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Have you ever been in an abusive relationship? Or seen one firsthand? People can be made to believe all sorts of things that aren't true by charismatic or powerful people. It may take them some time to realize they are being tricked or abused.

You absolutely can be told you consented, and trust that person's word, and realize later that no, actually you had not. It's just convenient for the abuser for you to believe you had.

In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence. It's not strictly the definition of the word, but most folks in the states will understand a lynching to imply race related murders.

One thing I've been curious about -- I've got a few hundred acres of forest land, and I'm maintaining it in a natural state, but that still involves regular thinning/removal of biomass. I've wondered if there's a way to connect with someone like Charm (or any other company) to figure out how to supply biomass for their processes.

Maybe it's too small scale -- a few hundred acres doesn't produce that much timber. Or too distant. Or something. But I have no idea how to even start reaching out about it.

Don't misinterpret what the parent is saying. It's not "one introduction will", it's "one introduction could". If you are wealthy and connected enough there are many folks who will gladly ensure your children are taken care of, if for no other reason than to be connected to the parent/family.

An introduction might lead to a job, apprenticeship, or internship. It might lead to a partnership somewhere or the opportunity to invest in some way you would not normally have access to. Or it could open the door to further introductions and connections. Network effects are powerful things, and being introduced to the right node in the social graph can make all the difference.

The link you posted mentions anti maskers once, and only calls some of them antigovernment.

But yeah, your broader point is worth exploring. People coopting movements is definitely a thing. Should the original groups do more to exclude the (your words) crazies?

You are asking for one example. A recent one that comes to mind are peaceful anti mask protesters.

I don't think they are labeled neonazis. I happen to disagree with them strongly and hold their views in low regard and believe they are directly contributing to the pandemic, but I haven't seen them widely labeled neonazis.

Yes, or they can refuse to license it to you at all.

This cannot be a good faith question, but for international readers who may not follow politics in the US, the proud boys are without a doubt far right.

They emerged from the alt right movement in the states, eventually calling themselves "alt lite". They were participants in the disastrous Unite the Right rally.

Their beliefs include the idea that men and western culture are under siege. They believe there is a white genocide occurring. They are often seen sporting clothing with "six million wasn't enough", a reference to the holocaust. They are an exclusively male organization that values chauvinism.

They are designated a terrorist group but the Canadian government. Several members have been charged with terrorism related to the Capitol attacks on January sixth.

There's a bunch more. Please take the parent posters comments with a giant grain of salt.

I worked at a FAANG company for a while where a manager would walk in each morning and loudly announce, "Good morning all you motherfuckers."

Professionalism is hardly universal.

XState is incredible when combined with something like Svelte. I've seen it used to power videogame UIs (huds, health bars, menus, etc.) for a AAA shooter.

The really nice thing about working with it is that all your components get much simpler about understanding when and how they should render. No longer are you trying to track state through some combination of variables or await statements, you are just asking, "Am I in this state? Great, I'll render." Double if you are managing animations or something else that takes wall clock time.

You also get an amazing visualizer and debug toolset where you can both see your app transition states, and inject the events to watch it transition states easily.

Would highly recommend checking out xstate in front end dev.

There's a famous essay about the Tragedy of the Commons -- the high level idea is that if there is a resource that is commonly available for free then some users will exploit it for their own gain. It originally referred to ranchers who would overuse communal grazing lands, but I think the lessons apply equally well to open source as well.

In my opinion, a healthy open source ecosystem relies on people using and contributing back, supporting the distributed creators that make the ecosystem possible. This historically has been something of a gift economy or social contract, but it's become wildly distorted by companies (e.g. Amazon/AWS) attempting to overuse the commons resource and make profit from it.

So it comes as no surprise that when one rancher comes in and overgrazes the common resource, the other participants might want to make some changes in rules. These new licenses aren't "just because", they come from lived experience of entities like Amazon coming in an exploiting a shared resource.

And I get it, the letter of the law says, "Do whatever you want with this shared resource". And there are plenty of folks who believe that Amazon has done nothing wrong -- the rules allowed for overgrazing, so naturally the right thing for Amazon to do was to overgraze.

I personally see it differently -- Amazon is hiding behind the letter of the licenses and totally distorting a community, exploiting the gifts of the engineers' labor, and getting us to point our fingers at one another over the "one true definition of 'Open Source'" rather than constructively figuring out ways to protect the community of open development and reward the individual workers who volunteer their time.

I suspect that it wasn't the mitigation was too challenging, just costly. Someone looked at the map and said, "Texas? You'll never need to be handling subzero temperatures over a long time period."

I don't even necessarily believe it was malicious (unless you consider cost cutting to make a profit malicious, which, maybe you'd have an argument there), just potentially lazy.

This is the sort of thing we should have some baseline regulations to support -- critical infrastructure should be designed to support a temperature range of X to Y, where X is a record cold times some factor and Y is a record heat times some factor.

Because the ratio of land to cost was better. And because right now Weyerhaueser owns a ton of timberland up here but won't part with it until after they've harvested it.

In my mind, returning some land to natural forest and placing a small spot to go camping or hiking through it would be an incredible gift to future generations.

I'm considering a few hundred acres of mountainous clearcut land in the pacific northwest. Are there any resources you'd recommend to learn about replanting non-urban areas?

