What's anti-gay and anti-science about the Heritage Foundation?
I mean, I just found something on their website condemning proposed Equality Act legislation (at https://www.heritage.org/gende... ) but it at no point demonises or targets people based on their sexuality or gender (unless you include suggesting that men would intentionally abuse the law the prey on women).
They do disagree with the legislation but do so by raising a large number of concerns about its implications. Those concerns are stated objectively and whether you agree with them or not they're easily discussed, argued and if necessary mitigated.
Surely this process is essential to assure good legislation?
It's not a "slightly different point of view", it's someone who is opposed to treating certain groups as human beings and who supports denying their basic rights.
Yes, but we're talking about someone espousing equal treatment for all, not the man hating Google employees.
Where can I buy a second hand EV in the UK with a folding hard top roof for under £30k and less than 15k miles on it, that'll let me take 300 mile journeys to Scotland without stopping?
I mean, that's a large budget I'm offering there.
Just that, unless you can meet those pretty reasonable expectations then reality isn't yet conforming to your delusions.
Lets pick the world's most popular sport, named after a ball: Football.
Eleven players on each team. If they all chase the ball around they'll lose.
So they need to work together. As a team. Pass the ball between them.
The other team will try and prevent that, because it's a sport, and people don't like losing. So merely passing the ball wont work, they need tactics.
Now chasing a ball around requires upfront thought and teamwork. It also needs research into the opposition, leadership, training, fitness and mental resilience.
I live in a village surrounded by countryside and there aren't any woods within kid friendly walking distance. At least three miles, and nearer five for anything decent.
Most people don't live in villages. They live in cities. Throw the kids out of the house and they're on street corners, in abandoned buildings, at best scaring old ladies in the local park.
I wouldn't raise a kid in such an environment but many people do, and throwing them out of the house in that environment doesn't leave them many options.
The career required putting in tens of hours a week into computers to get the knowledge, skills, and familiarity for our professions. Most of us started that process by playing videogames for far too many hours and now we are denying that to our children, but still expect them to be competitive in a more demanding working world.
The world doesn't work in the same way now. You play modern games by clicking a web link, following a couple of prompts and hey, you're playing.
No learning how to tune the cassette player. No typing load commands into the console. No typing programs in from a magazine. No configuring himem.sys to get the damn thing to run. No installing/configuring sound drivers.
We are doing a disservice to them, giving them less opportunities to immerse themselves in the way that led us to excellent careers
Yeah. The only way games are going to allow that is if you buy them a good PC and get them into modding. They're sure as fuck not going to immerse themselves playing Fortnite.
If you don't read what exactly the kid did, you don't have a right to comment. [...] The cop opened the door expecting a shooter about to execute a number of people
Given that the policeman didn't open the fucking door and did shoot an unarmed man I think it's pretty clear that you don't think you have a right to comment.
You would rather other people act to protect you and die than you do it yourself because cops are bad in your eye
How can I put this. I could have done a better job than that policeman, and I'd seriously fucking hope he's never called out to my house because he's demonstrably more likely to fucking kill me than anybody he's allegedly there to protect me from.
I don't hate the police, I just expect the law to apply to them. Including murder charges when they murder unarmed people standing in the door of their own home.
if you consider the LEOs had none of the foregone knowledge thaat they were not at a house where a murder had already been committed, the police reaction is much more understandable
Nope, an unarmed man stood in bright lights on his own porch was murdered. I don't understand why the policeman even fucking shot him, let alone got away with that murder.
Well, the email I just received tells me that the two posts I made in this discussion this morning have since received 22 moderations between them, split broadly equal. They're both currently sat at +2 Interesting.
It's an insane level of moderation, especially for two relatively innocuous posts. Oh well.
I don't tend to follow Notch and never really enjoyed Minecraft either, but out of curiousity, which rhetoric and memes do you feel he's dabbling in that are white supremacist?
I'm so sick of watching angry white men get taken advantage of while also being dragged down with them.
I would ask 'dragged down with who?' because it's not clear from your post, but instead I'm going to laugh at you dabbling in what is clearly white supremacist rhetoric, whether you realise it or not.
Marcus has such extreme financial security that he no longer needs to worry about whether he upsets people.
This means that he speaks his mind openly and his views transgress the politically correct viewpoints expected of public figures on social media.
Notably he calls out what he perceives to be silliness and lies when people attack the industry he's helped shape on the topics such as sexism, racism, professional ethics or daring to actually suggest that certain business practices are damaging to customers.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I published DRM free on Amazon (and others). I doubt it made any difference to sales either.
You forgot the whole tracking entire populations in order to maliciously target them with propaganda aimed at changing their behaviours.
What's anti-gay and anti-science about the Heritage Foundation?
I mean, I just found something on their website condemning proposed Equality Act legislation (at https://www.heritage.org/gende... ) but it at no point demonises or targets people based on their sexuality or gender (unless you include suggesting that men would intentionally abuse the law the prey on women).
They do disagree with the legislation but do so by raising a large number of concerns about its implications. Those concerns are stated objectively and whether you agree with them or not they're easily discussed, argued and if necessary mitigated.
Surely this process is essential to assure good legislation?
No, you have a table with a Nazi and ten people talking to him.
We all breath the same air, so you're a nazi, a KKK member, a bigot and an idiot.
I can even prove the last one.
It's not a "slightly different point of view", it's someone who is opposed to treating certain groups as human beings and who supports denying their basic rights.
Yes, but we're talking about someone espousing equal treatment for all, not the man hating Google employees.
