[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I think that aphorism is about authority-respect rather than basic-human-decency-respect.

This thread makes me wonder how much contemporary American English is to blame for people being able to exploit ambiguities surreptitiously. Dog whistles have to start somewhere, they don't seem to be prearranged.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

It's this: https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-deletes-post-depicting-8647-after-backlash-online-2073031

James Comey posted a picture of "8647" (get rid of Trump) spelled in shells.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

Many algorithms aren't even doing that in good faith, instead substituting in their low-cost contract cover bands as often as they can.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Bruce Schneier has been saying for something like 25 years that technological advances always favor attackers over defenders.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Please, no. We don't need more myopia from politicians.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

WinGet, choco, scoop, &c, they all have strengths and weaknesses, which is why I had to write this: https://github.com/brianary/scripts/blob/main/Update-Everything.ps1

It's also why I use Linux at home.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Do they mean "buying" instead of "owning"?

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

I really like the tiling window support in Pop_OS!'s Cosmos desktop.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

I don't understand the "we were to small to matter" argument I've been seeing. If that's true, why on Earth would you expect to matter enough to move the Democratic platform, or to shape society after leftists "burn it all down" (whatever that means)?

[-] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

So it sounds like you don't believe progressive taxation works. I guess that's an understandable viewpoint. But if you think complexity is the problem, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of me as naïve. People that want simple solutions to complex problems are showing the lack of sophistication that defines naïvety.

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