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by Latty 4y ago
Your post implies you think that being able to say the word yes and being able to consent are the same thing, which is frankly worrying. The obvious example is children can say yes, but they cannot consent. This isn't new or surprising
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by Latty 5y ago
"Unwanted birthday party" is such a misleading thing to claim as the root cause, reminds me of the McDonald's coffee case, framing very legitimate lawsuits as frivolous. Employer put him into a bad situation against his will,
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by Latty 5y ago
Is setting up SSH keys particularly painful on platforms other than Linux? This feels like a lot of work to avoid that.
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by Latty 5y ago
I'm not sure how you read any of that into my post, but it doesn't follow at all from what I said.
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by Latty 5y ago
My post wasn't saying that my entire point was provable, just that it was specifically trivial to show you can create great work without that suffering. If you can't think of a single example of a valuable thing being made by a
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by Latty 5y ago
The idea workers have to suffer under "great men" to produce things of value is provably untrue and just an excuse by those "great men" to act in unacceptable ways, while taking credit for the work done by those people.
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by Latty 5y ago
When we don't have enough of a treatment, we have to prioritise somehow. Are you arguing it was wrong to prioritise older people for the vaccine, for example? If you think that the metrics they are using are bad, make the case, but arg
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by Latty 5y ago
This is true of literally all indicators. Should we also not prioritise on age because we could in theory isolate a ton of age-related factors that are comorbid with COVID-19? Where to draw the line is a hard question, maybe we can do bette
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by Latty 5y ago
Except the examples they give of absurdly high weighting are from the case I mentioned. It being a factor is not unreasonable, there are lots of risk factors for diseases and race is often one of them, clearly for COVID-19 age is an extre
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by Latty 5y ago
It's very clear to me, clicking through to sources, the author came into that piece with a conclusion and worked back to the data from their. The case they cite was instantly changed when pointed out, and the company said it was a mist
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by Latty 5y ago
Maybe because people buy nonsense opinion pieces that twist the truth to try and imply experts spend their time on nonsense as described? What actually happened, if you read the sources, is a Catholic healthcare company set some wrong param
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by Latty 5y ago
This feels like you read the headline and didn't even read the conclusion, and are just injecting another issue. This paper suggests when told that there are racial health disparities, white people felt less worried about it (as they f
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by Latty 5y ago
I mean, as I said, I think that's a core factor in this instance, and culpability increases the justification. I don't think that means that targeting random people in protest is wrong universally. A common example might be blocki
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by Latty 5y ago
The harm done is very clear: the indented implication that Ukraine is controlled by Nazis is intended to justify Russia's illegal and unjustified war which is about control by Russia, and helps no one in Ukraine.
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by Latty 5y ago
Yes. I believe that those people should be able to judge me and socially shun me, including calling for my firing, if I express that I am pro-choice. I think they are wrong, but it's on me to try and persuade enough people that I'
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by Latty 5y ago
I don't think the line is so simple. I agree that the "any Russian person" aspect of this makes it unjustified, in my eyes, but harming property more generally? Well, denying someone their property is certainly harm of a sort
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by Latty 5y ago
A good question I don't think there is an easy answer to, and one that depends on how you perceive the action being protested and the protest action. A recent case in the UK involved people vandalising (throwing into a river) a statue.
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by Latty 5y ago
I don't think there is a clear-cut line, no. Context matters, and people will disagree about what is proportional or justified. Clearly that doesn't mean all protest methods are always justified, and I even said I think that thi
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by Latty 5y ago
I agree, to some extent. I think it was largely ineffective and poorly targeted protest. The media coverage is not really necessary as it's already highly reported on, and the people harmed have no control over it. With that said, disr
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by Latty 5y ago
Are they? I don't see surprise: I see people defending the action (to some degree), but I can't find a single case of anyone who is surprised at people reacting negatively to it.
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by Latty 5y ago
Vandalism can be a form of protest. Again, every protest ever has had people saying that the disruption to them is over the line. It draws attention and coverage to the issue. It forces people to listen. Protest has to be disruptive to the
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by Latty 5y ago
Was anyone surprised people were pissed off?
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by Latty 5y ago
Do people think the people protesting like this don't know that this is damaging? They presumably feel that the issue at hand is more important than that damage. Every protest every has been met with "but this protest is being don
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by Latty 5y ago
So freedom of speech should be limited if you could cause someone to lose their job? So I go to a shop, and the employee calls me a piece of shit, I could be arrested for telling their boss that they were rude?
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by Latty 5y ago
This seems like an argument to have better "public squares" and better regulations against monopolies, rather than enforcing private entities to platform others.
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by Latty 5y ago
You are equating government imprisonment with public cancellation here because they both have a chilling effect, but we very quickly run into the paradox of tolerance: do you restrict the expression of "cancelling" to protect othe
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by Latty 5y ago
I said "for actions they take that harm others", and you jumped to some trivial difference of opinion. If the difference of opinion is supporting policy that hurts me or people I care about, then yes, of course it can harm me. You
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by Latty 5y ago
People have a right to expression, but not a right to a platform. Not everyone can go on TV every day to talk about what they believe, so it must be curated, and that curation is an expression in and of itself. Should we try and be proporti
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by Latty 5y ago
OK, but then the government is deciding what speech should be allowed without losing your job. If it's any speech, then do I get to tell people my company sucks and they shouldn't shop there without being fired? What about telli
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by Latty 5y ago
Yeah, of course that's a problem, having a bigger platform gives you more political power. This... isn't new. Money is the classic way to attain platform, and the US has repeatedly doubled down on the freedom to spend as much mone

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