I disagree, but I do respect her for presenting an hour after discovering she'd had a miscarriage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
You really don't like John do you.
Where can I buy a second hand EV in the UK with a folding hard top roof for under £30k and less than 15k miles on it, that'll let me take 300 mile journeys to Scotland without stopping?
I mean, that's a large budget I'm offering there.
Just that, unless you can meet those pretty reasonable expectations then reality isn't yet conforming to your delusions.
Well, I'd expect kids in these parts to hit the farmland, get muddy, fall in the pond, find the brook, molest the horses and try to ride the sheep.
The teens just hang out at the skate park until they can blag their way into one of the pubs.
doesn't want to come up to eat when he is playing
At eleven he should be helping make the food.
"Come and help make dinner"
"No, I'm playing"
Wait three minutes. Unplug gaming device.
"Now you're not playing. Come and make dinner"
They learn fast.
Chasing a ball around happens in which sport?
Lets pick the world's most popular sport, named after a ball: Football.
Eleven players on each team. If they all chase the ball around they'll lose.
So they need to work together. As a team. Pass the ball between them.
The other team will try and prevent that, because it's a sport, and people don't like losing. So merely passing the ball wont work, they need tactics.
Now chasing a ball around requires upfront thought and teamwork. It also needs research into the opposition, leadership, training, fitness and mental resilience.
Just like dogs, no?
Yeah, but you had woods.
I live in a village surrounded by countryside and there aren't any woods within kid friendly walking distance. At least three miles, and nearer five for anything decent.
Most people don't live in villages. They live in cities. Throw the kids out of the house and they're on street corners, in abandoned buildings, at best scaring old ladies in the local park.
I wouldn't raise a kid in such an environment but many people do, and throwing them out of the house in that environment doesn't leave them many options.
The career required putting in tens of hours a week into computers to get the knowledge, skills, and familiarity for our professions. Most of us started that process by playing videogames for far too many hours and now we are denying that to our children, but still expect them to be competitive in a more demanding working world.
The world doesn't work in the same way now. You play modern games by clicking a web link, following a couple of prompts and hey, you're playing.
No learning how to tune the cassette player. No typing load commands into the console. No typing programs in from a magazine. No configuring himem.sys to get the damn thing to run. No installing/configuring sound drivers.
We are doing a disservice to them, giving them less opportunities to immerse themselves in the way that led us to excellent careers
Yeah. The only way games are going to allow that is if you buy them a good PC and get them into modding. They're sure as fuck not going to immerse themselves playing Fortnite.
I know a couple too. Still in touch with one, he now owns a substantial chunk of Colorado so he's doing ok.
I know many more that did 60+ hours a week and graduated. Including myself. But shit, 60 hours was a slow week.
And they were legit. I know a handful of people who lost jobs and girlfriends over WoW. Everquest too..
The only friend I had that lost a job over Everquest was playing it with her boyfriend, so she didn't lose him too.
Well, not for another decade.
You (and everybody else) seem to have missed the biggest and most expensive lie.
"I don't want children."
Prenda Law targeted people that hadn't illegally downloaded porn. Perhaps you could consider being sympathetic towards those people?
If you don't read what exactly the kid did, you don't have a right to comment. [...] The cop opened the door expecting a shooter about to execute a number of people
Given that the policeman didn't open the fucking door and did shoot an unarmed man I think it's pretty clear that you don't think you have a right to comment.
You would rather other people act to protect you and die than you do it yourself because cops are bad in your eye
How can I put this. I could have done a better job than that policeman, and I'd seriously fucking hope he's never called out to my house because he's demonstrably more likely to fucking kill me than anybody he's allegedly there to protect me from.
I don't hate the police, I just expect the law to apply to them. Including murder charges when they murder unarmed people standing in the door of their own home.
if you consider the LEOs had none of the foregone knowledge thaat they were not at a house where a murder had already been committed, the police reaction is much more understandable
Nope, an unarmed man stood in bright lights on his own porch was murdered. I don't understand why the policeman even fucking shot him, let alone got away with that murder.
Well, the email I just received tells me that the two posts I made in this discussion this morning have since received 22 moderations between them, split broadly equal. They're both currently sat at +2 Interesting.
It's an insane level of moderation, especially for two relatively innocuous posts. Oh well.
Surely he was merely being sardonic. Nobody would be stupid enough to interpret "It's ok to be white" as supremacist rhetoric. Would they?
I don't tend to follow Notch and never really enjoyed Minecraft either, but out of curiousity, which rhetoric and memes do you feel he's dabbling in that are white supremacist?
I'm so sick of watching angry white men get taken advantage of while also being dragged down with them.
I would ask 'dragged down with who?' because it's not clear from your post, but instead I'm going to laugh at you dabbling in what is clearly white supremacist rhetoric, whether you realise it or not.
Oops.
Marcus has such extreme financial security that he no longer needs to worry about whether he upsets people.
This means that he speaks his mind openly and his views transgress the politically correct viewpoints expected of public figures on social media.
Notably he calls out what he perceives to be silliness and lies when people attack the industry he's helped shape on the topics such as sexism, racism, professional ethics or daring to actually suggest that certain business practices are damaging to customers.
That upsets the echo chambers.
Yeah, MGTOW are totally into.. wait, it's in their name. They're into not raping women, even by modern feminist doctrine that all sex is rape.
What misogynists, denying basic participation in rape culture to women.
Don't tell me, tell the person to whom you initially responded.
Maybe they only switch on the light one Tuesday a month or something.