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The Ethics of Adblocking

I’d just like to point out that the shadiest of behaviors in the context of digital advertising are logically ethical if you grant the premise that charging for data copies ever is ethical.

(Charging per hour to create or manage data is entirely different as that is equivalent to charging to build furniture or the like. Also privacy rights are not intellectual property law.)

Essentially, logically, you are either a hardcore intellectual property law abolitionist like myself, or you are in favor of commoditizing and privatizing every single bit. If at any point you say with regard to profit seeking shenanigans “that’s going too far” you’ve become logically inconsistent, cherry picking, and hypocritical because “muh income” is a fallacious argument you’ve already accepted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy

Either every piece of data ever (including every individual elemental digit, letter, bit, concept, shade, or symbol) should be exposed (to protect profits) and someone’s property, or it should all be confidential (the opposite of open to perpetual “fraud” inspection) and free (as in speech and beer) where the concept of “owning” a piece of data is a contradiction in terms in the same way now that the idea of owning a letter is.

Logically, you really have to pick one. But of course humans are free to be illogical and what we have here as a result is in essence a religious conflict with an infinite range of denominations.

As an IPL abolitionist, I adblock on principal first, safety second, and mental health third.

That third one is really important and rarely if ever mentioned. Neurologically and psychologically you can’t actually disregard an ad. It gets filed and processed by your brain regardless of your conscious will. You must first see something to choose to disregard it, and by then for some brain processes it’s already too late.

(Don’t think of an elephant right now. See? Too late.)

The cumulative impact of these unwanted intrusions is harmful to cognition in my opinion. You start getting false impressions about ratios and popularity of certain concepts and new defaults form in your mind that aren’t actually majority positions. These false positions are crafted expressly to open you to further manipulation.

The preferable situation is to it impossible to own any abstraction. You may take credit for discovering or inventing it, but you don’t ever get to own it. That is, the selling of copies or access is legal but it’s also perfectly legal for the buyer to in turn sell copies as well. This would put everything in the public domain that isn’t private, like medical records and your personal stuff. Restricting the sharing that data would be handled case by case from other directions on other grounds, such as privacy violations not profit or quasi-property protections.

Any effort that literally can’t or won’t exist without the the current IPL system profit motive, wouldn’t or couldn’t, and that would be the price we pay for the utility gained on the other end of everyone being able to remix everything and all software and art and the like being collaborative.

CEX.IO == Fraud

Innomen

Dec 21, 19:31 GMT

Why on god’s blue earth would I tell anyone to use cex when you stole 200$+ from me via your cloud mining scam?

Akhil G (CEX.IO)

Dec 21, 19:36 GMT

Dear Innomen ,

I understand your frustration but no one has stolen funds from your account. Please consider the fact that market investments involves risks and due to GHS price drop it cannot be considered as stolen.

Best Regards
Akhil
Supervisor

Innomen

Dec 21, 19:42 GMT

Horse shit. YOU stole the funds when you arbitrarily canceled the program. I paid for access, and you used lack of profit as an excuse. That’s like operating a car lot, selling me a car, but keeping the money and keeping the car because the lot wasn’t making you any money. If I wasn’t poor I’d sue you for fraud and win.

Innomen

Dec 21, 19:45 GMT

I paid for X hash of processing power for life. I have zero access to that power and no refund on my purchase price. The risk was supposed to be from my bitcoin earnings, not from you just ending the program. This wasn’t the market’s fault, or mine. You stole from all of us.

Akhil G (CEX.IO)

Dec 21, 19:47 GMT

Dear Innomen ,

I have already explained the issue and we have published the necessary information about GHS in the past. We kindly request you not to use abusive language as it doesn’t motivate us to assist you in a better way.

Best Regards
Akhil
Supervisor

Innomen

Dec 21, 20:06 GMT

The risk was from GHS becoming unprofitable. If they are, fine. But I’d still have them. I don’t because you stole them.

Either give me my GHS or give me a refund.

This is not about the GHS being profitable.

I paid you for a service you are not providing.

That’s fraud. End of discussion.

It’s EXACTLY like me paying to lease a car for life and you keeping it and the money.

I will accept the GHS in physical form. If they are so worthless then you can mail me my accounts GHS balance in working chip form. If they are not worthless then you keeping the balance is theft and you know it.

Do you even have any idea how much I bought or did you just delete the records since you knew you’d just be stealing the entire pot anyway?

Martin F (CEX.IO)

Dec 21, 20:21 GMT

Dear Innomen

We do have all the records.

Please consider the fact that market investments involves risks and due to GHS price drop it cannot be considered as stolen.

Best Regards
Martin
Support Team

I didn’t bother replying, it’s clear that they’ll just repeat the tired line of “risk” which isn’t the point as explained at length several times above.

Bet you my balls they are still using all the GHS hardware we all paid for and making bitcoin off it. They just aren’t sharing because of course sharing (or standing by contracts) isn’t “profitable.”

Sadly the law only protects people who can afford lawyers. If you keep your offenses “civil” (as in civil suit grade) and you limit your targets to people who can’t afford lawyers, you can do whatever you want.

