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Omegle 2009-2023

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by dotancohen »

eru wrote: post #790
dotancohen wrote: post #586

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A fox would not want to imagine an internet made up almost exclusively of hens? ))

Those dastardly Frenchmen used to always try and conquer my ancestors. The long line of Louis didn't get all that far (but their interference in the 30 years wars probably made things worse), but Napoleon finally managed to take a big bit out of German lands for a while.

Thank you for that perspective. We never realize how ignorant we are of other peoples' situations. I say that as someone who has spend the last eight months trying to understand the perspective of the people who call themselves my enemies.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by eru »

TerrifiedMouse wrote: post #511
jakderrida wrote: post #457

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>it doesn’t mean we should dismiss outright the possibility that a passing era might just be taking something truly valuable with it. Our youth is usually the part we're nostalgic for and nothing else. You ever hear the nostalgists crying out to go back to a "simpler time"? It's because they were children and the world is simpler for a child that lacks obligations. Fortunately, my childhood was crappy enough and my a…

That said, I do wonder if times really were simpler back then - in the sense of the way people thought. Movies seem to be simpler back then. Watched Sleepless in Seattle a while back. I heard it was very popular back in the day. Well … I’m not that impressed, sorry to say. The plot is very simple and a little weird when viewed using today’s social mores. Direction and pacing is adequate. Or maybe I just don’t get it.…

Movies maybe. We are in the golden age of TV, at least. Thanks to streaming and 'binge watching' creators feel a lot more comfortable with putting up shows with more complicated continuity, instead of independent episodes, than they used to.

As far as I can tell, books haven't really gotten more (or less) complicated in at least the past 200 years. Or rather: you might be able to detect some trends with a statistical analysis, but the variance is big enough that as a casual reader, you won't notice a trend.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by eru »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #948
aardvarkr wrote: post #847

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What games would you recommend?

Here are various games that I really liked (trying to spread across genres a bit so you get a sense of what's out there): https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/ https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri https://store.steampowered.com/app/219740/Dont_Starve/ (would recommend going into this game as blind as possible) https://store.steampowered.com/app/368230/Kingdom_Classic/ https://store.s…

> A mistake I made in the past was buying games just because there was a really good sale. At a certain point, I realized that the time investment in learning new game mechanics is more important than the cash investment in buying the game. Investing your time in learning the mechanics of a mediocre-but-cheap game isn't a great way to relax.

I'm weirdly happy for you that this is your failure mode. For most people, buying games on sale just leads to a bigger and bigger backlog of unplayed games.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by leobg »

SoftTalker wrote: post #318
jdietrich wrote: post #282

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Under German law, anyone involved in a criminal case has the right to privacy. The press are free to report on the case, but they cannot identify the suspect or victim. If you watch or read German news, you'll see everything you expect to see in a report about a crime, except for names and faces. Personally, I think this is an entirely reasonable balance between competing rights. Publicly identifying suspects can cau…

> Under German law, anyone involved in a criminal case has the right to privacy. Until convicted, I presume? Are the identites of those arrested (and possibly prosecuted but acquitted) protected forever?

There’s a case right now:

Multi million Euro fraud, perpetrated for 10+ years in an organized fashion by husband and wife and some helpers from Saxony. Victims were (and are) senior citizens.

The German public broadcast MDR had several stories on them. Yet they don’t even dare to show the office building on which the perpetrators work. Much less their private house, or faces or names.

The press is more afraid of being sued by the perpetrators than the perpetrators are afraid of being prosecuted.

It’s the other extreme.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by lambdatronics »

terryf wrote: post #532
adamomada wrote: post #133

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The question in my mind is, 74 million monthly users have a good time (or not bad enough to not come back, whatever) vs the inevitable catastrophic event as you say, isn’t it well worth it to accept the risk and continue? The world couldn’t possibly function any other way

Yes, 100 times yes. This is one of the big issues with the modern world, that no risk at all is acceptable. And that's bullshit. So many things that are enormous amounts of fun can get shut down because maybe someone gets slightly hurt some time or whatever. Should we make things safe? yes, of course. But the trade off should not be "if there is any risk at all, then no". It should be made clear that risk exists and…

> But the trade off should not be "if there is any risk at all, then no"

I'm a kitesurfer and I'm with you 100%. I'm glad kiting is not banned in most places. Kiters die every year -- I knew someone who was killed, and I've had a couple close shaves. In fact, today I was kiting and witnessed a kiter get rescued by the Coast Guard. It's understandable that society would want to have some say due to the externalities (loss of productive members of society, cost of rescues, risk to bystanders, etc).

IMO it's not the case that 'no risk is acceptable' -- it's just that the risk tolerance for various things seems really arbitrary & out of proportion to reward. For instance, if we didn't accept any risks as a society, we'd ban alcohol & tobacco along with kitesurfing, skydiving and motorcycles, but we don't.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by jakderrida »

riffraff wrote: post #956
jakderrida wrote: post #519

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>It's a constant discourse in my country to think of today as "dangerous" and idealize some earlier decades where you'd "leave the door open" while by all metrics crime was actually higher. This highlights a great point about past media. Films like The Warriors, Class of 1999, and even A Clockwork Orange play into this notion that juveniles have become worse and worse and we can expect a hellscape from future generat…

I doubt it's about last century media, "youth have no respect these days" goes literally back to before Christ, we have ancient Greek texts that say this, and probably older still. I do agree kids _seem_ to be more risk-averse these days.

I'm not saying it doesn't go back far. I'm saying that every generation says it, while media promotes it, and we've come to a crossroads where the current young generation has become so laughably well behaved compared to my generation that even a biased and nostalgic perspective can't sustain the myth of the forever worsening youth.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by jhatemyjob »

tremere wrote: post #980
jhatemyjob wrote: post #958

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nice try

Wasn't trying anything, I was legit curious about places where intellectual conversation happens. I suppose you are right that exposing such places to air will risk their integrity, then you'll be left in the same situation as me. Forget I ever asked.

Haha, was just kidding. But yeah. It's risky. Seems like you read my other comment before I deleted it!
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