@sun@shitposter.world Double standards are the name of the game. This is why I can't take the "we have to save democracy" rhetoric seriously. I definitely see how both red and blue teams are guilty of making the states more authoritarian, one side is just a lot more honest about their ideal vision.
@theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe Do you know how much money is spent on moving a single vote? I'd argue wasting that money (by voting against what money wants) is worth a lot!
@raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest A lot of women aren't doctors... On principle, I'm against gating decisions behind class barriers. This is also eerily similar to "Not a vaccinologist? You can't refuse whatever we want to put in you!"
@thatguyoverthere@shitposter.world I'm just making a meta joke about not having an opinion on the statement. But what does bother me is when those who clearly haven't put thought into an issue dismiss concerns/suggestions of those who have. So those without opinions don't bother me until they start enforcing inane null hypotheses...
@jjcouey@gigaohm.bio gives a great presentation of how Elon's neuralink is nothing more than a simple magic trick to normalize invasive data collection. Something to think about as he is being lionized for "saving free speech online"...
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@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net Boeing! Kidding aside, there are many other things that can be done before it gets to that level. But I wouldn't rule out psychological torture (which sorta happened in he XZ incident iirc).
@anarchotaoist@liberdon.com "Don't give up power" is a tactic with a definitive expiry date. Part of running a BDFL should include succession planning. Another risk of being king is that you may make your death / injury a much more expident route to sabotaging your project.
I don't follow nixOS so I'm unfamiliar with this particular incident however.
@splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network I've never seen him do anything that warrants whatever is currently happening.He doesn't need to. It's about curating which voices are permitted to be influential. I'm not even sure it's about his politics because I've seen the same happen to those on the "other side of the spectrum", just in a different way. I am definitely concerned that "the community" seems to spend a suspiciously high amount of effort keeping out independent voices.
To reiterate it's not just those evil "right wing conspiracy theorists" even Aral got totally railroaded for saying maybe Fedora shouldn't ship with a broken screen reader for 8 years. @djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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