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New comment by _9xrb in "Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church"

_9xrb — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:49:39 +0000

Yes, the cult leader declared himself Christ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara

New comment by _9xrb in "Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church"

_9xrb — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:35:52 +0000

For those skimming, Aum Shinrikyo is the cult responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin attack. What's often overlooked is that the cult synthesized the sarin gas themselves in a self-made sophisticated chemical weapons lab:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Chem...

When their headquarters were raided, police found enough weaponry to fight a small war:

>Over the next week, the full scale of Aum's activities was revealed for the first time. At the cult's headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons, and a Russian Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. While the finding of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and Ebola cultures was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated.[52] There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.[53]

They bought a sheep farm in Australia to mine uranium in order to enrich it and build nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Aum_Shinriky...

Had they not been caught, I have little doubt they'd have eventually succeeded.

New comment by _9xrb in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

_9xrb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:06:32 +0000

>It's easily verifiable that bank details were shared on KF.

I see you've backed off from "bank account numbers" to "bank account details," perhaps after Googling the same Twitter screenshots I just found in an attempt to verify your claim. Those screenshots show a user describing a hacked bank account's balance and recent purchases. That's pretty bad; hacking into bank accounts is very illegal. The individual who broke into the account very likely committed a crime. Regardless, the screenshots don't show any credentials or account numbers. I'm not sure if posting someone's bank balance is illegal, but I'm guessing it isn't; maybe it depends on how it was obtained... don't know, not a lawyer.

Of course, the screenshot is totally unverifiable now that KF is wiped from the Internet Archives, which is the point of the submitted link.

New comment by _9xrb in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

_9xrb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:45:57 +0000

I've never seen this alleged "suicide counter" on the website, though I've only looked at it closely in the past couple weeks.

The site owner posted this rebuttal to assignment of blame for these suicides, which I find compelling. For instance, the widow of one victim decried Vice News (one source referenced in the article) for using her death to attack Kiwi Farms:

https://archive.ph/XNQYY

New comment by _9xrb in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

_9xrb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:37:00 +0000

If you want a real conspiracy theory, recall that original and long-running KF thread subject Christine Weston Chandler was persuaded to incestuously assault her mother by a person named Isabella Janke. Kiwi Farms uncovered Isabella's history with Christine, and extensively documented her online activities to include allegations of extortion, CASM, and animal abuse:

https://archive.ph/3Ev0l

Now consider that Isabella's father Mike Janke is a former Navy SEAL who has a professional relationship with Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wio7sDDBA

These records have been wiped from the Internet Archive. I wonder how long they will remain on archive.ph.

New comment by _9xrb in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

_9xrb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:31:46 +0000

The site was tried not in a court of law but in the court of public opinion. Removing evidence from the one court where it matters, especially as precedent for similar extralegal trials in the future, is harmful to the open web.

New comment by _9xrb in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

_9xrb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:29:08 +0000

They've documented various criminals, pedophiles, and rapists, such as child abuser Nick Bate:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-man-jailed-u...

https://archive.ph/Kmu6p

They've extensively documented actual alt-right figures such as neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, who they consider one of their "lolcows." They also followed and recorded the activity of accused rapist Christine (formerly Christopher) Weston Chandler, the original "lolcow", though several users interacted with Chris over the years in ways that may have contributed to his/her decline:

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/sonichu-creator-has-been-arres...

They also discovered and documented Isabella Janke, allegedly the person most responsible for convincing Christine to abuse her mother, among other allegations:

https://archive.ph/3Ev0l

This truth of these allegations will likely come out at at Christine's upcoming trial, assuming enough evidence was preserved. Incidentally, Isabella's father Mike Janke has a professional relationship with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wio7sDDBA

New comment by _9xrb in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

_9xrb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:32:31 +0000

There were no dumps of bank account numbers. As far as I saw, Kiwi Farms users posted only publicly-available info about thread subjects. In my opinion, certain categories of public yet personally-identifying information should be covered by US law in a way similar to HIPAA. However, that is not currently the case.

Also, info like someone's phone number and home address are only a click away once you have their full name and approximate age/geographic location, at least for people haven't taken extraordinary steps to limit discoverability on Spokeo or White Pages. People post full names and locations to Twitter all the time. They call it "unmasking" when it's someone the ruling consensus dislikes, while they know the info will be used to look up the "dox." This is not Twitter or Kiwi Farms' fault. It is the result of flaws in our legal system which allow sites like Spokeo and White pages to operate.

