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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
> His questions did not carry any such implication and that is a blatant misrepresentation of the argument he was making. I also read through this in-depth at the time, and yeah, he definitely did carry such implication. Hiding it throug
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
I wouldn't expect it to show up on their Wikipedia page, because Wikipedia has a high barrier for what they consider reliable information, and they wouldn't use email list postings, or personal accounts of behavior in what they&#x
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
Exactly in the same boat here. At an old job I once had one of the most useless people in the office, in a 1-1 meeting, tell me that the black people in the office were only being hired for DEI/nepotism (he didn't say "black
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
"Just asking questions" sounds innocent until you see that the questions being asked have insinuations behind them. He was asking questions that implied that women and non-white people are less intelligent. Phrasing outright racis
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
This isn't a good example, because this isn't "walking on eggshells", this is an example of a misguided policy that has unintended consequences, and in your own example, when they understood the unintended consequences,
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
This is why folks can't take yall seriously when discussing code of conduct. This person has a history of being shitty, and they used the CoC to enforce a (temporary!) ban, citing the rules he violated. If the CoC didn't exist, yo
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
There's also (relatively) strong renter protections, including effectively frozen rent. Yes, it's possible to increase rent, but only if the surrounding areas prices have increased, and even then the renter has to agree or it othe
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
I'm saying it's not competitive because they're not competing to provide a better service, they're competing to provide the same service at a lower cost, but the quality of the service is effectively always worse than th
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
This is why I say it's propaganda. The same underlying service is being done. It hasn't been cut. It's been shifted from a government service, to a private industry. The government pays roughly the same amount they were previ
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Lowest and fourth got a tax increase . Middle class got a minor tax cut, the middle-upper class got a decent cut, and the upper class got a large cut. It's also worth noting that the cut in question also had temporary provisions that
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> Why did you leap from talking about incels to talking about friends? It's not friends that are the problem, it's partners Because most of the people saying this kind of stuff tend to be incels, who famously don't have pa
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Japan now has Kimi Onoda as Minister in Charge of Foreign Nationals and Immigration, and she's an immigrant herself, but her stance on immigrants is pretty hardline. These people aren't anti-immigrant because of issues with immigr
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> Conservatives want to cut taxes to force liberals to cut spending. Liberals want to increase spending to force the conservatives to increase taxes. This is straight propaganda. Both parties increase spending. One party cuts taxes for t
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> It's also the norm to be told that you need to be vulnerable and share your trauma and you're lesser if you don't. I think the norm now is that you should share your trauma with a therapist, to help heal. I can't im
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
This is part of the "persecution of conservatives", where they "can't say a thing anymore". They obviously can, and still do, but feel their voices are being suppressed. The reality is that their opinion isn't
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Especially considering a considerably amount of their bandwidth is free, via peering agreements.
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
How many people are needed to maintain instagram, facebook, etc? Wikipedia isn't just a collection of static content. The page contents include static and dynamic content (via a lua scriptable set of templates), semantic data (wikidata
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Smart hands is more expensive than having dedicated datacenter staff, and the dedicated staff do a considerably better job. It's worth noting that WMF runs _very_ lean in terms of its datacenter staff. You're also ignoring the nee
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> you're implying that people who don't want a CoC will actually behave badly, and I don't think that's accurate at all, at least not for the majority If you fight against a code of conduct, which has a more listed ou
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
So you're saying that we should be able to add training requirements to use a firearm, if well-regulated means "well functioning, well trained, efficient". Similar to how we require folks to show they know how to properly dri
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
To the folks that say they won't contribute if there's a CoC: this just proves they're working. If you can't avoid the behavior called out in a CoC, then we don't want you to contribute. Thank you for self-selecting
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
I'm not personally against individuals owning guns, but the part that is somehow vehemently opposed is the "well-regulated" part. There's effectively no regulation, and somehow the 2nd amendment has been warped to leave
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
The 2nd amendment specifies "well regulated militias", but somehow this part is always left out by gun enthusiasts. The idea was to ensure states can have militias, and that those militias would be allowed to have guns. Somehow th
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
> Developers ship more often when code deploys in seconds (or milliseconds) instead of minutes. I don't want my code deployed in seconds or milliseconds. I'm happy to wait even an hour for my deployment to happen, as long as I
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
They mean the same thing I was suggesting. Illegal immigration is a symptom of a problem. Immigration is too difficult, but we so heavily rely on immigrant labour that we allow it to continue. Most undocumented immigrants are here for work.
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
It's not disingenuous. Republicans rally their base against "violent illegal immigrants". They don't rally their base on "fixing immigration issues", but on deporting people, which is effectively the same as ru
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Let's not continue using propaganda numbers around undocumented immigrants. There's not 10s of millions of illegal immigrants. There's roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in total, and that number has _decreased_ since
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Except I don't want to use crypto, I don't want to accept crypto for content, I don't want to pay middlemen for using crypto. Micro payments using crypto is just a way for folks to prop up crypto currencies. It also is a dead
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
Yes, pet owners who live in no-shoes households. I live in Japan, basically everyone here does it. I do it as well. If you have pets and want your floors (and sofas, and beds) to stay clean, you need to wipe/wash their paws. It takes l
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by ryan_lane 1y ago
If you're worried about that, have house shoes (or slippers). This is the norm, especially providing slippers for guests, in no-shoes homes.

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