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movaps··on RMS Support Letter
He was told off for asking people out. His (an autistic man keep in mind) solution was "pleasure cards", as opposed to business cards. It's a very tame innuendo which suffers from outdated language. People don't use the word "pleasure" casually today.

Here's a picture of one of said cards - how shocking: https://twitter.com/bella_velo/status/1172524864193945603/ph...

movaps··on RMS Support Letter
I assume MIT has a department which handles sexual harassment incidents. Why has none of this gone through proper channels if it's so egregious?
movaps··on What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
Nobody said anything about what they look like. I'm not sure why you're assuming we're racists. Priority should be given to whoever would have the biggest negative impact. There's no need to bring justice into it.

And sorry but, frankly, advocating for literal chemical brainwashing because it's cheaper than therapy is sociopathic.

movaps··on What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
People have been disenfranchised and called extreme for much less than your examples. People being fired over tweets comes to mind.

It doesn't matter who's doing the disenfranchising if it's ubiquitous.

movaps··on What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
This is shockingly naive and biased. Forcibly changing a person's mind, their being, is arguably worse than physical violence. You'd have to be pretty creative to come up with something more dystopian than purging political enemies and religions via "voluntary" psychiatry.
movaps··on Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
Nope, it's a combo of makefiles (GNU flavour I think) and C called Kconfig.