I didn’t take your comment as rude, personally. To me, opening with Akshually indicated that joking intent to parody pedantry and I took no offense. I just felt like expressing my opinion on the term with no particular judgement of your joke because I think that the words we use are worth talking about.

I know I have a habit of replying seriously to jokes, which often comes across as me taking issue with them. I keep forgetting to clarify the tone of my message. If only there was a medical term for that communication deficit 😉

Maybe even a cognitive

I can’t speak for all of us, but I prefer “Autism” as a blanket term (that we hopefully all understand covers a wide spectrum anyway) over “Disorder”. Yes, I get that we deviate from the neurodevelopmental norm, but “Disorder” feels condescending to what I perceive as simply a different way of working.

I also understand that some with higher support needs may differ from that perception. My opinion is not universal.

On the other hand, I’m perfectly fine with calling my ADHD a Disorder. Shit’s chaotic as fuck.

I love þat you’re trying to bring ðe þ and ð (back) into English.

High at 14h

Sure sounds Arbeitslos to me

(This is a joke, not an insult or criticism)

Way off the mark then, embarrassing. Particularly since I’m from Southwest Germany, you’d think I’d recognise Schwyzerdütsch. I definitely need more exposure to dialects.

In my classes on analytics, we were taught to prefer using normalised axes starting at 0 to more accurately put changes into perspective.

Ah right, a walk around nature! Because I have so much nature around me!

(Also, I’d prefer to get meetings and impromptu requests from colleagues in the morning, because I tend to get way in the zone around 14h-15h, with the drawback that I often run way in excess of 17h when I’m supposed to leave so I’m home by ~1815.)

What dialect is that? Sounds like Pfälzisch to me but I never was good at placing other dialects

Computers are as much ritual and magic as they are understanding. The Tech Priests of WH40k had the right of it.

Then do some digging and find that the GitHub instructions omitted some particular dependency, make a mental note to contribute a PR to the documentation later once you’ve got it working, get it working, promptly forget contributing that documentation, move distro later, try to reinstall the same program, make the same mistake, same discovery, learn nothing, repeat ad nauseam.

who aren’t […] fucking children.

This works on two levels. One is embarrassing, the other horrifying.

I’ll take the right thing for the wrong reasons over the wrong thing for even worse reasons.

I mean, if you ignore the parts about giving away your wealth, being a good samaritan, looking for fault in yourself before criticising others, more stuff about collecting treasures in heaven instead of on earth, humility and patience in the face of adversity, honesty, forgiveness, even more stuff about throwing out moneylenders and people making money from religion…

Basically, take away the entire gospel and a solid chunk of the epistles, focus on the “If I regularly ask for forgiveness of whatever unspecified sins I might have committed, Im a good person and won’t burn in hell like all these bad people”, squint a little, account for a margin of human error, and he does look a bit like a Christian!

Of course a modern underground rail road would function different than the one 300 years ago.

Certainly, but I suspect there will be parallels. I consider it important to understand the past and apply that knowledge to the present to predict the future.

Legal adults don’t need to notify anyone that they are moving.

Of course not. But you know as well as I do how important personal rights (particularly women’s) are to the party of Law and Order. If women started fleeing, they’d find some line of arguing why this couldn’t possibly be them exercising their human rights.

Multiple normal states have already passed laws that protect women from any persecution for laws restricting their bodily freedoms.

My worry is that the other states (or rather the unhinged citizens thereof that create such legislation that would warrant saving women from them) may escalate this ideological conflict. We’ve seen the hateful incitement of violence happen already. It’s not legal to storm Congress either.

If I don’t respect your laws, believe that they’re “wrong” anyways and disobeying them is right and just, and think that I can get away with it, what’s to stop me?

no way to tell why a woman left.

Obviously evil librul indoctrination! The same people believing that the female body “has a way of shutting that down” and that a woman’s proper place is in the kitchen probably don’t respect the woman’s actual motives, if they consider it an evil plot. As you rightly pointed out:

Because their goals are to subject women and to ensure that there’s always a poor, unhealthy, uneducated, and subservient population.

If they don’t believe on a woman’s right to self-determination, none of the good and legal reasons women might want to determine their own lives will matter to them.

It’s way easier to move a willing person over someone who is surrounded by a supportive community. I’d imagine this organization would help LGBTQ+ people escape as well.

And that is exactly what the opposition would need to be: a stronghold, united in the purpose of being a safe haven for all the oppressed.

All these parallels to slavery aren’t an accident. Like the Railroad mentioned in the premise, I worry that an effort to liberate women from the stranglehold of a society trying to subjugate them, yet depending on them, would spark a similar counter-effort to recapture them. In the hypothetical that such a modern Railroad would be created, this Railroad and all its supporters would similarly need to be prepared for a violent response. I wish freedom could triumph peacefully, but history suggests poor precedents for that.

That’s not an attempt to dissuade, mind you. I’m all for it. Liberate the enslaved and oppressed from their oppressors and have a plan to defend them.

While I’m not sure the idea is practical, I would be curious to see it play out.

What starts as a few cases of women disappearing would become a pattern. Allegations of abduction would be leveled as pretense to seek, arrest and prosecute all that help them leave. Meanwhile, by the power of the Internet, it would be quickly found out where these women fled to. An underground counter-stalking network would emerge, seeking to steal back the women. Eventually, another civil war might break out, this time over women’s right to control their own fate.

History might not repeat, but it may well rhyme.

If discourse and argument fail to quell the intolerant, a tolerant society must be willing to use censorship and even violence to defend itself. If we let them trample all over our values, tolerating them for the sake of being the “better person”, we’ll be the better corpse sooner rather than later and history will remember us “Look how nobly they did nothing!”

If our history is ever written, that is.

When it’s done to bad people, sure. When done to him it obviously wasn’t a bad thing because it was rigged and unfair and all that, because obviously he couldn’t do any wrong.

(That’s a sarcastic rendering of what I believe to be his logic)

For being mean to him? He’s a kid throwing around words he heard but doesn’t understand. It means doing something bad to people, and that’s enough for him. More worrying is the second point - it might be enough for his cult too. I fear things are going to get ugly.

If you do not act you are not absolved of morality because you had a choice. You made a choice and your morals were tested.

You hold the opinion that deliberate inaction is an action in itself, that the worth of lives can be quantified and from that conclude that a failure to reduce a loss in life is tantamount to condemning those lives to death. That conclusion is valid under those premises, but the point of the dilemma is that not everybody agrees with those premises.