Men are scared women will laugh in their face

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An innocen man lost his career, his wife and children, and his home. That’s a little more than “a laugh to the face”.

And she only got caught because she went to the police. The vast majority of accusations are designed to never come even remotely close to anything properly investigative. They’re meant to impart the maximum amount of social and economic destruction with a minimum of accountability - and preferably none at all.

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As for the good Samaritan, he says the incident has deterred him from helping a young woman ever again.

And a large number of men are learning from the misfortunes of other men, rather than experiencing such pain and destruction personally. This is why “chivalry” is dead. And good riddance.

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And she only got caught because she went to the police. Most accusations are only meant to destroy careers, so never come close to anything even remotely investigative. HR washes their hands of the man, (usually) blackballs him in the industry, and never tries to find out anything more beyond the woman’s accusation.

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As for the good Samaritan, he says the incident has deterred him from helping a young woman ever again.

Men are seeing incidents like this, and learning by example before painful experience hammers it home.

Schools were never meant to be places to learn. They were primarily for the working class to learn obedience and deference for their betters, so that they might make better factory workers. They were only meant to provide just enough education for the working class to understand instructions that they were given.

If he really hates Canada so much, he needs to point himself south and start walking.

Eventually he’ll run into the American border and have the opportunity to immigrate.

Holy shit.

I managed to get into an M4 Max Mac Studio Pro with 128Gb back in December because I could see where the wind was blowing and needed a new Mac for the next 6-8 years (for reference, my last one was a fully plumped out 2018 Mac Mini).

Now you can’t get my config for any amount of money. Literally - the option for the M4 now tops out at 64Gb, and even moving to 96Gb forces you to the M3 Ultra. That is a drop of 50% in terms of the M4 Max provisioning ceiling, which is notable because you can’t add more later.

Plus, even with just 64Gb, the current M4 Max is now more expensive than what I paid for mine.

The M3 Ultra is even more severely nerfed… its original provisioning ceiling was 512Gb, now it’s only 96Gb, which is a drop of over 80%.

Like, holy shit.

I think I should have been a librarian.

Not in America, you don’t. Librarians are getting doxxed, harassed, and getting death threats for protecting everyone’s right to read.

Some are even being arrested over the right to read.

It’s an ugly time to be a defender of truth and rights in today’s America.

The WiFi alone is enough to keep me employed.

30+ years in the IT industry, 44 using computers.

I will go through extraordinary lengths to hardline a system with an Ethernet port just to avoid using wireless.

It’s not that I don’t know wireless - I do. And that’s the problem. Even after three decades of using it, I still consider it to be by far the most unreliable and downright skanky networking method possible.

Damn, I could use some of that hardware.

The issue came down to ease of usability. PGP simply wasn’t plug-and-play, hell it wasn’t even easy to set up. And most importantly, it absolutely depended on the other person having the same configuration.

As messaging platforms like Signal has shown, security and encryption needs to be transparent and unnoticeable. It needs to be totally frictionless and thinking-free in order for the average Joe to want to use it.

And that is even before other issues such as platform stickiness, which Signal has issues with.

Just a few years older, in IT as a career, and absolutely the same.