Its the working class vs the 1%, not gender vs gender.
I think it would be great to have an app that warns women about dangerous men. I don’t think it’s possible for that to exist though, it will ALWAYS be filled up by bitter people making things up so their ex has a harder time dating.
and in facebook groups you had women ratting each other out to those men. Men pretending to women to get dirt.
I don’t like this app. I don’t like the idea of this app. I think the whole thing was misguided.
But let me tell you of a time when I was younger and more festively slutty, I had a few encounters that might have made me a user. Not all men, no, but after the third time a dude threatens to rape you in a park, you start to wonder if you could be doing more to protect yourself.
Remember, ladies, these days you can print your own handguns and make them look like whatever you want.
Holy crap, I never thought about that. That’s a whole different take on an assassin’s teapot.
I forgot about poison. Everyone should know it’s super easy to make poison. Toad venom is so big right now I bet that’s easy to get, too.
I mean poison is cool AF, but turning the teapot into a gun, with a trigger in the handle.
Wait is that an assassins teapot?
BLAM
Yes, why yes it is.
I would like to go into business with you.
I’m going to use “festively slutty” in my introductions from now on
I’d suggest just buying a small frame pistol. Printing your own and making it work reliably takes a level of know-how and effort.
Luckily everyone everywhere in the world has the opportunity to buy guns and munition at their nearest supermarket.
Pepper spray, tazer, knife, air horn, whatever the hell is legal where you live. Any of that is better for self defense than a printed gun.
I’d suggest 3D printing for affordability and because shooting and maintaining a gun already takes a level of know-how and effort.
Maintaining a gun involves knowing how to take the slide off and scrub it with a brush. 3d printing one involves knowing how they work, not to mention having access to a printer, files, then buying a kit because you still need metal internals if you don’t want it to explode in your hand. Vice did a video on printed guns.
TL;DW: a reporter got someone experienced in printing guns to help him build and test the gun over weeks and it still malfunctioned on competition day. If you want reliable self defense, buy it. Even a hi point is preferable to a printed gun, and honestly it’s probably cheaper too.
I get CC’d on Crown reports on 3D printed guns. But I’m so glad you shared this thing from Vice.
I think our disagreement might be more cultural than technology based, though, since I’m not American and gun laws are much different where I live. And it was… sort of a joke. Obviously, where I live having an unregistered firearm carries a lot of risk that outweighs the benefit.
people uploading puctures of others without their permission getting mad that their pic was uploaded without their permission.
but like, identification like drivers licenses is too far imo.
Current Status: Finding Out.
IIRC it’s the app they uploaded the pictures to that had them publicly accessible
Not even an app, it is/was a storage service in Google Cloud that was set up to be public without authentication or without any other security features enabled.
i love femcels, they just dont love me
So deserved
This was all new to me a few moments ago. After some reading, I found an interesting article:
Sorry if it doesn’t quite fit the sub or the meme. I just found it helpful and at least tangentially relevant to a broader understanding of these phenomena.
Honestly, if I stumbled across open/vulnerable data like that I wouldn’t know where else to post that anonymously. 🤷♂️
4chan wouldnt be it. Maybe breachfourms om the darkweb.
Then you can go on the clear web and pretend to be a random user who happened to see the post and then post that somewhere.
Why? Nothing the user that accessed this did was illegal. Like here’s an open s3 bucket… Can’t prosecute me for that.
Security through obscurity has unfortunately been a successful argument in the past.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz for a specific example. While he committed suicide before it was resolved it does show the kind of hammer that can be brought down from accessing public info
yeah but why even give them the chance to try
IMO the thing to do hypothetically is email and CC the news desks of the most legitimate newspapers you can think of with a link to the data.
They will all run the story because if one of them will and the rest dont want to miss the train and they will all reach out to the company asking for comment after they document and verify that the data was publicly available.
Emphasis on anonymously.
I mean how anonymous you need to be depends entirely on how legal the method you found the data is.
This wont do anything. oh no, a news story from some also corrupt org. Oh No! a data breach! can I offer you one month of identity monitoring in this trying time?
I’m just upset that tea users don’t allow men to access their data. I guess you’re out of luck if you’re bi
tea users don’t want men to access their data but tea admins did nothing to stop it
Slightly different motivations in play. For a start, how can they be femcels if the whole premise of the app is to screen men for the purposes of safe dating? Secondly, screening men so you don’t get abused is not even in the same country, let alone ballpark, as doxxing people on 4chan because you’re an antifeminist incel, an actual incel, who wants to score points with other worthless societal lip crust.
Was it a perfect app and did everyone on it comport themselves impeccably? Of course not, but you’d be an obtuse bad faith dickhead to demand otherwise. It’s just the case that these are the kinds of lengths women have to go to to protect themselves.
And let’s be clear, men do the same shit. Men talk about their bad dates with psycho women and warn each other about them, and they share nudes and other private stuff that the women didn’t intend to be shared amongst the man’s friend group. We don’t need an app with photographic evidence and licence plates and addresses because the abuse men face is usually not being raped or beaten to a pulp. But if you’re a pickup artist or a virulent incel, you’ll probably have a database of women you’ve compiled for reasons other than your own safety. Stop pretending that the stresses of relationships that men and women face are equivalent.
That app is an emergent property of decades of men’s grotesque behaviour. Technology has now put some power into the hands of women so that they can quickly and efficiently share info with each other, and you expect them to wave away that power and just let RNG dictate whether they have a normal date or a survival horror video game.
Fuck 4chan, fuck incels, the end.
I’m gonna make up a bunch of stuff from anecdotes and pre conceived opinions
People like you are exactly the reason why someone thought to make this app, if you ever went out of your parents basement.
People with critical thought?
Don’t bother. Lemmy is one of the most sexists sites on the Internet. Legitimately up there with 4chan.
This is what I think every time I see these stupid posts. Thank you for putting it into words.