I've used Lua professionally and for hobby projects, and it's near the bottom of my list for languages I'd reach for in any context.

There's a significant mental lift for me to be productive in Lua, there are tons of weird gotchas, and I find it to be super verbose. Even basic stuff like parsing JSON I end up having to go rummage around for support for.

These days, I'll use javascript or python for my smaller needs, and I'd much rather have a JS runtime embedded than a Lua one for any game scripting I'm doing.

Research actually backs up that deplatforming does reduce audience sizes for an outlet.

Which makes sense of you believe that some listeners will simply not have the interest in jumping over to a new platform. Repeat several times and with every platform shift the audience reduces.

Nine firearms plus one long gun, one container of molotovs, several pipe bombs, and two IEDs were seized by police. Additionally several released chemical agents at police. One beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. One was photographed with a set of zip tie restraints.

And that's just what was captured obviously. Presumably for everything found there were several more things concealed.

I'm not aware of a truckload of molotov cocktails, or IEDs in CHOP.

In either case, that's whataboutism. If the same thing happened in CHOP, yes, it would also be bad. Are you seriously suggesting this is acceptable behavior?

One guy rolled up with a truck off molotov cocktails and firearms. Several IEDs were discovered and detonated by bomb squads.

The platform owner decides, and they come up with a process that is necessarily fuzzy? Our entire system of justice is built on the concept of having to make judgement calls. Moderation is also requires humans to take a look and say, this seems to violate our policies.

Take a look at these: https://mobile.twitter.com/GriffinMalone6/status/13480046828...

Are these threats of imminent violence? I'm confident that a reasonable person would say yes.

Take a breath, you seem angry. It's not ok to be using slurs here.

We is him, you is the people on the Capitol grounds. The rest of the message sets the context that this is clearly aimed at the protestors. I don't know what's preventing you from seeing this.

His tweet literally included the lines: "We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens."

That's as clear and unambiguous as it gets.

> He's actively calling for peace, law & order and to let the blue do their job.

What a wild selective (mis)reading of his Twitter account. Did you miss the parts where he said he loved the people who stormed the Capitol with rifles today? Or the part where he said the vice president should just declare him the winner of the election?

I like work it out with guard rails. Observe, be prepared to talk about feelings, and ensure the lesson isn't "might is right", but otherwise give kids the opportunity to experiment with social interactions.

Yes. Somewhat famously, Socrates said that writing would breed forgetfulness. And that children could not understand the difference between fantasy and reality.

The radio, likewise, was considered too compelling by some.

I'm not super surprised? I think often centrist dems like to think of themselves as different from moderate republicans. (And vice versa.) More extremist right wing types tend to think Pelosi is some sort of progressive bogeyman and that she's nothing like folks like Reagan or Thatcher. I think all of those groups would disagree with my assessment enough to downvote it. (I suspect a lot of people are upset I called Pelosi a neoliberal.)

That said, my view is only one lens, and there are others. Many don't consider Clinton/Obama/Pelosi and their ilk to be neoliberal. Many do.

Edit: Also, I told someone they were wrong, which is usually a few downvotes. :D

Yes, Nancy Pelosi. She's part and parcel a corporate democrat, interested in incremental changes that fundamentally support the capital class.

She's against universal healthcare, she's committed to austerity, she supports the surveillance state, she fights against progressive reforms.

It's easy to see the grandstanding that people like Pelosi do as somehow leftist or progressive, but fundamentally she's playing a much more conservative game. She's a democrat who will put on Kente cloth and say black lives matter, while doing nothing to actually improve black lives.

For instance, she mandates pay-go, meaning any new programs must come with new taxes. Seems reasonable, but she's not proposing new programs. She's letting the progressive wing propose them, then letting the right wing attack the progressive wing, and then saying "there was nothing that could be done, maybe we should be taking my compromise, which is predominantly a market driven compromise."

Pelosi is not someone who is out there calling for labor strikes and strong union protections. Compare her to, say, Martin Luther King Jr and his Poor People's Campaign.

I'll leave you with a quote from her:

"I have to say we’re capitalists. And that’s just the way it is."

I suspect that this person doesn't understand what neo-liberalism is, who is a neoliberal, or what their talking points are.

Neoliberals are the centrist or right leaning part of the democratic party and the moderate republicans. It is the political position of laissez-faire capitalism, reform, and reduced state influence over the economy.

Reagan and Pelosi are both neoliberal. Maybe this person meant Leftist, Socialist, Anticapitalist, or Progressive talking points?

Ok, my brief reading suggests the thesis is that everyone wants to be at the top, but to grow the number of people at the top you must grow the number of people below that by some larger number.

For example, a manager earns more, people want to be managers. Only way to get more managers is to grow and get more workers. Now you have even more people who want to be managers.

It's an interesting idea, and sort of a novel (to me, at least) framing of the ideas behind a ponzi scheme or keeping up with the Joneses or the American dream (that we could all be millionaires). It also seems to be the natural order for the capitalist economy, if I understand the thesis correctly. ( Capital must beget capital, else no one would invest. As more people invest, we must grow to sustain the growth in capital.)

I need to think about it a bit more, but it seems to me that the theory assumes the actor is a solipsist or predominantly interested in their own self. I'm not sure that's necessarily axiomatic in American culture.

Thanks for sharing the concept, and feel free to offer suggestions or corrections where I misunderstood it.