#175 kills

[fandomfan315]

I love Martin sm. Girl is FULLY okay with demigod murder. ME TOO BITCH YEAHHH FUCK EM UP MARTIN

[dirt-str1der]

I still get scared when i remember kiryu is canonically quite lean and not a fatty at all

[beevean]

Random question out of the blue, but I saw a post on a forum I lurk, that offhandedly alluded to Archie comics nearly killing Sonic even before Sonic 06, due to Sega not paying attention to what was being done with the character until it was too late. Having seen you rant about IDW Sonic before, (which I don't think is the same thing? But still adjacent enough to be relevant) you seemed like the best person to go to for context on what happened with that prior run.

I'm not well informed on Archie, sadly. I tried to read the reboot, but turns out it wasn't a reboot at all because it still required me to know events happened before that issue 😂 and pre-reboot is a complete mess I wouldn't even know how to touch.

I do know that technically the "real" Robotnik the comics start with dies early on, and then he gets replaced by another dimension's counterpart. A bold move, I suppose.

TvTropes gives me this:

Mistaken for Dying: Though he survives some near-fatal adventures, his friends and family thought he had died more than once. Issue 125 was easily the most dramatic as he stopped a doomsday device from destroying the planet. Everyone thought he was vaporized when he was really warped halfway across the universe. It took him a year (in Mobius time) to get back.

Plot Armor: No matter how bad things get, Sonic is always guaranteed to win in the end or eventually rebound from a short term defeat. It's eventually revealed to be an In-Universe case: according to Mammoth Mogul and Eggman, Sonic's long-term exposure to Chaos Energy has essentially made him an Anthropomorphic Personification of Chaos, a living unknown factor; no matter how strong the bad guys get, no matter how ingenious their plans are, and no matter how far they calculate and plan, Sonic will win at the last minute. This has driven Mammoth Mogul to play the Long Game, using his immortality to his advantage to simply wait it out until Sonic dies of old age or just gets too old to fight, and is what led Eggman to create the reality warping Genesis Wave tech to have a way to counter it.

(this last part explains a few fanon misconceptions, huh)

Sorry I wasn't of much help lol. I hope someone else can answer your question!

[inhidingxoxo3637]

Acosta's dedicated to sharks stays unrivalled

[nimblermortal]

@athingofvikings Like this!

(the table on the right applies to free men only, and I did not include the supplements)

(women, of course, get and give nothing)

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

MOKONA IS INCLUDED IN THE BIG FAMILY MOMENT OF TRUST 

WE ARE WELL FED TODAY

MOKONA GETTING A THOUGHTFUL PAUSE TO CONSIDER HER OWN FEELINGS AND COME TO HER OWN DECISION

HOW OFTEN DO WE GET THAT

NIHON IS EVERYTHING

[abelle25125]

by the end of this chopper and zoro are going to have matching chest scars hahahaha <<failing to cope

[mira-blue]

all these demands for a nerf to widowmaker's headshot damage. god forbid women do anything 😒

[dtccompendium]

Episode 175: The Man Who Was Killed Four Times

A famous actor has been killed. Yumiko hits him on the head with an urn when he comes into her dressing room and harasses her. So she confesses to the murder. Then Haruyuki confesses to the murder because the actor went to his room after regaining consciousness to harass him too. And Haruyuki hit him on the head with an urn as well. Finally he went to Katsumata’s room to harass him, and he also hit him on the head with an urn, and confesses to the crime. But it was actually his wife, who killed him with stomach medicine. (No urns were harmed in the making of this episode.) 

[whiskeyote]

Omfg I crave Violence against rural internet

the upload speed isn't even a crawl, it's the speed at which rain weathers rocks

[godmademewithoutarms]

When u get mass followed by bots

[averagegriftersbonefan]

ok, i have finally gotten to season 5, and i have got to say one thing. this fanbase infantilizes martin to Hell and back and i do NOT understand how you can do it if you finished this damn podcast, i understand hes very sweet and he has a really cute voice but from 165 to 175 i think i have heard him pretty cheerfully ask jon to kill people about twice per episode on average,

[ms-demeanor]

i’m curious what your opinion is on the finer points of the case mentioned in the JSTOR post you reblogged earlier. the two sources in the post say that JSTOR didn’t press charges against him and had already settled with him by the time he killed himself. from what i read on wikipedia, the concern seems to be that JSTOR complied with a subpoena, which i don’t believe they have a choice to ignore? if anything it seems like the us government had reason to want him dead for wikileaks and public court records reasons, so they took a terms of use violation and blew it up into a dozen federal crimes.

is there more context i should be aware of? i have no particular affection or malice for JSTOR but the sources i found don’t exactly implicate the database or its employees in murder.

That's from page 175 of this document. This line: "The activity noted is outright theft and may merit a call with university counsel, and even the local police, to ensure not only that the activity has stopped but that - e.g. the visiting scholar who left - isn't leaving with a hard drive containing our database" is where I think the culpability starts.

If someone is downloading 1000s of articles (what seems like reasonable threshold for us to take action), what's wrong with us - or the university in collaboration with us - alerting the cyber-crimes division of law enforcement and initiating an investigation, having cop search dorm room and try to retrieve any hard drive that contains our content, etc. Our content is extraordinarily valuable and hard to replicate by the sweat of one's brow, but can be duplicated by savvy hackers and who knows what they want to do with the content?