The Trump Protests Were Stupid

.@Jimmy_Dore & @StevenOh talk about @BarackObama and the truth about his legacy. https://t.co/3GOwFLLknq pic.twitter.com/aeZhn4MbMr

— The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) November 26, 2016

The Trump protest is completely stupid and this baby’s version “my first protest” gotta start somewhere argument is horse shit.

Try starting somewhere that matters.

They DAMAGED the progressive movement by making it look like what the right and HRC/DNC has always said it was. Whiny spoiled pampered little millennial closet autocrat socialists that can’t do anything but cry till they get their way and only respect democracy when it’s rubber stamping their will.

The entire trump protester movement disagreed strongly with the following statement:

“I’d rather legitimately elect someone I dislike than illegitimately elect someone I do, because I respect democracy.”

Where were all those fuckers when the dem primary got stolen and where are they on the mindnumbingly countless other issues happening then and now that BADLY fucking need mass protest, like the fact that we’re the proud owners of the largest prison population ON EARTH!

What the ACTUAL fuck.

The Trump protesters might as well have been paid for by the Koch brothers. They couldn’t possibly have been more helpful to the 1%.

It was pathetic and stupid and quite literally fascist.

Also people whining about the popular vote need to read a fucking civics book. The reason we have the college is to keep a handful of gentrified cities/states from ruling the rest of the country from on high gilded-age style.

The point of democracy is to distribute power, not just across people but geographically as well.

Our elections aren’t anything like democratic because every single election has been minority rule. The majority ALWAYS either doesn’t vote or voted for someone who lost.

The “popular” vote has NEVER won an American election. From the very beginning it’s been this way. Remember, originally it was just white male land owners. The country and this voting system has NEVER enfranchised the majority. EVER.

But funny how everyone’s quiet about it when THEIR side “wins.”

“Hypocrisy” just doesn’t even say it.

The solution is single transferable vote. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI) That won’t ever happen because progressives have ADHD and no sense of focus.

The right continues to stomp us because while we fight over different futures, they are fighting for the one shared past.

underlore.com/liberal-hate/

Tidy Little Arrangment

Clever how the government has made applying for disability require the very skills a person needs to find and sustain investigative or clerical work.

Setting aside that it completely dismisses job unavailability as “not our problem” which in and of itself is complete garbage since job rarity should absolutely be a legitimate factor in determining disability. If there are only four examples of a job a person can do in the entire economy then that person is clearly disabled.

Think about how broken the logic is. Any lucky fool can live off stock dividends. Is that not a common “job?” Wallstreet thinks it is. By that logic literally no one is disabled.

Again: Tidy.

So here are my remarks at the end of my most recent disability application. I’ll explain what I mean by some of them after the remarks themselves.

I applied before and was wrongly denied because my disabilities interfered with the application process and because my representation was frankly incompetent. They were all I could find via email only.

They did literally nothing but act as a form relay, and they never returned my medical records. As such the vast majority of this data is from memory and google, and I have memory problems. I cannot drive or use the phone to confirm this data or acquire more. If I had the skills to complete this process to your complete satisfaction I’d have the skills to work. (Clerical or investigations.)

I was not prepared for my hearing at all by my representation. I have never truly worked in my life because I have always been disabled. I couldn’t even qualify for my grade school basketball team because of my CP. I wore a brace on my leg before I could walk, and I learned to walk very late.

I do not understand why you are even asking me these things since the process assumes I’m lying for money anyway and demands documentation of everything. I feel like this application exists merely to provide the opportunity to fail.

I feel extremely lucky I’m intelligent and articulate enough to see and type this. Otherwise I’d likely give up and die homeless, as no doubt thousands and thousands already have because of this arbitrary and irrational red tape. It’s hard to imagine that isn’t the point, and as such it’s hard not to feel extreme rage at the entire process. I guess then you could add anger issues to my disabilities.

I have qualified for SNAP for probably over a decade. I’ve been disabled my entire life. I need this now more than ever not least because my parents are aging and I will not be able to help them physically.

I have more remarks, why the tiny character limit?

Why am I getting letters before I’ve even submitted this application?

Why is there no paper application I can download?

Ok, so no one in my life barring heated internet arguments has ever accused me of being anything below average intelligence. Indeed many have even grudgingly admitted to my high intelligence in the middle of ranting at me. I say that because it’s citation for when I say I am living proof that being intelligent and willing to work is not enough to have a career or even a job in this country or, it is proof that I am disabled. Or both. Take your pick.

This application process is a scam. It exists to trick the mentally or physically ill into disqualifying themselves from the aid they urgently need.

My country is an ethical disgrace and even if I am somehow able to navigate this process to approval my opinion on the process itself will not change until the process changes.

The remarks above are 89 characters short of the limit. I’ve already gotten two letters from the SS office, and I haven’t even submitted my application. I’ve been filling it out and saving and exiting. I MUST do this because no where can I simply download a PDF version for mailing.

