Maybe. But I am talking about both above the table and more shady government programs. Ever wonder where the guys at Pegasus and friends get their exploits from? They aren’t all super great hackers, they buy a lot of stuff, or so I heard. After all, for someone without money, it is a hard decision to be paid a year’s wages right now or to go the responsible disclosure route, and potentially get nothing.

And iirc the advertised price for juicy bugs in common platforms and apps was quite substantial. So, according to demand and supply, the price for such exploits was rather high, and is now significantly lower.

What, they are coming for EE now? Fuck. I thought I was safe for a while on the basis of “surely they won’t have the hallucination machine design and test the multi-million $ project”

To be fair, such bugs can easily be worth quite a bit more. If it can indeed automate finding RCEs and similar for everyone with a few $10k, then that’s suddenly way more accessible than paying a guy in a basement somewhere a million in shitcoins for that RCE.

So, your argument is, some of those groups are actually oppressed, therefore, it is inappropriate to throw in some of the actually oppressed groups in the same bin as obviously non-oppressed ones?

Yeah, that is a fair point, I guess. In retrospect, I should not have done this, if only because it distracts from the original argument, and I can see how it can be read as “look at me, a non-oppressed person, I am soo oppressed”. You live and learn, I never had the intention to make this about me, or any group I may be in.

I believe that my original argument, while maybe not exactly presented in the best way, still is valid: blanket statements against a group, any group, are bad. Some are worse than others in the context of how society treats them, sure, I agree with that.

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My bad, I thought you were arguing in good faith. easy mistake. But apparently I hate queer people now.

The example of me being a straight man does not matter at all. I could have picked any other group. In fact, in retrospect, I probably should, because we are now arguing about straight men, when we should be arguing about how “$group is bad” is a fucked up style of thinking. The solution to a society that is oppressive to some (like homosexual women) is not applying the same rhetoric of oppression and stereotype to groups that are more likely to do that oppression (like heterosexual women).

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That is a very general statement. I really dislike like such blanket statements. Because what is the difference between that and statements like “black people are dumb”, “Mexicans are drug dealers”, or, yes, “straight men are rapists”?

if someone critiques an identity that you are a part of and the critique doesnt apply to you then its probably not about you

If someone critiques a whole identity, they should either make sure that it applies to all or at least the overwhelming majority of that identity, or be prepared to be called a bigot and prejudiced.

To be extremely clear, because I know this is the internet, nuance is dead, and everything has to be black and white and packed for a 10s attention span:

You should critique people. You should point out toxic and hostile behaviour and oppressive social norms. You should, in my humble opinion, never fall into the trap of going from “gay people are bad” to “straight people are bad”.

The opposite of a restrictive society that enforces a one-size-fits-all norm (like heterosexuality, or being of $majorityEthnicity) is not an inverse stereotype, it is a free society where people are judged on their actions, not the properties they were born with.

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Then let me rephrase it, because I forgot it’s the internet and people will try to misunderstand me.

As a member of a non-specified group X, I would hate it if people would precondemn me based on thing Y, which a part of group X does more than the average population.

I could have picked any other stereotype, I just happen to be not a woman, and of the majority ethnicity in my country. Blame my parents.

However, based on this hypothetical, yet relatable thought experiment, saying that a group does a bad thing because some people who happen to be in that group do that bad thing more often than other people is at the very least rude.

Remember when fascists had a sense of style and aesthetic?

Now it’s all cheap suits, shitty haircuts and AI slop.

At least the Nazi propaganda was well made and their paramilitaries looked cool beating up minorities.

Throwing a whole group of people in there with the actions of some idiots is a tiny bit rude.

Signed, a straight man who kind of likes not being treated as a rapist and murderer.

Edit: In retrospect, please ignore the second sentence. It distracts from the actual argument, and me picking an arbitrary group should not effect the validity of the first sentence.

I’m sorry, you are raising an AI.

Oh, come on, you know what I mean. I am not complaining that the author compares different things on the same metric.

I am complaining that the author first tells a story about a worker who needs any reliable car to commute, then semi-complains about cars getting bigger and having more power, and then goes on to claim that a BYD (or was it another Chinese car?) has more HP than a Tesla, which I bet the worker from the story does not care about at all. That is sloppy at best, misleading at worst.

Or how they seem to compare base-model and “up to” prices. Yeah, if you tick all the boxes at the dealership, the car will be expensive, no shit.

Or how they list the average repair as $840, which they claim is more than many Americans can afford right now, without mentioning that maybe the average repair is skewed by some rich people doing repairs on their Ferrari, which might cost a bit more than changing the oil and replacing the clutch of the average worker’s beater car in Joe Smith’s No-Name Car Shop.

I am not even against the core observation or message of the article, cars suck in all but exceptional circumstances, and I want a society where most people don’t need and don’t have a car. But maaan.

Makes sense. Aviation is all about certification and reliability, racing is performance above all else, and you’ll always find some old industrial machine in the back of a shop that has somehow been running since longer than anyone remembers.

Reminds me of how despite RoHS and all that, leaded solder is still a thing for some applications like (legacy) aviation and repairs (leaded and unleaded solder apparently don’t mix well, or rather, make things corrode or something like that)

Regardless of whether they are right or wrong, what a terrible article comparing all kinds of apples and oranges and jumping to conclusions.

Aren’t “lead additives” lead free? My dad had an old car that needed leaded, and I remember he’d put some additive every time he went to refuel. I recently found a bottle in our basement, it pretty clearly said “lead replacement” and at a glance, the ingredients didn’t seem to contain anything that sounded like lead

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Chrupalla Abschnitt Außenpolitik

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-russland-aktuelle-stunde-bundestag-100.html

https://de.euronews.com/2025/11/09/afd-insa

Gut, viel davon ist sicher Parterhetorik. Aber so groß ist der ideologische Unterschied zwischen Trump und seinen Silicon-Valley-Milliadären und Putin und seinen Gas-Oligarchen auch nicht.

Abgesehen davon ist die AfD eben auch kein homogener Block. Dass sich manche mit Musk und Maga und andere wieder mit Medwedjew treffen, ist nicht unmöglich.

Shared interests. Weak EU is good for non-EU blocks.

Plus, even the fascists are not homogeneous, with some of them actually believing in patriotism, and others selling out to the highest bidder (like China)

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