Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 7

So fucking sick of captchas, just stop

@jling no, it takes several years to prepare another and the US also charges an extortionate exit tax!

In the end I vote with my conscience to do my part in sparing my former countrymen from a four year orange nightmare... but still pretty please stop taxing me

I am a single issue voter, that issue being "stop taxing me, no one else taxes citizens living abroad, I don't benefit from any services or privileges associated with being a US citizen", but even so I'd only vote libertarian over my dead body

Update: called the offices of everyone I voted for asking them to stop taxing me if they win

If I still have to pay US taxes despite not living there you can bet your ass I'm gonna vote

Just voted for the US election from a train in the Netherlands

People who play games come from all walks of life and are usually quite pleasant

People who identify as a "gamer" are usually white nationalists

The "gamer" "woke" backlash is fucking insane, what a bunch of snowflakes

#Redict 7.3.1 is now available for urgent deployment

https://redict.io/posts/2024-10-01-redict-7.3.1-released/

@leon_p_smith @philpem @jonathan vaguepost

What ground rules do you object to

@leon_p_smith @philpem @jonathan the common theme in both of these objections is that you presume if a person is causing problems for someone else, it is "someone else's" responsibility.

@leon_p_smith @philpem @jonathan the other side of this coin is that freedom of association is important and you are not entitled to an explanation if someone doesn't want to associate with you. It might be *nice* to help others understand but it's by no means required, and it's important to respect people's autonomy and choices with respect to association.

@leon_p_smith @philpem @jonathan do you realize that most people shower daily and use deodorant to manage their body odor, and most people don't smell bad as a consequence of this?

We should extend grace to others, but not indefinitely. We should expect people to learn and improve.

Stallman's famous retraction, 2019:

Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I’ve learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

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10 September 2024:

I can't understand the fuss about Israeli soldiers who put on the underwear of Gazan women. They meant that as mockery, which is not nice, but mockery is as nothing compared to the atrocities committed against those same women (and almost all of Gaza). Those women (and their families) have been driven from their homes. Some have been killed, and more are being killed. Those soldiers have probably participated in the real atrocities.

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2024-jul-oct.html#10_September_2024_(US_solidity_with_Israel_atrocities)

@tyil @goku12 @cafkafk "I am unsure why he should be responsible for other people interpreting him in a way he did not intend."

Oh boy. You are responsible for the consequences of your actions, and speech is an action. You are responsible for how other people interpret your speech. If you want a dense philosophical rebuttal of this idea, see this excellent blog post by @llwyn

https://llwyn.srht.site/posts/responsibility-for-unintended-interpretations/

@tyil @goku12 @cafkafk moreover, I'm not prepared to take him at his word regarding his intentions. People do not always represent their intentions truthfully. He intended to pressure someone who was not interested in him into dating him. There is no other possible interpretation.

@tyil @goku12 @cafkafk it is most certainly not impossible to take this into consideration, and moreover all of these factors are a lot more easily managed when one person speaks directly to another person, as is the case in this example, rather than the goal-post-moving case of addressing the entire world and all of its contexts and cultures.

And regardless of the intent to cause harm -- the effect was causing harm. And he didn't apologize for that: he sought to be absolved by his intent.

@tyil @goku12 @cafkafk (1) RMS explicitly endorsed her recollection of events (2) RMS's behavior taken as a whole establishes a pattern which lends credence to this interpretation regardless