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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoneurodiverse•I always feel weirdly nervous around men who dress too corporate.
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    3 months ago

    It sounds like maybe you see suits as a strong symbol of socioeconomic status, authority, power, and likely oppression. I don’t, and I’ve worked both blue collar and white collar jobs (including construction, since you specifically mentioned our vests). Also my current job is blue collar, if that matters to you.

    In my country, suits are usually worn by working class people either at semi-formal occasions like weddings or in some professional settings (white collar office workers, public-facing service or sales personnel, etc). The wealthy are more likely to wear shorts and flip flops.

    And I’m not sure why “pressed” and “blue” are so significant. Black and blue are just common colors. Pressed is not really a thing for most suits, so I assume you just mean businessy-looking. Suits can be expensive but most aren’t. Looking “nice” mostly comes down to whether it fits. A $50 wool suit off the rack looks great if it fits, and honestly few can tell the difference between a $100 and $1000 suit including me.

    TL;DR: It’s OK to dislike a style of clothing. I think “suits” is kind of a broad category — if you said “Patagonia vests” it might seem more natural to me due to the tech/finance association — but still it’s fine to dislike suits. I only object to being afraid of or pre-judging people by their clothes alone, and moreover encouraging others to do so. In conclusion, and to answer your last question, suits are definitely not SS uniforms.

    Edit: OK upon re-reading your reply, I realize there’s a pretty big age-gap here. Know that I’m not criticizing your preferences and it’s fine to have feelings about clothes. My advice is just to give people you don’t know the benefit of the doubt and do your best to treat others with respect regardless of their appearance, because many will surprise you as friends, allies, even comrades. Best of luck.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoneurodiverse•I always feel weirdly nervous around men who dress too corporate.
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    3 months ago

    Edit: I almost forgot the most important fact. Threads like these are counter-revolutionary. The revolution simply will not occur as long as would-be comrades in the working class are easily divided by such matters as…

    (checks notes)

    …apparel.

    I don’t often wear suits, mostly because of the strong associations and prejudice well-represented in this thread, but here’s my brief defense of the old-fashioned clothing style.

    Suits are mega comfy, like pajamas. They’re versatile, can be modified to fit a variety of tasks and occasions. You get nice compliments from strangers when you wear them. They can be nondescript or flamboyant easily. They don’t signify social or economic status (beyond employment, perhaps, since it was once traditional professional attire) and most who wear them regularly are working class, not wealthy. You can thrift one for 20 bucks.

    Styles of clothing are neither evil nor good, and say little about the character of a person wearing them outside television and theater.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoaskchapo•Things to do in DC
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    3 months ago

    Hear local bands on H street. Join a kickball game on the PedMall. Buy art+mj from Gallaudet students. Try the firecracker calamari at Cantina Marina, pair it with old bay cheladas. Buy from an oil man on the red line. Grab coffee at the portrait gallery courtyard cafe. Create a peanut shell massacre at a Nats game then play flip cup with lightweights at the yard. Count whitehouse roof snipers from the Vue on hotel Washington. Try the eggs Benedict at the tabard inn. Ghost/night-tour Arlington cemetery. Get demolished by GM Thomas at DuPont Circle. Before sunset buy a bag of oysters at the wharf and picnic on the shore of the tidal basin. Supposedly there are also a few museums.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtodiy•DIY Sand Battery Space Heater
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    5 months ago

    Steam is still distributed in New York. It’s why the Gotham manhole vented steam aesthetic can still be seen in-person: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

    Definitely not the most efficient heating. Just lots of old construction in this city.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoSecurity@lemmy.ml•Amazon storing classified US government documents improperly
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    5 months ago

    True, and interesting since this can be used as a statistical lever to ignore the exponential scaling effect of conditional probability, with a minor catch.

    Lemma: Compartmentalization can reduce, even eliminate, chance of exposure introduced by conspirators.

    Proof: First, we fix a mean probability p of success (avoiding accidental/deliberate exposure) by any privy to the plot.

    Next, we fix some frequency k1, k2, ... , kn of potential exposure events by each conspirators 1, ..., n over time t and express the mean frequency as k.

    Then for n conspirators we can express the overall probability of success as

    1 ⋅ ptk~1~ ⋅ ptk~2~ ⋅ ... ⋅ ptk~n~ = pntk

    Full compartmentalization reduces n to 1, leaving us with a function of time only ptk. ∎

    Theorem: While it is possible that there exist past or present conspiracies w.h.p. of never being exposed:

    1. they involve a fairly high mortality rate of 100%, and
    2. they aren’t conspiracies in the first place.

    Proof: The lemma holds with the following catch.

    (P1) ptk is still exponential over time t unless the sole conspirator, upon setting a plot in motion w.p. pt~1~k = pk, is eliminated from the function such that pk is the final (constant) probability.

    (P2) For n = 1, this is really more a plot by an individual rather than a proper “conspiracy,” since no individual conspires with another. ∎