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by sershe 6y ago
See sibling response. The example illustrates the principle. My point is that it either has nothing to do with civil rights whatsoever (any, not just speech; if I'm wrong please elaborate), or it is slightly anti-civil-rights, in a way
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by sershe 6y ago
The only way using preferred pronouns could be related to civil rights, though, is as a restriction of free speech. So, either ACLU is tweeting something partisan and unrelated to civil rights, or they are tweeting something that is evidenc
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by sershe 6y ago
That is absolutely not the right, not at all. Although I honestly don't give a crap about this particular issue, and would use whatever pronouns people prefer (as long as I don't forget them, as one sometimes does even with names)
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by sershe 6y ago
I've canceled my ACLU membership and stopped donating a couple years ago, but it's really hard to get off their email lists. This year after receiving some emails that made my blood boil, I've actually done some research and
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by sershe 6y ago
I moved with my Ikea furniture ~10 times in the last 12 years, including 3 interstate moves and a couple stints in storage, and almost all of it is ~good as new; we have both the cheapest $10 coffee tables and chairs, and the "high end
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by sershe 6y ago
Well, as long as we recognize marxism as morally equivalent to nazism and, while suppressing the openly far-right movements/publications/elected politicians, suppress the openly far-left ones. ...just kidding, I am a free speech a
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by sershe 6y ago
Well, ultimately it's a question of authority. I cannot, or have no time to, validate even the simplest statements about something non-controversial, e.g. physics, but I choose to trust scientists and ignore some guy on Youtube who cla
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by sershe 6y ago
That doesn't compute, and I say it as a Biden voter. So, is the email authentic or not? How is not denying it evidence for anything other that it being authentic?
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by sershe 6y ago
It was similar with FidoNet, which I had before I could afford internet in Russia. Every day you'd dial what was effectively a BBS (some dude with a modem on his home phone line), download the personal messages and forums (echomail), t
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by sershe 6y ago
I used to be a big fan of Bernie Sanders' ~2015 platform of "raise taxes and do sensible things" until I realized there's only one Bernie Sanders and he's pretty old. First and outside of the scope of this discussio
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by sershe 6y ago
I, unlike the GP, actually do propose that, in preference to the current approach. The way I see it, it should work like both the rights and responsibilities currently work for children. Children are not tried for crimes as adults (most of
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by sershe 6y ago
I find this particular aspect to be the reverse for most cases, especially on the receiving end. Staying in guest bedrooms sucks. You have to be quiet at certain hours (and hosts may not be), you cannot do certain things (like walk around w
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by sershe 6y ago
Yeah, the same way atheism is a religion and "off" is a TV channel. Individualism as a political philosophy would be smth like advocating for libertarianism/adjacent stuff, etc. The apolitical stance is the apolitical stance.
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by sershe 6y ago
It was instructive to hear the discussions in a Russian-speaking developer community about this... how the current stuff going on in the big companies reminded the older generation of the performative ideological cheering going on at their
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by sershe 6y ago
That is a mis-characterization. My no-stance stance is not that I support that status quo, it's that I'll try to care about myself and my friends and family no matter what you political idiots do. Communism? Sure. Fascism? Whateve
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by sershe 6y ago
Unions seem to be great for generally interchangeable workers. Where there's room for personal achievement (or non-achievement), I cannot imagine any good use for them. E.g. I'd like to do more work and be paid more and rewarded m
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by sershe 6y ago
They are worse than you can imagine, at least from my anecdotal experience. Someone I know is a teacher and wanted to do clean up invasive plants overtaking some parts of the school grounds with kids, as a field trip for Environmental Scien
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by sershe 6y ago
Oh man, I could rant about this forever. I think the trick is to not annoy or interrupt the user and the only explanation I can come up with of why people do either when it would be simple to not do it is that an average UI designer or fron
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by sershe 6y ago
Thank you for admitting you are not able to refute it. I didn't really know who Andy Ngo was before, but now I think he might be a credible journalist (of color, too) who did his research and provided evidence, something that is not we
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by sershe 6y ago
That is not a problem with surveillance though. Surveillance works to catch package thieves, it's that the government is dysfunctional and won't do the actual catching.
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by sershe 6y ago
I'd actually love that (if it worked). The last apartment building I lived in in Seattle had packages stolen regularly from a locked room. It was an arms race between criminals breaking the glass window in the door to open it (wire add
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by sershe 6y ago
Refute it then.
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by sershe 6y ago
These apps really put this into perspective for someone who used to smoke a pack a day 15 years ago :) So I guess spending all day outdoors is not THAT bad?
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by sershe 6y ago
Interesting, I have actually come to similar, but even broader, conclusion and that was not a comfortable realization. I come from Russia so I used to be a democracy absolutist, but based on the recent social-media-influenced grassroots (an
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by sershe 6y ago
Could it be incentives? Make the project bidding fixed-cost; as a contractor if you add delays without the change in requirements, you eat the costs.
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by sershe 6y ago
To preface, I disagree on the pandemic damage vs lockdowns damage (other than the economy, projected increase in deaths from heart disease, cancer, increase in suicides and domestic violence and (in the developing world) starvation, malaria
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by sershe 6y ago
On multi-pitch outdoor routes, if you get on first you usually stay first until the end unless there's a much faster party and a bypass pitch they can use, or you let them climb thru or use the same anchor (if they are faster they are
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by sershe 6y ago
Unrelated but it cracked me up... I do a bunch of outdoor stuff but really couldn't get into surfing (and downhill skiing) because you have to wait/jostle with people/paddle forever/wait some more until you finally get 1
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by sershe 6y ago
By that criteria Denver/Boulder, Seattle, Portland, etc. are way superior. Any kind of nature activity (hiking, backpacking, skiing, paragliding, cycling) is better and closer, except surfing perhaps. With density that I until recently
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by sershe 6y ago
Funny, in the US, I live in a 1906 craftsman house (it was a mistake to buy, and my wife is afraid of change plus it's a non-trivial monetary loss to switch) and everything I dont like about it is the opposite of what you describe. The

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