I think most Christians just make up whatever they feel ought to be a sin based on the vibe.

It seems as though they can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to be American, which is kinda nutty.

I feel defective though.

Respectfully, I don’t share your assessment of the seriousness of the crime. You seem to be weighing the question of whether someone has been harassed or intimidated from the perspective of a “reasonable third party”. However, I suspect that the law assigns considerable weight to the question of whether the victim feels intimidated or harassed. For example, you’re correct that sharing the gore image is not a direct threat of violence, however I feel certain that the woman depicted in the earlier images taken from the live stream would feel concerned for their safety.

I would also like to clarify one aspect of which you may not be aware. It’s very easy to confirm the woman’s place of work beyond any reasonable doubt, with images she has posted to other platforms.

I understand that it’s unreasonable to say that you specifically or any admins of lemmy.world or any other instance should give up hours of your free time to make a police report.

However, as others in this thread have suggested this incident underlines the limited protections lemmy has against this type of attack and it seems likely that we will see a lot more.

I also respectfully disagree regarding the likelihood that reporting this crime could be useful. It’s not a question of “somehow being linked from a random police report”. If the victim ever does contact the police, which seems very likely to me, it’s extraordinarily likely that a report from lemmy would be identified as being related.

It’s not my intention to berate you personally over this, and as I mentioned above I acknowledge that it’s unreasonable to expect you personally to take action in this specific case. I am however concerned that Lemmy’s federated nature is not well suited to addressing this type of risk to members of our community.

Actually smartass, it’s called Australia. We have laws specifically to address this exact situation. I have made police reports in my time, and can assure you that the police would take a campaign of this scale very seriously.

Yes. If you run an email server and one of the accounts has been used to perpetrate a harassment campaign including threats of violence then obviously you should report that.

There’s a video of her eating food in the shopping centre where whe works. You can find it on google Street view.

Hmm.

The people receiving the spam are not being harassed, obviously.

The woman depicted is very likely the target of harassment.

Sharing the images depicting violence is tantamount to a threat of violence.

As admins, you’re not just witnesses but the stewards of a community and the representatives of many thousands of people in this matter.

Pre-empting what the police will do is not a reason not to report. You don’t know what they will do. They might do nothing at you would have wasted 15 minutes. On the other hand perhaps Nicole has been trying to get a restraining order against some creep but has been unable to due to lack of evidence.

Oh man I remember those. Called ahead to the new unit to ask how busy it’s going to be.

Sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask, but are you able to confirm whether admins have reported this to the police?

Even if violence hasn’t been perpetrated, the harassment is still a crime surely.

Yeah. What is love, really? A question people have pondered since the dawn of time.

There’s this societal expectation that things go a certain way. You know lots of people, make friends, become “more than friends” with some, “have feelings” for someone, date, stronger feelings, “fall in love”, and so on.

For some people love is very transactional. For some love is about passion. For some love is an infatuation. For some love is about practical compatibility, shared status, culture, and ideals. For some love is something that can only develop after years of marriage.

All of these are very different. None are right or wrong. They’re just narrow verbal explanations for a complex range of considerations both practical and emotional.

Honestly I think most people just follow the process of coupling with someone just because that’s what people do and life goes easier with a buddy.

I’m no master of romance, but my advice to you would be to just focus on building strong, close relationships with people in whatever form that might take, while being honest with them about what you can offer. In this context, honest doesn’t mean being abrupt and telling everyone you’re incapable of love, it just means not misleading people.

Nah. The damage Trump has done can’t be undone.

Sure vance might replace him and take credit for any recovery, but this level of destruction was not planned.

I agree on all counts.

I just can’t see how the US could avoid a recession.

A global recession is certainly possible or likely but much less-so.

This is what I do. Changing the port to a higher number will prevent almost all bots.

I understand that obscurity is not security but not getting probed is nice.

Also ssh keys are a must.

I do log in as root though.

However, I block all IPs other than mine from connecting to this port in my host’s firewall. I only need to log in from home, or my office, and in a crisis I can just log in to OVH and add whitelist my IP.

Well yeah, “ideally” children should be raised by parents who are millionaires and have unlimited time, but for the rest of us we just make do.

Yeah there’s a poster in the clinic we go to for the kids vaccinations that says “kids learn what they live”.

So yeah, 100% they’re going to see that I don’t know everything and that I try to figure things out.

I have 18 month old twins. They’re not old enough to explain things too, but I ponder this type of thing a lot.

Basically my plan is multi-faceted, but I’ll acknowledge up front that it’s untested and likely contain grave errors, but like any parent since the dawn of time I’ll try to learn from my errors and adjust my strategy.

I’m not going to dumb anything down. If you’re old enough to wonder where babies come from then you’re old enough to understand that males produce sperm and women produce an egg and the two combine to produce a baby. That doesn’t mean a 4 year old needs to learn about STDs or abortion or rape, just that there’s no harm nor shame in learning.

It’s going to take a lot of time. Not to explain things, but to maintain a relationship where my kids feel comfortable asking me about awkward things. Not “why is the sky blue” but “why do I feel this way” or what ever.

Also, I plan to be honest and frank about the limitations of my knowledge. This is something that as an adult I find frustrating about my own childhood. My parents did their best within their means and societal norms, but whenever they didn’t know something they just made it up usually within some kind of religious framework. If I know part of the answer then I’ll acknowledge that I don’t have the whole answer and suggest how we might learn more.

To answer your actual question though, I don’t think one really explains terrorism on any given day. Like you could explain that terrorism is the use of fear for a political or ideological objective, but that’s not really an understanding is it. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to understand people’s motivation for this type of hatred and I hope my children do too.

Yeah so my partner gave birth to twins in a c-section.

I also do not have the parts but hoo-boy that was the experience of a lifetime, and not necessarily all fun / happy joyous.

Basically the pregnant person is on the table and they erect a sheet vertically just below her arms. Then dad (me) sits by her head and holds her hand while the magic happens.

It seemed like there was about a dozen people in the theatre, the kids each having their own team of pediatrician and nurses.

It was a complex pregnancy and while everyone is fit and well now the 48 hours following that operation were pretty terrifying.

To be water cooled we would need some kind of radiator, I guess moving blood through your extremities could work but seems risky from an evolutionary perspective. Like if you’re hot from running from a predator your hands and feet would be flush with blood.

Also I think evaporative cooling could help you maintain a body temp of 38 when the ambient temp is somewhat warmer than that like 45 or so. I don’t think a radiator could do that.

Sorry to get all practical in this thread about not needing to poop. I was just kinda thinking out loud.

Westralia.

Technically still part of Australia but it’s far enough away from all the other cunts that it feels like another country.