Samuel the Blonde

Hey-oh. I'm Samuel (He/Him). Aromantic . Samuel-the-blonde22. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder-Day Saints Really bad at tagging stuff, but I'm trying.

[boycarofchilladelphia]

I already did the blocking, but apparently I need to lower the rent around here again: I am a Mormon. I was a missionary. I'm also a leftist and entirely pro-LGBTQ+. There are complexities and intricacies to my faith that you may have never comprehended in your life, but you will not impress me by saying "I wish all missionaries would die". Whether or not you believe that they do good or harm or some combination of the two, they are teenagers. Adult teenagers, yes, but still not even 20 on average. The leftism leaving your body as soon as you hear the words "organized religion" is audible and, frankly, unimpressive.

[samuel-the-blonde22]

Finally switched from Goole to DuckDuckGo.

No ai, no ads.

[40ouncesandamule]

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.

A few things of note:

This is why people to your left have been chiding you about the "pedo" panic: now, the government can accuse you of being a "pedo" to justify committing crimes against you.

This is why people to your left have been chiding you about the "terrorist" moniker: for the last half century, the government can accuse you of being a "terrorist" to justify committing crimes against you.

[the-implications-are-fascinating]

The American government is claiming, simultaneously, that they had the right to search the phone because it was a routine search (ie, they searched without evidence of wrongdoing), and that saying that password was destruction of evidence because the phone contained evidence (ie, they searched due to evidence of wrongdoing).

While this is technically a legal argument to make, it seems very unlikely to lead to a conviction because it's hard to prove to a jury beyond reasonable doubt that the government both does and does not have evidence of wrongdoing.

[40ouncesandamule]

You may beat the case, but you can't beat the ride.

The purpose of this lawfare isn't to get a conviction; the purpose is to make his activism more difficult. They arrest him and hold him and charge him and release him and slowly grind him down. He's currently out on bond. If they arrest him again for another bullshit charge, they can revoke his bond for the first bullshit charge.

All of this cost tens of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

They don't care about getting a conviction. They care about making his life and his activism as difficult as possible in hopes that the future he is fighting for does not come to pass.

[headedoutleft]

also, and this is important from a legal perspective, if they don’t drop the charges ultimately and it does go to court and they do get a conviction, they’ve just set legal precedent that allows them to continue doing this to anyone. per the article, this is the first example of law enforcement using that particular law to press charges related to destruction of data on a phone, but if they succeed in making the argument then that makes it much harder for the next person to defend themselves because prosecutors can point back to this case and the fact that the court upheld the argument.

it will then require supreme court appeals and legal revision to change that, or legislative action to ban this type of behavior on the part of law enforcement. which is not likely to happen with the current court appointments and political environment.

so either way they harass activists and discourage anti-law enforcement action, and in the best case (for them) they get to mold the law to their benefit.

[samuel-the-blonde22]

Okay but what the f* is this.

You used to be able to take whole pictures and share them. I used that to share posts with my family, 'cause they're not on tumblr.

Then my camera started talking to the tumblr app and now I can't take photos of the entire post now without the share button opening up. So I've started using the share button photo taking button, because all right, you want me to use that.

And now apparently that doesn't even work?

[samuel-the-blonde22]

I love Valheim, but the aggro system is so annoying.

I literally had a boar chase me half the starting continent, push me off the cliff I was using to shoot a troll, then continue to fight as I'm forced to fight the troll in melee...

[samuel-the-blonde22]

I'm not getting ads for the product of Windows 11 anymore. It's just ads for the ai on it.

[libraford]

I realize that different generations will have different ideas of what is 'passive-aggressive' when talking over the internet (like... boomers consider '...' to be tonally neutral, but millennials often see it as negative) but a thing that i find a touch rude that is probably not intended to be so is the word 'actually.'

Like a comment on one of my sword videos was 'this is actually really impressive.'

Im used to 'actually' being used to correct something ('well, actually') or to express surprise ('this kool-aid actually tastes like peach rings.')

And i am absolutely reading too much into it because I think younger generations are using it as a filler word. But im like...

...what were you expecting?

[somie]

Orpheus and Eurydice and Orpheus and Eurydice (dr/krusie Comic)

[samuel-the-blonde22]

Bro.

He put a card that turned off activated abilities.

I'M PLAYING AN EQUIPMENT DECK THIS SHUTS OFF MY ENTIRE GAME PLAN.

