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MountingSuspicion

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  • From the mouths of babes

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  • Seems like there's a disconnect in the replies. I think the issue is that some people use kindness to mean the bare minimum and some people use it to mean going above and beyond.

    I think the measure is something like if you see someone who tripped and the contents of their bag has spilled onto the floor, is "it cost nothing to be kind" just "allow them some space and don't step on their stuff even if it's in your way" or is it "stop what you're doing and try to help them". Because in case 1 I agree with the sentiment. You're technically doing something (being careful not to step on their stuff), but that really feels like the bare minimum and to a certain extent I'd have questions if someone complained about having to do things like that. In the second case, stopping does take time out of your day and now you're interacting with a stranger who may be busy or distracted and not pleasant back to you. I'd say that's a nice thing to do, but I can see why someone might not want to or not be able to assist with that if they came across it in certain circumstances. If I was in the position of the person whose stuff spilled I would not talk about "kind strangers" who didn't step on my stuff, but would if someone stopped to help. I think the phrase refers to the bare minimum but calls it kindness so people can feel good about not following their basest instincts if they're genuinely rude people.

  • DMs are players too

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  • Ooh. Nice. I never mess with ally betrayals because I honestly don't think I have the chops for it. Very hard to do, so I totally get how you wanted to give them a proper send off. I'm sure the players enjoyed their swift revenge though!

  • DMs are players too

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  • Does the process of getting to the BBEG not involve unraveling their plans? Like, shouldn't the party to a certain extent know their goal(s) before deciding to go after them? And then particulars are divulged as they uncover the threads tying the BBEG to all his henchpeople as they defeat them. And then they understand the steps of the BBEG plan as they track down the items needed to stop them? I'm sure there are some minor things not 100% spelled out, but what did you really want your party to know that they didn't already?

  • Disney+ to Allow User-Generated Content Via AI

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  • Not that I love brands as a concept, but I'm pretty sure part of the Disney appeal is that they theoretically hold themselves to a higher standard. It's wild to see them willing to degrade their brand identity like this. Don't people just sit their kids in front of D+ feeling confident that they only get Disney approved content? This seems like a huge misstep.

  • Display about Black soldiers removed from World War II cemetary in the Netherlands

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  • For those curious, it's an American cemetery under US administration. It's just located abroad.

  • Good E-Reader or Tablet for Reading PDFs?

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  • I will second what the other commenter said about ereaders. I'm a huge evangelizer of my ereader with eink, but it would be terrible for this. A full iPad is probably not needed. If you're using it just for this, a basic android handheld tablet should be more than enough. You can get them for less than $100 which is crazy. You could probably get a pretty good one second hand. Someone I know uses a tablet phone which is less than 8 inches, and it's a little small for my taste, so I'd recommend 10 inches as a minimum, but it's probably worth seeing some examples in store to find what works for you. If you'd find any hidden gems, I'm sure we'd all love to hear about them. Have fun going through the backlog!

  • Left turn

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  • I went to the linked account page and it seems like just a consistent quirk in the artist's style. I imagine it'd be difficult to get AI to do that as consistently as it seems. Additionally, he posted the following regarding AI accusations: https://newsie.social/@royaards/115490549503341601

  • Is there a right way to tell a woman she intimidates you sexually?

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  • As a woman, I cannot stress enough how this is really the only sensible answer based on your post. As of writing this all the other comments are just objectively worse. Do not make either of you more uncomfortable than necessary and just do what this comment suggests. In general, unless you're both interested in perusing things, no woman wants to hear about your sexual feelings towards them, even if just to say you're not planning on acting on them.

  • US troops given German food bank advice amid shutdown – DW – 11/05/2025

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  • I understand not wanting anyone to go hungry just on principle, but can I ask about the general sentiment regarding the troops there? Are they viewed positively? I don't think I'd take kindly to a group of foreign military personnel around my city, even if they were from an allied country.

  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • I have added the text and a generic online summary below, but generally the issue is that judges are becoming more and more lenient and are unwilling to put their foot down when there are requests that are actual overreach. This is for a variety of reasons, and the law might need to be more clear/strict, but according to the letter and interpretation of the law they need to be specific about what they are looking for and it should minimize intrusion in general. Judges have just stopped caring in many cases, and of course the people carrying them out are trigger happy jackboots.

    Edit to add: we have a pretty open legal and recordkeeping system here in the US, so the removal from public record is pretty against that. I don't know enough about the particulars to state whether I think that would be a wholly good or bad thing. I think a transparent judicial process is important, and things submitted to the court generally have a high degree of specificity and do involve redactions when relevant. I don't know the benefits necessarily, but if proposed I would not necessarily be against sealing cases where the party was not found guilty.

    From Cornell law school: Amdt4.5.4 Particularity Requirement Fourth Amendment:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    “The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.” 1 This requirement thus acts to limit the scope of the search, as the executing officers should be limited to looking in places where the described object could be expected to be found.2 The purpose of the particularity requirement extends beyond prevention of general searches; it also assures the person whose property is being searched of the lawful authority of the executing officer and of the limits of his power to search. It follows, therefore, that the warrant itself must describe with particularity the items to be seized, or that such itemization must appear in documents incorporated by reference in the warrant and actually shown to the person whose property is to be searched.3

