KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
What is the best way to harden a free software community against the sort of drama which recently engulfed the Nix community? Preemptive bans seem like a recipe for getting called an x-phobe, but letting these people stay and build up numbers results in takeovers. Has anyone seen a free software project's community successfully resist the tactics of the woke left?
KingOfTheBailey
5d ago
I remember online chatter about the possibility of a new R President being the Worst Thing Ever being near-constant, all the way back to Bush Jr.'s second round.
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
How does a project stop these people from getting a toehold and leveraging that into a takeover?
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
I've heard this called a "preference cascade", and I think I first heard it on the Timur Kuran episode of The Portal podcast.
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
Does anyone here know is going on with NixOS? There seems to be a new round of explosions and fresh community drama of some kind.
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
Once you realize that most people lack intellectual standards or believe in the principles they claim each week, you can go looking for the people who actually do.
KingOfTheBailey
25d ago
Don't listen to the feminists. You are not a monster for being attracted to women, It is okay for men to like women, it's okay to court women you're interested in, sex is not something men take from women but rather something men and women can share. Don't have such a stick up your ass about proper behavior. Instead, enjoy flirting with the cute girl at the supermarket, or at college, or...
Maybe then I wouldn't have missed the signals. Maybe then I wouldn't have been too scared to say something. Maybe then I wouldn't have waited for an imagined thing with the girl back home who wasn't that interested. Maybe then I wouldn't be the last one left as all my friends paired off and started families.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
There's a lot more "tokens" involved in modern cards, wtf? Do most people use post-it notes?
One of the reasons I don't like the modern game, but anyway. Most people will buy one of those little Chessex boxes of like 24 D6s, then put them on the cards to represent whatever the "obvious" token is, or even use them just on the table as "number of 1/1 White Human Soldier Tokens in play".
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Have you considered the Alaskan wilderness?
Obviously it's not the most appealing place, but as @George_E_Hale says, you shouldn't just be thinking about yourself.
Choosing where your children grow up is a big influence on their development, so it's worth considering all options.
Kids are resilient, and if they make it to adulthood, the hardship will make them infinitely attractive and set them up for a good life.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
The Time Magazine Piece about the coordination after the 2020 election makes me think this is false, and that there is a lot of coordination.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Fantastic post.
DRM is "Digital Restrictions Management": it grants no extra rights, and manages restrictions by which consumers may use the software or content.
It would be great if you could expand on CRT, as expanding the initialism doesn't say what it actually means.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Clearpill is a reference to https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/ but damned if I'm reading a five-parter of Yarvin's to remember what it actually means.
Purple pill is also important, I think.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I think GP is claiming that OP is insufficiently blackpilled, and that rejection of current "sacred truths" like the current party line on trans will be grounds for total disenfranchisement.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
If you assume these are pathologically controlling busy bodies, which I think you are right to assume, the fact that anybody can program anything probably terrifies them. They barely understand technology to begin with.
It's worse than that. "SJW's can't code" is a dead meme from 2014 or so. The existence of the Rust community proves that there's now a technical community of true believers, not just entryists writing Codes of Conduct.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Civ 4 is the mechanical peak of the series (especially with community QoL mods like BUG), but Alpha Centauri is the best setting.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Is this Cultist Simulator but for Castaway?
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Industrial Annihilation is vaguely on my radar but I don't know whether or not the factory building is team vs. team.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
I believe it still holds up, but if you do give it a whirl, post a report? If a game in the 2000s can make a sympathetic Christian fundamentalist, it's gotta be doing something right.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
You seem to be a little aggravated that the government got COVID wrong but you are.. also a little mad that they got monkeypox right.. because it feels unequal?
Something like that, because it shows that the correct thoughts were in people's heads and yet they still managed to get COVID so wrong.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
I disagree that poly is not victimless. I briefly dated a poly girl, and I hated being put in the double-bind of either not pursuing other women or having to have "the poly/ENM conversation" with them, and the latter made me feel like I was leaking bad memes into the groundwater. Missed out on a possible relationship with a lovely mainstream girl that way because my ethics wouldn't allow me to hook up under those circumstances. I've said this before, but a world where poly is more normalized is a world where it's more acceptable to proposition other people's partners because "they might be poly, you never know these days, she can just say no". And then you have a world where the baseline temptation to cheat is raised, making monogamous life harder for those that want it.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Was the government supposed to tell gay men to stop having sex?
If you take the COVID response as yardstick, which many on the left still endorse, then the answer should be unequivocally "yes". While not the same as HIV/AIDS, I found the contrast between the "stay indoors/wear a mask/etc" response to COVID and the soft-touch response to monkeypox incredibly jarring. After large parts of the country were imprisoned in their own homes and dissent suppressed in response to a novel disease, the message to the gay community dealing with its own novel disease was more like "please consider at least getting the names of the men you have unprotected sex with, so that we can actually attempt some contact tracing". I wish I'd saved some tweets from that era, which feels like another lifetime ago, but my browser history is being uncooperative.
That said, it all seems to have died down, so maybe the monkeypox response worked, which is more than can be said for the COVID response. And perhaps that soft response was necessary to get enough gay men to come forward and get vaccinated, which cut off the transmission chains.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Would anyone living hard in the trans debate still have a problem with it then? How could they?
Almost certainly, in the same way that they capital-D deaf community can be prickly about things like cochlear implants.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Part of it is that guy's page is sexually very loud and screams "you could have a sex life like this!" to get people struggling with OLD to fix their shit.
Unfortunately, it appears to have tempted you into thinking "I could have a sex life like this!"
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Your comment was a big part of it starting, yeah.
I'm very sorry.
Yes. Hence my interest in hardening a community when new projects struggle to attract any contributors at all, and it's hard to be choosy or exclude the people who are going to wreck it.
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