charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago

Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast (especially series 3 covering the French Revolution) and his The History of Rome series.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

White noise. I bought a white noise machine years ago when I lived near a large emergency room that had ambulances going by all day every day. It really helped with the sirens, and when I moved away I kept using the machine. My brain now interprets the white noise as profound silence, and I sleep so deeply that I don't know how I ever got by without it.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Many different kinds of organizations are organized as corporations. Charities, newspapers, churches, etc. If the amendment was not carefully written, it could be construed to deny important rights, such as press freedom or religious freedom, to organizations that really ought to be protected. Similarly, the protections against unwarranted search and seizure or taking of property for pubic use without compensation should probably continue to cover corporations.

Really, the only problem I see WRT corporations having constitutional rights is the decision that political spending is protected speech. The other constitutional rights are generally not problematic.

So maybe something like this:

  1. No person, whether natural born human or legal fiction, shall spend, donate, or otherwise make valuable contributions to any candidate or campaign, if said person is not entitled to vote in the election for such candidate or campaign.

  2. Only natural born human beings shall be entitled to vote in any election.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago

TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's an entire Star Trek instance (startrek.website) that followed the /r/daystrominstitute community from reddit during the Exodus.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

Left4Dead2. Infinitely replayable, multiplayer without being toxic (except Versus mode), simple enough for n00bs to not be a burden most of the time.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

A large bottle of cologne. Plausible gift that makes them think they smell bad.

 
 
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