Page 379: "Does the university contact law enforcement? Would they be willing to do so in this instance?

From page 1296:

I think the important thing to note here is that JSTOR had worked with MIT and had plans in place to prevent future similar downloads, but remained focused on identifying the person responsible for the downloads and ensuring that their data was deleted.

"I might just be irked because I am up dealing with this person on a Sunday night, but I am starting to feel like they need to get a hold of this situation right away or we need to offer to send them some help (read FBI).

And there it is. Page 3093 of the document.

JSTOR can hem and haw about it all they want, but you can't un-call the cops.

MIT was working with JSTOR on preventing future incidents of pirating, but JSTOR repeatedly said that they weren't going to let it go, that it was unacceptable to drop the issue, that they were going to continue to pursue the pirate.

You can scroll through the document and see the JSTOR tech department and abuse team talking about Swartz as a script kiddie, and a hacker. You can see someone talking about how this was real theft - making the comparison to stealing books even while admitting that piracy doesn't close others out of access.

You can see the thread starts with a joke about punching someone in the face for hacking their system, and includes the tech team ominously considering whether they should threaten the MIT librarians with the FBI.

There's something really important to note here which I don't think that people who aren't PRETTY DEEP into hackery shit aren't aware of: US law enforcement is absolutely rabidly feral about prosecuting hackers. People may be more aware of this now because of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden (and perhaps a bit on tumblr because of maia arson crimew), but people who work in tech and who are in infosec - like the people joking about calling the FBI in these emails - would be aware of the bonkers disproportionate punishments faced by hackers. And knowing that, they kept pushing and pushing and pushing for identification of the hacker. They kept digging with MIT, they kept saying that simply preventing future incidents wasn't enough.

Early in the exchange someone from JSTOR asked "what's wrong with us - or the university in collaboration with us - alerting the cyber-crimes division of law enforcement and initiating an investigation, having cop search dorm room and try to retrieve any hard drive that contains our content, etc." and the answer is what happened to Aaron Swartz.

It is absolute bullshit for JSTOR to say "we arrived at a solution privately and didn't want to press charges" after law enforcement has gotten involved with a hacking case, especially one where they're talking about "real theft" and are attempting to quantify and emphasize the amount that was "stolen" from them.

The *public* may believe that private individuals or institutions are the ones who "press charges" but that's simply not the case. It's prosecutors who decide whether or not to go ahead with charges; they do it based on what cases they think they can win and what their office's perspective is on the crime. When you hear about people choosing to press charges it simply means that they decided to tell the prosecutor they wanted the case to go forward. It's up to the prosecutor whether or not that happens.

And the tech team at JSTOR had to know that law enforcement wasn't just going to wag a finger at an academic hacker.

There's a parallel here that happens sometimes when people have their identities stolen by their parents. If you mom takes out a credit card in your name, that's identity theft. That's fraud. That's illegal. If you reach the age of 25 and realize that your credit is ruined because your mom has been defaulting on cards in your name, you've got two choices to fix that: one is to accept the debt and pay it off and build up credit, and the other is to report the identity theft - which will end up with your mom in prison for a decade or so. Ruin your own personal finances, or your mom goes to jail for ruining your finances. So if you find out that your mom stole your identity you can't just call the cops to pressure her into transferring the debt to her name or something. That's not an option. The cops are not a threat to wave over people, they are not a way to get people to fall in line or act right. They aren't someone you can send to a college student's dorm room to retrieve a hard drive and have the matter drop.

When you call the cops on someone you are sending the full force of the law after them, and the full force of the law falls really heavily on hackers, and how heavy that blow can be is something that the JSTOR team must have been aware of when they were making snide comments about calling the FBI because they were frustrated with the noncommittal responses they were getting from librarians.

Ultimately it was the carceral state that killed Aaron Swartz, but they would not have been involved if JSTOR didn't think that what he did constituted theft.

Taking an *EVEN LARGER* step back from that, the idea that information can be owned and locked behind a paywall is what killed Aaron Swartz, someone who fought for information to be free.

Like. JSTOR is a licensing company. At the end of the day, cute social media posts and all, they're the same as the RIAA and ASCAB. They exist to extract a fee from people attempting to access information.

Aaron Swartz and all that he stood for are an existential threat to their core function.

Are JSTOR's hands as dirty as the federal prosecutors? Absolutely not. But they operate on a model that puts them in opposition to open information activists and it ended up with a hammer falling on Aaron Swartz that they dropped.

[intersectionalpraxis]

Nearly 40,000 Palestinian people have been genocided (they did note at the end this includes people that are assumed to have been killed and are under the rubble.) 73,300 Injured 132 Journalists killed 2,000,000 displaced 106,000 homes completed destroyed 250,900 Partially destroyed homes 175 Destroyed/Damaged press headquarters 432 Damaged schools 2,120 Destroyed Industrial facilities 621 Damaged mosques 3 Damaged churches 756 Healthcare professionals -326 killed and 430 injured 279 Healthcare facilities (28 Hospitals, 65 Clinics, and 186 Ambulances) 199 Heritage sites 197 Civil Defense workers 42 killed and 155 injured 3,350 Detainees/Forcibly disappeared

Do not stop talking about Palestine.