It’s like the “there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in-groups for the law to protect but not bind” thing.
Conservatism has always been about promoting the in-group. It’s not about rules or fairness or consistency. Just the in-group.
It’s a shitty world view.
“taxation without representation” I believe was a slogan, not a legally binding principle.
Right now, in this particular moment?
Every republican (and those who would vote republican if they were in the US) is round up and shot dead.
Pretty much any system the survivors come up with will be better.
If we make it through this, every republican needs to pay for what they’ve done to the world. No republican should be considered credible on anything ever again. I’d prefer some sort of legal process, but I won’t be upset if one of the other boxes is used instead.
moving mouse targets. Like let’s say you have two pinned items on the start menu, Firefox and steam. You click Firefox and it starts to open. You go to click steam, but Firefox finishes opening and the icon gets bigger. Steam’s icon then moves to the right, so you click where it was but instead just hit Firefox again. It’s stupid.
Note how Firefox has solved this with tabs. Open a bunch of browser tabs. Enough so they shrink a little. Then rapidly close some, starting from the left. Notice how they don’t change size until you’re done closing tabs.
Mouse tunnels. Like you click the “File” menu, and then mouse over “New” and a long sub menu opens. Longer than the original File menu. If you mouse directly from the top of File to the bottom of New, your cursor will briefly be outside either menu. This often will cause the entire menu to close. Mouse tunnel. Have to keep the cursor in the tunnel. Annoying.
Had an old job that insisted this was fine and refused to let me or anyone change the interface to fix it (on a website)
Focus stealing. Like you’re typing, and some other application pops up and takes focus. The absolute worst is when it pops up and puts focus on a dialogue box, and you just happened to hit “enter”. Instead of adding a new line to your document, you just accepted something. Awful.
I feel like if a democrat did something like this fox news et al would be screaming screaming screaming and there would be violent riots. Why is everyone else so docile?
Reminded of that Sartre quote again https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity
Except instead of fall silent I guess it’s have a tantrum now?
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
I was going to say the same. But I think there’s a big difference between a band (art) and like the startup tshirts I’ve accumulated as “free swag” over the years (not art).
A band is cool and human expression. Some website that sells ads in emails is capitalist nonsense.
I feel like in this kind of thing it’s not enough for the bigots to lose the case. Something needs to happen so they don’t just turn around and do more of the same. Like, the people on the board that made this decision should be removed and barred from holding office.
Most people don’t care about things. This is kind of a recurring problem. Imagine if people just cared a little bit more. All sorts of problems, like littering, would just go away.
But people are lazy and don’t care. They don’t care that their behavior today will be a problem for them tomorrow.
The big sites are where the content is, and that’s what they want. Suffering a little bit of hardship (fewer memes) in order to bolster a stronger future? Ridiculous.
Seems like a recipe for subtle bugs and unmaintainable systems. Also those Eloi from the time machine, where they don’t know how anything works anymore.
Management is probably salivating at the idea of firing all those expensive engineers that tell them stuff like “you can’t draw three red lines all perpendicular in yellow ink”
I’m also reminded of that ai-for-music guy that was like “No one likes making art!”. Soulless husk.
This guy is going to be responsible for a lot of suffering and death.
If he was visited by a plumber, and I was on the jury, I would nullify.
Good. Escalate further. I want to see musk sobbing in fear before the lights go out of his eyes.
holy serpent - endless : favorite doom https://holyserpentband.bandcamp.com/album/endless
Joyride! - favorite pop punk https://joyride-sf.bandcamp.com/album/joyride
Hoping for more visitations from Saint Luigi upon certain people. Shit is bad out here.
i feel like we should… do something about Liberty Counsel, then?
Like, the right wing protests abortion clinics and murders people. Why don’t we find where Liberty Counsel’s leadership lives and… uh… you know, we just wanna talk to him.
Short answer: If they don’t know anything else about you except you’re “Christian”, they don’t know if you’re like a left-wing unitarian or a horrible “conversion therapy, make being trans a felony” evangelical. The former is pretty safe, but if you’re the latter hanging out with you could be dangerous.
Longer thoughts: Many christians are not good about queer topics. This can include “we should torture them” (“conversion therapy”), laws that make life harder for them (eg: banning marriage), and lower grade unpleasantness like “i’ll pray so you don’t go to hell”.
Many christians also don’t really do much to stop their peers. It’s not really your responsibility to fight everyone on every topic, but if you keep going to a church that wants to oppress queer people, you’re supporting something that’s hostile. I don’t care how nice their pastor is or how much fun the choir group is, if the church wants to rip apart my friend’s families and you support that, we can’t be friends. Find another church.
Lastly, and this is more general and less about queer folks, most christians are not very good at it. The bible has lots of stuff about love your neighbor (and your neighbor includes your out-group) and not fixating on material wealth, but I see a lot of so-called christians doing squat for the homeless and vulnerable, voting for cruelty, and sitting around in their nice house with their big screen tv. (All that prosperity gospel, “sin all you want and be forgiven” stuff seems like nonsense.
Could still happen.
Wait, did you mean the lawyers working on their behalf or the rioters? Honestly, either could go and I’d be okay with that.
Anyone else thinking of that book “a libertarian walks into a bear”?
We just need one FBI agent or something to be like “Yo these guys are a national security threat” and pop their heads open, and we’d all be a little safer.