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I don’t think they’re making a moral argument, but pointing out the reality of the situation as it stands.

This is a problem that can only be fixed through legislation and aggressive enforcement backed by large punitive actions.

Until that happens, it’s better to acknowledge and understand the reality of the situation, than to believe that a morally righteous condemnation will somehow unmake that reality.

It sucks. I agree with your philosophical stance, except for the payment for personal data, as I’d prefer a complete opt-out. However, none of that changes where we’re at right now.

Just because he was the lead actor, producer, partner in the production company, and gave orders to the cast and crew, doesn’t mean he has any responsibility for what happens on set

The term witch hunt came to be used because magical witches don’t actually exist.

But the criminally unsafe working conditions that lead to a woman’s death the set of Rust did exist and Alec Baldwin was in charge of, or at least responsible for them, in his role as producer and partner in the production company.

The other type of witch hunt is basically malicious harassment or persecution for being different in some way (political, religious, etc.)

His patterns of behaviors, direct actions, and personal role in setting the working conditions of the set directly resulted in a woman’s death, and that’s before even taking into account that he pulled the trigger.

For anyone to claim that despite all of that, he’s actually being persecuted for his personal views or political leanings, is disingenuous at best.

The production company, Rust Movie Productions.

Alec Baldwin was both a producer of the movie, and part of the part of said production company.

So to answer your question, yes, he was.

https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-rust-movie-productions-llc/

I agree, but I will say that the armorer was exceptionally negligent. Like, seriously went above and beyond to be unsafe in her role and her handling of the weapons.

But even though she does bear some responsibility, ultimately it was Baldwin’s fault. Not because he pulled the trigger, but because he was in charge of the conditions on set, was aware of all the safety concerns raised the crew, and he was responsible for keeping the completely unqualified armorer on the crew.

Yes, that is the most likely outcome based on all available historical data.

But, I will say the DA and local court system don’t seem to be playing along with making it easy.

So, while money is a statistically significant predictor in these situations, it’s not providence.

Awesome. Truly spectacular.

Generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.

Google is entirely dependent on advertising sales. Ad revenue subsidizes literally everything else, from Android development to whichever 8-12 products and services they launch and subsequently cancel each year.

Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it’s default user interface.

So, like I said: Awesome.

You picked the rating site with the highest scores…

IMDb has it at 6.4

Metacritic is around 5.8

IMO 5/10 sounds about right.

Look, the worst that could happen is that he murders you, but honestly, he probably won’t.

It’s more likey he’ll probably just wear you down emotionally until you support him financially, while he stays at home and takes out credit cards under your name.

On the plus side, I bet he’ll fuck like a racehorse on the rare days when he isn’t too dipped, or shit faced.

Edit: Just noticed you added that he’s a veteran with PTSD, and yes, that changes my answer: he will probably murder you.

Not just because he’s a veteran with PTSD, but because he’s clearly a massively damaged and dangerous person AND has war trauma.

Most likely outcome: strangulation.

That’s a very polite way of saying it looks like an extremely expensive pile of hot dog shit, and I agree with that sentiment.

Absolutely. Everyone here is acting like PDF and JPEG exploits on Android don’t exist.

I agree that OP shouldn’t pay for one, and that most AV apps are, at best, garbage, but there are also reasons to have one, and reasonable ones to install - Hypatia being one of them.

The USAF has significantly more planes and pilots then the USN.

However, the USN is technically the second largest air force currently operating in the world, behind the USAF.

This guy was only saved because he saved the screenshots.

This may seem like overkill, but whenever I’m dealing with customer service for a significant financial concern, I always take detailed notes: time, date, name, what was discussed, and screenshots when relevant.

Just a few years ago a large appliance company tried to dick me around on a faulty product that was several thousand dollars.

It took weeks of back and forth, but when I was able to make contact with a layer of management just outside and above their customer service channel with my very long and detailed log of their bullshit, they authorized a check the next day.

They’re the reason Shinzo Abe got merked with a homemade volcano science project.

… I’m not joking.

I wouldn’t have even thought to consider the possibility that my local meth cook would have a better photo printer then the local pharamcy, but i’ll stop by later and ask him. Well, as long as he’s taken down the tinfoil from the windows. If the foils up, then it’s a pretty safe bet he’s been up for at least 3 days straight.

Thanks for the tip!

Summit for Lemmy

It’s an Android app, not FOSS AFAIK, but it’s still a pretty solid client with a fairly robust feature set. The settings icon on the thread browser page has an option like “create multi-community”.

I rarely use Reddit anymore. One feature that Lemmy is missing is standarized multi-sub/community groupings.

Only one client I’ve found has implemented it, so I THINK it’s client side, but regardless, I wish it was standard across all clients to create community groups instead of having to go to each individual community, or subscribed/local/all.

I’m providing an extremely high level and simplified outline of the operational and strategic constraints for militants operating within Gaza, not moral commentary on it.

If you want my opinions, or moral judgments, feel free to browse my comment history. Jump into any of those conversations if you disagree.

No, I’m saying that any military strategy has to operate around it’s own operational and environmental constraints, and the capabilities and obstacles of the opposing force.

Whatever you’re opinions are on any conflict, you should still understand that rational actors will respond accordingly to their constraints.

Rational doesn’t mean moral, it means they have a clear mission and objective, and a plan to achieve it.

You’re suggesting that instead of being combat effective, they should instead suicide themselves by operating in an open field in close proximity, and with no cover, to a vastly superior force. That would be irrational.

Those are literally watched by automated and remote control machine guns, as well as 24/7 surveillance drones.

So you’re military strategic insight is to sit in an open field, just outside of range of the remote control 50 cal turrets, and wait for the drone to drop a PGM?

Feel free to browse my comment history. I’m no apologist for terrorists acts, but I’m also not blind to the realities on the ground, and what obstacles any opposition militant group within Gaza would have to plan around.