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MisuseCase

@MisuseCase@twit.social

#infosec and #cybersecurity professional who preaches about stakeholder engagement and #usability. #poverty abolitionist. Does #knitting, loves #kdramas.

My political views do not reflect those of my employer, who I will not disclose.

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theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

MisuseCase,
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@theluddite You can say that about solar panels, but as long as the organizations that build, own, and operate them are for-profit companies, profit is going to be top of mind.

It doesn’t matter if the generator is powered by solar or wind or coal or what: if it’s owned by a private company, that’s how it’s going to be. (Which is why utilities should be nationalized/in the public sector.)

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MisuseCase,
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@theluddite The idea that solar panels are somehow free of all the issues and perverse incentives associated with capitalism, or that they should be even if they are some company’s private property, is something popularized by capitalist marketing.

Unless they are nationalized, solar panels are an instrument of profit and subject to the whims of their profit-oriented owners too.

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MisuseCase,
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@theluddite Also, on a related note, “too much electricity on the grid” is a real mechanical/engineering problem that can break things. It’s why we need more storage and transmission to both ensure grid resiliency and to make full use of abundant renewable energy when stuff like this happens.

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @theluddite Making clean fuels would be good, or doing water desalinization or something. (The latter might require uninterrupted power, I’m not sure: I know water treatment and sewage treatment do.)

I’m also in favor of putting more nuclear on the grid to manage baseload demand. Nuclear has a smaller material/physical/ecological footprint than renewables and solar - but may not be appropriate for all situations.

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@billiglarper @CedarTea @theluddite “Baseload” means the electricity you need to generate to meet demand at its absolute lowest. You may need more than that at times (like peak times), but never less. Something that generates constantly and predictably is perfect for that.

“Baseload thinking doesn’t work anymore” well, the problem with that is baseload still exists.

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MisuseCase, to random
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That popular leftist account with a Picrew avatar of a red-headed woman is saying egregiously incorrect things for likes and retoots again.

This time it’s “Joe Biden obviously has no plans to tax the rich” when his proposed presidential budget included raising taxes on the very rich, and more significantly, the IRS is aggressively going after rich tax cheats more aggressively than they have since…well, since I can remember.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I’d just like to point out that are about 8,300,000 people in NYC.

HUNDREDS 🤣

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/23/hundreds-of-trump-supporters-pack-bronx-rally-as-counter-protesters-jeer-outside/

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 And a lot of those folks probably aren’t from NYC. Or they’re from Staten Island, same diff

MisuseCase, to random
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There’s a lot of “the outcome of X is predetermined because lots of other people are doing/will do Y so it doesn’t matter if I do Z” going on, so people can justify shirking their responsibilities to each other.

This is about electoral stuff but also things like even minimal COVID mitigation and combatting climate change.

MisuseCase, to random
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Well, yes and no. It wasn’t the House that the John Lewis VRA got stuck in, but the Senate, because Manchin and Sinema (mostly Manchin) preferred to keep the filibuster in place as a CYA measure. https://mastodon.social/@davidbrin/112491210974906425

GottaLaff, to random
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Today I read one report that RFKJr has 17% of the vote nationally.

Then I saw this from Cook. So you'll forgive me if, despite knowing how meaningless polls are, I get nervous:

https://www.cookpolitical.com/survey-research/2024-swing-state-project/unique-election-driven-traditional-issue

MisuseCase,
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@SailorDisco @TCatInReality @GottaLaff At a certain point this is deferring responsibility for the thing you are going to do (not vote, vote 3rd party) and its potential consequences. It’s basically a thought-terminating cliche to use against the notion that you might be obligated to do even the tiniest bit of harm reduction for your neighbors.

MisuseCase,
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@TCatInReality @SailorDisco @GottaLaff I will say that a lot of voters are miseducated, on purpose, by their schools or the news or political ads. That’s not their fault.

But if you are someone actually paying attention - and most people on here are - then saying you won’t participate and making excuses for actions that you KNOW will have a bad outcome is on you, not someone else miseducating you.