    Footnotes 1 Marron v. United States, 275 U.S. 192, 196 (1927). See Stanford v. Texas, 379 U.S. 476 (1965). Of course, police who are lawfully on the premises pursuant to a warrant may seize evidence of crime in “plain view” even if that evidence is not described in the warrant. Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 464–71 (1971). back 2 In Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 17–19, (1968), the Court wrote: “This Court has held in the past that a search which is reasonable at its inception may violate the Fourth Amendment by virtue of its intolerable intensity and scope. Kremen v. United States, 353 U.S. 346 (1957); Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States, 282 U.S. 344, 356–58 (1931); see United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 586–87 (1948). The scope of the search must be ‘strictly tied to and justified by’ the circumstances which rendered its initiation permissible. Warden v. Hayden, 387 U.S. 294, 310 (1967) (Fortas, J., concurring); see, e.g., Preston v. United States, 376 U.S. 364, 367–368 (1964); Agnello v. United States, 269 U.S. 20, 30–31 (1925).” See also Andresen v. Maryland, 427 U.S. 463, 470–82 (1976), and id. at 484, 492–93 (Brennan, J., dissenting). In Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557, 569 (1969), Justices Potter Stewart, William Brennan, and Byron White would have based the decision on the principle that a valid warrant for gambling paraphernalia did not authorize police upon discovering motion picture films in the course of the search to project the films to learn their contents. back 3 Groh v. Ramirez, 540 U.S. 551 (2004) (a search based on a warrant that did not describe the items to be seized was “plainly invalid” ; particularity contained in supporting documents not cross-referenced by the warrant and not accompanying the warrant is insufficient); United States v. Grubbs, 547 U.S. 90, 97, 99 (2006) (because the language of the Fourth Amendment “specifies only two matters that must be ‘particularly describ[ed]’ in the warrant: ‘the place to be searched’ and ‘the persons or things to be seized[,]’ . . . the Fourth Amendment does not require that the triggering condition for an anticipatory warrant be set forth in the warrant itself.” back

    Here's so generic information about the above: Requirements for a Valid Search Warrant

    The police who submit an affidavit supporting a warrant must attach a sworn, detailed statement. The officer must then appear before a neutral judge or magistrate. The judge will check to see if the officer has probable cause to execute the search.

    In Carroll v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court held that probable cause exists when a police officer has facts and circumstances that provide a reasonably trustworthy basis to believe a suspect has committed or is about to commit a crime.

    If the police request a search warrant to search a location, the police must provide probable cause that evidence of a crime exists at that location. The officer must also state, with specificity, the items they are looking for.

    Reasonableness Requirement

    Even if the police have a warrant, their search must still be reasonable. Although the facts of the case dealt with a warrantless seizure, the court in Brinegar v. United States reiterated that the presence of a warrant does not give the police the power to conduct an unreasonable search.

    The police officer’s search must be reasonable, or the prosecutor won’t be able to use the evidence they find in court. For example, if the police are looking for a large suitcase that contains drugs, it wouldn’t be reasonable for them to look in your bedroom drawers. A large suitcase or duffel bag could not fit in a nightstand drawer.

  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • I don't think the concept is inherently flawed, but the execution is obviously terribly flawed. If several people credibly report seeing someone burry a body in their yard, the description of which corresponds to a missing person, I understand how getting a warrant to at least visually inspect their property would be necessary to fully investigate this claim. I don't think this requires the kind of force we often see, but I don't see people offering alternatives to warrants in general. I understand that privacy is a fundamental right, but presumably that's where a judge would come in to decide if there was probable cause to partially suspend that right.

    I am open and interested in hearing alternatives, but I do not see them posed. I think what underlies the system would function fine with a less militarized group enforcing it.

  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • Agreed on all counts, and that's mostly how warrants should work, but that does not address the persons point. They seem to suggest full privacy should exist until found guilty of a crime.

  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • I'm from the US and we have a system in place for search warrants. It's not a great system if I'm being honest, but I believe something of the sort will likely always be necessary. Do you have an alternative suggestion? I'm legitimately interested in different options.

  • ‘I hate my choices’: How Zohran Mamdani’s run for mayor has split Jews in New York and elsewhere | CNN Politics

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  • I don't understand why someone would just not vote rather than vote for what I assume is the opposing party? It's one thing to withhold a vote it's another to vote for someone actively working against the people you presumably voted for last election.

    Also, very strange the other guy would vote for a "bad person" over a possible antisemite. Almost like he doesn't care about anyone else because potentially maybe Mamdani might be an antisemite (though he's obviously not), so who cares about Cuomos proven terrible behavior. I know most people are not as left as I am, but these people cannot actually believe they are left of center.

  • Peak movie idea

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  • It is my belief that the real Clark would never complain about food he was served.

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • Thank you for the information!

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • Just checked out Valetudo. Gotta love the FOSS community. Can I ask if you've used it? If so, which vacuum did you set it up on?

  • Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

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  • The comparison to rape is probably not apt here. 60% of rapes are committed by someone known to the victim. It'd be more helpful to tech your imaginary kids that they can come to you no matter what, that their bodily autonomy is important, and where it's ok for others to touch them. If you're going to tech them elements of safety for the remaining percent, maybe focus on location, situational awareness, safety in numbers etc. Often it's just as easy to assault someone in frumpy clothes as in more revealing clothes, and that goes for both known and unknown perpetrators.

    Regarding the premise of your comment, though I don't think it's surprising, technically it's the only way to know for sure what would happen. I'm not suggesting the results are groundbreaking, but there's now at least something we can point to if we wanted evidence based reasoning to support what we all believed would happen.

  • Krafton (the company behind PUBG, InZOI, and other games) is now an "AI-first company" & will spend $70M on GPUs

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  • Inzoi was already getting flack for its AI integration, though it's my understanding they claimed it was trained on in-house data only. It did not do well in the life sim community from what I've seen. I heard it had gameplay, but they forgot to make it enjoyable. I never personally played it though so take that with as many grains of salt as you like.