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Same here, until this debate surfaced I never thought about slavery when I saw these terms. What made me think more about slavery was the materials that go int

Same here, until this debate surfaced I never thought about slavery when I saw these terms. What made me think more about slavery was the materials that go into computers like cobalt and sulfur. Someone has to go down into the sulfur mine and get that for us. That's an actual master/slave relationship that is going on right now to power all our fantastic infrastructure. But so much industry has depended on sulfur for so many years that this debate is much deeper and more complex. The ugly truth is that someone far away has to be enslaved for us to live comfortably. Bring that debate to the front instead and we might find a technical solution to it. But it's always cheaper to find a desperate person than to maintain a robot that is being attacked by gas and sulfur daily.

Brian_K_White 6y ago
And now I am imagining some video where they go down into sulfur mine and tell one of the miners "We bring great news for you! Github changed the default name of master code branches to something else! Gitlab too! It was kind of a little bit annoying a little but they're doing it anyway!"
- XorNot 6y ago
  Yeah and just think, then we could also tell those people about how a wrongly accused man in not their country was released after charitable efforts to clear his name, in the process overturning a negligent evidence handling process which will make things much better going forwards! And...it still wouldn't matter to those people at all because it wouldn't change their specific situation! This is a pretty insipid argument.
  - Brian_K_White 6y ago
    There was no argument. It was an image. But the parent argument is valid, you just somehow missed it despite it being descibed and illustrated. github's action isn't absurd because it doesn't change any random person's situation. It's absurd because of the specific people whose specific situations are not improved.

Brian_K_White 6y ago

And now I am imagining some video where they go down into sulfur mine and tell one of the miners "We bring great news for you! Github changed the default name of master code branches to something else! Gitlab too! It was kind of a little bit annoying a little but they're doing it anyway!"

XorNot 6y ago
Yeah and just think, then we could also tell those people about how a wrongly accused man in not their country was released after charitable efforts to clear his name, in the process overturning a negligent evidence handling process which will make things much better going forwards! And...it still wouldn't matter to those people at all because it wouldn't change their specific situation! This is a pretty insipid argument.
- Brian_K_White 6y ago
  There was no argument. It was an image. But the parent argument is valid, you just somehow missed it despite it being descibed and illustrated. github's action isn't absurd because it doesn't change any random person's situation. It's absurd because of the specific people whose specific situations are not improved.