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by spaceribs 2y ago
You know as well as I do that it never stops there.
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by spaceribs 2y ago
That's the challenge being presented, why isn't the societal default to call a child "They" until they identify with a particular pronoun? Have you asked them if they like dresses over pants? Do they like trains over dol
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by spaceribs 2y ago
I think you're viewing your parents experience of gatekeeper through their own perceptions and biases. You're an atheist, and I assume a first generation atheist, what was your path towards that belief if they really had that leve
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by spaceribs 2y ago
You're right, it is a simple concept. Avoid talking about any and all things you deem uncomfortable and strange. Reject the identity and existence of millions of people until it's "appropriate". Maybe we should ship all
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by spaceribs 2y ago
In the other direction, have you thought about if the gender binary is being pushed on your child?
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by spaceribs 2y ago
We all have our own individual experience when we pass into adulthood, but keep in mind there was a time that being a "nerd" was far less socially acceptable to your parents growing up than when you were growing up. When I was a k
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by spaceribs 2y ago
Sex is all religious fundamentalists can wrap their heads around, because their small, rigid, hetero-normative worldview cannot condone or understand the spectrum of unique beauty that is gender identity. The structure and forms of communic
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by spaceribs 2y ago
They can also learn about it freely from their classmates and the internet, it doesn't mean that's the best environment to learn.
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by spaceribs 2y ago
Putting aside sexual orientation for the moment, are you saying children under 12 cannot develop and explore their own gender identity?
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by spaceribs 2y ago
This was a show called "Long Ago and Far Away"
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by spaceribs 2y ago
"Long Ago and Far Away" for me.
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by spaceribs 2y ago
If you're interested in the background of voice trademark lawsuits, Tom Waits is a great deep dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6y1kc8Equk
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by spaceribs 2y ago
Any Daniel Mullins game, Noita and Animal Well are excellent high depth and intellectually stimulating puzzle games. I highly suggest them all if you're looking for a puzzle box to rip apart.
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by spaceribs 2y ago
Well it's certainly at the whims of a network-effect, that's part of the reason alcohol prohibition was so insanely ineffective. There was more people who wanted alcohol than the ban could possibly handle. I'd posit that indo
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by spaceribs 2y ago
The change of making it harder or shutting off access just pushes people to reroute their behavior, moving large segments of the market into non-transparent (and non-taxable) crypto, further expanding the use of VPNs, and decentralizing the
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by spaceribs 2y ago
That's certainly a critique of voting systems, but there are plenty of ways to increase the resolution of that signal.
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by spaceribs 2y ago
The most dangerous entity in a democratic country is a widespread belief that voting doesn't work.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
It's a strangely heated topic for them, far more than the previous two generations. I'm generalizing of course, this is just based on my own personal experiences with Gen Z, there's a lot of variability within any generation.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
They're feeling the squeeze for sure, Millennials don't feel invested in the market (because we have no investments due to multiple fleecings across the last 15 years), and Gen Z is radicalized beyond belief against capitalism. Th
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Because they own and maintain the operating system, not the vulnerable software? I understand that they've built this image of being a grand infinite protector for all their users within the walls of their garden, but they've had
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by spaceribs 3y ago
That assumes that Apple would be blamed for Edge/Brave/Firefox's security oversight.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Worker-ownership via cooperatives is the best medicine for enshittification and oligarcy.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
It's just a matter of closing the loopholes then? I see law/regulation as a lot like releasing software, you need to iterate towards an ideal. Expecting an MVP to be perfect right out of the gate seems counterintuitive.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
After reading the reason why code isn't a good analogy, the mechanical/analog logic of old pinball machines might be a better example of how DNA processes instructions? Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I actually think STAR voting has a chance. The complexity is limited to how things are tabulated, who can't understand a 5 star rating system?
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by spaceribs 3y ago
ah, thank you!
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Do you have more information about this sort of programming? I'd like to read about it.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
There is an extensive market around drug addiction, be it prisons, police budgets, drug companies, rehab clinics, and of course news media/politics. You didn't really answer the question and just jumped to your own conclusion.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
When I think about the endgame of capitalism, I think about the kids in coalmines and the gilded age, the extractive and horrible conditions that allow for widespread unfulfilling company-store-owned worklife to flourish under the guise of
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by spaceribs 3y ago
What if the underlying issue is capitalism itself though?

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