Sounds reasonable as you’ve written it. I do worry about people’s over willingness to bend the knee, especially when they’re frightened or angry. It seems like someone with a strong personality could convince people to go along with stuff that benefits him more than them. But, no system is immune to bad actors and idiots.

So, yes, I (with enough backing of the community) do get to tell hypothetical-you that you can’t shit in the drinking water.

Right. That sounds like it could be fine. But it seems like it would (d)evolve back into rules when people get tired of re-arguing the same conflicts repeatedly. People would have arguments, write down or remember the results, look back at them when the same kind of problem comes up, and now you’ve reinvented common law.

Or be very susceptible to tyranny of the majority. “We all decided you can only have the shit-water, so you can leave or fight us all.”

The way it was phrased in the meme (which, admittedly, is only a meme) makes it sound like you’re not allowed to stop other people.

So do I get to make their decisions for them or not?

If yes, the original post is faulty.

If no, they shit in the water.

I expect the original post is faulty because it’s a meme trying to be funny.

Of these options, the part where I don’t get to make your decisions, I guess. There’s going to be some guy who wants to shit in the drinking water, and I’m going to want to stop him.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Revoke their license. Scale fines with wealth. Mandate thousands of hours of community service for speeders. Don’t just do nothing and hope it sorts itself out.

I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words

Many of them know they are using words dishonestly. They don’t care. They will say whatever in the pursuit of power.

Some are just legitimately stupid and have no internal consistency beyond emotions.

Surely we’ve all seen the relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1217/

Hm maybe I’ll try that. Looks like there’s an android version

Firefox. It’s fine. The ai stuff is concerning , but nothing’s caused me enough pain to switch yet

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don’t deserve their huge paychecks.

They could’ve done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would’ve had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

We need more than resignation. We need real punishments.

There are many, many, people that could be granted good bus service without tearing down and rebuilding the world. The problem is political. Every day and every dollar we put into other lesser solutions comes with a large opportunity cost.

Imagine if we’d focused on buses for the past 22 years instead of waymo. How many people could be served by the $16 billion in funding waymo got?

I’d rather live somewhere with buses and trains. You can get places when old and/or drunk, you build a better world for everyone, and you don’t funnel money into shitty privately owned tech companies.

I think I said this before, but a problem is when someone says “I don’t like star trek: discovery” it’s impossible to know if they have reasons beyond “i don’t like black women”. They might not even know themselves! And if they do, they’re unlikely to come out and say that. They’ll reach for something more acceptable like “I wanted self contained episodes” (but DS9’s arcs are cool) or whatever.

There are so many duds online they’ve poisoned the well of discourse.

I would be more than willing to carry around my own spoon, fork, and more, if it meant less plastic crap everywhere

The “and” in the title is key. Humans can currently choose their gender expression, so that part can be stripped out with no changes to the world. Not assigning gender at birth is an interesting thought. Some people are really, from my view, weird about making sure their children perform gender correctly as early and often as possible.

Also I think it’d be neat if it was “genre” in English too. People understand there’s more genres than horror and fantasy.