“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuiler
privacy nightmare
If lots of random civilians are wearing them and training them on ICE/police/fascism then the privacy nightmare might run both ways. There are a lot fewer masked enforcers than civilians. And a lot more stochastic violence in the air.
Piefed is more like Slide or one of the other alternative Reddit clients
More privacy, cleaner Python code anyone can help improve, less weird rightwing science denialism
Wait maybe he ever had a roommate whose friend’s second cousin was trans
That’s a pretty obvious antifa emergency worthy of sending in the troops… right?
Yes, this. I certainly didn’t come up with the phrase, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2013&context=jss
Listen. This is important. We are in WWIII
I hope democracy and rule-of-law overcome religious autocracy. It’s touch-and-go.
I hear you and will make a terrible confession – I used to be a hardcore libertarian and very opposed to “speech police”
I still am 100% opposed to enforcing speech. Don’t give someone a fine for saying the N-word, just treat that person as you would anyone who is vulgar or objectionable.
But I do see value in cultural shifts that bend in the direction of greater inclusivity and tolerance. I am with you in that I will absolutely not go along with ones I don’t see as authentic or valuable (eg “Latinx”, or for example I am a heteronormal male who presents as male. I don’t bother adding “he/him” under the photo in my work profile)
I realize it’s kinda annoyingly P.C./woke
But yeah, I also have taken to referencing “allowlists” and “denylists” instead of “whitelists” and “blacklists”. And “worker nodes/manager nodes” instead of “build slave”/“master node”
they’ve also become a target for far right propaganda
Of course that’s the calculus. Stay and fight the disinformed where I am, or go to a more well-defended location?
It’s easy to forget that record numbers of US citizens have gone from proudly having belief with no evidence in a Sky Daddy, to not having any affiliation with anti-reason traditions
From only 8% back in 1980, up to 2024 where 25+% are now at least ostensibly members of the reality-based community
As a kid and young adult, I used to say “American” to mean “Citizen of the USA”
Then I started working with multinational companies and a big chunk of my team was in Mexico and other parts of central/south America.
I’m happy for another word for “USA citizen”, tell me what to use
USAian here. Honest question. What is a good pluralistic tolerant democratic country with very low percentage of credulous adults who have a Sky Daddy?
TIA
“What’s the difference between Oracle and the Boy Scouts?”
“The Boy Scouts are led by adults”
Scientific research
Sci-hub FTW
And it’s more of a video format than an image format, lots of juicy attack surface
50+ Caucasian cis male multinational tech company middle manager here.
I speak Spanish on work zooms, when everyone else is in Mexico.
TBH I do it because I try to avoid being the asshole boss who everyone else has to accommodate, and instead be the pluralistic, humble boss that shows appropriate deference and respect to the employees that actually do the work.
Offense: “a bit rude”
Punishment: no job, bad references, no health insurance
I’m not going to berate anyone for doing the right thing a little after I personally did
You individually don’t have to do everything. Drop the one least important holding from your life, and let the company know why you did it
Nobody has to die. A fuckton of us just have to do without Disney+ for a bit.
Charlie would have been very proud