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ShaneMalachow4 karma

My friend is quite curious and it's rubbed off on me, how malicious are hidden services sites. He always wondered what these sites even looked like, but is too afraid to try it for fear that they'll use some form of malware or virus etc to attack his computer. Where's the safety in this?

ShaneMalachow3 karma

Alright guys, let's take a step back. Fact: stabbing someone is fucking crazy. Especially premeditating it. It's by far not the craziest shit to happen but it's still no where near necessary.

Here's the stance I'm gonna take, and I hope most of you acknowledge this. Yes stabbing anyone, even in retaliation is fucking crazy. But should he have been out in this situation to begin with? I'm not gonna reiterate his whole story because I'm lazy and it's not hard to scroll through a post. But he was running low on avenues. School and parental help was a no go. I might be making a stretch assuming so but I get the feeling he's not in a place to fight back bare handed. Let's face it, we all can't be karate kid, and not even a swift kick to the gonads is gonna be a guarantee to incapacitate. The police never take a case of bullying seriously, even with all these shootings, til it escalates to assault, threats of murder or destruction of significant property or the like. Parents are definitely not a guarantee in this situation. The common case I find with this is the parents are not going to solve anything. As a student teaching assistant, I had a student in class that unprovoked would cuss, threaten students, harass others, and use racial and homophobic slurs, but the school wouldn't intervene because of an established IEP and his parents wouldn't let us do anything against it. It got to the point of him harassing me personally outside of class and the school wouldn't do anything about it. His parents didn't care and wouldn't let us take him out of the class, even though he's wasting his time and failing the class no matter what. Parents like this are either in no power to stop them, deny it even happen, or don't care at all. His options are extremely limited in the circumstance and using a knife to defend himself is understandably reasoned in his circumstance. Learned helplessness hasn't set in and he's looking for any way out no matter what. Especially when it escalates to him punching him in the face and hitting him in the genitals, there's risk to significant physical harm and even death, so he was in serious danger.

Here's the rub: it's still not right to stab someone, it's ridiculous. But even worse is the fact he felt he had to physically assault someone, commit a serious crime, to stop his own suffering at the hand of another. Bullying is extremely preventable. If administration is told and there's already light physical assault, all steps should be taken to remove the attacker from the victim. Not the other way around either. And like I mentioned before, police don't take stuff like this seriously enough. It's just a matter of the ones that are supposed to take it seriously, taking it seriously. I'm not even gonna suggest parents educate their kids on not bullying because it's just not practical. But incidences like this should be strictly enforced and it's ridiculous that any kid should feel he has to respond with violence to a problem.

TLDR: yes it is fucked up he stabbed someone and premeditated doing it at school. But at the same time he shouldn't of been put in a situation where he thinks violence is the only avenue.

ShaneMalachow2 karma

It depends entirely on what you play! Electric guitar strings are always magnetic because that's how electric guitar pickups work. Steel, nickel, or cobalt. Acoustic is a 50/50, sometimes it's things like steel, nickel, or it could be bronze or copper. Or if it's classical it's probably nylon. I'd be curious to see how it interacted with the pickups, but since he's right handed and they are in his left hand, it'd be a much more subtle difference.