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A Kantian framework does not graft onto “women must bring pregnancies to term because they owe it to them,” doubly so when it’s not conclusively a person. You keep asking people to respect that opinion yet leave zero room anywhere for people who think it isn’t a person.

I also don’t appreciate that you are arguing on behalf of a group you are clearly in agreement with yet your phrasing avoids committing to the stance. You present yourself like you’re just giving them due consideration and respect but you only give that side these graces.

I’m having a hard time buying the argument that the law prefers women when women just had their bodily autonomy stripped away across the US only a few years ago and the very real, awful history that lead to the “me too” movement due to years of women not being taken seriously in the eyes of the law.

I have a feeling this comment will not sit well with you but I am very much willing to engage this in good faith. I don’t see what you’re seeing. There are definitely domains where different genders have the advantage, but to act like the law as a whole benefits women over men…that dog don’t hunt IMO

Education, there is a stronger argument there (re admissions and such, not safety). I agree that has gotten messy as hell at the very least.

Workplace, similar to my issue with the law claim.

I said “almost all,” that should be sufficient. Fandom is massive and has heavily centralized wikis on one garbage platform, yes?

I really don’t want to do that thing where I have to couch every single statement I make with parentheticals and qualifiers explaining the exact meaning and making sure to add a dozen “not” and “to be clear” statements in anticipation of this kind of response.

Toxic masculinity hurts everyone, including men, unfortunately.

While I agree with you, I think a lot of the “be better” rhetoric comes from plenty of men in power telling all sorts of marginalized groups the exact same thing. “Bootstraps” culture is just generally toxic.

Men have a higher “success” rate, women attempt at a higher rate. Something to consider as well.

With every year those communities are becoming increasingly balkanized and building moats as they raise up the drawbridges, assuming they haven’t already atrophied from swapping over to a Facebook group years ago (now discord too, which will hurt in the long run). They are trying to protect their communities but unfortunately it has the very sad secondary effect of making it harder and harder to find them.

Anything is an imaginable if you have an imagination!

Just because a lot of people still do it doesn’t mean it isn’t declining.

Let’s take 2 of your examples: OSM still has major gaps that seem to be getting worse actually (so much outdated or missing stuff and I’ve seen the community worry about interest) and fan wikis have almost all consolidated onto the ad riden, unreadable monstrosity that is fandom.

That kind of organized car theft is somewhat localized and not evenly spread tbh. For instance, I live in a pretty major city that actually does have an issue with crime. But car jackings and car theft in general are significantly lower than a lot of other places approximately our size in the country. The prevailing theory is they’re just isn’t an easy way to do anything with them, it often depends in if there is a reliable way to get rid of the cars. Where I am, people usually just joyride them to another state or somewhere and ditch them after committing other crimes with it

“I wasn’t wrong I was just…early.”

“IT’S THE SAME THING”

Honestly the “common criminal” walks up and down blocks trying handles until they find someone who didn’t lock up. Easiest targets by far. They used to pull radios more back in the day (it seems to be less common now?) but they generally just go through looking for change/cash anywhere or any valuables.

It’s so bizarre

And yet who would go to bat for you and I claiming we deserve sympathy for having an affair?

I’m not angry, I’m laughing at how absurd this is.

Yes affairs are unfortunately common but this whole honey pot thing is ridiculous. That doesn’t suddenly make me sympathetic to cheating.

Rich people who can’t help themselves to whatever they want/see because they are too powerful/rich and have lost perspective. They think they can do whatever they want with impunity because most of the time they can. Then once in a while there are actual repercussions and someone wants us to be sympathetic? Get outta here

> Has nothing to do with AI being bad. Good engineers have a mind for it

I never like these kinds of statements because it makes so AI can’t ever be critiqued. You can always go “well that’s a bad engineer.”

No guardrails? So, what? Someone can get grok servers to attack critical infrastructure out of boredom? Take down a hospital network during an emergency or something? There was never a world where musk and co were going to take that risk.

And people thought swatting was bad! Just imagine that jfc

Not in several years and I plan on keeping it that way lol

It still baffles me that Grok is even on the list let alone being funded. Their market share is terrible and the product is so mediocre. Why on earth would I want a tool that has “be funny and irreverent” baked into its system prompts? I don’t want a calculator cracking wise at me either.

I was (mistakenly) talking about what motivates people, not the benefits of piracy. The vast majority of people engaging in the practice are doing it to get free media. If someone isn’t even practicing basic 321 I don’t want to hear the word “preservation” or “archive” lol

In case it wasn’t clear before I very much support piracy. What I don’t like is people making up high-minded reasons as window dressing. The percentage of people doing it for “legitimate” or otherwise “good” reasons is very, very small. On the other hand, I also don’t think online piracy inflicts enough harm for it to be necessary to make an excuse.

As for people who make it possible, that’s another thing entirely and I agree!

You’re absolutely right. I was way too eager to jump on that

I think they should be far more worried about the music rights holders than EA. When I fired it up I was greeted to a menu playing The Doors & Snoop Dogg lol

I personally would find my lawyer working on projects and blogging about stuff related to his legal domain to be a good thing. This is no different than a constitutional lawyer writing a blog about some constitutional matter going on in current events.

Wow this plays great even in browser on my phone

When did that exist? The Napster era when when people just got free music from a central server and accidentally put viruses on their computer half the time? The 18th century on the seas when it was a lot more murder, actual theft, and worse?

Piracy has never been about the culture or game preservation or whatever. It’s about getting free stuff for 99% of pirates. There are people across the spectrum with additional motivations, for instance maybe somebody was annoyed by the state of streaming and it drove them to piracy. But at the end of the day, the vast majority people are downloading the stuff they want because it’s 1) free and 2) available to them.

I fully support piracy but I also don’t pretend it’s some high-minded philosophical reason. There are moments where that element comes into play for me, especially when it comes to losing media, but I’m not going to sit here and pretend that is the number one reason anyone opens up Pirate Bay or whatever came before.

You’re right but so many companies are about the stock and not any sort of core product anymore. He’s got a very unique gravity well around him lol

The weird contradiction of musk is that his name is what’s propping up most of his companies/projects but his proximity to his companies is also a threat to them.

Also, the truck was ugly, awkward, and not good at being a truck.

> The first Motorola device to support GrapheneOS, an privacy and security-focused mobile operating system.

Proofread your stuff, folks. Right there in big print for all to see.