disposekinetics

Laws against hate speech are fundamentally censorious. You approve of censorship when it happens to people you dislike. You're just unprincipled.

If homosexuals have their rights ignored in some far off country you must just shrug your shoulders, they don't have rights in those countries.

Tilting at windmills under the delusion they are giants does not make you a fighter of giants.

You're abetting the destruction of free speech through while you battle strawmen.

I feel like there has been a whole targeted campaign against SF recently. Am I seeing faces in clouds?

It minimizes the amount of taxes paid overall, which weakens the state.

But isn't it good that companies shop around for the cheapest tax rate?

The big one in the news right now is voting, but Jimmy Carter formed the department of education at a federal level.

It isn't a binary, the question is the right representation as much as anything else.

I like the way it was put. I love unions but I'm frustrated by the 'sins of unionists'

I totally agree. I support the theory behind unions, but the practices by employers and unions make me wish for less coercion all around.

The most important think is if Amazon workers want to unionize.

Conversely if you keep your site simple enough the user can apply styling as needed.

I feel like you're conflating civilization and government.

I relied very heavily on Day One until they dropped most of their local-hosting features. It was painful and I still haven't found any comparable alternative.

I wish I could say the same for my home country.

Same thing with forest fires. In the last 10 years we stopped any sort of fire mitigation, and we have seen the fires get far worse.

So the rate of ad-fraud on climate news will be higher?

A bug worthy of Peter Watts.

The problem is government overreach and the proposed solution is more overreach.

I think you made a jump from laborers should own their own labor to laborers should own labor collectively. Democratically control of individual resources appears to be less than ideal.

That sounds way better than the current “parrot the right politics as you’re told”.

California is anything but a low tax place to live, but they also have tons and tons of property crime.

My dream is we move away from overly complex layers on top of HTTP and move to open simple protocols.

One of the things I really appreciate about IRC is the raw simplicity of the protocol. I hope that does not get lost in an effort to modernize.

In your estimation is having a zip bomb I'm proud of crafting on my laptop a boobytrap because it could cause problems for a malicious actor naively unzipping all my files?

Wouldn't the possession/spending of that currency strongly imply I run a node? I think it might be self-defeating.

I believe you understand why someone would object to the above, but are not willing to universalize it.

If it's profitable, yes.

Edit: If it's profitable we would expect to see it, not should in the moral rightness sense.

A union that doesn't protect their members is pretty hopeless.

I've never seen UML used at a company in any form, despite being required to take a class that taught UML.

Why would I ever join a union that didn't protect me from rampant undercutting via importing more workers? That is the whole reason I would join a union.