thing to increase.

IP can’t save itself from AI

I love this game. There’s a surprising amount of fun, and you can play it on almost any platform.

For when you need a computer that’s “fully functional“

Well spoken

Try using a brush

NYC is one of the greenest cities on earth. Its entire public transit system is electric. traffic in Manhattan is limited and regulated. It’s almost entirely livery traffic now, primarily electric.

Whales and dolphins are regularly spotted in the Hudson River now.

The air quality index in New York right now is 32 (midday, it jumps into the 40s at night), which is the same as it is today in Denver.

London has an AQI of 2

Moscow? They just stopped measuring it, thanks to the Ukraine drone attacks.

Smog? What smog?

Do you watch NewsMax or something?

Wide open windows

Seriously, a valid question. And without great airflow, I would probably have choked to death.

Seriously. Wide open windows.

Also, I do not smoke inside. I have a nice little patio where I go outside to smoke.

No, it’s not, and I’ll tell you why (I was thinking about this last night when I was drunk and posted that comment):

“Attorneys” can be separated from “Attorneys General” without changing their nature, but “Spider” cannot be separated from “Spider-Man” without fundamentally changing its nature. So, the pluralization of “Spider-Man” must be “Spider-Mans”, as awkward as that must sound. “Attorneys-General” is just a plurality of attorneys appointed to a specific position. It’s all quite abstract, really.

Attorneys are attorneys whether they are attorneys general, plural, or singular, General or otherwise. Being an attorney, general, or being plural attorneys, none of this changes whether or not they are fundamentally attorneys. The term “attorney“ is the key factor here. If we were discussing the term or title “Attorney-Cat”, we’d be back to the Spider-Man concept, especially if there were more than one of them, “Attorney-Cats”, if you will. “Attorneys-Cat”, I think you’ll agree, just isn’t right, because the fundamental nature of them being cats supersedes the happenstance of them also being attorneys.

In English, when pluralizing something, the pluralization follows the totality of what is being pluralized, not the term itself. English is a fucked up and messy language, cobbled together from at least 10 or 12 other languages (likely more), so, I don’t make the rules. I just do my best to interpret them.

“incorrect”

– Bruce Batmen

One of my favorite scenes in Spider-Man No Way home was the three Spider-Mans (the correct pluralization because ‘Spider-Man’ is a title, not an object) talking about how Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man’s web-goo shoots out of him, while Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland are totally grossed out by that while trying to be like, “oh, no man… that’s totally cool we’re just ‘interested’” trying to be supportive in a heartfelt way.

And how Andrew Garfield was kind of interested in a creepy way, and Tom Holland was more depressed because he has to hustle himself out to a rich techno daddy to afford to keep making his.

Edit: I was really thinking about this, because Tom Holland’s aunt May was probably in a rent stabilized apartment, I bet they were on SNAP, and I was wondering if his SNAP benefits would pay for his webgoo materials. That kid had serious financial issues.

(Edit 2: And, no, I’m not hating on people who are on public benefits. A gigantic amount of people in NYC are. I certainly was almost the entire 25 years I lived there. Public benefits IN NYC are amazing! You can hardly afford to live there if you don’t receive them. Rental assistance, food assistance, free healthcare! Public assistance benefits in NYC are AWESOME!)

but, still… NYC can be a very weird and very rough place… still, there’s nowhere on earth I’d rather live

She knows exactly what she’s doing

“two-way street” implies an equal exchange, not just equal opportunity to speak, and only someone who’s never been on the receiving end of one would ever make the mistake of thinking there’s anything equal about it.

in fact, the only ones I’ve ever heard make that argument are bigots themselves, trying to excuse or defend their bigotry while shifting blame to their victims for “not standing up for themselves” or some other victim-blaming bullshit.

DARVO (an acronym for “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender”) is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as abusers, narcissists, or sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior.[1] Research indicates that it is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers.

DARVO

I’m clearly not the only one here who feels this way, and I’m sure that none of us are surprised that, right from the start, you’re deflecting any responsibility for what you’ve created.

free speech is a two way street

it really isn’t

You can debate your point with out dehumanizing others, when you can’t, you’ve already lost the argument.

No. You can’t. And giving a “open mic“ to the Nick Fuenteses and Stephen Millers, and Charlie Kirks of the world who will put on a suit and a tie and try to “debate” you while dehumanizing others with nice sounding words gives them a platform to spread their hate while framing it as a “civilized debate“ rather than the coded bigotry that it is, while you cast aside any responsibility for letting them do it, tossing your hands up and claiming “free speech”.

It’s plainly and obviously bullshit. It’s like inviting a vampire into the house and then being surprised when everyone turns up dead.

But it doesn’t appear that you’re specifically disallowing it either

You are definitely entitled to feel that way though.

My concern is that this is what you will also say to the bigots when they arrive

When you sit down at a table and nine Nazis sit down at that table with you, there are now 10 Nazis sitting at that table.