ZeroPipeline
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ZeroPipeline
23d ago
they just want to slander and eradicate trans people, and they're annoyed that people like Peterson have scared some of their supporters into thinking they might ever face consequences for spewing vile slander 24/7, thereby mildly restricting the spigot.
This doesn't seem like a very charitable take on Rowling's position. Is it your position that any sort of request for a level of gatekeeping on who gets to call themselves trans is vile slander?
ZeroPipeline
23d ago
Yeah, the difference between victim blaming and victim warning is whether you think public policy and social norms should be shaped to protect victims as much as possible.
I'm not sure I understand your view here. Warning victims seems like it would fall pretty squarely under protecting victims as much as possible, even if it isn't the only thing that would fall under that heading.
Maybe this is an example of two movies on one screen, but I didn't get that impression from the OP at all. OP isn't saying that public policy and social norms shouldn't be shaped to protect victims, but rather that the current attempts to do that are not very effective and are needlessly narrow in scope.
ZeroPipeline
24d ago
There must be some distinction to be drawn between "victim blaming" and "victim warning" though right? If a woman is raped, it would be victim blaming to tell her "well that's too bad, maybe you shouldn't have walked through the park", but the idea that teaching women to avoid walking alone in a park in a bad part of town is victim blaming and must be avoided at all costs just seems like an overextension of the concept to me.
There are signs all over San Francisco warning people not to leave valuables inside their cars, but this is never presented as some awful example of victim blaming. The only time this over-extension of the concept seems to take place is when anyone is asking women to have any agency over their own safety.
Crime can typically be thought of as a supply and demand problem and the best way to prevent crime is to attack both sides of the problem.
ZeroPipeline
1mo ago
Developers stopped supporting them with the rise of various matchmaking and digital delivery services. Requiring you to be online also ensures that everyone playing has purchased a license for the game.
ZeroPipeline
1mo ago
I would say it is both cringe and depressing https://instagram.com/anitasarkeesian/p/CwvaHCwPMeI/?img_index=1
ZeroPipeline
2mo ago
If we’re talking about the email server, then I’d say the level of drama was way overblown relative to the actual significance. And, well, Trump has her beat with his personal presidential library he had going.
Given the complete lack of security on Clinton's email server (during her first two months as Secretary of State she connected to it over an unencrypted connection) Trump's "presidential library" would have to be of the lending variety to be anywhere near as egregious.
ZeroPipeline
5mo ago
You might benefit from looking at previous medical manias, such as lobotomies. Though it was never entrenched to the same degree as gender surgery seems to be today, lobotomies are an irreversible surgery performed on adults as well as children that gained rapid acceptance.
ZeroPipeline
5mo ago
We decided against it when we had our son. I couldn't come up with a good reason to remove part of a perfectly healthy baby. Circumcision rates may be falling, but some of that could simply be due to demographic shifts.
ZeroPipeline
5mo ago
And if you asked the Egyptian government, they'd probably tell you the same thing since they just had their own issues wit the Muslim Brotherhood.
Was the issue here that the Muslim Brotherhood won the parliamentary elections after Mubarak stepped down? If so, that is an issue that goes much deeper than Hamas. You are taking issue with the political preferences of the people of Egypt themselves.
ZeroPipeline
5mo ago
nobody studies biology without learning Latin names, nobody studies math without learning Greek letters
Give it time.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
I'd be curious to see a timeline of the entire event. Maybe they were able to time it quickly enough that the people monitoring these things didn't have a proper chance to respond before the para-gliders were on top of them.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
You can take any twitter url and replace twitter.com with twitter.com and get more or less the old experience without having to sign in. There are some companies that use twitter to post status message when there is an outage etc. and this has been helpful for me.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
Yeah they launched some initial raids after their evacuation notice last week and I thought a full assault wouldn't be too far behind. I know there were reports that they were delaying it due to the weather. Perhaps it is taking longer than they anticipated to reactivate their reservists and get them into position? Speed isn't as essential in this case from a tactical standpoint, but I do think the window is closing on the time when the world will turn more of a blind eye to any collateral damage they might inflict.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
I did the math before out of curiosity to see how many 155mm shells it would take to cover all of the Gaza strip with the lethal radius of at least one shell's explosion. It came out to around 52 million shells. If all 250 of Israel's m109 howitzers fired at their sustained rate of fire of one round per minute (and assuming no need for maintenance etc) it would take them around 144 days. I was looking at this just to get some idea of the scales involved in all this.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
Perhaps someone more versed in the subject can chime in, but my understanding is the U.S. Constitution dictates that senators must be a resident of the state they represent. In California that means being present in the state for 366 days before filing for residency. Is there any likelihood of this being challenged? Has something like this happened before?
ZeroPipeline
11mo ago
When woke ideology starts informing your hiring decisions for actors, directors, and writers as well as leading you to ignore the preferences of your core market demographic you could perhaps lay the blame tangentially at the feet of wokeness.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
That wouldn't be the FED as in the Federal Reserve, that would be the federal government.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
You use it like a rechargeable battery. The power grid is constantly having to deal with balancing the electricity produced vs the demand for electricity and this could provide a solution to that.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Moreover, consider for a moment that societies collapse.
You were already reminding me of this sketch, and then this sentence made it perfect.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
My understanding is that Christians at the time weren't allowed to charge any interest, as that was considered usury.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
There was the San Bernadino attack in 2015 that involved a husband and wife pair.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Having worked with kubernetes for years now, I have never found the term unclear or misleading. To each their own I suppose.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
In kubernetes, the cluster nodes that run everything are already called the control plane, and have been for some time.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
then fucks it's it up by spraying foam all over the cake.
Well, it could always be worse.
Well in that case it is because he fucked over a lot of rich people.
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