Listen man I want smart everything. I want a fridge that tells me if I left the door open and when I last replaced the filter and if the OJ is out and then automatically asks if it should add more OJ to the grocery list.
And this can all be accomplished with modern technology without sending my data to an outside entity. It should be, even if it isn't. So much of the sci-fi future we used to dream of can be a reality today, we just have to mold it into being.
From what I can tell the steering committee (project leadership) wanted to modify the mod team, the mod team wants to be independent of the leadership of the project, and one member of the certain committee works or did work for a genuinely shitty company in some capacity.
Sounds like interpersonal bullshit reframed as politics. Honestly impressed at the resignation letter being able to use so many words while avoiding actually directly explaining what they're upset about. Of course it would take something really egregious and extraordinary for me to give a shit, because..
The steering committee or board of trustees or whatever should be sitting the rules for the organization, up to an including adding or removing mods from a forum if they want. That's what they exist for. The idea that a mod team should be independent of the actual organizational structure of an institution is ridiculous.
I mean, you're supposed to take the ticket when you're pulled over, and I don't believe we should make it easier for people who aren't in the vehicle when driving it.
Write the ticket, hold it out at the car window, when no one takes it write "Refused", make everyone exit, disable the vehicle until it can be towed to impound, and keep it at impound until some responsible person comes to claim it, sign the ticket, and pay the fees.
I feel like maybe the Arab Spring, inspirational as it was, was half-baked. I believe it's possible that open broadcast microblogging system might have generated a sense of solidarity and community that exceeded the facts on the ground.
So what's the solution to keep abusive access from psudo-ddosing open projects? IP range blocks? Keeping access behind accounts as a speed bump for bots and a tool for tracking abuse?
Options are great and all, but they're not the be all and end all of self-actualization or whatever. Libertarians always try to sell capitalism and markets as radically freeing, while socialists and communists point out that markets are not inherently liberatory or fair or rational. Some would argue that giving a person the option to harm themselves is important because the freedom is more important than their well-being. A person has the right to spend their entire paycheck on scratchers or buy heroin and lieu of groceries or whatever. More options are not intrinsically beneficial.
And running around shirtless is low stakes to be sure, but it's because of those low stakes that I'd rather it just be discouraged for everyone. Not criminal or anything, just kind of socially unacceptable, like chewing with your mouth open.
Yeah, but the odds (and advisability) of "normalizing" pedos (despite some movements in the 70's), similar to how gay people were is...well I think it's low, for reasons I hope I don't have to explain. That's what makes them a useful perennial target, or claim. Universal one too, even people on the left will throw it around as an accusation. It can devolve into arguments about who is or isn't a valid target for vigilantism (whether they do or don't fit the category), when the argument should be against vigilantism itself.
No, that's not it. The whole stupid thing revolves around a principle of parity, as you acknowledge. I'd just rather have it go the other way, and am willing to wear a shirt more if that's what has to be done to appease those who want perfect parity in clothing rules between sexes.
What do you think should be done to you?