I nabbed a copy of it off of YT, at some point I need to get a peer tube or similar set up for bigger files like that. 6 minutes and change that perhaps redirected a generation's youth.
50+ years ago Mr. Rogers spoke to Congress defining what it was to support public media. Speaking to what what it was to give comfort and a voice to kids back when it was so common to treat them as meant to be seen and not heard.
My own youngest has recently started to show signs that they've heard and, if not fully understood, at least memorized some talking points that would make Fred very sad. We need to keep these kind of programs available perhaps now more than ever.
I hereby rename 'Mar A Lago' to the 'Moore of Legos'. Visitors are also here by prohibited from wearing shoes while in the facility to demonstrate their toughness and fealty to the lord of plastic bricks...
It makes about as much sense as anything these days.
The first of those should fail under free speech, so long as it doesn't call for overt harm the proposal of a boycott would be similar to arguing against a political candidate.
The second would be difficult to argue unless the company had a formal procurement process that mandated bids and specific rules it could be said they went against.
The last is more classic racist denial and could certainly be prosecuted, but somewhat turns the tables in that the provider is refusing service to a potential client.
I forget the outcome of the 'gay wedding cakes' case from a while back, but the general argument is that while a vendor should serve all valid customers equally, a client need not give equal chance to a vendor who they disagree with the policies of.
One of the interesting conundrums of Linux at large is there are so many flavors of it. If you generically search for 'how to ... In Linux' you'll probably get things for Ubuntu, maybe Mint or RedHat, but good luck with the 2000 other distros that you see on a list.
Conversely if you do the same for Windows or Mac it's just a matter of a few recent versions, and half the time fixes would be applicable to any given one of them.
I'd need some examples to get what you mean here. My experiences, both personal and simply observed, is that you can you can roughly split both conservatives and liberals into two sub-groups, although the distinction on the liberal side is a lot more fuzzy.
There's the emotive/moralizing side that fight based on what they feel rather than any concrete justification. What's right is decided simply by an assumption of how the world should work, either collaboratively or selfishly looking out for yourself only.
Then there are the logical logical arguments. On the conservative side these end up being a lot more in the form of 'I am right, you need to prove otherwise' while liberals (myself guilty of it as well) will go through these elaborate deliberations backing one point with another and somehow hoping to convince these people who have already decided they're right of their error.
If you've ever tried beating your head into a brick wall you might recognize the feeling that last one, but it's hardly an obstruction to dialogue, just a frustration of trying to engage rationally with largely irrational beings.
Stupid thing is that it's the humanity and empathy of the left that is both the draw and the weakness of the movement.
Conservatives can come into leftist discourse spaces and either pose as the extreme leftists you describe, or even just the more reasonable end of the conservatives (non facist/maga types, rare as they are any more) an they'll be engaged with in good faith. Since they're ultimately not there for a proper discussion though it results in nothing more than creating chaos and arguments
Liberal/leftists who walk into conservative spaces are greeted with scorn and derision, treated as lunatics from the start not worth listening to. Since the left would generally be coming in with honest intent though at best they waste their time shouting into an established echo chamber, or worse get convinced that there's a good middle ground to work towards.
This isn't new, cell tower triangulation is a fact of the network operation and is part of how your signal gets handed off between towers as you travel. Airplane wouldn't do anything unless it where to actually disable the sim entirely, and functionally even that doesn't cut it in the USA given that a device without one can still connect to emergency services via any tower in reach.
This is just the carrier giving a customer the data that would already exist, for a price, which I thought T-Mo actually used to give for free...
More a speculative thought, but if those who do pay attention to negative feedback no longer see any, they may not take that into consideration when they put things up.
Say someone put up a post, saw no backlash on the front end, but then comes to look at the responses and sees a cesspit of hate. That's hardly going to soften any mental harms it might otherwise impose.
Another thought here is messing about with such things, particularly in making them a default behavior, could disrupt comms where there is a strong voting aspect to it. The 'am I the asshole' type place that, despite the usual attempt to have them adjudicated by some nuanced comment system, inevitably end up using votes as a agree/disagree dynamic.
I'm not sure there's a purpose to it the way things are clustered here. Particular for anything of a political/news nature the very same post on one instance and com may get a completely different reaction on another. There are a fair number of people that I think of as 'fire and forget posters' in that they simply fire off posts but rarely interact with them after. Making this the default would likely encourage more of the same behavior, possibly leading to more spam.
There's one in particular who for some undefined reason has been able to essentially say 'go off and do this thing' that my own brain said is stupid and impossible, and then I succeeded at doing the thing.
Probably the first example, when I had finally gotten the idea to do some gym work (which she helped at that too) I commented to the effect of maybe I could look at doing a 5k. So she says let's go do 14k which of course sounded nuts, so we went and did that. Next thing I know I finished a marathon because why not...
It really has become a perennial thing, but with the inmates running all three houses of the asylum this time it's a particularly dangerous round.