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Then I think you just have to shoot your shot

:3

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That still seems like it crosses a line to me

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Until a big company realizes the most profitable thing to do is take that option off the table

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No, a paradox is an intrinsic contradiction.

There’s no resolving it without redefining the terms - if you traveled back in time, you broke causality, meaning time was never what we think of it as. If you spawn a new timeline, you never created a paradox - the apparent contradiction is from an alternate timeline.

But in this case, there never was a paradox - people made one up by misunderstanding tolerance for universal acceptance. That’s never what it meant - South Park even did an episode about it when the term was pretty new.

It doesn’t mean you like them or support their choices, it means you treat them with common decency according to the social contact. You can be a bigot deep in your heart, but you don’t make it their problem.

It’s about That’s all it is, it’s about “your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins”. And conversely, if a bigot acts acceptably and they keep that between them and their priest, you tolerate them.

Ideally, you wouldn’t be prejudiced against them… I’m sure plenty of Nazis were decent people. Like Russians today - some support a horrible and unjustified war, because propaganda works. Many genuinely believe they’re liberators paying an enormous price for the freedom of Ukrainians. Show them the concentration camps from then or the war crime videos today, and they’d be instant converts the minute they’re convinced they start to accept they’ve been lied to

But you still stop them. They’re still wrong, and need correction, because they’re hurting others no matter what they believe.

You don’t let chistofacists abuse their children, and you don’t let klan members or fascist organize - you respond with counter-organization to their organization, you mock them for being a fucking idiot/asshole when they post dumb shit online, you argue them calmly when they push stupid beliefs respectfully and in good faith, and you respond with overwhelming violence to imminent harm.

It’s not a philosophy, law, religion, or ethics framework… It’s just the explicit form of the basic social contact for people who struggle to keep their prejudice in check

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Or maybe it’s because they study and ban food additives beyond finding the dose that causes immediate symptoms and don’t put an extremely strong industrial waste products in their drinking water (turns out the crap they put in the drinking water was poisoning the land when they dumped it in the rivers, and has been pretty convincingly linked to ovarian cysts and low testosterone while doing nothing for our teeth). Or maybe it’s just because they have better social cohesion and stronger worker protections.

But probably just the olive oil and red wine. And hey, all that stuff is complicated… Why not just buy the fancy expensive liquids at the grocery store? If you pay enough and do your research, you can even get olive oil that is legal to sell over there!

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It’s banned in the EU and Japan. Their dental outcomes are the same over the same period, and guess what we have more of?

Fluoride in toothpaste isn’t the same as what they dump in the drinking water, molecules matter.

One of those is a medical product lethal if you drink a bottle of it, the other is a hazardous material that you need training and PPE to handle

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IDK, I feel like capitalism just enhances the appeal of cosmic horror. I feel like encountering horrors beyond my comprehension would be reassuring after a lifetime of experiencing manmade horrors within my comprehension

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I mean, that’s just demonstratively wrong. I’ve got plenty to criticize about China, but I personally know multiple people who got offers to teach English over there with a very, very basic understanding of Chinese

They most certainly prize speaking English without an accent… I’m not saying it’s a good deal, but they most certainly encourage the program

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I’d explain it by saying they’re attempting to “rebuild pride in their Chinese heritage”. After years of Western culture being equated with prosperity, they’re pushing to build a new national identity more convenient for them

Many countries have efforts to try to preserve their culture against American media - like France limits the amount of English songs on the radio. They still teach people English aggressively in schools - it’s the primary language of trade and technology

The PRC just wants it both ways. They want the advantages of globalization and speaking the international language, but they want it to be culturally stigmatized too

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What’s BS about jacking it with a bro? I don’t get what could be weird about two hot dudes jacking it to spread positive vibes

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Why do you have to address people? I’ve gone years without knowing someone’s name, I’m really bad at names. And then you get to the weird social situations

I was close enough with my friends family in high school that I used to hang out with them years even after he moved away, at least a few times a month for almost a decade.

I have no idea how to address them. Do I say Mr/Mrs X? Do I call them by their first name? Do I call them Aunt and Uncle in another language like what is normal in their culture?

I have no idea. So I just didn’t. For years. Occasionally it’s awkward, like at a party when it’s loud, but not so loud you’d need to tap them… So I’d either wander around and repeat the approach, start talking to someone near them (sometimes even refer to them via relationship with the person I’m speaking to to get their attention), or pretend like I just remembered something so I could make a noise without it being psychotic.

I think I brought it up with my friend and his sister a couple years in, and they thought it was hilarious, but said any of those options would be fine… Which I did not find helpful.

But again, you’d be shocked how easy it is to avoid it. Compared to that, you can just say “excuse me” or “sorry to disturb you” or whatever… Humans are really, really good at noticing when someone is talking to them

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Right? The only situation I enjoy hearing my name is in an emotionally charged interaction. Even then it’s only going to give me fuzzy feelings when a romantic partner says it… In all other contexts I’m at best going to think it was appropriate

My name gets my attention in a very visceral way, don’t demand even more of my attention while we’re talking if you’re not about to say something important

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Could never hold up in court… If you pay for a decent lawyer

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… Oh. Sorry friend, they’re using TEE, trusted execution environment, aka the place where a key is put by the manufacturer and not available to the user without an exploit or taking apart the processor. Faking it isn’t going to be like changing the user agent

Fun how companies came up with a way to run code on our hardware at home without our ability to modify it

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Yeah… That’s about where I’m at. I figure I’ll keep an old computer set up to deal with things I have to use, but the corporate Internet is really starting to suck. When Reddit went down, I started the long and painful process of finding a better way… It’s going to involve quite a lot of custom solutions, but at least it starts off crappy and quickly improves instead of the opposite

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His way was nonviolent, not peaceful.

What he was doing and why is often buried in history class - you could put it as “exploiting the system until everyone feels the hurt”

Civil disobedience wasn’t about a message or public sentiment - they were about getting arrested. You make a scene, the police are called, you refuse to cooperate until they’re forced to arrest you.

Having been arrested, they either let you go and you do it again, or they charge you - and now you’re in the court system. Now you have standing to challenge the laws, appeal to higher courts, and counter-sue

They tied up the courts, ground businesses to a halt, and disrupted people’s lives

It wasn’t physically violent, but it was violent in a more metaphorical way. They didn’t win over hearts and minds… They just made it more politically costly to keep fighting them off than to give in

And there’s an argument to be made that this all wouldn’t have worked without the black Panthers… Their purpose was to show up armed when the police came to black neighborhoods. They were an unspoken threat - we’re playing within the rules of the system, but if you break them all bets are off

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Nah, they weren’t rioting for nothing - they were rioting because a line was crossed.

If they let the PM push things through in that way, the battlelines will just be around a more important issue, and they’ll be in a much weaker position

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We need to come up with a slur for billionaires…

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