magic9mushroom
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magic9mushroom
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22d ago
Do feminists actually oppose attempts to kill or control the dating site industry? I think the USA's distrust of socialism might be a bigger deal there, honestly (there could also be First Amendment issues).
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22d ago
· Edited 22d ago
"Suffragette" has two Fs.
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23d ago
It works! Thanks.
(I did take a look before asking, but I didn't know the right search terms; I used "turbobutton" (the console equivalent) and "turboclick" but didn't think of "autoclick".)
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23d ago
Oh, I don't have a cat; I was just referring to my experience with others' pets.
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23d ago
Anybody know a utility for Linux that can spam-click? As in, I want to be able to set it up so that if I hold a key while holding down LMB, it delivers a click every frame.
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23d ago
I much prefer cats; they are fluffier and don't slobber on you.
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26d ago
· Edited 26d ago
I mean, if Hamas livestreamed themselves committing gang rape then surely a link to it exists somewhere, right?
AIUI that would be considered rape porn and nonconsensual* porn (usually given dysphemistic legal names) in basically all jurisdictions, and therefore illegal to (host, view, download, link to) (maybe strike out the last one in the US), and therefore purged from all legal websites including the ones that normally function as anti-Orwell archives. I suspect that @FtttG doesn't want to literally commit crimes trawling darknet sites in order to commit more crimes supplying you with a link to illegal material.
I get that this is a bit frustrating when the illegal material is also (if it exists) critical historical evidence.
*As in, not all the people in the video consented to the publication of the video.
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26d ago
· Edited 26d ago
I mean, Freddie's main argument in the essay is that:
- Public schools have terrible metrics.
- A bunch of RWers want to abolish public schools, because of the terrible metrics.
- But public schools don't have terrible metrics because the schools suck. They have terrible metrics because they're the school of last resort for the children who suck.
- So abolishing the public schools won't fix anything; those children will still suck wherever they are.
That argument holds water.
There's a secondary argument, more implied than stated, which goes:
- Public schools have bad metrics.
- This makes non-sucky parents pull their non-sucky kids out of public schools.
- This very effect, rather than the quality of teaching, is why public schools have bad metrics, in a vicious circle.
- Hence, non-sucky parents are wrong to do this.
This argument does not hold water; propositions 1-3 are correct, but while parents doing this solely for quality-of-teaching are indeed making a mistake, there are two other valid reasons to do it: 1) their children could be harmed by the sucky kids, 2) the sucky kids may directly impair the ability of non-sucky kids to learn (I hear this one is particularly a thing recently in the USA due to various court cases and policies). I can certainly sympathise with reason #1, having had an arm broken and a tooth knocked out at one of the bad kind of public schools (my mother actually predicted that I'd lose teeth before I went there), if perhaps not reason #2 (I think better classroom control is/was in place in Australia, at least during the late 90s-early 00s when I was there).
I will note that there is a socialist solution to the problem of roughhouse public schools, and one that's fairer to poor-but-non-delinquent kids who beat the lottery - remove the delinquents from the normal public school system and put them in less-common reform schools that explicitly only serve delinquents (and possibly have the required infrastructure to stop the delinquents beating each other up). I have a vague feeling that this isn't permitted in the USA due to the aforementioned court cases and civil rights laws, although I don't know the particulars and could be wrong. But yeah, were that solution in place, Freddie would be mostly right about the secondary argument.
To answer Iconochasm's question for you, @magicalkittycat, below a certain level the people in the IRS (and most other government organs) are not considered "political appointees" and can't be fired without cause, due to the Pendleton Act. This is fine when dealing with individual loose cannons, as if they do something crazy they'll be fired for cause. The problem Donald Trump has, however, is that the #Resistance to him is/was systemic, and systemic sabotage is resistant to investigation because the rebellious employees will cover for each other against probes by management (and the Pendleton Act also stops political hiring to those positions, so the workaround of "bring in a bunch of new blood that's been vetted against the offending ideology, and use them to spy on the rest to spot the bad apples" was also blocked), so getting the evidence to fire people for cause is/was actually very difficult.
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