Touching_Grass @ Touching_Grass @lemmy.world

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My over arching belief is you shouldn't refuse services against anyone who isn't hurting other people in some way. But also I believe that's not realistic and there is levels to how comfortable I am hearing when someone is refused service. Refusing because the customer is an asshole, I'm comfortable. Because their political affliation, less comfortable. Because of a protected class not comfortable. Because of religious beliefs? Somewhere between political beliefs and inherent characteristics

Tricky one isn't it. Its arguable that religion is a choice and isn't inherent. But I think religion is an outlier because of historical reasons. The persecution of individuals in states where one religious sect is dominate is well known throughout history. Making the caveat for religious reason maybe preceded any of the modern protected classes and was just grandfathered in but for good reason. Just guessing though. I think its definitely an outlier though.

America has this weird fetishization with punishment

I read a story like this and all i want is for this guy to be punished and i don't think its weird. That girls life is ended at 18 for what? The family is owed justice. Part of justice is punishment. Some part of justice is punishment isn't it?

https://lemmy.world/post/8017652

I think a lot of us try distance ourselves from things that should be okay to feel and experience. It should be okay to say I want certain people to be punished for the shit they've done. Because rehabilitation doesn't always work and also not every person deserves the consideration.

But a MAGA supporter is not the same characteristic as being LGQTB. They are not equivalent. Some countries have protected classes which I think is best. Political affiliation is not protected. Sexual orientation is. A protected class is saying that infringing the freedoms of others based on these characteristics is a great threat to freedom. The country needs to explicitly state it won't tolerate it, because it will erode the freedom far greater than not allowing it. You can discriminate against someone based on choices they make, but not on inherent characteristics they have.

Likewise saying you are hiring a black photographer isn't the same as saying you're not hiring a white photographer. The distinction is important. You're not saying you exclude a person based on an inherent/protected characteristic. The exclusion can be inferred but it doesn't actually mean the exclusion exists. You can say you will hire a black photographer does not mean you won't consider or hire any other. But saying you will not hire a white photographer does concretely state your exclusion which shouldn't be a factor in business in any free Democratic country.

I would think this is a choice that doesn't have a right answer. All choices suck. You infringe on someone regardless of choice. But saying that I think the choice with least harm is choosing to have protected classes that can't be infringed on vs allowing people to disallow people access to services based on these protected classes. I would prefer a person who feels they will infringe on those rights to not choose to be in the market offering services where they can discriminate based on sex, race, sexual orientation or other traits that should be protected. But if they feel they don't want to serve plumbers or Democrats or movie producers all the power to them

But why

I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection

Amen

Seriously bugs me to think how there's an aging generation that didn't grow up with all this commercialized internet and they built it on principals like open source and to eliminate things like data scarcity. But now there's a generation that knows nothing but commercialization and seems to support putting everything behind paywalls and hopes to one day commercialize themselves if they're lucky.

But what is really scary is watching guys like Richard Stallman get sick without any replacement.

Honestly sit by yourself one night and actually realize that majority of people who will see or smell you are going to think your the dumbest mother fucker they met that day and they're likely right if you smoke. You're paying thousands a year to die young and very horribly. And all you get in return is proving to everybody you met that nobody should respect any decisions you make since you prove to everybody you aren't capable of making good choices. That's what got me to quit. It hit me hard one night that this was how I would come off to a lot of people considering what we know noe of cigarettes. Its really the dumbest fucking choice I ever made to get addicted. 15 years and what the fuck did I get out of it. So for me, intense shame got me to quit relatively cold turkey.

LETS GET WEIRD

I fucking bet its really a chance for egotistical people to be able to put a names on things without having to discover new things.

Its all HR people constantly job hunting by sharing the equivalent of those "hang in there" wall posters from the 90s and adding a paragraph about what it takes to make it in the workforce.

Ill make one of these bullshit posts now.

Suggested:

In school my old teacher Mr. Gerry would perform the elephant toothpaste experiment. This got me thinking. The glass beaker is like the job market and the chemicals mixed together is like your marketable skills that grow to fill the needs of the job market. In my 16 years as a human asset coordinator I've come across many difficulties that required shifts in how I approached the job market. Be like the elephants toothpaste and explode into the market beeeeyaaaaa

The reason I'm asking is I'm trying to be more aware of supporting that type of stuff online. I don't want to give money to any companies that put features behind behind ads or subscriptions. The end result will always be squeezing the consumer. So I'd like to avoid it if possible

Ideally for me I'd like to have a one time payment or free with donation option. But subscriptions, even with free tier just contributes to the shit net

Wait, what if we're all blind and seeing is just momentarily gaining vision inbetween blinks

That would be scary because they sleep by hanging upside down

That's been my experience my entire life.

By less options do you mean options like

Option A that steals your data,

Option B that funds union busting or

Option C that actively contributes to manufactured scarcity.

Hey, everyone. You don't show up to the semi finals without practicing and think you're going to accomplish anything else but getting dunked on.

You can't just wait around and then react when bad stuff happens. You need to practice and organize and scrimmage throughout the year. Then when the big day arrives, you all know what to do.

Start small, and grow your action. Started by building channels to coordinate actual group actions/boycotts. Tell all those bots that work real hard to tell us all to just ignore their collusion instead of organizing. Then start picking off small players with organized boycotts. Build momentum. Start fucking stuff up over super minor inconveniences to scare the ever loving shit out of these companies trying to pull bigger schemes.

You would think we didn't have a massive communication channel attached to our hips ffs

Remember when mom yells at you to shut off the Sega and come to dinner and you're all like "yeaa I heard you!" And then you keep going because contra is a great game and gives you a real happy feeling but broccoli doesnt. Israel doing the same thing.

Omg drama!!!!

There's thousands of kids that get rejected from the education system because they got 97% instead of 98% average or because they got 100 hours of volunteer time instead of 150 hours due to having to work to pay for school.

We could have a bunch of 97% people filling in these medical positions but the degradation of medical services would be so atrocious we would all wish for the time we needed to wait 8 months to see a specialist for that time sensitive medical condition

If I ever need urgent care I could always go to a truck stop and ask around to find the immigrant who spent 30 years practicing as a family physician back in Kenya but now drives truck because we won't recognize their skills other than to bring them into the country