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disposekinetics··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
It's a trade off. A union would very likely benefit me financially but every union I've ever had the opportunity to join has had a very progressive bend. Do I gain financially and lose morally or hold morally and miss out financially?

Edit: I would be very enthusiastic about a union that stuck to just labor issues, no unrelated issues.

disposekinetics··on Researchers estimate the richest 1% dodge taxes on over a fifth of their income
Everyone can attempt to pay as little as legally required. This is settled law.
disposekinetics··on Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%
Why is that a problem?
disposekinetics··on Silicon Valley Foundation, WEF Announce Global Initiative for Vaccine Passports
Why would I share HIPPA data with any of those groups, other than potentially a required doctors exam for life insurance?
disposekinetics··on Silicon Valley Foundation, WEF Announce Global Initiative for Vaccine Passports
I just don’t get the need for this. Who is everyone planning on showing their vaccine records to other than their doctor?
disposekinetics··on Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee
It is like code of conducts, prior people on both sides could work together. By picking a side on an issue that has nothing to do with a given project you alienate half of your potential developers. Nothing about developing an open-source compiler implies anything but developing an open-source compiler.
disposekinetics··on Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee
They were always political but now they're engaging in politics orthogonal to their stated goal.
disposekinetics··on Kicking trolls off your Socials
This line of the FAQ

> <...> the TrollsBGone army of bots to examine the comments, flag, and identify which are “bad,” based on the sensitivity level you choose, on a scale of 1-10.

Is this botting mass flagging?

disposekinetics··on U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
Hopefully the return to normal will lead to a speedy rebound. It would be a shame to lose the greatness of organized religion over a temporary pandemic.
disposekinetics··on Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
Thank you for writing that article. I'm a native English speaker and I intend to speaker clearer because I read this.
disposekinetics··on Not the First Time We Tried (FSF, GNU, RMS, etc.)
Perhaps most people realize that attaching their real name to supporting RMS puts them at risk, while there is little to no risk behind the opposite?
disposekinetics··on Red Hat statement about RMS’s return to the Free Software Foundation board
This is an effective way to kill off the last bit of goodwill I had for RH.
disposekinetics··on Facebook is autogenerating pages for white supremacists
> Autogenerating pages for white supremacists is wrong. Do we agree on that statement?

Why would that be wrong? It isn't an endorsement, anymore than Wikipedia having an article on Adolf Hitler is an endorsement.

Edit: It's just making Facebook reflect reality.

disposekinetics··on Evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism
Not paying into social security would very likely lead to better outcomes for me, but not for society as a whole.

Edit: The current gun rights debate in the USA is if making it more difficult for hobby marksman is worth the collective safety.

disposekinetics··on Evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism
Just like gender it used to mean that, but now we have to pretend it has always meant something else.
disposekinetics··on Evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism
I think everyone agrees with you but where we would place our countries on that spectrum probably differs to an extreme degree.
disposekinetics··on Evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism
I disagree on a very low level with this statement. The purpose of taxes is to fund the government budget.
disposekinetics··on Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
That's a great idea. Thank you for clarifying.
disposekinetics··on Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
Is this Firefox adopting LocalCDN/Decentraleyes, or am I totally misunderstanding what's going on.
disposekinetics··on Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
This is wonderful news. The hero has returned from the cancellation underworld.
disposekinetics··on A new moralism is gripping the literary world
I'm really out of the loop, what is going on in online comics?
disposekinetics··on Systemd 248 RC3: systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported
I can second this, recent Gentoo has been a pleasure to work with.
disposekinetics··on Amazon will not sell books that 'frame sexual identity as mental illness'
I fully believe they are a free to do what they want up until they run into illegal anti-competitive practices, but I can still be disappointed that I had to go elsewhere for a book for the first time in around a decade. In my case I read this book because Amazon took the time to remove it. I would not have read it otherwise.
disposekinetics··on Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible
As someone with a hatred for touch based controls this frustrates me, but I think you're wholly correct.
disposekinetics··on Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible
I think another part of this problem is that websites are aloud to change scroll bar colors via CSS. The scrollbar is a UI element, not a part of the page and it adds to the problem.
disposekinetics··on Why Should I learn Python?
I hope this doesn't make me a curmudgeon, but I don't see any appeal for Python. I've programmed in many languages professionally and it is the sole language that left me with an overwhelmingly negative opinion.

Of course it all comes down to taste. I am in no way "Right" about if one should learn Python or not.

disposekinetics··on Ask HN: NFTs legit or mania?
It is a scam, as a rule if it is "X but on a blockchain" it's a pump and dump scam. "Art ownership but on the blockchain" will make a handful of people very rich, at the cost of everyone else who follows the pump and dump.

Here is a thought experiment. There's a neutral party in Switzerland that will mark you as the owner of a digital item in their ledgers kept in a Swiss vault. you can buy and sell ownership as long as you call up the Swiss 'Meme ownership broker', but that's it. Does that seem silly? Doing it on the blockchain doesn't make it less silly, if anything it makes it sillier since there is a lot of pollution in order to have everyone run the Swiss Register.

disposekinetics··on NASA Needs to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA does not “need” to do anything, the mob wants them to do this.
disposekinetics··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
I think you might be correct, I tend to see copyright itself as censorious, but copyright on something you have no intent allowing access to seems downright unacceptable.
disposekinetics··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
Language isn't prescriptive right up until the anointed need it to change, then you'll be told what to say.
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