11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Malachi17 6h \ on: How many territories are set for life? alter_native
Yeah, I was wondering if territory owners are "breaking even". If you make money, great, but I'm more concerned about not losing money.
Seems reasonable to have a "rule" that moderators of privately hosted forums can point to when they kick/ban users who are considered to be harassing others for any reason.
Most rules start out as reasonable seeming. The purpose in this case is some kind of "gender inclusiveness". If you are good programmer, who cares if somebody says you are a faggot? In the era I started in, that was pretty much the norm. Might as well say, "Hey, how's life"?
What do you expect from an OS who's logo is a snowflake?
Exactly.
It doesn't read as political to me, just a list of the most commonly cited ways that people harass one another online.
Many changes like this don't know. "Inclusive language" though is political. Make no mistake. Again, if you are a good coder, code. That's the inclusiveness.
I started with Suse back in 1990. Suse has become political, but OpenSuse is in the process of being "broken off" because Suse doesn't want their name associated with them. (Probably in part due to politics)
The OS I prefer when I'm not being constrained by hardware, however, is openbsd.
I dumped Nix at the point they started having a contributor covenant. I don't need my OS having political views other than maybe freedom of speech which is a right or so I'm told.
When I first started using linux in the 90's though, I mounted up my windows drive under linux because I thought that would be cool. This was back around Redhat 5.2 or possibly some Mandrake derivative that I was testing. The mount did not cleanly unmount, and got stuck in some kind of write loop and it hosed the partition on the mounted disk.
So, I thought I'd re-partition it, but somehow also in the process the whole disk had died. This was my first lesson in "it can dual boot, but should it?"
Never said it was, but for the sake of being pedantic:
Sparta had what ancient Greek commentators called a 'mixed' constitution, which blended kingship, oligarchy, and democracy.
I was talking about the Peloponnese war that broke out between them.
47 sats \ 1 reply \ @Malachi17 17 Sep \ parent \ on: Back to School—A Critique of the College Model econ
In part, that was because there was no budget for "COVID forever". Some places got grants, or state money, others did not.
The college bubble is a well-known phenomenon. It's imminent bursting has been mentioned at many points. At some point, it will, then things will get interesting.
Circular economies herald circle jerks. The medium is not freedom, whether it is shells, dollars, rupees, bitcoins, or bars of platinum. It comes down to the human element.
Boy, they just keep blurring that biological technological line. It's not a good thing. People need to watch more Ghost in the Shell for why.
I live in a country that persecutes you for your beliefs and the government does little about it to the point that whatever your money is or isn't worth, you cannot go get it anyway since in order to be paid you'd have to be part of the apparatus that comes after you for having beliefs different than it encourages. This also applies to bitcoin as it has gatekeepers and there are more and more of those each day.
I offered this place, for instance, to be a territory administrator for a religion section if someone wanted to supply the sats. Nobody wanted to do that even after the "Christianity" territory went goodbye. (I know that, because nobody did it)
Groceries are good, but spiritual food is important. Bitcoin or fiat don't solve either of those problems on their own.
Democracy isn't necessarily a good. Sparta and Athens figured that out. It limits democracy because crowds of people can be quite wrong-headed. The best that can be done, like statistics, is a representative sample. That's why the Constitution defines a Republic.
Tox is great. It's hard to get other people to use it, though. I've come to think adoption is really the only problem.