No one seems to comprehend it from this angle, but this also helps to destroy the open internet:

Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS.

This is being pushed by Google et al. because mandated encryption makes it more difficult for regular users to handle publishing their own sites. It’s also designed to penalize non-Google ad networks which are much further behind on implementing HTTPS.

If you aren’t looking for where the money is going and why, you are looking in the wrong damn place (which is what most people do most of the time).

To all the idiots who say that “intention is irrelevant” when someone you don’t like makes a mistake, first of all you are as mentioned an idiot.

But let me introduce you to the concept of mens rea.

Yes, intention matters very much and pretty much always should.

I know, Tumblr tools aren’t bound by notions of traditional English-derived common law. But they should be at least bound by common sense.

I’m more like a porpoise than a person, and when I was a kid I used to seek out rip currents as they were the easiest way to get far from shore, which is where I liked to be in those days.

I feel bad for those people. I’ve always just been comfortable in water. A rip current to me was great fun. And anyway, how do you have trouble treading water in the ocean? It’s hard not to float since it’s so dense. And it sounds as if at least two of them had boogie boards. What?

I truly don’t mean to be a jerk but I can’t understand. I am glad the people were rescued but a rip current is only dangerous if you battle it. When I was young and lithe and relatively fit, I’d use those to swim sometimes nearly a mile out. I didn’t measure but I could barely see the people on shore so it had to have been about that far.