RickRussell_CA @ RickRussell_CA @beehaw.org

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choosing to objectify someone

What "someone" is being objectified in this case?

authorial intent

Unless the author writes an essay to accompany their piece, I think any conclusion you make about authorial intent is speculative. A beefcake pic of a guy in speedos lifting weights could be sexual, or maybe the artist is doing a study in human musculature? Heck if I know.

real practical effects on an audience

Effects on the audience, I'm not sure I understand that. It's up to the audience to decide whether they like something, or not, or whether they are happy with whatever "effects" it has on them. The effect most are interested in is "pleasure", I think. If one doesn't like the pics, one is not in the audience for that art.

If one wants to make the argument that folks shouldn't look at cheesecake or beefcake pics, because they create some sort of problem for the viewer, the onus is on the claimant to win the hearts and minds of the audience. As long as all parties are consenting adults making informed decisions, I don't see the issue.

I do concur that it could be "sexist" in the same sense that anybody discriminating based on sexual preference is sexist, but I'm not sure that is wrong. Someone who prefers lady types as sexual partners may prefer to look at cheesecake pics of lady types, I guess, and that's technically sexist because they're choosing those pics based on lady characteristics.

Now if you want to argue that such pics have downstream effects on a vulnerable/disempowered population, that would be a different argument.

This is like dunking on DeviantArt because it has artists who make cheesecake pictures of ladies. I'm not saying it's something I personally enjoy, but who am I to tell others what art they should enjoy?

I will never not upvote this.

Emacs.

No really, it was like 1989 and I had to learn Unix systems for classes, and this white haired Emacs advocate convinced me to try it.

Who said "FOSS computer"? The FOSS that saved the night was ffmpeg. That he also ran it on a Linux system is a nice little FOSS bonus, but it's not the headline.

Next time, suggest they have a rehearsal with a full tech shakedown

ffmpeg itself is FOSS

As teens take to sidewalks...

As teens take to malls...

As teens take to wilderness trails...

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, we live in a society that threatens to take kids away from their parents for letting them walk to the post office.

States have no licensing/registration infrastructure for bicycles. And any changes must happen state by state (c.f. the chaos that is motorcycle registration).

I think what distinguishes Internet service provision from all the other "platform" aspects of the Internet is that Internet service has become a kind of baseline utility. Everything depends on it: your smart home devices, your security system, Point of Sale systems, etc. You can't search for employment without it, your kids can't attend remote school, etc.

We all understand that when someone buys advertising space in a newspaper, they are forming a contract with that newspaper, and the paper has to be a willing participant. But that's not really how we think of utilities. I think we'd all be pretty unhappy if the electric company refused service to a facility, or if the water company refused to hook somebody up to the water supply, or the fire department refused to put out a fire, due to the property user's political speech. Even if we deeply disagreed with that speech.

I think ISPs are a lot more like utilities, and a lot less like newspapers. If it's that important, then write a law explaining exactly how and when ISPs are intervene by removing or refusing service in these situations, and defend the law in court. But don't leave it up to ISP terms of service.

My wife and I used to keep guinea pigs and gerbils, and I had a hedgehog for awhile, over a span of about 15 years. The last guinea pig passed in the mid-2000s.

It was worth it, but as I near retirement, I wouldn't do it again. I've had that experience, and I treasure it, but I don't need to do it again.

Geezus this is so accurate my balls just got sucked up into my body cavity.

Classic it may not be, but every few years I fire up a copy of Oni, turn up my playlist of mid 90s mega-hits, and lay some smackdown on some terrorists.

Basically it's the spatial exploration of a first person shooter with the fighting dynamics of something like Virtua Fighter.

So, when Rod Stewart sings, "Oh God I wish I was home tonight with you in my arms"... ?

This is about context, and in context, he's clearly not meaning to imply that God is a 5-foot-3, 300 lbs welfare recipient.

Will Apple sell more devices if they fully support the standard?

I stand to the question. Apple is pretty famous for saying what people want to hear, and not actually doing much.

My cynical interpretation of the right-to-repair announcement is: we know Europe is gonna cram this down our throats, so let's try and get control of the narrative while there's still time.

“Well, God, if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds… taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds”

Perhaps I'm misreading it, but I took "God" to be an exclamation, not the 2nd-person subject for the following sentence. "You" is the fat welfare cheat.

the enemy is more defined, namely rich people

Well, rich northerners. That's a very important distinction. Southern gentlemen -- that is, Confederates -- are excluded.

Richmond was the capital of the confederacy, so it's important to point out that they were north of Richmond particularly.

To cope with the pain, they can tend to “kick down” on other groups, like obese people,

It's a very specific appeal to a right-wing stereotype from the Reagan era: the urban "welfare queen", refusing to labor, getting fat off welfare while country "working poor" starve.

Of course, the reality is the opposite: per capita, rural folk get larger government disbursements in the form of welfare and disability than city dwellers.

The execrable stereotype was invented to turn the poor on each other. The country, full of uneducated hicks, the cities full of welfare cheats getting fat off your tax dollars. And while the proles fight each other, the fat cats steal wages and get tax breaks.

I suppose it's possible that Mr. Anthony is so far down the rabbit hole, having been raised with these ideas as "common sense truths", that he doesn't even realize he's been fed a partisan line and he's just repeating it like a good soldier.