Notices by Oggie (oggie@woof.group), page 4

@AnarchoNinaWrites The thing is, moderation is required for functionality, always, and his problem is just where he wants to draw the line. It was never unmoderated, could never be unmoderated, but he wanted specific things to be allowed that people in general did not agree with or want.

Most of the stuff he was fine with moderation on was 'well obviously ' but the thing is, the second you draw any line, at all, you are making choices, and he's about as free speech absolutist as musk (so, not).

@QueerInTheCountry @StillIRise1963
A number of them absolutely think that gay rights are 'not going away' and this is all just 'silly stuff'. A lot of times they also think that 'Well nobody would ever actually do that'.

A law that may be enforced against someone for being gay (or trans, or...) is still a weapon, even if it's 'rarely' utilized.

I remember when the whole 'homosexual behavior' case in the 90s sprang up. People assumed it was 'fake' or 'sensational', while they were in jail.

@hellomiakoda Not to mention, especially when you're trying to figure out and untangle stuff,it's going to come up a lot!

This happens a lot with gay people when they come out, too. 'Everything is about being gay for you now!' Well, see, everything is REALLY about being straight for everyone, and I'm now sorting out the whole thing.

There's a line from a movie, 'You're just friends with them because you're all gay.' 'That's not why we're friends. It might have been why we became friends.'

@piegames
You know, there was a time when it was a lot of 'Okay, click on the network that you just named, and...yes okay, but click....okay, the moving thing moves the cursor' tier.

A lot of really basic, really simple stuff that was a bit frustrating to deal with. However, that time is not now. People know how to open menus, pull up keyboards on their phones, know what 'the back button' is.

Now it's 'Yes, they deliberately obfuscated this and tricked you because they're awful, do this'.

@briankrebs
I mean, why would someone give up their time and spend effort to help a hospital? Obviously since he wouldn't do it, nobody could possibly ever do it.

The sheer amount of egocentrism is horrifying to watch.

@inthehands @charlesgaba There is a moment that sticks with me from Neil Stephenson of all things ( not any you are thinking of, I mean Zodiac)

The main character is talking about environmental damage and harm and illegal levels of a corporation to a 'civilian', just an average person. And he says something like 'it's 30 times over the legal limit', but the internal monologue is that it was thousands of times, it just helped people to convince with the smaller number.

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus Let's not forget that humans are absolutely anthropomorphizing machines. We talk to our bodies, we beg our water heaters, we absolutely treat our cats like sapient logical creations capable of future promises. We bargain with actual rivers and clouds.

Pretending that this box that quacks an awful lot like a duck (and in fact, is the primary motivator for the design space!) is in fact a duck is an incredibly short hop.

@inthehands I feel like we need to condense Clemmin's famous phrase down to a koan or more clearly universal phrasing, since it applies so much.

'I am sorry about the length of this letter. If I had more time I would have written you a shorter one.'

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'll stop bringing up my identity in politics as soon as politicians cease trying to make it illegal, immoral, or despicable in their public statements.

They seem to have given up on dogwhistles at this point, so it's not like you can claim ignorance when they call gay people filth, black people violent, and trans people perverts.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I don't mind bs, but the most tempted I have been to post there has been 'hey, this is an issue I ran into, here is the workaround '.

Otherwise it just seems like twitter from 5-6 years ago yet taking place in a much worse world, everyone's angier and lashing out at each other. Leaving aside the corp ownership and coming soon profit gouging.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Statistically, some are probably doing it for 'love of the game' (hatred), but yeah, mostly it's for money, or as a youtuber I enjoy has called it, 'power coupons'.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Not being able to be an asshole to people without social consequences is exactly the same as actual murder, eh?

It's kinda nuts how far they stretch the 'I'm being oppressed' stuff.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Still better than HUAC and the blacklist, because at the current situation you can be a bit critical and even have the instutitions be corrupt (as long as you show them as being duped, not institutionally so, with a few 'bad apples').

It's not great, but it's a far cry from Hayes code shit, at least.

Still, I do think it's funny that anyone thinks movies are liberal. Every film ever released in theaters gets greenlit by boards of old white straight men.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Since you made me hear it in my mind, suffer with me-

Johnny 5 from Short Circuit saying 'Wouldn't you like to be a Tucker too?'

@AnarchoNinaWrites Not that I particularly want to make this sound like a conspiracy (it's very clearly true) but it's also worth noting that search engines getting actively worse (say, google) is a strict win for them in this.

If you can't trivially bring up historical cases that show things so incredibly obviously, people might entertain doubts. Does that mean google wanted this? Probably not, but does mean the regulators aren't in a rush to fix that problem, either.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Funny thing is, any number of them hate him privately, and probably even tell themselves that ' if he does one more thing over the line ..'

It's like the worst case of sunk cost fallacy. Plus fascism is currently making their individual lives if not better, less awful than they are making everyone else's life. Keep riding that tiger.

@Ricardus @StillIRise1963 This will absolutely be attempted. It's been in the language of a few things, and some of the laws could be interpreted that way. In Texas they were fairly up front about if a gay couple has a trans child, though the half walked that back, and in Florida it's an easy reread of a few things.

Gay marriage is certainly up shortly on the chopping block, but probably not till after the election.

@AnarchoNinaWrites The only thing I can think is they were thinking that Israel would ignore them, and they don't have any way to enforce, so they 'saved face'. Which is a weak as shit... everything but I am just waking up, so maybe more will come to me once I read it all.

@freemo @gnate @MelodyCooper
If the first line had instead been 'this is why we invented the comically racist mandatory minimum drug schedule classification', would that have suited you better?

That's what this is in reference to, I am fairly certain, and the controlled substances act business we're still dealing with fallout now from. That was from Nixon in 1970, and is when the deeply horrible systems got installed.

@freemo @MelodyCooper Because you're looking at it from a legal perspective.

If you assign drugs to someone, and say the drugs are what made them bad, then going after those people to get the drugs gives you cover ('what, shouldn't we go after heroin? look at how bad it is? The black people aren't to blame, it's the heroin! Are you a racist?').

It's assigning emotional reaction, then using that as cover. Anything bad done by a hippy or a black person was drugs. You need to stop the drugs.