foobiter

it’s an example of a similarly absurd law

I hate everything about this. Every step in this process is about making money and nothing else.

If you can’t look at it under any other light than the logical, maybe instead consider how interesting it is that humans can feel powerful sentimentality towards inanimate objects... to the extent that they feel compelled to act in irrational ways. You can find varying rituals like this across almost all cultures.

the universe is huge and time is long, there could be millions of civilizations and we could happen to exist at a time that doesn’t coincide with a single one

you didn’t even give a single counter example

allowlist and blocklist are clearer regardless

how is he wrong?

I think there’s some shame associated with gamification; like if it works for you, somehow it makes you unintelligent... but as long as you’re aware of it don’t lose sight of how you’re being manipulated then it can be a valuable tool just like anything else.

If bounties can’t outpace salary then no, not really.

the option to be tracked by one untrustworthy company? oh and they’re also in charge of the “anonymization” algorithm, oh and they also decide who is exempt due to protected status (race, income, etc), did I also mention they make the browser most people use and are one of the world’s largest advertising providers?

where is the better part? is it the fact that this makes fingerprinting easier? or that floc makes more data available to advertisers than cookies?

it’s easy to double when numbers are under 5,000. Many ecologists are not as rosy as the indian government about this... 95% of their range is gone at this point and there’s not a lot of genetic diversity; a single disease can wipe out of the population. We’d need nearly 100,000 tigers to have the diversity to avoid this, and we’re not on track for that by a long shot.

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/tigers-genetic-div...

tigers and pandas have such small natural habitats now that they’re effectively extinct in the wild; i’m not advocating for it, but it seems like nothing outside of large scale ecoterrorism can do anything fast enough to save our charismatic megafauna for anything other than morbid exhibition

this is a very obvious strawman... if you’ve been treating people poorly for decades you too may discover that publicly playing devils advocate for a convicted rapist may be the final straw.

tolerance generally excludes the intolerant, yes

I’ve found a similar issue with wall clocks... it’s frustratingly hard to find an option with good type. The double digit numbers tend to throw off the face balance .

marjorie taylor green requires more detail than simply “a republican congresswoman” - she’s blamed forest fires on jewish space lasers, among other racist, homophobic, and transphobic conspiracy theories