My hatred of blackberries is unending. I'm angry enough that I have to mow the grass, but there is nothing I loathe more than having to regularly take a machete to the encroaching mass of thorny monsters that are invading my yard and attempting to make it uninhabitable by my children. If I was given the option to make any species of any living thing immediately extinct, I would choose blackberries without a moment's hesitation, and then throw a party to celebrate the oppression I've been freed from.
AdmiralRob
joined 1 year ago
I think it's a sincere question. Your comments so far have suggested that you support the idea that execution is an acceptable punishment for people who abuse drugs and then disobey orders from authority. I believe it's fair to question whether there are lower levels of nuisance that you also believe the death penalty should apply to.
As for the argument as a whole, taking into consideration the cost of training and wages for the prison guards/riflemen/executioners necessary to employ this scheme and the logistical cost of moving these incarcerated laborers to potential work sites, as well as the low quality of the labor they could provide while going through withdrawals, I still think the $10 per day would be cheaper.
I mean, we kinda do, we just take in so much more inputs than we could ever reasonably put in a computer, over a much longer time period, and with processing done on those inputs that isn't entirely understood.
I would think it's because users only interact with their own instance. They would need to post it to their instance first before it can be forwarded to the appropriate community's instance.
The main shift was that I now strongly prefer console/couch/tv gaming over PC/monitor/desk gaming.
This is the big one for me. My co-workers all wonder why I switched from pc to PlayStation, and I'm like, "dude, you just watched me troubleshoot 10 machines that failed our OS upgrade, and you think I want to come home and find that Windows update just broke my sound drivers again?"
Why do I accidentally find my wife's keys in plain sight when she's tearing the house apart panicking to find them?
First of all, I too would like to say thanks to Sami for acting quickly.
Second, your post didn't mention if we're still defederated from the affected sites. Considering that they're pretty populated instances, I would hope they've already set up their own mitigations for the exploit, but for all I know, they're still cleaning up. Have we reconnected with them? Or are we waiting to play it safe?
This post showed up in my "all" feed.
I can see the merit in arguments both for and against federation with meta.
- Pro: I like the idea of people discovering the Fediverse more easily through a mainstream outlet, and there has to be some benefit to be gained from the potential increase in the user base. I would like to be inclusive and see a diverse array of opinions, and "block 30 million people because they're on a platform we don't trust" doesn't sit right with me.
- Con: I, too, have a very strong distrust for wealthy corporations and am sure that they are planning to eliminate us as "competition." The thing that concerns me more, however, is the major instances that are trying to organize to not only defederate meta, but defederate any instance that refuses to do the same. This terrifies me; losing access to the meta community is one thing I'm on the fence about, but losing access to the instances that are already a part of our network would be devastating. In a way, it feels like Meta is already succeeding in destroying the fediverse without even connecting to it yet.
With how torn I am on the whole thing, I was thinking about a "wait and see" approach, but the con above kind of adds a sense of urgency. The deciding factor I landed on feels a bit silly, but I'm going to stand by it: I think that we should defederate from any "instance" that isn't using open-source software. The ability for a user to know what's in the software they're using is the least-awful metric I can come up with to determine whether I feel like it should be a part of this world we're building.
Where will this poll be posted? Did I miss it already?
I'm convinced that "sexual" or "romantic" relationships don't function long-term without friendship as a foundation. My wife is my best friend first and foremost. Even if the other aspects of our relationship crumble or fade, I can't imagine my life without at least being able to crack jokes to her or vent my feelings to her.
Ah, I apologize, it seems I misinterpreted the top comment. I reread the thread, and now I see the link to an article about increased violence. I was looking at the thread by the context of the top comment's text alone, so I was interpreting your comments as being about homeless people and drug addicts in general. I still don't like the idea of prison labor as a solution, but your opinion makes a lot more sense when taken as a response to violent crime. I wonder if the other commenter in this chain made the same mistake.
Apologies again for the misunderstanding.