I have been a drain on my economy for as long as I’ve been alive. Had they simply providing me with a baseline income this entire time I could have changed that. But they have made it literally illegal for me to save money and totally impossible for me to start a business.

Ironic in a nation that calls itself capitalist and is run by people who claim to be the party of small business.

What the Objective of Criminal Justice Should Be

TL:DR

Instigative, protective, and preventative. In that order.

Reforms required:

Abolition of plea bargains. Because an investigation is an experiment and you don’t haggle over findings. At best you debate to arrive at consensus.

No parole or probation. Because either a person is sufficiently rehabilitated to reenter society or they are not. If a citizen’s rehabilitation is in question then examine them till it isn’t and act accordingly.

Abolition of prison in it’s current form. The entire prison budget and deployment should be converted into a layered system of job training, education, mental and physical healthcare, and research of every relevant type. A place where prisoners don’t serve a fixed sentence but rather are inducted into a program from which only healthy prepared citizens can “graduate.”

Prisons today serve as torture chambers to terrorize the public into obedience and to satisfy their collective sadistic whims using primarily the poor, the foreign, and the mentally ill as their victims.

Prison should resemble primarily a very comfortable example of a school combined with a mental hospital. Among the thousands of advantages to this approach is respect for the cliche “innocent until proven guilty.”

Indeed to test the veracity of the system innocent volunteers should be paid to enter as criminals to in a double blind fashion measure how accurate rehabilitation procedures are.

All employees of this system should be required to complete the program and the program should be available to any on request. The objective isn’t to separate and punish criminals but you understand and prevent crime, to rehabilitate and improve the lives of everyone involved to whatever degree is possible and to research and understand when and why it is not possible.

People beyond repair should be kept in comfortable humane isolation until they die of natural causes serving society as subjects of study to the end of preventing the formation or perpetuation of people like themselves in future.

Everything about modern prison and criminal justice is wrong or fraudulent. I’d say 90% of the people in charge of it are corrupt in some fashion either fiscally, politically, or ideologically. The CEO of the private prison, the senator that gerrymanders prisoners in his district and like to play “tough on crime”, the sadistic corrections or police officer that just wants people to hurt or control for pleasure… These are the real and common truths of our “justice” system.

BLM and a Defense of Riots

In response to a conversation a friend and I had about BLM’s relationship to rioting I am writing this post as a kind of general statement of opinion.

There’s plenty to criticize people for. But blaming BLM for riots isn’t reasonable because It’s not like BLM are the Illuminati. The entire existence of BLM is a response to a lack of power. And without power there can be no responsibility.

So first we must think about what BLM is and isn’t actually capable of.

They don’t have the power to start or stop riots.

So knowing that, questions spring to mind. Should BLM denounce them, encourage them, or stay silent on them? Knowing they can’t prevent or cause them. Are riots justified?

In my view BLM is automatically an ally of any one who feels the police have become an oppressive, regressive, violent mafia. I’m not saying they think that, I’m saying anyone else who thinks that should see BLM as allies.

In terms of political strategy, if BLM were a monolithic organization, which it isn’t, I don’t think they should denounce rioting because if they did, and riots happened anyway, it would expose that weakness and set them against any elements of the community that have (perhaps rightfully) concluded that the time for peaceful response is at an end.

If you start to think of the police as an invading army, rioting becomes a rather merciful option. I can’t help but think that if the police here acted like the police in those areas towards my community’s children a riot would be the least of their worries.

Essentially I view riots as warning shots preceding open revolt. And open revolt has to be on the table if we expect to effectively negotiate with the state. Which is what all activism is.

This is a huge part of why I think anti-gun progressives are outright foolish. It’s like starting a game of chess by asserting that violence is wrong and banning the use of pawns.

Some describe a riot as a kind of political or economic cannibalism, as burning “their own” city. But how do you define your city as opposed to your prison? It isn’t their city when their lives are ruled by people that don’t even live there. And that’s true of all of us so long as 62 people own half the planet.

If anything a riot is the burning of a company shanty town. And let’s be honest, they aren’t that destructive anyway. A few fires, a smashed car, and some rubble in the street. They aren’t a hurricane.

Mostly they are symbolic, and a great way to force the police and the press to show their true colors, which as Gandhi has shown us can be quite effective political currency.

I could see it being described as burning collaborator businesses that demonstrably don’t care about them. Business in my view rarely helps a community. First of all the vast majority of it is corporate, which means it’s parasitic and corrupting. Corporations clearly own the press and the government, that’s the root of the problem. Rioting to destroy corporate business interests in my community seems on paper like an extremely valid response.

And don’t talk to me like jobs are inherently a good thing. They aren’t.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that what BLM fights for is 100% justified. Cops keep getting cleared and acquitted for killings that are often on video. If there is no legal recourse, and the economy is completely unresponsive to both activism and political engagement, then a riot is a reasonable next step in my view.

Tell me things aren’t bad enough to justify revolt in the streets and I’ll tell you you’re not paying attention.

Even if BLM denounces rioting, I would not. Rioting is a valid compromise when trying to avoid a revolutionary civil war.

If that war happens, it will be the police who history shows declared it.