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  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•What’s Richard Stallman’s dream social network? XMPP!
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    10 months ago

    I think the problem there is that, for many years, nobody bothered to explain to him exactly why child porn is bad.

    Most people observe that everyone else thinks it’s bad and don’t question it any further. That’s not good enough for Stallman, though, and for good reason: expecting him to unquestioningly bow to peer pressure is an insult to his intelligence.

    Someone did eventually explain the problem to Stallman. I don’t know what exactly was explained, but my guess is that Stallman was told that child porn is non-consensual and therefore violates the child’s privacy, similar to how revenge porn violates the subject’s privacy. At any rate, after that discussion took place, Stallman did an about-face on the subject, and is now opposed to child porn like anyone else.

    Moral of the story: taboos and peer pressure bad; logic and education good.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were to run for higher office in your country, what controversial thing would the vetting process uncover about you?
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    10 months ago

    First, despite there being multiple school shootings this year, school shootings are a tiny fraction of the overall homicides in the US

    Which are also often committed with guns…

    which are, in turn, dwarfed by the number of suicides committed with firearms.

    I’m not talking about suicide.

    Second, looking at your link you provided, you see a lot of things like, “A gun was fired during a fight near a basketball game at Appoquinimink High School. No injuries were reported”, and “Bullets struck two windows of classrooms at PS 78 in the Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island. One classroom was occupied by ten adults, but no bullets entered the classrooms” being counted as "school shootings:, which you then compare to Columbine. You are intentionally, and in bad faith, conflating entirely different things, and placing them all under the heading of, “firearms near schools”.

    I did nothing of the sort. There are multiple bona fide school shootings in that list, such as the Michigan State shooting and the Covenant shooting.

    It is relevant, because it has different causes, and is thus addressed differently.

    That’s not a meaningful answer. Let’s have some details.

    Are you willing to engage in good faith, or have you already decided that the only solution is banning firearms?

    Are you willing to engage in good faith? So far, you’ve argued based on false premises (namely that school shootings are rare, and that there are no bona fide school shootings in the previously linked Wikipedia list) and evasive non-answers (namely that targeted violence at school is to be “addressed differently”, with no explanation of how). Doesn’t seem like good faith to me.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    10 months ago

    Even if it’s utterly pointless I prefer the anonymity

    Cryptocurrency proponents are quick to remind me that cryptocurrency transactions are not anonymous, and are in fact highly traceable by virtue of being stored in a public ledger.

    and some sites default to reoccurring donations and emails when using a card

    Meaning, they try to mislead you into donating more than you intend to? Doesn’t that make them crooks, unworthy of your donations?

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.org•For the Love of Everything, Please Keep 3-6 Months Worth of Money for an Emergency Fund (If You Can)English
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    10 months ago

    most people hate the poor, and especially hate the unhoused and just want them to disappear.

    Yeah, that’s true. Everyone seems to hate the homeless. And they’ll probably continue to hate the homeless even as millions of working middle-class people lose their homes as a result of the housing and job crisis. Hell, the newly homeless will probably hate themselves, too.

    But I don’t understand why. These homeless people didn’t choose to jack up their rent and slash their wages; their landlords and employers did. They’re victims, not perpetrators. Why would people hate them? Is everybody’s brain malfunctioning from microplastic poisoning or something?

    the recently unhoused quickly learn to follow suit if they want to stay alive and have any hope of improving their lives

    So, they remain docile because they cling to a false hope? As far as I can tell, once you’re homeless, you’re going to stay that way for the rest of your life, no matter what you do, precisely because everyone hates you for being homeless.