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saintshenanigans ,

Its stack, it doesn’t matter what the question is, the answer is “fuck you for asking”

saintshenanigans ,

I’m no history buff but iirc wasn’t FDR doing an absolute fuckton to help the people, too?

saintshenanigans , (edited )

There’s like a $10 app called super display that will turn any android device into a touch monitor, pair that with one of those precision styluses with the plastic disc on the end, you got a ~$20 dollar drawing tablet!

saintshenanigans ,

Yeah exactly, so strip the layers from this bullshit onion and don’t let him have any excuses.

saintshenanigans ,

And just for the record, this is not a theory. People HAVE been murdered.

saintshenanigans ,

There is a very incredibly stark contrast between telling a story on a page and actually saying “we should hurt people”

saintshenanigans ,

Yeah there are, but you’ll never be able to stop people from spreading literature, legal or not, so things like catcher and the rye, mice and men, mockingbird, with all of their controversies are great to have in schools to help our children grow into adults who can identify this stuff for what it actually is and not some deranged gospel.

But then there’s also a ton of other arguments to be made about mental health and all that, when it comes to violent psychos we shouldn’t get in the habit of settling with a scapegoat

saintshenanigans ,

You originally asked if we were going to suggest banning CATR, my point is mostly these books are great examples to help people identify this language and why it should not be used. If you went into a crowded theater and started shouting there’s a shooter, you’d be arrested for inciting panic. Its not censorship when the point is stopping speech from causing physical harm. Same way your right to travel isn’t infringed by requiring a license to drive

saintshenanigans ,

Its not abuse when the political opponent is a bigot using hate and violence to build a platform. For the millionth time, you are free to run out there, make an ass of yourself, and use all the slurs you want.

What you are NOT free to do, and what this entire conversation is about, is organizing and inciting people to commit a hate crime.

Its pretty interesting that these things were fine when we’re talking about the civil rights movement, but as soon as there’s a trans or gay person around, your rights are under attack for trying to kill somebody.

saintshenanigans ,

How does this prove your point when we established like 30 seconds ago that we are not after douche bag bigots who just use slurs?

saintshenanigans ,

Have you actually read the law? Because i’m getting the feeling this is all talk straight from your ass. The entire bill is mostly a consolidation of existing hate crime laws with sex and gender added to the protected classes. Section 4 is probably the one most of you read about on twitter and are basing your entire argument on, it defines that you’re not allowed to say things considered harassment or to incite hatred. You cannot just pester one person for just being gay. YOU can’t just post about how bad you think gay people are and ask others to agree, because you’re inspiring new people to harass others.

Section 9 goes on to expand on this, and very explicitly states that freedom of expression takes precedence and you cannot simply be arrested for criticizing a protected class. Meaning, you saying “i don’t agree with transgender people, a man should be called a man” is acceptable. You cannot say “transgender people don’t deserve rights” because you are harassing them directly.

The rest of the bill is mostly defining what classes are, and indicates that a lot of the provisions are meant to be used with other laws, it says “offense” a lot, which seems to be getting interpreted as “i am offended” when they’re actually defining it as a crime that has been committed. They specify an example that the bill does not apply if you simply assault a police officer, but if you shout something at him about his religion or asexual identity, the bill applies as this is a hate crime.

Here’s a link to a document that lays the bill out in layman’s terms:

www.legislation.gov.uk/…/aspen_20210014_en.pdf

So again, please explain your issue with the bill? You’re upset you can’t go out and harass gay people all day?

saintshenanigans ,

I think the general argument against separating the art from the artist is that shes still alive and when we buy HP products, she gets that money and uses it to harm trans people.

Hp lovecraft iirc is known as a racist, but we can still purchase his books without funding him cause he’s dead.

Buy your HP merch secondhand, i guess?

saintshenanigans ,

If you actually read the bill it verbatim says that criticism of a protected class is protected under free speech.

saintshenanigans , (edited )

I swear every single person arguing against this bill hasn’t read it.

The gist of it is consolidating existing hate crime laws, adding sexual orientation and gender to the protected classes, repealing the law of blasphemy, and then the main one people are on about, outlawing “inciting hate” and spending several entire pages defining exactly what that means and how its still covered by freedom of expression.

As you said, you can use the slurs. You can be a shit person.

What this seems to be addressing is the fact that ANYBODY can have a platform nowadays and some of those people use their platform to harm other people, whether indirectly or not.

saintshenanigans ,

That exactly what I personally think is problematic, because I would fundamentally disagree that this is “directly”

I find Rowling opinion on trans people rather disgusting and genuinely damaging. But the law seems to me rather excessive. But maybe I’m missing something.

I think it makes a lot more sense if you look at this bill while thinking about communities and interactions in modern times - ANYBODY can have a twitter, youtube, tiktok, etc account and immediately have access to a platform where they can potentially speak to thousands of people, and some of them are pretty impressionable (thinking andrew tate) - so as a community leader you should have some awareness that people are going to act on your ideas because they look up to you. I think this bill is trying to limit cases like that, and also cases of bullying where people have been harassed to the point of suicide simply for their identity

saintshenanigans ,

Oh ill have to look into that some, i didn’t know about that. Maybe i can play the game! Lol

saintshenanigans ,

Yeah there’s a lot of ambiguity in the law, they try to define it but they use “what a reasonable person would believe” a bunch, which leaves a LOT of room for interpretation. If a bigot is in power, none of it is unreasonable to him.

I’m not sure how i would fix it though, theyre trying to address a serious flaw in the modern world, Because intentional or not some of these personalities inspire actions that get people hurt or killed… its a bit of a double edged sword

saintshenanigans , (edited )

I think you’re missing the idea a little. Yeah its not the biggest problem, but these guys don’t just suggest Linux, the people that just say they prefer it in context and to look into it are fine.

Its the high schoolers and early cs major - types who heard someone else suggest it, and now they’ve made it their entire personality and are physically incapable of refraining from going off about how much better Linux is than windows, while not particularly understanding what they’re even doing.

Example: When I started my programming degree there was one high school kid taking the courses, ANY time someone had an error with their IDE he would go off about how Linux doesn’t have any issues.

And then when the group went to go play games together, he’d attach himself to the party and spend like 20+ minutes crying about how the game didn’t run well cause devs only dev for windows while he struggled with his wine setup.

saintshenanigans ,

Does this have any relation to his whole thing about “kicking the illegals out” of florida?

saintshenanigans ,

In a perfect world, AI would be a supplementary tool that allows small-time players to participate in their field at similar levels to the corporations.

In the current world, AI is coming for EVERY job, eventually. You would think that means nobody has to work, but it will most likely mean nobody is ALLOWED to work.

saintshenanigans ,

Reminder that 15/hr was the goal about ten years ago and inflation spiked hard between 2020-2023. 15/hr is no longer a “generous” wage.

saintshenanigans ,

“He’s gonna come back and run the country like a business again!”

Yeah, his businesses that routinely fail and he bails out on.

Also, its a country, not a company, assholes. People matter more than our bottom line.

saintshenanigans ,

ended up with where we are now. Further struggling, more homeless, greedflation, and an incessant need to argue amongst ourselves.

Gotta hand it to the politicians, they played a master game of locking us against ourselves. Hard to meet the other side halfway when one of you is literally trying to strip the rights from… everybody??

saintshenanigans ,

And not very good at it, if twitter and Tesla are any indication. Both products quality take a nosedive any time he involves himself

saintshenanigans ,

“Ill give you five stars if you inject a little money into the economy!”

Corpos: … >:(

saintshenanigans ,

Defund was a horrible fucking name for the movement though. We’d need the conservatives to be on board and they’re not going for that shit cause they’ll stop listening as soon as they think you’re taking power away from their tastiest boots.

saintshenanigans ,

In the USA, you may get shot by a policeman

FTFY

saintshenanigans ,

Most of these cops “retire” to end the internal investigation and keep their benefits, then decide to “unretire”, and get hired in the next town with a clean record.

This is honestly the only real problem imo. I get sometimes it’s a pretty obvious case, but we do still have due process and they deserve their time in court, no matter how shit they are.

If they couldn’t investigate themselves and the investigations didn’t just end when they quit, we’d be in a much better place.

saintshenanigans ,

A gun is a tool, right? Universal problem-solver!

saintshenanigans ,

Honestly ACAB is another badly defined slogan.

The idea was that if only 10% of cops are actually “bad” and will hurt you, if the other 90% aren’t reporting them and holding them accountable, you cant trust that ANY cop is part of that 90% because choosing wrong can end your life.

But then again you can’t explain all of that in one word lol

saintshenanigans ,

I mean shifting responsibility over to social workers etc for some of their jobs rn will accomplish most of that, but yes, it’s fucking insane how many war weapons they get to use on the people who literally pay for them, accountability definitely needs to be addressed as well

saintshenanigans ,

I think most of this was because of the successful propaganda campaign that made every BLM protest sound like a riot when it was some tiny percentage in truth

saintshenanigans ,

Arguably, the way people perceive your project is more important than what it actually does. Probably a combination of both dems being shit at optics and repugs having the most well oiled propaganda machine in the world, cause it keeps fucking happening.

