> 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors
This in particular seems like such a silly outcome of over-regulation and bureaucracy. Amazing. Research suggests most child sexual abuse does not have much of a long-term effect at all:
This (of course!) does not mean it is good or should be done, but it suggests this is not an urgent issue, certainly not one that can justify abolishing privacy, especially when these measures only catch the small fish, not the large trafficking rings who will probably switch to different means of communication once theirs gets compromised.
You're arguing that child sexual abuse is "no that bad" by citing a guy whose "research papers" include gems like
* The left-liberal skew of Western media
* What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration
* Mental illness and the left
* Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray's Human Diversity
* Race Differences: A Very Brief Review
* Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis
* Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability
* Sex Distribution, Life Expectancy and Educational Attainment of Comedians
* Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015
* Country of origin and use of social benefits: A large, preregistered study of stereotype accuracy in Denmark
* Inequality in the United States: Ethnicity, Racial Admixtureand Environmental Causes
* Increasing inequality in general intelligence and socioeconomic status as a result of immigration in Denmark 1980-2014
* Criminality and fertility among Danish immigrant populations
He boasts 24 publications in Mankind Quarterly and 20 in OpenPsych, both of which he seems to run himself. Mankind Quarterly according to Wikipedia 'has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal", an "infamous racist journal", and "scientific racism's keepers of the flame"'.
There are excellent cases to be made why privacy and encryption should not be compromised in the name of hot button issues like "protecting children" but citing a study by a "scientific racist" and eugenicist, who is a known advocate for legalizing child pornography, to trivialize child sexual abuse is not it.
You don't need to be a "left liberal" not to cite Emil Kirkegaard. Being a decent human being or having any appreciation of actual science would suffice.
The propaganda and media cooptation is just staggering. It's extremely suspicious that very little attention is paid to the fact that reducing consumption will likely increase poverty.
If you trace, for example, the supply chain of some medicine you might use, or might depend on in future: The machinery, chemical refinery, transport, sourcing or resources, management, markets, and infrastructure below all that.
All of this will get orders of magnitude more expensive if we reduce carbon emissions. You will not be able to afford medicine if you need it, and possibly die of a horrible death, e.g. from an infection and without painkillers.
In the meanwhile, anyone raising these issues is defamed as climate change denier.
You have a kernel of truth there which isn't talked about enough (the fact that CO2 consumption brings advantages which reduce death and misery AND potentially reduce further CO2 consumption as well, in a "you gotta spend money to make money" way).
Unfortunately you are wrapping it in delusional hysteria such as "you will die of a horrible death from an infection without painkillers". So you're getting down voted because you are completely ignoring how things such as subsidies work.
> Unfortunately you are wrapping it in delusional hysteria such as "you will die of a horrible death from an infection without painkillers". So you're getting down voted because you are completely ignoring how things such as subsidies work.
Are you denying that reducing consumption drastically increase the chances of such a scenario? Of course what I wrote is only an illustrating, but likely plausible scenario, one of many ways in which it will increase ecological harshness.
Drastically increasing is meaningless if it's still an insignificant chance before and after. This is just not how things work and it's not a "plausible scenario", simply because we wouldn't let that happen.
We are barely able to give up pure leisure and convenience when faced with doomsday scenarios. You're under the impression the first thing that would go in such a scenario would be the life-saving stuff?
Production of eg. healthcare would absolutely be affected but that would just mean it would be more expensive for governments. Good example: your vaccine is free because governments invested collectively trillions of dollars into their production. It's free despite being one of the most expensive things we've done lately.
> You're under the impression the first thing that would go in such a scenario would be the life-saving stuff?
I think once we admit nature to be more important than humans, we will quickly slip on the slope and reduce consumption too far. Politics is largely dumb, so the risk is there. What you call leisure and dispensable is someone else's existence (e.g. the tourism industry). Central redistribution is hard and mostly does not work and gets abused. There are few historical examples in which it worked well and many in which it has failed.
I dearly hope the Greens will not win. Reducing consumption is an extremely tricky problem, and likely unfeasible without creating large amounts of poverty. I'd rather live in a rich, powerful nation with strong workforce and military rebuilding after each storm than being stripped my last rights and eating worms while a tiny elite still enjoying the freedoms we once had. Please do not fall for the propaganda.
Find smarter Greens and replace your current feel-good Greens with them. For all our sakes.
A strong nation the size of EU nation does not have the resources to fix it. Maybe fight it a bit and try to not make it worse but alone that will not be enough.
US or China might have these sorts of resources, but as we know politicians prefer patches and blame redirection and status quo.
EU's and Germany's emissions are negligible anyhow (9% and 2%, respectively). It's all about the U.S. and China (and maybe India) at this point, especially the latter two that have the strongest increase in emissions. There is no point in inflicting arguably some of the worst politicians in history on these relatively small European nations. They should rather be investing in building a strong workforce and military that can rebuild after storms. The fact that this is not being discussed openly is deeply suspicious.
Germany's per-capita emissions are significantly higher than other Western European nations like the UK and Spain though (9.44 vs 5.55 and 5.40)[1] and pro-nuclear France manages even lower per-capita emissions than those (5.13).
Because Western imperialism is very likely only a secondary cause, if any. You see strong condemnation of sodomy all across Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, with an extremely wide variety of religious and practical (STD prevention) underlying motivations, even in regions without any history of imperialist occupation, and such cultural norms are stronger in regions with higher birth rates, higher infectious disease death rates and lower hygiene standards.
Is anyone aware of a tool that simplifies setting up AppLocker? I simply would like to whitelist already installed programs and block everything else, ideally without configuring anything.
I opened up the article by just hoping to find this one thing: I simply would like to whitelist already installed programs and block everything else, ideally without configuring anything.
by default %programfiles% and %programfiles(x86)% are whitelisted, so for most users pretty much that's exactly what they will do with Lockdown, launch it click Enable and that is all that needs to be done. Granted you do need to worry about specifically whitelisting programs not installed to those locations, which are few if any for most people, and actually it wouldn't be a bad feature idea to add an automatic scan for them since some apps insist on running from nested %appdata% folders...
Where opinion is being manipulated by the U.S. security/military complex.