In South Africa, where I live, that kind of thing is a criminal offense known as crimen injuria.

From Wikipedia:

Crimen injuria is a crime under South African common law, defined as the act of “unlawfully, intentionally, and seriously impairing the dignity of another.” Although difficult to precisely define, the crime is used in the prosecution of certain instances of road rage, stalking, racially offensive language, emotional or psychological abuse, and sexual offences against children.

There are also a good number of other laws that deal with child abuse, so offenders won’t just get slapped with a crimen injuria charge on their criminal record and say it was just road rage when questioned.

The only one that comes to mind is Hamilton Morris. I don’t know if Morris is a first name, but I really like the dude. He did a bunch of documentaries about drugs for VICE. Big tangent incoming.

Those documentaries are really good. He did one about Project Coast, an awful program started by the apartheid government in South Africa (before Mandela became president). It’s the reason why the country still has such a high usage of methaqualone (AKA qualuudes, called Mandrax or “Buttons” colloquially) compared to the rest of the world.

Project Coast did so many much fucking lingering damage. Poisoned baby milk, nerve agents, you name it.

It was engineered by this piece of shit who earned the nickname “Dr. Death”, Wouter Basson. Cunt got away with it. He’s somehow still a practicing cardiologist in Cape Town. Infuriating.

Main point: those documentaries are worth a watch. Not an ad. Pirate it if you want.

Also, if anyone happens to be near Dr Death’s practice, just fucking exorcise that demon.

are you under 16

no

ok cool here’s a youtube short when an AI voice tells you an AI-written story over vaguely related stock footage

The planet is fucking melting and elected leaders are writing laws on herding cats

I’ve been using the internet for longer than I’ve been an adult.

I still sometimes add +10 years to date of birth fields out of habit.

Might as well have issued a mandate to nom a spoonful of sand daily.

Sometimes the companies they subcontract, named something boring and innocuous like Isolace Data Systems or Wimblo Digital or some shit, fucks up spectacularly.

Like they’ll just have 400gb Excel spreadsheet called all_meta_usernames_and_passwords.xlsx stored in the company’s shared intranet and then some dude guesses the WiFi password was WimbloDigital2024 and leaks it to whoever.

How is that a ceasefire when IDF troops snipe kids and journalists in their downtime?

Does the spectrum for that word usually range from lighting the wrong side of a cigarette to serious crimes against human dignity?

1-4 years and that much money is still unclaimed

I’m not very familiar with how these bounty contracts work, but I am going to assume it’s not happening if they haven’t decided by now :(

fuck it

just going to print out the man pages for wget and study it like a religious text

When I see �, I just assume the user or another dev is using a non-standard keyboard, or my fonts aren’t up to date

When I see this shit, I lose all blood flow to the brain and then just collapse

For me olympics is when I learn about the rapid advancements in anabolic steroids

a single university textbook

That is astronomically fucking funny

Yeah, I’m not in the US. The first time I heard about them was when they shit the bed.

Same for me with Solar Winds, Equifax, SVB and Ashley Madison.

Weird to think that some kind of major catastrophe in the future could again be caused by some company that exists right now, but am unaware of.

You can do that

I recommend it, even if you don’t need it, bc it fun

Why did god tell that kid to shoot the former president

Maybe since two countries are involved it counts as world news?

Like if someone smokes weed in a legal state and the smoke blows over to an illegal state the FBI is legally allowed to drone strike them

Not sure where I was going with this, I don’t think any of that is correct

deaddit

Brainfuck was written by his distant cousin Mr Brain Fuck

zip bomb