....

...

I lost.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you get a breath weapon like a dragon, and the options go from fire to things like gravel or bees

you have this breath weapon! (also you're a dragon)

are you happy with it?

yes!!!!!

a little

it's okay I guess

no.

NO.

result/other

Remaining time: 10 hours 55 minutes

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Cmon man.

[blind-leading]

Stomach acid. I will dissolve you.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So I can breathe normal and you can vomit on cue. I rescind my disappointment, mine is better.

[siderealcity]

Sometimes I think about how so much of what makes Murderbot who it is comes down to it being a rental SecUnit. When Leonide tells Arada in Network Effect that Company Units have a reputation for being dangerous, she's probably 100% correct. Because of their nature as plug-and-play security for anyone, they have to be designed to be far more versatile than the SecUnits a corporate like BE owns. Three has to be able to secure salvage operations and mining outposts and work with BE's systems and that's kind of it. BE might need its security to fend off hostile takeovers and workplace uprisings, but Murderbot has to be able to do all those things and planetary surveys with unknown hostile fauna, and asteroid mining belts, and whatever the next client might need it to do, and it has to be able to work with whatever other proprietary software the new clients have every single time. It's better at adapting to new situations than Three partly because it's older and more experienced, but also because that's a big part of its function.

And at the same time, Company SecUnits are treated much worse than Three by virtue of being rentals. Many--if not most--of Murderbot's clients didn't want to have any SecUnits, but were required to take them per Company rental agreements for other equipment. Even the ones who specifically did want SecUnits didn't have any investment in what happened to them. They were the equivalents of the U-haul you'd rent to move your couch across town. They just needed to do a job briefly and hopefully be in good enough shape to get their deposit back at the end, but if not, eh. No big deal. Murderbot has never had the same clients for very long, and it's never had to work with the same SecUnits for very long. Every contract changes. Nothing lasts.

No wonder MB loves fiction while Three loves nonfiction. Three has seen basically nothing about reality outside of its job and wants to know what's out there. MB has seen way too much reality and would like some breaks from that shit now, please.

[samuel-the-blonde22]

Something that I've seen someone call Siffrin the same height as Mirabelle.

But, Siffrin is wearing heels. They need those heels to be as tall as her.

Wasn't that an actual conversation? In the House? With them talking about Siffrin's height, and them saying: "I'm as tall as you, Mirabelle." And then Mira looks down at their heels, back up, and nods while making a Face.

[spiralmindz]

what im learning from my years of being one of the annoying woke black people on here is that a Lot of white and nonblack people really do not understand what racism is and what it has done to African Americans. like when we learn abt it in schools they dont really tell you abt the mass rape and genocide and torture of Africans by white slave owners, they dont talk abt the murder of babies and the cannibalism either. its all in The Past so we should just get over it, lol. and then when nonamerican's colonial past gets brought up they start throwing tantrums too, because antiblackness is a global thing, many countries have exploited Africa and its people. this isnt unique to one nation. its so funny how all these Smart Communists are so ignorant abt racism in america and globally, and then when black leftist/progressive tumblr users try to say anything abt their real actual Lived Experiences as Black people its met with dismissal and hatred and condescension and Um, Actually, im not from america, can you talk to me like im 5 about racism please :) and if youre anything but Nice they will call you a slur

[entiqua]

i drew arisu___art's really pretty red riding hood zelink from their dtiys earlier this month! 🍎 arisu's original designs: zelda, link

[samuel-the-blonde22]

Okay. There's a comparting heights program that's really useful... but what I need is a comparing hands program.

[beneathsilverstars]

why has no one gotten murderbot some sick sunglasses so it doesn't have to worry about eye contact or half of its facial expressions. cmon

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[lazer-exe]

a lot of people are reblogging this saying that most "lazy" people are actually just disabled or that the concept of laziness itself is a product of our society's obsession with productivity. this is all true, but it is not my point.

even if someone WAS just lazy and simply didn't want to do anything but lie on the couch and watch tv, they should still have these things. it's irrelevant whether some people aren't actually lazy because everyone, including hypothetical lazy people, should have their basic needs met.

if we have the resources to do it, there is no defense of letting people die because they don't want to work, and much less because they can't.

I don't want lazy people to have basic necessities because they "actually" deserve them because they ARE working or CAN'T work. I want lazy people to have basic necessities because they are people, and we shouldn't leave them to die when we have the resources not to.