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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • That’s not bad, but how about instead of prohibiting them from existing, we make it so that any organized religion that operates solely as a business gets heavily taxed instead(and put that tax towards public education). If you prohibit all religion, then it just goes underground, or pays off fines, etc. Better to let them legally exist In a way that actually benefits society imho.


  • Your backups aren’t nearly as likely to be subject to an immediate civil forfiture as a phone is. Cops don’t need a judicial warrent to take your phone, but they do need one to search your home legally, and if you do your offsite backups in another country, they would need the cooperation of the local authorities of that country. Strong encryption can provide a relatively safe barrier for offsite backups.

    Also, it’s possible to have some things that may only exist on your phone and not your server/backup system(easy biometric unlock for a password manager, or encrypted chat logs, to name a few examples).









  • Yea, I suppose it is about principles. If this is about not letting someone walk over you, I’d rather just avoid being in a position to have my pastry stolen I guess?

    Idk I guess I just don’t think making a big deal over a pastry or a small amount of food is the same as letting someone walk over me, especially if its easy to get another one.

    If they’re stealing it because they’re hungry, they probably need It more than I do, and if they’re stealing it for attention or to be an ass, then I’d rather ignore them, and they’re probably looking to start a confrontation and I don’t want to give them the satisfaction.



  • Ok, fair enough. I guess in my mind that would be burglary or robbery, not just simple theft, but if guess it would be possible to steal without doing that?

    I’ll just say this, I don’t think my neighbors would just let me die of hunger if they had food and they knew I was hungry, and I hope no one ever is in a position where they would have to steal food from their neibors to survive.


  • Ok so first of all, the context of a poor+hungry person was already implied in the very first comment you replied to, I did not think it was necessary to reiterate it.

    Also, how could I have possibly gotten that you meant it in the context of the cat meme, you never brought it up.

    Now, to directly address the specific situation you are describing right now, I think it would actually depend, are you stitting somewhere and some guy snatches it right out of your hand to be a jerk, or does a homeless person come up to your table and snatch it off your plate and run off?

    Actually I still can’t see that mattering in terms of contributing the pseron directly. Sure, if some jerk snatches it our of your hand and eats in in front of you, maybe a “fuck you, asshole” is in order. But as someone who’s worked in food service I would have a hard time imagining a situation were you couldn’t just get another one for free, maybe if you bought it ad a convenience store or a gas station or something, and were eating it somewhere else?

    Anyways the point I was originally trying to make, is that there’s no logical reason(that I can think of) to escalate a situation like that unless you are litteraly about to die of starvation.

    Unless you can give me a realistic situation where confronting the theif has some kind of benefit, I think ignoring the theif is gonna be the right call.