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

@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.

@bbbhltz @ZachWeinersmith
The one that always tripped me up is 'My name is' (Mon nom est <blank>)...which is techincally correct! But It's also absolutely wrong, because it's really je m'appalle (I call myself <blank>). It's a very firm disconnect.

More towards what Zach was talking about, there's also things like 'I am running' and 'I run' as two different verbs in english. Literal translations just aren't going to get you all the way there.

@glitzersachen @ZachWeinersmith
My particular use case is in person, 'Excuse me sir/ma'am'.

Interestingly, there is the written english thing, though I'm not sure how much it's in use, of just M. <name>, which I've seen in letters and even emails. The implication is it can be Mr or Mrs or Ms and it's formal, but it's certainly genderless. Doesn't fit with what Zach was talking about in the use case (it's very 'proper'), but this just touched on something I have been feeling for a while.

@ZachWeinersmith I just want a gender-neutral sir/ma'am.

It's been driving me nuts since the 90s.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Don't you understand, they will 'bend the law to their will', but they would never cross over to leaving the law behind entirely.

No, they'd never do something like that.

The entire tone of 'Everyone who stormed the capital was just out for a nice walk' is really something. If they had managed to stop the certification that day, does anyone think they would have 'given it back', or accepted anything that didn't conform to what they had decided happened?

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Entirely off topic, but as a gay gen x man, the -instant- I read her name her audio catalog just started off in my brain, so thanks for that.

Man, she really did have some things to say (as well as great tunes).

@AnarchoNinaWrites
I really don't get this attitude from people. It's so surreal. Okay, you think these people are getting wrong or bad information, that can be frustrating.

But just 'how dare they find something they like to listen to/enjoy'? C'mon. I don't like tiktok much, gen x brainpan doesn't mesh, so I just get linked it, nod, then move on.

As for OF- my recent disapointment with it was 'damn, this didn't click for me. Oh well. Good for him anyway. Unsub.' Then I moved on.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

Honestly my money is on them just refusing to hear the case.

Colorado was never going to be a winning situation for him. If SCOTUS doesn't hear the case, it won't apply nationally, and until it's brought up in another court, it's in legal limbo. Other districts can agree with it, or disagree with it, but they don't have to obey it- whereas if there is an official ruling that's it.

As for justices, I think two of those are possibles, but I wouldn't bet on it.

@ColleenDoran @neilhimself
I have lost track of people I've recommended Snow, Glass Apples to!

There is a fantastic 'audio play' version of it, as well, by Seeing Ear Theater, which is very interesting- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJTJbuuFcU

(amusingly I tried to find it under 'listening eye theater' which is -not- the name!).

All these stories are great.

@jhpot
God I am so fucking bothered by this jackass in particular taking pieces of nerd culture he doesn't understand and plastering it elsewhere. 'Grok' is a term I used to use all the time (and I always explained it with the book quote 'to drink fully', if pressed).

I am still salty about him using Culture ship names, too- and that entire universe was techno-anarchist with deep democratic underpinnings, about as anti-capitalist as you can get, how did he miss that?

@cstross I'm kind of glad that Searle's 'chinese room' never got media attention (even though it's a reasonable refutation of the concepts behind them, simply because I can't see that going anywhere but extremely racist.

On a message board I am on, someone excitedly shared that apparently chatGPT can play chess at a high level- for orders of magnitude more cost and resources than actual chess AIs, and not nearly as well. So, uselessly. This seemed an accurate metaphor for the entire concept.