punkwalrus

When I was in theater camp as a pre-teen, one of our actors was a very enthusiastic foot guy. I had heard of foot fetishes, but never understood them. But this guy was like an overexcited fan boy of feet. My curiosity triggered this guy into a huge brain dump, and one of the things he went on about about how feet were the "true expression of a person's feelings." Feet turned towards you? They like you. One foot pointed away? They don't. He then showed me how girls' feet would match their mood, so no matter what parts they were rehearsing, he could tell their underlying mood: anxiety, sadness, anger, happiness, etc... I have no idea if he was right, but that was my first exposure to another person's fetish. I could only understand it abstractly, but I found it fascinating.

Thank you for this!

It's pretty scary: I am seeing it in the IT sector as well. It's not just knowledge; anyone can look up things, even Einstein did it. "I never memorize anything that I can look up," he said once, about the why he never memorized cosine tables and such. But it's basic logical flow of thought and problem solving. Like the skills behind the knowledge, that I see less and less of.

Source?

Also "without privacy" is also in question, because you could use cloth partitions hanging from a rod; something known to be used in stadiums to separate class.

I often think he's a second grader lying on his oral book report.

I have seen some rhetoric about this, like "a few bad apples," but here's the problem with this and a lot of enforcement jobs.

• Polite and decent people, on average, dislike confrontation. Thus, are not particularly attracted to these types of jobs.
• This leads to an uneven amount who are fine with confrontation or even like it. Some of these people are sociopaths and psychopaths.
• People who are psychopaths are actually very attracted to position where they have power over people.
• US Customs are not regulated under the same laws as police or military. They can do what they want, when they want, with little to no discretion.

Are all US customs agents bad? No, of course not. But unchecked power is dangerous for anything. I can't tell you what percentage is or is not, because you can't measure a negative. But I see this in military, police, hired guards, and politics.

Many years ago, they cavity searched an underage girl at my local airport (Dulles) as she returned with her family from a vacation in Jamaica. They separated her from her family, did not tell her family, and searched all her holes "for drugs." They defended their actions by saying, "if we told people we didn't cavity search babies, they'd hide drugs inside babies." Essentially admitting, with no shame, they'd cavity search an infant. All in the name of "stopping drugs." Oh and the girl? US citizen, but dark skinned. The mistake they made was her dad was a powerful attorney and went public.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg66023/html/CHRG-106hhrg66023.htm

https://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/circle/raceprofiling/stories.racial.profiling.html

And these are probably only the cases you're hearing about.

No. I have known a lot of attractive people get bullied by jealous bullies. Imagine you're attractive, guys checking you out, and girls who work HARD to get noticed see you get noticed without much effort. You may even be, "no thank you," like you have a choice. And they will seethe because they think it's unfair you "have it so easy." Logic and reason do not apply to bullies, they only know how to "preemptively retaliate" to keep the status quo in their head,

I was in a discussion the other day about this, and someone brought up the "freedom vs. security" as the kind of "trade" someone assumes if they would, with complete freedom, fuck up someone else because they had no restrictions. We were discussing how the reason most laws exist is because somebody fucked it up for someone else.

I read somewhere that stainless steel (like common household items, which also has some chromium in it) would outlive plastics, and could even survive in geological strata like fossils, escept they will last indefinitely. Recently, I saw some "premium toy site" sold "high quality stainless steel" butt plugs. Assuming it's not being superfluous (one reviewer said "it's nice and heavy," and I don't use butt plugs, but that's a quality one wants?), this could confuse a lot of fossil hunters, especially 304 and 316 stainless, which has been known to last hundreds of years under the sea. 316 stainless steel, for example, is widely used in marine applications like boat hardware, underwater structures, and offshore platforms.

Here's the thing: Trump may has said he allowed it via executive order, and whatever. But you come after data I was sworn to protect? Come here with a judge-vetted legal warrant and court order. Oh, you'll fire me? Then I did my job. I'll be arrested for doing the right thing, not cowardly giving in "because they might yell at me." Yeah, I did that once, and I got a big fat nothing out of it. I got out before the S&L crisis, but I saw it coming a mile away. I have no loyalty to some rando from South Africa. I have a loyalty and duty to my job and country and fellow citizens.

My hope, and it's a thin hope, is that they really can't fucking do anything with the data because they don't understand it. Or lied they have it, and we let them believe this lie as part of the protection. They only have 200 copies of "WideWorldImporters Sample Database for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database" and think it's real. Or whatever. Unlikely, but I gotta have hope somewhere. Part of this is because I know how PII is stored, and it's not like one large file. It's multiple systems with "just in time" joins and a horrible complex mess that's a wonder it works at all. A bunch of 19 year olds and a rich liar are monkeys with baseball bats hitting a random laptop as a comparison. Millions are spent on contractors to work with it, and rarely does any single one person know how it ALL works. Just pieces of it. And some of it was in COBOL. What, one of those kids has a spare PDP/11 in their garage? But, maybe that's thinking too hopefully.

Even if they suddenly stopped, it will take decades to undo the damage they have already done.

Side note: "the launch codes" are not like, two hex keys to launch nuclear missiles. It's so much more complicated than that, that I used to fear in the 1980s that the Ruskies would bomb us flat before someone with the right laminated notebook was located. "What? The keys didn't work? Didn't anyone test if the keys fit? NO???" I'm not saying that's an exact case, but an example of shit I have run into. I have to also hope for sheer incompetence saving us, like out of the movie Brazil or something. God damn, this is a bleak dystopia.