Windex007

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Windex007,

None of the other candidates had a chance at winning. That is not the same as Trump having a chance at losing.

Windex007,

It involves golden tickets and the unsolved disappearances of a handful of children.

Brutal, I know, but it’s the only way.

Windex007,

Conscious thought and perception occupy a pretty small amount of our brain power. If you could offload computational tasks to portions of the brain that wouldn’t actually need to do anything if you were in the matrix, you could have a surplus.

The visual processing portion of our brains, for example. We have a blind spot over our optic nerve and we’re colourblind at our periphery. Our eye hardware actually kinda sucks and we have this massive software layer running on dedicated brain hardware

Windex007,

Her clothing wasn’t tasteful, though. It was a woman’s attempt to wind up men. Obviously there’s no excuse for rape, but wearing clothing in public designed to be provocative will attract attention from a lot of people, and things can lead on from that.

Windex007,

I agree, it’s completely unacceptable to introduce a bug and then to instead of taking responsibility for introducing such a bug, you start pointing fingers at everybody else.

It’s like when a car hits a cyclist following all the rules and then tries to blame the cyclist for not following some made up rules that only exist in the drivers head “Cyclists should be on the SIDEWALK if they don’t wanna get hit!”

Not only were they wrong to hit them, they’re DOUBLE wrong for trying to blame them after the fact.

Windex007, (edited )

After I saw the car hit the cyclist, I rushed to his aid.

The driver came out of the car, yelling at the cyclist for being on the street.

“Shut the fuck up. Get back in your car. You are the problem. It was wrong of you to hit him and wrong of you to blame him you fucking idiot. You can help, or you can fuck off, but you’re not going to stand here and blame the man you just injured with your own incompetence”, I screamed at the driver.

I was the true villain in this scenario.

Windex007,

I think you’ve missed what the sin was, as well as the context of the players.

The sin was not the bad code. Let me say it one more time for clarity: the issue was not the code

The issue was that, when presented with the defect (inevitable outcome of any software project: not intrinsically sinful) Mauro started blaming other people on a public mailing list

Mauro, being a maintainer, was in a position of authority. Like a police officer, their bad behaviour reflected poorly on the organization*as a whole.

If a cop was abusing their power (publicly or not), I expect the chief of police to come down on that abuser; to make clear that this abuse is absolutely unacceptable, not only within the accute instance, but within the greater context of the expectation of the behaviour of the whole organization.

Mauro chose the context of his abusive behaviour as the public mailing list.

Him getting slapped down in that same forum is the direct result of his own choices.

In the same way that I would be upset with the chief of police not publicly and harshy denouncing an abusive police officer, so would I be upset with the absence of such a response in this situation

Windex007,

This wasn’t abuse, though.

It was a hash admonishment for the specific choices and actions that the person did that were wrong , and that the person, based on their position of authority should absolutely know to be wrong.

The confluence of factors here are what differentiates this from abuse. By calling this abuse, you’re actually diminishing what actual abuse is.

Windex007,

There is no honour to die on that hill small pile of dirt.

Windex007,

I don’t even think this is even that complicated.

The TEXTBOOK playbook for bringing people together to find peace, is to start by finding some common ground. On LITERALLY anything. Then you build on that. “Maybe, given enough time, we can grow to understand to have enough the same that we can work together”

Culture war is the simple inversion: find something, ANYTHING that you can disagree about. Then you build on that. “Maybe, given enough time, we can grow to understand others to be different enough that working together is impossible”

Windex007,

What would be a better way to frame it?

Windex007,

When you strip away the trappings and just look at the scripts, it’s incredible how generic all of the dialogue is.

It would be trivial to re-purpose any script to be for any other character because of how little they truly differ.

I’m entirely unconvinced that they haven’t already been algorithm -assisted

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

Windex007,

This is exactly why publicly funded media is essential to a healthy media market.

Windex007,

I don’t want to speak for them, but one can interpret crops subsidized for the purposes of livestock feed AS a subsidy for livestock. If you look at the sum of the purple sections (livestock and feed), it’s the largest.

But you are right: buddy’s own chart does show a larger direct subsidy for corn than direct subsidy for beef.

Windex007,

“China doesn’t require austerity”

Please expand on exactly what you think this means.

Windex007,

Women have smaller brains than men.

I mean, yes. Women as a population are physically smaller than men as a population.

Women have smaller fingers than men. Smaller eyes. Smaller lungs. There is no “gotcha” that smaller skeletal frames with smaller skulls contain, by volume, a smaller organ.

Doesnt mean every man’s brain is larger than every woman’s brain either.

Doesn’t mean men are smarter than women.

It’s just a statistic, that while true, doesn’t imply what some people think it does.

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