_cryptagion [he/him]

I mean, the place is bad enough without resorting to conspiracy theories based on blurry ass photos.

It’s obvious that those studies did not take place in the United States, because it’s historical fact that none of the rights Americans have were ever achieved through peaceful protest.

Nothing was ever accomplished with peaceful protest, especially not protest that’s sanctioned and scheduled by the authorities.

But I wouldn’t expect a liberal to acknowledge that. Leftists get in the streets, liberals stay in the tweets. You question Trumps methods, but not his power, because once he’s gone, whatever corporate-owned millionaire you appoint will need that power when it comes time to put the boot on the necks of anti-genocide or civil rights protesters.

You’re just diet fascism.

Right. So you’re not doing anything.

So what exactly are you doing to help, then? Holding signs up at your weekly protests that are authorized by the police? It’s easy to criticize people when you aren’t doing shit yourself.

I don’t think my IP has ever actually changed, and I never asked for a static one. But that doesn’t really matter, because these days it’s a small matter to dynamically update the IP.

The rise (and hopefully fall) of the Fourth Reich.

Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants, because nobody is actually doing anything to stop him other than meekly posting on social media and waving some signs around. Democracy and the rule of law was always sketchy at best in the US, but it’s been dead for months now. And no amount of adorable weekend protests that are sanctioned by the cops are gonna change that.

If you aren’t getting tear gassed, shot at, and imprisoned, you’re being allowed to throw a tantrum to keep you from doing anything useful, and your actions are performative at best.

I am here for the drama.

Probably just private citizens. I doubt China cares enough for what happens in Ukraine to deal with the economic fallout of the sanctions that would happen if they joined a side. There’s no real benefit to getting too involved.

Oh, I think I might have seen that back in the day.

Morgan Freeman is a conservative who might very well have voted for Trump.

I wouldn’t. Ideas should be free, and there should be no barriers to them, or ownership considered. If you create a thing, everyone else should be able to use that thing however they wish, and with no limitations, to create their own things. Full stop, no exceptions.

This is why I pirate. I will never consider or acknowledge ownership or license when consuming media, art, or information. If you release an idea to the greater world, then it’s my idea, my art, my music, my software, just as much as it’s yours as the creator. And I’ll do with it whatever I will.

You use the term “AI slop” more than once, but honestly I feel like a lot of the “real” art that’s shared here is human slop. I guess the thing I would have that most people wouldn’t agree with is that most art by humans is shit, and we shouldn’t feel like we have to pretend it isn’t just so we don’t hurt someone’s feelings. You ever been on DeviantArt and looked at the newest submissions? Half of it looks like it was finger painted by toddlers.

There’s a lot of artists walking around thinking that AI is gonna steal their hard work, when nobody with eyes would want their work hanging on their wall, because it’s human slop done by someone with no talent.

If that’s the litmus test, then there are certainly animals that aren’t sentient and don’t meet those requirements. Is it OK to eat animals that do not have brains?

You think all the people with 401(k)s voted for Trump? I’m curious as to what leads you to that conclusion?

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

if you think everyone around you is an asshole, you’re the asshole.

Most people I run across aren’t assholes, you’re just an exception.

be clear when you say shit and people won’t misunderstand you and treat you like a fucking moron.

Obviously, when name Cloudflare specifically more than once, it can be so hard to tell which platform I mean. It’s an easy mistake to make if you don’t know how to read.

not knowing how a platform specific product works doesn’t dictate intelligence.

No, but using hostility as a way to distract from when you’ve gone and made yourself look like an idiot is certainly a defense commonly used by, as you put it, “fucking morons”. Now, is there any other pearls of wisdom you want to offer us, Mr. Trump, or was your eternally youthful ardor spent on that one emission?

Well, if you were so smart yourself, you would know the Cloudflare certs aren’t for public use. The certs your site uses to communicate with the user are shared among multiple Cloudflare users, and aren’t accessible to anyone but Cloudflare. You can’t generate, revoke, view, or download them. The decade long certs you generate are for communication between your origin server and Cloudflare, they aren’t exposed to the public internet. If you use an Argo tunnel, which many selfhosters do, they’re used for the secure VPN tunnel between yourself and Cloudflare. Since all your traffic comes from Cloudflare, a smart user would whitelist those IPs and ignore web traffic from everything else if they weren’t going to use a tunnel. Even if someone got ahold of them, which is unlikely, they wouldn’t do anyone any good, because they would need access to your Cloudflare account as well to change the origin server.

But then, you aren’t so smart yourself. You’re just some random nobody on the internet that decided to start using their arsehole for speaking. And as is typical in such a situation, everything you say reeks of shit.

Now, do you want to continue embarrassing yourself? Because you’re not hurting my feelings by doing so.