chriscrutch

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[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Genealogy. I've done a couple of research projects for friends just because I find it interesting and challenging even if it's not my family.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for digging that source up, that's interesting

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have never heard of that guy before three minutes ago, but your comment intrigued me and I couldn't figure out why gay marriage legalization would make someone "flee" the country. So I looked at wikipedia. Supposedly the reason he left seems to be more related to legal issues involving his not paying child support, and it was to Luxembourg not Morocco.

It's a pretty short article and maybe there's an escape to Morocco as well that just didn't make it into the article.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ha! That's pretty funny. I remember those things.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

It's the same as some random-ass human walking down the street with their phone recording something. If you're in public you have zero expectation of privacy, especially in the era of everyone having a handheld video recording device within reach of them at all times. Any one of those humans could share video with the LAPD and no one could really say a thing.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not currently seeding it, no, but I do have that one.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a somewhat large collection of digital Rammstein bootlegged concerts. I think at one time many years ago I may have had one of the largest collections in the world. That's definitely no longer the case, I stopped collecting them around 2002 or so.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Can anyone chime in about the safety of this from a battery standpoint? If it's going to function that way it'll probably have to be plugged in all the time, and that device's battery is not removable.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Almost without any privacy concerns. When I went to college around the turn of the millennium, I worked at the main food court on campus. We had a card system just like you're describing. When we swiped the student's card to pay for their meal, their student ID would come up on my screen. Their student ID was their SSN. Back then the first three digits of a person's SSN was based on the state they lived in when they got their number assigned. For most people that was when they were a baby or at least very young, and for most people that's the state they did most of their growing up in. I used to have most of the codes memorized, so when I'd swipe someone's card and see that they had an SSN from someplace that wasn't the state where the university was, I'd mention it. "Oh, hey, you're from Ohio? My aunt lives in Ohio."

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

If they're already your friend, then you obviously like each other enough to have gotten along for however long it's been without talking about politics. This to me indicates that probably neither of you feels strongly enough about politics to have it be an issue unless one of you starts pressing it. I acknowledge that I may be oversimplifying your question.

[–] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

"They're not in the office right now, can I put you to their voicemail?"

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