New comment by _9xrb in "Robert's Rules of Order (1876)"

_9xrb — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 14:20:06 +0000

Model United Nations also uses Robert’s Rules, and provided me with a similar parallel education.

New comment by _9xrb in "Why no Roman industrial revolution?"

_9xrb — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:57:21 +0000

Another take may be found on Dr. Garrett Ryan’s excellent “Told in Stone” YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5uqPlOAH85o

New comment by _9xrb in "“Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”"

_9xrb — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:07:21 +0000

Ideology can remain inconsistent longer than you can remain fed and housed while opposing it.

New comment by _9xrb in "People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms"

_9xrb — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:49:46 +0000

Absolutely wrong, DDoS attacks are illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, section 1030(a)(5):

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46536.pdf

New comment by _9xrb in "Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn"

_9xrb — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:30:26 +0000

Realistically, I don't think AI porn will increase the number of addicts. There's functionally infinite free porn out there already. AI porn just trades porn stash disk space for compute power.

New comment by _9xrb in "Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn"

_9xrb — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:10:58 +0000

Or the fentanyl.

New comment by _9xrb in "Michael Jordan: “Republicans Buy Sneakers Too”"

_9xrb — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:28:25 +0000

It's incredible how far the Overton window has moved in only a decade. This nonpartisan Channel 4 fact-check on race and crime matches numerous criteria for "hate speech" under Reddit's current policies:

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer...

Channel 4 is considered a fact-based, center-left news outlet:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/channel-4-news-uk/

New comment by _9xrb in "Google’s caste-bias problem"

_9xrb — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:35:09 +0000

Where do you draw the line? White Gentiles are the majority population of this country, yet dramatically underrepresented in the Ivy League. White Jewish students of comparable ability are roughly 1,000% more likely to be enrolled at Harvard and the rest of the Ivies.

Does their representation matter to you? How about South Asian students versus Chinese, or (perhaps most concerningly) wealthy Nigerian immigrants versus poorer African-American descendants of slavery? The former often benefit from affirmative action aimed at the latter.

New comment by _9xrb in "2022 Oder Environmental Disaster"

_9xrb — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:09:36 +0000

The problems of greed, disregard for others' suffering, and avoidance of responsibility are universal aspects of the human psyche. The Soviet Union and People's Republic of China have a legacy of industrial pollution at least as damning as any capitalist country:

https://www.gerdludwig.com/stories/soviet-pollution-a-lethal...

https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/china39s-polluted-ri...

Reporters are routinely arrested in communist Vietnam for reporting on industrial pollution:

https://cpj.org/2016/05/two-journalists-arrested-while-cover...

As you suggest, the best known solution is identifying these externalities, exposing their abuse through a free press, and holding polluters accountable through collective action.

New comment by _9xrb in "Suckless.org – software that sucks less"

_9xrb — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 08:19:31 +0000

Your posturing as commissar, judge, and high inquisitor is as comical as it is repulsive. It is exactly why I commented in the first place, and a type of bad behavior I will always push against. Demonstrating that it is possible to disagree with and even ignore rhetoric like yours is important to the health of an open society.

New comment by _9xrb in "Suckless.org – software that sucks less"

_9xrb — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 02:05:25 +0000

>Well, sure. But since we're here, talking about neonazis

You're begging the question. They're edgy conservatives, clearly. Neo-Nazis? Show me. I object to a blinkered political hypersensitivity that permits on the one hand violent, authoritarian tendencies if you're far enough left, and bans on the other hand anyone right of Bill Clinton. I think it's unhealthy for the FOSS community and tech as a whole.

>and we disagree with neonazism (right, deepdiver?)

And we don't beat our wives. Right, gtsop?

New comment by _9xrb in "Suckless.org – software that sucks less"

_9xrb — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:28:42 +0000

So the "relationship between suckless and nazism" is:

- They picked an edgy name for an email server

- They went on a torchlit hike [0] once

- One of their members has dumb/conservative opinions on history (and vaccines too [1], unfortunately)

Is that it? Is there anything of substance?

LibreSSL's logo is a fish dressed like Che Guevara. FOSS is thick with adoration of communism and its murderous dictators. Plenty of developers who didn't live under communism have hammer-and-sickle Unicode in their Twitter bios. I don't like it, but I choose to ignore it. I don't begrudge Germans who are mad about the bombing of Dresden. I don't need to agree with the total cosmology of every individual FOSS maintainer, and so long as this standard is applied inconsistently I oppose it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_Zapfenstreich

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccin...