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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Them being armed will make it a lot more thrilling when you persist in asking them under what conditions are you lawfully obligated to comply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  War is good for business?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep.

  Plenty bad reasons though.

  Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

  Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

  … So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If only all those agents hadn’t told us to not use the political compass, we might be less lost now. :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh. Neo-liberal.

  Gotta love that Orwellian marketing.

  Neo-liberal. Neither new (neo), nor liberal.

  Basically, same old fascist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup.

  Welcome to newspeak, USA-flavor.

  Still drinking hair of the dog to nurse the McCarthyian redscare hangover.

  Layers deep into the newspeak. Liberal, conservative, democrat… all these terms already many contortions and inversions distanced from original meaning. Soon, even “him”, “he” and “himself” too. Then even “is” and “not”, and then the CIA’s work will be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Armed thugs of the state break into every home, and install their bigbrotherware operating system, and kill anyone who flinches like they might be committing any acts of dissidence. There we go. Everybody happy. And of course, you wont own the software. You’ll be renting it. Like everything else. Own nothing, be happy. Maybe they care. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if that “this distro is not allowed in California” approach is even compatible with the various free software licenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No addresses or entities tied to the distro respins I’ve made.

  That was not a requirement in the software license.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they made a law to attempt to ban operating systems with free software licenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No biggie. I got ready for this in minutes after hearing about it.

  #!/usr/bin/env fish
  read -P "Are you old enough?  (yes/no)  " input
  if test "$input" = "yes" -o "$input" = "Yes"
  echo "Proceeding..."
  else
  echo "You are not old enough.  Exiting." 
  exit 1
  end
  

  … What? … Why are you all looking at me like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A modest proposal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if it’s working for the Ukraine. …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms.

  I do not know how it sounds like that to you. Seems a strong non sequitur. Maybe I’m missing something. Care to elaborate how you made this leap?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you had the better version straight out of the gate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m happier with non-belief, than squirming through the exercise of deciding what to believe and disbelieve under the unchecked presumption that we must believe something.

  Even more so for the distinct “believing in” something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if the universe has an infinite lifespan (as current models suggest) then we would almost certainly be Boltzmann brains

  Sounds like presuming some place further along in an infinite set. We may still be in an early iteration at the start, as plain as it seems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many cut themselves on Occam’s razor, incorrectly presuming all else equal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Though I imagine he paid more attention to the cymatic cromulence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where would we find the citation you say is needed, for what you do not believe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The map is not the terrain.

  Somewhere between naive realism and “some stupid past time fun”, there are maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like maps. I like puzzles. Astrology’s both.

  First got intrigued when in my ignorant militant atheism dogma phase, and someone managed to discern my sun sign, just by my appearance and behaviours. I have since gone on to do the same to others, typically with as much world-view-changing astonishment in them as I experienced.

  Can’t be bunk if that can be done.

  The observable profiling reality of it, does open minds to wondering about what’s the astrological weather like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe can cure some diseases.

  Even just via the comfort provided. Comfort enough, to get into a parasympathetic dominant mode long enough for the body to heal itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Big Tuning Fork are lying to us!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No! OBEY the doubleplus goodthink! Different perspectives are TOXIC! *RAGE*!

  /s

  ;D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well done, you.

  Keep at it.

  Healthier that way.

  It would hurt beyond your worst conception of how bad it could be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the memberberry addiction and blindness to incredulity of suspension of disbelief.

  How many people are there in the galaxy, in the federation, in starfleet… And yet, we’ve managed to bring almost [(/approaching)] everybody back, across a millennia, like it’s a small village of only these few people…

  I… wh… really!? wat.

  And then, I imagine, such critiques and queries, will get reductively skewed and rebranded as “hate”, and hatefully projected upon me. XD I guess the hate gets easier to understand when one checks the three fingers pointing back any time it’s encountered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Dealing With Toxic Fans

  I can’t help but read that as blaming the victim.

  “How dare they wail negativity from what we’ve done to them and their beloved!?!!” as they twist the knife further into the ungrateful.

  How about dealing with toxic narcissism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  now if i could get that app without a phone, and with a warning of nearby phones too…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨capitalism vs humanity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  U-oh. Must keep repeating the mantra, that capitalism is the most efficient at distributing resources, harder. Big Baron knows best. Pay no attention to the cognitive dissonance. It’s good being owned as mere capita slaves. It’s right that we be zapped if we think of our wife. Should be working harder! Pay no attention to the workers dropping off like flies from the stress and burnout. Their diseases are good profit for the corporation! Obey harder!

  (/s ~ as if that needs pointed out).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch: Jeffrey Combs Returns As Weyoun In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish you hadn’t done that. That was Weyoun’s last clone.

  Said the female founder when Garak kills Weyoun 9(?) in the final episode of DS9.

  If I recall correctly.