Planned parenthood

BLM

ACAB

defund the police

Communist/socialist policies

saintshenanigans ,

The cool part is I started working there just after you! I started around 2013 and worked there until about 2016 and it was STILL about maybe $7 or $8 for a meal, and the dollar menu was still $1.06

This shit happened during covid and they’re literally only doing it because they can. There have been reports that the current inflation isn’t driven by the state of the economy at all, but just corporate greed.

Don’t waste your time and money guys, you can get food cheaper at the mom and pop restaurants now, and that food is usually at least half decent. When it’s the same price to eat at McDonald’s or a “healthier” place like tropical smoothie or Chipotle, why the fuck would I want to pay for ultra processed sludge

saintshenanigans ,

I’m no financial analyst and im no good at all of the legal jargon, but aren’t the notes below this chart explaining they changed how they calculate this right around may 2020?

Like I said, I’m illiterate when it comes to the technical side of this stuff, so I just googled and from what I’m gathering from this article below, the fed changed the rules for what defines a savings account so they’re almost the same as checking, and that caused them both to get reported in M1 and that’s the majority of that surge of cash.

Feel free to correct me with better evidence, like I said again, I’m just trying to understand the legal wording here:

collabfund.com/…/the-fed-isnt-printing-as-much-mo…

saintshenanigans ,

It doesn’t matter what Christianity says. These piles of sub-human filth are just trying to keep America at its own throat so we focus on human rights issues instead of paying attention to the bills they actually care about.

This shit is all smoke and mirrors and at this point I don’t think they’re going to get the idea until the rest of us start acting real French

saintshenanigans ,

They don’t care that you have a family. Executives commonly say things in their shareholder calls about “extracting more value” from people or something along those lines.

They don’t care if it’s one person or twelve, they just care that people are still buying their products, and that the revenue they gain with price gouging is higher than the revenue lost by people fucking starving and not being able to buy anymore.

saintshenanigans ,

It’s not even about money anymore.

I’m not positive that the world is going to be a comfortable place to live in at all in the next 40-80 years. I can’t be sure it’s morally acceptable to bring a new life into the world just to struggle until death. I know if I were given the choice I would have rather just not have been, it’s not worth struggling forever just to barely get by until the game changes yet again and you get knocked back down to the peg you started on.

saintshenanigans ,

Good. It’s bad enough that at this point, they deserve to fear for their lives as theyre making decisions to make life specifically worse for thousands of people

saintshenanigans ,

That’s an interesting thought when you considers that these psychos only think this way because of what the lawmakers across the isle are telling them + fox news

saintshenanigans ,

A man much smarter than I once said “violence is the language of the unheard”

This “solution” is just another con to allow your lawmakers to ignore you in more ways.

saintshenanigans ,

Idk if I would agree with that, murder has existed as long as people have. I mean, two of the most significant events in American history were the murders of political figures

saintshenanigans ,

I’m just saying people have always been willing to hurt others

saintshenanigans ,

Any time I look at Facebook or X(formerly twitter), I see two sides of the same shit-smeared coin.

On Facebook, feels like a majority of the random comments I see are all scum of the earth, racist, sexist, fascist etc. Every post about a new marvel movie is filled with comments about how the movie is going to be ahit because of “forced diversity” and “wokeness” - any political post is all about how dems should die, or aoc needs to be murdered, etc. And it’s never just a few people, its dozens, with hundreds of likes and supporting comments.

On the other site, it’s mostly blue-haired “bleeding heart liberals” who are so liberal they’ve come full circle back to fascism. Trying to restrict people’s rights because they have some shitty ideas, or completely ruining people’s careers over a rumor.

Before social media, you would be forced into public places to have these conversations, and you’d be forced to interact and learn what people who don’t agree with you have to say and think, and that broadened your worldview. Now facebook and xitter just feed you into an algorithm and spit you out in a bubble with other people with the same ideas, because you’ll all agree and converse and engage more, because there’s positive reinforcement there, and from that point its a feedback loop slowly making you more liberal or conservative, when typically most people would fall pretty close to center, give or take some hot button issues like guns and babies.

saintshenanigans , (edited )

Skepticism is the literal precursor to the scientific method, and that’s where you’re stopping. There is no science at the skepticism step.

You’re basically saying, “Gravity isn’t real because I don’t see proof.”

A real scientist would drop an apple, a feather, a bowling ball, and verify it.

saintshenanigans ,

I just mentioned the other day how scary that is if a third party can crack it and just got blasted about how Microsoft wouldn’t put an OS out with vulnerabilities like that lmao

saintshenanigans ,

There is a chance that it has something to do with the Xbox app, maybe

saintshenanigans ,

Do you really want an adversary that can potentionally disable a large portion of your populations computers in one fell swoop?

Just saw a Netflix movie about this a month or so back. Obviously the writing was a little embellished, but it was fucking terrifying to imagine something like that happening on a real scale.

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