BigAngBlack, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/free-church-of-scotland-under-fire-for-failure-to-apologise-over-slavery-money

MisuseCase,
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@BigAngBlack There was a whole thing about this in the 1840s when Frederick Douglass toured Scotland and spoke in churches - he would get people chanting “Send back the money!”

evacide, to random
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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

MisuseCase,
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@wrosecrans @evacide Nobody consulted a policy and compliance specialist about this. It’s shocking that Microsoft didn’t get input from at least one. This would violate a lot of data protection policies for many enterprise customers.

StillIRise1963, to random
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There’s nothing neo about nazis.

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 They aren’t very creative or imaginative, every fascist group does a rehash of the same things over and over.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The media is against the people.

MisuseCase,
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@CartyBoston @StillIRise1963 The NYT publisher and editor-in-chief are basically like “defending democracy is a partisan business and we don’t do partisanship” which explains a lot

MisuseCase, to random
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Someone made a good point on our Synagogue listserve:

“To the extent that we decide we must hold allegiance to the term Zionist as a litmus test in Judaism, I wonder if we might inadvertently be communicating to young adults that their sorrow and anger around Israeli policy might mean there is no longer a place in Judaism for them.”

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MisuseCase,
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“In a time of dropping enrollment at rabbinical school and plummeting participation in religious institutions, is this our line in the sand? Remember that an adult under 35 has almost never known an Israeli government not led by Bibi.”

This accounts for a lot of the generational divide on Israel among American Jews and Americans generally.

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Green_Footballs, to random
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I wonder if President Biden understands that Netanyahu is going to repay his continuing alliance by doing everything he can to help Trump win the election. Benjamin Netanyahu is no friend of the US, especially not the Democratic Party.

MisuseCase,
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@pooserville @Green_Footballs Yeah, it sure looks that way.

And furthermore I fear that if he wins with just that group of voters, with all the young folks saying “both parties are the same” and “I’m not voting” all the way down, that will incentivize the next Democratic presidential contenders (if not the party as a whole) to triangulate to a more conservative position again

MisuseCase,
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@pooserville @Green_Footballs I posted something the other day about how people use terms like “Overton Window” but don’t seem to understand that this, and a lot of other politician behavior they don’t like, is totally an Overton Window thing. As in, politicians have to stay within the window, and our views aren’t in the window (yet).

MisuseCase, to random
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If you think “overpopulation” is at the root of environmental crises like climate change and you won’t acknowledge that the problem is actually an economic system that promotes relentless resource extraction, consumption, and externalizing costs to the environment, then you need to answer my follow-up question of “how many people do you think need to be genocided and which ones?”

It’s a fair question and you should show you’ve thought through your position.

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MisuseCase,
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Accepting the devaluation and disposability of human life as a norm is a big part of why we’re in this situation in the first place.

A society that cared about human life wouldn’t have most of these problems.

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MisuseCase, to random
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“Both parties are the same” is really “the right wing has shifted the Overton Window to include the things they want and shut out the things we want.”

Or sometimes the things we want have not had their time in the Overton Window yet.

Pushing the Overton Window in any direction takes time and sustained effort. Once pushed, it does not immediately snap back when power changes hands.

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randahl, to random
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Israel destroyed 300 houses in Jabalia in Gaza, and now rescuers have found 150 dead under the rubble.

The International Criminal Court is taking notes.

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-05-18-24/h_86178379ffb887999b5c524ed0e26822

MisuseCase,
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@allen099 @randahl So if a gang of dangerous criminals hid in your house with your family still inside, or in your child’s school with your child and their friends still inside, it would be okay to level your house or your kids’ school, with your loved ones inside, to get the gang of dangerous criminals?

MisuseCase,
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@allen099 @randahl Hamas is illegal and under sanction by most of the world. It’s why they have to get money in cryptocurrency or other under-the-table ways.

I don’t know where you get the impression that a lot of the world supports Hamas or there is no pressure on it when neither of these things are true.

MisuseCase,
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@allen099 @randahl Oh, getting back to my original point, if an internationally sanctioned and illegal terrorist organization (like Hamas is) hid in your house and took your family hostage would it be acceptable for the army to level your house with your family inside to “put pressure” on the terrorist organization?

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