🚨 #Microsoft#Outlook wants to snatch your e-mail login data (user name AND password) as part of a shady "synchronize" feature. The user has to confirm this, but it is hidden behind confusing technobabble.
And people wonder why I hate #proprietary software. 🤮
Deviantart gets away with stealing other people's artwork for their AI image generator to make money from them without ever having to compensate the artists they stole from.
Why is there evil, and what can scientific research tell us about the origins and persistence of evil behavior?
Baumeister casts new light on these issues as he examines the gap between the victim's viewpoint and that of the perpetrator, and also the roots of evil behavior, from egotism and revenge to idealism and sadism.
In Out of Eden , Paul W. Kahn offers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. He uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. Kahn's interpretation of Genesis leads him to inquiries into a variety of modern forms of evil, including slavery, torture, and genocide.
It is a Handmaiden’s Tale level nightmare now in Texas, where Lubbock has become the largest county where it is illegal to travel through the county to receive abortion services in another state. This is what predictably happens when you throw a fundamental question of human rights “back to the states” to decide. We need Roe v. Wade and its legal protections codified.
Consider: Hamas launched an attack with a wantonness like what the Nazis showed It did so knowing that it would provoke the most furious Israeli response possible.
Why put millions of Palestinians at risk?
Hamas also achieves practical and propagandistic goals
More dead and wounded Palestinians mean more sympathy for its side and more condemnation of Israel.
This is my evil cat Monkey. It is not her fault she is awful. She came from a home with dogs and crack heads and has serious trust issues, but the softest fur and the cutest fucking feet ever. MAN does she bite though. #caturday#catsofmastodon#pets#evil is made not born
"During the tumultuous months of the Trump presidency, during the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprising, the feeling that our fictional sense of evil was not sufficient to match the evil in our world repeated as I watched some of the popular entertainments meant to help me stay inside my home, safe from the virus and out of the overburdened hospitals."
When Trump makes death threats, it should not intimidate anybody; it should make US righteously angry. Love is sacrifice. That little man hates the USA. 🇺🇸
This is why I won’t set foot in an American evangelical church. Where are the evangelicals? Why aren’t they condemning this? Oh that’s right, they mostly voted for Trump and pushed the people with morals out. Those who stayed are worshipping with racists and misogynists and there is no repentance. They wield threats as a weapon to control US, instead of rebuking abuse. And they “don’t want to be political”. #Deplorable#Evil#Evangelicals https://youtube.com/watch?v=peJoSJZorDg&feature=shared
Father Rejects Plea for Locking His Adopted Son in a "Box" for Behavioral Issues
In January 2022, police in Jupiter Florida were called to the home of Tracy and Timothy Ferriter, about a missing runaway child. Detectives discovered an 8 x 8 room, described as a box, equipped with a padlock and doorknob, both of which locked from the outside. Inside they found a camera, a mattress and a bucket with a light switch on the outside wall of the room.
The two parents had confined their adopted eight-year-old son inside this box for hours at a time, over the period of five years.. The child, who is now 13 years old (14 according to some reports), was adopted from Vietnam and had been diagnosed with "Reactive Attachment Disorder" (RAD). After returning from school, the boy was kept in the structure built in the garage, where they brought meals of leftovers to him and provided only a bucket for him to use the bathroom.
Today, the father Timothy Ferriter rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors offering him two years in jail and five years of felony probation. His role of the dice may see him facing up to 35 years behind bars. His wife Tracy, is being tried separately with jury selection in that case set to begin on Friday. Defense attorneys argued that the longest period of confinement was 10 hours which to me, doesn't lessen the severity of the parents actions. Other reports cited the period of isolation in the box to be as long as 18 hours.
Treatment of people with invisible disabilities and mental health challenges being victimized in this way, as occurred throughout history. Isolation and abuse of this nature is certainly no way to treat behavioral issues, and anyone who knows anything about mental health knows, this type of treatment, will only make things worse. Below I've linked my piece on "Ridge Home for Mental Defectives" which provides a glimpse at an extreme example of this atrocious form of what some seem to think is appropriate "mental health treatment".